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Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 5
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"The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride's party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord's mad son, they quickly realize that something is haunting the shadowed halls. As Chih and the bride-to-be explore empty rooms and desolate courtyards,...
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"What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and more. Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss breaks down the work--the tortuous paths and artistic decisions--that led to great art. From first glimmers to...
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"This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers peskily out of reach. Neon-beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with their partner Drew and eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok, on a spectacular quest through their childhood in the Forest and an unlikely stint on reality...
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"Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms--and a quiet terror she is both eager to understand and desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub. Every house has them, these rotting and fragmented ribs, tibias,...
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"Lecciones del ayer para el presente" es una antología de escritos que responden a diferentes momentos de la vida política española de la que Benito Pérez Galdós fue o bien actor o bien testigo de excepción. Algunos de ellos inéditos hasta ahora, estos textos dan cuenta de una época que abarca desde la juventud del autor hasta prácticamente sus últimos días, a pesar de su intermitencia, Galdós siempre estuvo muy atento al latir político...
6) Canciones
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Federico GarcÍa Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience.
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"I hate marathons. Hate running. An hour before the start, I received a text. Instead of 'Good luck,' it was 'We're finished.' So, I went to a bar next to the subway on 96th. Had a few bourbons with some other mope. Then I got on a bike and took off down the old Lincoln Highway." Forget Route 66. This is the original cross-country highway that takes you through REAL America, the first to cross all of the US from the Big Apple to the City on the Bay....
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From Madame Bovary to Macbeth, this collection by Mary McCarthy offers surprising revelations about some of the world's most beloved works Shakespeare, Nabokov, Orwell, and Burroughs are just a few of the literary immortals featured in this engaging and thought-provoking volume. In one remarkable essay, McCarthy provides a lively discourse on the true nature of evil in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on the character of Macbeth, she reveals why Lady...
10) Adversary
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Minneapolis, 2021. Curtis is newly out, single, and ready to take his life in a different direction. Anton is an enigmatic young man who recognizes Curtis from their pre-pandemic lives. One casual drink leads to a charged relationship layered with unspeak
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Isaac and Nora haven't seen each other in five years, yet when Nora phones Isaac late one night, he knows who it is before she's spoken a word. Isaac, a photographer, is relinquishing his artistic career, while Nora, a writer, is seeking to rededicate herself to hers. Fueled by their rediscovered love, Nora is soon on fire with the best work she's ever done, until she realizes that the story she's writing has turned into a fictionalized portrait of...
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La conmovedora historia de la amistad de dos niñas, una luchando por sobrevivir al comercio de personas y la otra intentando salvarla. Dos niñas cuyas vidas tomaron caminos distintos una devastadora noche de 1993.
India, 1986: Mukta, una niña de diez años, perteneciente a la casta Yellamma, ha llegado a la edad de tener que cumplir su destino convirtiéndose en prostituta del templo. En un intento de hacerla escapar de este legado, la llevan con...
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"No has venido a sufrir a este mundo, sino a transmutar tu dolor en gozo, y tus oscuridades propias en luz para ti y para los que te rodean", les
confía a quienes quieren escucharla, y cuál médica de almas, les provee a los desesperados píldoras filosóficas, recetas espirituales, diagnósticos esperanzadores, ejercicios de recuperación eficaces, medicinas de curación milagrosa, estimulantes de reconstitución mágica.
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"En cinco minutos levántate María" es el monólogo torrencial de una madre a las puertas de la viejez, de una madre sufridora que aglutina toda la crudeza y la devoción de quien soporta los azotes de unos hijos descarriados y un marido indolente y atrabiliario. Es el relato de una vida de estrecheces y oscuridad, sólo iluminada por la ternura y la belleza de la voz maternal que repasa, entre la vigilia y el sueño, los claroscuros, las heridas,...
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Is it possible that since the beginning people have worshipped and adored deities that never existed and were based only on wishful thinking, because there simply must be higher powers for all inexplicable phenomena and so that life makes sense?
The author explains plausibly on the basis of the texts of the so-called "holy writings" like Bible and Koran why deities spring from the wishful thinking of the people and not as described in these books,...
16) Jealousy
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Margaret, a lonely and repressed teacher, begins a farcical affair with a moronic eighteen-year-old schoolboy; this sparks a relationship with her jealous female housemate Amanda, who uses a beautiful new arrival to the town, Kate, to inspire similar jealousy in Margaret. But Kate, who is perhaps best described by her favourite author as "a ticking time-bomb that could go off pop at any moment", pursues her own agenda. The bizarre and precarious situation...
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The twenty-eight-year-old mixed-race son of a Samoan immigrant, Paul Tusifale is desperate to find his place in an American culture that barely acknowledges his existence. Within the Silicon Valley landscape of grass-roots activists and dotcom headquarters, where the plight of migrant workers is ever-present, Paul drifts on and off the radar.
An unemployed drifter who defiantly-even violently-defends those in need, Paul soon discovers that life as...
18) October Light
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John Gardner's New York Times bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning metafictional novel centering on the tumultuous relationship of two elderly siblings. James is a cantankerous and conservative seventy-two-year-old who has spent his life caring for the animals on his farm. His widowed older sister, Sally, has strong liberal ideals and a propensity for debate. When Sally's bankruptcy forces her to move in with her brother, their...
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The TV's on. The computer's on. The stereo's on. Sleep is a waste of time.
Welcome to the world of Bipolar Disorder, a journey to the outer edges of the mind.
A series of conversations told with humour, honesty and insight by Adam, Faye and Alastair, three survivors who have experienced the illness first hand. With contributions from Mental Health professional, Chris Kelly.
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A New York Times Editors' Choice, this epic tale of brotherly love set in a dystopian alternate reality is filled with the magic of Russian folklore.
After their father's death, twin brothers Yarik and Dima grew up together on their uncle's farm, spending their days helping fishermen and their nights spellbound by their uncle's stories. Years later, the two men labor at the Oranzheria, a sprawling glass greenhouse and a capitalist experiment that...
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