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61) Elizabeth Alone
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At forty-one, the news that she requires a hysterectomy strikes Elizabeth Aidallbery as something of a nonevent. But from her bed at Cheltenham Women's Hospital, the divorced mother of three comes to realize that she is at a crossroads. She meets two other women admitted for the same operation: Young Sylvie Clapper, who is preoccupied with her dishonest boyfriend; and poor Miss Samson, with her disfiguring birthmark, who runs a Christian boarding...
62) Reel Me In
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"Reel Me In is a compilation of pieces and works centering mostly on love and life
generally. It captures thoughts, dreams through the eyes of the author and is inspired
mostly by the hallowed feelings of love sought for by many. Like the fisherman's
hook, it posits how love baits and draws many.
"" Gabie writes with profound imagery..one that makes you feel as though you were part of the poems. Her delivery is breathtakingly beautiful...
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In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely.Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jump cuts, When I open the shop is sometimes blackly funny, sometimes angry and sometimes lyrical, and sometimes – as a car soars off...
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Jennifer Johnston's powerful novel of 1920s Ireland and one woman, on her deathbed, looking back on the tragic day that changed the course of her life In northwest Ireland, eighteen-year-old Miranda Martin lives in a country estate home with her father. A recent widower, he spends his days consumed by a project to reforest their tranquil Donegal surroundings. Miranda, on the cusp of adulthood, spends her summer engrossed in a chaste but passionate...
65) Carta a Orestes
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CARTA A ORESTES reúne cinco obras de lákovos Kambanelis. Carta a Orestes, La cena, El camino pasa por dentro, Stella con guantes rojos y El epicedio constituyen una selección que ofrece buena parte de las preocupaciones estéticas del patriarca del teatro griego contemporáneo.
En estas obras se trasluce la tragedia en los personajes femeninos enfrentados a la imposibilidad del amor, al enorme trecho que vislumbran al frente para conquistar espacios...
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Get the Summary of Paul Theroux's The Kingdom by the Sea in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Kingdom by the Sea" by Paul Theroux is a travelogue that chronicles the author's journey around the coastline of Britain. Theroux sets out to explore the country beyond London, where he has lived for eleven years, to understand the nation he resides in. He travels on foot, by train, and by bus, avoiding typical travel...
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A classic epic fantasy set in ancient civilizations along the Black Sea where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic.
Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik's power. But one night Tarrik rescues Sphaeros, a Hellenic philosopher, from a shipwreck. Sphaeros in...
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¿Te gustaría liberarte de los pensamientos que te limitan, te angustian o te hacen sufrir? ¿Quieres aprender a crear nuevos pensamientos que te inspiren, te motiven y te llenen de energía? ¿Te interesa conocer cómo la destrucción y la creación de tus pensamientos más profundos pueden transformar tu realidad?Si la respuesta es sí, este libro es para ti. En él, el autor te propone un método revolucionario para cambiar tu forma de pensar...
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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...
70) The Praying Leaf
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The Praying Leaf is collection of 2 verse narratives, namely The Praying Leaf and The Town Doctor. Both the two verse narratives are in onegin stanza. The onegin stanza was invented by Alexander Pushkin, the Poet, Novelist and Playwright(1799-1837). Both the verse narratives are stories, with a spiritual essence. They are heartfelt stories, inspired by true incidents and true characters, with a blend of writer's own imagination and emotions.As said...
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A re-imagining of a true story, The Invisible Mile is a novel about the capacity of the human mind and body when stretched to their absolute limits, written in prose that calls to mind the works of Marilynne Robinson and John Banville, as well as Colson Whiteheads National Book Award-winning novel The Underground Railroad. In 1928, the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders,...
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Camelia is a young Italian woman who lives with her mother in Leeds, a city where it is always December and winter has been underway for such a long time that nobody is old enough to have seen what came before. She's dropped out of university and translates instruction manuals for an Italian washing machine manufacturer; her mother, Livia Mega, once a renowned flautist, spends her days inside taking photographs of holes she finds in the house. Camelia...
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The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven shares "a vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans" as Union soldiers take over in this panoramic Civil War novel (Ron Charles, Washington Post).
The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "the Beast" Butler. And when twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws his mother, Elise-a mixed-race woman passing for white-into a...
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Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed-race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the purpose of starting a new life. There he meets Tesseba, a curious and trusting artist who takes him in and marries him to save him from deportation. The two build a life together, but Danny continues to be plagued...
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"Quest of a Lost Soul is a book of soulful poetry. Each poem has a story beneath it, which you will feel connected to. The book is nothing but a collection of feelings - Love, Joy, Sadness, Emptiness and Motivation.
All of us feel different but same instances happen in our life. We all think differently about it, we have a different view of the problems that come before us. This is Life!
Quest of a Lost Soul is a picture of words that let you...
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"Piece of Mind: Journal of a Healed Heart (Volume 2) is a follow-up non-fiction book to the first volume that Christine Musa has released back in 2021, focusing on her healing journey after experiencing abandonment, betrayal, and a failed marriage.
This second volume contains a collection of all-original literary pieces, short articles, quotes, and anecdotes based on Christine's personal ups and downs, spanning from year 2018 up to 2021 --- the...
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"Minsan sa tula natin mahahanap ang paglilinaw sa mga bagay, mga kasagutan sa tanong kung paano tayo nagiging kabahagi nito habang binabasa. Ang tula ay nasa kahit saan, hinihintay lang niya ang makata na kumuha ng sangkap at magtimpla upang mabuo ito. Nabuo ang librong ito dahil sa karanasan at mga kuwentong pinaniniwalaan ng bayan na ayon sa kasaysayan ay tama.
Natagalan man sa pagluto ngayon ay buong pusong inihain ang bahagi ng kaisipan na inilapat...
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After his highly popular Who's Who in Hell, Robert Chalmers delivers his second novel, a painfully funny story of disaster and redemption that recalls Katherine Dunn's Geek Love. One morning Edward Miller, tabloid newspaper editor and reactionary alpha male, spontaneously seduces his temp in an office storeroom. The news doesn't take long to reach his cold, beautiful wife-and it just happens to be their anniversary. By morning, his marriage is over,...
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Entre una historia cultural llena de paradojas y cierta noción abstracta de humanidad que aún triunfa en la censura de los sentidos, surgen los ensayos de Juan Carlos Arteaga para remover aquello que parece inapelable. Hay en esta palabra un evidente deseo por enfrentar lo humano sin concesiones y llevarlo hacia un lugar de reflexión que no agota caminos ni banaliza contradicciones. En medio de ese deseo, que revela las inquietudes del autor, entre...
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