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61) Glory box
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Se puede estar atrapado entre cuatro paredes, así como estas pueden dar la libertad necesaria para poner en perspectiva el pasado, y los años venideros.
Se puede estar enjaulado en la inmensidad rígida de una ciudad como Nueva York o Madrid, y en todos los años que conforman una historia.
Uno puede sentir que es preso de infinitas maneras y, sin embargo, solo dos cosas nos liberan: la verdad y el amor.
En Glory Box (caja de gloria) Patricia Valley...
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Gloriana, or, The Revolution of 1900 (1890) is a novel by Lady Florence Dixie. A member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Dixie believed in the emancipation of women through radical cultural and political change. Gloriana, or, The Revolution of 1900, a feminist utopian novel, is the story of a revolutionary hero who defies gender norms and fights for liberation by any means necessary. Gloriana pleads woman's cause, pleads for her...
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Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines...
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Según una conocida leyenda oriental, existe un hilo rojo que une a dos personas a lo largo de sus vidas. Pero ¿y si hubiera un hilo que nos uniera a todos? He querido que exista y es el hilo azul.
No nace de la punta de los dedos sino del corazón y borda todos esos sentimientos que compartimos, sin importar cuál sea nuestra condición. ¿Quién no ha sentido miedo o no ha soltado una carcajada? ¿Quién no ha tenido que enfrentarse a una dificultad?
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After the passing of Tionna's mother she was left to figure out how to navigate through this world on her own without the advice of her dear beloved mother. After such loss and getting away from her dead-beat husband Tionna took the streets of Baltimore. Little did Tionna know! Her world was getting ready to be turned upside down. The next chapter of her life would soon send her down a road of heavy drinking and partying, meaningless love relationships,...
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What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over.Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It' s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that...
67) Ryder
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This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.
Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...
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A radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba's collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search for the woman she loves. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from clandestinely,...
69) I (Athena)
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When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking...
70) Carrusel
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Una escritora que atraviesa un tiempo convulso a nivel personal, y también un bloqueo creativo, emprende un viaje de búsqueda por sus recuerdos familiares y, en especial, por aquellos que comparte con su tío Carlos, que padece la misma enfermedad mental que ella. Esta reconstrucción de su vida la ayudará a descifrarse a nivel íntimo y literario y a enfrentarse a su experiencia con la maternidad y con la pérdida de sus seres queridos.
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A Roadmap To Life's Enduring Passages
Reckonings, regrets, longings. Life's turning points. Sometimes redemptive, sometimes heartbreaking, these crossroads are familiar to us all. The yearning for a different path, a better ending, is uniquely human.
You Can't Get There From Here explores these pivotal moments. In Repossession, we meet a young man looking for closure in his dead girlfriend's apartment; You Again, Always introduces us to a couple...
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There are nine chapters in the book, seven written in Spanish, one in English, one translated from Spanish. All of them previously published in very prestigious literary Review-Journnals of Latin America and Spain. This compilation represents the work of a scholar dedicated to the inquiry of feminism in the Modern and Contemporary Spanish poetry written by women and men in Modernism and Postmodernism. It is a scholarly book that traces how very recurrent...
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Successful lawyer Melissa, stay-at-home-mom Jessica, and Chef Dominic have not visited home for Christmas since their father died two years ago. But when their elderly mother invites them home for the holidays and shares her plan to sell the house, the three siblings plan a surprise for her. Little do they know their mother has a surprise of her own.
Meet the White family for their unexpected Christmas reunion.
74) It Wasn't Enough
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What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, and do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?
Here and now, women's subordination is so systemic it's unremarkable (to all but serious feminists). In It Wasn't Enough, once women are gone and men have to take their places, fill their roles, the subordination becomes remarkable, that is, it becomes noticeable. And then,...
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Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary analysis and the real lived experiences of women. An example of this disconnect is the way in which the madwoman in feminist literature has become a lauded icon of liberation, when in reality her situation would be seen as anything but empowered. Finding the Plot takes this example to task, arguing that in...
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Laila Russell is an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl living in London with her father, who is morose over his wife's accidental death. In the spring of 1972, Laila spots a lost pocketbook on the Underground and returns it to Amanda Charles, a fashionable young woman employed by an aging rock star. With glam music on the rise, Chaz Bonapart is going out of style. His manager, Francis Guy, comes up with a plan to get him back in the game by feeding him...
77) Ischia
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Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and protagonist who, along with her friends, wanders through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, searching for something they don't know and seems unfathomable.
An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel, Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes of life in Argentina and the world. Ischia, the first-person female narrator, is the youngest in a family of seven brothers...
78) Negra y oscura
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Una de las mejores novelas de familias en la Guerra Civil española, de lo mejor que vas a leer por Rosa Sanmartín, una novela imprescindible.
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En una casa heredada de los abuelos, vive la familia Martí Llorens. Un padre carlista y una madre republicana. Su ideología, hasta ese momento casi imperceptible, los convierte en enemigos un verano de 1936.
Luis, el primogénito, siempre trabajó en el campo con el padre. En julio de 1936 se alistarse...
79) La ocupación
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Fui yo quien dejó a W., tras una relación de seis años. Por cansancio pero también al no verme capaz de cambiar mi libertad, recuperada tras dieciocho años de matrimonio, por una vida en común que él deseaba fervientemente desde el principio. Unos meses después, W. me anunció que se iba a vivir con una mujer cuyo nombre no quiso decirme. A partir de ese momento caí presa de los celos. La imagen y la existencia de la otra mujer se convirtió...
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Tras sufrir un aborto, Ada, una joven profesora de danza que vive condicionada por los fantasmas de su pasado, se sumerge en una profunda crisis personal que desemboca en un punto de inflexión en su vida.
Con el apoyo incondicional de su padre y de su mejor amiga, decide iniciar una terapia psicológica en la que hará frente a las devastadoras secuelas que arrastra desde su infancia. En este proceso intentará superar las barreras que le impiden...
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