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"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her "family"--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female...
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A singular debut from "an important and radical new literary voice" (Elif Batuman), The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writerIt's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her failure.Increasingly...
4) How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
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From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author's experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia. As a young woman growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find...
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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...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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[2023].
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x, 306 pages ; 22 cm
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"Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir....Zero at the Bone begins with Wiman's preoccupation with despair,...
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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....
8) 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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Duermevela es una historia inquietante y sobrecogedora, basada en hechos reales, en la que la autora nos lleva por parajes de la vida y del mundo de los sueños, donde nos podemos encontrar con personajes siniestros, como una mujer de cabello largo y andrajoso, en cuyo rostro se resguarda una incógnita. Ella se presentará en tus sueños, en el plano astral, onírico o, incluso, en el real. Es así como con maestría, Marcela De Albali nos lleva...
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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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Ruven Preuk se asoma a la vida entre las primeras llamas del siglo XX alemán. Es un muchacho taciturno y soñador que posee un talento inesperado en el hijo del carretero: sus ojos oyen y sus oídos ven. Percibe los colores del sonido. El encuentro con el violín de músico errante marcará para siempre el rumbo que le dicta su destino. Empuñará el arco contra viento y marea, contra el estrépito de las banderas, contra las aullidos feroces, contra...
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"Remedios Lucio is an author and a journalist, who owns The HodgePodge
Lifestyle blog and YouTube channel since 2010. She has written The
HodgePodge Lifestyle Chronicles book series 10 Years After, Season is
Changing, and Back to the Homeland. She loves to share her life experiences;
go on travel adventures; meet people from all walks of life; indulge in various
cuisines; immerse herself in different cultures, and learn a new language.
She currently...
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En busca de lectores -y de sus bibliotecas personales-, Javier Vargas de Luna ha recorrido la ciudad hispánica en ambos lados del Atlántico. Ha visitado todos los acentos y todas las fronteras de la lectura en nuestra lengua, ha entrado y salido de bares bohemios en el lago Titicaca, ha frecuentado tiraderos de libros en La Habana y ha vagado por las desoladas plazas de San Pedro de Atacama. En Salta conoció a los bibliópatas de la ciudad antes...
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Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders...
16) Tourism in India
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This book is about India and the tourist attractions she has to offer that many people had no knowledge of. The beautiful country of India has many sights seeing and beautiful places to visits, lots of UNESCO sights, archeological and ancient monuments dating from the common era. Places like the Himalayan and Karakoram mountains, the sacred Ganges River, statue of unity, butterfly beach, Mumbai, festivals and many more. The country has lots of cultural,...
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Los relatos que conforman este libro son la expresión contemporánea de la corporalidad social. Mientras ésta se percibe como un cuerpo incorrupto, es precisamente, lo contrario. La corporalidad social, que es su microcosmos, es representada en la narrativa de Marina Herrera, en cuerpo de mujer, nos permite ahondar en cómo es percibido, vejado, exhibido el ser y estar de las mujeres, dentro de una sociedad cada vez más violenta y violentada.
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El aire que se respira en Cuba está prácticamente libre de contaminación corrupta, aunque desde luego cada paso que se dé y cada previsión que se tenga, no podrá estar libre de desconfianza, incluyendo las acciones subrepticias de la CIA norteamericana, que financia cualquier injerencia a cualquier país como en el caso de casi todos los latinoamericanos y caribeños, razón por la cual Cuba se previene siempre con sus departamentos migratorios...
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Restless property developer, Peter Calliet meets a sullen young woman at a party and an obsession begins that links past and present in a deepening tragedy. Peter has everything in terms of material success and security. The obligatory fast car, lucrative contracts with his powerfully connected father's property empire and a plush renovated flat. Devoted fiancée, Claudia, expects to move in and marriage is imminent. But Peter has a dark past that...
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It's 1994. Blur and Oasis are in the charts. New Labour are on the horizon. Ladbroke Grove is the place, a thriving hub of art, music and cultural diversity.
Emerging from the wreckage of another lost weekend, Indie Guitarist of the Year, Joe E Byron, hurries home on the Tube to face the consequences of his actions. Ten years on the road has taken its toll. He should be spending more time with Justine and the kids. Instead, he's restless, angry,...
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