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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2023.
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181 pages ; 22 cm
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Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities. In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments. The...
2) Sam Is Bored
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Sam is bored and looking for something fun to do. Her brothers are playing video games and not paying any attention to Sam. Sam is so bored, she decides to ask her Auntie Sandy for something fun to do. Her aunt has been watching them so their mother can work extra hours.Auntie Sandy is a little different. Sam refuses to give up asking Auntie Sandy for something fun to do and finds out it's not wise to pester an aunt who's different.
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Are we ever really walking alone? Facing a health crisis, Marielle sets out on her 55th birthday to walk the wooded Maine trails she grew to love. She did not imagine her walk would take her to the streets, hillsides and porches of generations of her family. Alone, finding herself journeying on an isolated stretch of abandoned trail etched out of twigs and time, Marielle encounters an eerily familiar person who ushers her forward on the journey of...
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Alexander starts his life in a pre-birth Heaven where souls wait to be assigned an identity and sent to Earth. As a lousy student, he struggles to follow the heavenly authorities' formal instructions. By a strange turn of luck, he is sent to a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina called Herontown (Capljina). He falls in love with the beauty of Herzegovina and meets Ronnie, who offers him a way to stay even though he is supposed to return to Heaven soon....
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Tulio, who was committed to the sanitarium as a little boy, is now an old man and a trained diablero. He sits in his cell listening to the falling rain, and within that downpour he hears nature's voices guiding him to escape. As he accepts and follows the commands, he is taken on a physical and psychological journey with his best friend Lluvia. Soon, they both elude the sinister Padre Pasillo who wants to desperately catch and return him to the sanitarium....
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Once in a dream I was presented with a terrible choice. Neither option was good. Both were harmful to the world. The first choice was to become a thug, a quasi-alcoholic, an abusive husband, father, and employer, an embezzler who made others go down for his crimes and got away scot-free (yet with a lingering canker of guilt ulcerating his gut)-in short a rancid stew of a person, the kind that keeps society and life grunting along on its present low,...
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Who is Antoine of Gommiers? A prophet, seer, matchmaker, trickster, or huckster-- or does he even exist? In this satirical novel tinged with magical realism, Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot (Kannjawou) paints a richly textured portrait of life in his native country overseen by supernatural forces where the worlds of dream and reality co-exist. With alternating chapters that reveal the day to day struggles in the capital city of Port-au-Prince of...
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Under normal circumstances, lifting a landmass is impossible. Under normal circumstances. But a lot can change in a year as Richard Cronin discovers. While attending the Messengers of Hope Reunion, a chance to remake the world's former greatest source of inspiration, his best friend and co-founder is killed when the event is taken hostage. Rich inherits the property and decides to turn around his life and bring purpose to it by finding ways to do...
9) Demoniacs
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Evie Mickelson is anything but your average hostage negotiator with acute mind control powers- but she is about to discover she's the key to a battle with the demonic forces of evil.And Demoniacs (Book 1 of The Revelationary War) is anything but your average urban fantasy road trip novel with dark angels, ninja nuns and djinns. It is also a speculation on the nature of evil and terrorism. It is a commemoration of the superheroes of popular culture....
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Zoo keeper Mr. Shirl, who looks like Little Dawnie's daddy, takes the friends on a tour of the Zoo, showing them how to play the games and the fun rides and introducing them to the Tigers, Lions, and Bears. Oh My! Dog explains to Ning and Boss that they are really at home, sound asleep! They are Sleep Walkers! They cannot be hurt on their adventures, and if they are afraid of anything or are in danger, they will wake up in their own beds! Because,...
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Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she creates survival maps for border crossers and paints murals at the Casa de los Olvidados, a refuge in Sonora run by the traditional healer Juana of God. These darkly funny tales, focusing on Mexican-American, Euro-American,...
13) Hearth Magic
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After the events of RIVER MAGIC, Cian O'Connor and Anthony Russo must grapple with their relationship to the land, the spirit realm, and each other. One man wants to support Lacey and protect her from another otherworldly maelstrom. The other needs her help as he confronts an angry presence in his home so he can move on with a new lover. Are Cian and Anthony's lives more entwined than they ever imagined? "The medium, the conservationist, and the poacher,...
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Descubre el testimonio transformador de un alma en busca de su esencia en Viaje de regreso a Mur. Sumérgete en una narrativa vibrante que relata la odisea de veinte años en un rincón paradisíaco del Trópico, una pequeña isla que parece desvanecerse en el vasto océano del mapamundi. Este libro no es un mero relato de viajes, sino una invitación a despojarse de las capas milenarias de convenciones y a redescubrir la sensualidad y la autenticidad...
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Whether delving into the complexities of social sciences, healthcare, environmental studies, or legal studies, the consistent value of Critical Realism has been its ability to uncover the deeper structures and mechanisms that shape observable phenomena. By doing so, it allows us to not only understand the world more comprehensively but also offers a foundation for changing it.Traditional methods of inquiry, often constrained by disciplinary boundaries...
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Glorious Meditates is an inner journey of self-discovery. Guided by visions, Glorious goes on an inner journey. She receives messages and awakens levels of innate understanding. Her awareness intensifies as she allows herself to trust and surrender to the rhythm of the Universe. Deeply relaxed, Glorious receives an ultimate message to share with the world! After a read-through, this story morphs into inspiring affirmations for building good feelings...
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Raphael earns his living as a butcher in a hillside village in rural Trinidad. He is also a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing. But somehow, miraculously, the novel, as Raphael has planned it in one hundred chapters of a thousand words, seems to write itself... Multi-levelled and diverse in scene,...
20) Sowilo
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In a faraway land parallel to ours, Elandria has rules of its own. Magic and betrayal run rampant as Shiloh, a born Gypsy, is forced to walk a thin line between freedom and death.
Soon after escaping her longtime tormentor, Gorgahl, she is thrown unprepared into a land that has been laid under a wintry curse. Armed with her magic, and a strong spirit, Shiloh's love for life shines through the darkness, leading all who live in Elandria into the...
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