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Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume Related works
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"Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and inventive new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology"--
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Alma
Pub. Date
[2022]
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350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Esta antologia recoge 22 relatos escritos por mujeres. Aqui encontraras narraciones de figuras consagradas como Emilia Pardo Bazan, Mary Shelley o Edith Wharton, y descubriras autoras menos conocidas como Maria de Zayas o Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Aunque pertenecen a distintas epocas y lugares, todas tienen algo en comun: la valentia de ir a contracorriente y alzar la voz en tiempos en los que era casi imposible que una mujer desarrollara sus capacidades...
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In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, poetry, and comics, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican Americans. Living Beyond Borders is at once an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and hopeful love letter from the Mexican American community to today's young readers.
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A Penguin Classic
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions...
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions...
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Ever After High (Shannon Hale) volume Related works
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
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xii, 241 pages, 16 pages : color map ; 21 cm
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A new chapter is about to begin at Ever After High, and all students are preparing to return to school and start their Legacy Year, when they will commit to living out their fairytale destinies, repeating the famous stories of their parents.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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215 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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"A provocative and haunting collection from critically acclaimed writer Lily Tuck, Heathcliff Redux explores, with cool precision, the hidden dynamics and unspoken conflicts at the heart of human relationships. In the title novella, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a single photograph illuminates the intricate web of connections...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
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209 pages ; 22 cm
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"Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.'s wealthy elite and finds men and women both crass and tender, vicious and desperate. With wit and intellect, Millet offers profound insight into human behavior from the ordinary to the bizarre: strong-minded girls are beset by the helpless, myopic executives are...
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Vintage Español, una divisiaon de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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217 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Un muchacho decide hacerse escritor al descubrir que sus invenciones le regalan un rato m?s de inter?s por parte de la ni?a rica que le ha robado el coraz?n. Un arquitecto huye de Constantinopla con los planos de una biblioteca inexpugnable. Un extra?o caballero tienta a Cervantes para que escriba un libro como no ha existido jam?s. Y Gaud?, navegando hacia una misteriosa cita en Nueva York, se deleita con la luz y el vapor, la materia de la que deber?an...
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