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Chance (1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to anything but compassion." After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position "has no resources but in herself." Her only means of action is to be what she is. Flora's...
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"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans.
In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world.
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HarperCollins
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2010
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English
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A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot stories
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide, in more than one hundred countries, she had achieved the impossible—more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one
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ALFAGUARA
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2018
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Casa de Campo es la obra maestra de Donoso y tal vez una de las grandes obras de la narrativa en lengua castellana. "El horizonte cultural de la novela es complejo y por momentos fascinante. Donoso volcó aquí su conocimiento apasionado de la pintura, de la música, de la literatura, de la historia europea e hispanoamericana", dice Jorge Edwards en el prólogo de este libro. Y agrega más adelante: "la voz del autor, el recurso al artificio narrativo,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 39
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Katherine Anne Porter's first and only novel is a masterful allegory of the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The ship's first-class passengers include an idealistic young American painter and her lover; a Spanish dance troupe with a sideline in larceny; an elderly German couple and their fat, seasick bulldog; and a boisterous band of Cuban...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his “profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes” (Booklist).
In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers...
In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2022
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Through the lens of horror-from Halloween to Hereditary-queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.
Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo-and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes-such as the circumspect and resilient "final girl," body possession,...
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Eterna Cadencia
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2021
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Qué quietud había ahí arriba, pero ¿por qué nunca estaba en paz? El día aún no despuntaba, y Furlong miró hacia el río oscuro y brillante cuya superficie reflejaba partes equivalentes del pueblo iluminado. Eran tantas las cosas que se veían mejor, cuando no estaban tan cerca. No pudo decir cuál prefería, si la vista del pueblo o su reflejo en el agua.
Invierno de 1985 en un pequeño pueblo irlandés. Bill Furlong es un hombre amable y...
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SAGA Egmont
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2020
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Here you will understand why Federico García Lorca is unforgettable.
Written in 1931, Bodas de sangre is a play about two young people who are going to get married, but on their wedding day, the bride sees her old boyfriend, Leonardo, again, with whom she has always been in love. Then, after the ceremony, the two flee together, carried away by their love. However, the husband then goes out to look for them, full of pain and rage...
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Bancroft Press
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The first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative nonfiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experience and observations of a divorced, working mother, it expresses hopes and fears universal to all women.
Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to
...11) Sex and the City
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Hachette Audio
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2005
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Dive into the mating habits of privileged New Yorkers in this hilarious collection of Bushnell's newspaper columns that inspired the hit HBO series.
Sex and the City is a fantastic and sometimes terrifying foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers. Traveling in packs from lavish parties to high-end clubs, Bushnell's vividly candid characters live out the never-ending search for the perfect relationship. Bushnell's...
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The New Press
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2012
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A "well-chosen anthology of the radical historian's prodigious output," from A People's History of the United States and lesser known sources (Kirkus Reviews).
When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation's foremost intellectual and political guides; a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times's Bob Herbert, "peel[ed] back...
When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation's foremost intellectual and political guides; a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times's Bob Herbert, "peel[ed] back...
13) King Richard II
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"Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king," declares the soon-to-be deposed ruler of this historical drama. Confident in his divine right, Richard II is an ineffective and unpopular king who abuses his power and sows the seeds of his own downfall. Toppled from the throne by Henry, his ambitious cousin, Richard only learns to value kingship after he loses it, achieving a tragic dignity only with his downfall....
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"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come...
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"A spirited, gracefully polemical introduction and the final story, "She Unnames Them, '' frame this collection of fiction and poetry, placing it in a natural but unsentimental light. These are not really "talking animal'' stories: they are about human apprehension of natural creation (including rocks and plants) and the relations this apprehension governs; or, how communication makes communities. Seven of ten stories and seven of 19 poems having...
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Intermedio Editores S.A.S
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2017
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Español
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Este libro puede leerse de diversas formas: como un tesoro que revela unas joyas conocidas pero perdidas, como el testimonio de un autor querido y admirado, o como un manual para escritores
–tanto periodistas como literatos, nóveles o expertos– lleno de anécdotas, consejos y confidencias. Es, en realidad, una serie de textos de Gabriel García Márquez publicados en la revista Cambio entre 1999 y 2002 que incluye varios de sus más admirados...
18) Gabo contesta
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Intermedio Editores S.A.S
Pub. Date
2015
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Español
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Una mirada a la intimidad de su oficio como escritor: eso es lo que permiten los textos acá publicados, las respuestas que Gabo diera a sus lectores sobre diversos aspectos de su obra narrativa y periodística, que nos permiten asomarnos, como por el ojo de una cerradura, al estudio del premio nobel, al escritorio sobre el que reposa la máquina de escribir en la que "con dos dedos" dio vida no solo a sus entrañables personajes, tanto de las novelas...
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Hachette Audio
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2005
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A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Beyond Vietnam, a powerful plea to end the ongoing conflict. Includes contributions...
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The great difference between telling and reading is that the teller is free; the reader is bound. The book in hand, or the wording of it in mind, binds the reader. The story-teller is bound by nothing; he stands or sits, free to watch his audience, free to follow or lead every changing mood, free to use body, eyes, voice, as aids in expression. Even his mind is unbound, because he lets the story come in the words of the moment, being so full of
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