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28741) Solatium
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Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within. In the dark, seedy underbelly of Pandora-a lawless colony on the best of days-a young woman who's lost everything but her soul fights to reclaim her life from a violent, sadistic criminal despot. But when she's given a chance for freedom, she realizes escape is not enough....
28742) Preacher Raises the Dead
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Third in the multiple-award-winning Evan Wycliff Mystery series.
Guest preacher and part-time investigator Evan Wycliff reluctantly takes on the role of full-time minister and walks straight into more responsibility and trouble than he can handle. He attends to near-death experience, late-stage dementia, long-term coma, and consequences of the pandemic. His old nemesis investment banker Stuart Shackleton is back - and claims to be converted! Shackleton's...
28743) Letra torcida, letra torcida
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Finales de los años setenta. Chabot, una pequeña localidad rural del sur de Mississippi. Larry es un adolescente solitario y triste que se pasa todo el día encerrado en su cuarto leyendo libros de Stephen King. Su padre, dueño del taller en la carretera 11, dice que es un negado para la mecánica. Una mañana, camino del colegio, recogen en la carretera a una mujer negra y a su hijo, Silas, que, desde hace unos días, viven como refugiados en...
28744) A Karenina Companion
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Although Anna Karenina has been described as "the European novel" by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal that has previously not been available in English, for the scholarly and literary appreciation of this great novel. Chapter 1 is a biographical introduction...
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Such a Lovely Afternoon is a dazzling debut collection from award-winning Yukon writer Patti Flather.
A feisty young tomboy grapples with gender roles with sometimes hilarious results, a refugee single dad struggles for dignity in his northern community, and a malfunctioning compost toilet and wacky neighbours upturn a woman's island cabin life, among other tales.
Against vivid landscapes from Canada's West Coast to Hong Kong to the Yukon, Flather...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Commencé vers 1918, le vaste projet romanesque de L'Homme sans qualités absorba toute l'énergie de Robert Musil (1880-1942) jusqu'à sa mort, sans qu'il puisse parvenir à le mener à bien.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur L'Homme sans qualités de Robert Musil
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature...
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Extrait : "Dans les premiers jours de juin 1833, après avoir revu Oxford, je voulus revoir Cambridge, que j'avais visité une première fois dix années auparavant : je ne faisais pas un pèlerinage scientifique aux deux anciennes universités anglaises; Je n'avais d'autre but que de retremper en quelque sorte mes souvenirs dans une course rapide à travers les provinces les plus voisines de Londres."
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This collection of American poetry done in the Japanese Haibun style is a wonderful addition for any lover of haiku or other eloquent poetry styles. Haibun is a beautiful Japanese form of autobiographical poetic prose accompanied by verse, usually haiku. Here, Bruce Ross, past president of the Haiku Society of America invites us on a journey of self-discovery with over twenty-five North American contributors who use this form to explore such issues...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dreamt of becoming a famous writer from the time that she was a young girl. After several years of searching for adventure and success, Marjorie finally found inspiration in the wild country of central Florida. While living there, she produced several popular works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize - winning novel The Yearling.
28751) Los descendientes del musgo
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El autor no se ha limitado a crear una novela de carácter rural, sino que ha logrado superar este entorno a base de conjugar dos estilos diferentes; nos encontramos, por un lado, con un lenguaje realista que sirve para que el protagonista central de la obra, un labrador-ganadero de escasos recursos económicos, haga un recuento de su vida. Junto a ello se observa un lenguaje poético y perfecto
en su léxico que utiliza el novelista para mitificar...
28752) Los días del piano
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"Parafraseando a Carrère” en su libro Limónov, quiero decir que esta crónica de Ramón Ferro no es una ficción, es real, y la conozco. Ramón, que vive en Merlo, San Luis, recibe un whatsapp de su hermana Matu, un mensaje respecto a la delicada salud de su padre.
Ramón es médico neurólogo y entiende mejor que nadie que los síntomas son graves, por lo cual decide viajar a Mar del Plata para verlo. Para entonces, otoño de 2020, el país...
28753) The Dead Wife's Handbook
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Rachel, Max, and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life-until the night Rachel's heart stopped beating. She was thirty-six.
Just as her family can't forget her, Rachel can't quite let go of them either. Caught in a place between worlds, Rachel watches helplessly as she begins to fade from their lives.
This fresh debut novel touches on the various stages of bereavement, from denial to acceptance. As Max and Ellie work through their grief, Rachel...
28754) Zombie: A Novel
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High school may be hell. But for fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker, hell doesn't end when the bell rings. His pill-addicted mother, sex-addicted brother, and mostly-absentee Vietnam-vet father aren't much of an improvement over the bullies at his all-boys Catholic school. He stays sane by watching movies. Zombie movies, to be exact, that provide a useful code of survival: avoid contact, keep quiet, forget the past, lock-and-load, and fight to survive....
28755) Patience & Sarah
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Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a cross-dressing farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. They choose to live together and love each other freely, even though they know of no precedents for their relationship; they must trust their own instincts and...
28756) Gil Perez the Gallician
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"Gil Pérez, the Gallician" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca is a Spanish play. Mysterious time-traveler Gil appears in Madrid dressed as a Galician soldier from centuries ago. His arrival disrupts events, triggering intrigue and confusion. Through witty exchanges and fantastical elements, the play delves into time's fluidity and human nature's constants. Calderón explores the intersection of past and present, blurring reality's borders, offering a...
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Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mutazz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous landlords, the inscrutable local women, the Irish judiciary, haunted seminaries, and cold winter nights selling flowers on the banks of the Liffey to make...
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy...
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This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought with respect to the quatrumvirate of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. He begins by showing what Bataille's understanding of the mythological owes to Schelling....
28760) Guía literaria de Londres
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Tácito fue el primer gran escritor en mencionar Londres y, desde entonces, muchos otros grandes creadores nos han dejado sus impresiones de la ciudad. En este libro Dostoyevski y Boswell nos acompañan por los bajos fondos londinenses, mientras que Dickens, De Amicis, London o Kipling nos hacen de guías y nos dan consejos para manejarnos en la capital de Inglaterra. Otros, como Beda el Venerable, John Evelyn o Samuel Pepys nos cuentan cómo la ciudad...
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