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Fredrick Backman, «el Dickens de nuestro tiempo» según el Green Valley News, regresa al pueblo de Beartown en esta emocionante, divertida y, a ratos, dramática novela sobre la lealtad y la amistad.
Perdido en lo más profundo del bosque, Beartown es un pequeño pueblo de gente que trabaja duro sin esperar que la vida sea fácil ni justa. Su único anhelo es mantener la reputación de su club de hockey sobre hielo. Por eso, cuando un evento inesperado...
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We've surely arrived at an age where cashing in on people's innocence and naivety has been a source of livelihood for some people. Such that they're willing to consume a standup man, ripping him apart from all the hard-earned living he earned for his children. The story encapsulates the life of the author's foremost support; a determined man, who ventured along the ambition of living up only for his children. Her father, despite living a star-spangled...
3) Rapture
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Using a single interlude-a brief encounter of old lovers, two bodies entwined on a bed at midday-Minot defines the distance that erupts at what seems to be the height of connection, as well as the extent to which the senses deceive, and the intensely private eroticism of fantasy and the imagination.
Minot's lovers are mesmerizing in their individual journeys-one moving toward a kind of holy consummation, the other toward abnegation and blank despair....
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Mystic in the Forest : Aries Journey: has achieved a remarkable feat by being as Top #10 best seller in three of Amazon's categories.
#2 Best Seller ★ in Teen & Young Adult Adventure & Adventurers eBooks (Kindle Store) (February 22, 2024)
#2 Best Seller ★ in Teen & Young Adult Travel Fiction eBooks (Kindle Store) (February 22, 2024)
#3 Best Seller ★ in Mystery Literary Criticism (Kindle Store) (February 22, 2024)
In the shadows of our reality,...
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Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China, for fans of Yiyun Li and Julie Otsuka.
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't...
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Though somewhat overshadowed by Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Huxley's modernist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) is often regarded as his finest work. The writer and historian Simon Heffer dubbed it, unequivocally, 'his only great novel.'
The plot centres on Anthony Beavis, a dilettante social theorist, a man inclined to recoil from life. The pleasures of the physical world disgust him and the universe of ideas is but a poor refuge....
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When Alina's son, Fin, traces his long-absent birthfather, it's the catalyst for decades of secrets to implode in Alina's neatly ordered life. With the sudden appearance of Rory, and the ever-present pull of a very different life in Bangladesh, she's left reeling.
Three relationships, all of them built on half-truths. All Alina can truly be sure of, is that you can choose your family, you just can't choose who they will turn out to be.
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Finding Isobel is a compelling story of self-discovery, forgiveness, and the enduring power of family.
Isobel has always yearned to uncover the mystery surrounding her birth and why her adoptive parents have refused to share what they know with her. About to enter vet school, Isobel's life takes an unexpected turn after the death of Maggie O'Connor, Isobel's de facto grandmother. Fueled by an ache to belong, and willing to sacrifice her college plans...
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Cyrano is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents whose whimsical aptitude for the spoken word is overshadowed by an attribute that is iconic, outrageous and gigantic-his nose. How can the curiously-snouted Cyrano ever hope to win the affections of the beautiful Roxane? An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring Caroline Aaron, Hugo Armstrong, Kalen Harriman, Gregory Itzin, Hamish Linklater, Anna Mathias, Morgan Ritchie, Jason Ritter,...
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« Bamp;B, il y a un petit gâteau noir dans le congélateur pour vous. Ne le jetez pas. Je veux que vous vous asseyiez ensemble et que vous partagiez ce gâteau. Vous saurez quand le moment sera venu.Je vous aime, Ma. » Ce sont les dernières volontés de la mère de Byron et Benny. Avec le gâteau, elle a laissé un enregistrement audio réalisé avant sa mort. Elle y livre l'histoire d'une jeune nageuse venue d'une île des Caraïbes, forcée...
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Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare's darkest tragedy. When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way – including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and paranoia. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring...
12) Donny's Brain
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The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place. This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public...
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El experimento de este libro es muy duro, es la relación de una sola persona entre homber y mujer, una relación abstracta. Se desarrolla sólo con razón y sentimiento personal. Se describe una mujer de sabiduría entre el amor de dos generos. Se siente aburrida en la vida matrimonial. El amor fuera del matrimonio renueva su sentimiento, al mismo tiempo no puede dejarse atrapar por la pasión, y obedece los principios de juego. De ninguna manera,...
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Aging is hard, but watching those you love get older isn't much easier.
Everything Is a Little Broken invites listeners to both laugh and cry at some of the painful, heart-wrenching and absurd moments Mira Cayne and her father, Matt Frank, experience as age and infirmity begin to take their toll. Their story will be instantly recognizable to the 41 million Americans caring for older adults in their lives.
Matt has always been Mira's hero and her...
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Freundschaft hat viele Seiten - Tom und Maggie sind die perfekte Gesellschaft für gemütliche Nachmittage!
Tom führt ein alles andere als normales Teenagerleben. Vor sieben Jahren starb seine Mutter und sein Vater verfällt zunehmend dem Whisky. Trost findet Tom in der örtlichen Bücherei und in den Büchern, meist Romanzen, die seine Mutter so sehr mochte. Das darf natürlich niemand wissen, vor allem nicht die coole Farah aus der Schule, die...
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The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, in the United States, and in the emigration in-between. Love, marriage, infidelity, disillusionment, intimacy and the lack of it, rootlessness are subjects that move from an improbable reality...
17) American Nomads
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Imagine one day, a group of charismatic strangers stumble into your life. They tell you stories of their travels and adventures, igniting your imagination and feeding your desire to run away.
Imagine they invite you to come along. To see a side of life most will never see, to do things most will never do, and to experience life with no limits, no rules and no safety net.
Would you go?
Beth always dreamed of being popular. Of living a life filled...
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Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . .
A girl learns about her heritage and begins to find her community. . .
A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost. . .
There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.
These tales from fourteen...
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After a killer school talent show performance in full masculine presentation, trans boy Kinkade is quickly knocked back down to earth when his crush rejects him, and the whole school sees him in the dress his mother forced him to wear for a family photo. So, when the new girl, Madi, assumes he is cis and asks him out, he accepts without correcting her. After years of being ignored by his old crush and bullied by other boys, Kinkade just wants to convince...
20) Thorn of Secrets
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“Madea's Family Reunion” meets “Fear”
Justin:
The deceit in my family is rooted deep like jagged thorns and no one can avoid getting pricked. The door to my first love-my future stepsister's, worst secret was unlocked. It cost any chance our relationship had. There's no evading the truth-it's my face that's scorned her.
The falling leaves of autumn are like me sweeping away my chaotic past. No sense in dwelling on what could've been. I must...
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