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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times
Split into five sections—Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering—Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some...
Split into five sections—Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering—Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some...
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Español
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Continúa la saga Dos amigas, la historia de la amistad de dos mujeres que recorre los años más importantes del siglo XX. UNA SAGA MEMORABLE «Ferrante es una contadora de historias nata, tan extraordinaria y adictivacomo mi también adorado John Irving, una escritora clásica en el sentido maravilloso de la palabra.»
Milena Busquets
«Ella me demostró que yo no había ganado nada, simplemente porque en este mundo nuestro no había nada que ganar......
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A collection of quotes from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild—drawn from the wide range of her writings—that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive.
"Cheryl Strayed is a tough-love truth-teller.... Brave Enough amount[s] to a galvanizing call to be bigger,...
"Cheryl Strayed is a tough-love truth-teller.... Brave Enough amount[s] to a galvanizing call to be bigger,...
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ALFAGUARA
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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«Nadie sabe a ciencia cierta cuando algo sucederá por última vez.»
Entre enero de 2008 y marzo de 2022, Álvaro Uribe enfrentó el cáncer en tres ocasiones. La primera vez fue en el pulmón derecho; la segunda, en 2018, en la próstata, y la tercera, nuevamente en el pulmón, ahora del lado izquierdo. Álvaro venció al íntimo invasor en los primeros dos enfrentamientos. En el tercero, perdió la batalla. En cada ocasión llevó un diario en...
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ALFAGUARA
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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La literatura y el arte se unen en el nuevo libro de Julio Llamazares, uno de los escritores españoles más destacados de la actualidad «Una primavera irreal y extraña, espectacular y hermosa, pero a la vez trágica. La fragilidad y la incertidumbre, las relaciones con la naturaleza yla necesidad de replantearse muchas cosas como individuos y sociedad centran el libro, ilustrado con acuarelas.»
Xesús Fraga, La Voz de Galicia
«Mientraselmundo...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen, hailed by the New York Times as “America’s resident sane person,” offers a collection of “engaging, fresh, [and] funny” (Chicago Tribune) essays about growing up, becoming a parent, spirituality, and more.
“The lightning bugs are back. They are small right now, babies really, flying low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green...
“The lightning bugs are back. They are small right now, babies really, flying low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green...
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ALFAGUARA
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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El nuevo libro de artículos de Javier Marías.
Una mirada incómoda, certera y brillante sobre la sociedad de hoy.
Este volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El PaísSemanal entre el 3 de febrero de 2019 y el 24 de enero de 2021.
«Han caducado los tiempos en que la gente se tomaba en serio la promesa hecha, la palabra dada, que todavía los niños de mi infancia llamaban "palabra de...
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RANDOM HOUSE
Pub. Date
2015
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Español
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Un libro que recoge el trascendental y emblemático discurso que dio la autora en su TEDx Talk sobre lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI.
Ser feminista no es solo cosa de mujeres. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lo demuestra en este elocuente y perspicaz texto, en el que nos brinda una definición singular de lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI. Con un estilo claro y directo, y sin dejar de lado el humor, esta carismática autora explora...
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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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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete...
Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike. In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of words to rescue the young black women she portrays from their constricted worlds.
In the Obie Award-winning play "Beauty's Daughter," Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled...
In the Obie Award-winning play "Beauty's Daughter," Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled...
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Intermedio Editores S.A.S
Pub. Date
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...
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DEBATE
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Andréi Kurkov, uno de los novelistas más reconocidos de Ucrania y enemigo declarado de Putin, denuncia con su pluma los crímenes que está cometiendo Rusia contra su patria.
«Un Bulgákov moderno [...]. Un Murakami ucraniano». Phoebe Taplin, The Guardian
«Al principio no entendíamos qué era la guerra. No puedes entenderlo hasta que la escuchas y la ves».
El 24 de febrero de 2022 el ejército ruso invadió Ucrania y dio comienzo a una brutal...
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The Floating Press
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English
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Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire, Lucian of Samosata. The works are regarded as some of the first novels in western civilization, including some of the earliest examples of science fiction. He is witty and derisive and parodies the work of Homer as well as lowbrow popular tales of his time.
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English
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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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#1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for any occasion.
“Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live . ....
“Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live . ....
17) Complete Poems
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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“Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.” –The New York Times Book Review
A Penguin Classic
This definitive edition brings together all the works that Pulitzer Prize-winning Marianne Moore wished to preserve, covering more than sixty years of writing, and incorporating the final revisions she made to the texts. The poems demonstrate...
A Penguin Classic
This definitive edition brings together all the works that Pulitzer Prize-winning Marianne Moore wished to preserve, covering more than sixty years of writing, and incorporating the final revisions she made to the texts. The poems demonstrate...
18) Delhi Noir
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Akashic Books
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English
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“This book is a chance to get a fix on some of India’s best crime writers” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
These fourteen original stories, from some of India’s most outstanding literary talents, take you into a world of sex in parks, male prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. Set in a city plagued by religious riots, soulless corporate dons, and murderous servants, this collection offers...
These fourteen original stories, from some of India’s most outstanding literary talents, take you into a world of sex in parks, male prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. Set in a city plagued by religious riots, soulless corporate dons, and murderous servants, this collection offers...
19) No leer
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018
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Español
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Apasionado, extraño, divertido y melancólico. Un originalísimo elogio de la lectura.
La inconfundible voz de Alejandro Zambra se oye con fuerza y delicadeza en las páginas de este libro que, alentados por la paradoja del título, podemos comprender como un originalísimo elogio de la lectura.
Inventario de filias, fobias y caprichos, delicioso álbum de citas, proyectos frustrados y declaraciones de amor
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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Ann Lauterbach's ninth work of poetry, Or to Begin Again, takes its name from a sixteen-poem elegy that resists its own end, as it meditates on the nearness of specific attachment and loss against the mute background of historical forces in times of war. In the center of the book is a twelve-part narrative, "Alice in the Wasteland,"inspired by Lewis Carroll's great character and T.S. Eliot's 1922 modernist poem. Alice is accosted by an invisible...
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