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An enthralling debut, Above the Fire crystallizes the relationship between a father and son as they survive a winter of isolation. Perfect for fans of The Dog Stars by Peter Heller and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Laboring under a shared loss, Doug and his young son, Tim, set out on a late season backpacking trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They find beauty and solidarity in the outdoors, making friends along the trail, and falling...
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From Publishers WeeklyAn exuberant, raunchy romp, Kinder's second novel (after Snakehunter) is a chronicle of two writers who share a "stupendous dream" of fame and freedom in the Bay Area in the 1970s, the heyday of drugs, booze and indiscriminate sex. Aspiring writer Ralph Crawford (based loosely on Raymond Carver); Jim Stark, his sidekick in friendship, ambition and general fecklessness; and the two writers' mistresses and wives never quite recover...
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Tratado de Agronomía recorre las calles de un barrio porteño y nos abre sus puertas a un sinnúmero de universos personales que desvelan sus deseos más profundos. Así, ese barrio de baldosas rotas y frondosa arboleda se transforma en un lugar misterioso a descubrir. Los lectores que nos animamos a atravesar ese umbral nos encontramos con relatos en los que las voces de los personajes nos susurran al oído y nos hacen cómplices de sus fantasías,...
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published-as twelve individual novels-but with a twenty-first-century twist: they're available only as e-books.
The ninth volume, The Military Philosophers (1968), takes the series through the end of the...
6) Crisis 2020
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Creative and extroverted, a woman who sought to fix everyone's problems, Callie Marshall felt fragile at the start of 2020. Her friend and mentor had died, and the conservation organization they founded was fracturing. But both the group and her own personal brand as a creative problem solver would truly be tested by the coming pandemic.
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This is the story of a young man who discovers his life's vocation among the working poor of the city, and inspires others to search for their vocation in the details and the peoples of their own daily lives as well. A story told by his best friend, Martin Elling cares for and inspires many people normally passed over and ignored by society.
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One of The Wall Street Journal's Best fiction books of 2011
England, 1923. A gentleman critic named Leslie Shepherd tells the macabre story of a gifted young composer, Charles Jessold. On the eve of his revolutionary new opera's premiere, Jessold murders his wife and her lover, and then commits suicide in a scenario that strangely echoes the plot of his opera---which Shepherd has helped to write. The opera will never be performed.
Shepherd first...
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Beautifully written and marvellously observed, "Capreol" is the story of a young buck deer growing up in the chalk hills and ash woods of the South Downs of England. Reminiscent in approach and imaginative insight of "Tarka the Otter" by the author's own father, the novel succeeds – without a trace of sentimentality – in evoking the timeless world of nature in a manner that is totally convincing.The book traces the drama of Capreol's birth, life...
10) Manaschi
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In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the intersection between tradition and modernity.
A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of the Kyrgyz bards and healers reciting Manas – the longest human epic, consisting nearly of a million verses – who are revered as people who are connected with supernatural forces. Travelling to...
11) The Haiduks
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Panait Istrati's _The Haiduks_ is a tale of cruelty and injustice (and of those who would combat these scourges) set in a Romania bled white by the ferocity of an occupying power and the greed of its native aristocracy."The marvelous storytelling talent," notes José Carlos Mariátegui, "that Panait Istrati revealed as of his earliest books is confirmed in _The Haiduks_. The figures of the haiduks, especially those of Floarea Codrilor, Élie the Sage,...
13) Pushing Forward
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Following unfortunate circumstances, The Ashcroft Family have no choice but to rebuild their home as the promise of a bright future feels increasingly uncertain.
14) After
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After is a collection of short stories written in the post 9/11 era. They include, among others, a man masquerading in firefighter's gear in order to get laid, a network news anchor fretting that his network is the only one not to receive an anthrax threat, a woman who rented an apartment to one of the 9/11 hijackers and a passenger's widow confronted the next day by a confused, upset man at her doorstep, covered in chalky dust and carrying her husband's...
15) Saraceno
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Billy Salviati just wants to be a good soldier, to follow orders and live under the radar. It's all going well until he meets Hettie Warshaw one night on a dark street in Hell's Kitchen. Then his life unravels. Saraceno is the story of a hit man whose good looks are equalled only by his gift for friendship. He survives the vicissitudes of good looks, but his gift for friendship puts him in the crosshairs of friends and enemies.Not many writers about...
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In the Forest is a newly reissued edition of the terrifying novel from "one of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world" (The New York Times), Edna O'Brien.
"O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." -Newsweek
O'Brien takes her reader into the mind of Michen O'Kane, a murder who terrorizes the countryside of western Ireland, and traces his transformation...
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Today, the dream of many of us is to be a writer, to be successful with our writings and to make a living from it. Although without a doubt, this possibility is within our reach thanks to the internet. Being a writer and being recognized internationally has never been so simple or at least that is what we have thought. In collaboration with LIBRERIO, we have decided to write this ebook speaking without censorship of the myths and truths that exist...
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The power of the sense of smell as a trigger for memory is explored in the title story. An unexpected relationship on a Connecticut beach develops between two women who have lost their husbands in another story. A further story explores a disturbed adolescent boy's path to resolution.These are some of the themes in the eight short stories in this little book by novice writer Richard Newell, a retired physician with 'an incredible gift for writing...
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En las historias que arman este mosaico de sentimientos humanos, el lector dará la vuelta al mundo antes de encontrarse en momentos muy distintos del siglo XX para incorporarse a ocho culturas tan distintas como distantes.Conoce a don Rafa, un hombre mexicano muy simpático. Sin embargo, no puede ni decir ni vivir con la verdad. Las únicas excepciones son las que se refieren a la amistad entre hombres, al reconocimiento de la belleza femenina y...
20) The Sponge Diver
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"The Sponge Diver" features the young Romanian vagabond Adrien Zograffi, this time in Greece, as he listens to the harrowing tale of a fellow Romanian drifter's season of forced labor aboard a small ship plying the Eastern Mediterranean in search of rich sponge beds.Panait Istrati (1884-1935) was once among the most popular writers in Europe.
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