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1) Nostromo
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"Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard" is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native...
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Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety--amoebas that cover entire worlds, sensual females that feed on substances from their males' reproductive systems, talking reptiles, and other creations drawn from the classics of Cuban and international science fiction--all of which serve as colleagues,...
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En Una música futura, premio Mejores Obras Literarias 2019 en la categoría de cuento inédito, María José Navia vuelve a ahondar en relaciones íntimas mediadas y a veces infectadas por la tecnología. Familias pantalla y en pantalla, mujeres que se refugian en el exceso de información o intentan desconectarse completamente del mundo, personajes extranjeros que se enfrentan a escenarios de autoexigencia feroz o franca violencia.
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Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha-called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel-inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and a video teaching series and live online book...
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A searing interrogation of identity, masculinity, and contemporary culture, Post Traumatic Hood Disorder's references range from Icarus to Sir Mix-A-Lot as the speaker assembles a bricolage self-portrait from the fractures of his past. Sliding between scholarly diction and slangy vernacular, Martinez's poems showcase a versatility of language and a wild-hearted poetic energy that is thoughtful, vulnerable, and distinctly American.
7) Bezoar
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Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following on the critical successes of her previous books, here are six stories that capture her unsettling, obsessive universe. "Ptosis" is told from the point of view of the son of a photographer whose work involves...
8) Heartland
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In a word-drunk romp through an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States, Ana Simo's fiction debut, Heartland, is the uproarious story of a thwarted writer's elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, blending elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire.
There's only one solution for a nasty case of writer's block, and that's murder. Specifically, that of one Mercy McCabe, a cunning SoHo art dealer who was once our Latina narrator's...
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The curious call of an unseen bird lures a young European explorer deeper and deeper into the jungle, where he encounters the source of the siren song - a lovely, half-wild girl with mysterious powers. Thus begins the romance between Abel, a revolutionary hiding among an Indian tribe in the Venezuelan rainforest, and Rima, who speaks the languages of birds and longs to return to the land of her birth to be reunited with others of her kind. Written...
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Obras completas de Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo1 (Bilbao, 29 de septiembre de 1864-Salamanca, 31 de diciembre de 1936) fue un escritor y filósofo español perteneciente a la generación del 98. En su obra cultivó gran variedad de géneros literarios como novela, ensayo, teatro y poesía. Fue, asimismo, diputado en Cortes de 1931 a 1933 por Salamanca. Fue nombrado rector de la Universidad de Salamanca tres veces; la primera vez...
11) Epifanía
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De retour dans son village natal pour assister aux obsèques de sa nourrisse, il voyage entre le passé et le présent. Les mystères de la vie passée, les questionnements qui le poursuivent, les retrouvailles avec ses parents et la rencontre insolite avec sa nourrisse vont-ils changer le cours de sa vie ?
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El pesimismo supino que destilaban era una profunda amargura acumulada que los había cegado y los vedaba a percibir las permutaciones para encontrar todas las dimensiones de lo bello. Un economista con vocación redentora de su país; el director de la sinfónica quemando accidentalmente el manuscrito de su principal obra; un escritor no ha podido escribir su mejor novela; y un historiador que relata la trama. Las erupciones del volcán son la manera...
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Un mal apego amoroso, un asesinato y un malentendido. Nadia, amante de Alfonso, desaparece una tarde cuando debían encontrarse, como tantas otras veces, en una habitación de hotel. Esa misma tarde asesinan a una mujer en un callejón muy cerca de allí. Esta coincidencia de eventos lleva a Alfonso a emprender una búsqueda que podría poner en peligro su vida, pero también hacerlo sentir enteramente vivo por primera vez desde su niñez, terminada...
14) Device, Inc
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How millions of immigrants enter the United States and are granted asylum, work permits, special visas, green cards, etc...And on the flip side, many others are presenttly denied basic human rights and divided from their families as if they were some type of new modern day slaves.
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Cumandá, también titulado Un drama entre salvajes, es una novela del ecuatoriano Juan León Mera.
Juan León Mera, como auténtico hijo de su país y de su tierra, revela en toda su obra una clara predilección por los temas nativos. Cumandá es un anticipo de la novela indigenista que vendrá pocos años más tarde, pues refleja ya en este libro la protesta social indígena y su venganza contra su opresor.
Tres hilos temáticos conforman esta novela...
16) Chasing the Moon
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Nadia Alvarez, a fifteen-year-old Mexican immigrant, travels from a remote and poverty-stricken village in southern Mexico with her family to the United States. They sneak illegally into the country through a drain pipe that connects Sonora, Mexico, to Arizona. As the family enters the country, the Border Patrol is waiting for them. They are captured-all except Nadia, who has managed to remain hidden in the bottom of the drainpipe. Nadia, assuming...
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Obras completas de José Maria de Pereda
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[Biografía]
[Escritos de juventud]
La gramática del amor
Cosas de don Paco
La cruz de Pámanes
Cuadros del país
Santander, 18 de junio
Fragmentos de una carta escapada del buzón del correo
Crónica local
El chambergo
Artículos inocentes
Correspondencia privada
Cantos populares
Los zánganos de la prensa
Cruzadas
Correspondencia pública
Cantares
El tío Cayetano
Preliminares
Por lo que valga
El...
18) Little Girl Lost
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When a dedicated researcher learns a bit too much about her client's new drug, the horrors from her past seem destined to return. Just as her life begins to spin out of control, a dashing computer security expert arrives from South America and seems the perfect antidote. But is his sudden arrival just the happy coincidence it seems? Find out in this three-book series of romance, mystery, and suspense that takes the reader on a roller coaster ride...
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On July 26, 2003, the 50th anniversary of the Moncada Army Barracks raid in Santiago de Cuba, something unexpected happens. When Fidel Pérez and his brother accidentally tumble to their deaths from their Havana balcony, the neighbors' outcry, "Fidel has fallen," is misinterpreted by those who hear it. The misinformation quickly ripples outward, and it reawakens the city. Three Cubans in particular are affected by the news an elderly vagrant Saturnina,...
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Tres parejas con historias diferentes respecto a su sexualidad se encuentran, por casualidad y al mismo tiempo, en un céntrico motel capitalino. Los une, además, un terremoto que irrumpe en la trama creando una atmósfera de suspenso e incertidumbre. Atmósfera que se transforma en metáfora de otros desastres. La ciudad de Santiago, por su lado, no es solo el escenario de estas relaciones amorosas, sino un espacio de peculiar espesor histórico...
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