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"In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then he took on his colleagues. His goal: to make creative nonfiction an accepted academic discipline, one as vital as poetry, drama, and fiction. In this book Gutkind tells the true story of how creative nonfiction became a leading genre for both readers and writers. Creative nonfiction -- true stories enriched by relevant...
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For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she's arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it's being read and who's doing the reading, revealing startling new...
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xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Joan Acocella was "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), and she had the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it-its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it springs. In her hands, arts criticism was a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm. As Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "Hers is a vision that allows art...
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A New York Times Notable Book
Young, inexperienced, and fleeing a terrible personal loss, Rosie-the new au pair to the Tivot family estate in France-finds herself ill at ease when trying to connect with Nicole, the cool, distant, and beautifully polished mother of the three children she cares for. There is something about the woman that both fascinates and unnerves Rosie.
The same is true of the rest of the Tivot clan. Nicole's dissatisfied husband,...
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Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, The Mountain Lion, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion,...
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238 pages ; 24 cm
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Herramientas creativas para el arte de escribir por la autora del bestseller El camino del artista. Un programa de seis semanas para sumergirte en el arte de escribir y sacar tu lado más creativo de la mano de la autora de El camino del artista. Una carta de amor a la escritura a través de la cual Julia Cameron comparte herramientas que cualquier persona puede utilizar y orienta cuidadosamente al lector para que recorra paso a paso el camino de...
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"Lecciones del ayer para el presente" es una antología de escritos que responden a diferentes momentos de la vida política española de la que Benito Pérez Galdós fue o bien actor o bien testigo de excepción. Algunos de ellos inéditos hasta ahora, estos textos dan cuenta de una época que abarca desde la juventud del autor hasta prácticamente sus últimos días, a pesar de su intermitencia, Galdós siempre estuvo muy atento al latir político...
8) Canciones
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Federico GarcÍa Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience.
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"I hate marathons. Hate running. An hour before the start, I received a text. Instead of 'Good luck,' it was 'We're finished.' So, I went to a bar next to the subway on 96th. Had a few bourbons with some other mope. Then I got on a bike and took off down the old Lincoln Highway." Forget Route 66. This is the original cross-country highway that takes you through REAL America, the first to cross all of the US from the Big Apple to the City on the Bay....
10) Poetry to Poems
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Poems on Science & Math, Friendship, Love, Death, Nature, and the World, among other topics. Please, enjoy! Charles Ynfante. Spain.
11) Fury: a novel
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Fury employs the power of mythology and Mexican magical realism to trace a twisted
genealogical tree. Vicente Barrera's uncontrolled libido leaves a trail of offspring across his
native soil. Lázaro and Juan, soldiers from opposing camps in an unnamed war, live out their
tortured love in the desert, where Salvador, a mortuary assistant, loses his human form while
following the ghost of his murdered childhood sweetheart. In the desert, destinies...
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This book was conceived in the wake of New Mexico's worst natural disaster in written history, a fire and flood, which devastated vast areas of San Miguel and Mora Counties in northeast New Mexico. While the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon wildfire consumed more than three hundred thousand acres of forest land and some nine hundred structures, for many it also reduced to ashes a way of life which had lasted for hundreds of years, since the region was on...
13) In ascension
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZEAn astonishing novel about a young microbiologist
investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a
journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage
of a single human life
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an
escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the
undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology,...
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Essai ludique au ton personnel, Fabrications raconte les huit années d'une passionnante enquête intellectuelle pendant lesquelles Louis Hamelin a écrit La constellation du Lynx. Ce roman a parfois été perçu comme un document politique ou un ouvrage historique ; à l'inverse, le présent essai sera peut-être pris pour une œuvre de fiction. Pourtant, à part Samuel Nihilo, l'alter ego fictif de l'auteur, les personnages qu'on y rencontre existent...
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In the fall of 1989,18-year old Frankie Peterson meets aspiring rock musician Rex Thornton, and the encounter changes her life. Frankie is dreaming of college and leaving home. Her mother, however, does not support her dreams, and leans hard on her for help with the household and her little brother, Erick. Frankie feels stuck with no way out. When her best friend Ronnie drags her to see a band in Seattle, Frankie meets Rex, the band's singer. Soon,...
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Esta es la tercera obra del autor. La primera fue "Añoranza" y la segunda "Noventa y nueve sonetos del sentir". La trama de esta novela, centra la idea de la superación a través del trabajo, la técnica y la constancia. Se hace referencia a la no rendición, como clave fundamental para vencer las dificultades.Todos los personajes son ficticios, de modo que el autor nunca actuaría como ellos, sino que son de su invención.La novela es un homenaje...
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Kicking the Bucket has two definitions. It's a vulgar euphemism for dropping dead, or a literal description of your life support system being involuntarily dispensed with on the gallows, i.e., by kicking away the bucket you may be standing on with the rope around your neck, or by voluntarily removing yourself from the felicitations and care of your family, the NHS, 'and Social Services. Charles Fenemore, faced with his inevitable decline into senility...
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