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21) Clown Shoes
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After New York attorney Will Ross gains acquittal for a child abuser and the child is subsequently killed, he resolves to abandon law and become a children's entertainer. Will's change of heart and career is a catalyst for his lover, Clara, who quits her prestigious job to pursue documentary film-making. While the couple are united in their fervor for their nascent careers in art, unexpected challenges rip them apart. Feeling abandoned, Will ventures...
22) Memory Lane
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Annalise has repressed her memories of high school for long enough. Now she must return to her abandoned high school to relive these memories and hopefully be able to forgive herself and let the past be past.
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Gully Fisher's twin sons will soon be 45, and are the push and pull of their clan. Michael is almost too good; immune to consternation, he is the family rock, while Fish is the family maverick, acting out what the others cannot bring themselves to do. Michael's wife, Ursula, spends her days rearranging the lives of failed families, and craves a deeper intimacy with her taciturn husband and her two children. Katie, still seduced by Fish's tales of...
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Roman choc traitant de la désinstitutionnalisation.
En 2004, ceux qui se prononçaient contre la désinstitutionnalisation se voyaient répondre qu'ils n'avaient pas de coeur.
C'était vouloir garder les "fous" dans leurs geles. Le personnel qui les traitait au quotidien se devait de laisser partir leurs patients du jour au lendemain, sans poser de question. Le silence d'alors fut considéré tel un consentement. Il était si payant de sortir les...
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La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.
En este volumen traemos a James Joyce, un escritor irlandés, mundialmente reconocido como uno de los más importantes e influyentes del siglo XX. Joyce es aclamado por su obra maestra, Ulises y por su controvertida novela posterior, Finnegans Wake. Igualmente ha sido muy valorada la serie de historias breves titulada Dublineses, así como su...
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Ausgabe in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung; voll verlinkt mit Fußnoten und eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Lange Zeit deutete nichts darauf hin, dass Marcel Proust einmal einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts werden sollte. Wie auf einem schmalen Grat wandert er durchs Leben: Auf der einen Seite ein bequemes Luxusleben, auf der anderen Seite die Sehnsucht nach dem einen großen Roman, der alles erzählt geboren aus Askese und Selbstreflexion....
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"We don't get involved with the prevention of crime. This is not our job. We are here if he kills you or physically harms you; sorry, we cannot help. I know that he called you 260 times last week and has made 254 photographs of your bedroom windows. But, hey, all this is no hurt to yourself."
I was standing in a London police station, not believing my ears. He is doing everything to destroy me and my business, but that is not enough terror I need...
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From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human condition. While the book's style is deceptively simple and aphoristic, it carries a hallucinatory moral message. A prism of interconnected and intertwined tales, inspired by Kafka, the...
30) Amir
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Lis und Amir.
Wo beginnen die Grenzen einer Beziehung und wo enden sie? Wieviel Nähe und Distanz erträgt die Liebe und was passiert, wenn man sich in seinen eigenen Gefühlen zum anderen verliert, wenn dieser unerreichbar zu werden scheint? Wenn ein Schwanken zwischen Zuneigung und Entfremdung über allem zu schweben anmutet? Ein intimer Monolog über eine besondere Beziehung, eine unerfüllte Sehnsucht zwischen den Zeilen.
31) Unlocking Joy
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In the search for a happy life, taking care of your mental health is really important. This book talks about how to improve mental health and prevent self-harm using practical and affordable strategies. Mental health includes more than just the absence of mental illness. It is a state of being where individuals utilize their abilities, conquer obstacles, and make substantial contributions to their communities. In the fast-paced society of today, a...
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Traduit ici pour la première fois en français, le troisième roman de John Berger est le récit d'une journée cruciale dont le cours va changer la vie des protagonistes: celle de William Tracey Corker, 63 ans, directeur d'une agence de placement du sud de Londres, mais aussi celle de sa sœur Irène, d'Alec son jeune employé et de Jackie, la petite amie de ce dernier. Intrigue, rebondissements, satire... ce drame en quatre actes comporte tous...
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Nouvel emballage pour une dystopie troublante qui soulève de grandes questions morales…
Joseph, surnommé l'Amiral, se réveille dans un village ctier o rien ne lui semble familier. À sa surprise, les habitants sont convaincus qu'il est « celui que tout le monde attendait ». Lui, un sauveur annoncé par une prophétie ?
Son premier devoir : exécuter la sentence d'un condamné à mort. Mais Joseph n'est pas un tueur… Son refus de disposer...
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Mesdames, faites-vous plaisir en vous offrant ce roman exceptionnel. Une histoire touchante et peu banale.
Samuelle Bergeron, épouse du premier ministre du Canada, a une vie lourdement hypothéquée. Elle se conforme aux exigences que lui impose son mari Bertrand qu'elle surnomme B, comme dans bourreau. Lors de sa déconfiture politique, Bertrand la remercie de ses services en tant qu'épouse officielle. Abandonnée à une nouvelle liberté, la...
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It's a bad day.You have offended the wrong people.A million dollars has been offered for your life.So what do you do?Why, make a run for it, of course.But where to? Well, why not that house youknew as a boy when it was a ruin?Bleakridge.Perfect. They'll never find you there.But sometimes things get a littleconfused at Bleakridge.Past and present overlap, get mixed up.At such times you're not sure where you are.Or when. Or even who.Maybe you should...
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Michael Tolkin's acclaimed second novel, Among the Dead, is an arresting examination of public and private grief in the wake of unspeakable disaster, a slow-burning tour de force of psychological fiction. When Frank Gale writes a passionate letter to his wife confessing an affair, he hopes all can be forgiven on the warm beaches of Mexico. But the farewell kiss of his girlfriend causes him to miss the flight carrying his wife and daughter, and when...
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Aaron has lost the love of his life, and he is in danger of losing his own. He fumbles through the days after Kelly's funeral, slipping further away from reality and deeper into insanity. Trauma plays tricks on his mind while Kelly's spirit lures him to her. Meanwhile fate intervenes by way of two strangers who quickly become like family.
Crisscrossing the country, he follows vague hints hoping to reconnect with her. His enduring love compels...
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Sunny Zielinski is an eccentric twenty-two-year-old woman who experiences her first psychotic break. Having just graduated from college and soon to be married, Sunny's life is on course. She lands her dream job as a book editor and is close to her family, particularly her fiercely loving grandparents-Holocaust survivors who raised her following the death of her mentally ill mother. But as the stress of the wedding intensifies, Sunny's anxiety and...
39) The Corner Scoop
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The Corner Scoop, an ice cream parlor turned coffee shop, has stood at the corner of Front Street and Broadway for over fifty years. Embittered by his life as the inherited owner, Henry has had to make difficult decisions, two of which could land him the clink for the rest of his life. The unfairness of the death of his wife catapults Henry into business with Ol' Bailey, and when Louie Jr. gets wind of the operation, he puts the screws to Henry. Will...
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Ridiculed by his parents during his childhood, Nahuel Millaman, a seventeen-year-old Mapuche (indigenous Chilean citizen) boy living in Santiago, Chile is extremely shy and lacks self-confidence. When his girlfriend, Calfuray Cayancura, informs him that she is pregnant, the prospect of parenting a child is too daunting and he runs away hoping to regain his self-confidence and return before the child is born.Nahuel travels to the Valdivian Forests...
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