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This diary is my third book, an exploration of urban and suburban environments to observe humans and modern objects. Representations in philosophical or mathematical form in order to find the right amount of motion, the proof that good is a higher feeling than an evil, the right repetition of always the same things to confirm that here one cannot say the false is even less realize it.
This diary is the third book written by me, an exploration of...
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El Diario de a bordo de Cristóbal Colón-transcrito por Bartolomé de las Casas-nos descubre a un personaje fascinante y contradictorio, que pasa del entusiasmo a la desconfianza o a las especulaciones geográficas más aventuradas (confunde, por ejemplo, Cuba por Cipango, el nombre que los europeos daban a Japón durante el Medioevo). Sin embargo, aunque en su persona se mezclen la maravilla ante el mundo desconocido, el piadoso deseo de evangelizar...
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Rafael García Maldonado es un escritor heterodoxo, de compleja prosa impermeable a las modas, y uno de los autores más interesantes del panorama literario actual.
Diario de cabotaje brinda una oportunidad excepcional de aproximarse al escritor y a la obra partiendo de sus páginas más personales, en las que sus obsesiones literarias y existenciales se plasman junto a sus ambiciones, miedos e inconformismos.
64) Dilo Tú Mismo
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Este diario es mi cuarto libro, una colección de veinte composiciones que representan el pensamiento y las certezas de nuestra era moderna. Historias sobre un pasado no muy lejano que podría identificarse con la realidad actual, el presente no reseñado periodísticamente, personas que no tienen representaciones públicas comunes, demasiado ocupadas en cierto sentido pensando en lo que nunca podrían hacer, hasta lo que le fue quitdo para no significar...
65) Mexicana
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"Mexicana" es el homenaje personalísimo, ameno y original de Manuel Arroyo-Stephens a México y a su abrumadora capital, a su pasado y su presente, a sus sabores, olores y colores, a sus cielos, tierras y mares, y sobre todo a sus personajes, propios y adoptivos, con quienes el autor tuvo la suerte de cruzarse durante los años que vivió entre México y España. En este texto a caballo entre las memorias, la crónica y el dietario, el lector descubrirá...
66) 100 Days
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When in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred days, prefacing each with a diary entry, keeping track of the changing seasons as well as the pandemic. As organising and generating principle for the essays he chose the alphabet, and the result is a stimulating kaleidoscope of topics from Aachen to Zoos,...
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"Canadas journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortunes worth of champagne, and a lot of making love in the old-fashioned sense. Miss Confederation offers a rare look back, through a womans eyes, at the men and events at the centre of this pivotal time in Canadas history. Mercy Anne Coles, the daughter of PEI delegate George Coles,...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
69) Diary of a novel
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This is only one of the many revelations in Eugenia Price's intimate account of the many months she spent sorting through voluminous historical research and writing “Margaret's Story”, the third novel in her Florida trilogy. Published as a companion to the novel, this journal offers a fascinating view of the author at work as the novel developed week by week.
Here, for the sharing, is her excitement as her story's characters emerge—living,...
70) On Drinking
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The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful...
72) The diary
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Two sisters find an old journal and discover the startling romantic secrets of their mother's past in this unforgettable love story by New York Times–bestselling author Eileen Goudge Emily and Sarah Marshall are cleaning out their dying mother's attic when Emily finds an old leather diary. Their mother's handwriting on the yellowed pages takes them back to a small Nebraska town in the summer of 1951, where sheltered, almost-engaged Elizabeth Harvey...
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McClelland & Stewart
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"Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had a remarkable literary career that extended through the entire second half of the twentieth century. After university in Canada and at Oxford, Davies had begun working in British theatre, but with the outbreak of war in 1939 he returned to Canada where he swiftly established himself as an outstanding editor, columnist and literary critic, and as an increasingly prominent playwright and novelist. Tall, ample, and bearded,...
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Christopher's diary (V.C. Andrews) volume 2
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Gallery Books
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"A new novel from V.C. Andrews, the legendary author of Flowers in the Attic--now a hit Lifetime TV movie!"-- Publisher.
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Doubleday
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"A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi Julavits. Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, 'The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor.' The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about...
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Simon & Schuster
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"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in...
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From the shadowy banks of the River Thames to the wild and windswept coast of Yorkshire, the quintessential Victorian virgin Mina vividly recounts in the pages of her private diary the intimate details of what transpired between her and Count Dracula - the joys and terrors of a passionate affair and her rebellion against a force of evil that has pursued her through time. Karen Essex is the author of four novels, including the international bestseller...
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Figure.1
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"In celebration of his 100th birthday, Eli Bornstein, in collaboration with author and curator Roald Nasgaard, has published a stunning work of personal reflection on a most transformative time in his life and career. Eli Bornstein: Arctic Journals, 1986 and 1987 is a tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canada's greatest Structurist artist. Devoid of the mythologizing other...
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