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¿Has sentido alguna vez un anhelo desesperado por algo o por alguien? Quizás no siempre sabemos lo que deseamos, a pesar de que la sensación sea ensordecedoramente fuerte, así es como siente Gabriel, y como el artista joven, muy atractivo y demasiado inquieto que es, ignora ese sentimiento y se va a una aldea desierta en Ludvika para desarrollar una idea de trabajo. Bueno, nada resultará como lo piensa, de repente, él es una de las piezas de...
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Espejo mío, espejo mío, ¿cuál de estos textos soy yo?
Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo. Sé que ha transcurrido toda una vida, que hemos sido casi todo, aunque continuemos siendo casi nada. Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo....
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This is the story of a thirty-four-year-old man who has a heart transplant. He hears rumors that the heart he received belonged to a young woman who died in a traffic accident. He's intrigued and decides to investigate. He wants to find out more about the woman and her story. He gets caught up in the quest and becomes obsessed by it.
Despite the necessary anonymity and confidentiality regarding organ donors, he manages, through subtle inquiry and...
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The Subtlety of the Light is a book that summarizes a number of writings related to philosophical, altruistic, metaphysical and existentialist thoughts.
It is approached through poetic forms, essays or profound testaments.
Based on schools of existential knowledge and currents that analyze the presence of man on earth.
To analyze and reflect, understand and conclude.
5) Anges Déchus
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Voici mon meilleur recueil de poèmes en Espagne. Il a été dans le Top 100 d'Amazon.es entre janvier et mars 2016. Il a été numéro 3 des meilleures ventes en mars 2016.
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La novela está inspirada en la historia real de John Harrison Surratt, hijo de Mary Surratt, la primera mujer ejecutada en Estados Unidos, después de ser condenada por conspiración contra el presidente Abraham Lincoln.
John es amigo del asesino de Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth y, después del atentado de la noche del 14 de abril de 1865, huye a Montreal, Canadá, donde encuentra refugio entre algunos sacerdotes.
Malcolm Robertson es un joven...
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The story of an ordinary girl who becomes an entrepreneur
We meet the protagonist when she is fifteen, while going to the city for the first time. We follow her in her search for fulfillment through the work outside the family, beyond the usual expectations of a girl at the time when to be something different than a mother was difficult, if not impossible.
We live through her tragedies, suffering and her love of life that is essentially accurately...
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Año 1856, durante las labores de mantenimiento del tejado de un monasterio romano se encuentra un pergamino que contiene un mensaje escrito por un hijo a su madre que se remonta a 1646 y que se refiere a un anillo de Pedro robado y escondido en un pueblo toscano. El teniente Luigi De Santis, de la Gendarmería Pontificia, viene encargado de redactar un informe sobre el hallazgo e, inmediatamente, despierta el interés de las altas jerarquías de...
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One scandal happened in the Italian National Television. RAI RADIO TELEVISIONE ITALIANA. A female journalist of the Daily TV News used to court a subscriber only virtually during the TV News. For two years and a half, she always accepted the presents of her courter man. She also used to wear the presents that he gave her, during the TV News. Oddly, she never wanted to meet the man that was courting her during that period. She used to court him only...
11) A Simple Heart
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The story of "A Simple Heart" is simply the story of an obscure life, that of a poor country girl, devout but mystical, devoted without exaltation and tender as fresh bread.
She loves successively a man, the children of her mistress, a nephew, an old man whom she cares for and then her parrot, when the parrot is dead, she has it stuffed and, dying in turn, she confuses the parrot with the Holy Spirit.
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Un corazón simple incluye: Un corazón simple, la primera novela corta de Gustave Flaubert aparece en el libro Tres Cuentos, publicado en 1877.
La historia de un corazón simple es ciertamente el relato de una vida oscura, la de una pobre muchacha campesina, santurrona pero mística, consagrada sin exaltación y tierna como el pan recién hecho.
Ama sucesivamente a un hombre, a los hijos de su ama, a un sobrino, a un viejo que cuidó, después...
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Dictatorships of minorities, partial justice, militant media, variable geometry indignation, immigration and runaway Islamization...France undergoes radical changes in a context of moralizing interdiction of criticism. The author overcomes this, prohibition that he denounces with originality. In this collection of brief reflections and aphorisms, affirms without hesitation that the drifts of progressivism accelerate the risk of collapse of our civilization....
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"Dictionary of defeats" is the second book of poems by Toni García Arias. In this poetry the author approach the classic subjects of the poetic world: The loss of childhood and youth, love, lack of love, memories, poems and the passing of time. The book is presented as a dictionary, because the poems are ordered alphabetically: Absence, Body, Childhood, Distance, etc.
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It's Mardis Gras, but not for Anna. She's stuck working all night, serving drinks so that everyone else can have fun. And on top of that, all of her coworkers have disappeared at closing time. They've all met someone, except her. As she angrily cleans the bar, Anna remembers the night of Mardis Gras one year ago, when her ex (John) showed up unexpectedly, in costume, and made love to her. She hasn't heard from him since, and she hasn't been able to...
16) Fallen Angels
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FALLEN ANGELS is the fifth poem book written by Toni García Arias, published in paper in due moment by the prestigious Editorial Renacimiento. FALLEN ANGELS is a group of poems about ordinary life themes, like little postcards of everyday life. Among the subjects we can find memoirs of childhood, lack of love, the lost of dear people o the sensation of defeat. The title FALLEN ANGELS refers to all these little sufferings along our lives that...
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Este camino mío es un viaje a lo largo de veinte años, en el que hay un amor no correspondido que lleva inevitablemente a una crisis de identidad, desarrollándose luego en una nueva relación que llega a la coronación del sueño de amor.
Se concluye con un intenso análisis del período vivido, una especie de reelaboración del pasado. De lo alto de tantos estados emocionales se describe la visión en el tiempo, para impulsarse con la mente a...
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Es una obra cumbre de la poesía moderna. Sus composiciones rompen con el estilo convencional, en uso hasta entonces, y rejuvenecen la estructura del verso mediante el uso regular de encabalgamientos, rechazos y contrarrechazos. Esto renueva la forma rígida del soneto. Utiliza imágenes sugestivas mediante asociaciones a menudo inéditas, tales como el "Ángel cruel que azota los soles" (Le Voyage). Mezcla el lenguaje erudito con el discurso cotidiano....
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Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...
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