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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...
2) 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....
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers.
Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. He has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and to...
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An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past, her memories laid bare in vivid detail as her body temperature rises.
A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon...
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A collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature
Reading, writing, translating, the avant-garde and tradition, the fate of the novel: these are just some of the themes of The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, forewords, articles, interviews, notes, and other occasional pieces, this work displays Calvino's remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp...
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¿Te gustaría liberarte de los pensamientos que te limitan, te angustian o te hacen sufrir? ¿Quieres aprender a crear nuevos pensamientos que te inspiren, te motiven y te llenen de energía? ¿Te interesa conocer cómo la destrucción y la creación de tus pensamientos más profundos pueden transformar tu realidad?Si la respuesta es sí, este libro es para ti. En él, el autor te propone un método revolucionario para cambiar tu forma de pensar...
9) Forgery
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The spellbinding new novel from the award-winning author of The Caprices and A Carnivore's Inquiry transports us to a mysterious world of deception, political intrigue, and desire. In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William's art collection. Rupert's first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a...
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It's 1994. Blur and Oasis are in the charts. New Labour are on the horizon. Ladbroke Grove is the place, a thriving hub of art, music and cultural diversity.
Emerging from the wreckage of another lost weekend, Indie Guitarist of the Year, Joe E Byron, hurries home on the Tube to face the consequences of his actions. Ten years on the road has taken its toll. He should be spending more time with Justine and the kids. Instead, he's restless, angry,...
11) Trust: A Novel
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Money and conscience are at the heart of Cynthia Ozick's masterly first novel, narrated by a nameless young woman and set in the private world of wealthy New York, the dire landscape of postwar Europe, and the mythical groves of a Shakespearean isle. Beginning in the 1930s and extending through four decades, Trust is an epic tale of the narrator's quest for her elusive father, a scandalous figure whom she has never known. In a provocative afterword,...
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Stir-Fry.
An ad in the students' union-"2 females seek flatmate. No bigots"-leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael. But one day, something Maria glimpses by accident forces her to question everything she thought she knew.
Hood.
In the late '70s, convent school teenagers Pen O'Grady and Cara Wall fall in love. They prove themselves to be up to the challenge of a relationship deemed unacceptable in Catholic Ireland-until Cara...
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The TV's on. The computer's on. The stereo's on. Sleep is a waste of time.
Welcome to the world of Bipolar Disorder, a journey to the outer edges of the mind.
A series of conversations told with humour, honesty and insight by Adam, Faye and Alastair, three survivors who have experienced the illness first hand. With contributions from Mental Health professional, Chris Kelly.
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En busca de lectores -y de sus bibliotecas personales-, Javier Vargas de Luna ha recorrido la ciudad hispánica en ambos lados del Atlántico. Ha visitado todos los acentos y todas las fronteras de la lectura en nuestra lengua, ha entrado y salido de bares bohemios en el lago Titicaca, ha frecuentado tiraderos de libros en La Habana y ha vagado por las desoladas plazas de San Pedro de Atacama. En Salta conoció a los bibliópatas de la ciudad antes...
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"Remedios Lucio is an author and a journalist, who owns The HodgePodge
Lifestyle blog and YouTube channel since 2010. She has written The
HodgePodge Lifestyle Chronicles book series 10 Years After, Season is
Changing, and Back to the Homeland. She loves to share her life experiences;
go on travel adventures; meet people from all walks of life; indulge in various
cuisines; immerse herself in different cultures, and learn a new language.
She currently...
16) Avenida colonial
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Absorbido por el trabajo, por su teléfono celular y por los conflictos familiares, Mateo se entrega a un largo recorrido nocturno por la Avenida Colonial. En este viaje enfrenta situaciones extremas de la mano de dos seres de la noche, Maribel y Calderón, polos opuestos conectados por la violencia y por la necesidad de sobrevivir en una ciudad que no da tregua. Por otro lado, una mujer aparece en la vida de Mateo de manera singular y coincide con...
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In this ingenious satire, Solita, the not quite ten-year-old daughter of refugees from Franco's Spain, is whisked from the urban ghetto of Galmeda to El Topaz, the lush hacienda of a wealthy eccentric, which her mother assures her will be paradise. But behind its beautiful façade, El Topaz is a quagmire of social subterfuge, from its politicking adults to its spiteful children, and Solita finds herself alone in a glittery world where you couldn't...
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Duermevela es una historia inquietante y sobrecogedora, basada en hechos reales, en la que la autora nos lleva por parajes de la vida y del mundo de los sueños, donde nos podemos encontrar con personajes siniestros, como una mujer de cabello largo y andrajoso, en cuyo rostro se resguarda una incógnita. Ella se presentará en tus sueños, en el plano astral, onírico o, incluso, en el real. Es así como con maestría, Marcela De Albali nos lleva...
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Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond.
It's the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm's routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while Donnie's eyes are drawn...
20) La vergüenza
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La vergüenza se presenta como la crónica en primera persona de un descenso al abismo de la adicción, el relato de un treintañero alcohólico que ve cómo todo se desmorona a su alrededor mientras vive dividido entre la búsqueda de la redención y la perdición definitiva.
Un peculiar viaje existencial por una Bucarest oscura y fantasmal a través del dolor, la toma de conciencia del fracaso vital, la profunda soledad de una vida sin proyecto,...
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