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Painting Shadows is a story's story, a writer's story - a story so stripped down many lines sound like quotes.The book challenges the reader to go somewhere deeper, to be submerged in the narrator's think tank of a journey.Painting Shadows is a stark read about ignorance and awareness, and the many questions and observations that fall between them.
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Entre una historia cultural llena de paradojas y cierta noción abstracta de humanidad que aún triunfa en la censura de los sentidos, surgen los ensayos de Juan Carlos Arteaga para remover aquello que parece inapelable. Hay en esta palabra un evidente deseo por enfrentar lo humano sin concesiones y llevarlo hacia un lugar de reflexión que no agota caminos ni banaliza contradicciones. En medio de ese deseo, que revela las inquietudes del autor, entre...
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This book is about domestic violence itself, the causes, effects and solutions. It features the different types of domestic violence and gives detailed explanation on the scenarios which has to do with rape cases, female genital cutting or excision, physical abuse, sex abuse, economic abuse, Psychological abuse, technological abuse, economic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, social abuse, emotional abuse. Domestic violence is a major public...
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Figures of Wood, the debut novel by Venezuelan writer María Pérez-Talavera, now translis a thought-provoking and gripping novel that delves into the mind of L, a young man questioning his own guilt and sanity in a sanatorium. Told in diary form, the story is set in an unnamed place and time, leaving the reader to question the reliability of L's entries as his perceptions seem to grow more distorted. The novel explores love and betrayal, shame and...
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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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Me llamo Julio Ejido y soy un alcohólico. Bebo y fumo desde que tenía doce años, ahora acabo de cumplir sesenta. Esta confesión no posee valor alguno ya que no se la hago a nadie, carece de destinatarios. Y aunque los tuviera, no por ello adquiriría la menor importancia, puesto que no contemplo el valor de la confesión como alivio, ni siquiera como ritual; tampoco valoro el perdón que se pide o se otorga, lo desprecio de igual modo. Solo creo...
7) Nudo Azul
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Jorge Chávez es médico y escritor. Esta doble profesión le ha permitido tocar el alma propia y la de sus pacientes para transformar el dolor en palabras sanadoras que se nutren de esperanza, no de una vana e ilusoria esperanza, sino como dice el autor: "de una esperanza azul que se apoya en la realidad interna, en la conexión consciente con la fuente de la vida, la que sabe que sus capacidades y talentos no le son propios, son el resultado de...
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"NATURE has its laws.
DOG has its mood and habits.
MAN would create after his own measure.
MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect."
"NATURE has its laws.
DOG has its mood and habits.
MAN would create after his own measure.
MEASURE OF FREEDOM is reflected in mutual respect."
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Readers can get a thorough understanding of Gothic literature by reading the ebook "Birth of Gothic Literature: Guide to Understanding The Start of Gothic Era Writings," which explores the genre's beginnings and traits.Beginning in the 18th century, the guide delves into the historical and cultural circumstances that gave rise to Gothic literature. It looks at how the rise of Gothic themes in literature was influenced by changes in society, political...
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From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton's lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer in 2022, he was in the middle of an intensely creative period of songwriting. He released his first album of original material, The Devil's Share, in 2021 and was preparing...
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Get the Summary of Helen Macdonald's Vesper Flights in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Helen Macdonald's "Vesper Flights" is a collection of essays that weave together personal memories, reflections on nature, and observations of wildlife. Macdonald's childhood fascination with birds and their nests leads her to explore the concept of home and the interconnectedness of humans and nature. She delves into the history...
12) arimasen
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"Is Arimasen a nation, then?"
"As to what Arimasen is and is not... oh, Ephraim, did you but know what a subject you... unwittingly, in all innocence... oh, children, how I love your bright, shining faces, your bright, shining eyes! Is Arimasen a nation? No. Arimasen is not a nation. Nor a planet. Nor a city."
"A state of mind, then!"
"Perhaps, Umeboshi, it is that. Perhaps. I said not a planet. And yet... yes, a planet. I said not a city....
13) Convent Mermaid
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Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.
Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.
As Les Murray has written, Rod's poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He's equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro...
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The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexey Navalny's press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a cell with five other women from all walks of lifeThe Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally, and, under false...
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A collection of short stories guaranteed to entertain you on the bus, during lunch or on the beach.Read a moden ghost story and treasure hunt with three randy actors, the clash between the sexes and founding cultures, the rub of true versus the popular and finally, a story of two brothers always in crisis - all Canadian, all good.
16) The Unseen
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Your life has ended abruptly. The reason and cause unclear. There can be no eternal rest until you know how and why this happened. Where would you start? Who is to blame? Was it avoidable, inevitable, an accident or murder?Follow Scott as he tumbles uncontrollably through a confusing array of experiences, each fragment piecing together a revealing picture of himself and the key players in his world. The final realisation emerges like a knife...
17) Heart Sutra
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From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priestAt the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather for a year of intensive study and training. In...
18) Lasko
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Spanning Canada, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand, a novel about following signs, finding love, and losing your self.
When Mája was seven, her mother disappeared. Now, at thirty, Mája has the same urge: to disappear, to vanish off the face of the earth. She leaves her fiancé in Canada to follow signs that lead her to the Czech Republic -- her mother's home country. In Prague, she falls in love with Kuba, a charismatic musician who is a minor...
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¿Cuál es la historia de los primeros diccionarios en Hispanoamérica y, en particular en Chile? ¿Cómo se relaciona con la construcción de los Estados nacionales a lo largo del siglo XIX? Este libro busca desentrañar esta y otras preguntas leyendo entre definiciones variopintas los discursos ideológicos, históricos y políticos y reflexionando sobre la naturaleza lingüística y normativa de los diccionarios.
La profunda investigación y los...
20) María
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María (1867) is a novel by Jorge Isaacs. Partly inspired by his own life, María is a moving story of romance, hope, and tragedy by a leading author of the Spanish Romantic movement. The novel was Isaacs' debut work of fiction and seemed to promise him a lengthy career in Colombian literature. As he dedicated himself to politics, however, he largely abandoned his youthful commitment to writing in favor of a more conventional career. Raised in the...
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