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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Iliad's beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition--subjects of ongoing controversy--combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure, who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee...
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English
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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt collection of personal essays, Evans shares his moving journey from childhood to beloved author, offering the insightful lessons he's learned and engaging...
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Español
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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...
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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....
7) Canciones
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Español
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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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English
Description
From Madame Bovary to Macbeth, this collection by Mary McCarthy offers surprising revelations about some of the world's most beloved works Shakespeare, Nabokov, Orwell, and Burroughs are just a few of the literary immortals featured in this engaging and thought-provoking volume. In one remarkable essay, McCarthy provides a lively discourse on the true nature of evil in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on the character of Macbeth, she reveals why Lady...
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English
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"Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night. That's how she met her ex-boyfriend and current best friend, Hugo, the only person in Daphne's life who knows of her secret. Followed by a string of men and countless dates, Daphne resigned herself to the fact that she was...
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English
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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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Español
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La conmovedora historia de la amistad de dos niñas, una luchando por sobrevivir al comercio de personas y la otra intentando salvarla. Dos niñas cuyas vidas tomaron caminos distintos una devastadora noche de 1993.
India, 1986: Mukta, una niña de diez años, perteneciente a la casta Yellamma, ha llegado a la edad de tener que cumplir su destino convirtiéndose en prostituta del templo. En un intento de hacerla escapar de este legado, la llevan con...
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"[My life] is so rich with blessings-an immense capacity of enjoyment, books, and beloved friends. . . . Most earnestly I pray the dear Heavenly Father that I may sometime make myself far more worthy of the love shown to me than I am now."
-April 22, 1900 letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz, AFB
When Helen Keller died in 1968, at the age of eighty-eight years old, she was one of the most widely known women in the world. The overnight success of...
14) Reel Me In
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English
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"Reel Me In is a compilation of pieces and works centering mostly on love and life
generally. It captures thoughts, dreams through the eyes of the author and is inspired
mostly by the hallowed feelings of love sought for by many. Like the fisherman's
hook, it posits how love baits and draws many.
"" Gabie writes with profound imagery..one that makes you feel as though you were part of the poems. Her delivery is breathtakingly beautiful...
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English
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Get the Summary of Paul Theroux's The Kingdom by the Sea in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Kingdom by the Sea" by Paul Theroux is a travelogue that chronicles the author's journey around the coastline of Britain. Theroux sets out to explore the country beyond London, where he has lived for eleven years, to understand the nation he resides in. He travels on foot, by train, and by bus, avoiding typical travel...
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English
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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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Español
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Una novela tan inclasificable como portentosa, un auténtico regalo literario.
Bunny Munro vende cosméticos puerta a puerta y aprovecha su actividad para seducir y desplumar a todas las mujeres solitarias que se le ponen a tiro. Cada una de sus jornadas por la costa meridional inglesa es una expedición delirante movida por su lascivia y lastrada por la presencia de su hijo de nueve años, al que no puede dejar con nadie desde que su madre se suicidara....
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English
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In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and, as the greatest tiger trainer in history, fearlessly courageous. That was then. This is now.
It's 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to...
19) El juez Aurelio
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Español
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El juez Aurelio Cabredo es un hombre tímido y solitario. No falta a misa ningún domingo en la basílica de Begoña, y todos los viernes almuerza un pollo asado. Su único amigo, el forense Benito Cereijo, le dice que está bebiendo de más. Lo cierto es que, desde que sus padres murieron en el incendio de la pastelería que regentaban en Ávila, el juez se siente desvalido. Ha visto, además, tanto sufrimiento en los juzgados, que intenta no mezclarse...
20) Village Diary
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Series
Fairacre series volume 2
Language
English
Description
The enchanting follow-up to Village School, Miss Read's beloved first novel, Village Diary once again transports us to the picturesque English village of Fairacre. Each chapter describes a month in the life of the village school's headmistress, Miss Read. As the villagers prepare for their country pageant, Fairacre welcomes many newcomers, such as the headstrong Amy, Mr. Mawne (whom the villagers would like to see the reluctant Miss Read marry), and...
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