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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place

by Annie Proulx

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 256 pages

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Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the Nor...

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A Column of Fire: A Novel (Kingsbridge)

by Ken Follett

Published: 2018-07-31

Paperback: 928 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington PostAs Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and trea...

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Más allá del invierno: Spanish-language edition of In the Midst of Winter (Spanish Edition)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2017-10-31

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de ...

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Los herederos de la tierra (Spanish Edition)

by Ildefonso Falcones

Published: 2016-11-01

Paperback: 896 pages

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Barcelona, 1387. Las campanas de la iglesia de Santa María de la Mar siguen sonando para todos los habitantes del barrio de la Ribera, pero uno de ellos escucha su repique con especial atención… Hugo Llor, hijo de un marinero fallecido, a sus doce años trabaja en las atarazanas gracia...

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La biblioteca de los libros rechazados / The Library of Rejected Manuscripts (Spanish Edition)

by David Foenkinos

Published: 2017-06-27

Paperback: 286 pages

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El autor que conquistó a más de tres millones de lectores con La delicadeza y ganó el Premio Renaudot y el Goncourt des Lycéens con Charlotte, vuelve con una trepidante novela de misterio, en la que no faltan el romanticismo y el humor y que demuestra que un solo libro puede cambiar la...

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La sangre erguida (Spanish Edition)

by Enrique Serna

Published: 2010-06-18

Paperback: 328 pages

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Se ha dicho, tal vez con razón, que el feminismo produjo la única revolución exitosa del siglo xx, fecundo en revoluciones fallidas. Las mujeres salieron de sus casas, se libraron del yugo masculino, con la píldora anticonceptiva su cuerpo no fue más considerado solo como medio de reproducción,...

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Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

by Jackie Wang

Published: 2018-02-23

Paperback: 360 pages

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Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces,...

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Electric Arches

by Eve L. Ewing

Published: 2017-09-12

Paperback: 94 pages

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Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing’s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navig...

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Skylark (New York Review Books Classics)

by Dezso Kosztolanyi

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 222 pages

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It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother kee...

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The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice

by Todd Henry

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 240 pages

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"You go to work each day tasked with (1) inventing brilliant solutions that (2) meet specific objectives by (3) defined deadlines. If you do this successfully you get to keep your job. If you don't, you get to work on your resume. The moment you exchange your creative efforts for money, yo...