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The Black Book is a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirms Orhan Pamuk's reputation as a writer of international stature, comparable to Borges and Calvino.
Galip is an Istanbul lawyer, and his wife, Ruya, has vanished. Could she be hiding out with her half brother, Jelal, a newspaper columnist whose fame Galip envies? And if so, why isn't anyone in Jelal's flat?
As Galip plays the part of private investigator, he...
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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."
3) 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...
4) 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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Osman is a young university student whose life is changed by a chance encounter with a mysterious book. Osman becomes obsessed with the book, which seems to contain all the magic and power of life and love. Romantic and elusive, Orhan Pamuk's The New Life is a rhapsody to love and an investigation into the shadowy nature of self.
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REVOLUCIÓN EN JUEGO aborda el caminar de un grupo de jóvenes en los años 70's, el proceso formativo en el terreno socialista y la lucha de clases, su vinculación a los problemas sociales en la ciudad de Teapa, municipio del Estado de Tabasco, en México. Enfatiza al trabajo periodístico como una herramienta de utilidad invaluable para la concientización de los habitantes de un pueblo, pero también, para quienes lo ejercen con honestidad, responsabilidad...
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Three weeks before her first space launch, astronaut Mia Gray is involved in a car accident. Her injuries not only keep her from the mission but also mean she may not ever be able to do her job again. Mia is devastated, but she refuses to give up on her lifelong desire to see Earth from space. Mia discovers that there are other options besides working at NASA, ones where her limitations might not be an issue. Leaving her husband and old life behind,...
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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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The unpublished opus of two truly legendary creators.
Published for the first time ever – the conclusion to the legendary Hawkmoon Chronicles, written by Michael Moorcock and adapted by James Cawthorn! A saga of science and sorcery 40 years in the telling, illustrated in gorgeous black-and-white with triptych triple-page spreads. In a post-apocalyptic world scoured by monsters and men, only Dorian Hawkmoon can stand against the Dark Empire of Granbretan...
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"Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived." - New Republic
James Thurber spent most of his career at the New Yorker magazine, drawing cartoons and writing essays and stories. Collecting Himself is a one-of-a-kind compilation of James Thurber's vintage writings, featuring previously unanthologized articles, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons, parodies, as well as Thurber's reflections on his...
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Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society. Not long after the book's publication in 1790, Radishchev was condemned to death for...
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Hugo and Locus Award Finalist
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018
"An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable." - George R. R. Martin
Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers-John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard-who set off a revolution in science fiction and...
13) Manchu: A Novel
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New York Times Bestseller: This epic novel of the conquest of the Ming dynasty "does for 17th-century China what James Clavell's Shogun did for 16th-century Japan" (TheChristian Science Monitor). Francis Arrowsmith is a man without a country, a soldier-of-fortune in search of a war. An English orphan raised in France by exiled Jesuits, he hopes to make a quick pile out of his rare skills in building and operating artillery. Little does he know that...
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"Thou wert born, not a demon, but a light so bright that the darkness cannot touch thee." So the physician monk Jehan d'Auterives tells his adopted daughter Zénaïde, a foundling once discarded out of superstition and fear. Taught medicine by him despite her sex as much as her disabilities, Zénaïde's unconventional destiny will take her from her childhood in a Norman monastery to medieval Paris and the royal court of Louis VII. But in this new...
15) Breakable
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BreakableThe Fragile Line Series~ Book eight Sadie Montgomery's mental health is teetering on a fragile line, though no one knows it. Rooted in the notion that she continues to be invincible, Sadie says and does whatever she wants without consequence. Staying focused on the future she wants and what she needs to do to get there seems to be the only thing that keeps her going. On the day of her best friend's wedding, Sadie makes two rash decisions...
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From author Jenny D. Williams, a fresh new voice in fiction, comes her stunning debut novel The Atlas of Forgotten Places. Set against the backdrop of ivory smuggling and civil war in Uganda and the DR Congo, it is a story of two women from different worlds, bound in a quest to save their loved ones.
"Every page of The Atlas of Forgotten Places resonates with an intimate knowledge of life in 'Africa'...the impossible beauty of the landscape, the...
17) Island: A Novel
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A portrait of Fred Fay follows an outwardly successful but selfish man's descent into alcoholism and failure and his slow, difficult recovery into a wholly new and meaningful life.
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"Psychology of the Unconscious" by Carl Gustav Jung is a groundbreaking exploration of the depths of the human psyche and the role of the unconscious mind in shaping our thoughts, behaviors, and experiences. Jung, a pioneering figure in the field of psychology, introduces readers to his theories on the collective unconscious, archetypes, and the process of individuation.
In this seminal work, Jung challenges traditional views of the mind and offers...
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It's a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering -- half seriously -- if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola. She's been living in stifling old Gentry since the day she was born and trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc since she was only seventeen. In short, she's fed up, restless, and ready for an adventure.
Sissy just never imagined temptation would come...
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Jack Madigan is, by many accounts, blessed. He can still effortlessly turn a pretty head. And thanks to his legendary rock star father, he lives an enviable existence in a once-glorious, now-crumbling Boston town house with his teenage son, Harlan. But there is one tiny drawback: Jack is an agoraphobe. As long as his dad's admittedly dwindling royalties keep rolling in, Jack's condition isn't a problem. But then the money runs out . . . and all hell...
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