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Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR's Book Concierge
Inspired by the secret life of the author's grandmother, Lotus follows a young woman torn between past traditions and modern desires-as she carves out a life for herself in China's "City of Sins"
"Standing outside the Moonflower Massage Parlor with three other girls, Lotus flashed her red smile at every passing man. She leaned against the glass front of the parlor, one leg bent like...
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El sonido constante de un tren que se desplaza por las vías. Un tren que ha contribuido al progreso pero también a la industrialización del mal: desde el traslado de tropas a los campos de batalla hasta la perfecta organización del transporte de inocentes cuyos destinos finales fueron Auschwitz, Treblinka o Sobibor.
Albert Weiss es uno de los supervivientes, un testigo del horror, pero la culpa por haber perdido a su hermano pequeño cuando sus...
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The action of The Time of the Hero, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru. There, four angry cadets who have formed an inner circle in an attempt to ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide. The Time of the Hero presents, with great accuracy and power,...
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The Moment of Truth Mexico, 1926 – 1976Don Rafa is a highly likeable man, but he can neither live with, nor tell, the truth. The only truths he recognises are those of beauty and male friendship. Beauty, as he sees it, exists in women and bullfighting. While relationships with the former can be based on lies, the moment of truth lies in the slaying of a bull.
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Enjoy a bevy of stories about human foibles. Meet an amiable young man's whose chance at romance is ruined when he repeats a story. Attend an uncomfortable interview with an aspiring arts critic who doesn't like art. Sit at the campfire and watch graduate students battle over their dissertation ideas. Witness a series of shady business transactions initiated by a young Indiana orphan. Hear the tales that destroy an old lady's relationship with her...
8) Haven©
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Happiness is elusive. It can be a fleeting feeling that we never quite catch, and oftentimes it is because we can't quite identify its meaning. Some of us will do almost anything to achieve a taste of happiness. Some of us rely on our old memories to give our present life a happier gleam. What if we could do this at the touch of a button?Dr. Brenda Bravda has made a device that creates happiness.
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Quién no ha temido perder la memoria o la cordura, quién no ha puesto en duda su lugar en este mundo, quién no ha llegado a creer que su destino se encuentra en un sitio muy lejano al que nunca habrá de llegar, quién no se ha enfrentado a los estragos del paso del tiempo sobre los cuerpos?
Los personajes que habitan estas historias encarnan las mismas interrogantes y una circunstancia que los hace particulares: un hombre que escucha hablar a...
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The Last Beat; London, 1966A policeman walks the empty streets of London Town on the eve of his death from a heart attack. As is his custom, he makes up tongue-in-cheek plays on words while reflecting on the sad state of society. The rhymes come to him to the beat of his footfall and a clock announcing midnight.From a Critical Point of View; New York City, 1990A wicked critic writes columns for a daily paper. He finds it more rewarding to criticise...
11) Pushing Forward
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Following unfortunate circumstances, The Ashcroft Family have no choice but to rebuild their home as the promise of a bright future feels increasingly uncertain.
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Two Lives and the Camp of Death; Poland, 1943Gerber, the merciless commander of a World War II concentration camp, doesn't see himself as part of a greater human community, but as a skilled administrator ordered to look for solutions. In a nearby village, a woman dedicated to her home and their children welcomes her husband as he arrives from work. In the warm atmosphere of their close-knit relationships, they all avoid thinking about the ongoing...
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"METANOIA GIRLS
Convincing the last hope of the last stage
Consisting the same view in diversity
The great white wall that is becoming beige
Build the diversity into unity
An odds three growth fertile like dandelion
Attract attention like beautiful park
Saving achievement into a million
And running in the silence of the dark
Get marginalization as an ant
Prove the elephant that small ants could kill
Uncountable vitality like the sand
Holding...
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All over Hollywood, men are dialing O-for orgasms. Her steamy naughty talk fills them with lust and longing, and helps them perform like the studs they claim to be.
In truth, the industry's favorite "erotic phone operatrix" is Nina Harte, a struggling actress who has put her career on hold so that her husband, Nathan, can pursue his own dreams of stardom. When Nathan's career takes off, so does he, leaving Nina and their four-year-old son, Jake,...
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On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland-a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe-realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark...
16) Canzoniere
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"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes . . . " -Chronicles
"As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the development of Western poetic tradition, Musa offers...
17) Milk and Oranges
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Milk and Oranges is a collection of short fiction and essays by award-winning writer Charlene Wexler that examines life, love, and the tragedy and comedy of the human conditionWhether she is tackling fiction or essays, Charlene Wexler writes from the heart. With a keen eye for detail and a way of looking at the world a bit sideways, Wexler's writings in Milk and Oranges will entertain while they make you think.In Milk and Oranges, Wexler's fiction...
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Joseph Smith The Twenty-Fifth, a new Mormon prophet, emerges in Salt Lake City, much to the displeasure of the official LDS church. He brings with him a cadre of Apostles, not the least of whom are ones named Brigham and Jason. "JS25," as he is called by those close to him, like his predecessor from the 1800s, engages in polygamy, but with a twist. He doesn't have sex with his wives. The tale also features two men having problems with their dull,...
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Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust...
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Leland Littlefield thinks he has a happy family. But the cracks are beginning to show. His wife of twenty-three years, Anna Grace, is distant and drifting further away, his adult children are busy handling their own victories and disasters, and everyone is becoming increasingly alienated from one another.But Leland's struggles run deeper than a troubled home life. When he spends a pleasant evening alone with his son's quirky, bearded piano teacher,...
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