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El descuento es una compilación de 100 relatos breves que tienen en el fútbol su punto de partida, para a través de él narrar y reflexionar acerca de cuestiones vitales que trascienden el deporte. Una amplia y variada selección de historias contadas por 100 escritoras y escritores entre los que destacan Enrique Vila-Matas, Juan Villoro, Sergi Pàmies, Belén Gopegui, Martín Caparrós, Eduardo Sacheri, Carlos Zanón, Pepe Colubi, Miqui Otero,...
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"The Dark Joy of Despair" is a captivating and thought-provoking collection of diverse poems. With its seamless blend of genres, this captivating poetry collection by Stephen Alexander North promises to both thrill and challenge readers. Transcend conventional storytelling boundaries with verse rather than prose, featuring the story poem 'The Revenant and the Bell'.Read now and become enveloped in The Dark Joy of Despair. Florida Man Writes!
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A fictionalized account of the assassination of JFK as experienced by the people of Dallas and the world.
Through a myriad of characters both real and invented (and some whose names have been changed) journalist and author Bryan Woolley presents one of the best dissections of Dallas life in 1963 in his novel November 22. Covering the twenty-four hours surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Woolley accurately captures the essence...
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1812. Kaspar kommt als Findelkind in eine arme Köhlerfamilie. Nach dem Tod der Eltern ist er dem Sohn des Köhlers, Emil, im Weg. Der Stiefbruder setzt Kaspar vor einem Herrenhaus aus, wo der Junge aufgezogen und versteckt wird. Da man ihm nach dem Leben trachtet, schafft man ihn an einen anderen Ort. Eines Tages kann er entkommen und begegnet Emil wieder. Der will sich Kaspars nun endgültig entledigen. Was keiner ahnt: Auch von anderer Seite ist...
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John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Samuel Langhorne Clemens, A/K/A Mark Twain, brings the fascinating life of America's most famous humorist to you in vivid, captivating detail. His time – 1840s-1910 America. Wagon trains moving west; California gold rush; telegraph invented; War between the States; Lincoln assassinated; the golden spike; Custer massacred; the trail of tears; invention of electric light, the telephone and the automobile;...
86) An Inside Look
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An Inside Look - Chapters from Eight Books by David E. FeldmanIncludes chapters from all six of the award-winning Dora Ellison Mystery Series, the award-winning standalone novel The Neighborhood, and Percival, a slightly fictionalized memoir of the author's father.
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Als der Zweite Weltkrieg ausbricht, gibt es kaum noch Fluchtmöglichkeiten für die Verfolgten. Als einziges Transitland bleibt nur noch Portugal. Doch der Diktator Salazar verschärft die Einreisebedingungen drastisch. Erschüttert vom Leid der Menschen, die aus allen von Deutschland besetzten Ländern nach Bordeaux flüchten und nun zu Tausenden vor seinem Konsulat warten, stellt sich Aristides de Sousa Mendes gegen das Verbot der portugiesischen...
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Thomas McAndrew is a stoker on the maiden voyage of a Royal Mail Steamer; the biggest and finest to fly the British flag. After a hard winter of industrial unrest the best of men were anxious to join and the pick of Southampton went in her. But Thomas is disturbed by unspoken thoughts of foreboding and dread, a fear of something bad. A fire is burning its way through one of the giant coal bunkers hastening their passage across the icy North Atlantic...
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Harvest of Hunger is the first book in a gripping trilogy recounting the saga of four generations of an American family serving as missionaries and cultural ambassadors in China in the 19th and 20th centuries. From the bustling streets of Beijing to the halls of academia, this historical fiction transports readers to the early twentieth century, a land in turmoil as it grapples with its imperial past and uncertain future. Ross Sutherland, a scientist,...
90) Moneda al aire
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Jacobo Fandiño es un jugador de fútbol que acaba de fichar por un gran equipo pero no va sobrado de confianza. Bruna Vila es una periodista deportiva que lo borda con sus crónicas en un mundo atestado de señoros y clickbait. Vicente Parrado es un aficionado que se agarra a los viejos tiempos mientras cuida de su padre enfermo. Aunque cada uno trate de hacer su camino, los tres solo contemplan un destino: cuando llegue el verano, irán al Mundial....
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Michael McCaffrey continues to wrestle with his own alienation and detachment from the teaching profession, direction of his life and personal relationships.He is compelled to deal with unexpected loss and abandonment on multiple levels. Throughout his ordeals, he maintains his sense of humor and perspective. His setbacks, distractions and inertia make forward progress challenging. He observes the similar difficulty and indecisiveness experienced...
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A compelling and heart warming set of four short stories by Mary Grand, author of 'Free to Be Tegan'.The New ArrivalRachel has moved to the Isle of Wight determined to become invisible. Hiding a shameful secret she cultivates a 'cold polite smile as effective as an electric fence.' However, unexpectedly, into her life comes a loving, crazy, individual: Lottie the cocker spaniel. Everything is about to change.Catching the LightErin thinks she has found...
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Dresden 1818. Caroline Bommer ist 24 Jahre alt, als sie den 20 Jahre älteren Caspar David Friedrich heiratet. Sie kennt den Maler bereits seit ihrer Kindheit, er war ein Freund der Familie, den sie stets bewundert hat. „Line", wie Friedrich seine junge Frau zärtlich nennt, verändert das Leben des Junggesellen sehr, was auch Auswirkungen auf seine Kunst hat. Doch nach dem glücklichen Beginn ihrer Ehe, der für sie aufregenden Hochzeitsreise mit...
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December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
95) Boomerang
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Book 6 of Jack Freestone's series The Great Escape, set in Australia and New Zealand. The sequel to Weirdly Bland, and prequel to Bruce Grove. Novella based upon the author's experiences surfing, gambling, and traveling in Australia and New Zealand.
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"A compelling story that melds history and biography into the context of a passionate love affair, Our Lives Are the Rivers is a masterful piece of historical fiction." - San Francisco Chronicle
From critically acclaimed author Jaime Manrique comes a breathtaking novel based on the life of one of the most controversial women in the history of the Americas
Our Lives Are the Rivers tells the sweeping story of beautiful young freedom fighter Manuela...
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Howard Fast's bestselling historical novel about a man who was a voice of the people and a prophet of democracy Thomas Paine's voice rang in the ears of eighteenth-century revolutionaries from America to France to England. He was friend to luminaries such as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and William Wordsworth. His pamphlets extolling democracy sold in the millions. Yet he died a forgotten man, isolated by his rough manners, idealistic zeal, and...
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In the 1920s, a country policeman, Constable Michael Walsmear, pushes his way into the London studio of Charles Castle, the world-famous American photographer, to show him some pictures. What Castle sees in Walsmear's pictures is incredible. When he goes to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for verification of the faerie images found on the negatives, Doyle tries to bribe Castle to destroy the pictures. But Castle will not be bought; he is out to discover the...
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This is the second part of a series related to life and universe written in an unusual manner. The reader will go through a life changing event, a disclosure moment and an initiation process."The cradle of life" determines "The reunion" that leads to "The slave trade". "The learning path" is amazing but "Soldiering" is rough and deceptive. "Arrangements" are always disputable. "The Royal Guard" is an honor until "The trial" ends.Your unconventional...
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Finalist for the Spur Award: The thrilling adventures of an American icon come alive in this vivid and authentic retelling of his remarkable story From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David "Davy" Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were-to his delight-told, retold,...
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