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A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.

You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles

静岡のとある海沿いには、深夜から夜明けまでの間だけ開く、不思議な食堂がある。 店主の菜実さんも不思議な人だ。夜をさまようお客さんそれぞれの悩みを見抜き、ぴったりの料理を提供してしまう。ひとりぼっちの子育て、結婚に踏み切れない葛藤、八方塞がりな人生の岐路。

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Scheherazade, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Scheherazade always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession, each of them steaming with a secret motive. India's wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching lives of six eccentric characters unravel before our eyes.

Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.

A student’s investigation into a secret cult leads to madness.

Um dia, numa família, nasceu um menino inadaptado. Assim começa a história do menino de olhos negros que flutuam para o nada, eternamente deitado, e dos seus três irmãos. Em meio à natureza poderosa das montanhas, são as pedras do muro da velha casa da família que testemunham suas trajetórias. O amor absoluto e protetor do mais velho, a rebeldia que a do meio assume para rejeitar a dor, a chegada do mais novo que cresce à sombra das memórias. Um audiolivro magnífico e luminoso, sobre o laço infinito entre irmãos e a inesgotável capacidade humana de se adaptar.

Tres años después de jurar como presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez es depuesto por un golpe militar, acusado de querer implantar una dictadura comunista. Tras arrestarlo y exigirle que firme una renuncia que Chávez se niega a convalidar, los espadones no saben qué hacer con el presidente derrocado ni tampoco quién debe asumir el mando en su lugar. Los generales venezolanos discuten si deben matar a Chávez acusándolo de traidor a la patria, o despacharlo en un vuelo a La Habana, o someterlo a un juicio sumario y encarcelarlo de por vida.

Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only 16, intending for it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. This thinly veiled autobiographical tale of a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback was so beyond its years when first released in 1901 that Franklin insisted it not be published again until 10 years after her death. My Brilliant Career is a coming of age story for all of the ages.

Partisan de la position allongée, Oblomov ne trouve le bonheur que dans le sommeil. Ni son ami Stolz, incarnation de l'énergie et de l'esprit d'entreprise, ni la belle Olga avec qui se nouera l'embryon d'une idylle, ne parviendront à le tirer de sa léthargie. Entreprendre et aimer sont décidément choses trop fatigantes. Grand roman de mœurs, Oblomov offre une satire mordante des petits fonctionnaires et des barines russes.

Sobre Heróis e Tumbas é um romance magistral em que se cruzam três fios narrativos: a paixão devastadora de Martín por Alejandra, o nascimento traumático de uma nação e a história da Seita Sagrada dos Cegos, casta maléfica de poderes esotéricos e milhões de súditos no mundo todo.

Light-skinned Black woman Irene Redfield encounters an old childhood friend - Clare - who is now "passing" as a White woman. Clare is married to a racist White man, who doesn't know she has African American blood. In spite of the danger of being found out by her husband and society at large, she finds herself helplessly drawn to Irene's world.

From victims to victims to victors, this collection of stories contains intricate details of 13 women who went on to leave their permanent mark on the face of the Mumbai Mafiosi.

Una ciudad mítica, París. Un lugar mítico, el Grand Hotel Ritz. Un barman mítico, Frank Meier, el barman del Ritz. Todos habían degustado sus célebres cócteles: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Mistinguett, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Arletty. Pero en julio de 1940, las tropas alemanas ocupan París y sus responsables deciden hospedarse en el Ritz, como lo harán los jerarcas nazis como Göring y Goebbels cuando visiten la capital francesa.

Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps - and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

Avalovara narra a trajetória de Abel, um jovem escritor que almeja o domínio da criação artística, do amor, e do autoconhecimento enquanto busca uma cidade mítica que vislumbrou quando era criança, numa cisterna em Recife. Seu trajeto será conduzido pelo relacionamento com três mulheres: Anneliese Roos, Cecília e uma personagem sem nome, que é identificada por um símbolo. O romance é estruturado em torno de um palíndromo constituído de oito letras diferentes, cada uma responsável por dar origem a um tema ou narrativa ao longo da obra.