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Jamais la jeune Koya n'aurait imaginé être propulsée à des milliers de kilomètres hors de son pays natal dans l'inquiétant pays de là-bas, comme disait sa grand-mère. Elle quitte le douillet village haut perché d'Incapirca au cœur de l'Équateur, brise tous ses repères avec pour seul soutien le souvenir des yeux pétillants de la vieille abuela et de son énergie féroce. Elle suit la trace des volcans andins, le long de la formidable cordillère, qui, à chaque instant, lui rappelle les légendes de son village.

Qual o valor de um nome? E a real importância de uma linhagem? Quanto custa a memória? Partindo dessas e de outras questões, Marilene Felinto, vencedora do prêmio Jabuti, conta em seu novo romance a história de uma mulher que deixa para trás um amor e uma vida confortável em Houston e retorna para o interior do Nordeste brasileiro a fim de encontrar a reparação moral e financeira a que sua família tem direito.

Confidencias del corazón (Alma poética) es un audiolibro profundamente emotivo del autor y narrador Carlos Mavila, producido y publicado por Audiobook Publishing Services, que invita al oyente a sumergirse en la esencia más íntima de la poesía romántica en español. En esta obra, la poesía se transforma en imagen, sentimiento y experiencia. Carlos Mavila nos recuerda que la verdadera poesía no se limita a describir hechos, sino que despierta los sentidos y la imaginación: donde otros ven lágrimas, aquí surgen tormentas que caen desde los cielos del rostro.

Professeure à l'université, Pearson se demande encore comment les États-Unis en sont arrivés là. Depuis que le mouvement pour la Parité mentale a pris le pouvoir, les enfants n'apprennent plus à lire, le niveau des étudiants a chuté, les dîners où l'on débattait à bâtons rompus sont devenus sinistres. Heureusement, il lui reste sa meilleure amie, Emory, pour ironiser sur la situation. Les deux femmes se connaissent depuis l'adolescence, la confiance entre elles est totale. Ou du moins Pearson le croit-elle...

Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thoughtful ambivalence and humor. Altogether, the various threads of Home Movies—image, tangibility, fame, nostalgia, simulation, marijuana, and cinema history—pull together into a moving attempt to accept the tensions between watching/being watched and life/art.

En Mar de fondo , Beatriz Saavedra Gastélum vuelve a situar su voz en el umbral donde pensamiento y revelación se confunden. La poeta —con su ya reconocible hondura metafísica y su fidelidad a la palabra como experiencia interior— traza un itinerario de conocimiento que atraviesa los cuerpos, el silencio y la conciencia. Este libro es un descenso a la raíz misma del ser, donde el lenguaje se convierte en espejo de lo invisible.

Aluna, una bruja que vive en la serenidad de su vieja casa en el pueblo de El Santuario, se ve obligada a viajar a La Civilización para investigar la misteriosa desaparición de su padre y chamán, Daniel Jolugo. Juntos recorrerán los confines de la esperanza, cómplices de un trayecto que oscila entre lo espiritual y lo político, entre la sombra de sus más profundos secretos y la luz del fuego que durante siglos permaneció oculto.

La ficción del ahorro cuenta la historia de una familia ensamblada en una ciudad de provincias a través de una anécdota puntual: la recuperación de los ahorros familiares en el contexto de la crisis de 2001 en Argentina. Una novela atrapante que reflexiona con inteligencia y humor sobre la relación pasional con la familia y el dinero.

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands. Allerdings ummantelt er seine Geschichten ebenso gerne mit einem Grotesk-Phantastischen Gewand, so dass man zum einen nie weiß was als nächstes kommt und zum anderen immer das Gefühl vermittelt bekommt hautnah dabei zu sein, wobei einem die beschriebenen Szenen sofort vor dem geistigen Auge vorüberzuziehen scheinen.

21st Century Autoimmune Blues is multi-genre author Brent Terry’s fourth collection. Terry brazenly confronts subjects that are simultaneously political and personal. The undertones range from comedic to emotional, stimulating the head, heart, and gut. Every poem in this collection hums with an underlying anxiety caused by living in these fraught and sometimes dismaying times, but Terry never fails to paint a rhythmically sound image.

Meaghan Jones is America's sweetheart—until a Hollywood scandal sends her seeking refuge in a small coastal town at her best friend's charming beach house on the Delaware shore. She's sworn off romance, but the magnetic local restaurateur she's never forgotten keeps testing her resolve—stirring feelings she thought she'd buried forever. Palmer Harding has the perfect life—until her husband drops dead. No one knows they haven't spoken in weeks. No one knows she kissed another man just days before. And no one can know the secret she's carrying now.

As she nears the end of her life, Addie Bundren wants nothing more than to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. A captivating and stylistically innovative work, the narrative revolves around the grim, yet darkly humorous, pilgrimage as the Bundren family sets out to fulfill her last wish.

Lovers of cats and poetry, prepare to be amazed and entertained! A Carnival of Cats features sixty-three poems and twelve watercolor paintings that explore the author’s love for and admiration of cats—their beauty, grace, and inscrutable character—and his bemused surmises as to what motivates their puzzling, distinctive, often delightful behaviors. This engaging book tells stories of cats the author has known and cherished—pets, strays, those who are a little of both, and some met only for one special moment.

One evening on Lāhaina’s Front Street, as Shaffer walked to an evening with friends, someone passing on the sidewalk commented, “The islands are even further west than I thought.” Those accidental words, like poetry, shifted his perspective once again regarding the place he lives. Even Further West is a collection of poems written of, in, and on the Hawaiian islands.

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s first poetry collection Flashes and Verses… Becoming Attractions uniquely waxes lyrical on such pop cultural icons as Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holliday, Muhammad Ali and David Bowie. He also crafts the most dynamic ekphrastic poems inspired by photos and artwork by Helmut Newton, Edward Hopper and Leonardo da Vinci. He composes the most bedazzling bilingual odes to Sandra Cisneros and Juan Felipe Herrera.

This is a compilation of Angie Bowie's poetry with guitar backing by Clif Taylor, aka Chick Cashman.

Olympic silver medalist Kalista Brooks has built a successful life in California, complete with a thriving sports technology company and a handsome fiancé. But when her father’s heart condition takes a critical turn, she rushes home to Atlanta. There, her father makes a surprising request: to relive favorite memories from all four seasons in just one month at their old farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

When a mysterious girl named Lucero emerges, she ignites a new wave of revelations about the Inheritance Signal—an ancient frequency connecting spirit and cosmos, culture and resistance. As Zay, Ayana, Luna, and Mateo navigate echoes from their ancestors, they must battle a force that can’t create—only mimic.

Through the Pines by Rickey Ward. Cody is no stranger to silence. A combat veteran living with ghosts, he sets out with his service dog, Copper, for one last float down an Oklahoma river. It is meant to be a quiet trip, just him, the water, and the open sky. But when the raft crashes and they are thrown into the current, everything changes. Waking up on an unfamiliar riverbank, Cody finds himself in a forest unlike any he has ever known. The woods hum with something ancient. Fog clings to the treetops. Time slips sideways.

Quando Cara Romero perde il suo posto in fabbrica a causa della Grande Recessione, ha ormai più di cinquant'anni e deve, una volta ancora, ricominciare tutto daccapo. Costretta alla trafila degli uffici di collocamento, in una torrenziale confessione riversa la storia della sua vita su un'anonima consulente del lavoro: le turbolente vicende sentimentali; la nostalgia per la Repubblica Dominicana da cui è fuggita; le relazioni in un condominio newyorkese assediato dalla gentrificazione; la lotta continua per sopravvivere alle difficoltà economiche e alla burocrazia americana.