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Painting Shadows is a story's story, a writer's story - a story so stripped down many lines sound like quotes.The book challenges the reader to go somewhere deeper, to be submerged in the narrator's think tank of a journey.Painting Shadows is a stark read about ignorance and awareness, and the many questions and observations that fall between them.
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This is an exquisite debut novel about a family in turmoil, told in the startling, deeply affecting voice of a nine-year-old, autistic boy. Following the sudden death of Sebby's mother, his father takes Sebby to live in the family's summerhouse, hoping it will give them both time and space to recover. But Sebby's father deteriorates in this new isolation, leaving Sebby struggling to understand his mother's death alone, dreaming and even reliving moments...
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This book is about domestic violence itself, the causes, effects and solutions. It features the different types of domestic violence and gives detailed explanation on the scenarios which has to do with rape cases, female genital cutting or excision, physical abuse, sex abuse, economic abuse, Psychological abuse, technological abuse, economic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, social abuse, emotional abuse. Domestic violence is a major public...
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Entre una historia cultural llena de paradojas y cierta noción abstracta de humanidad que aún triunfa en la censura de los sentidos, surgen los ensayos de Juan Carlos Arteaga para remover aquello que parece inapelable. Hay en esta palabra un evidente deseo por enfrentar lo humano sin concesiones y llevarlo hacia un lugar de reflexión que no agota caminos ni banaliza contradicciones. En medio de ese deseo, que revela las inquietudes del autor, entre...
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Wes Carver returns to his hometown-Black River, Montana-with two things: his wife's ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release.
For years, Wes earned his living as a correction officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the uprising shook Wes's faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free.
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Adult fairy tales - not for the faint-hearted, indeed!
Valerie Volk has transported and adapted many of the classic Brothers Grimm tales into a modern context, demonstrating that the "real" can sometimes be more bizarre and horrific than the imaginary.
With witty prose pieces to set the scene and Leszek Hermanowicz's clever drawings to enhance the mood, each poem becomes a tour de force, demonstrating how these tales still have relevance today....
8) Ereyesterday
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"I wrote this book in love, in pain,
In joy-remembering each name,
Names of lovers lost,
Names of voices dead
Tales of loving at a cost,
Of romance, and of life in shred
It's my heart for you to read or leave
Or find solace when you grieve
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Harry Towns series volume 1
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Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humor. Grove Press is proud to reissue one of the classic novels by this acclaimed master of modern humor. About Harry Towns is the story of the eponymous screenwriter, a man reveling in the freewheeling atmosphere of the early 1970s, a bicoastal playboy with a broken marriage and a child he rarely...
10) 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...
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Deep in the bowels of Junk Moon, the finest scientists of Planet Immortal are nearing completion of Project Amphora, which aims to unlock the secret of immortality. The Project is run by the Consortium, twelve of the planet's most influential movers and shakers, but they aren't the only ones after immortality. Commander Jockey Oldcastle, a wise-cracking space pirate, has heard about the Amphora Project from a banished scientist who is convinced it...
12) Songs of Hills
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"Stop,
Open your eyes to the pouring of this poet's heart, Before starfish nibble her words, add to your cart
- Nisha Lamichaney"
"Stop,
Open your eyes to the pouring of this poet's heart, Before starfish nibble her words, add to your cart
- Nisha Lamichaney"
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This collection of poems consists of sixty-one poems that throw light on the trials and tribulations of everyday living that bog our minds. The poems touch on relationships, our beliefs, the girl child, parenting, modern-day challenges like noise pollution, fake news, scams, etc. On the brighter side, the poems reflect on the joys of childhood, motherhood, family, nature, freedom, being a woman, etc. This book is my gift to young adults venturing...
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When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she had always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become...
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Fair Warning is acclaimed novelist Robert Olen Butler's enthralling glimpse into a Manhattan auction house that caters to the shopping pheromones of the rich and powerful. At age forty, the company's charismatic star employee, Amy Dickerson, is capable of selling a Renoir painting of a pudgy nude for twice its value. Her customers are intoxicated by the objects they covet. And sometimes, such as when the dark and mysterious Trevor locks eyes with...
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In this sequel; after the blind man is abducted just before the coronation of the new king, and his wife's attempt to commit suicide after discovering traces of blood when coming from the coronation ritual. And meanwhile, subsequently the new king is struck by mental disorder on his way home from the ceremony. Following these series of predicaments; life threatening events and agonizing discoveries begins to unfold.
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In Lost Paradise, Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys. A beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young lady who leaves her parents' Sao Paolo home on a hot summer night in a fit of depression. Her car engine dies in one of the city's most dangerous favelas, a mob surrounds...
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"This book is born to let our soul realize that somewhere deep in us, we have the demon trying to hide in everyone. We have our own red flags trying to forget. Nevertheless, not always we can fight the urge to seal it. And some consequences of that action are heavy.
That's why this book was created. To help beings like you understand that everyone has a red flag. And it is ok! Because everyone is not a fictional character that has perfect attributes....
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"Piece of Mind: Journal of a Healed Heart (Volume 2) is a follow-up non-fiction book to the first volume that Christine Musa has released back in 2021, focusing on her healing journey after experiencing abandonment, betrayal, and a failed marriage.
This second volume contains a collection of all-original literary pieces, short articles, quotes, and anecdotes based on Christine's personal ups and downs, spanning from year 2018 up to 2021 --- the...
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