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Flowers in FlamesKhamila narrates her experience as a young woman living in Sur, a city which quickly transforms from a rich trading centre into a place of fear and murder at the hands of extremist oppressors.Home to a mixed community of Muslims, Copts, Christians, Jews, Buddhists,...
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Dry Spells"A beautiful, vivid and atmospheric ... story of loss and redemption" - Fiona ValpyA devastating drought. A city ripe with secrets. A family with a past just waiting to be discovered.Recently, Shyamala Mehta's life in LA feels stagnant: she's undervalued at work, newly single,...
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Dreads and DrollsFirst published in 1926, "Dreads and Drolls" is a collection of essays compiled by Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan, many of which were taken from the publication "The Graphic". The essays concern various historical and purportedly true tales of real characters and the...
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Dostoevsky: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy. In this Very Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life story: his political imprisonment and narrow escape from...
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DK Eyewitness MoroccoAuthor: Dk EyewitnessPublisher: DK Eyewitness TravelPublished: 10/22/2024Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsISBN: 9780241677056About the AuthorExperience the world with DK Eyewitness. DK Eyewitness' highly visual guides show you what others only tell you, with easy-to-read maps, tips and tours to inform and enrich your trip. Our...
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Digital Culture in Contemporary FictionWhat does it mean to be human in a world increasingly determined by algorithms? How can fiction articulate identity and subjectivity in the face of technology which seeks to reduce us to raw data? These questions drive a growing body of fiction about our...
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Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of RealityIn a cultural moment when panics over the stories we tell are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions shows us exactly what we're fighting about and why Fictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of...
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Colmillo BlancoThe story of the friendship between a man and a wolf dog and how a real harmony between humans and animals can be achieved. With didactic cards, games and activities to interact with the story and the characters.Author: Jack LondonPublisher: ObeliscoPublished: 01/02/2024Pages: 40Binding Type:...
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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIPostwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into...
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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIPostwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into...
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Cartas a Clara: Letters to Clara, Spanish EditionAuthor: Juan RulfoPublisher: RmPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788419233929
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Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny BrawneThe epic romance of one of the most celebrated poets in the English language Coming to theatres in September 2009 is the tragic love story of nineteenth- century poet John Keats and the love of his life, Fanny Brawne. Keats died at the young...
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Best of the Rust BeltThe best personal essays from a contested region, from Belt Publishing's ten years as a press.Many have an opinion on what the Rust Belt is. It's the "blue wall," "Trump country," the "flyover states," or the "real America." Or maybe, as our own president...
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Ayo's Adventure: Across the African Diaspora from Afro to ZuluWhen Ayo struggles to fall asleep, he tumbles into an extraordinary journey across the African diaspora, where he experiences creative and resilient cultures that share his heritage. From hip-hop to kente cloth, from Mansa Musa to revolution, the African diaspora has inspired the world!...
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A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Well-BeingHow to build a true library for happiness - recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment There are about 130 million books in the world - and they are being added to at a rate...
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Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short StoryIn Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton...
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Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary AestheticsPick up a work of typical literary criticism and you know what to expect: prose that is dry, pedantic, well-meaning but tedious--slow-going and essentially humorless. But why should that be so? Why can't more literary criticism have a political edge and be engaging and...
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A Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers: The famous, the forgotten, the forlornA compendious illustrated guide to those industrious but often overlooked women writers of the Victorian era: the famous, the forgotten and the forlorn. More than 1,500 women authors, along with over 400 pseudonyms, 400 quotes and extracts, and a further 40 subject entries and...
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Animal farm 5th June 2020 FinalGeorge Orwell's celebrated novella, Animal Farm, is a biting, allegorical, political satire on totalitarianism in general and Stalinism in particular. One of the most famous works in modern English literature, it is a telling comment on Soviet Russia under Stalin's brutal dictatorship based on...
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Anima: A Wild PastoralIn Anima, Kapka Kassabova introduces us to the "pastiri" people--the shepherds struggling to hold on to an ancient way of life in which humans and animals exist in profound interdependence. Following her three previous books set in the Balkans, and with an increasinging interest...
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