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Ink Stone
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The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable (...)
Milagros de Nuestra Señora
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Los prodigios divinos son percibidos dentro de la idea medieval del vasallaje. Tal vez la literatura religiosa hagiográfica que después se escribió en España tenga su origen en esta figura del vasallo que alucina en medio de sus rituales de sumisión ante su señor o el mismísimo Dios. Este texto se (...)
A Dog Named Slugger
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The true life story of a dog who changed everything for one woman. For the first time in my life, I didn't need to pretend, I didn't need to be tough: I only needed to be honest. "I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I'm not so (...)
Katherine Anne Porter y la revolución mexicana
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Las visitas a México que la autora llevó a cabo resultaron determinantes para el desarrollo de su carrera literaria. El estudio se centra en el análisis del papel del discurso revolucionario en el proceso de desilusión característico de los relatos mexicanos de Porter, en los que descubrió un (...)
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
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Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. Wolpert explores the different (...)
Three Miles
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Leeds, 1940: a city on fire. On the night of the Luftwaffe's fiercest bombardment, Captain Abraham Matthews has finally caught up with Albie Crowe, the champion of a gang of petty thieves and professional plunderers who he has been intent on snaring these past six months. Holed up in a brick (...)
Custody
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When Shagun leaves Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their two young children is thrown into question and Shagun must decide what price she will pay for freedom… Meanwhile, Ishita, a failed marriage behind her, finds another chance at happiness with Raman. But when (...)
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
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Orhan Pamuk, is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international (...)
Isabella de'Medici
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Caroline P. Murphy is a cultural historian and biographer. She is the author of Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-century Bologna, praised by Sarah Bradford in the Literary Review for shed[ding] new light on the ground-breaking career of a brave and talented woman. Her (...)
The River of Lost Footsteps
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Drawing both on his own family s stories and his years of hands-on political experience, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma s rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country s future. This is the story of modern Burma, and a (...)