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Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson...
3) Pinata
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Carmen Sánchez está de regreso en su país de origen, México, supervisando la renovación de una antigua catedral en un hotel boutique. Sus hijas adolescentes, Izel y Luna, están con ella durante el verano y se fueron a pasar las tardes sin supervisión en una ciudad extranjera.
Los lugareños tratan a las mujeres Sánchez como forasteras, mientras que los contratistas de Carmen desafían y sabotean
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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The Coleman Family of Nantucket is a piece of work. Samantha's father, Roland, is obsessed with image and money, so much so that Sam's career as a social worker who specializes in addiction recovery is a "stain" on the Coleman reputation.
Now, Samantha is forty-five years old and newly divorced. The further she gets from her relationship with her ex-husband, Daniel, the more she understands she married a manipulative and cruel individual, one not...
Author
Publisher
Lux ÉDiteur
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
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Au milieu des eaux, une île, un phare. Là habitent, seuls avec les oiseaux, une fille, son père et sa mère. Un marin survient. Il a fait naufrage la veille. Entre lui et la fille débute une étrange histoire d'amour, expression du besoin profond qu'a la jeune femme de s'émanciper de sa famille, de cette île isolée. Au cœur de la rose est une fable mystérieuse sur les rapports des hommes et des femmes à la construction du pays, sur l'impatience...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.
Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
In...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Over the course of a single week in a small English village, a widowed octogenarian who has spent her last years alone, ready to die, discovers an unexpected reason to live. After living abroad for sixty years, Helen Cartwright returns to the English town where she was born. She buys a nondescript suburban house on Westminster Crescent, a nondescript suburban street, and settles into a repetitive, reclusive existence: "Each day was an impersonation...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding tale of two spirited men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to find home within their own skin.
An enthralling nautical epic, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s.
A natural-born storyteller, Ronny is a left-handed "alley mutt" without a birth certificate who searches...
Author
Publisher
Studio Bulldog
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
À 24 ans, Émilie termine son externat en médecine. Elle a fini avec d'excellentes notes et a été acceptée dans le programme de son choix pour sa résidence. Sauf qu'elle n'arrive pas à se réjouir de cette victoire... Il faut dire qu'elle laisse derrière elle une traînée de sacrifices et de regrets, dont sa relation avec Jake. Pour Jake, la fin de sa relation avec Émilie s'est avéré un deuil énorme. À présent, il va mieux, il travaille,...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
Description
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine, an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way...
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Publisher
Presses De L'université Laval
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Le théâtre autochtone connaît depuis une trentaine d'années une véritable renaissance. Puisant à ses formes traditionnelles, mais tout autant aux ressources du théâtre d'avant-garde contemporain, cette renaissance s'inscrit dans une dynamique de transformation des expressions théâtrales. Les oeuvres dramatiques d'Ondinnok (Yves Sioui Durand et Catherine Joncas), de Monique Mojica et de Drew Hayden Taylor sont ainsi mises en résonance avec...
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English
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"Klara and Alex are having trouble connecting, but at least their calendars are in sync. Klara--who's always thought of herself as a little different, a sneaker in a world full of kitten heels and polished boots--is feeling a disconnect these days. She has type 1 diabetes, currently works in a dead-end job, and is in desperate need of a change. When her dad falls ill, Klara begrudgingly agrees to help run his small construction company while he recovers,...
13) 模式口
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Publisher
华文出版社
Pub. Date
2022
Language
中文（繁體）
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1921年是中国历史上划时代的一年。 这一年的京城，发生了很多大事：京城的共产党早期组织建立的工人学校——长辛店劳动补习学校正式开学，成立了工人俱乐部，并组织了示威游行；北京大学等 8 所学校的教职员为抗议当局积欠经费举行罢工和游行；洋人觊觎中华国宝，意欲据为己有；华商电灯公司终于盼来欧战结束后的发电设备，石景山电厂建成发电；
...14) 莎士比亚戏剧全集
Author
Publisher
CNPeReading
Pub. Date
2016
Language
中文（繁體）
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1947年秋，上海世界书局出版了莎士比亚编著、朱生豪翻译的莎士比亚戏剧全集共27部戏剧，其中无历史剧。本套莎士比亚戏剧全集即是这27部经典的重现，除根据约定俗成的译，将"汉姆莱脱"统一为"哈姆雷特"外，其他人名地名翻译内容皆为1947年版本重现；在编次方面，本套书依照各剧质和之后的专家意见，将原作内容重新整理，分为六卷，详情见书中莎士比亚戏剧全集书目。历时两年勘误整理编校，精益求精，优选地还原朱生豪先生的译作全貌。
...15) La dama duende
Author
Series
Publisher
Espasa
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
Description
La dama duende es quizá la comedia de enredo más famosa y divertida de Calderón de la Barca, aunque también tiene rasgos (como sucede con otras) de comedia de honor y de capa y espada. De ritmo trepidante y vertiginoso, la acción desarrolla una intriga compleja en la que, como novedad, existen múltiples lazos familiares entre los protagonistas.
La obra muestra a don Manuel y a don Luis enfrentados por una cuestión de honor relativa a una dama.
Don...
16) Ordinary angels
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sharon, a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky, discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed, a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith, everyday miracles, and ordinary angels"--
17) Night Swim
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player is forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, he moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash...
18) Drive-away dolls
Publisher
SDS
Language
English
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The film follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on a spontaneous road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of incompetent criminals along the way.
Author
Publisher
Bibloteca Inspiracional
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
Description
TODO NACE EN EL AMOR PROPIO
En un mundo lleno de superficialidad y apariencias, Martín se encuentra atrapado en una búsqueda interminable de validación externa. A pesar de su éxito profesional, su vida amorosa es un reflejo de su fragilidad emocional y su constante necesidad de sentirse valorado. Sin embargo, un giro inesperado lo lleva a embarcarse en un viaje de autodescubrimiento que
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Publisher
Page Nine Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In a royal marriage of convenience, nothing is less convenient than love.
Princess Evaraine always knew she would one day wed a stranger, but her arranged marriage to the Prince of Garimore is nothing like she expected. She never anticipated losing her heart to the man she would marry. And she certainly would not have guessed that she'd be leaving him behind within hours of their wedding.
After the arrival of devastating news, Evaraine must make...
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