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Helen Jukes A Honeybee Heart Has Five OpeningsA fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers of H is For Hawk and The Outrun. Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped ...
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Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett A House in the Sky ENThe dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity - an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace. As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its…
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János Szerencsés, Miel, Durieux... Best American Poetry 2017Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey “consistently and dramatically expanded the power” of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment “Where Poetry Lives.” Marilyn Nelson says “the wide scope of Trethewey’s interests and her adept handling of form have created an opus of classics…
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Joseph Heller Catch as Catch Can ENNot many writers introduce a phrase - let alone a whole idea - into the language. In CATCH-22, Joseph Heller invented a motif for the modern world. For that book alone he is one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. But where did the author who was able to create that novel come from? And what happened to those remarkable characters? CATCH AS CATCH CAN for the first time collects early works,…
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Don DeLillo, Don DeLillo Cosmopolis ENDeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel, a study in big money and affectlessness. As one character remarks, 28-year-old Eric Packer wants to be one civilization ahead of this one. But on an April day in the year 2000, Eric's fortune and life fall apart. The story tracks him as he traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a…
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Owen King Double Feature ENSam Dolan is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam's dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam's eyes, was her eternal affection for his father.…
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Stephen King Duma Key ENA terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle´s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn´t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out...
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Isabel Allende Eva LunaMeet the unforgettable Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary and above all, a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener – born poor, orphaned at an early age ...
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Everything I Don't RememberA young man dies in a car crash - accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. From friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges of a loving son, reluctant bureaucrat, ...
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories ENI'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. It comprises sixteen finished stories and one partial short fiction, which provides an intimate look at his creative process and shows the promise in a surviving draft. Some were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication, but the…
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald I'd Die for You and Other Lost StoriesI'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. All eighteen short fictions collected here were lost in one sense or another ...
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Isabel Allendeová In the Midst of WinterNew York Times Bestseller Worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day...
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Cho Nam-Joo Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982The multi-million copy selling, international bestseller. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male...
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Steve Knopper MJ ENThe definitive biography of Michael Jackson, a vivid gripping authoritative account of a world-changing force of nature (Rolling Stone), celebrating the King of Pop s legendary contributions to music, dance, and popular culture. From the moment in 1965 when he first stepped on stage at age seven in Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson was destined to become the undisputed King of Pop. In a career spanning four decades,…
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Isabel Allende Of Love and ShadowsIrene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist – an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing – she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, ...
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Stephen King OutsiderAn unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park...
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Shari Wenk, Tim S. Grover Relentless ENFor more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and dozens more and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire. Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone…
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Alexander Pushkin Ruslan And LudmilaAlexander Pushkin’s epic magic-realist tale is brought vividly to life in this superb translation by D.M. Thomas. Drawing on the Russian folklore of Pushkin’s childhood, the poem recounts the abduction of Princess Ludmila ...
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Andras Forgach The Acts of My MotherFor readers of The Lives of Others and The Reader, and based on a true story, The Acts of My Mother is a beautiful and moving novel of family, lies, betrayal and forgiveness. He wanted to understand the past. Now he must live with the truth...
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Ian S. Port The Birth of LoudA riveting saga in the history of rock ‘n’ roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, ...
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Edward Wilson-Lee The Catalogue of Shipwrecked BooksIn this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Colón, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son...
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button EN'This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his ideas a fair trial.' Fitzgerald's thought-provoking tale, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a fantastical satire about aging. It is the strange and…
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Karen Thompson Walker The DreamersImagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, months... A world where you could, even, die of sleep rather than in your sleep...