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Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's...
The Hogwarts Library Collection brings together three much loved classics from the wizarding world - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
Here you can learn about all ten breeds of dragon, how to avoid quaffle-pocking when playing Quidditch and why Babbitty Rabbity's stump ended up cackling. These treasures from the Hogwarts Library will deepen your
Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity missing from...
"Cheryl Strayed is a tough-love truth-teller.... Brave Enough amount[s] to a galvanizing call to be bigger,...
10) Selected Poems
In this new bicentennial...
Selected as Emma Watson's Jan/Feb 2019 pick for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for London's Big Read
From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the 'Muslim Woman'.
Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and
...One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair wages, benefits, and humane working conditions for hundreds of thousands of farm workers. This extensive collection...
Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like...
14) El caso Birdman
The Times
Greenwich, al sudeste de Londres. El inspector Jack Caffery –joven, compulsivo, impasible– acude al lugar donde se ha cometido uno de los crímenes más espantosos que jamás ha visto. Cinco prostitutas han sido asesinadas de manera ritual y arrojadas a un descampado cerca del...
15) 马克 吐温小说大全集: 超值金版
马克·吐温是美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人,世界著名的短篇小说大师。他经历了美国从"自由"资本主义到帝国主义的发展过程,其思想和创作也表现为从轻快调笑到辛辣讽刺再到悲观厌世的发展阶段。《马克·吐温小说大全集(超值金版)》文字清新有力,审视角度自然而独特,被视为美国文学史上具划时代意义的现实主义著作。19世纪末,随着美国进入帝国主义发展阶段,马克·吐温一些游记、杂文、政论,等的批判揭露意义也逐渐减弱,而绝望神秘情绪则有所伸长。
...16) Alentejo blue
Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.
Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who is losing business to the new internet café down the road. The unseemly dysfunctional but strangely
...Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature begins from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and develops alternately comic
...Great books of the Western World volume 5, 52
Barnes and Noble classics
Modern Library giants volume G36
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Una de las obras maestras de la literatura en español del siglo XX.
En San Camilo 36, publicada en 1969, Camilo José Cela reflexiona sobre la existencia humana contra un marcado trasfondo social. Al hilo de diversas divagaciones, el relato contiene un desfile de personajes de muy variada condición, desde miembros de las altas esferas hasta marginales, que viven totalmente inconscientes de la tragedia que se avecina el día
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