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"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and particular, embracing both colloquial directness and formal elegance, the poems confront the elementals of love and loss, mortality and remembrance.
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Present-day astronomy, vast, complex, is looking through darkness to distant objects and times. Yet its discoveries aren't exclusively scientific: from the moons of Pluto to the Doppler effect, the night sky screens a place where math meets myth. Now, in Zero Kelvin, in scenes that shift from the mountains of Goma to the mountains of the moon, from galaxies that feast upon their neighbours to a solar sail unfurling above Earth's orbit, Richard Norman's...
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How to make curry goat
Take around 7 quid's worth of goat
Or mutton dem di same ting
A spring of thyme, two large onions, three if you're that way inclined
Not di Spanish h'onion di British h'onion.
A bulb of garlic. All-purpose seasoning and Caribbean Curry Powder
It nah matter which curry powder you fi use.
Using eyes to measure, one-part All Purpose to two-part curry powder
Be careful with the All Purpose. You nah want too much salt.
Sprinkle it...
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Un merveilleux récit en forme d'hommage à une grand-mère témoin d'un monde disparu dans le centre-Bretagne d'antan. Sans nostalgie et sans pathos toutefois, avec à l'inverse toujours la distance et la verve insolente d'Hervé Bellec, marques de fabrique qui n'excluent pas, loin s'en faut, la sincérité tendre ou l'humour.
7) Du Petit-Rhne à la Grand'Bouche: Anecdotes, contes et poèmes autour d'un petit cabanon en Camargue
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Du Petit-Rhne à la Grand' Bouche est un recueil d'anecdotes autour de la Camargue. Le dernier eigadié du Garrouyas, un chasseur de Camargue, la sauvageonne de Tourvieille sont tant de textes immersifs, empreints d'un grand humour qui font découvrir ou redécouvrir la région. " Des souvenirs d'enfance, des rencontres insolites, des anecdotes délicieuses o la rigidité de la langue laisse un peu de place à la poésie, le tout, enveloppé d'expressions...
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