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1) Kid Moses
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"This lean, raw, and surprising debut is a deeply moving and powerful story of Moses, a nine-year-old survivor of the harsh streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Moses longs for something outside the grim existence he has known. He and his friend Kioso hitch a ride out of the city on the back of a truck only to find themselves in the wilderness where their street wisdom no longer helps them as they encounter poisonous snakes, cruel jungle travelers,...
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2014
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"Inspired by the true story behind Jackie Kennedy's iconic outfit, Kelby has stitched a compelling tale of politics, fashion and history." — People
On November 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy accompanied her husband to Dallas dressed in a pink Chanel-style suit. Much of her wardrobe, including the pink suit, came from the New York boutique Chez Ninon where a young Irish immigrant named Kate worked behind the scenes to meticulously...
On November 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy accompanied her husband to Dallas dressed in a pink Chanel-style suit. Much of her wardrobe, including the pink suit, came from the New York boutique Chez Ninon where a young Irish immigrant named Kate worked behind the scenes to meticulously...
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This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1921 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions From American Life in Tales and Poems' is one of Anderson's collections of short stories and poetry. Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. He left school at fourteen, and after working various jobs served in the Spanish-American War in 1898. In 1908,...
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Harry Kollatz Junior's debut novel. A debut Carlisle Montgomery, that "Six-foot-five, redheaded, pigtailed, gap-and-bucktoothed, nine-fingered, guitar playing freak." Smoking, slugging Whisky, arm wrestling, entangled with women and men as well as her hard-touring band, 'The Live Wires,' A bluegrass band with a Honkey Tonk problem they're not trying to fix: Purebred American Mongrel music. It's the 1990's; the world is divided between Grunge and Garth...
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Histoire d'un adolescent syrien, réfugié,
à son premier hiver dans une polyvalente à Montréal
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Shams, adolescent rescapé de la guerre en Syrie, vit son premier hiver à Montréal. Après s'être violemment battu à l'école, il consent à suivre une psychothérapie. Il se lie d'amitié avec Kevin. Avides de drogue, de sexe et de musique, ils sillonnent ensemble les rues enneigées de la ville. Tireur embusqué raconte cette jeunesse...
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Conversaciones angolanas es, entre otras cosas, una novela de viajes. Pero no se trata de rutas de paisajes mudos entre breves y sórdidas paradas de un camino infinito, sino de viajes para quedarse. Para quedarse impregnados en el mapa del cuerpo del autor, que desde allí lo derrama en sus relatos.
De bajar del avión a un sitio extraño, imaginado desde acá, a través de fotografías inconexas en la frontera del prejuicio y la ignorancia, vacío...
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A New York native looks back on his Lower East Side youth in a trilogy from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. After making a splash with his first novel, I Can Get It for You Wholesale-published in 1937 and praised by the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald-Jerome Weidman had a long and prolific career as a fiction writer and playwright. In the 1970s he published three wise, funny, and nostalgic novels...
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Meet one of the most unscrupulous businessmen in American literature-from a New York Times–bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. Set in Manhattan's garment district, Jerome Weidman's debut novel, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, was a scathing satire of capitalist greed as personified by the shameless scoundrel Harry Bogen. As relevant today as when they were first published in the 1930s, both novels are now available in a...
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Gripping at times, heartrending at others, What We All Long For is an ode to a generation of longing and identity, and to the rhythms and pulses of a city and its burgeoning, questioning youth.
Dionne Brand's multicultural infusion follows the stories of a close circle of twenty-something second-generations living in downtown Toronto-and the secrets they hide from their families.
Tuyen is a lesbian avant-garde artist and the daughter of Vietnamese...
10) Cairo Swan Song
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In the shadows of great wealth, and among Cairo's famous monuments, runs a world of street children. Mustafa, a former student radical who never really believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story through a documentary he is making with his American girlfriend, Marcia.
Alienated from a corrupt and corrupting society, Mustafa watches as the Cairo he cherishes crumbles around him. His former leftist comrades are now all either capitalists...
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Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back. It is the late 1960s in Yorkville, Toronto's hippie ghetto of artists, intellectuals, drunken poets, and would-be rock stars. In this idyllic haven, narrator Bill Hansen, a drummer, meets Thomas Graham, an American musician on the...
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First published in 1921, "A Traveller in Little Things" is a charming travel narrative of the author's various rambles around the beautiful countryside of England. Highly recommended for all lovers of nature writing. William Henry Hudson (1841–1922) was an Argentinian naturalist, author, and ornithologist. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and is best known for his novel "Green Mansions" (1904)....
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Jerome Weidman's enduring classic novel about life in New York's cutthroat garment district Just south of Times Square, more than six thousand manufacturers of dresses are crammed into the few blocks that make up Manhattan's garment district. Their factories are cramped, noisy, and incredibly profitable-and Harry Bogen is going to take them for all they're worth. A classic conniver, he knows that it's easier, and a hell of a lot more fun, to turn...
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Extrait : "De longs chemins de feutre rouge traversent le large trottoir et vont, des voitures nombreuses qui s'arrêtent, à un hall somptueux don’t la perspective lointaine s'aperçoit, des colonnes de marbre soutenant les plafonds à voussures sculptées, des clartés de hautes glaces reflétant les enchanteresses moissonnées de fleurs, qui forment de gais massifs derrière des meubles de jardin Trianon."
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Extrait : "Vous me demandez l'impossible, mon cher Louis ; eh bien ! j'essayerai de le faire. Car, grâce aux Dieux ! nous autres artistes et poètes, nous avons de tout temps répudié la devise égoïste et lâche, et nous avons adopté celle-ce qui est moins commode, mais plus vaillante : A l'impossible tout le monde est tenu !"
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Extrait : "Un soir, la marquise de Gesvres sortit des Italiens, o elle n'avait fait qu'apparaître, et, contre ses habitudes tardives, rentra presque aussitt chez elle. - Tout le temps qu'elle était restée au spectacle, elle avait ou n'avait pas écouté cette musique, amour banal des gens affectés, avec un air passablement ostrogoth, roulée qu'elle était dans un mantelet de velours écarlate doublé de martre zibeline..."
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After being imprisoned and tortured for 72 days because of his writing and political views, a Chinese dissident turned short-story writer makes his way out of China through the mountains, stops in Vietnam for one day, and then ends up in Frankfurt, and later Brooklyn, where he writes short fragments of his life and of the nightmare he has left behind. This is his story, as told by him and those around him.Are we the lucky ones because we have no dreams...
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Chlorophyll's days est un récit de voyage sur un modèle assez classique, très répandu au XVIIIe siècle, et encore en vogue jusque dans les années 1930.
L'auteur relate les divers événements d'un périple à Montréal (Québec) daté de 2019. Son récit s'enrichit de la présence de personnages réels ou ayant existé, connus ou inconnus, dans une réflexion sur la colonisation et les liens qui existent entre le monde ancien et le monde...
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Laissez-vous envahir par l'ambiance nocturne de Buenos Aires, par la musique et le romantisme qui flotte dans l'air...
A l'approche de la nuit, Buenos Aires se prépare.
Pour une nuit de plus ou pour la milonga.
Pour la solitude ou pour un abrazo.
Pour un instant ou une éternité.
Lettre d'amour à une ville, Buenos Aires Fantmes est une balade nocturne o se mêlent des histoires partielles ou approximatives, des héros du quotidien, des fantmes...
20) The Curry Mile
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Broken-hearted Sorayah Butt never thought she'd go back home.Ajmal Butt is thrilled his estranged daughter is coming back. The Press call him the "Curry King" because of his restaurant empire but his flagship restaurant on the Curry Mile totters on the brink of bankruptcy.Ajmal's joy turns to rage when he learns his daughter has returned to attend a wedding. Not just any wedding, but the wedding of his rival's daughter.Sorayah's arrival opens a pandora's...
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