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10863) Un ragazzo normale
Author
Series
Publisher
Feltrinelli
Pub. Date
febbraio 2018.
Language
Italiano
10864) Synovʹi︠a︡ Anansi
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"Charlie Nancy leads a normal, boring existence in London. However, when he calls the U.S. to invite his estranged father to his wedding, he learns that the man just died. After jetting off to Florida for the funeral, Charlie not only discovers a brother he didn't know he had, but also learns that his father was the West African trickster god, Anansi. Charlie's brother, who possesses his own magical powers, later visits him at home and spins Charlie's...
10865) Su último día
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La nueva novela de suspenso nacional del autor más vendido del New York Times de The Couple Next Door y Someone We Know In Upstate New York, Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando a la vida con sus bebés gemelos con cólicos. Las niñas son un puñado, pero a Stephanie no le importa ser una ama de casa, cuidándolas mientras Patrick hace de nueve a cinco para pagar las cuentas. Cuando una mujer del pasado de Patrick se les acerca inesperadamente,...
Author
Publisher
Ablaze
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this graphic novel edition of The Fall of the House of Usher, Raul Garcia adapts his animated short. A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher...
10868) Shadows in the valley: a cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Suzanne Farrell Smith's father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two--and only those two--events from her first nearly twelve years of life. While her three older sisters hold on to rich and rewarding memories of their father, Smith recalls nothing of him. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate...
10870) Annie Lowe: song and chorus
Author
Publisher
Published by William Hall & Son, 239 Broadway
Pub. Date
[1853].
Language
English
10871) Smiler's bones
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In 1897, Robert Peary took six Eskimos from their homes and "presented" them to the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a living exhibit. Two of them were father and son: Qisuk ("Smiler") and Minik. This is Minik's story. In 1897, famed explorer Robert Peary took six Eskimos from their homes in Greenland to be "presented" to the American Museum of Natural History. Among the six were a father and a son. Soon, four were dead, including...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B México, S.A. de C.V
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Español
Description
In Parral, the town where Pancho Villa was killed, Doroteo Rosas is given fragments of the general's diary by a mysterious woman, and investigates legends that the ghost of the men who killed him continue to kill people in the alley where he died.
10875) Years of the elephant
Author
Publisher
Ponent Mon
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Charles is a man in his fifties, married to Simone with a regular job and his only child, Jack, is the apple of his eye. Then one day the Police come to their door with terrible news-- Jack has killed himself by jumping off the roof."--Cover flap
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
This videodisc focuses on Mumia Abu-Jamal's prolific career in journalism from his early days a writer for the Black Panther newspaper and reporter for NPR, to his radio broadcasts from prison after being incarcerated and placed on death row.
Author
Publisher
Bayview Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The book is a follow up to the bestselling book, "The Simulation Hypothesis", by the same author, about the idea that we live inside a video game world (like the Matrix). This book is about the idea that we live inside one of multiple simulations - borrowing ideas from science fiction, quantum mechanics, computer science, video games and religion to explain the multiverse. It is about timelines and how the universe may be spawning off multiple timelines;...
Author
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism. It offers a reassessment of Anglo-American modernist literature through the lens of the Great War, specifically women's writing.
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