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Une année chez les Français

1970, un an après les premiers pas de l'homme sur la Lune, Mehdi fait sa rentrée au lycée Lyautey. C'est flanqué d'une petite valise et de deux dindons qu'il arrive désemparé au prestigieux lycée français de Casablanca. Pour le jeune garçon avide de savoir, le décalage est rude entre s...

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A life almost perfect

A young woman stands on the verge of a heartbreaking decision. Her husband—the man who helped her heal the wounds of a toxic relationship— has been in a coma for over a year. The doctors offer no hope, urging her to authorize the removal of life support. But how do you say goodbye to someone who...

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Susan Rubin Suleiman

The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France

A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. But...

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Joachim de Posada

No te comas el marshmallow...todavía: El secreto para conquistar las recompensas mas dulces de lavida (Spanish Edition)

BESTSELLER INTERNACIONAL ¿Qué separa a los futuros triunfadores de los demás? Una simple decisión que cambió sus vidas… Arthur es un chofer que puede completar el crucigrama del New York Times en treinta minutos, analizar la economía de América Latina en media hora y calcular mentalm...

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The Amos Oz Reader: Celebrated Novels and Masterpiece Nonfiction from a Literary Life

The Reader draws on Oz’s entire body of work, loosely grouped into four themes: the kibbutz, the city of Jerusalem, the idea of a "promised land," and his own life story. Included are excerpts from his celebrated novels, among them Where the Jackals Howl, A Perfect Peace, My Michael, Fima, Blac...

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Fima: A Witty, Poignant Literary Novel About Israeli Life and Dreams in Jerusalem

“Astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating.” — The New Yorker Fima lives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought to be somewhere else. In his life he has had secret love affairs, good ideas, and written a book of poems that aroused expectations. He has thought about the purpose of the universe an...

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Zygmunt G. Baranski

The New Italian Novel (Toronto Italian Studies)

Three names dominate the Italian novel in the English-speaking world - Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Umberto Eco. Yet since the late 1960's there have been many more important Italian writers whose work remains unknown outside Italy. This ground-breaking book brings their writings to a wider audien...

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Hastings Donnan

Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State

Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities while adapting to new ideas and experiences knows that borders provide particularly revealing windows ...

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Correspondences: A poem and portraits

A rare and beautifully produced "accordion" book by renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a stir for both its form and its content. Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem--which unfolds on one side of the pages of this accord...

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Emiliano Forino Procacci

La leggenda degli scrittori straordinari (Italian Edition)

Le luogotenenze elementali sono in pericolo e potranno essere salvate solo grazie alle Penne di Luce e ai quattro scrittori straordinari, ognuno dotato del potere di far materializzare quanto scrive. Fantastiche battaglie, luoghi incontaminati, colpi di scena, il tutto mescolato abilmente in una tra...

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Don't Call It Night: A New York Times Notable Literary Book Set in Israel – Middle Eastern Desert Drama (Harvest in Translation)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “A rich symphony of humanity . . . If Oz’s eye for detail is enviable, it is his magnanimity which raises him to the first rank of world authors.” — Sunday Telegraph (UK) At Tel-Kedar, a settlement in the Negev desert, the longtime love affair...

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Impossible Odds (The Five Families)

"This book was full of twists and turns and I loved the hell out of it!" -Abstract Books Giada He was a vision of power and privilege. Ruthless arrogance personified. A total stranger and an irresistible challenge. I approached him in a busy casino and felt the sting of his brutal rejection. The...

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Christopher Paolini

Brisingr (Spanish Edition) (CICLO INHERITANCE / INHERITANCE CYCLE)

¡No te pierdas la tercera entrega de esta épica fantasía de Christopher Paolini—Brisingr! Eragon y su dragona Saphira han conseguido escapar con vida después de la colosal batalla contra los guerreros imperiales... Una vida que Eragon sabe sujeta a la fuerza de las promesas sin cumplir. ...

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