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Cochrane: The Real Master And Commander
by David CordinglyFrom the bestselling author of "Under the Black Flag" comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero who "packed [in] enough drama and history to shame both Horatio Nelson and Sir Francis Drake" (Ken Rignle, Washington Post). In this fascinating account of Thomas Cochrane's extraordinary life, David Cordingly ("Under the Black Flag" and "The Billy Ruffian") unearths startling new details about the real-life "Master and Commander"--from his heroic battles against the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, and the stock exchange scandal that forced him out of England and almost ended his naval career. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, his own travels, wide reading, and original research, Cordingly tells the rip-roaring story of the archetypal Romantic hero who conquered the seas and, in the process, defined his era.
Cochrane: The Fighting Captain
by Robert HarveyThe adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction. In one sense it became so, for the novelist Patrick O'Brian by his own admission used Cochrane as the basis for Jack Aubrey, hero of his much-loved series of naval novels.Cochrane became a household name when in 1800 he took command of the tiny brig, the Speedy, and created mayhem in the Mediterranean earning himself and his crew a fortune in prize money. A wildly contradictory character, never less than heroic, and this lively new account of his life has sold over 7,000 copies in hardback.
Cochrane: The Fighting Captain
by Robert HarveyThe adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction. In one sense it became so, for the novelist Patrick O'Brian by his own admission used Cochrane as the basis for Jack Aubrey, hero of his much-loved series of naval novels.Cochrane became a household name when in 1800 he took command of the tiny brig, the Speedy, and created mayhem in the Mediterranean earning himself and his crew a fortune in prize money. A wildly contradictory character, never less than heroic, and this lively new account of his life has sold over 7,000 copies in hardback.
Cocido y violonchelo
by Mercedes CebriánUn elogio en voz alta de dos de los principales placeres que nos ayudan a sobrellevar nuestro tiempo en la tierra: la música y la comida. Mercedes Cebrián decide aprender a tocar el violonchelo a una edad a la que, al parecer, ya es tarde para ser principiante. Emprende así una curiosa aventura acarreando en la espalda un instrumento poco popular en España que la lleva desde academias de música y orquestas de aficionados hasta talleres de luthiers que huelen a cocido recién hecho. La autora indaga en la naturaleza de la música, a la par que observa con lupa y cáustico sentido del humor un pequeño mundo donde desfilan talentos en ciernes o aficionados que luchan para sacarle buen sonido a sus instrumentos. Y por el camino nos invita a pasear por una Rusia mental idealizada, con sus instrumentistas y gimnastas virtuosas, por el extraño submundo de los niños prodigio expuestos en las redes por sus madres, o por mesones castizos que sirven platos de toda la vida; desde la España postfranquista hasta la pandémica, en la que, para muchos, dedicar horas a desempolvar una vieja afición ha sido vital para mantener la cordura. Cocido y violonchelo es ese recinto amplio y cómodo donde la desmesura y la obsesión por las actividades que nos proporcionan placer son atributos de los que enorgullecerse. Este es, en definitiva, un testimonio perspicaz, erudito y ameno de las ganas irrefrenables de sacarle el jugo a la vida. La crítica ha dicho...«Detecto en pocos párrafos a los escritores que tienen buen oído y buen diente. Me tardo un poco más, páginas, en detectar el buen discernimiento y el dominio del instrumento llamado idioma castellano, pues últimamente la tontería y la incompetencia gramatical, lexical y sintáctica se esconden en frases breves, con hipo. Este libro de Mercedes Cebrián tiene todas las cualidades que me seducen en la buena escritura: buen oído, buen diente, inteligencia y dominio cómodo y natural del instrumento. Se lee como quien escucha una sonata escurrirse mientras paladea una pasta perfecta.» Héctor Abad Faciolince «Frívolo como una suite de Bach y profundo como un cocido en agosto, este tratado autobiográfico de música y gastronomía no es apto para remilgados ni puristas. Para todos los demás es un disfrute.» Sergio del Molino «En un momento de la lectura de este libro he sentido la emoción de estar inmersa en una novela de aventuras: los delicados pasos hacia el encuentro de lo que la mueve a una a existir bien. Suspendamos por un momento la literatura que se revuelca en la angustia existencial, y romanticemos en cambio esta búsqueda del placer y la caricia del alma. Cocido y violonchelo nos ofrece un mullidísimo almohadón desde el que contemplar el recorrido de una pasión y apasionarnos con él, un mueble ergonómico desde el que se escuchan dos melodías que se entrecruzan para formar una sola: las escalas interminables de un violonchelo, tocadas con gusto y empeño, y el suave sorber de una boca sobre el tuétano a la brasa.» Sabina Urraca Sobre su obra anterior se dijo: «La mirada que Mercedes Cebrián dirige al mundo en estas narraciones revela una originalidad insospechada, aquella que se deriva de saber lo que es la literatura y actuar en consecuencia. [...] Un hallazgo.» Juan Ángel Juristo, ABC «Mercedes Cebrián es como una Georges Perec con faldas, como una Rodrigo Fresán menos caudalosa, como una Felisberto Hernández igualmente interesada por lo inquietante y apenas un poco menos chiflada o como una César Aira que no hubiese renunciado a perder el control de lo que narra, pero su voz es rigurosamente personal.» Patricio Pron, Elboomeran.com
El cocinero tenaz: Si te lo propones, lo consigues
by Jordi CruzLos ingredientes que componen el éxito de Jordi Cruz, uno de los cocineros más innovadores y populares del momento. En un mundo tan competitivo como el de la cocina, Jordi Cruz destaca como un perfil de éxito que trasciende a los fogones y se transforma en el de una persona tremendamente joven que en pocos años ha conseguido varias estrellas Michelin, creando un estilo único como cocinero y comunicador. ¿Qué se esconde detrás de este éxito? Jordi Cruz nos explica en El cocinero tenaz cómo descubrió su vocación por el oficio de cocinero cuando apenas tenía 7 años, cómo enfocó su formación, en la que destaca el aprender haciendo, y la estrategia que le ha llevado a convertirse en uno de los cocineros más admirados en España. Jordi también nos introduce en su filosofía para encarar la innovación y la creatividad y los secretos para mantener un equipo motivado y fiel. Este libro desvelará que detrás del éxito de Jordi Cruz se encuentra una tenacidad incansable y un compromiso con su oficio, unidos a una ambición por hacer siempre algo nuevo, a partir de la tradición. la cocina de jordi cruz; libro de cocina de jordi cruz; master chef; cocina innovadora y creativa; manual de cocina; los mejores libros de cocina; aprender a cocinar; biografia de jordi cruz; estrellas michelin;
Cockeyed: A Memoir
by Ryan KnightonThis memoir chronicles Knighton's struggle to cope with his blindness. While preferring to pretend to be sighted, he has many misadventures. Sometimes we laugh; sometimes we cry; always we cheer him on and hope that he will reach a point of acceptance and competence.
Cockeyed
by Ryan KnightonThis irreverent, tragicomic, politically incorrect, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind?and growing up?illuminates not just the author's reality, but the reader's.
Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Summers with Pauline
by Darla WordenThe story of Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer during six summers from 1928 through 1939—each showing Hemingway at a different place in his writing as well as a different stage of their marriage.In March 1928, after the phenomenal success of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway returned to the United States with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer—the stylish Vogue editor and scorned "other woman" who would give up everything to be with him and, in the end, lose it all. The couple fled Paris in the wake of the huge gossip storm about the American author's affair and abandonment of his wife and son. Escaping to Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains to write while Pauline recovered from the birth of their first child, he finished A Farewell to Arms and fell in love with the land around him. Pauline soon joined him in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole.In Cockeyed Happy Darla Worden tells the little-known story of Hemingway and Pauline during six summers from 1928 to 1939—from smitten newlywed to bored, restless husband and ultimately to philanderer as he falls in love with another woman once again.
Cockpit Commander: The Autobiography of Wing Commander Bruce Gibson
by Bruce GibsonPreviously self-published by the author, this book charts the course of a dramatic career as a Wing Commander. Living through one of the most dynamic periods in military and Aviation development history, Bruce Gibson saw events play out from his elevated aerial position. His fascinating story will appeal to a wide audience, focussing as it does not only upon Aviation concerns. From life as a mischievous child living in the East End of London, to realising his true direction and joining the RAF Air Volunteer Reserves in 1937, and then the Royal Air Force, and beyond into Aviation ventures in a Civilian capacity. His amusing observations and anecdotes provide the most colourful insight into life during the monochromatic blackout years of World War II, and beyond.Many historical records and operational logs are available on the market to those looking for cold facts and statistical analyses of events; this account features the human tales, the anecdotes and spirit of camaraderie which characterised Gibson's experiences.
Cockroaches
by Jordan Stump Scholastique MukasongaImagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda--the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bitterwsweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance, and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window onto an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra FullerA story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is an intimate exploration of Fuller's parents and of the price of being possessed by Africa's uncompromising, fertile, death-dealing land. We follow Tim and Nicola Fuller hopscotching the continent, restlessly trying to establish a home. War, hardship, and tragedy follow the family even as Nicola fights to hold on to her children, her land, her sanity. But just when it seems that Nicola has been broken by the continent she loves, it is the African earth that revives and nurtures her. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Fuller at her very best.
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra FullerCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned. They had everything, including two golden children - a girl and a boy. However, life became increasingly difficult and they moved to Rhodesia to work as farm managers. The previous farm manager had committed suicide. His ghost appeared at the foot of their bed and seemed to be trying to warn them of something. Shortly after this, one of their golden children died. Africa was no longer the playground of Nicola's childhood. They returned to England where the author was born before they returned to Rhodesia and to the civil war. The last part of the book sees the Fullers in their old age on a banana and fish farm in the Zambezi Valley. They had built their ramshackle dining room under the Tree of Forgetfulness. In local custom, this tree is the meeting place for villagers determined to resolve disputes. It is in the spirit of this Forgetfulness that Nicola finally forgot - but did not forgive - all her enemies including her daughter and the Apostle, a squatter who has taken up in her bananas with his seven wives and forty-nine children. Funny, tragic, terrifying, exotic and utterly unself-conscious, this is a story of survival and madness, love and war, passion and compassion.
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra FullerSelected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and to her unforgettable family. At the heart of this family, and central to the lifeblood of her latest story, is Fuller’s iconically courageous mother, Nicola (or, Nicola Fuller of Central Africa, as she sometimes prefers to be known). Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye to a warlike clan of highlanders and raised in Kenya's perfect equatorial light, Nicola holds dear the values most likely to get you hurt or killed in Africa: loyalty to blood, passion for land, and a holy belief in the restorative power of all animals. With a lifetime of admiration behind her and after years of interviews and research, Fuller has recaptured her mother's inimitable voice with remarkable precision. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is as funny, exotic, terrifying and unselfconscious as Nicola herself. We see Nicola as an irrepressible child in western Kenya, then with the man who fell in love with her, Tim Fuller. The young couple begin their life in a lavender colored honeymoon period, when east Africa lies before them with all the promise of its liquid honeyed light, even as the British empire in which they both once believed wanes. But in short order, an accumulation of mishaps and tragedies bump up against history until the Fullers find themselves in a world they hardly recognize. We follow Tim and Nicola as they hopscotch the continent, restlessly trying to establish a home, from Kenya to Rhodesia to Zambia, even returning to England briefly. War, hardship and tragedy seem to follow the family even as Nicola fights to hold onto her children, her land, her sanity. But just when it seems that Nicola has been broken by the continent she loves, it is the African earth - and Tim's acceptance of her love for this earth - that revives and nurtures her. A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is an intimate exploration of the author’s family and of the price of being possessed by this uncompromising, fertile, death-dealing land. In the end we find Nicola and Tim at a table under their Tree of Forgetfulness in the Zambezi Valley on the banana and fish farm where they plan to spend their final days. In local custom, the Tree of Forgetfulness is where villagers meet to resolve disputes and it is here that the family at last find an African kind of peace. Following the ghosts and dreams of memory, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller at her very best. .
Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun
by Paul FeigElegant man-about-town and the director of Bridesmaids, Spy, and A Simple Favor Paul Feig serves up a beautifully designed cocktail and lifestyle guide with hilarious stories from his life.Famed TV and film writer, director, and producer Paul Feig is obsessed with cocktails and cocktail culture. It’s about having great conversations with friends. It’s about putting on your best clothes and throwing a smart gathering or heading to your favorite bar and having an interesting chat with the bartender. And it’s about staying home, mixing a drink and sipping it in a beautiful glass as you watch a great old movie by yourself.Paul has made an art and a science out of creating these elegant and festive environments and living his best life, whether at home in LA or New York or London or on location around the world, and it’s all here in Cocktail Time!—how to make the drinks, how to throw the parties, what music to play, what glassware you need and more, along with 125 cocktail recipes, each served along with funny insider stories about Paul’s Hollywood life and famous friends.Cocktail Time! covers everything, from classics (and variations on them) like martinis, negronis, and hot toddies to original concoctions such as “The Feigtini” and holiday cocktails, as well as recipes from film and TV industry friends, such as the Charlize Theron Gibson, the Very Cherry Kerry (Washington), the (Angela) Kinsey Gin Fizz, Henry (Golding)’s Honey Plum G&T, and The Five (Michelle) Yeoh-Larm Fire.Cocktail Time! is a love letter to the aesthetics and culture around cocktails. It’s guaranteed to make you want to up your party-giving game—or at least your home bar situation. And it’s an immensely charming and readable window into one man’s friendly obsession.
Coco at the Ritz: A Novel
by Gioia DilibertoA riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II.Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France. Many of the facts are lost to history, partly through Chanel's own obfuscation, but this much is known: the charges grew out of her war-time romance with a German spy, and one morning two soldiers from the French Forces of the Interior—the loose band of Resistance fighters, soldiers and private citizens who took up arms in the wake of the Liberation of Paris—led Chanel from her suite at the Ritz Hotel in Paris to an undisclosed location for questioning. What transpired during her interrogation, who was present, and why she was set free when so many other women who&’d been involved with German men (willingly or otherwise) had their heads shaved or were imprisoned, remains a mystery. In this brilliantly insightful and compulsively readable novel from the author of I am Madame X, Gioia Diliberto explores the motivations of this complex woman and portrays the gripping battle of wits that could have been her interrogation. Was Chanel truly a collaborator? Though the Occupation of France offered a stark contrast between good and evil, few people are wholly heroes or villains in wartime. Most citizens, as the writer André Gide noted, were like old shoes floating in murky waters: battered and torn, riding the turbulent flow, just trying to survive. By turns raw and vulnerable, steely and flawed, Chanel emerges from these pages as a woman who owns her decisions, no matter the consequences. Rich with history and filled with emotional truths, Coco at the Ritz is a story about the choices one woman made when the stakes were the highest. In today&’s world, it is a cautionary tale about the necessity of standing against evil when it stares you in the face.
Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life
by Lisa ChaneyThe controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon. Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential designer. Her extraordinary and unconventional journey-from abject poverty to a new kind of glamour- helped forge the idea of modern woman.Unearthing an astonishing life, this remarkable biography shows how, more than any previous designer, Chanel became synonymous with a rebellious and progressive style. Her numerous liaisons, whose poignant and tragic details have eluded all previous biographers, were the very stuff of legend. Witty and mesmerizing, she became muse, patron, or mistress to the century's most celebrated artists, including Picasso, Dalí, and Stravinsky.Drawing on newly discovered love letters and other records, Chaney's controversial book reveals the truth about Chanel's drug habit and lesbian affairs. And the question about Chanel's German lover during World War II (was he a spy for the Nazis?) is definitively answered.While uniquely highlighting the designer's far-reaching influence on the modern arts, Chaney's fascinating biography paints a deeper and darker picture of Coco Chanel than any so far. Movingly, it explores the origins, the creative power, and the secret suffering of this exceptional and often misread woman.
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
by Justine PicardieFilled with fresh new research and never-before-seen photos, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture.Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, bestselling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time. But she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture; and what lies beneath her own glossy surface is darker, more mysterious, and far more intriguing.Uncovering remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel’s humble early years, Justine Picardie picks up the legend Chanel where it began—in orphanhood and poverty. Throwing new light on her passionate and, at times, dark relationships and providing profound insights into her connections with Cocteau, Diaghilev, Picasso, and Dali, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at what made Coco Chanel the strong-spirited and powerful presence she became. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel’s last surviving friends, employees, and relatives, the book also unravels her coded language and symbols and tracks the influence of her formative years on her legendary style.Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 87, but her legacy lives on. This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the world’s greatest designer. Adding fresh new insights and discoveries, it comes complete with a compelling array of previously unseen images from the Chanel archives.
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
by Justine PicardieFilled with fresh new research and never-before-seen photos, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture.Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, bestselling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time. But she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture; and what lies beneath her own glossy surface is darker, more mysterious, and far more intriguing.Uncovering remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel’s humble early years, Justine Picardie picks up the legend Chanel where it began—in orphanhood and poverty. Throwing new light on her passionate and, at times, dark relationships and providing profound insights into her connections with Cocteau, Diaghilev, Picasso, and Dali, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at what made Coco Chanel the strong-spirited and powerful presence she became. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel’s last surviving friends, employees, and relatives, the book also unravels her coded language and symbols and tracks the influence of her formative years on her legendary style.Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 87, but her legacy lives on. This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the world’s greatest designer. Adding fresh new insights and discoveries, it comes complete with a compelling array of previously unseen images from the Chanel archives.
Coco Chanel: Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress
by Susan Goldman Rubin&“An intriguing, well-rounded portrait of a fascinating woman whose many important contributions to art and fashion remain popular today.&” —Kirkus Reviews Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco&’s development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were expected to marry; as well as her fierce competition with the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli; and some of her most memorable firsts for the fashion industry, including the little black dress, the quilted purse with gold chain, and the perfume Chanel No. 5. The book includes a bibliography, a list of where to see her work, and an index.&“Rubin&’s biography is clear-sighted about Chanel&’s faults while extolling her fashion genius. Her source notes and bibliography are meticulous, as is the book&’s design . . . This will attract young fashion mavens eager to learn about design history.&” —Booklist&“Rubin expertly chronicles Chanel&’s life in this biography . . . Rubin captures the authenticity of Chanel alongside her psychological need to portray a luxurious lifestyle.&” —VOYA&“A well-researched primer packed with details on a significant trailblazer.&” —School Library Journal&“Well-designed biography of a fascinating woman.&” —School Library Connection&“A succinct, balanced portrayal of controversial haute couturière Gabrielle &‘Coco&’ Chanel.&” —Publishers Weekly
Coco Gauff: Tennis Champion (Sports Illustrated Kids Stars of Sports)
by Matt ChandlerCoco Gauff won the Junior title at the 2018 French Open when she was just 13 years old. She is a fan-favorite on the pro-tennis circuit, going so far as to beat her idol, Venus Williams. Find out how Gauff went from initially not liking the sport to becoming a teenage tennis legend. Learn how passion, hard work, and the support of her family took her to the top.
Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper
by Tom Quinn Kathleen CliffordKathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was only really one option once school was over - a life in service. <P><P>She started work on 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer's family. Here she heard tales of the Earl's propensity for setting fire to himself, as well as enjoying the servant's gossip about who was sleeping with whom. <P> The Spencers were just the first in a line of eccentric families for whom she worked during a career that lasted more than thirty years and took her from a London palace to remote medieval estates. But despite long hours, amorous butlers and mad employers, Kathleen always kept her sense of humour and knew how to have fun.
Cocoa the Tour Dog: A Children's Picture Book
by Adam Mansbach Stick Figure#1 best-selling reggae artist Stick Figure (Scott Woodruff) and #1 New York Times best-selling author Adam Mansbach team up for a sweet, funny children's picture book about a real-life rescue dog turned worldwide icon Cocoa the Tour Dog is the saga of an Australian shepherd who meets her soul mate: a struggling musician, Scott, with dreams of spreading love on stages across the globe. When Scott's work starts to pay off, Cocoa wanders onstage herself and finds sudden fame—and the two of them embark on an adventure that takes them around the world playing music, delighting fans, and ignoring leash laws. But as the pace of life quickens, Cocoa begins to feel worn out—she misses the simpler times, and she's no longer seeing the world with puppy eyes. Luckily, Scott has just the thing to restore Cocoa's sense of wonder: a little sister dog. The two of them set off on an adventure to add Molly to the family, and soon Cocoa is teaching the puppy all about life on the road . . . and even how to take it to the stage.
Cocodrilo: Varado en un puerto de narcos
by David VannEl tremendo calvario vivido por el escritor David Vann en un puerto mexicano, núcleo del narcotráfico, mientras intenta rescatar su velero averiado. Un cambio de registro del autor de Sukkwand Island. Antes de triunfar como novelista, David Vann organizaba cruceros y chárteres educativos a bordo de su velero. En una de estas travesías su navío, averiado, quedó varado en Puerto Madero, un enclave dejado de la mano de Dios, centro del narcotráfico mexicano y territorio de prostitutas y policías corruptos. El increíble calvario que vivió el autor para intentar rescatar su barco hacen de estas memorias un thriller de alto voltaje. A lo largo de varias semanas de parada obligada, David Vann debe lidiar con un grupo de piratas que asaltan la embarcación, un extravagante intérprete local, un fastidioso y arrogante capitán de puerto, un capo que sueña con la Isla de Pascua, una seductora joven que juega a volverle loco y un trío de prostitutas, persuasivas como sirenas, que, junto a varios niños limosneros y algún pescador borracho, visitan a diario el velero varado. Vann, al que todos los lugareños conocen ya como el «Cajero Automático», subestima de lo que este lugar es capaz, llegando a poner varias veces su vida en peligro. Cuando finalmente se encuentra tumbado en el suelo con una pistola apuntándole a la cara se ve obligado a tomar una decisión definitiva. La crítica ha dicho...«Como Melville, Faulkner y McCarthy, Vann ya es uno de los grandes escritores americanos.»ABC «En Vann hay algo que lo aproxima a la estirpe melvilliana de la novela americana contemporánea que señaló Harold Bloom.»El País «Leer a David Vann representa, por así decirlo, un calvario fascinante, que nos oprime por las dificultades del acto en sí.»Que Leer «Uno de los mejores escritores de su generación.»Le Figaro «Vann es un agitador de almas a la intemperie.»Leer «Para leer y releer [...].Vann es un hombre que hay que seguir de cerca.»The Economist «Un grandísimo escritor.»The Irish Sunday Independent «Sigue el rastro del mismo territorio salvaje de Joseph Conrad y Cormac McCarthy: la violencia y la perversidad en las entrañas de lo que llamamos naturaleza humana, el salvajismo animal que forma parte de nuestra primera herencia.»The Observer
Coconut Chaos: Pitcairn, Mutiny And A Seduction At Sea
by Diana SouhamiAt dawn on 27 April 1789 Fletcher Christian, master's mate on HMS Bounty, took a coconut to quench his thirst from the supply on the quarterdeck. This seemingly insignificant act resulted in mutiny, chaos and a chain of events that leads right up to the present day. With a story driven by hazardous and extraordinary sea voyages and a cast that includes the Bounty mutineers, an eccentric lesbian aristocrat, Pitcairn Island sex offenders and the narrator's ancient mother, this sparkling and original book weaves together fact and fiction, history and autobiography, humour and danger in inimitable style.
The Coconut Comes in Due Season
by David HurdIn his memoir, David Hurd tells us of his adventures in Kenya in the 1960s and 1970s. His travels and work in the coast lead him to many adventures, from kidnappings to wild encounters with animals and even ghosts. Hurd becomes a fisherman and settles on what his friends christen "Robinson Island". He later builds a restaurant on it and goes through tough experiences to ensure its success. It is a story of a man in search of new beginnings and his willingness to try anything the great world has to offer him.