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And Yesterday Is Gone
by Dolores DurandoAn epic coming-of-age novel about the bonds and history between two men that intertwine their families together--for better and for worse.Steve is a seventeen-year-old runaway when he meets, Juan, the son of a fugitive drug lord. The two work together, deep in the Calaveras Mountains of California, on a large marijuana-growing operation run by Juan's father. Their friendship is fueled by the brutal conditions and horrific events that define their day-to-day lives. The utter loneliness of their world creates a lasting bond, and the boys finally escape. Steve knows the two will be friends for life; Juan hopes they will be something more. When they grow to manhood, Juan's love for Steve endures. Steve marries, has children, and fulfills his dream of becoming a journalist for San Francisco's leading newspaper. Juan becomes a famous artist who loves Steve's son as though the boy was his own, confessing to Steve that, "He is the only part of you that I can ever claim." By turns heartbreaking, emotional, and provocative, And Yesterday Is Gone is a must-read novel about the changes--unexpected, unacceptable, and life-threatening--that can alter our lives over the decades.
And Yet: Poems
by Kate BaerI will love and be loved. Save and be saveda thousand times. I will let the want intomy body, bless the heat under my skin.My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.From Kate Baer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, comes her much anticipated second full-length traditional poetry collection, And Yet.And Yet dives even deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of Kate's writing: motherhood, friendship, love, and loss. Taken together, these poems demonstrate the remarkable evolution of a writer and an artist working at the height of her craft, pushing herself and her poetry in a beautiful and impressive way.In this collection, Kate offers much needed inspiration to find the joy, and the hope, in all of life's mess and miracles.
And Yet: A Sunday Times Bestseller
by Christopher HitchensAnd Yet... gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times.Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any publication of a volume of Hitchens' essays was a major event on both sides of the Atlantic. Now comes the last of the last; a volume of Hitchens' previously uncollected essays, covering the themes that define Hitchens the thinker: literature, religion and politics. These essays remind us, once more, of the fierce, brilliant and trenchant voice of Christopher Hitchens.
And Yet...: Essays
by Christopher HitchensThe seminal, uncollected essays—lauded as “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review)—by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.For more than forty years, Christopher Hitchens delivered essays to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. His death in December 2011 from esophageal cancer prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary voices—writers, readers, pundits and critics the world over mourned his loss. At the time of his death, Hitchens left nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. “Another great book of essays from a writer who we wish were still alive to produce more copy” (National Review), And Yet… ranges from the literary to the political and is a banquet of entertaining and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov, Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, and Dickens, among others, as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking “makeover.” The range and quality of Hitchens’s essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written, yielding “a bounty of famous scalps, thunder-blasted targets, and a few love letters from the notorious provocateur-in-chief’s erudite and scathing assessments of American culture” (Vanity Fair). Often prescient, always pugnacious, formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. With this posthumous volume, he remains, “America’s foremost rhetorical pugilist” (The Village Voice).
And Yet: Poems
by John StefflerA former Poet Laureate of Canada and finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize returns with a wide-ranging new collection of poems.In John Steffler's luminous new collection, And Yet, dreams, memory and desire are forms of wilderness that burst into our daily lives, inspiring us to see ourselves and the world anew. Exuberant, powerful, even prescient, the poems confront the unknown and unexpected around and within us and call up our impulse to resist certainty and finality. The flimsiest shelter might seem best; a trail guide's house is revealed as a forest beyond names. What is outside might be most desired; a suit of clothes gazing into a mirror longs to become an iguana. In the title poem, a road-weary traveller comes in sight of the longed-for home--yet at the last minute turns away. Restless in their own language, the poems muster the impact of direct sensory experience and remind us what it means to live closer to the physical world. At times their attenuated forms acquire the anxious beauty of Giacometti sculptures. Our capacity for surprising change, these poems suggest, is both a cause for caution and a reason to hope that we can reinvent ourselves and transform our destructive technological culture.
And Yet It Moves (Break Away Book Club Edition)
by Erin StalcupIn this debut fantasy collection &“science, physics, and electricity . . . are the background for short stories of startling human disconnection and alienation&” (ForeWord Reviews). This &“engaging collection . . . takes on the love and loneliness lurking in the bright lights and shadowed corners of the everyday&” (Kirkus Reviews). In these pages, a taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity; Albert Einstein writes letters to the daughter he abandoned; and a female physicist meets Stephen Hawking in a bar. In the closing novella, All Those Stairs, an elevator operator with a genius IQ rides up and down all day enclosed in a metal box. Author Erin Stalcup explores these lives with compassion, depth, and insight as she examines loss and longing and how our bodies and minds can be both weighted and freed. And Yet It Moves is a powerful combination of both absurdist and realist fiction. &“Simply put: these stories defy gravity&” (Zachary Tyler Vickers, author of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!). A 2016 ForeWord Indies Finalist.
And Yet They Were Happy
by Helen Phillips"Brilliant miniatures. . . . Like the fables of Calvino, Millhauser, or W.S. Merwin. . . . Beautifully blends short story and prose poem. . . . Mermaids, subways, floods, cucumbers, magicians. . . .The book is a gallery of marvels. Phillips guides us through the 'Hall of Nostalgia For Things We Have Never Seen,' 'the factory where the virgins are made,' and 'the Anne Frank School for Expectant Mothers.' A depressed Noah admits he 'didn't get them all,' a wife guesses which of two identical men is her husband, a regime orders citizens to grow raspberries on windowsills. [Helen Phillips'] quietly elegant sentences are as clear as spring water, haunting as our own childhood memories."-Michael Dirda"A deeply interesting mind is at work in these wry, lyrical stories. Phillips exploits the duality of our nature to create a timeless and most engaging collection."-Amy Hempel"Haunted and lyrical and edible all at once."-Rivka GalchenA young couple sets out to build a life together in an unstable world haunted by monsters, plagued by disasters, full of longing-but also one of transformation, wonder, and delight, peopled by the likes of Noah, Bob Dylan, the Virgin Mary, and Anne Frank. Hovering between reality and fantasy, whimsy and darkness, these linked fables describe a universe both surreal and familiar.Helen Phillips received a 2009 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, 2009 Meridian Editors' Prize, and 2008 Italo Calvino Fabulist Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and two anthologies. She holds degrees from Yale University and Brooklyn College, and teaches creative writing at Brooklyn College.
And You Call Yourself A Christian (Still Divas Series #1)
by E. N. JoyOut of all the divas at New Day Temple of Faith, Unique has to be the most colorful one--she and her mother Lorain, that is. Never one to hold her tongue in the name of keepin' it real, it's no surprise that Unique has not been saved all her life. It's safe to say that Lorain wasn't born on the church pew either. Let the church folk tell it, the apple hasn't fallen too far from the tree when it comes to Unique. Lorain--once known as the tight skirt, V-neck blouse, too much makeup-wearing leader of the New Day Singles Ministry--claims she's there to look out for her daughter and try to keep her in check. But how in the world does Lorain think she can even begin to keep her daughter on the straight and narrow with her own crooked life?Some might say Lorain has failed miserably as a mother when Unique ends up in jail for three counts of murder. One who would agree is the woman who raised Unique while Lorain was out living her life freely. As an all-out war takes place between Unique's birth mother and the woman who raised her, will Unique have any support while she fights for her life behind bars? Will all forsake her while they are too busy with their own agendas? Only God holds the answer to this one.
And You Invited Me In
by Cheryl Moss TylerWhen Alex Marshall left his stifling small town behind, he felt freedom for the first time in his life. Rejected by his conservative Christian hometown for his homosexuality, Alex becomes a successful lawyer, active in the gay community and committed to his partner, Scott. But tragedy strikes in the form of AIDS, as it rips away Alex's dignity and crushes his body. He is near the end of his life. Annie Whitley, Alex's sister, is faced with a difficult choice when a call from Alex comes out of the blue. Should she travel to care for her estranged brother -- who represents the lifestyle she's been taught to hate and fear -- or stay away, deny him, and follow what the town demands? Choosing Alex, she begins to see how her decision impacts the entire community. And You Invited Me In addresses the moral dilemma that many face: how can people accept or even tolerate a way of life so different from anything they have been taught to believe is acceptable? This interwoven tale speaks of love, compassion, and true belief, as a family reconciles and a town comes to understand the truth of its faith, and is resonant with the hymn of equality. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. -- Matthew 25:35
And Your Enemies Closer: A heart-stopping crime thriller (Thirty Miles Trilogy #Vol. 2)
by Rob ParkerWhen gangs in Liverpool and Manchester go to war, a former police detective is caught in the crossfire, in this gripping new novel by the author of Far from the Tree. A deal has gone tragically wrong, and now two major organised crime factions are battling, sending shockwaves through the community. Meanwhile, six months after Det. Brendan Foley&’s resignation, his life is in shambles: his marriage is a mess, he&’s working as a nightclub bouncer, and his brother is still missing. After searching for the crime family that destroyed his life—Brendan has found them—and they are firmly in his sights. While his onetime partner DI Iona Madison is investigating a possible crime after a body was pulled from the River Mersey, Brendan is feeds her information whether she likes it or not, and his unsanctioned activities prove problematic. To make matters worse, there is now a price on his head. A million pounds, dead or alive . . . Can Brendan seek the revenge he craves and keep his life intact before anyone else gets hurt?Praise for Far from the Tree &“Gritty, gripping, fresh and authentic.&” —Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award–winning author of UNSUB
The Andalite Chronicles (Animorphs)
by K. A. ApplegateElfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul is an Andalite war prince--the one who gave the Animorphs the power to morph. "The Andalite Chronicles" is the story of how this warrior-cadet ended up on planet Earth Ages 9-12. Pub: 12/97.
The Andalite's Gift (Animorphs Megamorphs #1)
by K. A. ApplegateWe never should have done it. But we needed a break, time off from the superhero stuff, a chance to act like normal kids. But now Rachel is missing and something's after us...
The Andalite's Gift (Animorphs Megamorphs #1)
by K. A. ApplegateWe never should have done it. But we needed a break. Some time off from the superhero stuff. A chance to act like normal kids. Well - as normal as four kids who can morph into animals, a boy trapped in a hawk's body, and a bright blue alien can be. Everything should have been cool.Now Rachel is missing. And there's this... this thing that's after us. But it's not up to me to tell the whole story. Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Ax were there, too. Even Rachel has some info to add. So go ahead and check this out. And remember not to tell anyone what we're about to tell you. It could mean the difference between life and death. Or worse...
The Andalucian Friend
by Alexander SoderbergSophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date...Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs...Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly obsession...All of their paths will collide in this turbo-charged, action-packed, highly sophisticated debut thriller that will set the world on fire.Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date...Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs...Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly obsession...All of their paths will collide in this turbo-charged, action-packed, highly sophisticated debut thriller that will set the world on fire.
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition: The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
by Sarah J. PearceBeginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among Andalusi elites exiled in the south of France after 1148. S. J. Pearce sets this letter into broader context and reads it as a document of literary practice and intellectual values. She reveals how ibn Tibbon, as a translator of philosophical and religious texts, explains how his son should make his way in the family business and how to operate, textually, within Arabic literary models even when writing for a non-Arabic audience. While the letter is also full of personal criticism and admonitions, Pearce shows ibn Tibbon making a powerful argument in favor of the continuation of Arabic as a prestige language for Andalusi Jewish readers and writers, even in exile outside of the Islamic world.
Andalusia Forest: The Curse at Torrens Falls
by Mary Ann PollWelcome to Andalusia Forest, a theme park that once bustled with excitement but now lies abandoned, steeped in mysterious legends and tales of hauntings. This once-beloved destination is still imbued with a captivating allure, a magnet for both treasure seekers and the curious. In this intriguing setting, a tenacious ghost hunter, Chloe Melbourne, teams up with the adventurous Iconoclast trio of Kat, Ken, and Bart. What starts as a straightforward mission to locate a missing friend quickly becomes an exploration of the forest's deeper secrets. No longer home to the whimsical creatures that once danced in the minds of its audience, Andalusia Forest reveals chilling truths hidden in its shadows. Why not embark on this exciting journey? The gates are open for those willing to venture into the unknown. You're invited to discover the enigmatic entities that inhabit these haunting woods. With a balanced blend of whimsy and reality, the tale of Andalusia Forest offers a thrilling yet measured experience. So, take a bold step, and let the answers reveal themselves through your exploration. Andalusia Forest awaits. Will you heed the call?
Andaluso a Gerusalemme
by Mois Benarroch Erica MeleViaggio pieno di umorismo di uno scrittore spagnolo per le strade di Gerusalemme Uno scrittore di Madrid, nato a Lucena, arriva a un festival di scrittori a Gerusalemme, attraverso un libro tradotto anche in ebraico. È uno degli unici due stranieri non ebrei che arrivano alla fiera. Il narratore segue i suoi libri e i suoi scritti con stupore, i suoi amici criticano il viaggio in Israele. A Gerusalemme iniziano ad accadergli cose insolite e sconcertanti che non riesce a comprendere. Soffre di una specie di sindrome di Gerusalemme. In una delle stradine del centro della città, una donna afferma di essere sua madre ed è sicura che lui sia suo figlio, scomparso nella guerra del Libano, di cui nessuno ha più sentito parlare. Gli rivela di essere padre. Un gruppo di mistici lo sequestra e cerca di convincerlo a scrivere un articolo sul País sulla presenza ancestrale degli ebrei all'interno della città. Intanto intavola strane conversazioni con uno scrittore ebreo marocchino per le strade della città. Quando nulla ha più senso decide di tornare nella sua città, che, dopo tutto quello che ha passato, si scopre essere Parigi.
Andaluzia em Jerusalém
by Mois Benarroch Bianca OliveiraUm escritor deve seguir seus livros, seus leitores, suas palavras. Caso contrário, não obterá perdão. Por isso, quando passava pelas ruas de Jerusalém, como se meu livro me levasse algum lugar, como se não tivesse outro remédio a não ser seguir minhas palavras. Seguia minhas palavras e elas me seguiam. As palavras que se dizem na aula aos oito anos sem muito sentido, sem serem muito claro porque na escola de Lucena, no fim do mundo. "Sou judeu", como se diz a seu melhor amigo em segredo, um segredo que durou metade da manhã até que toda a aula a classe se acabasse e um dia a mais para que todos soubessem, desde os alunos até o diretor. Meu amigo íntimo, que creio que se chamasse Raul, me disse: "Eu sabia!" O qual não pude entender, como poderia ser que soubesse se eu havia inventado. Entretanto, nesse mesmo dia todos souberam, ou seja, todos me disseram que sabiam que era um tipo raro e, portanto, não estranhava nada que eu fosse judio. Como me contou um transsexual com dois filhos que quando anunciou a todos que mudariam de sexo, todos lhe disseram que não estranhariam, pois sempre acharam que algo de estranho ocorria. Todos, menos ele, que estava entre seus trinta e cinco anos e sempre comportou como todos os homens ao seu redor. Se chamava Dafna, já a conheci como mulher e nunca perguntei qual era seu nome de homem, me pareceu muito indiscreto. Minha invenção me levou a muitas discussões com professores, com o diretor e com meus pais.
Andamios
by Mario BenedettiAndamios recupera, con variantes ficcionales, recuerdos biográficos del autor. La novela recrea con sobriedad y pudor un mundo perdido e instala, para satisfacción de los lectores, los andamios de una construcción admirable.
Andamios: Vol. 1 (Textos De Escritor Ser.)
by Mario Benedetti¿Qué queda del propio país, en la memoria y en la idea presente, cuando se regresa tras un largo exilio? Andamios narra los encuentros y desencuentros de Javier Montes, que tras doce años de exilio, regresa a Montevideo con sus nostalgias, prejuicios y soledades. Javier va construyendo esos andamios que le permiten crear un mundo nuevo en el que caben todas sus esperanzas. Su estructura fragmentaria, de obra en construcción, en la que los elementos puestos en juego -diálogos, reflexiones, recuerdos, sueños, cartas y poemas- aparecen sueltos, permite al lector encontrar un edificio perfectamente acabado: el del desexilio. Una auténtica obra maestra, un libro que respira ironía, crítica social, ternura y humor con una prosa rigurosa y unos diálogos llenos de aciertos.
El andar del lobo
by Carlos Mateo BalmelliA partir del manuscrito de un ex jerarca de las SS, el temible grupo parapolicial del nazismo, un publicista se propone desentrañar la mente de un hombre común, apasionado por la historia y la filosofía, que abrazó al partido político de Adolf Hitler y refleja su pensamiento sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Holocausto. Luego de aquellos sucesos, de los que no se arrepiente y justifica, termina su vida en Paraguay dedicado a la docencia. Dice Francisco Pérez de Antón que «El andar del lobo es la dramática biografía de Wolfgang, un nazi sin apellido, y de su viaje vital al corazón de las tinieblas. Desde su adolescencia en la Alemania hitleriana hasta su refugio y muerte en Asunción del Paraguay, Wolfgang hallará la justificación de su vida y de sus crímenes en el viejo aforismo latino, según el cual el hombre es un lobo para el hombre. El genocidio nazi, asegura, no fue tan diferente a otras matanzas parecidas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La razón histórica absuelve al viejo lobo de todo juicio moral hasta el día en que, ya en el otoño de su vida, sucumbe a los dictados del amor, una emoción a su juicio incapaz de servir a una causa superior como la suya. Utilizando el panegírico ideológico y la apología del crimen como recursos para provocar el rechazo, Carlos Mateo Balmelli escribió una deslumbrante reflexión sobre la violencia y el mal, siempre latentes en el corazón humano. Un libro para leer y releer, una obra densa y profunda de un maestro de la prosa».
A Andarilha: Fantasia histórica na Finlândia antiga
by Petteri HannilaNas profundezas do norte distante, os guerreiros Vikings percorrem a terra e as riquezas estão ao alcance dos poderosos. Neste mundo emergindo da era dos mitos, a jovem Vierra começa sua passagem para a vida adulta. Mas o norte medieval é um lugar perigoso, e poderes naturais e sobrenaturais estão prontos para tirar tudo o que ela ama. Vierra se propõe a superar as probabilidades com vontade de ferro e inteligência afiada, mas o destino tem mais para a jovem. Se aventurando cada vez mais longe de sua terra natal, ela descobre que seu destino é maior do que ela jamais poderia imaginar. Mas ela pode quebrar seu caminho pintado em pedra?
Andean Express
by Juan de RecacoecheaThis moody murder mystery set during an overnight train journey in 1950s South America &“delights like strong coffee savored in a cosmopolitan cafe&” (Publishers Weekly). In 1952, a train makes its way from La Paz, Bolivia, to the Chilean seaport of Arica. Among the passengers are: a businessman with his much-younger wife, a man in priest&’s garb hiding a secret, Irish and Russian expatriates, a miner, and a student. Before the trip is over, there will be many revelations—including the identity of a killer. From the author of American Visa, a winner of Bolivia&’s National Book Prize, this atmospheric novel is &“part social commentary, part mystery thriller . . . A chilling, tragic tale&” (MultiCultural Review).
Ander & Santi Were Here: A Novel
by Jonny Garza VillaA STONEWALL YOUNG ADULT HONOR BOOK Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family’s taqueria.Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Martínez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially their job at their family's taquería. It's the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all of these things that give them hesitancy. That give them the thought, are they ready to leave it all behind?To keep Ander from becoming complacent during their gap year, their family "fires" them so they can transition from restaurant life to focusing on their murals and prepare for college. That is, until they meet Santiago López Alvarado, the hot new waiter. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi's eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist, and Ander becomes Santi's first steps toward making Santos Vista and the United States feel like home.Until ICE agents come for Santi, and Ander realizes how fragile that sense of home is. How love can only hold on so long when the whole world is against them. And when, eventually, the world starts to win.