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Las ardillas de Central Park están tristes los lunes (Trilogía de París #Volumen 3)
by Katherine PancolNo puedes perderte el cierre de la querida trilogía de París, de Katherine Pancol. Un libro tierno, conmovedor y divertido sobre la búsqueda esquiva de la felicidad. La vida, a menudo, se divierte a nuestra costa. Pero a pesar de eso, también trata de concedernos aquello capaz de colmar nuestras expectativas... Para Joséphine podría ser la propuesta de su editor de que escriba una nueva novela, las llamadas de Philippe a las que no contesta o la incondicional amistad de su amiga Shirley. Para su hija Hortense podría ser descubrir que su carrera no tiene por qué opacar el amor. Para Shirley podría ser la esperanza de un nuevo comienzo. Porque Josephine, siempre patito feo, por fin se ha transformado en un elegante cisne, dispuesta a tomar las riendas de su destino y encontrar la felicidad.
Las ardillas pequeñas pueden escalar grandes árboles (Pequeñas ardillas #1)
by Michael Murphy Y. M. GarcíaKyle Miller es una especie rara. Aunque ha nacido en el seno de una familia conservadora, en un pequeño pueblo de Oklahoma, descubrió desde pequeño que tenía que escaparse de ese ambiente rural. Ahora vive en Nueva York, trabaja como médico de urgencias y debe pagar su enorme préstamo estudiantil. Nunca se ha subido en un avión ni ha visto una película, pero es lo suficientemente inteligente como para darse cuenta de que acaba de tener un flechazo. Aunque tampoco es que sepa cómo logró chocar contra Joseph, que mide unos treinta centímetros menos que él. Joseph es su opuesto en muchos sentidos: tiene dinero y Kyle no, confía en sí mismo mientras que Kyle es inseguro. Está totalmente decidido a mostrarle a Kyle lo especial que es y quiere que la confianza que demuestra en la sala de urgencias la emplee también en su vida diaria. Sin embargo el caótico horario de Kyle y su inexperiencia en relaciones amorosas complicarán este romance.
Ardillita quiere jugar (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level D #12)
by Bradley BergeronNIMAC-sourced textbook. Una tormenta de nieve se aproxima. ¿Escuchará Ardillita a Mamá? ¿Entrará a casa para protegerse del frío?
Ardneh's Sword (The Empire of the East Saga)
by Fred SaberhagenIt's been a thousand years since the time of Ardneh, the transcendant being that saved humanity from the vicious archdemon Orcus. It was a legndary battle between magic and technology that killed them both, but left behind tales of Ardneh's heroism and newly found hope for humanity. But in the passing years only a few remain that actually believe these legends as truths.Chance Rolfson comes from a long line of Ardneh's followers, descendants from Rolf, the illustrious warrior who fought in Ardneh's name for humanity many years ago. A young man plagued with vivid nightmares, Chance hopes to clear his head by joining a forest expedition that seeks physical proof of Ardneh's existence. Their goal is to discover the great vault prophesized to hold the savior of humanity's secrets to his own power and wisdom. But the dangers are high in the uncharted forests, rife with bandits and demons that no magic can stop. And as Chance's dreams become more clear, he soon realizes these are not merely dreams but visions, and he alone holds the key to unlocking Ardneh's greatest gift, known to the followers as Ardneh's Sword. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Ardneh's World (Empire of the East #3)
by Fred SaberhagenThe epic adventure of magic vs. technology reaches a searing climax in this third book in the classic Empire of the East trilogy.
Ardnish: A Novel
by Angus MacDonaldThis saga spanning from the Scottish Highlands to colonial South Africa is “far more than yet another wartime love story . . . impossible to put down”(Scottish Field).Ardnish, the Highlands of Scotland, 1944: On his deathbed, Donald John Gillies sends for a priest to hear his last confession. During his eighty-five years he has witnessed much—world wars, the loss of family through death and emigration, and the daily struggles faced by the small remote community.Waiting anxiously for the priest, his mind travels back to the dusty plains of South Africa in 1901, where he fought as a Lovat Scout during the Boer War, and where he met the woman who was the love of his life. Forced to abandon her and her young daughter in a British concentration camp, DJ returns to Scotland and his old life after his camp is ambushed by Boers and many of his fellow soldiers are massacred.As he lies dying, an unexpected visitor arrives at Ardnish. making it more imperative then ever for DJ to come to terms with the past and to make peace with himself—and his family—while there is still time, in this “ingeniously plotted” novel that “sweeps the reader from the smokey peat fires of the West Highlands to the baking sun of the South African veldt at the height of the Boer War” (William Dalrymple).
Ardnish Was Home: A Novel (Ardnish Ser.)
by Angus MacDonaldStationed in Gallipoli during WWI, a wounded Scottish soldier finds love as he longs for home in this novel of memory, romance and the horror of war.Gallipoli, 1916. A soldier in the British Army&’s Lovat Scouts, Young Donald Peter Gillies, lies in a hospital bed, blinded by the Turks. There by his side is Louise, a Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise, who cares for him and listens to his stories of home. Donald paints a vivid picture of the western highlands coast, telling stories of how his family lived: bagpiping, sheep shearing, celidhs, illegal distilling, his mother saving the life of the people of St Kilda, the navvies building the west highland railway and the relationship between the lairds and the people. Louise in turn tells her own story of growing up in the Welsh valley: coal mining, a harsh and unforgiving upbringing. But when they suddenly find themselves cut off from the allied troops, they must make a daring escape through Turkey to Greece. The first novel in Angus MacDonald&’s acclaimed trilogy begins an epic tale spanning generation of war and of a single Scottish family.
Ardor: A Novel of Enchantment
by Lily PriorWhen a lonely olive grower, Arcadio Carnabuci, sows his love seeds, he cannot imagine the chaos his magic fruit will bring. While Fernanda Ponderosa, the voluptuous woman of his dreams, evades his spell, Gezabel, a hardworking middle-aged mule, falls head over hooves in love with him. And, as Gezabel discovers, she is not the only one whose stars cross as the olive grower's ardor casts its magic over the region. Suddenly, the butcher and the baker are thinking murder, the village doctor and his nurse are driven to distraction, and a newborn is transformed into an angel. As the villagers alternate between love and war, remarkable phenomena add to the fevered atmosphere, making passions surge higher than the soaring temperatures of summer.A wildly imaginative fairy tale for adults, Ardor celebrates the lovely landscape of Italy and the eccentricity of its inhabitants in a narrative full of twists and unexpected delights.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
El ardor de la sangre
by Irène NémirovskyIntimista y conmovedora. Todo un hallazgo que confirma a Irène Némirovsky entre los autores europeos más destacados del siglo XX. Todo ocurre en una tranquila villa de provincias francesa, a principios de los años treinta. Silvio, el narrador, ha dilapidado su fortuna recorriendo mundo. A los sesenta años, sin mujer ni hijos, sólo le queda esperar la muerte mientras se dedica a observar la comedia humana en este rincón de Francia donde, aparentemente, nunca sucede nada. Un día, sin embargo, una muerte trágica quiebra la placidez de esa sociedad cerrada y hierática. A partir de allí, emergen uno tras otro los secretos del pasado, hechos ocultados cuidadosamente que demuestran cómo la pasión juvenil, ese ardor de la sangre, puede trastornar el curso de la vida. Como en el juego de las cajas chinas, las confesiones se suceden hasta llegar a una última y perturbadora revelación. La crítica ha dicho...«Otro hermoso legado de Irène Némirovsky.»Le Figaro «Todo el talento de Némirovsky se encuentra en esta novela: su mirada acerada y su generoso corazón [...] Estamos ante una artista con un extenso registro que por fin ha encontrado el sitio que merece en la historia de la literatura.»Lire «Una narración breve e intimista con las mejores virtudes del estilo de Némirovsky.»L'Express «Una escritora maravillosa, lúcida y brillante. Nada se le escapa.»The Times «Irène Némirovsky tiene un talento especial: la cercanía con el lector. [...] Ahí es donde es irresistible, adictiva, de manera que una vez hemos empezado una de sus novelas ya no podemos dejarla.»The Guardian
Ardor Guerrero
by Antonio Muñoz MolinaYo me llamaba J-54". En el otoño de 1979, un joven que sueña con ser escritor se incorpora por leva obligatoria al Ejército español. Su destino es el País Vasco. Su viaje es un lúgubre tren que atraviesa la península de sur a norte es el preludio de una pesadilla. "Conejo, vas a morir". Así serán recibidos los nuevos reclutas. Tendrán que olvidar su identidad y, en gran medida, su condición humana. En las paredes de los cuarteles colgaban todavía los retratos de Franco y su mensaje póstumo. Aquel recluta, J-54, se llamaba Antonio Muñoz Molina.
Ardore polare
by Erika Cecchetto Simone BeaudelaireIl mutaforma Russell Tadzea, capace di trasformarsi in orso, è soddisfatto della sua vita piuttosto isolata in una piccola città dell’Alaska centrale. Ha degli amici, un lavoro e una relazione cordiale, anche se prudente, con la sua famiglia. Questo finché l’arrivo di una maestra d’asilo da fuori Alaska manda in pezzi il confortevole mondo di Russell. Un’annusata al profumo di Riley Jenkins, e Russ è spacciato. Ma come può spiegare tutto ciò che lui è a questa innocente giovane donna? E l’oscuro passato di lei potrà interferire con la possibilità di trasformare un amore predestinato in una storia a lieto fine?
Ardores de agosto: Montalbano - Libro 14 (Salvo Montalbano #Volumen 14)
by Andrea CamilleriOtra aventura de Salvo Montalbano, en la que el inimitable comisario sigue haciendo gala de ese vitalismo socarrón y melancólico mientras se asoma a los abismos más profundos del ánima humana. Un calor asfixiante arrasa Sicilia como una llamarada; durante el día el aire se vuelve irrespirable, las piedras queman y ni siquiera un baño en el mar ofrece algo más que alivio momentáneo. Con la ciudad sumida en un letargo incandescente, Salvo aguarda la llegada de Livia, que viene con unos amigos a pasar las vacaciones en una solitaria casita frente a la playa. Pero el idílico plan se tuerce cuando, oculto en los sótanos de la casa, aparece un baúl con un cadáver dentro. El macabro hallazgo desata los instintos investigadores del comisario, que muy pronto se ve envuelto en una maraña criminal de múltiples facetas que involucra a políticos, banqueros y empresarios, todos bajo la omnipresente tutela de la mafia. Y como si la canículano fuera suficiente para causar estragos en el comportamiento de los personajes, la presencia casi mágica de una bellísima veinteañera hace flaquear la proverbial lucidez del propio Montalbano, hasta el punto de tentarlo a dar ese paso trascendental que había evitado hasta el momento.
Ardores que matan (de ganas)
by Ramón CórdobaEn cosas de amores, lo común es fracasar...Esta novela narra las aventuras y desventuras de Los Cachondos, una banda de amigos cuyo único propósito y móvil vital es llevar a la cama al mayor número posible de mujeres, sin mediar compromiso y sin involucrar otro sentimiento que el de la pasión y el deseo carnal. ¿Será posible que salgan bien librados de esta misión? <P><P>En la trama, somos testigos de un desfile de mujeres #jóvenes, maduras, entusiastas, desilusionadas, seductoras, despechadas# que parece no tener fin, como el vacío existencial que manifiestan los protagonistas y que intentan acallar con bocas, pieles y cuerpos femeninos: esos ardores que, en efecto, terminan por matar.
Ardour
by Nicole BrossardEven as vowels tremble in danger and worldly destruction repeats itself on the horizon, Ardour reminds us that the silence pulsing within us is also a language of connection. In these poems, intimacy with the other is another astonishment—a pleasant gasp, a "pause that transforms light and breath into language and threshold of fire." Since her first book appeared fifty years ago, Nicole Brossard has left us breathless, expanding our notion of poetry and its possibilities.
Ardour
by Angela Carr Nicole Brossardsomething like wait for mein the braille of scarstonight can i suggest a little punctuationcircle half-moon vertical line of astonishmenta pause that transformslight and breath into language and threshold of fire Even as vowels tremble in danger and worldly destruction repeats itself on the horizon, Ardour reminds us that the silence pulsing within us is also a language of connection. In these poems, intimacy with the other is another astonishment--a pleasant gasp, a "pause that transforms light and breath into language and threshold of fire." Since her first book appeared fifty years ago, Nicole Brossard has left us breathless, expanding our notion of poetry and its possibilities. '[Nicole Brossard] is a wholly singular writer, part of a larger movement of Quebec Women's writing, part of feminist writing, avant-garde writing, part of lesbian writing, but wholly, unequivocally, herself.' - Sina Queyras
Arduous Tasks
by Lina N InsanaOne of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in the form of both embedded and book-length renderings of texts relevant to Holocaust survival. In Arduous Tasks, Lina N. Insana demonstrates how translation functions as a metaphor for the transmission of Holocaust testimony and broadens the parameters of survivor testimony. The first book to study Levi and translation, Arduous Tasks overcomes the conventional views of the separation between his own personal memoirs and his translations by stressing the centrality of translation in Levi's entire corpus. Examining not only the testimonial nature of his work, Insana also discusses the transgressive and performative aspects of transmission in his writings. Arduous Tasks is a superb and innovative study on the importance of translation not only to Levi, but also to Holocaust studies in general.
Are Dragons Real? (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
by Ginjer L. ClarkeLearn about the history of dragons in this photographic nonfiction leveled reader perfect for kids interested in the natural - and unnatural - world!Did you know that Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, and other explorers all described seeing dragons in their ancient travels? Or that the Komodo dragon may not breathe fire, but it has a venomous bite to help catch its prey? Even today there are still some types of dragons roaming the earth!Embracing children's delight in the mythical creatures while also imparting fascinating facts about the real ones, discover the history of these special animals and decide for yourself if you believe in dragons!With simple language and vivid photographs, Are Dragons Real? is perfect for emerging readers curious about the natural world and this legendary creature.
Are Pirates Polite?
by Corinne Demas Artemis RoehrigPirates may fight and plunder booty. But when they do so, they are polite!"Pirates are unrulyand pirates love to fight,but pirates still say 'please' and 'thanks''cause pirates are polite."Are Pirates Polite?shows pirates' rowdy activitiesandteaches manners lessons. These pirates remember to say "please" and "thank you." If pirates can be polite, surely young readers can, too!Fun, rhyming text by Corinne Demas and Artemis Roehrig pairs pirates' questionable activities with their lead-by-example lessons in manners. David Catrow's humorous, zany illustrations depict the swashbuckling nature of the pirates. Follow along as pirates have fun on a pirate ship, divide up their treasure, and teach manners. Aargh!
Are Snakes Necessary?
by Susan Lehman Brian De Palma"It's like having a new Brian De Palma picture." - Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning directorFROM THE DIRECTOR OF SCARFACE AND DRESSED TO KILL -- A FEMALE REVENGE STORYWhen the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to be? Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation and budding career are on the line. But what she doesn't realize is that her life might be as well...
Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex
by Lynne HufferLynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference.Through this theoretical lens, Huffer examines everyday experiences of ethical connection and failure connected to sex, including queer sexual practices, sodomy laws, interracial love, pornography, and work-life balance. Her approach complicates sexual identities while challenging the epistemological foundations of subjectivity. She rethinks ethics "beyond good and evil" without underestimating, as some queer theorists have done, the persistence of what Foucault calls the "catastrophe" of morality. Elaborating a thinking-feeling ethics of the other, Huffer encourages contemporary intellectuals to reshape sexual morality from within, defining an ethical space that is both poetically suggestive and politically relevant, both conceptually daring and grounded in common sexual experience.
Are the Lips a Grave?
by Lynne HufferLynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference.Through this theoretical lens, Huffer examines everyday experiences of ethical connection and failure connected to sex, including queer sexual practices, sodomy laws, interracial love, pornography, and work-life balance. Her approach complicates sexual identities while challenging the epistemological foundations of subjectivity. She rethinks ethics "beyond good and evil" without underestimating, as some queer theorists have done, the persistence of what Foucault calls the "catastrophe" of morality. Elaborating a thinking-feeling ethics of the other, Huffer encourages contemporary intellectuals to reshape sexual morality from within, defining an ethical space that is both poetically suggestive and politically relevant, both conceptually daring and grounded in common sexual experience.
Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real
by Moez SuraniAmidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality, and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real uses conceptual critiques of public discourse and experimental social cartographies, as well as lyrics of intimacy, to defy prescribed ways of being. This is an act of resistance against dangerous and domineering narratives, and the power they inscribe.
Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real
by Moez SuraniFollowing Surani's previous collection Operations, which excavated the debasement done to language by nations worldwide, how does one return to using language for poetry? Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real responds to this question. Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. This collection uses conceptual critiques of public discourse and experimental social cartographies, as well as lyrics of intimacy, to defy prescribed ways of being.Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real is an act of resistance against dangerous and domineering narratives, and the power they inscribe.
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?
by Louise RennisonFor Georgia, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Just when she thought she was the official one-and-only girlfriend of Masimo, he's walked off into the night with the full hump, leaving Georgia all aloney on her owney-again. All because Dave the Laugh tried to do fisticuffs at dawn with him! Two boys fighting over Georgia? It's almost as romantic as Romeo and Juliet . . . though perhaps a touch less tragic. It's time for Georgia to get to the bottom (oo-er) of this Dave the Laugh spontaneous puckering business once and for all. It's like they always say: If you snog a mate in the forest of red bottomosity and no one is around to see it, is he still a mate? Or is he something more?</p?
Are U 4 Real?
by Sara KadeforsKyla is exactly the kind of girl Alex could never talk to in real life. She's a gorgeous, outspoken L. A. girl who parties to forget about her absent father and depressed mother. He's a shy ballet dancer from outside San Francisco who's never been kissed. Luckily, when these sixteen-year-olds meet for the first time it's not in real life-it's in a chat room, where they can share their feelings of isolation and frustration away from the conformity-obsessed high school scene. Alex and Kyla quickly forge a friendship that's far from virtual- maybe they're even falling in love. But what happens when the soul mate you've never met moves from online to in person? Sara Kadefors's wildly romantic, award-winning Swedish bestseller perfectly captures the universal angst of being a teenager, and the perhaps even more universal struggle to negotiate identity in a multi-platform world.