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Shouldn't life be more than simply showing up? Is it enough to be part of a family, make another family, earn your living, and then exit stage left? Or should you engage and be engaged in a bit of purposeful shaking and shoving along the way? These are questions that Kit Bakke urgently needs answered. Tired of self-proclaimed gurus and self-help books, she turns to her childhood role model -- Louisa May Alcott -- for direction. She sends an e-mail...
22) Intercambiadas
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Las apariencias pueden engañar, y en un siglo en el que destacan, la joven María Ana De LaTour, noble de 22 años, lo aprenderá, ¡y a qué costo!. Su curiosidad la llevará a escribir a una reclusa de su misma edad que pondrá frente a una realidad que conoce de mucho tiempo atrás, pero que se niega a enfrentar. Cuando la nobleza conoce al tercer estado a finales del siglo XVII, pueden tener tanto que decirse que un detalle trastornar por completo...
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En un tiempo donde las cartas están ya casi en desuso, a través de ellas, se cuenta cada sentimiento entre la musa y quien escribe. Tomando trazas de lo que se vive, se imagina o ambas. Aunque allí vive una guerra donde la soledad, tras mil batallas, lanza el mayor de los ataques jamás imaginado. Abarcando incluso la realidad. Amenazando una pasión que va deshaciéndose como una vela y se viste por momentos de añoranza, de sentimientos confesados,...
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Fortement inspirée et touchée par la dimension mystique du livre Cette aveuglante absence de lumière de l'écrivain franco-marocain, Tahar Ben Jelloun, cette lettre qui lui est adressée est à la fois un regard sur la beauté du monde et son inhumanité.
La narratrice rompt en quelque sorte avec la conscience grégaire o l'on menace de s'endormir, et se met à écrire. Elle est dans un état d'écoute, d'observation, de questionnement... l'écriture,...
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"An uncovered family secret sets one woman on the journey of a lifetime through the history of Britain's WWII spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris in an effort to understand her past, save her family, and claim her future"--
"Caroline Payne thinks it is just another day at work when she receives a call from Mat Hammon, a doctoral candidate, who has uncovered a dark and scandalous family secret: her British great-aunt defected to the Nazis to marry...
28) The color purple
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The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning novel is now a new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie...
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays's novel received mixed reviews and was controversial for its representation of female sexuality, adultery, infanticide, and suicide. Modern critics and readers, however, have recognized the novel as a groundbreaking...
30) P.S. I miss you
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Forbidden to contact her pregnant sister after her strict Catholic parents send her to stay with a great-aunt, Evie secretly sends her letters, writing about their family, her life, and the new girl in school, June, who may be more than a friend.
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First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Julius Caesar. Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of its magnetic personalities.
In this novel, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being as he appeared to his family, his legions, his Rome, and his empire in the months just before his death. In Wilder's inventive narrative, all...
32) Dear Enemy
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The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs finds Judy Abbott's best friend Sallie McBride taking total control over the John Grier Home, the orphanage where Judy grew up. Chronicling her hilarious yet heart-felt day-to-day interactions with the permanent residents of the John Grier Home, Sallie spills her heart out in letter after letter to multiple recipients, including the doctor of the JGH-one Robin MacRae, whom she has deemed her enemy and refers to him as...
33) Poor Folk
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Financial difficulties resulting from an extravagant lifestyle and excessive gambling led Fyodor Dostoevsky to pen his first novel "Poor Folk". First published in 1846, "Poor Folk" is the story of impoverished cousins Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin. The two live in run-down apartments across the street from each other in St. Petersburg. Through a series of letters to each other we learn of the suffering, humiliation, and isolation that results...
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"From an up-and-coming screenwriter and New Yorker contributor, a hilarious novel in letters by members of an unconventional family, running the gamut from sardonic to heartfelt. From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their...
35) We are the light
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"Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero--everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins...
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Eva never really wanted to be a mother-and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged...
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"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"--
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Leaving a thriving medical practice in Paris to raise pigs in Israel, a Jewish cardiologist disconnects himself from modern technology, forcing his gay playwright son, heartbroken daughter, and cancer-stricken wife to correspond strictly through written letters.
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Cuando conocí a Bruno, no sospechaba de la existencia de este cuaderno. Cuando él me conoció, no imaginaba los peligros a los que lo había expuesto su supuesto amor. Su plan consistía en escribir todo lo que hacía, pensaba y sentía en un cuaderno de tapa de cuero marrón para ofrecérselo a Lucila, la chica por la que había enloquecido. Por giros que Bruno no supo predecir, este cuaderno terminó en mis manos, y ahora está en las tuyas. La...
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La Dérive des Anges évalue la quête du bonheur, un bonheur placé au coeur d'une relation amoureuse impossible. C'est un amour bancal qui mesure l'étendue de ses rêves par les caractéristiques individuelles de chacun plutt que de les mettre en commun.
Dans un long voyage qui mène de l'Asie jusqu'en Amérique, des amoureux défendent leur individualité avec amour, colère, ardeur et jalousie. Elle, qui a tous les attributs pour plaire, préfère...
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