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Penélope escribió cientos de copias de la misma carta para entregársela a todo aquel viajero que arribara a Ítaca con la esperanza de que al menos una de ellas llegara a las manos de Odiseo. No obtuvo respuesta. Sin embargo, podemos imaginar qué vuelco hubiera dado la situación en Ítaca si Penélope hubiera mostrado una sola carta a los voraces pretendientes que la acosaban y se disputaban su lecho.
Graciela Rodríguez Alonso ha imaginado y...
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Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protégées. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for wanting to settle accounts. They enter into an intimate game of words, played according to shifting rules of engagement.
Beyond their murky shared history,...
43) Pepita Jimenez
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Pepita Jiménez depicts the gradual realization by a young seminarian of the empty vanity of his vocation, while he falls in love on the eve of his ordination. The novel gives a view of rural life in the Andalusian region of Spain. The story touches on themes of physical versus spiritual love and finding one's true path in life.
44) Cartas a Giselle
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El libro es una recopilación de cartas imaginarias escritas con gran belleza. En ellas cuenta, con prosa poética y sátira, a veces, la vida y las penurias de un poeta en Cuba. Se sirve de las metáforas para mostrarnos lo que quisiera decir pero debe esconder tras bellas palabras. El autor es natural de Sancti Spíritus; es políglota y entre otro destacados galardones, ha obtenido los premios Fayad Jamís y Escombray. Asimismo, Manuel González...
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The international bestseller: a compelling love story from the leading Israeli novelist of his generation
"We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it-the truth. I want to be able to say to myself, 'I bled truth with her,' yes, that's what I want. Be a knife for me, and I, I swear, will be a knife for you."
An awkward, neurotic seller of rare books writes a desperate letter to a beautiful...
46) Querido Miguel
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Este libro nos presenta la historia de un hijo perdido, Miguel, que abandonó de joven su familia, que se casó en un país lejano y que, tras una vida poco ordenada, murió en otro país lejano en circunstancias poco claras. Su madre podrá llorarlo, pero no entender sus secretos. Retomando una vieja forma narrativa, la novela epistolar, Natalia Ginzburg enhebra con maestría asuntos nucleares de su quehacer literario: la relación entre generaciones...
47) The Letter
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United States Supreme Court Justice Bailey Stewart, well known for her honesty, fairness, and consistency in interpreting the Constitution, becomes privy to some startling revelations, ones that will test her curiosity to know more and determine what might the public have a right to know.
Befriended by an unknown, but seemingly well-versed source identified as Ivanhoe, she becomes entrenched in what has been purported to be the truths, half-truths...
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Books Make Us Better CommunicatorsBecause books improve our vocabulary, our communications skills improve. Books Educate UsBooks quench our thirst for knowledge. Through books, we learn about how things work, understand different cultures, and comprehend the history of things. The right books are full of useful information that helps us become smarter, sharper, more skilled and more open to new ideas. Books Keep Our Brain's Healthy When we read, our...
49) Cartas a la hija
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Las cartas que madame de Sévigné escribió a la condesa de Grignan, su hija, han pasado a la historia por ser una cima absoluta de la literatura epistolar, aún más, de la literatura amorosa. En efecto, la marquesa de Sévigné, viuda de un vividor, vuelca en su hija recién casada un amor filial complejo y anhelante, hasta descubrir—alarmada, por más que Sévigné no sea ninguna beata—que la ama más que a Dios.
Figura destacada en la brillante...
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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.
51) The Roxy letters
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Bridget Jones's Diary meets Where'd You Go, Bernadette in this comic novel about twenty-something Roxy, an unlucky-in-love Whole Foods employee, aspiring artist, and sometimes vegan, who teams up with her two best friends to save Austin from gentrification-and to save her personal life-in whatever way she can.
The Roxy Letters is a hilarious and heartwarming novel told through the letters that the charming and hapless Roxy, a twenty-eight-year-old...
52) Say What Now?
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Normally, Mareike Korn would find a lengthy visit to a foreign land thrilling. Making the trip when she's twenty-six weeks pregnant is another matter. But when her husband's job is temporarily relocated to the USA, keeping her family together in the late stages of her pregnancy becomes more important than being a stranger in a new place.
To keep herself sane through the ups and downs of her adventure, Mareike chronicles her experience in her bullet...
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My dearest love, Where are you now? Spring, 1847, and Lady Franklin is back in London expecting to greet her hero husband, polar explorer Sir John Franklin, upon his triumphant return from the Northwest Passage. As weeks turn to months, she develops an unconventional friendship with Russell Square's gardener even as she reluctantly grows into her public role as Franklin's steadfast wife, the "Penelope of England." In this novel that imagines a rich...
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I expect that by tomorrow I will have embellished the story and given myself a heroic status I do not deserve . . . Right now the truth is harrowing enough for aging, impotent intellectual Adrian Mole: He's soon to be divorced; he hasn't a clue what to do with his semi-stardom as a celebrity chef; his parents have become swingers (with whom is too shocking to go into now); his epic novel is still unpublished; his ex-flame Pandora is running for...
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Pamela Andrews is a fifteen-year-old maidservant at an estate in Bedfordshire. When Lady B, her employer, dies, her son Mr. B takes an interest in the innocent young girl, quickly turning from generosity to outright attempts at seducing her. As Pamela rejects his advances, she considers returning home to live in poverty with her parents. When he catches wind of her plan, however, Mr. B accuses Pamela of having an affair, notifying her parents and...
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Professional money manager, Jim Peters, a committed husband and father of three, is experiencing a critical crisis of confidence, and his typical optimism and resiliency is crumbling. He believes his family's well-being and his dreams are in jeopardy as he is being pushed out of his job by unscrupulous competition and younger, tech-savvy workers. On the brink of making costly decisions, Jim is sensing that he's losing his grip on everything that is...
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This deluxe edition brings to life the letters exchanged among Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice.
Glassine pockets placed throughout the book contain removable replicas of 19 letters from the story.
These powerful epistles include Lydia's announcement of her elopement, Mr. Collins's obsequious missives, and of course Darcy's painfully honest letter to Elizabeth.
• Nothing captures Jane Austen's vivid emotion and keen wit better...
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One day searching through old, battered storage boxes sorting through paper file folders thinking he would shred them, Felix Fist discovers a large, tan envelope darkened by the dust of passing years. Surprised by what he finds in that envelope prompts him to search through an apple box of old notebooks taking him back over fifty years to when his search for the truths about the world and himself began. Reading through entries for several years, Felix...
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« Je me souviens de mon professeur de philo qui nous mettait en garde contre les dangers du relativisme : il fallait éviter d'y « sombrer ». Aujourd'hui, je lui pardonne. Je pense que Monsieur Lutaplaz ne s'est jamais bronzé le cul sur une plage déserte de l'archipel de Wakatobi en méditant les textes de ses maîtres anciens. »
Laurent, lui, n'a jamais été un grand philosophe. Pourtant, quelques mois de voyages en compagnie des bonnes...
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