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"rad Sela is living an apathetic suburban life in his affluent neighborhood until two new friends drag him down a destructive path toward self-discovery. Freshly seventeen and entering his Y2K senior year, Brad is feeling fatigued by the cookie-cutter image his new-agey Oprah-loving mom and corporate-Boomer dad expect him to maintain, so when the new transfer students, Lu and Shane, invite him out to the woods, he agrees to see what this Baphomet-worshipping...
62) Scar lover
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This is a story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel. Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic accident that has destroyed his family, Pete Butcher avoids all personal contact. Then Sarah Leemer, the oddly beautiful girl next door, walks into his life. Slowly, sweetly, and with a determination almost Faulknerian in its ferocity, Sarah pulls Pete back into life and into the ever increasing complications...
63) El buen nombre
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Tras la lenta recuperación de un terrible accidente ferroviario y un matrimonio arreglado con la joven Ashima, Ashoke Ganguli decide abandonar su cómoda y previsible existencia en Calcuta, aceptar una beca en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts y mudarse con su esposa a Boston. Allí nacerá su primer hijo, que por azares del destino acabará llevando por nombre Gógol en honor al célebre escritor ruso. El niño, hijo de bengalíes, ciudadano...
64) Pajarito
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"Pajarito funciona como el gabinete de un coleccionista, un muestrario de pequeños artefactos atesorados por la singularidad de sus detalles, reunidos según una taxonomía muy personal. Percheros que son hombre inmensos, palabras que caen como virutas en un aserradero, árboles que con su fuerza provocan la fuerza del tiempo, un mar contenido en una botella de plástico, sabanas manchadas de secretos; con estos elementos son contadas las historias...
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"During the summer of 2001, the narrator of Do Everything in the Dark, a gallery curator, receives intermittent dispatches from his far-flung friends--many of whom resemble well-known figures in the art and intellectual worlds--who are spread out across the globe, from Istanbul to Provincetown to Santa Fe. Seeking various reprieves from a changed New York, the long-festering, glossed-over incompatibilities of these aging bohemians blossom into exotic...
66) Owls do cry
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First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry , was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post-war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and made to...
67) Zwycięzcy
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Bjornstad volume 3
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"Minęły dwa lata od wydarzeń, o których nikt nie chce myśleć. Wszyscy próbowali iść dalej, ale coś w tej części lasu to uniemożliwia. Straszliwa w skutkach wichura podsyca odwieczną rywalizację między Björnstad a sąsiednim miasteczkiem Hed. Rywalizację, która zawsze znajdowała ujście na lodowisku do hokeja. Podczas gdy napięcie między społecznościami rośnie, na horyzoncie rysują się wielkie zmiany. Ktoś wróci do domu...
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