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2022 "Best Literary" Book Award Winner, Indies Today"Barnes illuminates places that too often remain hidden." -Vince Granata, Author, Everything is Fine: A MemoirSeven years after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, Avery West agonizes over the reality that his time at the Hawaiʻi State Hospital is ending. He can't imagine a life beyond the confines of his psychiatric facility, even if his schizophrenic symptoms are finally in remission. But...
82) Motel Stories
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Will Torphy's elegant narration creates a gauzy veil of tears through which we view a poignant, if haphazard, community of immigrants, down-and-outers, weirdos, and dreamers who use the Sunset Inn, a dilapidated Hollywood motel, as staging ground for their personal crises and epiphanies. Torphy loves his characters, but it's a tough love that finds the poetry of real life in their desperate words and actions." -MARC JAMPOLE, Author of The Brothers...
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Un lugar donde esconderse, indaga de manera oportuna y trágica en el comportamiento del ser humano. El escondite del que habla Borel, es un espacio íntimo, confuso, lleno de laberintos, del que se nos obliga a salir cuando nos encontramos frente a la realidad, a veces cruda y otras veces menos ofensiva, pero siempre amenazante.
Borel consigue crear en cada uno de los relatos ambientes complejos, con personajes que se enfrentan a una especie de...
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El libro muestra una lectura personal, vertida como narración y comentario de las voces de Santiago hechas eco en la poesía. Experiencia urbana vivida para recordar o conocer.
Los cambios de la ciudad, hoy segmentada, se van siguiendo aquí como huellas en el campo que ofrecen los textos. En esa tarea, aparecen como guías los testimonios de los expertos.
Creemos que la tesis central del ensayo se caracteriza también en su concepto de desarraigo,...
85) Figurines
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In 2011 New York, Rachel is one step away from becoming invisible. Half a century earlier, confined in the clean, white walls of a mental hospital, Anna wishes she could be.
Rachel and Anna's lives are woven together-one desperate to be seen, to find out who she is in the bright sunlight of New York and the dark shadows of her family history, and one frantically trying to sort reality from the fantasy in her head, to be known as a person before she's...
86) The Glitz
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Story of a elderly black woman who runs into something not of this world , angel ,demon,or alien, who really knows ,and how does this all connect to her.
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Wendy just wants to be a poet. So how comes she's on the run after an art heist?
An aspiring writer from the Southside of Glasgow, Wendy is in a rut. She tries to brighten her call-centre job by shoehorning as many long words as possible into conversations with customers. But her manager isn't amused by that and, after a public dressing-down, Wendy walks out. Jobless and depressed, she finds consolation in a surprise friendship with another disgruntled...
88) Miss Kittenses
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He's a 180K a year techie hoping to get laid. She's a hospice nurse coming off a very hard day. When they meet over dinner, the question may come down to her pink cat-face watch, Miss Kittenses.
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Un recién nacido aparece abandonado en el último asiento del tranvía número catorce. Es Nochebuena y el vehículo surca cual cometa las vías hacia la periferia de una ciudad sin nombre. ¿Cómo ha llegado hasta allí? ¿Qué va a ser de él? Tal vez por caridad, por improvisación o por locura, alguien ha decidido confiar al niño a los brazos del mundo. Y el "mundo" que lo acompaña en ese primer viaje de su vida es esa parte de la existencia...
90) Employee 6 Is 54
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Ageism in hiring is real, Jillian Johnson discovered, as door after door closed in her face. So she was elated when Desmond Hensley, a charming startup founder, offered her a dream job. How could Jillian know then, that she would be the one to lead the company of twenty-somethings to uncover his secret? When Jillian Johnson resigns from her job, she is momentarily proud-her resignation is in protest of unfair labor practices. Then reality hits. At...
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When terrorists sink their whaling vessel, the company Jonas works for goes out of business, and he finds himself unemployed in Tokyo during a recession.
Struggling to find a job to keep his apartment and eat, he gets a job at a transvestite hostess club.
These are his adventures.
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In the tranquil landscapes of Mississippi, a young boy's life is woven with tales of tight-knit communities, family traditions, and the allure of the great outdoors. But as he nears his twenties, the bright lights of New York City beckon, promising a world of possibilities far from his Southern roots.Relocating to Manhattan, he quickly ascends the social ladder. From a coveted job at a prestigious firm to mingling with the city's elite at lavish parties,...
93) Fluencer
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In the heart of Dubai's kaleidoscopic streets, Rayan shines as a charismatic TikTok influencer, captivating his audience with a life as vibrant as the city itself but when a fateful accident shatters his world he finds himself propelled onto a journey of reinvention in the bustling heart of New York City. Here he collaborates with Naomi, an ambitious filmmaker with dreams as towering as the skyscrapers that frame her world. Together they navigate...
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Alexandra lives for her successful business. She knows what she wants in life and, more importantly, what she doesn't want. Four-legged best friend Max is the only man she is willing to commit to.On a winter morning, she stops to help at the scene of a car accident, and her well-laid plans take a collision course with a man who will challenge her limits.Truck driver Mike is straight-laced and down to earth with strong family values--everything Alex...
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"Those who have what it takes can make it right where God put them; going away is trying to hide your ineptitude among the strangers."
With his brother's words permanently etched in his brain, Kostas, a headstrong Greek merchant seaman, jumps ship in America, determined to prove his brother and all others like him wrong. Though one among the thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into the country, striving to make it while dodging the long tenacles...
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Discover a tale of human authenticity told through a sweet-souled alcoholic who means well and sees good in people.
When the residents of Como Flats see Lonnie Klipsen in the same bar, drinking the same beer, telling the same stories, night after night, year after year, they ask themselves, "How can a man with so little lose so much?"
With no close family and no significant other, Lonnie and his longtime roommate Stan, a widow and non-practicing...
97) The painted veil
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"Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love"--Publisher...
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A suspenseful family saga, love story, and gangster tale, wrapped into one great book club read . . .
Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her dreams of freedom and marries her widowed brother-in-law after her sister dies giving birth to their son, Morty.
In the crowded streets of Brooklyn where Jewish and Italian gangs demand protection money from local storekeepers and entice youngsters with the...
99) Forever Diamond
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The BRAND NEW gritty gangland thriller from Gillian Godden!
Friend or Foe?
Patsy Diamond thought she had her life and her business dealings under control…she was wrong.
Because just as Patsy is hoping for calm, chaos erupts, and Patsy is forced to make decisions that could cost her everything.
The only people Patsy can rely on are her inner circle – her family and her close friends. But with danger and threats seemingly lurking around every...
100) Book of clouds
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Tatiana settles in Berlin, distancing herself from her family, and takes a job transcribing notes for historian, Doktor Weiss, who introduces her to Jonas, a meteorologist.
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