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16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Each week, the writers of The A.V. Club issue a slightly slanted pop-culture list filled with challenging opinions (Is David Bowie's "Young Americans" nearly ruined by saxophone?) and fascinating facts. Exploring twenty-four great films too painful to watch twice, fourteen tragic movie-masturbation...
by Véronique SANSON, Didier VARROD
Language: French
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Alcool, amours destructrices, expérience américaine : Véronique Sanson confie sans détour les péripéties d'une vie placée sous le signe de la création musicale...
" Je dis à ceux qui ont bien voulu me faire confiance que c'est un cadeau de m'avoir laissée parler, de laisser ma...
by T.V. LoCicero
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
With the death of an old friend, Hall of Fame athlete Dave DeBusschere on a street in Manhattan, I found myself ruminating on the strange uses we make of the relentless world of sport.
This is one of T.V. LoCicero’s shorter works published as an ebook. The others include the stories A Round...
My Soul Is a Witness
A Chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights.
From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional,...
by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
En Arena y viento, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, relata el descubrimiento del fascinante continente africano, que tan magníficamente ha descrito en sus obras posteriores.
En este libro, Vázquez-Figueroa narra sus vivencias de adolescencia y juventud en el ex Sáhara español, adonde tuvo que trasladarse su familia por motivos políticos al estallar la Guerra Civil española en 1936.
Siete vidas y media
Recuerdos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Un libro de recuerdos donde descubrimos la emocionante vida del autor Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa.
Novelista, buzo, reportero de guerra, cazador de elefantes, inventor... Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa puede enorgullecerse de tener una biografía de novela: desde sus inicios en el Sahara español,...
The 14th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®
17 Stories by Charles V. de Vet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Charles V. de Vet wrote more than 50 short stories for science fiction magazines, beginning with "The Unexpected Weapon" for Amazing Stories in September 1950. After a several year hiatus, de Vet became active as a writer again in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This collection spans the length of...
Boston Noir 2
The Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller!
"The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and...
A Man of Letters
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
V. S. Pritchett is widely - and justly - regarded not only as one of the finest short story writers of this century, but as a critic and essayist of astonishing range, perception and originality. Combining an unpretentious common sense with a rare genius for the illuminating insight into the familiar...
The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more
The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more
An All Time Favorite Collection from the Renowned Russian dramatists and Writers (Including Essays and Lectures on Russian Novelists)
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors...
by Howard V. Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
With his astonishing future vision, Howard V. Hendrix has emerged as one of the new masters of science fiction, drawing extraordinary praise for his debut novel, Lightpaths, "a taut...space-age slice of life" ( Publishers Weekly), and its "brilliant" (Locus) follow-up, Standing Wave. Now Hendrix meshes...
by V. E. Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*2018 GOOD READS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION CATEGORY*
A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions—#1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious.
Magneto and...
My Body Is Yours
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Lambda Literary Award finalist
Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male-a fey kid growing...
by V&S Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
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