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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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It's the perfect place to hide the truth ... Vivacia Williams is strong, independent and lives in a beautiful community. She's trying to make the best of a bad situation since her husband walked out on her. Then, she finds two lost children. They have no home, no parents, and suddenly Vivacia has the one thing she's been missing. Vivacia will go to any length to keep the children but there are no secrets in the gated community of Wolf's Pit, and when...
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A psychological suspense about silence and its sinister effects on a family and a village from the author of Blackthorn Wood.
When Laurie Helm's mother dies, Laurie must return to the village where she grew up. It's a place she left twenty years ago, and she's hardly seen her mother since. With no siblings or other family, Laurie is left to sort out the house and estate, and to face some of the reasons she left Chapel Field in the first place.
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Doña Perfecta es la primera novela social del escritor Benito Pérez Galdós. Se publicó en 1876, entre sus Episodios Nacionales como una forma de trascender, en el plano de lo individual, los acontecimientos narrados en dichos episodios. Doña Perfecta se enmarca en una España sumergida por la inestabilidad política y social, y marcada por levantamientos militares, que intentaban destituir al gobierno.
La España provinciana y caciquista queda...
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Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
Description
Amok. Novellen einer Leidenschaft Stefan Zweig-Wie mehrere andere Werke Zweigs, welcher seinerzeit vom Wirken Sigmund Freuds fasziniert war, hat auch Der Amokläufer einen starken psychologischen Hintergrund: Die Geschichte handelt von einer extremen Besessenheit, die den Helden dazu bringt, sein Berufs-und Privatleben dieser Leidenschaft zu opfern, und die ihn schließlich in den Freitod treibt.
5) Twelve Men
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives...
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The Place Where Love and Anger Meet Inherent in every human being is the capacity for great goodness and great harm. To live peacefully and productively in the world, we must learn how to recognize and channel these diverse energies. In this groundbreaking work, therapist William DeFoore shows us why the only way to address the violence, cruelty and perpetration of harm in the world around us is to first traverse the dark dimension of our own soul....
7) Clown Shoes
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English
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After New York attorney Will Ross gains acquittal for a child abuser and the child is subsequently killed, he resolves to abandon law and become a children's entertainer. Will's change of heart and career is a catalyst for his lover, Clara, who quits her prestigious job to pursue documentary film-making. While the couple are united in their fervor for their nascent careers in art, unexpected challenges rip them apart. Feeling abandoned, Will ventures...
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How does a young man learn to deal with being victim to a silver bullet from another pretty jaded lass? This is the journey of his descent to rock bottom as he is relegated to the mental asylum where he further endures, relating to his experience of learning to live with himself in his new surroundings. He meets many curious characters in this journey and finds himself a victim again to the shiny silver bullets that land on him-shot from another jaded...
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Español
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La vida no suele ser como una guerra, pero a ciencia cierta nos va dejando algunas experiencias que con el tiempo se pueden volver en algo que solo notamos que está cuando ya ha hecho mucho daño. "El precio de una herida" es solo un ligero suspiro de aquello que es más fácil padecer que explicar, una metáfora que solo deseas encontrar en las páginas de un libro y no en la historia de tu vida.
10) Memory Lane
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English
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Annalise has repressed her memories of high school for long enough. Now she must return to her abandoned high school to relive these memories and hopefully be able to forgive herself and let the past be past.
11) Unlocking Joy
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English
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In the search for a happy life, taking care of your mental health is really important. This book talks about how to improve mental health and prevent self-harm using practical and affordable strategies. Mental health includes more than just the absence of mental illness. It is a state of being where individuals utilize their abilities, conquer obstacles, and make substantial contributions to their communities. In the fast-paced society of today, a...
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From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human condition. While the book's style is deceptively simple and aphoristic, it carries a hallucinatory moral message. A prism of interconnected and intertwined tales, inspired by Kafka, the...
13) Soldier Boy
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English
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Soldier Boy is gripping story about secrets, fear, longing, lies and the power of being true to yourself, even when the price is higher than you could have imagined.Under the shadow of trauma, Liam has been discharged from the army. As night terrors torment him and he struggles to keep his anger intact, he finds himself in his car, his daughter Alannah asleep in the back, while his wife Emma has gone AWOL. With no idea where to go for shelter, his...
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It's a bad day.You have offended the wrong people.A million dollars has been offered for your life.So what do you do?Why, make a run for it, of course.But where to? Well, why not that house youknew as a boy when it was a ruin?Bleakridge.Perfect. They'll never find you there.But sometimes things get a littleconfused at Bleakridge.Past and present overlap, get mixed up.At such times you're not sure where you are.Or when. Or even who.Maybe you should...
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Nouvel emballage pour une dystopie troublante qui soulève de grandes questions morales…
Joseph, surnommé l'Amiral, se réveille dans un village ctier o rien ne lui semble familier. À sa surprise, les habitants sont convaincus qu'il est « celui que tout le monde attendait ». Lui, un sauveur annoncé par une prophétie ?
Son premier devoir : exécuter la sentence d'un condamné à mort. Mais Joseph n'est pas un tueur… Son refus de disposer...
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Aaron has lost the love of his life, and he is in danger of losing his own. He fumbles through the days after Kelly's funeral, slipping further away from reality and deeper into insanity. Trauma plays tricks on his mind while Kelly's spirit lures him to her. Meanwhile fate intervenes by way of two strangers who quickly become like family.
Crisscrossing the country, he follows vague hints hoping to reconnect with her. His enduring love compels...
17) The Corner Scoop
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English
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The Corner Scoop, an ice cream parlor turned coffee shop, has stood at the corner of Front Street and Broadway for over fifty years. Embittered by his life as the inherited owner, Henry has had to make difficult decisions, two of which could land him the clink for the rest of his life. The unfairness of the death of his wife catapults Henry into business with Ol' Bailey, and when Louie Jr. gets wind of the operation, he puts the screws to Henry. Will...
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Ridiculed by his parents during his childhood, Nahuel Millaman, a seventeen-year-old Mapuche (indigenous Chilean citizen) boy living in Santiago, Chile is extremely shy and lacks self-confidence. When his girlfriend, Calfuray Cayancura, informs him that she is pregnant, the prospect of parenting a child is too daunting and he runs away hoping to regain his self-confidence and return before the child is born.Nahuel travels to the Valdivian Forests...
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An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber. 'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen....
20) Denzil Quarrier
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Denzil Quarrier, a successful, active man, becomes a candidate for Parliament, and, in the moment of triumph, is stricken by the treachery of his best friend, the meaningless treachery of a clever, bored man.
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