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Es un libro que acercará al lector a su propio poder de sanación, de volver al amor hacia sí mismo, por medio de un trabajo de consciencia interior, pero también del viaje que plantea la autora de autodescubrimiento, en un camino de magia pura a través de una serie de rituales, donde el don más importante de cada quien será la capacidad de trabajar en su ser. Así que a través del relato de su historia personal, Erika llevará al lector por...
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'This is a pacey and colourful read … elegantly written.' – Daisy Dunn, The Times
'The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals … it is a constant pleasure.' – Mark Amory, The Spectator
'At a rollicking pace, it follows the post-Oxford careers of all the main Hypocrites … Waugh addicts will wish to add it to their shelves.' – A.N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
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Per the New World Encyclopedia, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh),(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King of Alba) from 1040 until his death. He is best known as the subject of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth and the many works it has inspired, although the play is historically inaccurate. Shakespeare' Macbeth immortalized the Scottish king but as a dark, tormented character driven...
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Mary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.
In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already "a Classic in his lifetime," struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan. This passionately curious woman, an intrepid traveler who, like Eliot, was deeply involved in the affairs of the Church of England, served as the warden of the Student Movement House, mere yards from the poet and editor's office at Faber and Faber.
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When I Started Smoking Weed for Real is volume 5 of the series On Being, a self-referential, metaphysical case history where the author J. Guzmán, as the protagonist Ana, psychoanalyzes her own consciousness throughout Time, uses tools like astrology to facilitate the investigation, and documents the entire process. On Being is a life-long, narrative, archival data set of her life in the form of diaries, whose purpose is to assist astrologers and...
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Nadine Gordimer's Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. It has the makings of a guide, taking the reader through the complexities in Gordimer's life, literature, and society, backed by academic research (doctoral...
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Dear reader,Anyone expecting a melancholic epitaph for a bygone era in my book "Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines" will be disappointed. I myself grew up in East Germany and spent half of my life there. There is nothing politically desirable about that time, and nothing of it should be repeated. The other half I spent in united Germany, and while some aspects could have been better, many were indeed better. One had the...
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As she builds her own life anew, an Italian journalist embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi—her disappearance from India, her persecution by the Nazis, and her pursuit of freedom at any cost.
On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at...
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Après de multiples hospitalisations, Agathe décide de nous livrer son quotidien ainsi que celui d'autres personnes touchées par l'anorexie ou la boulimie. Ce recueil de témoignages qui relate le combat de ces personnes malades afin de retrouver une vie normale est également une invitation à accompagner ceux qui souffrent au lieu de les stigmatiser.
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Atteinte d'anorexie mentale depuis plusieurs années, Agathe Malo est...
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La vie est parfois une épreuve jalonnée de vides inattendus… ou de trous béants dans le cœur.
Ce livre, mon témoignage, est le récit d'un combat intime contre les fantmes du passé. J'y dévoile les abysses d'une expérience personnelle marquée par le viol et les drames familiaux : un séisme émotionnel qui a laissé derrière lui une vie criblée d'absences. Avec une plume trempée dans l'encre de ma douleur et guidée par l'espoir d'éclairer...
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For readers of Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, and #Girlboss, a hilarious-yet heartfelt-guide to growing up and taking your place in the world by the popular comedian and author of the highly praised Agorafabulous!
While the practical aspects of new adulthood can be nerve-wracking-dating, job-hunting, money-managing-the most important task of all is figuring out who you are and where you fit in the world. Author and comedian Sara Benincasa, now in her...
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Cette autobiographie fascinante nous plonge dans l'exploration d'authentiques « êtres humains », à l'opposé de la société déclinante et matérialiste qui nous éloigne de notre véritable essence. Au cœur de cette quête personnelle, l'auteur dévoile son moi intime, levant ainsi le masque de sa réelle identité, une découverte primordiale. Chaque aventure, en réalité, équivaut à un voyage intérieur qui nous révèle davantage sur...
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AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, REINVIGORATED
In 1854, Henry David Thoreau published his famous work, Walden, an experiment in simple living. Thoreau recounts his experiences living alone in a small self-built cabin near Walden Pond, reflecting on the virtue of self-reliance and the pursuit of a meaningful life. He challenges readers to question societal norms and reconnect with the natural world, our home. Walden remains a timeless exploration of transcendentalist...
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Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"?
In The Fight for "The Night": Resolving the Authorship Dispute Over "The Night Before Christmas," author Tom A. Jerman addresses a challenge first voiced by descendants of a Poughkeepsie farmer, Henry Livingston Jr., and later articulated by Vassar English professor Don Foster to the long-standing attribution of "The Night Before Christmas" to New York seminary professor Clement C. Moore.
· Livingston never...
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This book contains several articles and speeches by Andrew Carnegie, one of the most important industrialists of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in the United States; the man who would later inspire Napoleon Hill to write "Think and Grow Rich". His ideas on How to win fortune, the importance of wealth, and how young people can succeed, inspired generations. In his philanthropic work, he created and funded a network of public...
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The USA Today—bestselling author details how she became a crime novelist and how she created her acclaimed husband-and-wife detective team.
In 1986, Faye Kellerman introduced LAPD detective Peter Decker and widowed yeshiva teacher Rina Lazarus in her crime novel, The Ritual Bath. The debut won Kellerman the 1987 Macavity Award for Best First Novel and turned into a long-running bestselling series. But how exactly did it all come about?
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