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Living on the island of Cyprus, Nisha is far from her native Sri Lanka. Though she longs to return home, she knows that working as a “maid” for a wealthy widow is the only way to earn enough to support her daughter, left behind to be raised by relatives.
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Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary shelley, it is a story which she intended would curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity, it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy. The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multi-layered themes in the novel. Although first published in 1818, Shelley’s masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination and has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies, television and stage adaptations.
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Mayo de 1572: durante diez años violentos, las guerras de religión han asolado Francia. Los vecinos se han convertido en enemigos, se han perdido innumerables vidas y el país se ha desgarrado por cuestiones de religión, ciudadanía y soberanía. Pero ahora está en juego una paz precaria y se ha negociado una boda real. Es un matrimonio que podría ver Francia reunida por finHa llegado una invitación para que Minou Joubert y su familia asistan a esta histórica boda en París en agosto. Pero lo que Minou no sabe es que el enemigo más antiguo de la familia Joubert, Vidal, también estará allí. Ni que, a los pocos días del matrimonio, en vísperas de la festividad de San Bartolomé, su familia se disperse a los cuatro vientos y uno de sus amados hijos haya desaparecido sin dejar rastro. . ..
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Edición en bolsillo de TROUBLED BLOOD última entregade la aclamada serie internacional de Cormoran Strikey Robin Ellacott, escrita por Robert Galbraith, seudónimo de J.K. Rowling. El detective privado CormoranStrike visita a su familia en Cornwall cuando una mujer se le acerca para pedirle ayuda para encontrar a su madre, Margot Bamborough, quien desapareció en circunstancias misteriosas en 1974.
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Un attore, forse un comico, durante uno spettacolo di intrattenimento entra in scena dal fondo della platea e con un sorriso complice coinvolge tutti i presenti in quella che pare una riflessione sulle questioni che affliggono la società civile. Piano piano tra appelli alla necessità di resuscitare una società agonizzante, slogan politici sul senso di comunità e sulla meritocrazia, proclami sulla patria e sulla sicurezza, quell'uomo, in un crescendo di autocompiacimento, porterà l'uditorio a una sorprendente conseguenza finale, mostrando come la seduzione autoritaria nasconda un raffinato congegno ideologico, uno strumento persuasivo vorace di consenso, che inganna la logica, manipolandola. Con un ritmo serrato, un meccanismo perfetto e volutamente provocatorio, Elio Germano e Chiara Lagani ci trascinano in una narrazione avvolgente e disturbante, facendoci vivere un incubo a occhi aperti, tanto più inquietante perché non così lontano dalla realtà.
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¿Se puede tener miedo a la soledad y al mismo tiempo miedo a ser amado? Meg se ha estado preguntando desde que Demian, el escritor y el hombre con el que vivió los últimos dos años, se fue. Durante toda una vida ella había sido la que se marchaba, incapaz de ceder por completo a los sentimientos. Y ahora que se ha ido, Meg está atónita y no sabe qué hacer. ¿Es hora de pensar por sí misma o de alimentar la esperanza de que Demian regrese?
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Developed and adapted by the authors of this book, thematic analysis (TA) is one of the most popular qualitative data analytic techniques in psychology and the social and health sciences. Building on the success of Braun & Clarke′s 2006 paper first outlining their approach - which has over 100,000 citations on Google Scholar - this book is the definitive guide to TA.
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Overcome any apprehension you may have as you master statistics with Brase/Brase/Seibert/Dolor's Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Methods , 13th Edition.This thorough, yet reader-friendly, program provides clear guidance and informal advice while showing you the connections between statistics and today's world. This intriguing presentation incorporates current, real data drawn from contemporary journals, periodicals and news sources.Updated learning features and exercises help you strengthen critical-thinking skills and your statistical literacy. Optional coverage also shows you how to use graphing calculators, Excel , Minitab and other statistical software.An easy-to-use, integrated Statistical Analysis and Learning Tool (SALT) demonstrates how to manipulate data sets and better understand the meaning behind the data. In addition, online homework available through WebAssign provides videos, interactive visual data, online stats labs and other resources to guide you in learning statistics.
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Sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father, and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, and her father by degrees, and her voice was a thing she never had to start with. She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she's never met, her father's older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty, save for the servants. Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don't go out after dusk, and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate's western edge. Beyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood...
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*The international bestseller* Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough... Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . . 'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro 'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph 'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times
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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny - it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet - and it just might be his very best.
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This provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s. The stories resonate with Hanif Kureishi's dead-on observations of human passion and folly, his brilliant depiction of seedy locales and magical characters, and his original, wicked sense of humour.
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Al abrir este volumen, nos encontramos con nuestro indómito héroe a sus 46 años, sumergido en plena crisis de la mediana edad. Pero en realidad Crumb ha vivido toda su vida marcado por episodios de ansiedad introspectivos y autoflagelantes, y estos años de madurez le sirven para depurar su agitada existencia y perfeccionar su talento artístico. El autor acompaña ahora los dibujos con textos más largos que dan muestra de su aguda capacidad de observación, como lo demuestra un extenso párrafo dedicado a un encuentro con los amigos veganos de su hermano Maxon y otro con un himno poético dedicado a la angustia vital y el envejecimiento. La mudanza de su familia en 1991 a Sauve, al sur de Francia, se refleja en algunos cambios en su obra: los retratos de muchachas estadounidenses de mejillas sonrosadas esperando a ser servidas en cafés de California dan paso a chicas en cafés franceses, también aparecen imágenes pastoriles ambientadas en la campiña gala e inquietantes escenas de mendigos en el metro. El nuevo personaje más destacado en este cuaderno de bocetos es un santón con turbante al que la joven Sophie Crumb llama Roman Dodo. Parece inspirarse ligeramente en el hermano de Robert, Maxon. Además de novias del presente y del pasado, también hace su debut Patricia Pig, una alegre híbrida humano-porcino. A medida que el artista se acerca a los 50 años, las fantasías de vuelta a la dependencia infantil de figuras femeninas fuertes e incluso de una buena muerte, llevado a lomos de un ángel joven y fuerte, nos hablan no tanto de la angustia como de la aceptación del proceso de envejecimiento. Nuestro querido cascarrabias encuentra una forma de paz, una especie de aceptación de los crueles caprichos del destino. Hasta las páginas finales, cuando se llama a sí mismo, sin saberse muy bien por qué, «pedazo de MARICA». En resumidas cuentas, otro volumen arrollador.
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It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.
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New York, 1942: Will Parker ist eine junge Frau mit ungewöhnlichen Talenten und als diese der Privatdetektivin Lilian Pentecost das Leben retten, nimmt sie Will als ihre Assistentin unter ihre Fittiche. Drei Jahre später bittet Becca Collins die beiden um Hilfe. Beccas Mutter wurde während eines Maskenballs im Anwesen der Familie ermordet – mit einer Kristallkugel erschlagen, in einem von innen verschlossenen Zimmer. Aber in einem Fall, der Nachrichten aus den Jenseits, eine mysteriöse Wahrsagerin und zwielichtige Verwandtschaft involviert, gestalten die Ermittlungen sich verzwickt. Und als Will mehr als nur professionelles Interesse an ihrer Auftraggeberin Becca entwickelt, wird die Sache kompliziert – und Will rückt ins Visier des Mörders … Wie eine weibliche Version von Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson mit der Atmosphäre einer Partie Cluedo – frisch, clever, cosy!
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