Book type: fiction (6198)


2281.

Juno Loves Legs : A Novel by Karl Geary EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Little Life, Juno Loves Legs is the epic and heartbreaking story of a young friendship set in working-class Dublin in the 1980s Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an unbound life and together they begin to fight ... continue

2282.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for eons. Reissue.


2284.

Just by Looking at Him : A Novel by Ryan O'Connell EN

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"Elliot is a writer who spends his days navigating the back stabbing, the pressure, and the day-to-day snark of writing aggressively average television. In laugh out loud detail, we're immediately with him on his journey to try to get his lines onto the screen. But there's a deeper, and more poignant, story beating at the heart of this would be rom com: instead of the usual boy meets boy, the person you really fall in love with, the one you're rooting for until the end, is the protagonist himself. As a gay man with cerebral palsy, Elliot has always searched for the one, and he thought he found... continue


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Juventud by J. M. Coetzee ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
En esta evocación en forma de memorias, y continuación de Infancia, J. M. Coetzee revisita su juventud, periodo fundamental de aprendizaje para el autor y narrador de la historia, un estudiante de matemáticas e inglés que quiere ser escritor. Para conseguirlo, se traslada desde Ciudad del Cabo hasta la capital inglesa, huyendo de la situación claustrofóbica y compleja que atraviesa su país y de una serie de circunstancias personales conflictivas. En esta búsqueda de sí mismo, el joven protagonista aparece como un individuo atorment... continue

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Kafka am Strand by Haruki Murakami DE

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Der Held in diesem Entwicklungs- und Liebesroman heisst Kafka Tamura und ist fünfzehn Jahre alt. Er läuft von zu Hause fort, um der stärkste 15-Jährige der Welt zu werden. Eine kafkaeske Reise voller Mythen und Mysterien beginnt.

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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami EN

Rating: 4 (13 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
A teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.

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Kaidara : by Amadou Hampâté Bâ ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Mali flag Mali
Description:
Kaidara es la historia del viaje iniciático de tres compañeros a través de un país subterráneo repleto de encuentros simbólicos y misteriosos, hacia el hogar del “tan lejano y tan próximo” Kaidara, dios del oro y del conocimiento. Tras el aspecto recreativo de este gran cuento africano, concebido para todas las edades, cada imagen, cada evento posee un sentido oculto que Amadou Hampâté Bâ nos ayuda a descubrir en un importante aparato de notas sobre el simbolismo y la espiritualidad africanos.
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2290.

Kaikeyi : A Novel by Vaishnavi Patel EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
"Mythic retelling at its best." ―R. F. Kuang, author of The Poppy War "Easily earns its place on shelves alongside Madeline Miller's Circe." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) A stunning debut from a powerful new voice, Kaikeyi reimagines the life of the infamous queen from the Indian epic the Ramayana. It is a tale of fate, family, courage, and heartbreak--and an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come. I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions--much good it did me. So beg... continue