Book type: fiction (6185)


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Paula by Isabel Allende NL

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Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
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De auteur beschrijft de periode waarin haar dochter langdurig in coma ligt, welke eindigt met de dood van het meisje.

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Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Serbia flag Serbia
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling New York Times bestselling rom-com by Lana Harper. Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams. But when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves ... continue

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Pé de Perfume : Ylang-Ylang by Olinda Beja PT

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Sobre o livro: (...) as estórias de "Pé-de-Perfume", marcadas fortemente pelo cunho da tradição africana da narração oral, são transversalmente habitadas por Poesia, ou não fosse Olinda Beja um grande poeta, seja na função da linguagem, nas imagens sugeridas pelo desenho dos cenários ou pela postura dos personagens. Ao mesmo tempo, os contos curtos são encabeçados por epígrafes proverbiais nas duas línguas, santomense e portuguesa, como que anunciando uma lição final das estórias que assumem, assim, muita vez, o perfil de fábulas. A certos animais marinhos ou terrestres emblemáticos do arquipé... continue

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Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / China flag China
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A moving debut novel about war, migration, and the power of telling stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home. With every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end of time. It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin's future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. Relying on little but their wits and a beautifully illustrated hand scroll, filled with ancient fab... continue
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Pearls of the Past by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar EN

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Country: Asia / Qatar flag Qatar
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Happily ever after begins now for Abdulla and Sangita, the unlikely duo who met by chance in a London apartment. Married life holds more than they bargained for with the pressures of living amongst his extended family.Hind has made good on her aspirations to work in the foreign service in India as an independent woman. Except loneliness dogs her every step.And young Luluwa, once a teenager infatuated with her dead sister's husband, is growing up quickly. When a deep family secret comes to light, she will have to find a way to bring them together to overcome the dark forces.Readers will lose th... continue
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Peces tropicales by Doreen Baingana ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Uganda flag Uganda
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A partir de ocho relatos que pueden leerse en conjunto como una sola historia, Peces tropicales sigue la historia de tres hermanas, Christine, Patti y Rosa desde su niñez hacia su juventud en Entebbe. La decadencia familiar, el descubrimiento del amor y del sexo, la espiritualidad, el gobierno de Idi Amin y las peripecias del exilio son algunos de los temas que Doreen Baingana enhebra con maestría en estas historias íntimas que nos llevan a descubrir de su mano la vida en Uganda. Ganadora de los premios Commonwealth Writers Prize, Associated Writers and Writing Programmes Award y Washington Wr... continue

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Pecore nere : racconti by Gabriella Kuruvilla IT

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
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A Roma la gente corre sempre, a Mogadiscio la gente non corre mai. Io sono una via di mezzo tra Roma e Mogadiscio: cammino a passo sostenuto. -- 4ème de couverture.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed : 30th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confid... continue

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Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo EN

Rating: 4 (19 votes)
Description:
Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.

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Pedro Paramo. El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo, Eduardo Galeano ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Pedro Páramo y El llano en llamas representan dos aportaciones fundamentales a la literatura contemporánea en lengua castellana. Tanto en la novela como en la colección de relatos, Juan Rulfo nos transporta con gran maestría de lo real a lo fantástico por medio de un estilo vigoroso y poético. Profundamente enraizada en lo popular, la narrativa de Juan Rulfo describe con conmovedora fuerza la cotidiana realidad de un mundo a la vez violento y lírico. Si los cuentos de El llano en llamas describen, con exquisita sobriedad, el mundo de los campesi... continue