Book type: non-fiction (650)


101.

Claus y Lucas by Agota Kristof ES

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Hungary flag Hungary
Description:
Estas tres novelas de gran éxito internacional han confirmado la reputación de Agota Kristof como uno de los exponentes más provocadores de la narrativa europea. Con la simplicidad sórdida de un cuento de hadas, esta trilogía nos explica la historia de dos hermanos gemelos, Claus y Lucas, condicionados por un vínculo agonizante, que se convierte también en una alegoría de las fuerzas que han separado a Europa desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial.La saga empieza con El gran cuaderno, donde los hermanos Claus y Lucas se encuentran a merced de su abuela, una mujer analfabeta y cruel. Lejos de rendirse... continue

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Collection of Poems by Samuella J Conteh EN

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Love Colours is a collection of poems mostly submitted for poetry contests on given themes and different poetry forms. Many of the poems featured in the collection are winning poems that have been featured in anthologies which are currently available on Amazon. Some of the anthologies that feature my poems from these contests are as follows: Eternally, Stairway to Heaven, Modern Poets, Sending Love to Mom, Bowl of Peace, Amazing Minds and Reminiscing Summer. Love Colours which is my first collection, was borne out of a desire to bring my scattered pieces under one collection.


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Come : A Memoir by Rita Therese EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Bold, brave and darkly funny, COME is the extraordinary story of Melbourne sex worker Rita Therese and the love, sex and death she has experienced in her life so far.


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Congolina : De erfenis van Nele Marian by Nadia Nsayi NL

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Country: Africa / Congo flag Congo
Description:
Nele Marian is een van de eerste schrijvers van Afrikaanse afkomst in Europa. In de jaren dertig verscheen haar dichtbundel Poèmes et Chansons, waarin ze koloniaal onrecht op aangrijpende wijze beschrijft. Het behoort tot de belangrijkste werken uit de Congolese literatuur. Toch is haar naam amper bekend. Nadia Nsayi dook in de archieven en bezocht symbolische plaatsen om het complexe leven van Nele Marian te reconstrueren met de grote geschiedenis op de achtergrond. Ze staat stil bij Marians werk en erfenis en legt opvallende parallellen met haar eigen leven. Congolina is een uniek verhaal, w... continue

107.

Contra viento y marea : (1964-1988). by Mario Vargas Llosa ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
Adieu, Sartre Novelista y dramaturgo, Mario Vargas Llosa es también un ensayista de gustos eclécticos. Si su país, el Perú, le preocupa ante todo -su historia, su futuro político y, más allá, el futuro de toda América Latina-, estas páginas, escritas entre 1962 y 1983, dan testimonio de un interés apasionado por los grandes Preguntas del momento: ¿Qué tipo de sociedad para América Latina? ¿Qué papel debe jugar el intelectual en la ciudad? Su disputa con Günter Grass muestra que no tie... continue

108.

Crazy Brave : A Memoir by Joy Harjo EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart nec... continue

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Create Or Hate: Successful People Make Things by Dan Norris EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Most of us have always wanted to make something, but for any number of reasons haven't. We are all creative - there is a creator in you. But there is also a force called Hate, which will work against your creativity and stop you from making things. Hate can be controlled, and overpowered and your creative side can be nurtured and grown.

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Crime and Punishment : A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue by Fyodor Dostoyevsky EN

Rating: 4 (23 votes)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. When Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commit... continue