Book type: non-fiction (1081)
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People Love Dead Jews, Tales from a haunted present by Dara Horn EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con-tem-po-rary Jew-ish Life and Prac-tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.
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Pequena coreografia do adeus by Aline Bei PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Julia é filha de pais separados: sua mãe não suporta a ideia de ter sido abandonada pelo marido, enquanto seu pai não suporta a ideia de ter sido casado. Sufocada por uma atmosfera de brigas constantes e falta de afeto, a jovem escritora tenta reconhecer sua individualidade e dar sentido à sua história, tentando se desvencilhar dos traumas familiares.
Entre lembranças da infância e da adolescência, e sonhos para o futuro, Julia encontra personagens essenciais para enfrentar a solidão ao mesmo tempo que ensaia sua própr... continue
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Pequeno Manual Antirracista by Djamila Ribeiro PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Onze lições breves para entender as origens do racismo e como combatê-lo. Neste pequeno manual, a filósofa e ativista Djamila Ribeiro trata de temas como atualidade do racismo, negritude, branquitude, violência racial, cultura, desejos e afetos. Em onze capítulos curtos e contundentes, a autora apresenta caminhos de reflexão para aqueles que queiram aprofundar sua percepção sobre discriminações racistas estruturais e assumir a responsabilidade pela transformação do estado das coisas. Já há muitos anos se solidifica a percepção de que o racismo está arraigado em nossa sociedade, criando desigua... continue
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BurundiDescription:
Este «pequeño libro» fue la sensación literaria en Francia en 2016 Escrita con un tono muy cercano y poético, Gaël Faye nos transporta en esta espléndida novela al corazón del continente africano para contarnos qué sucede cuando la Historia se introduce en nuestras vidas y las cambia de forma irreparable. Hijo de una ruandesa tutsi y un empresario francés instalado en Burundi, Gaby tiene diez años y se pasa el día con su panda de amigos en las calles de Buyumbura, un escenario propicio a todo tipo de aventuras: robar mangos en los jardines del barrio, fumar a escondidas, descubrir la pasión po... continue
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi EN
IranDescription:
BEST SELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. “A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking impact.” —The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years" In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regim... continue
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Persepolis 2 : The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi EN
Description:
The fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis, “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day” (Los Angeles Times). Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending graphic memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging. Finding that she misses her home ... continue
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Persépolis intégrale by Marjane Satrapi FR
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Téhéran 1978 : Marjane, huit ans, songe à l'avenir et se rêve en prophète sauvant le monde. Traversant avec elle révolution, guerre, deuil, exil, mais aussi apprentissage de la vie, puberté, premières amours, nous la suivrons jusqu'à son départ définitif pour la France en 1994. Paru à l'origine entre 2000 et 2004 en 4 volumes, Persepolis est la première bande dessinée iranienne, l'autobiographie dessinée d'une orientale en exil. Depuis sa sortie, Persepolis a fait le tour du monde, est devenu un classique étudié dans les écoles et a fait l'objet d'une adaptation au cinéma de nombreuses fois ré... continue
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Pleidooi voor leven by Denis Mukwege NL
Country: Africa / 
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Description:
Leven en werk van de Congolese gynaecoloog Denis Mukwege, Nobelprijswinnaar voor de Vrede 2018, die vrouwen behandelt die het slachtoffer zijn geweldadige verkrachtingen en genitale verminking.
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Poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nazim Hikmet EN
TurkeyDescription:
The definitive selection by the first and foremost modern Turkish poet. A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes and adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music, innovative form, and e... continue
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GreeceDescription:
Translated by S.H. Butcher. Show Excerpt ely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song. Two of the parts constitute the medium of imitation, one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every play contains Spectacular elements as well as Character, Plot, Diction, Song, and Thought. But most important of all is the structure of the incidents. For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action... continue