Book type: non-fiction (1195)
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Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
It was a horrible death - lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, Chief Inspector Alleyn knew that any number of people could have killed him.
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Come : A Memoir by Rita Therese EN
AustraliaDescription:
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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Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje EN
Sri LankaDescription:
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he c... continue
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Confidential Reports by Immanuel Mifsud EN
MaltaDescription:
He writes mainly here about private experience, sometimes of loss, sometimes of love, sometimes of the erotic. His poems work by suggestion and allusion and they place human experience, even the most intimate or distressing, at the heart of an impersonal physical world which provides the sensual ground of our imagining of reality. He seems to want to recall the reader always to this human status as part of physical world which existed long before us, gave rise to us, and will see us disappear. The impersonality of this world is a foil to the personal nature of human life. By juxtaposing the tw... continue
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Congolina : De erfenis van Nele Marian by Nadia Nsayi NL
CongoDescription:
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
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Contra viento y marea : (1964-1988). by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / 
Peru
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
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Conversations with Tom Petty (Expanded Edition) by Paul Zollo EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
This expanded edition of the first authorized book on Tom Petty, and the only one in his own words, includes additional interviews, articles and reviews.
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Correr by Jean Echenoz ES
FranceDescription:
En los Juegos Interaliados de Berlín, en 1946, al ver detrás del cartel de Checoslovaquia a un solo atleta desmañado, todo el mundo se ríe. Pero después, cuando en los cinco mil metros acelera sin parar y cruza la meta en solitario, los espectadores estallan en un clamor. El nombre de ese chico que siempre sonríe: Emil Zátopek. En pocos años y dos Olimpiadas, Emil se convierte en invencible. Nadie puede pararlo: ni siquiera el régimen checoslovaco, que le espía, limita sus traslados y distorsiona sus declaraciones. Emil corre contra su decadencia, y sonríe. Incluso en las minas de uranio adond... continue
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Crazy Brave : A Memoir by Joy Harjo EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
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