Book type: non-fiction (1193)
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Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre FR
FranceDescription:
This book presents a new English translation of two seminal works by Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominant European intellectual of the post-World War II decades. The volume includes Sartre's 1945 lecture “Existentialism Is a Humanism” and his analysis of Camus's The Stranger, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre's introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Anni... continue
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Fabulosas : histórias de um Brasil LGBTQIAP+ by Patrick Cassimiro PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Fabulosas conta as histórias de mais de trinta pessoas LGBTQIAP+ que deixaram e deixam uma marca no Brasil, por meio de sua arte, sua vida e sua luta. Os leitores vão conhecer personagens fascinantes e descobrir peculiaridades como o percurso enfrentado até o primeiro beijo gay na TV brasileira e o significado dos principais termos do pajubá.
Você certamente já ouviu falar de Laerte. E de Caio Fernando Abreu, de Marielle Franco, de Linn da Quebrada. Mas e Felipa de Souza? E Luiz Delgado? Muito antes de os movimentos LGBTQIAP+ se articularem e consegu... continue
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Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta EN
KenyaDescription:
Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans. It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. It is characterised by both insight and a tinge of romanticism. The author, proud of his African blood and ways of thought, takes the reader through a thorough and clear picture of Gikuyu life and customs, painting an almost ... continue
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Facundo : Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization.
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Faith Among Shadows by Malcolm Leal EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Lying face down on the muddy jungle floor, with the taste of his own blood in his mouth, all Malcolm Leal could do was call upon the God of his great-grandmother. Florencia Martinez Hernandez raised Malcolm as her own son in a small fishing village on the northern coast of Cuba. Teaching Malcolm wisdom gleaned from the worn pages of her century-old Bible, Florencia spoke of a temple "promised to all people" and that there were men on earth who "walked with God." Most importantly, she taught him to rely on "her" God for everything. While on assignment for the Cuban Special Forces in the dense r... continue
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Fallar otra vez by Alan Pauls ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Un ensayo a favor de la escritura imperfecta — y una lúcida reflexión sobre la desobediencia narrativa como origen de la literatura.
Prólogo de Julián Herbert.
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Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah EN
ChinaDescription:
The emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she... continue
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Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg EN
ItalyDescription:
Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family.
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Family of Shadows : A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream by Garin K. Hovannisian EN
ArmeniaDescription:
As a world war rages through Europe in 1915, Ottoman authorities commence the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians—the first genocide of modern history. A teenage boy named Kaspar Hovannisian is among the surviving generation of Armenians who escape the ruins of their ancestral homeland and build communities around the world. Kaspar follows the American dream to the San Joaquin Valley of California, where he cultivates a small farm and begins investing in real estate. But memories of Armenia burn strong—a legacy of love, anguish, and faith in a national rebirth. Kaspar's son Richard l... continue