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"Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic ... and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway....
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Booker Prize Longlist 2020
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
The Mirror & the Light Readalikes
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
The Mirror & the Light Readalikes
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"With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making...
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Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Marian Keyes Laurie no cree en el amor a primera vista. Piensa que una cosa son las películas y otra, la vida real. Sin embargo, un día de diciembre, su mirada se cruza con la de un desconocido a través de la ventanilla empañada del autobús. Surge la magia y Laurie se enamora perdidamente, pero el autobús arranca y sigue su camino por las calles nevadas de Londres. Está convencida de que es el hombre de su vida, pero no sabe dónde encontrarlo....
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AdN Alianza de Novelas
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[2023]
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Español
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"Un gélido día de diciembre de su primer año en Harvard, Sam Masur sale de un vagón de metro y ve, entre la hordas de gente que esperan en el andén, a Sadie Green. La llama a gritos. Por un momento, ella hace como que no lo ha oído, pero entonces se vuelve y empieza la partida: una colaboración legendaria que los lanzará al estrellato. Piden dinero prestado, favores y, antes incluso de graduarse, firman su priemra superproducción: Ichigo,...
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Film Ideas
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2012.
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English
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"December 2001, Buenos Aires. Five days before Christmas a disturbing silence pervades the city. The day before, frustrated Argentineans looted supermarkets. The government reacted immediately by proclaiming a state of emergency. The situation approaches anarchy for twelve days, in which time five presidents will succeed one another. With never before shown footage, this documentary provides a critical analysis of the events around Christmas 2001....
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W.W. Norton
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1998.
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English
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An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. Poems in this substantial volume, many of which are no longer available in other editions, have been selected from seven previous collections (1972-1995). Along with these favorite poems redeemed, Gerald Stern offers a generous array of new work.
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Plaza Janés, Penguin Random House Grupo Editoria
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2018.
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Español
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Teresa Anglada sees how her life as a successful journalist falls apart when her daughter Jimena disappears at the Reina Sofía Art Museum in Madrid without a trace. In panic, Teresa is slow to see a detail: her daughter has disappeared on December 21, the same day her father did in 1970. What she does not yet know is that one of her predecessors died in that same place 67 years ago, when the museum was the Provincial Hospital of Madrid, although...
14) When language broke open: an anthology of queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent
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University of Arizona Press
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2023.
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English
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"When Language Broke Open is a collection of writing by Black queer and trans writers of Latin American descent who help us see Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. In centering the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community, the anthology's trans contributors challenge everything we think we know about gender, sexuality, and what it means to live a livable life. By exploring themes of memory, care, and futurity, these...
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