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A spoken-word poetry collection: An ancient spell from a distant time, One hundred poems and you’ll be mine. So if you do not want me for all time, don’t listen to the poem after ninety-nine. Step into a world where words weave magic, and emotions ignite like flames. *An Ancient Spell from a Distant Time* is a spellbinding collection of passionate love poems that speak to the deepest corners of the heart. Each verse, revealed to a mere mortal, carries the power to awaken forgotten feelings, inspire yearning, and captivate the soul.

This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence. The tropes are familiar, but in their animation they question and move in unexpected ways.

Liefde in tijden van cholera is een prachtige, tijdloze literaire klassieker en naast Honderd jaar eenzaamheid het bekendste werk van Nobelprijswinnaar Gabriel García Márquez Liefde in tijden van cholera is het onvergetelijke liefdesverhaal van Florentino Ariza en Fermina Daza. Op ongeëvenaarde wijze worden grote thema's als liefde, dood, ouderdom, noodlot en begeerte samengebracht in een mild en menselijk universum. In de pers 'Márquez op z'n sensueelst.

Chi non si è mai trovato bloccato in un ingorgo? Chi non ha cercato di far passare il tempo osservando le macchine della fila accanto? E cosa succede se l'imbottigliamento dura giorni, settimane, mesi? Ecco ciò che avviene in Autostrada del Sud , il primo racconto di questa raccolta di Julio Cortázar, l'autore che ha aperto nuove vie nel genere in cui è un riconosciuto maestro, sgranando le sue amatissime ossessioni: il tema del doppio, la discontinuità fra spazio e tempo, l'irrazionale come alternativa al quotidiano.

If Arielle Becker has to serve as a bridesmaid one more time, she's going to scream. Between the expense, the collection of dresses she'll never wear again, the shower planning, the Spanx, the bridezillas, the family time, the heels, and a certain judgmental wedding singer she can't stop bumping into, she is exhausted, burned out, and seriously beginning to hate romance and all its celebrations. Besides, it's not like any of these girls are ever gonna turn around and do the same for her; Ari is not the kind of girl a good Jewish boy is looking to marry.

The Winnowing-Fan by Laurence Binyon was the original book of poetry within which ‘For the Fallen’ first appeared. Now used in Remembrance Day services, it is today his most famous poem. This new edition of the book includes newspaper articles and reviews, which historically re-contextualise the poems. A brief introduction and annotations to individual poems clarify both period detail and Binyon’s biographical perspectives.

The author argues that both Hughes and Plath were creative psychopaths. A psychological and literary study of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, from a working psychotherapist. Plath had been mentally ill since childhood, and brought her condition into the marriage with ted Hughes, creating a folie a deux.

Caché dans les ruelles de Kyoto se trouve le petit restaurant des Kamogawa, d'où s'échappent d'exquises odeurs de cuisine traditionnelle japonaise. En plus de délicats repas faits maison, Nagare et sa fille Koishi proposent une expérience qui sort de l'ordinaire : cuisiner un plat que leurs clients ont en mémoire, mais dont la recette est depuis longtemps oubliée. Pour chaque nouveau plat, la famille Kamogawa enquête et propose à ses convives de déguster une nouvelle fois les mets savoureux qui ont marqué leur vie.

An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of his success because he found the industry to be “a place without truth,” he now, in his 70s, has a special story in mind: a film about Augusto De Angelis, a pioneer of Italian crime fiction in the 1930s. The violent death of De Angelis remains, for Parrini, an unsolved case marked by the stench of injustice and blind fascist censorship, a story that needs to be told now more than ever.

Andrea and Julián haven't seen one another in twenty-one years—not since that tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their upper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.

In eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on the margins of society.

Kutalaani: From the Stars is a stylish unique recording in radio-play style. It reveals the amazing life of Gerry Moses Martin a blind indigenous man who believes that his ancestors are talking to him through iconic Hollywood movies. This audio features traditional indigenous elders singing ancient stories from country (Australia) as well as contemporary original indigenous music.

Ford Dupree has two Grammys, eleven platinum albums, and a reputation that keeps him on the cover of every tabloid. Yet, for all his success, there’s still one thing missing: the love of his best friend. Peyton Jamerson’s been side-eyeing his fame and dodging his proposals for years. Until she walks back into his life in crisis and drops to one knee herself. A fake marriage to save her son? Easy. Sleeping in the same bed with a pillow wall between them? Harder.

Blood to Rubies is the towering saga of injustice, love, and redemption. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. He becomes obsessed with a young Irish woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake, comes to admire the Nez Perce and photographs the young Chief Joseph and a woman warrior (based on a true woman never written about).

Avant le conflit, c'était un peintre talentueux reçu au château, désormais c'est un déserteur que la maîtresse de maison renvoie sèchement. Saisie de compassion, Rosalie, la fille d'Isaure, le cache au grenier. Peut-on agir sur le destin? Le fugitif, la jeune fille et la mère refusent la place qui leur a été assignée.

Un ragazzo salva una tartaruga e questa per sdebitarsi lo conduce al palazzo del re dei mari. Oppure salva uno squalo, che finisce per annidarsi nello stagno del suo giardino, e infine gli procura un tesoro. Un samurai sposa una bellissima ragazza di origini ignote, finché un giorno non si accorge che dal suo kimono spunta una coda fulva. E come mai quella mosca che ronza in cucina sembra avere proprio le abitudini del nonno, morto poco tempo fa?

Clamorosi successi commerciali, questi romanzi-scandalo per eccellenza del Novecento vedono come protagonista la selvatica Claudine, fanciulla e poi giovane donna di spregiudicata sensualità, impegnata a districarsi tra amori saffici e uomini viziosi. Al di là delle presunte scabrosità cui pure devono la fama, contribuirono a diffondere l'immagine di una femminilità nuova, aperta al piacere e non sottomessa al volere maschile né alle convenzioni della società borghese.

不思議な猫に連れられてたどり着いたのは、美しい洋館〈楡屋敷〉だった。あることで声を失い、療養を兼ねて下宿生活を始めた瑛麻。一階の〈書林コマドリ〉でアルバイトをしながら、本好きの下宿仲間と二階で暮らす生活は思いもよらない出来事ばかり。

Up-and-coming young artist Jefferson Fontenot has everything going for him: The hot New Orleans art scene has noticed him, and he's finally found his true love, Nevaeh Parker. But Fontenot’s bright future hides a darkness known as Gemma Landry— the artist’s lover and art scene influencer. Gemma believes Jefferson's talent holds the key to her seizing control of the popular Carondelet Street Gallery. But when Gemma discovers Jefferson's infidelity, she enslaves the artist with a poison she acquired from swamp-dwelling witch Mirlande St. Pierre.

The story of an newlyweds couple that moves from Ohio to Kentucky befriended a young couple across the street in there new Neighborhood. One night the two couples decides to try something new by having a night of fun partner swapping, alcohol, drugs, things take a dark turn after they sober up and find out a dark deep secret about the couple across the street.