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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Christian Wiman, a thinker "at the very source of theology" (Marilynne Robinson), braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work"-- Provided by publisher.
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind...
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English
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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us. Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step to the side, away from lamentation and prescription,...
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ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers "a precious glimpse into how Ziwe's uniquely fearless mind functions" (New York Magazine)
Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the...
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Español
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En el mundo de lo social, es imprescindible la creación de nuevos proyectos, enfocados a mejorar el bienestar y la calidad de vida de las personas.Ante la actual crisis económica que estamos atravesando, donde, se hace latente una de sus consecuencias más claras y devastadoras, como es la falta o ausencia de empleo, nace, a modo de ejemplo, esta presentación de proyectos, con el objetivo de inspirar y animar a los profesionales de lo social a...
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Plaza Janes, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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"El Antropoceno es la era geologica actual, una epoca caracterizada por el profundo impacto que el ser humano esta teniendo sobre el planeta. Con su especial sensibilidad para lo extrano, lo importante y lo sorprendente, John Green reune en esta extraordinaria coleccion de textos distintas facetas de nuestro presente y las puntua en una particular escala del uno al cinco. Deteniendo su mirada en temas tan variados como el teclado QWERTY, internet,...
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Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and...
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Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances--a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukumatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks...
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English
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After the events of the 2020 presidential election, a Cuban teacher in Miami identifies signs of the type of society he left behind. Concerned about the conversion of the United States into a totalitarian country, he begins sending email alerts to known people. The mails have become analyses of the evolving situation and a chronicle of the occupation of each field by the radical left. Education becomes indoctrination, news becomes harmful propaganda,...
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Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cubantropía (Cubanthropy) is a work of cultural criticism whose title is a neologism coined by the author to describe the energy between anthropology and entropy, the space between the street and the library, the island and the world. These collected essays, written in Iván de la Nuez's trademark ironic, erudite style, range in subject matter from the Berlin Wall to Havana's Malecón. This book examines recent clashes between the market and democracy,...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A meditation on literary craft that muses on how and why novels communicate with readers. Shows how fiction operates, exploring the conventions of form, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel. The author uses his own line drawings to portray the ebb and flow of novels. He considers how writers invent or discover their characters, the importance or unimportance...
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English
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Travel Tales: Pickpockets & Other Thieves is the next book in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel stories of pickpocketing and theft in travel. If you are pickpocketed or robbed we hope you manage to escape in your travels with only minor consequences. This book is a collection of the fearful and potentially dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers on occasion, but mostly these will not happen to you. You'll read...
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Travel Tales: Toilet Stories is all about taking care of your daily business as best you can - doing your daily duty, so to speak… finding and using toilets and the like - in your travels. No matter where you are traveling to, no matter what you are doing, and no matter who you are when Nature calls, you had better answer.Talking about your bathroom needs is, indeed, one of the top ten daily topics discussed by fellow travelers among one another...
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Deutsch
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Dieses Buch enthält 13 philosophische Texte von Eva Neuner über die Entdeckung des jeweils eigenen, authentischen wahren Inneren.
Durch ausdrucksstarke Fotografieren von Rainer Frauenfeld werden die Texte noch verstärkt.
Etwas möchte im Buch dazu anregen, der Führung der Seele zu vertrauen, die jeden Menschen mit dem Göttlichen, der Herkunft und dem wahren Zuhause verbindet. Die Seele enthält das Unzerstörbare, Unverletzliche, was auch...
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