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1) Giros negros
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Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Como los cazadores astutos, la reflexión humorística no ataca frontalmente a sus presas: prefiere dar un rodeo en espera de una paradoja reveladora que le permita dar en el blanco o ver más allá de las apariencias. De manera que Giros negros tiene una vocación giratoria por partida doble: no es un edificio bien ordenado, sino un rehilete que dispara ideas en varias direcciones, a veces opuestas, con la esperanza de que alguna pueda germinar...
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English
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"The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud funny essays about the lifelong search for community and returning home. After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas is ready to live his best life. Or, if not, at least his best-ish life. Now, in this collection...
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English
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" An irresistible account of bread, bread baking, and one home baker's journey to master his craft In 2009, journalist Samuel Fromartz was offered the assignment of a lifetime: to travel to France to work in a boulangerie. So began his quest to hone not just his homemade baguette-which later beat out professional bakeries to win the "Best Baguette of D.C."-but his knowledge of bread, from seed to table. For the next four years, Fromartz traveled across...
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush. A few channeled their devotion into obsessively writing embarrassing fan letters. Some taped pics in school lockers. Others decorated their bedroom walls with posters. Here are funny, whimsical, sometimes...
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English
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"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where 'my ancestors lived for centuries, ' the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"In Saramago. His Names we find over two hundred clues to the creative universe of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner. Conceived as a book to celebrate the author in the hundredth anniversary of his birth, words and images come together, get attached, and unfold in multiple ways. The voice that guides us through these pages is the author's, showing and commenting on places, people, reads, subjects, and characters in his work. They all forged his identity....
9) The skeptical vegan: my journey from notorious meat eater to tofu-munching vegan - a survival guide
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in an all-women household and coddled endlessly by his Italian mother and grandmother, Eric Lindstrom was nourished to obesity on meaty sauces, fried eggs, and butter-laden cookies. After spending the first half of his life as an adamant omnivore, Lindstrom went 100% vegan. Reluctantly. Overnight. From burgers to beets, from pork to parsnips. It's time for a down-to-earth book that proves anyone can go vegan (even someone who once ate sixty-eight...
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Sasquatch Books
Language
English
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"The story of the land in the Northwest flows from the cataclysmic ice-age floods. So it only follows that the stories of the people in this terrain are inextricably linked to the aftereffects of that great deluge. These are the genesis stories of a region. Included are the controversy over the provenance and ownership of a meteor that fell to earth in rural Oregon; the mystery of the aurora borealis as observed by 18th-century explorer David Thompson;...
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English
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Fans of birdwatching will rejoice with Backyard Bird Photography, a guide for learning how to set up your backyard in order to take the best photographs of your local birds. In addition to guiding you through the first steps of setting up your plantings and birdfeeders, this book describes the types of photographic equipment you will need to get just the right image; how to maneuver yourself into just the right position to create a quality bird photograph;...
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