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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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Plaza Janes, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
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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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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]
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English
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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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Vinyage Espanol
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Español
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Los quince anos de destierro que Jose Marti paso en Estados Unidos le proporcionaron una perspectiva que abarca tanto el norte como el sur del hemisferio, una vision reflejada en su ensayo "Nuestra America." La seleccion de textos de este volumen imprime a "lo nuestro" martiano, un giro contemporaneo que incluye a la comunidad hispanoamericana en los Estados Unidos, personificada en Marti durante un periodo migratorio--la segunda mitad del siglo XIX--...
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Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Presents a deeply personal work of meditation, hope, and remembrance recounting the death of the author's beloved father in the summer of 2020.
Una conmovedora reflexion acerca del duelo por la muerte de su padre de la mano de la mundialmente aclamada autora de Todos deberiamos ser feministas. En este emotivo y poderoso ensayo, que nace de un articulo publicado en The New Yorker, la autora nigeriana pone palabras al inenarrable grado de dolor causado...
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Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan...
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Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Con mirada atenta y pulso firme, Juan Villoro se desdobla en periodista, transeunte, comprador de plumas, adulto nostalgico, padre responsable, brigadista de emergencia, y nos ofrece un testimonio de las multiples experiencias que la capital mexicana depara a todos y cada uno de sus agremiados.
Collection of two decades' writing about Mexico City, combining personal stories with vivid evocations and chronicles.
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Publicado a comienzos de la década de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerías desde hace muchos años, este ensayo, que en su origen fue la tesis que le valió a Vargas Llosa en 1971 el título de doctor por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, muestra la admiración del Nobel peruano por García Márquez y por su novela Cien años de soledad. En él se analiza en profundidad la obra del autor colombiano, compañero de Vargas Llosa en el boom...
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