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1) The hunter
Author
Series
Cal Hooper volume 2
Language
English
Description
"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Izdatelstvo AST
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Russian
Description
"Дмитрий Быков - известный поэт, литературовед, биограф, журналист и критик, обладатель ряда престижных премий, автор биографий, художественной прозы, а также более десятка сборников стихотворений, пьес и публицистических статей. Книга "Нобель. Литература"...
5) The hours
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't...
Author
Series
Daughters of war volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1960s Marrakech, French student Vicky Baudin and her cousin, Bea, throw themselves into Morocco's wild and glamorous party scene until a murder takes place and Bea goes missing, forcing Vicky to turn to her mysterious grandmother, who has dark secrets of her own, for help.
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