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Author: Renata Falcão Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1398453145 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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It’s the beginning of the summer holidays. Alice is a law student and goes to Vale das Estrelas to emotionally recover from the torment that has been her life. She needs to find herself. She needs a quiet summer. Alone. Away from everyone she knows. But she is surprised to meet Gabriel, a charming young man with a strong presence and constantly appears beside her. Apparently very calm and discreet, he is different and since the first moment that Alice saw him, something inside her changes. Now, the real adventure begins. Alice is curious and knows he is hiding something. He is not who he appears to be and something around him truly frightens her. Determined to understand what’s going on, she doesn’t give up but now her problems will increase. Without realising what she is getting into, Alice is immersed in a totally new and surreal world. Be careful. Who are you, Gabriel? What do you want from me?
Author: Renata Falcão Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1398453145 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
It’s the beginning of the summer holidays. Alice is a law student and goes to Vale das Estrelas to emotionally recover from the torment that has been her life. She needs to find herself. She needs a quiet summer. Alone. Away from everyone she knows. But she is surprised to meet Gabriel, a charming young man with a strong presence and constantly appears beside her. Apparently very calm and discreet, he is different and since the first moment that Alice saw him, something inside her changes. Now, the real adventure begins. Alice is curious and knows he is hiding something. He is not who he appears to be and something around him truly frightens her. Determined to understand what’s going on, she doesn’t give up but now her problems will increase. Without realising what she is getting into, Alice is immersed in a totally new and surreal world. Be careful. Who are you, Gabriel? What do you want from me?
Author: Renata Falcão Publisher: Austin Macauley ISBN: 9781398453135 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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It's the beginning of the summer holidays. Alice is a law student and goes to Vale das Estrelas to emotionally recover from the torment that has been her life. She needs to find herself. She needs a quiet summer. Alone. Away from everyone she knows. But she is surprised to meet Gabriel, a charming young man with a strong presence and constantly appears beside her. Apparently very calm and discreet, he is different and since the first moment that Alice saw him, something inside her changes. Now, the real adventure begins. Alice is curious and knows he is hiding something. He is not who he appears to be and something around him truly frightens her. Determined to understand what's going on, she doesn't give up but now her problems will increase. Without realising what she is getting into, Alice is immersed in a totally new and surreal world. Be careful. Who are you, Gabriel? What do you want from me?
Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101605383 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
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* National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award * Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review * Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others From a global literary star comes a prize-winning tour de force – an intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not only as one of South America’s greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. In this gorgeously wrought, award-winning novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia. In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medellín cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past. His journey leads him all the way back to the 1960s and a world on the brink of change: a time before narco-trafficking trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare. Vásquez is “one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature,” according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most contemporary novel to date, a masterpiece that takes his writing—and will take his literary star—even higher.
Author: Lois Lowry Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 054434068X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.
Author: Gabriel Krauze Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1635577675 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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Longlisted for the Booker Prize Named a Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and CrimeReads Named a Best Book of 2021 by Time An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare. The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he's Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the classroom, he's Snoopz, a hard living member of London's gangs, well-acquainted with drugs, guns, stabbings, and robbery. Navigating these sides of himself, dealing with loving parents at the same time as treacherous, endangering friends and the looming threat of prison, he is forced to come to terms with who he really is and the life he's chosen for himself. In a distinct, lyrical urban slang all his own, author Gabriel Krauze brings to vivid life the underworld of his city and the destructive impact of toxic masculinity. Who They Was is a disturbing yet tender and perspective-altering account of the thrill of violence and the trauma it leaves behind. It is the story of inner cities everywhere, and of the lost boys who must find themselves in their tower blocks.
Author: Emmanuel Saez Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324002735 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 232
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America’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America’s tax system, based on new statistics covering all taxes paid at all levels of government. Their conclusion? For the first time in more than a century, billionaires now pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Blending history and cutting-edge economic analysis, and writing in lively and jargon-free prose, Saez and Zucman dissect the deliberate choices (and sins of indecision) that have brought us to today: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax avoidance industry, and the spiral of tax competition among nations. With clarity and concision, they explain how America turned away from the most progressive tax system in history to embrace policies that only serve to compound the wealth of a few. But The Triumph of Injustice is much more than a laser-sharp analysis of one of the great political and intellectual failures of our time. Saez and Zucman propose a visionary, democratic, and practical reinvention of taxes, outlining reforms that can allow tax justice to triumph in today’s globalized world and democracy to prevail over concentrated wealth. A pioneering companion website allows anyone to evaluate proposals made by the authors, and to develop their own alternative tax reform at taxjusticenow.org.
Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698179048 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 141
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From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist. Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country’s most influential political cartoonist, the conscience of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges’ decisions, and destroying politicians’ careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage. After four decades of a brilliant career, he’s at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he’s paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his personal history and forces him to reconsider his life and work, questioning his position in the world. In Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vásquez examines the weight of the past, how a public persona intersects with private histories, the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel, Vásquez once again brilliantly plumbs universal experiences to create a masterly story, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.
Author: Gabrielle Wittkop Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1554909740 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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For more than three decades, Lucien ' one of the most notorious characters in the history of the novel ' has haunted the imaginations of readers around the world. Remarkably, the astounding protagonist of Gabrielle Wittkop's lyrical 1972 novella, The Necrophiliac, has never appeared in English until now. This new translation introduces readers to a masterpiece of French literature, striking not only for its astonishing subject matter but for the poetic beauty of the late author's subtle, intricate writing. Like the best writings of Edgar Allan Poe or Baudelaire, Wittkop's prose goes far beyond mere gothic horror to explore the melancholy in the loneliest depths of the human condition, forcing readers to confront their own mortality with an unprecedented intimacy.
Author: Edward Hirsch Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0385353588 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 105
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch’s heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines—“The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up”—Hirsch’s account is poignantly direct and open to the strange vicissitudes and tricks of grief. In propulsive three-line stanzas, he tells the story of how a once unstoppable child, who suffered from various developmental disorders, turned into an irreverent young adult, funny, rebellious, impulsive. Hirsch mixes his tale of Gabriel with the stories of other poets through the centuries who have also lost children, and expresses his feelings through theirs. His landmark poem enters the broad stream of human grief and raises in us the strange hope, even consolation, that we find in the writer’s act of witnessing and transformation. It will be read and reread.
Author: Sharon Shinn Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110155486X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 401
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From national bestselling author Sharon Shinn comes a stunningly beautiful novel of a distant future—where the fate of the world rests on the voice of an angel... Through science, faith, and force of will, the Harmonics carved out for themselves a society that they conceived as perfect. Diverse peoples held together by respect for each other. Angels to guard the mortals and mystics to guard the forbidden knowldge. Jehovah to watch over them all... Generations later, the armed starship Jehovah still looms over the planet of Samaria, programmed to unleash its arsenal if peace is not sustained. But with the coming of an age of corruption, Samaria's only hope lies in the crowning of a new Archangel. The oracles have chosen Gabriel for this honor, and further decreed that he must first wed a mortal woman named Rachel. It is his destiny and hers. And Gabriel is certain that she will greet the news of her betrothal with enthusiasm, and a devotion to duty equal to his own. Rachel, however, has other ideas... Winner of the William Crawford Award for Achievement in Fantasy Nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Author: Renata Falcão
Author: Renata Falcão
Author: Renata Falcão
Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Author: Lois Lowry
Author: Gabriel Krauze
Author: Emmanuel Saez
Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Author: Gabrielle Wittkop
Author: Edward Hirsch
Author: Sharon Shinn