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Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years—good years—but now they're not sure why they're...

In The Light Beyond, Dr. Raymond Moody, the world's leading authority in the field of near-death experiences, investigates fascinating new case studies. Common patterns emerge from these reports, such as meeting loved ones in the afterlife, being surrounded by a bright beautiful light, reviewing...

No abstract can convey the quality of its opening and closing pages,' Isaiah Berlin once said about the 'Manifesto'. The revolutionary pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is still surprisingly relevant today. Of course, history has made some of its parts obsolete...

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946....

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili,...

An initiatory novel about trauma and the search for identity. A compelling, bewitching, cruel and disturbing reading that questions motherhood, love and the links that unite us with our past... The elderly Tamara Pavlovna rescues little Lastochka from an orphanage during the grayest years...

This book offers a selection of the adventures of Achilles that occurred in the last year of the famous Trojan War. For fifty-one days the demigod was the most cunning of the Achaean warriors in his fight against the Trojans. Achilles' anger and his...

A girl received a book from her grandmother as a gift so that she could store her memories. She was in charge of taking care of her, and also of showing her all the colors that became threads to weave a beautiful dress for...

Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" (1890) is possibly the most influential Norwegian novel in history. A true classic of modern literature and a precursor to the psychologically focused fiction of Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and José Saramago. Now comic book artist Martin Ernstsen has turned it...

An exceptional novel, a modern classic of extreme elegance and frankness and one of the most brilliant x-rays of the United States in which women began to speak in the first person. "The Group" is considered the best-known —and controversial— work of the North...

Ever since the Neolithic revolution, although interpreted in different ways, a belief has remained unchanged in its essence, that someone of a non-human nature instructing men on how to face the multiple challenges that have been raising over time. This is the magical part...

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day...

One of the ten Best Books of 2019 by The New Yorker * Nominated for Man Booker 2019 * Winner of the Nordic Council Prize for Literature * Chosen as the best Swedish novel of the decade by one hundred critics, authors, journalists and...

An extensive and colorful compilation of the best beautifully illustrated Aesop's fables that continue to teach us the eternal vices and virtues of human nature... Wolves and kids, foxes and frogs, snakes and donkeys, are just some of the many animals that are the...

Friendship is very important for the personal, emotional, and social development of the little ones, as well as playful moments. Knowing how to manage and express yourself is essential for the happiness of boys and girls. As adults, we must give them tools to...

Especially in his early years, Franz Kafka drew intensively and with artistic ambitions. Upon his death, however, he not only wanted to destroy his literary legacy, but also all his drawings. After his friend Max Brod managed to save many pieces of art, most...

After decades together, Russell and Corrine Calloway want a calm and stable family life, something that seems impossible to achieve in New York after the Lehman Brothers crisis. They dream of raising their children in the countryside, but their economic situation does not allow...

What happens when self-love coexists with pain and vanity? How can you live in the mystery and restlessness of not having a story to tell? Maryse Condé answers these questions from the story of three generations of island women united by the force of...

A wide and colorful collection of stories, perfect to say good night. The indexes at the end of the book help you choose the one that best suits what you are looking for. And the cover glows in the dark!

On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as...