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  • Memórias Da Caserna
    Antônio Sérgio Carréra De Albuquerque Melo E Autores
    Memórias da Casernaconta a história de um grupo de jovens que um dia se apresentaram voluntariamente para servir ao seu país, por amor, patriotismo e honra, que vai além do período obrigatório, em alguns casos, quando muitos fizeram lá sua vida profissional e hoje gozam do merecido descanso. Além desses jovens, também integram essa bonita história, os profissionais que tiveram ...
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    18,05 €

  • Aadhunik Bharat Ke Nirmata
    Ujjwal Bhattacharya
    उन्नीसवीं शताब्दी का भारत और खासकर बंगाल ने एक से एक युगान्तरकारी प्रतिभाओं को जन्म दिया। रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर यानी जोड़ासाँको के ठाकुर परिवार के शर्मीले नवयुवक से नोबल पुरस्कार और शान्ति निकेतन तक की यात्रा करने वाले गुरुदेव उस सदी के उन मनीषियों में से थे जिन्होंने भारत ही नहीं बल्कि वैश्विक जगत को बौद्धिक और एक हद तक राजनैतिक रूप से भी प्रभावित किया। उज्ज्वल भट्टाचार्य द्वारा ...
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    18,92 €

  • Esta novela está mal escrita
    Dan Guajars
    En el verano de 1998 escribí una novela de fantasía. La edité durante dos años, solo para guardarla en un cajón.  En 2011 decidí reescribir la misma novela, desde cero; pero no la terminé. Ahora, terminado 2022, relato esa travesía de 24 años llena de autoengaño, boicots malogrados y mucha esperanza. Una memoir, junto a la novela terminada de 1998, y la novela que no logré term...
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    9,73 €

  • Malabar Farm
    E. B. White / Louis Bromfield
    'A rare book of abundant variety . . . breathes the satisfaction of a busy rewarding life. This is a book for thoughtful people who love America. It will be read with gratitude far and wide. It is beautifully written.' -Chicago TribuneWhen Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and his young family returned to America from France on the eve of World War II, they settled ...
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    33,49 €

  • Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
    Andrew J Rausch
    Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to follow him into any genre he chooses to write in, including horror, western, crime, adventure, and fantasy. Within thes...
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    21,05 €

  • Los colores de la vida
    Catalina Sanchez Sanchez
    A través de esta autobiografía, Catalina Sánchez Sánchez, una migrante oaxaqueña afincada en California, logra transmitir las peripecias que implica buscar el sueño americano al otro lado de la frontera. A través de palabras sencillas y honestas, la autora nos relata su vida, partiendo de las memorias de su infancia en los pueblos de Oaxaca Santa María Coyotepec y Santa Cruz Pa...
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    14,84 €

  • Poet of Revolution
    Nicholas McDowell
    A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. ...
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    36,63 €

  • Becoming a Warrior
    Catherine Hand
    Becoming a Warrior is the triumphant memoir of about a shy, 10-year-old girl who has a dream and perseveres for fifty years to make that dream come true--to make a movie based on Madeleine L’Engle’s, A Wrinkle in Time. Working in the worlds of politics and entertainment, Catherine Hand learned lessons that gave her the courage and strength to navigate through personal tragedies...
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    16,39 €

  • Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings
    Leo Tolstoy
    This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive, intellectually powerful, challenging, and absorbing thinker. ...
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    214,25 €

  • Malabar Farm
    E. B. White / Louis Bromfield
    'A rare book of abundant variety . . . breathes the satisfaction of a busy rewarding life. This is a book for thoughtful people who love America. It will be read with gratitude far and wide. It is beautifully written.' -Chicago TribuneWhen Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and his young family returned to America from France on the eve of World War II, they settled ...
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    42,59 €

  • Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings
    Leo Tolstoy
    This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive, intellectually powerful, challenging, and absorbing thinker. ...
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    38,39 €

  • Four Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne
    Léon Bloy / ROBINSON
    Four Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne: 1900-1904 by Léon Bloy (originally Quatre ans de Captivité à Cochons-sur-Marne) is the third diary in the Ungrateful Beggar series.The autobiography, edited for publication, covers four years in the artistʼs life after he and his family moved back to France from Denmark, to Lagny on the Marne, about 40 kilometers outside Paris. It r...
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    47,53 €

  • Toda História É Uma Poesia Que Merece Ser Contada
    Karine Santos De França
    Este livro é uma homenagem e uma realização pessoal. Karine Santos de França, nascida e criada no interiordo tocantins em uma pequena cidade chamada Aparecida do Rio Negro escreveu varios poemas deacontecimentos que ocorreram em sua vidaDesde seus 14 anos, após descobrir e se encantar pela poesia teve apoio de familiares e amigos, mas somenteagora em 2022 conseguiu transparecer...
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    8,58 €

  • Gepti / ಗೆಪ್ತಿ
    Aravindatanaya
    ''Gepti'' a memoir written by Dr. Aravindatanaya, is written in a lucid style. It takes the reader on a stroll down the memory lanes which unfold the old-world charm of rural Karnataka of the previous century. Each of the twenty episodes of this book gives the true picture of cultural, social, and economic life of those times. Another salient feature is that the characters depi...
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    19,04 €

  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson
    Gertrude Stein
    One of the greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century, this masterful volume tells the story of Alice B. Toklas and her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein.Following the tragedy of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Alice B. Toklas moved to Paris where she met her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein. The women moved in together and were inseparable until Stein’s death in 194...
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    24,37 €

  • The Umbrella of Clairvoyance
    Galina Tregubov
    The most intriguing puzzle in the world is the journey of human life. The author lets readers solve many puzzles for themselves by introducing different characters in the process of navigating through entertaining and captivating plots. These stories, gracefully illustrated by the author, make it clear that virtues, vices, sadness, and silliness are universal features regardles...
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    19,26 €

  • Literary Reinvention
    John Martin
    Beyond BeliefJohn Coetzee (the Nobel Prize winner and author of Foe)I have read your Defoe biography and have found it a real eye-opener- congratulations. As for the blackmailing of Defoe by Elisabeth White and her father, you certainly make out a persuasive case for it, and more generally for a highly-coded reading of Defoe’s fictions.Library JournalIt offers informed speculat...
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    37,20 €

  • You Don’t Fall Out of the Universe
    B. J. Jewett
    A hybrid of memoir and poetry, You Don’t Fall Out of the Universe navigates what one family endures before and after the unimaginable loss of a son. With quiet moments of heartache and resilience, Jewett shows the strength in being vulnerable. If you think you know how to console someone who’s grieving, this memoir reveals there’s more to learn, how our simplest phrases can cau...
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    16,39 €

  • El bicho
    Alarcón Matías
    En el Bicho me sumerjo en mis recuerdos en busca de un trauma alojado en mi inconsciente que me llevó a la adicción hasta el punto de casi perderlo todo. Mediante una introspección sobre mi vida logré quitarme las máscaras sociales y conectarme con mi niño interior llegando a ver mi verdadera esencia. A través de este relato quiero compartir mi proceso de sanación mostrando com...
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    10,39 €

  • Browning And His Century
    Helen Archibald Clarke
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBrowning And His CenturyThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The compl...
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    12,32 €

  • George Macdonald and his Wife
    Greville Macdonald
    2022 Reprint of the 1924 edition.  With Twenty-Eight illustrations.  Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition. 'George MacDonald was a Scottish poet, author, and lecturer who wrote many novels, religious texts, and books of poetry. His most lasting works include The Princess and The Goblins, At The Back Of The North Wind, Phantastes, a...
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    25,15 €

  • Venkat Saminathan / வெ. சா. எழுதுகிறார்
    Kappiya Reading
    This is the second part of Venkat Saminathan. First part of this and the third part under the title ’Oru Meyyuraignanin Nizhalil’ each 500 pages of the book size 6x9 is published as a collection of the works of the legend critics  Venkat Saminathan.  ...
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    37,35 €

  • Ve. Sa Ezhuthugirar / வெ.சா எழுதுகிறார்
    Kappiya Reading
    The first volume (500 pages of 6X9 size) containing the biography and works of Venkat Saminathan, a Tamil writer and popular literary critic.  ...
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    37,35 €

  • Conversations with Billy Collins
    John Cusatis
    Billy Collins 'puts the ’fun’ back in profundity,' says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called 'hospitable' poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins w...
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    21,01 €

  • Thuraimangalam Sivaprakasa Swamigal ( Biography) / துறைமங்கலம் சிவப்பிரகாச சுவாமிகள்
    Kappiya Reading
    THIS BOOK IS THE LIFE HISTORY AND LITERARY WORKS OF THURAIMANGALAM SIVAPRAKASA SWAMIGAL, WHO HAS RENDERED GREAT WORKS IN TAMIL LITERATURE. ...
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    9,85 €

  • The Dostoevsky Effect
    Zahlan Albanese Stark N Lorne Tepperman / Maria Bykova
    A team of University of Toronto sociologists examined Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s life to determine the origins of his gambling addiction and draw interesting parallels with the experience of modern day gamblers that they interviewed and took bibliographical accounts from in their study of Toronto area residents. ...
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    40,60 €

  • Утро в Элуле
    Мири Яникова
    Рая Блувштейн, в пятнадцать лет вернувшая себе свое танахическое имя, подписав стихотворение псевдонимом 'Рахель', сразу же попала в сюжет из Танаха. Она стала символом и легендой. Два языка - русский и иврит - были переплетены в ее творчестве, и звенья этой цепочки постоянно менялись между собой. Ее жизнь опутывают легенды, по мере развенчания которых рождаются новые. Ее окруж...
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    23,58 €

  • THAMIZH NILAIGNARGAL / தமிழ் நிலைஞர்கள்
    Kappiya Reading
    BOOK ON TAMIL SCHOLARSSaraswati Ramnath is an excellent translator who has translated from Tamil to Hindi and from Hindi to Tamil.Translation is an art like walking on a rope. It is also an alchemical art of gilding copper. Linguistics, vocabulary, semantics, sociocultural sense, ability to translate according to target language traditions, grammatical knowledge - these are all...
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    11,72 €

  • The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
    Aleister Crowley
    One of the most famous books on the occult ever written, this is a record of Crowley’s journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magic his world-wide travels and mistresses, his experiments with sex and drugs, and the philosophy of his famous 'Book of the Law'.Aleister Crowley, self-styled 'the Beast', founder of his own spiritual orders, was already a ...
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    61,81 €

  • Conversations with George Saunders
    Michael O’Connell
    Besides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December provides detailed insight into his own writing process...
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    21,00 €


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