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1) Bird box
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Bird Box, brilliantly imaginative debut author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic near-future world, where a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them -- but is it man, animal, or monster? Within these tracks, Malerman, a professional musician, discusses his love of horror and invokes an ethereal and atmospheric experience in an homage...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is a powerful and inviting collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in modern America"--
Why is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary-but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
An "illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century ... from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles"--Back cover.
"A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising,"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
¿Imaginan a la joven Mary Shelley dando forma al monstruo de Frankenstein en las lúgubres noches del que fue conocido en todo el mundo como el año sin verano en Villa Diodati? ¿Sabían que Arthur Conan Doyle era un crédulo que creía en fantasmas, hasta el punto de que hubiera hecho avergonzarse a Sherlock Holmes, el analítico detective surgido del talento de su pluma? ¿O que el escritor japonés Yukio Mishima protagonizó en su país una intentona...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"The rhythm, ritual, and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature. In [this book], two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother's gift...
Author
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"David Kipen scoured the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of Los Angeles from the Spanish missionary expeditions in the 1500s to the present day. These entries are arranged by date--January 1 through December 31--but are selected from more than three centuries of writing by those living in, or visiting, Los Angeles. Thus the entry for January 21, for example, will have an excerpt from...
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