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1) Aleph
Author
Language
English
Description
In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him. Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via...
2) Aleph
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa̋nol
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
El personaje principal de esta novela se enfrenta a una grave crisis de fe. En busca de renovación y crecimiento espiritual, decide comenzar de nuevo: viajar, experimentar y volver a conectarse con el mundo y las personas. Empezando en África, y recorriendo Europa y Asia en el tren Transiberiano, Paulo inicia un viaje para revitalizar su energía y su pasión. Aún así, nunca espera conocer a Hilal, una joven violinista a la que amó 500 años...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ascendant novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., formerly her professor, now a film director and cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. Her art has been forever overseen by him; now it may overshadow his. For days they sail in the sun, nothing but dark water all around them. Then a...
4) Threshold
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth. Following Doyle from Buddhism to the brink of madness, Threshold...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Harry Armstrong has spent years in Egypt, recovering relics and disregarding rules. Now he's back in England with a new title and a new purpose: penning his exploits. But his efforts are overshadowed by London's favorite writer about Egypt--a woman they call The Queen of the Desert, of all things. Worse, her stories--serialized in newspapers and reprinted in books--are complete rubbish. Miss Sidney Honeywell didn't set out to deceive anyone. It's...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as nations. Driven by a vivid cast of characters, it explores necessary emigration, the art of fiction, and ethnic and class conflict. Pippa is an Australian writer who longs for the success of her novelist teacher and eventually comes to fear that she "missed everything important." In Paris, Celeste tries...
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry and indispensable writing advice, Bleaker House is a story of creative struggle that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the writing life. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but somehow life kept getting in the way. Then came a game-changing opportunity: she won a fellowship that let her spend three months, all expenses paid, anywhere in the world to...
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"A New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about characters who wander but are never truly lost. A lonely man on a business trip finds himself in the middle of a search party for a missing boy; a grieving widow leaves India to join family in the United States; a writer finds renewed success when an unknown imposter begins publishing under his identity. In these quiet yet deeply knowing stories of migration, power, and longing, A New...
9) Still life
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Wicomb's majestic new novel Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality as Wicomb tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only legacy is in South Africa where he is dubbed the "Father of South African Poetry." In her efforts to resurrect Pringle, the writer summons the specter of Mary Prince, the West Indian slave whose history Pringle had once published, along...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you were chosen to go through time without you knowing the reason why, how, or even knowing that you were the one chosen. Just that you are back in time and are virtually lost in terms of where you are and when you are. You have little to no idea of how this even happened and who or what did this to you. The Time That Traveled takes you there and the adventure begins. Todd, a modern day high school graduate...
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