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Language
English
Description
"Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her life behind and sets out for the coast of Brittany, also known as "the end of the world." Here she meets a cast of colorful and unforgettable locals who surprise her with their warm welcome, and the natural ease they all...
Author
Publisher
Raendŏm Hausŭ
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Korean
Description
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy--as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing...
4) East of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
Una cro?nica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos pai?ses, La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao cuenta la historia del gordiflo?n y solitario Oscar de Leo?n en su intento de convertirse en el J.R.R. Tolkien Dominicano y su desafortunada bu?squeda del amor. Pero Oscar so?lo es la u?ltima vi?ctima del fuku?--una maldicio?n que durante generaciones ha perseguido a su familia, condena?ndoles a vidas de tortura, sufrimiento y amor desdichado....
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"En un pueblo costero de la Inglaterra de 1950, de esos en los que todo el mundo se conoce y donde el chismorreo es el deporte local, vive Lottie, una joven cariñosa, dispuesta y muy conformista. Su mejor amiga es Celia Holden, con cuya familia vive: ayuda en la casa, hace recados, cuida de los niños. Pero un buen día el pequeño mundo de Lottie se resquebraja: en una casa de la playa se instala un grupo de artistas bohemios; sus costumbres, que...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
Author
Series
Dang dai wen xue volume 130
Publisher
Yuan shen chu ban she you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
Francesca Thayer es copropietaria de una galería de arte y de una casa antigua en el Village neoyorquino. Ambos proyectos los inició con Todd, su pareja durante años. Ahora que la relación ha terminado, Francesca deberá decidir si lo vende todo o hace frente a los pagos ella sola. Finalmente su padre la ayudará a sacar adelante la galería, pero para mantener la casa, tendrá que alquilar tres de sus habitaciones. Entre los inquilinos se creará...
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 81
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2003
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
17) Tan poca vida
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen / Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Tan poca vida se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno literario, un éxito sin precedentes en las redes sociales que ha sido unánimemente aclamado por la crítica y los lectores. Hanya Yanagihara, su autora, ha sido comparada con Jonathan Franzen y Donna Tartt por su capacidad para describir con maestría la psicología de personajes complejos y hallar en el camino respuesta a cuestiones universales. Una nueva y joven voz literaria que ha llegado...
Author
Series
He tong wen xue guan volume 60
Publisher
Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Mu ma wen xue volume 77
Publisher
Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
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