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Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall, and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry, and sings at nightclubs. As their relationship ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.

A soul-warming love story, nestled in an inspiring tale of the American Dream and an Indian Dream shattered by the evils of globalization—that pays homage to a generation of immigrants who held their heads low so one day, their children lift could theirs high.

The aim of this audiobook is entertainment - and surprise - but there will be a fair bit of erudition and incidental education along the way. We discover the oldest words, the newest, the longest, the shortest, the most frequently used, the costliest (yes, words can come with prices attached), the funniest, the most fatal, the most unusual...From the words Shakespeare gave us to the latest in sexting, the best and the worst, the most amusing and amazing words are here.

One of our nation’s most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this “original and highly readable account of a splendid American life” (The Wall Street Journal). When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas...

La primera edicion de "Lolita" apareció en París en 1955, publicada por Olympia Press, una editorial con acreditada gama de pornográfica. La novela fue prohibida en Francia y en Inglaterra, y hasta tres años más tarde no pudo publicarse en Estados Unidos. Aunque enseguida fue muy alabada por escritores como Lionel Trilling y Graham Greene, los adjetivos de "escandalosa", "inmoral", "decadente" y "ultrajante" acompañaron largo tiempo a "Lolita", actualmente ya considerada como una obra maestra indiscutible de la literatura universal.

Condenado a la seriedad y a la impostura, Julio, el silencioso protagonista de este libro, acaba convenciéndose de que es mejor encerrarse en su cuarto a observar el crecimiento de un bonsái que vagar por los incómodos caminos de la literatura. Es ésta, como dice el narrador, "una historia liviana que se pone pesada", un relato elíptico y vertiginoso marcado por la inquietante desaparición de una mujer.

Unlock the endless possibilities of the English language with "English Unlocked: The Power of Wordplay" by Sky Benson. This captivating book takes you on a delightful journey through the playful and intricate world of English wordplay, revealing the beauty and complexity that make this language so unique. From the simplicity of palindromes that read the same forwards and backwards to the amusing confusion of homophones that sound alike but mean entirely different things, this book explores the rich tapestry of English. Sky Benson blends historical insights with practical exercises, making ...

An uninvited guest arrives at Nathaniel Oxleigh’s thirtieth birthday, offering the kind of deal most men would give their souls for. Before the young hotel mogul and his two best friends can collect the money, Oxleigh must endure nineteen torturous trials of body and mind.

In this gripping and deeply moving mystery thriller set in the Warsaw ghetto of 1941, an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man—Heniek Corben—can see him and hear him. Heniek soon realizes that Cohen has become an ibbur—a spirit. But how and why has he taken this form?

Writer, lecturer, and blogger H.R. Phillips, brings 15 of his best blogging essays to life once again in this wide ranging, thought provoking, E-Book. Indeed, this E-Book won Phillips an Author Award from FreeBooksy.Com just months after its release date in 2012. These truly are some of Phillips’s finest deep thinking about a range of subjects from speculative science to machine intelligence and consciousness. The chapter titles themselves yearn to be explored by the readers mind – check this out: BEYOND THE GREAT BEYOND REALITY CHECK WHAT HUMANS MUST FORGET – TO KNOW THEIR HUMAN ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest...

"Aprendiendo de las drogas (revisited - 20 años después)" Un reencuentro del libro con su autor a los 20 años de su primera edición. Grabado en Ibiza en el año 2015.

On the outskirts of London lives a mysterious girl called Leonie. Leonie loves her name, because all people who like it when they hear her name say: "Wow! Such a beautiful name!" And she feels so happy, and she wears the face of Cygnini.

On the Seventh Webway planet of Exteron, an unprecedented disaster wipes out two-thirds of the terraforming colonists. Two teams are sent to the pre-terrestrial world on behalf of the Galactic Human Alliance, mankind’s centralized governing structure, and FLORA, the terraforming super-conglomerate whose technology allowed mankind to inhabit new worlds. The prospect of future Human dominion over Exteron, a world hellbent on rejecting mankind, rests on this investigatory slew of mercenaries, statesmen, and corporate catspaws.

"Hon satt stilla länge och kröp sen ut i köket, reste sig vid telefonen på väggen och ringde 112. När hon sa sitt ärende, att hon kände sig hotad av en man, blev hon kopplad någonstans. Då lade hon på luren eftersom hon hörde ljud utanför dörren. När hon efter några minuter blev uppringd av en vänlig kvinna som sa att det var från polisen, hade hon haft svårt för att prata och framföra sitt ärende. Det hördes något vid ytterdörren igen. Hjärtat dunkande som om det ville lämna bröstkorgen och hon fick inte fram några ord. En nyckel stacks i dörrlåset."

Time and luck seem to be running out for The Purple Heart Detective Agency. Violence has a toll. Running afoul of the law has its limits. But for Clayton Grace, there is a woman involved—the one who got away. His first love, Linda, the woman who chose another man over him. And now that man is missing. One week into retirement, Grace takes Linda's case against Roddy O'Malley's objections. The path is never easy when the heart is leading the way.

Lacy Pita is a story of a 14-year-old girl whose new experience of going to a Girls Who Code camp starts her on the path of growing into her new identity. The path includes her first real friend and the establishment of a business writing apps. Lacy wins access to an AI in a coding camp contest and wonders why talking to it feels like talking to a person. She likes word and math games, calling her new business the Echo Grid Owls because it is an anagram of Girls Who Code. Her first experience out of the house alone is a character-building event.

DCI John Gammon faces one of the toughest cases ever to have come along to test him. With some fresh faces helping hopefully, things might get easier. His private life is always in turmoil but maybe now he is getting his life in order.

Ulprec the mouse and Sombra the fierce feline have been forced from their home in South America. The unlikely duo must survive the perils of the jungle as they search for a way to put an end to 'the Burning.'

Alpha-Bets is a podcast from Anagram Capital, a private investment firm built for individuals and family offices. On Alpha-Bets, we explore unique and emerging trends in Entrepreneurial Investing - pairing clear, numbers-driven market insight with the human stories behind the deals. Each episode features executives, operators, and founders building businesses and creating their own path in the private capital ecosystem, often by buying cash-flowing main street businesses that are simple and can build economies of scale through acquisitions.Whether you’re an LP, an operator, or simply ...