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A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life.
A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achieve his dream of becoming a serious novelist. It was not until 1988 that his first novel, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain, was published. Twelve...
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This book is the second handbook-an account of contemporary life and a personal diary written by me. The real joy that our time gives back is through experiences, not a rediscovery of new technologies but a function in different historical and geological periods, what has already created it according to explanations of events and their solutions. A walk in the light of the Sun of the facts and enchantments, sometimes never revealed, perhaps too new...
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This diary is my third book, an exploration of urban and suburban environments to observe humans and modern objects. Representations in philosophical or mathematical form in order to find the right amount of motion, the proof that good is a higher feeling than an evil, the right repetition of always the same things to confirm that here one cannot say the false is even less realize it.
This diary is the third book written by me, an exploration of...
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S J Parker has spent many years on America's Death Row. This book is a collection of short stories and poetry that he has written during the time he has been incarcerated. Many of these stories have been entered into Prison writing competitions and have won prizes. Inside you will find stories dealing with all aspects of prison life, from how they deal with mental health to how friendships are formed inside and how easily they can crumble. To tales...
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Este diario es mi cuarto libro, una colección de veinte composiciones que representan el pensamiento y las certezas de nuestra era moderna. Historias sobre un pasado no muy lejano que podría identificarse con la realidad actual, el presente no reseñado periodísticamente, personas que no tienen representaciones públicas comunes, demasiado ocupadas en cierto sentido pensando en lo que nunca podrían hacer, hasta lo que le fue quitdo para no significar...
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"An illuminating celebration of an author widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great unsung heroes of American literature As a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975, William Maxwell helped shaped several generations' sense of the literary short story. At the same time, Maxwell himself was also an exceptional novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. Given unique, unfettered access to Maxwell's...
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"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...
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SAGA Egmont
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2022
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Le Lys dans la vallée est un des romans des Études de mœurs d’Honoré de Balzac paru en volume en 1836, s’insérant, dans l'édition Furne de 1844, dans le deuxième livre Scènes de la vie de campagne de sa grande fresque intitulée La Comédie humaine. Évoquant principalement le château de Saché et ses alentours, en Indre-et-Loire, dont Balzac s’inspire fortement, ce roman, écrit en partie à Issoudun et à Vienne (Autriche), a été...
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New York Review Books
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"An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics-everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism-from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and "jazz's greatest living improviser" (The New York Times). Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary...
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Dr. Pam Chubbuck, a world-wide respected therapist, has written the most comprehensive book to date on how to deal with the experience of losing a father. The workbook/art therapy aspect in Goodbye, Dad. I'll Always Love You is genius! There is no better way to help youngsters through their trauma than the combined art, writing, and emotional movement processes that Dr. Chubbuck masterfully shows us. Part one is for Kids. Part two, is for all caregivers:...
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This book is the first handbook about being contemporary and personal diary written by me. The calm of well-being, of inventions. The three-dimensional aspects of concrete and human objects, for a research in individual thought. A work that frees from stylistic commitments, mistakes are everyone's, the present must be represented but, without the fear of having made a bigger mistake than the previously accepted silence. By choosing a speech, it promises...
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En 1967, después de una sesión con un psiquiatra al que nunca había visto antes, Susanna Kaysen, de dieciocho años, fue internada en el Hospital McLean. Pasó la mayor parte de los dos años siguientes en la sala de chicas de un hospital psiquiátrico muy reconocido por haber tenido entre sus pacientes a celebridades como Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor y Ray Charles.
Las memorias de Kaysen nos ofrecen un retrato vívido de un...
13) Invasion
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Ukrainian
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Dmytro Hromov and Oleh Ladyzhensky had never written documentary prose before, only fiction. They had never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fiction that Oldie is used to. Different language, different style, according to the circumstances. These notes were written in cities under fire, in basements and bomb shelters, on evacuation trains and buses, in rented apartments during short pauses of...
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E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime officialdom and his lack of conformity with the prevailing...
15) Ode to Love
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"A drop of PURE LOVEcontains an ocean of transformative power -never underestimate the ripple effect…Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Quilled Ink Review. A pure labour of Love, we could think of no better way to begin than on that note - Ode to Love.Within these pages, you will find an eclectic mix of accomplished writers from across the world, some of whom we have the honour and privilege to publish for the very first time. And yet, the...
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Faso, ¿tenés? is volume 7 of the series On Being, and the second bilingual book of the series. It spans year two of the protagonist Ana's adventures in South America and her trip back home to the States. On Being is a psychological, metaphysical, self-referential, astrological, diary case history, serving as a qualitative, longitudinal research project investigating what it means to be. Basically, I, J. Guzmán (as the protagonist Ana) psychoanalyze...
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This volume of personal writings offers an intimate view of the celebrated Russian author's life and creative process in the face of Soviet censorship. Best known for his biting satire of Soviet society, The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov kept meticulous journals, written with keen humor and insight, about his day to day life in Moscow as well as the wider social and political life of early 20th century Russia. But his diaries stop midway...
19) The Oyo Empire
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The Oyo Empire is a high-interest novella of magic realism. The fairytale of this mythical Oyo Empire is told by the mononymous gimlet-eyed Ijapa, the endomorph, the folk hero and the fabled protagonist of antiquity of Yoruba folktales. Versed in folk etymology and folk memory, he lets us know that he belongs to the midgets, the small gimlet-eyed fairies with magic carpets and supernatural/magic powers who founded the mythical Oyo Empire about 25,...
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The Loner Girl en Sudamérica is volume 6 – and the first bilingual book – in the series On Being, a psychological, self-referential, metaphysical, astrological, diary case history. OB is a first-person, self-reflective narrative serving as a qualitative, longitudinal research project investigating what it means to be, using tools like astrology to explore human consciousness. Volume 6 documents the protagonist Ana's year 2014, when she travels...
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