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"From the outside, Harold is an average seven-year-old third grader growing up in the 1960s. Bored by school. Crushing on a girl. Likes movies and baseball. Enjoys spending time with his grandfather. But inside Harold's mind, things are a lot more unusual. His thoughts come to him as birds flying through a small rectangle in the middle of his brain. He visit an outdoor cafe on the moon and is invited aboard a spaceship by famed astronomer Carl Sagan....
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a...
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Publisher
Grupo Editorial Tomo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
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Clarissa Dalloway es una mujer de cincuenta y dos ąos de la alta sociedad londinense, casada con un diputado conservador del parlamento brit̀nico y madre de una hija adolescente. Un d̕a de junio de 1923, se prepara para dar una fiesta en su casa aquella misma noche. All̕ se rencontrar̀ con amigos que hace muchos ąos que no ve. Mientras pasea por las calles londinenses ultimando los preparativos, Clarissa se encuentra inmersa en sus propios recuerdos...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"At her San Francisco art school, Joey enrolls in a film elective that requires her to complete what seems like a straightforward assignment: create a self-portrait. Joey inexplicably decides to remake Wes Anderson's Rushmore despite having never seen the movie. As Tell Me I'm An Artist unfolds over the course of the semester, the assignment hangs over her as she struggles to exist in a well-heeled world that is hugely different from any she has known....
5) The knowing
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Publisher
Rise
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Using her signature folk style, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, political activist, and feminist icon weaves a story that incorporates themes of individual power and collective responsibility.
Read your child to sleep with the powerful words of Ani DiFranco. This purposeful lullaby reminds readers of what exists beneath their outer forms of identity, and that we are all connected by virtue of that inner light. The companion song is available...
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