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"NAMED ONE OF THEBEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST AND PUREWOW "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun to decode."--Elle "The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño," (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional...
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Ignatius Press
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[2015]
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English
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The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word "sloth", however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaning. Abbot Nault says that acedia is the most oppressive of demons. Although its...
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"[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events...
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Five & Two Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Brandon Cobb is a new Youth Director who takes over a youth group that's filled with spiritual apathy. As he tries to motivate his students to get serious about their relationship with the Lord, he finds himself in an uphill battle. Although discouraged by their indifference, Brandon sticks to his calling of boldly sharing the truth of God's Word. What happens next is something Brandon and his students will never forget.
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
June 2019.
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English
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"Stosh Bludowski is a killer, born with the capacity for no apparent human emotion other than rage. Killing comes easy for Blud, and he makes a good living doing what's easy--until the day he meets two jobs in an alley who just won't die, and a grotesque mystery unfolds right in front of him. Soon, the remorseless killer is confronted by a reality he could never imagine, and he will be invited to make a decision once and for all. is he human, or is...
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QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in the incident. This haunting novel, which unfolds across three timelines set in as many decades, takes the reader on a dark journey through the minds of three women whose pasts, presents, and futures are decided by a single...
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Lyric poem about a Russian aristocrat who feels empty despite the beauty that surrounds him. Eugene moves to the country and meets Tatyana, an eccentric maiden who falls in love with him. He rejects her and lives to regret it, inciting a fatal duel with his best friend.
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VIZ Media, LLC
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[2018]
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English
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"Following the fight with his sworn enemy Doma, Agni is beheaded yet again, and it's decided that this time his head is to be cast into the sea. However, during the journey, a mysterious person named Togata appears, and their madness-tainted filming begins"--
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City-and the world In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour-enough time for Genovese's assailant to move his car and change hats before returning to rape and kill her just a few steps from...
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Taylor Trade Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown-infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina-tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response...
