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If a single word could summarize everything Bisila Bokoko conveys it would be "inspiration". Her personal story, is one of a racialized woman who has learned how to grow in the face of adversity, and her business, her wisdom, her love of books, and her philanthropic spirit will act as a guide and a path for those who dive into the pages of We All Have a Story to Tell.Discover how to make our dreams come true, how to learn from failure, how to be happy despite the hurdles, what reading can do for us as the pages of her parents library did for her, with which she uncovered Africa for the first time and how to handle our fears. These are the lessons to be learned from the story Bokoko narrates so we can know how to do the same with our own. The United Nations award winning author, founder of the Bisila Bokoko African Literacy Project and owner of a life full of anecdotes and valuable lessons, reveals a vital trajectory that will help us take that step we all need to go further into the story of our lives.

In "Waysiders, Stories of Connacht," Seumas OKelly intricately weaves a tapestry of life in rural Ireland, exploring the nuanced interactions of its inhabitants against a backdrop of the stunning Connacht landscape. The collection is marked by OKellys lyrical prose, which evokes the regions cultural richness while encapsulating its struggles and joys. Drawing from Irish vernacular and imbued with a sense of locality, these stories reflect the ethos of the early 20th century, resonating with themes of identity, community, and the intricacies of human connection. OKellys portrayal of his characters, often embodying the wild spirit of the West, evokes a profound sense of place and time in Irish literature. Seumas OKelly was an influential figure in the Irish literary scene, born in 1874 in County Galway. His experiences as a journalist and theatre critic informed his writing, providing him with keen insights into the sociopolitical climate of Ireland during his lifetime. OKelly was deeply influenced by the Irish Literary Revival and the burgeoning national identity, prompting his quest to capture the essence of Connachts people and landscapes in his stories. "Waysiders, Stories of Connacht" is a must-read for those interested in the intertwining of place and identity in literature, as it invites readers to engage with the often-overlooked narratives of rural Ireland. OKellys powerful storytelling and rich characterization offer a mesmerizing window into a world filled with vivid experiences and profound emotions, making this collection a treasure for both literary enthusiasts and anyone seeking to understand the heart of Connacht.

"In a crumbling park in the crumbling back end of Copacabana, a woman stopped under an almond tree with a suitcase and a cigar. That was the last time anyone saw the famous Brazilian novelist Beatriz Yagoda. Upon hearing the news of her disappearance, her American translator Emma flies immediately to Brazil. There, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma and Beatrizs two grown children conspire to solve the authors curious disappearance. But as the trio begins to uncover the bizarre and troubling affairs Beatriz has left in her wake, they realise their search for her is far more cryptic than they could have imagined. Are the secrets to Beatrizs disappearance hidden in her enigmatic novels? Or are her words obscuring more than they reveal? Brilliant, suspenseful, and compulsively readable, Ways to Disappear is a fabulously inventive novel about the ways we do appear to each other. Both playful and profound, it is as much a mystery as it is a manifesto on the joys of translation. Idra Novey is a bold, unprecedented new voice in American fiction. Reads like an Ali Smith novel with a fun Brazilian noir vibe. Publishers Weekly starred reviewFleet and vivid. The New Yorker Lush and tightly woven . . . charges forward with the momentum of a bullet. New York Times Book ReviewUnlike any novel youve ever read. Its a lush page-turner, a journey into the unique madness of modern Brazil, and a joyful ride into the crazed passion of literary creation itself. Hector Tobar Its impossible to put this book down, or to shake its residue once youve finished it. Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams "

Entdecke mit uns das Sonnensystem und lerne erstaunliche Fakten und viele Geschichten hinter den leuchtenden Himmelskorpern kennen! Wunderschone Illustrationen und die Kombination aus Mythologie, Geschichte und Wissenschaft machen dieses Buch zu einem wahren Erlebnis. Der wunderbare Weltraum, gigantische Galaxien und auch die Milchstrae warten darauf, erforscht zu werden. Fur Leser und Sternengucker aller Altersklassen, die sich fur den Weltraum interessieren.

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoys two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the worlds greatest novels.War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoys two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the worlds greatest novels.War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

The novel charts the history of the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it first in its Top 100 Books. In 2007, Time magazine ranked War and Peace third in its poll of the 10 greatest books of all time while Anna Karenina was ranked first. Tolstoy himself said that War and Peace was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle". Large sections, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion rather than narrative. He also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel. Instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel. According to the Encyclopdia Britannica, "no single English novel attains the universality of Leo Tolstoys War and Peace."

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoys two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the worlds greatest novels.War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you dont tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that AntichristI really believe he is AntichristI will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my faithful slave, as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened yousit down and tell me all the news."

Sir Leonard Wallace, Chief of the Secret Service, sends one of his agents to Germany to obtain vital information from the Baroness von Reudath. Foster is told to feign infatuation with her, but the lines between reality and pretence soon blur as a result of his growing affection for the baroness. Before long, Foster becomes prey to the insane jealousy of the tyrannical Marshal von Strom: Foster suddenly disappears and the baroness is charged with treason - the punishment for which is death. Can Wallace use his cunning to foil von Stroms treacherous plans and rescue the distressed lovers before its too late?

Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows that the signals hes picking up at his space station are anything but random. The fiery object heading toward Earth is an alien spacecraft. Yet the world may never know for Ketih is trapped in an iron cordon of secrecy: his discovery had shattered the world power balance, setting off a brutal struggle for supremacy that raged within the sacred halls of the Vatican to the corridors of the Kremlin and the Pentagon. The powers that be would use anything at their command - fear and treachery and any other weapon from mind war to sabotage to keep the world in darkness about Stoners discovery.With the aid of a brilliant soviet linguist and a lovely young student, Stoner planned a desperate mission, a wild, heart-stopping gamble to preserve the legacy of the star voyager for all mankind.

Il y a Pip le vieil homme bourru, épris de Moby Dick, qui a succombé au chant des Sirènes, il y a Tanaël, missionnaire qui n’a jamais converti personne, soupçonné du meurtre de sa compagne, et Jungsu

For fans of The Bridge Kingdom and A Deal with the Elf King, this sweeping tale of love and betrayal is equal blends sweet and spice.A TREACHEROUS BRIDE. A HEARTBROKEN GROOM IS THEIR MARRIAGE OVER BEFORE ITS BEGUN?Her deceit discovered, Faraine finds herself trapped in the Shadow Realm at the mercy of her new husband. Shes surrounded by enemies, far from any allies, and her best bet for survival is to convince Vor to send her home.But to do so means to give up on the alliance. Which would spell disaster for her people. With the tremors growing worse and poison spreading through his realm, Vor is more desperate than ever to find a solution. Only, it cannot involve his wife. Vor wants nothing to do with the woman he has inadvertently married. At one time, he thought he might love her, but now? How can love flourish where trust is broken?When circumstances require them to spend more time together, however, Vors blood is stirred in ways he doesnt like to acknowledge.Can two lost hearts find healing and hope in one another? Or is their love already poisoned beyond recovery?

Freud já alertava o futuro para a urgência de conhecer o passado. Hoje, num mundo que assiste ao recrudescimento do antissemitismo, da intolerância e do protecionismo, recuperar a memória dos tempos

Virginibus Puerisque represents the legendary authors first collection of personal essays. Far from being a droll affair they are playful and spirited, they are written in defiance of the hardship of everyday life and the contemptuous philistines who rage against the arts. These essays are here to calm and help, they are positive reflections on things we all worry about. In Childs Play Stevenson sooths our fears over lost childhoods, and then takes us on a sweeping orchestration of bravery in The English Admirals. The essays are playful and thoughtful and absolutely perfect for a calm commute home.

THE NOVELSThe Voyage Out (1915)Night and Day (1919)Jacobs Room (1922)Mrs. Dalloway (1925)To the Lighthouse (1927)The Waves (1931)The Years (1937)Between the Acts (1941)THE BIOGRAPHIESOrlando: a biography (1928)Flush: a biography (1933)Roger Fry: a biography (1940)THE STORIESTwo Stories (1917)Kew Gardens (1919)Monday or Tuesday (1921)A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944)Nurse Lugtons Golden Thimble (1966)Mrs Dalloways Party (1973)The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)THE ESSAYSMr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924)The Common Reader I (1925)A Room of Ones Own (1929)On Being Ill (1930)The London Scene (1931)A Letter to a Young Poet (1932)The Common Reader II (1932)Walter Sickert: a conversation (1934)Three Guineas (1938)Reviewing (1939)The Death of the Moth, and other essays (1942)The Moment, and other essays (1947)The Captains Death Bed, and other essays (1950)Granite and Rainbow (1958)Books and Portraits (1978)Women And Writing (1979)383 Essays from newspapers and magazinesAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGA Writers Diary (1953)Moments of Being (1976)The Diary Vols. 15 (1977-84)The Letters Vols. 16 (1975-80)The Letters of V.W. and Lytton Strachey (1956)A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals 1887-1909 (1990)THE PLAYFreshwater: A Comedy (both versions) (1976)

THE NOVELSThe Voyage Out (1915)Night and Day (1919)Jacobs Room (1922)Mrs. Dalloway (1925)To the Lighthouse (1927)The Waves (1931)The Years (1937)Between the Acts (1941)THE BIOGRAPHIESOrlando: a biography (1928)Flush: a biography (1933)Roger Fry: a biography (1940)THE STORIESTwo Stories (1917)Kew Gardens (1919)Monday or Tuesday (1921)A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944)Nurse Lugtons Golden Thimble (1966)Mrs Dalloways Party (1973)The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)THE ESSAYSMr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924)The Common Reader I (1925)A Room of Ones Own (1929)On Being Ill (1930)The London Scene (1931)A Letter to a Young Poet (1932)The Common Reader II (1932)Walter Sickert: a conversation (1934)Three Guineas (1938)Reviewing (1939)The Death of the Moth, and other essays (1942)The Moment, and other essays (1947)The Captains Death Bed, and other essays (1950)Granite and Rainbow (1958)Books and Portraits (1978)Women And Writing (1979)383 Essays from newspapers and magazinesAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGA Writers Diary (1953)Moments of Being (1976)The Diary Vols. 15 (1977-84)The Letters Vols. 16 (1975-80)The Letters of V.W. and Lytton Strachey (1956)A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals 1887-1909 (1990)THE PLAYFreshwater: A Comedy (both versions) (1976)

THE NOVELSThe Voyage Out (1915)Night and Day (1919)Jacobs Room (1922)Mrs. Dalloway (1925)To the Lighthouse (1927)The Waves (1931)The Years (1937)Between the Acts (1941)THE BIOGRAPHIESOrlando: a biography (1928)Flush: a biography (1933)Roger Fry: a biography (1940)THE STORIESTwo Stories (1917)Kew Gardens (1919)Monday or Tuesday (1921)A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944)Nurse Lugtons Golden Thimble (1966)Mrs Dalloways Party (1973)The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)THE ESSAYSMr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924)The Common Reader I (1925)A Room of Ones Own (1929)On Being Ill (1930)The London Scene (1931)A Letter to a Young Poet (1932)The Common Reader II (1932)Walter Sickert: a conversation (1934)Three Guineas (1938)Reviewing (1939)The Death of the Moth, and other essays (1942)The Moment, and other essays (1947)The Captains Death Bed, and other essays (1950)Granite and Rainbow (1958)Books and Portraits (1978)Women And Writing (1979)383 Essays from newspapers and magazinesAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGA Writers Diary (1953)Moments of Being (1976)The Diary Vols. 15 (1977-84)The Letters Vols. 16 (1975-80)The Letters of V.W. and Lytton Strachey (1956)A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals 1887-1909 (1990)THE PLAYFreshwater: A Comedy (both versions) (1976)

THE NOVELSThe Voyage Out (1915)Night and Day (1919)Jacobs Room (1922)Mrs. Dalloway (1925)To the Lighthouse (1927)The Waves (1931)The Years (1937)Between the Acts (1941)THE BIOGRAPHIESOrlando: a biography (1928)Flush: a biography (1933)Roger Fry: a biography (1940)THE STORIESTwo Stories (1917)Kew Gardens (1919)Monday or Tuesday (1921)A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944)Nurse Lugtons Golden Thimble (1966)Mrs Dalloways Party (1973)The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)THE ESSAYSMr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924)The Common Reader I (1925)A Room of Ones Own (1929)On Being Ill (1930)The London Scene (1931)A Letter to a Young Poet (1932)The Common Reader II (1932)Walter Sickert: a conversation (1934)Three Guineas (1938)Reviewing (1939)The Death of the Moth, and other essays (1942)The Moment, and other essays (1947)The Captains Death Bed, and other essays (1950)Granite and Rainbow (1958)Books and Portraits (1978)Women And Writing (1979)383 Essays from newspapers and magazinesAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGA Writers Diary (1953)Moments of Being (1976)The Diary Vols. 15 (1977-84)The Letters Vols. 16 (1975-80)The Letters of V.W. and Lytton Strachey (1956)A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals 1887-1909 (1990)THE PLAYFreshwater: A Comedy (both versions) (1976)

Un romance inesperado y rápido que desafía los prejuicios y los temores.Violet posee una personalidad arrolladora y chispeante, no hay obstáculo que la detenga. Compatibiliza su carrera como veterinaria con la de corredora de NASCAR, y desde pequeña ha estado enamorada secretamente del hijo mayor del matrimonio del rancho vecino.Su aspecto desaliñado y rudo siempre ha sido un obstaculo para conseguir citas y aunque no la desvela, le preocupa que la gente quiera emparejarla y transformarla en algo que no es.London siempre tuvo planes mas ambiciosos que quedarse en Silvertown, un pueblo casi inexistente en el mapa de Texas. Por eso se fue a la edad de dieciocho años y llego a ejercer como medico de renombre en Los Angeles. Alli lo tenia todo: fama, dinero, un atico moderno y una esposa escandalosamente bella.Pero no todo lo que brilla es oro... Tras una separacion en malos terminos, deudas por pagar y abrumado emocionalmente London decide regresar a la casa de sus padres dispuesto a delinear los nuevos pasos a seguir.Alejado de los lujos que lo han rodeado durante tantos años, nota que las cosas han cambiado mucho en Silvertown, y tambien que se siente extrañamente atraido por la capataz del rancho contiguo y vieja amiga de su hermano, Violet Westside.Amores por descubrir, planes que romper y miedo ante lo desconocido, son los ingredientes perfectos de esta historia llena de pasion y mucha adrenalina.