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The Book of Emma Reyes

Author : Emma Reyes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101992093
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Emma Reyes written by Emma Reyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York Times A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel García Márquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, and translated and introduced by acclaimed writer Daniel Alarcón, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogotá with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a Catholic convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, sewed garments and decorative cloths for the nuns—and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually establishing a career as an artist and befriending the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals. The portrait of her childhood that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Book of Emma Reyes

Author : Emma Reyes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143108697
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Emma Reyes written by Emma Reyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York Times An extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street, Child of the Dark, and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood defined by uprootedness and migration Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogotá with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by her mother, she moved with her sister to a Catholic convent, where she scrubbed floors and mended garments for the nuns—and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, she escaped at age nineteen, eventually establishing a career as an artist, befriending the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals, and being encouraged in her writing by Gabriel García Márquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, this astonishing memoir describes in painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Discovered only after Reyes’s death, it reveals a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

His Only Son

Author : Leopoldo Alas
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370182
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book His Only Son written by Leopoldo Alas and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation—and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity—who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate opera singer, encouraged by her manager who mistakes Bonifacio for a potential patron. Meanwhile, Bonifacio’s wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a son—but is it Bonifacio’s? In the accompanying novella, Doña Berta, the heroine of the title, an aged, poor, but well-born woman, forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life. While largely unknown outside of Spain, Leopoldo Alas was one of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain and employed his satirical talents to powerful and humorous effect in fiction. His Only Son was Alas’s second and final novel, full of characteristic humor, naturalistic detail, descriptive beauty, and moral complexity. His frail and pitiful characters—irrational, emotional actors drawn inexorably toward their foolish fates—are yet multidimensional individuals, often conscious of their own weaknesses and stymied by their very yearnings to be more than the parts they find themselves playing.

Amelia Let's Meet Some Adorable Zoo Animals!

Author : Chilkibo Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Amelia Let's Meet Some Adorable Zoo Animals! written by Chilkibo Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for the perfect present for your child? Look no further! Get a personalized book with your child's name in the text. This lovely book will make any kid feel like they are really in the story! This "Amelia let's meet some adorable zoo animals!" - book for toddlers gives your child a great adventure while they see a few of the most famous animals in the zoo. Use this book any time your child wants to see fascinating animals, or simply tell it as a bedtime story to give them lovely dreams of all the animals. This book includes a very short, personalized story text next to each animal illustration, with a question for reflection to ask your child. Your child will meet the following zoo animals in this book: elephant, sloth, zebra, toucan, lemur, cheetah, tiger, gorilla, giraffe, lion, and armadillo. The perfect gift for any child in your life! Features: Personalized book with your child's name in the story Total of 11 attractive illustrations with the personalized story text 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 21,59 x 21,59 cm 24 Pages

The King is Always Above the People

Author : Daniel Alarcón
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594631727
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The King is Always Above the People written by Daniel Alarcón and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION An urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in "The Bridge." A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in "The Ballad of Rocky Rontal." And in the tour de force novella, "The Auroras", a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world.

Hero Living

Author : Rudy Reyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781529429534
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Hero Living written by Rudy Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational can-do book from the star of Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins. In Hero Living Rudy Reyes introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and part Spider-Man. He outlines various stages towards revealing your inner hero: recognising the hero's call, following the hero's path and returning from life's battlefield with the hero's hard-earned wisdom. Rudy draws on his own heroic story of how he triumphed over harrowing childhood experiences of poverty and abandonment. Rather than giving up hope, he lived up to his full potential. First as a martial-arts champion, then as an elite warrior in the mountains of Afghanistan and on the sands of Iraq, and finally in his post-Marines life as a personal trainer, actor, motivational speaker and TV star. Find your inner hero through Rudy's tried and tested method.

Learning to Be Latino

Author : Daisy Verduzco Reyes
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813596467
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Be Latino written by Daisy Verduzco Reyes and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning to be Latino, Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life, outlining students' interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community. Reyes identifies the normative institutional arrangements that shape the social relationships relevant to Latino students' lives on these campuses.

Blue Beetle: Jaime Reyes Book One

Author : Keith Giffen
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 1779519656
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Blue Beetle: Jaime Reyes Book One written by Keith Giffen and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school student Jaime Reyes is thrust into the life of a hero after an encounter with extraterrestrial armor transforms him into the Blue Beetle! What is the armor’s true purpose, and what evils will our planet face if Jaime isn’t strong enough to use the armor correctly? Find out in Blue Beetle: Jaime Reyes Book One, collecting Blue Beetle #1-12.

I Am, I Am, I Am

Author : Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0735274134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book I Am, I Am, I Am written by Maggie O'Farrell and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, as she reminds us that we are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her in the hospital for nearly a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a serial killer on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and a restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty and mysteries of life itself.

Miracle of Mexico

Author : Alfonso Reyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848616882
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Miracle of Mexico written by Alfonso Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfonso Reyes Ochoa (1889-1959) was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. This is the first major collection of his poetry in English. "A man for whom language has been all that language can be: sound and sign, inert trace and wizardry, a clockwork mechanism and a living thing." (Octavio Paz)

Dear Cyborgs

Author : Eugene Lim
Publisher : FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374716412
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Dear Cyborgs written by Eugene Lim and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Favorite Fiction Books of 2017, a Literary Hub Staff Favorite Book of 2017, and one of BOMB Magazine's "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Selections. "Wondrous . . . [A] sense of the erratic and tangential quality of everyday life—even if it’s displaced into a bizarre, parallel world—drifts off the page, into the world you see, after reading Dear Cyborgs." —Hua Hsu, The New Yorker In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team of superheroes ponder modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on the seemingly inescapable grip of market economics. Gleefully toying with the conventions of the novel, Dear Cyborgs weaves together the story of a friendship’s dissolution with a provocative and timely meditation on protest. Through a series of linked monologues, a lively cast of characters explores narratives of resistance—protest art, eco-terrorists, Occupy squatters, pyromaniacal militants—and the extent to which any of these can truly withstand and influence the cold demands of contemporary capitalism. All the while, a mysterious cybernetic book of clairvoyance beckons, and trusted allies start to disappear. Entwining comic-book villains with cultural critiques, Eugene Lim’s Dear Cyborgs is a fleet-footed literary exploration of power, friendship, and creativity. Ambitious and knowing, it combines detective pulps, subversive philosophy, and Hollywood chase scenes, unfolding like the composites and revelations of a dream.

An Everywhere

Author : Heather Reyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992636401
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book An Everywhere written by Heather Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a quietly passionate and witty defence of the joys and consolations of reading in both the difficult and day-to-day aspects of our lives.

Puddin'

Author : Julie Murphy
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062418408
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Puddin' written by Julie Murphy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irresistible companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dumplin’, now a Netflix feature film starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston, and a soundtrack by Dolly Parton! Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream of being a newscaster—and to kiss the boy she’s crushing on. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she’s more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester, they surprise everyone (especially themselves) by realizing that they might have more in common than they ever imagined. A story about unexpected friendship, romance, and Texas-size girl power, this is another winner from Julie Murphy.

War by Candlelight

Author : Daniel Alarcon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061860298
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book War by Candlelight written by Daniel Alarcon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war and economic crises -- simply put, our world is changing. In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. These are lives at the margins of the globalized and not-yet-globalized worlds, the stories of those who shuttle between them and never quite feel at home in the cities where they were born: an unrepentant terrorist remembers where it all began, a would-be emigrant contemplates the ramifications of leaving and never coming back, a reporter turns in his pad and pencil for the inglorious costume of a street clown. War by Candlelight is a devastating portrait ofa world in flux, and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.

Velvet Hounds

Author : Aimee Seu
Publisher : Akron Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9781629222219
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Velvet Hounds written by Aimee Seu and published by Akron Poetry. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Velvet Hounds is an exploration in all-consuming want. In this linguistically decadent debut, Aimee Seu holds readers captive where danger and beauty collide. Interrogating themes of first love, bulimia nervosa, biracial pansexual embodiment, psychic inheritance, legacy and legend, hopelessness and euphoria, this collection conjures a hallucinogenic vision which emulates the chaotic unravelling of experience itself. These poems stand before the mirror heartbreak holds to us and what's reflected back is both demented and exalted, ravaged, and blinding.

Going to the Mountain

Author : Ndaba Mandela
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473560713
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Going to the Mountain written by Ndaba Mandela and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘You empower yourself and then you reach out to others.’ Uplifting life lessons from one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known... through the eyes of the grandson whose life he changed forever. In his book Going to the Mountain, Ndaba Mandela shares the story of his coming-of-age alongside South Africa’s rebirth. It is a remarkable journey, and one that took him from the violent, segregated Soweto ghettos to his grandfather’s presidential home. As a young boy, Ndaba was constantly shunted from place to place. But at eleven years old he was unexpectedly invited to live with his grandfather, Nelson Mandela, even though he had met him only once before, during a prison visit. And, slowly, they built a relationship that would affect both of them profoundly. Ndaba's teenage years were complicated, but as he approached his twenty-first birthday, Mandela decided that Ndaba was finally ready to ‘go to the mountain’ – a test of courage during which you become a man. At the end of this gruelling ritual journey, the elders of the Mandelas’ tribe gathered and Ndaba’s grandfather was there, as ever, to share his greatest life lessons. From Nelson Mandela, Ndaba learned the spirit of endurance, the triumph of forgiveness, the power of resistance and the beauty of reconciliation. And as Mandela grew older, Ndaba had the chance to repay his grandfather’s love and support by demonstrating the ways in which he’d understood all that he had taught him. Intimate and inspirational, Going to the Mountain is a powerful reminder of how one person can impact profoundly on another, and a testament to the awesome power within us to change ourselves and our world.

El libro de Emma Reyes

Author : Emma Reyes
Publisher : VINTAGE ESPAÑOL
ISBN 13 : 0525564993
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book El libro de Emma Reyes written by Emma Reyes and published by VINTAGE ESPAÑOL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Asombroso y agriamente poético". --The New York Times Esta sorprendente memoria se convirtió clásico instantáneo cuando se publicó por primera vez en Colombia en 2012, casi una década después de la muerte de su autora, quien fue alentada en sus escritos por Gabriel García Márquez. Mediante veintitrés cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germán Arciniegas a lo largo de treinta años, Reyes describe de manera viva y con detalles pintorescos el coraje notable y la imaginación ilimitada de una niña que crece con nada. Emma Reyes era una niña ilegítima, criada en una habitación sin ventanas en Bogotá sin agua ni inodoro, y que sobrevivía únicamente de su ingenio para mantenerse a ella misma y a su hermana. Abandonada por su madre, ambas niñas se son acogidas por un convento católico que albergaba a 150 niñas huérfanas, donde lavaban ollas, planchaban y reparaban la ropa, fregaban pisos, limpiaban baños, cosían prendas y telas decorativas para las monjas y vivían con temor al Diablo. Analfabeta y sin saber nada del mundo exterior, Emma escapó a los diecinueve años, estableciendo una carrera como artista y forjando amistades con Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera, así como con artistas e intelectuales europeos. El retrato de su infancia que surge de este relato clarividente inspira en el lector un asombro especial hacia la deslumbrante vida de una talentosa escritora cuyo talento permaneció oculto por demasiado tiempo.