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Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934-2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by demonstrating that his writing on Black diasporic life and the immigrant experience is a foundational, if untold, part of the story of CanLit.

Tooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after they both return from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear that seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it’s not too long until they realize that the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers, who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.

"El caso de la señorita Amelia" es un cuento de Rubén Darío que sigue la historia de la joven Amelia, una mujer de clase alta que vive en una sociedad conservadora y represiva. Amelia se siente atrapada en un matrimonio infeliz y busca escapar de su vida monótona y opresiva. La narrativa se centra en su búsqueda de libertad y autenticidad, mientras enfrenta las expectativas sociales y los prejuicios de género. A medida que la historia avanza, Amelia se embarca en un viaje de autodescubrimiento y rebelión contra las convenciones sociales establecidas.

From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.

Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth, is back on the case after a man is found dead on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series.

Thirty years ago, musicians Emilia Oliveras and Paul Winstead were married in Puerto Rico. Forty-eight hours later, Paul vanished from their honeymoon cruise, leaving Emilia devastated—and the prime suspect in his disappearance. So, she ran for her life, leaving behind her love, her dreams, and her identity. Today “Emily Oliver” is a divorced music teacher and mother of two daughters who know nothing about her past: Gracie, a talented attorney who excels in the courtroom but grapples with personal relationships, and Meg, a gifted concert pianist who wrestles with her ambition and purpose.

Historias que nos invitan a reflexionar y nos estimulan con ideas nuevas e inspiradoras. Despojados de las máscaras que ocultan nuestros sentimientos y emociones, nos enfrentamos por primera vez a las grandezas y miserias de nuestra alma. Surge entonces en cada uno de nosotros un loco dispuesto a experimentar la libertad de vivir sin pretextos ni ocultaciones, y, sobre todo, sin la necesidad de que nos comprendan, porque cuando nos comprenden, encasillan y esclavizan algo de nosotros.

First published in 1732 by Benjamin Franklin when he was just 26, Poor Richard's Almanack was issued annually for the next 25 years. Extremely popular with readers of the day, the Almanack was a fascinating compilation of weather predictions, recipes, jokes, and delightful aphorisms — many representing Franklin's common-sense philosophy, and others, proverbs from the past.

It’s the summer before high school, and Ronny Nguyen finds herself too young for work, too old for cartoons. Her days are spent in a small backyard, dozing off to trashy magazines on a plastic lawn chair. In stark contrast stands her brother Tommy, the pride and joy of their immigrant parents: a popular honor student destined to be the first in the family to attend college. The thought of Tommy leaving for college fills Ronny with dread, as she contemplates the quiet house she will be left alone in with her parents, Me and Ba.

A Tōkyō c’è un quartiere che raccoglie il più alto numero di librerie al mondo. Si chiama Jinbōchō, e gli amanti dei libri possono trovarci di tutto, purché stampato: romanzi dell’epoca Meiji, manga, copioni teatrali e vecchie mappe. Ma non solo: i cacciatori di prime edizioni o di copie autografate sono di casa qui, e vederli all’opera è uno spettacolo. Alla libreria Morisaki, un piccolo negozio a gestione familiare specializzato in letteratura giapponese moderna, entrano a malapena cinque persone insieme. I libri affollano gli scaffali fino a invadere ogni angolo del pavimento.

Angustiado por una crisis financiera, Lorenzo Heredia se debate entre vender o conservar una antigüedad, única herencia familiar que le queda. Con el fin de encontrarle un precio debe investigar el origen de esta reliquia. Múltiples voces emergen de otros tiempos para revelarnos más de lo deseado, articulando un relato que comienza en el barrio Chapinero en 2015 y termina con Antón Hero, zapatero ilustrado que zarpa de Cádiz en 1655.

Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC-Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans. The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing?

A sensational celebration of Annie Ernaux's work—Writing, the Other Life features collected writing by critics, journalists, and 24 previously unpublished pieces by the Nobel Prize winner herself—offering a full view of the author's life, writing style, reception by readers, and her thoughts and influence.

In this excellent English translation of The Analects, or Sayings, of Confucius, listeners will find a rich distillation of the timeless precepts of one of history's most influential teachers and social theorists. A Chinese philosopher who lived c. 551 to c. 479 B.C., Confucius originated and taught an ethical, socially oriented philosophy that stressed proper behavior and a sympathetic, mutually supportive attitude among individuals, their families and society.

Detective Arias hunts for a murderer on a liberal arts campus that prides itself on its progressive curriculum but is rife with jealousy, racial and sexual tensions, and a hierarchy as real and destructive as a medieval fortress. DJ Arias, good at his job because he sees the worst in people, is challenged by the college community, a neighborhood recluse, and a young Latino gardener he sent to jail ten years ago for a hit-and-run accident.

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Did I plan to marry the single mom I've wanted for years on a drunken whim in Vegas? No. Do I regret it? Heck no! Bella Patel might think we're just friends, or that I'm nothing but a playboy pilot, or even that this marriage is only a temporary charade... but I'm hell-bent on proving her wrong. If she's skittish and stubborn, then I'm dependable and determined. So, when her scumbag baby-daddy threatens her, and she asks me to double down on our ruse, I'm only too eager to comply. My condition? For her and her daughter to move in with me. You know, for "optics."

I have been in a low depression, partly due to the fact that I read Disability's summary of my condition, and it made me feel week, unable, and unworthy. It made me feel like all of my hopes and dreams are just grandiose overly optimistic fantasies. But they aren't. These 42 poems remind me of the abilities I do have. So I publish them for you, so you will drink in their optimism and feel better about your suffering, as all is not lost for either me nor you.

Für Betty war er die Rettung aus existenzieller Not. Für Florence eine Bürde und der Ort ihrer schlimmsten Niederlage. Für Mariel ist er ein Traum, in dem sie sich selbst verwirklicht. Für Julia ist er eine bloße Legende, die nichts mehr mit ihr zu tun hat: Im Lakeside Supper Club am Bear Jaw Lake in Minnesota trotzen vier Frauen dem Leben auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise ihr Quäntchen Glück ab.