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Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"'A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white, alternately beautiful and tender, cruel and unsettling.'-Guardian Australia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in the 1960s, that explores the lengths we'll go to save the people we love-an unforgettable story of one native Australian family and the racist government that threatens...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"David ha cumplido diez años y todas las semanas juega al fútbol con sus amigos. No tienen equipos ni tampoco reglas; a veces son treinta en la cancha, otras veces solo cinco. Un día el director de un orfanato vecino los invita a organizarse para jugar contra los internados. Tal vez disfruten de medirse con un equipo de verdad. Al hacer el máximo esfuerzo y darlo todo para ganar. Pero David elige dejar su hogar e irse a vivir con ellos. Y, al...
23) Talking animals
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Talking Animals is a Kafkaesque tale about the radical awakening of an alpaca and a llama who live within a crumbling city. Together with their friends and comrades, these animals search for a form of resistance that fits with their time"--
24) Doctor Faustus
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 80
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
25) Ulysses
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Description
This story captures a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer's Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day. As his characters stroll, eat, ruminate, and argue through the streets of Dublin, Joyce's narrative weaves events, emotions, and memories in a free...
26) Glory: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An explosive novel about the chaos of revolution, Glory centres around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional African country, and the drama that follows for an unruly nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe--Zimbabwe's president who took office in 1980 and...never left--Bulawayo's bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As graduates embark on the next phase of their lives, what better way to get them accustomed to the rat race they are about to enter than by introducing them to the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre? Cleverly told through the story of a pair of rats trapped in the labyrinth of existence, this allegory humorously conveys the key ideas of Sartre's existential philosophy in graphic-novel form--accessible for students and readers of all ages. In addition,...
Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A fantasy set in the ninth century, Takaoka's Travels recounts the adventures of a Japanese prince-turned-monk on a pilgrimage to India. As Prince Takaoka and his companions pass through faraway lands, the rules of the ordinary world are upended, and they find curiosities and miracles wherever they go. The travelers encounter strange creatures -- a white ape who guards a harem of bird-women, beasts who feed on dreams, a dog-headed man who can see...
30) The forest
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical book about the adventure of life, The Forest is also a magnificent visual work, both painterly and a technical feat of paper engineering. Here, sensory experience and the textures of the material world are rendered through die-cuts, embossing, cutouts, and two gatefolds. A beautifully considered work."-- provided by publisher.
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