Lauren Groff
1) Florida
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A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
2) Arcadia
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The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.
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"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep...
5) Matrix
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Descendiente de una larga dinastía de guerreras y cruzadas, Marie es demasiado ruda y rebelde para la vida palaciega, por lo que acaba siendo expulsada de la corte y enviada a los lodazales de Inglaterra para que asuma el rol de priora de una abadía venida a menos. Al llegar, encuentra un panorama desolador donde reinan la inanición y el chismorreo. Marie añora la comodidad de la corte francesa, y también a su amante secreta, Cecily. Sin embargo,...
6) Wyspa kobiet
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"Siedemnastoletnia Marie de France, uznana za niepasującą do dworskiego życia i nienadającą się do małżeństwa, zostaje wygnana z królewskiego dworu przez Eleonorę Akwitańską i wysłana do Anglii, gdzie ma zostać nową przeoryszą zubożałego opactwa, w którym zakonnice umierają z głodu, dziesiątkowane chorobami. Początkowe zaskoczenie surowością nowego życia mija, gdy Marie znajduje sens i miłość w byciu z siostrami, we wspólnocie....
8) Arkadia
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Utopia never lasts forever, sometimes life verifies plans for us in the least expected moment - building it again in a completely different and strange place is not one of the simplest tasks ... Fourteen years have passed since Ridley came into the world. The boy, throughout his life, grew up in Arcadia - the place of liberated and independent people who always tried to draw life from their lives full of life. It was here that he discovered the taste...
9) Floryda
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"Dwie małe siostry, które nagle zostają same na przepięknej plaży, nie do końca rozumieją, co się wokół nich dzieje, ale przeczuwają, że trzeba szukać ratunku. Podczas wakacji matka z kilkuletnimi synkami zostają w domu na odludziu zdani tylko na siebie; muszą przeżyć, choć w bujnych zaroślach czai się niebezpieczeństwo. Malowniczy cypel zostaje zaatakowany przez huragan i tylko czas pokaże, czy samotna kobieta przetrwa atak...
10) Florida
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"En un mundo en el que el clima se ha vuelto impredecible, un lugar a la vez domesticado y salvaje en el que acechan los peligros feroces de la naturaleza, las mayores amenazas siguen siendo emocionales y psicológicas. Un refugio familiar puede ser destruido por una pantera que merodea o por un secreto sexual. Dos hermanas abandonadas, un hombre que crece rodeado de serpientes cazadas por su padre, una pareja inquieta y sin hijos, y una mujer casada...
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"Set in Australia in the late 1970s, Monkey Grip follows single mother and writer Nora as she navigates the tumultuous cityscape of Melbourne's bohemian underground, often with her young daughter Gracie in tow. When Nora falls in love with the flighty Javo, she becomes snared in the web of his addiction. And as their tenuous relationship disintegrates, Nora struggles to ween herself off a love that feels impossible to live without."--
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"The Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in postwar England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves"--
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"Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a casual affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge but also an instrument for her long-wished-for independence. Takiko's first year as a...
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An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson excelled at the brief tale, writing stories that in their short spans unfold to reveal entire worlds. This is true of her internationally syndicated cartoon strip about a family of hippo-like creatures, the Moomins; of her beloved Moomin novels; and of her best-selling books for adults, like The Summer Book. Until now, however, Jansson's short stories have been nearly impossible to find in the United States....
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school. Also included are the editor’s...
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"The first one-volume collection of all of Lorrie Moore's short stories, with an introduction by Lauren Groff"--
A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors. Collected here for the first time in one volume are forty stories by Lorrie Moore-originally published in the acclaimed collections Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America, and Bark and including three additional stories excerpted...