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1) Case study
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"The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks....
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Three thousand years after Earth's colonisation of the planet Borthan, stories of self-serving hypocrisy that occurred among the first arrivals have bred a culture that forbids emotional sharing and denies the naturally human concept of 'self'. The result is a lasting peace, but at a terrible price. For it is a peace without love, without self, where even the mention of the word 'I' is taboo. Spurred on by the arrival of an Earthman with a self-baring...
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"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it...
4) Clock dance
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been...
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"As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction spends her days reporting on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires, while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. When her long-time boyfriend, J, decides to move to upstate New York for grad school, she agrees to follow him, hoping to make a grand gesture of commitment and reshape her sense of self....
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
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"Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school who quotes Derrida and reads Latin and cooks balanced vegetarian meals. Before she even realizes, she's moved in with him, living in his cramped apartment, surrounded by sour towels and flat Diet Cokes. As the newfound intimacy of sharing a shower and a bed fuels her desire to please her partner, his quiet...
9) Il treno
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"Questo libro parla dell'uomo e dell'artista che, inizialmente racchiusi nella stessa persona, si scindono per poi partire ognuno alla ricerca dell'altro. Il treno é il mezzo immaginario per esplorare l'interiorità del protagonista. E' la celebrazione del sentimento superiore a tutto, l'arte ed il talento che cambiano il mondo."--lulu.com.
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With Audrey Hepburn as her inspiration, nineteen-year-old Lisbeth strives to rise above her broken home, alcohol-abusing sister and friends, the culture of "the shore," and her mother's meager dreams for her but when she secretly tries on Audrey's iconic Givenchy dress, she gets a chance to become who she longs to be.
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"Liam ha perdido su pasión por YouTube. Está metido en una relación falsa que ha tenido un resultado catastrófico: se ha enamorado de la chica, Michelle, y ahora ella sale a escondidas con su mejor amigo. Maia tiene pesadillas desde la noche del accidente. Todos los días va al hospital a visitar a una estrella cuya luz se tambalea. Un cumpleaños caótico. Una botella de vodka y un youtuber borracho que acaba durmiendo en el coche de una desconocida....
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An advertising executive in Santiago, Chile, is grappling with a midlife crisis when he begins to experience inexplicable episodes of amnesia. Hoping to outrace this dilemma, he plans to travel abroad for a year and chart the second half of his life. Instead, he will journey into an unexpected, and very foreign territory, one where the boundary between the self and the other becomes dangerously interchangeable, as he appears to inhabit the lives of...
13) 35muertos
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"Escrita con elementos de novela histórica, relato de aventuras, autoficción, thriller y hasta folletín romántico, 35muertos recrea a partir de las desventuras de un perdedor, y de las decenas de personajes que se cruzan en su camino, la Colombia de finales del siglo XX. Revolucionarios sin revolución, guerrilleros machistas, pandilleros despechados, paramilitares cansados de tanta masacre, traquetos engañados por sus mujeres, exiliados en tierras...
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