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Par Sheila Heti. 2024
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them…
alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.Par Susan Doherty Hannaford. 2015
Word Guild Award for Best Young Adult fiction 2016 Grace Irwin Award 2016 Literary Classics silver medal for Y/A fiction…
2016 Shortlisted for the Frank Hegyi Award-Ottawa Independent Writers Literary Classics silver medal for High school fiction 2017 Set in 1936 Montreal, A Secret Music is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a sensitive fifteen-year-old piano prodigy who grows up in the shadow of his mother’s mental illness. Forced to keep this shameful secret, he attempts to raise himself and his ten year old brother. He counteracts the deep ache and creeping mistrust caused by his mother’s emotional absence by escaping into the intense realm of Chopin and Schubert, the only language he understands. When his brother becomes ill, he is left with enormous responsibilities. At a piano competition in Montreal, Lawrence makes a climactic decision that puts his future on hold in order to salvage his family life. In A Secret Music, Susan Doherty Hannaford re-creates the Depression-Era world of Montreal and demonstrates how music can redeem a life.Par Lori Weber. 2016
When a team in an all-girls’ hockey league comes to recruit players, twelve-year-old Lou’s dreams seem to be coming true.…
But the dreams hinge on one thing: never letting on that Lou is a boy. But the road to stardom is not easy, as Lou discovers that the competition is fierce, and that he’s got a lot of work to do to match the skills of the league’s star player and his chief rival, Albertine Lapensée. All the while, he has to keep his secret, and wrestle with the moral dilemma of taking a place on the team away from a deserving girl. Loosely based on a true story, Lightning Lou is a riveting and thought-provoking story for middle-grade readers.Par Caroline Fernandez. 2022
A CCBC Best Books for Kids and Teens pick!Asha and Baz have a paper rocket to launch! Whoever builds the…
rocket that travels the farthest will get to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. The only problem is Asha and Baz don’t know how to power their rocket. Stuck and unsure, the kids brainstorm by drawing a rocket in the sand using a stick. But this is a very unusual stick. In fact, it’s a magic stick! And it transports them back in time to meet a person who might be able to help them with their rocket problem: scientist Mary Sherman Morgan.Par Sarah Vaughn. 2023
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that blooms from a marriage of…
convenience.The whole town is whispering about how Catherine Benson lost her virtue, though they can never agree on the details. Was it in the public garden? Or a moving carriage?Only a truly desperate man would want her now—and that’s exactly what Andrew Davener is. His family’s estate is in disrepair, but Catherine’s sizeable dowry could set it to rights.After the two wed, Catherine finds herself inexplicably drawn to Andrew. But could falling in love with her husband tear her marriage apart? In this richly detailed Regency romance, duty and passion collide in a slow-burn tale of intertwined fates.Par Alix Christie. 2014
Una poderosa novela histórica sobre un joven escribano alemán que se convirtió en el discípulo de uno de los personajes…
más extraordinarios de la historia, Johann Gutenberg, creador de las primeras Biblias impresas. Una novela colorida, vívida y de una precisión histórica impecable. El fiel retrato de un tiempo, el del nacimiento de un gran invento que cambió el mundo para siempre. El joven y ambicioso Peter Schoeffer goza de un gran éxito profesional como escriba en París cuando su padre adoptivo, Johann Fust, un rico comerciante y librero, le pide que regrese a Maguncia, su tierra natal. Allí, un atrevido y cáustico Johann Gutenberg ha ideado un revolucionario sistema de copia: una máquina que él denomina imprenta. Johann Fust ordena a su hijo adoptivo que vaya a trabajar con Gutenberg, para convertirse en su aprendiz. Resentido por tener que abandonar una carrera prestigiosa como escriba, Peter finalmente acepta y comienza a formarse con su nuevo maestro en esa oscura manera de entender el arte de la copia. A medida que su habilidad con la máquina crece, también lo hace su admiración hacia Gutenberg y su dedicación a uno de los proyectos más atrevidos de su maestro: la realización de copias de la Santa Biblia. Pero las dificultades mecánicas y el poder aplastante de la Iglesia Católica amenazan su trabajo. El mundo parece alinearse contra ellos, y Peter no sabrá hacia dónde decantar su amor filial; si hacia el generoso Johann Fust –quien lo rescató cuando su madre murió salvándolo de la pobreza- o bien hacia el brillante y genial Gutenberg, su padre profesional y quien logra inspirarle para llegar a alcanzar su propia maestría. Atrapado entre el genio y el comerciante, entre las viejas formas y un mundo nuevo, Peter y estos dos hombres que admira deberán trabajar juntos para prevalecer contra una abrumadora sucesión de obstáculos, en una batalla que cambiará irrevocablemente la historia para siempre. La crítica ha dicho...«Peter Schöeffer es el personaje central de esta novela pero Gutenberg -el megalómano, el sabio de pelo salvaje, erizado y largo hasta los hombros, con la barba que le cae en cascada- brilla quí y allá con ojos caninos.»Kirkus Reviews «Una novela que los aficionados a la historia del libro y de la auténtica ficción histórica disfrutarán; perfectamente ambientada en la época que describe.»BooklistPar Guillermo Estiballes. 2020
Otra luna enterrada constituye una atmósfera de fábula donde la naturaleza tiene voz propia y donde los antiguos hechizos cobran…
vida en la voz y la presteza de un joven descendiente de sefardíes. Buñol (Valencia), siglo XIX. Teodoro el judío, Julia la gitana y Alberto el andaluz se conocen desde niños y, por avatares del destino, sabiendo aprovechar un horrible suceso acaecido a la muchacha, ellos dos consiguen llevar su amor al término que siempre desearon. Así pues, los tres consiguen convivir bajo el mismo techo en una sociedad rural que, a priori, no admite una relación entre dos hombres. Pero el destino es un traicionero bastardo y pronto los problemas tocarán a la puerta en esta inusitada familia, pues en el pueblo vive Roberto Cotino, hijo pródigo de un poderoso empresario que, obsesionado con la muchacha y enemistado desde antaño con el judío, sacudirá los cimientos hasta desbaratar sus planes de felicidad y convivencia. Pero Julia tiene otros planes y una poderosa herramienta: Sabiero el autómata, la creación de su amigo Teodoro. Una novela pincelada con las luces y oscuridades de los primeros librepensadores españoles, en una tierra que se recupera después más de cincuenta años de guerra civil, mientras avanza a traspiés ante el cambio social y tecnológico de aquella no tan lejana época. Una novela ambientada en el costumbrismo sobrenatural de siglo XIX y en las raíces de la intrahistoria española. La crítica ha dicho...«Una novela costumbrista que se inmiscuye en una pequeña logia de Buñol (Valencia), para hablarnos de un siglo XIX íntimo y la relación entre personas, máquinas y naturaleza.»Fantasymundo «Buscaba algo diferente y lo he encontrado. ¿Sabes esos argumentos tan locos que no sabes si va a serun completo fracaso o un acierto absoluto? Pues en este caso al autor le ha resultado positivo.»Diario de una Chicka Lit «Una novela genial, increíble e imaginativa.»La historia en mis librosPar José Luis Serrano. 2013
Bajo la actual Alhambra laten un palacio legendario, una sinagoga mística y una residencia paradisíaca. Y la verdadera historia de…
su construcción se encuentra en estas páginas. Corre el año 1002. Tras la muerte del padre, la familia Nagrela llega a Córdoba, capital de Al Ándalus y la ciudad más grande del mundo. La historia de una época de esplendor y cultura. Una historia de amor y de luchas familiares. La historia de la construcción de la Alhambra de Granada.Allí establecen su negocio de plantas medicinales y remedios de espagírica. Samuel Nagrela, el segundo varón de la familia, cultiva el comercio y, al mismo tiempo, estudia la ciencia de los griegos, la jurisprudencia judía, el derecho musulmán, el Corán, la Biblia, el Tamud, la lengua aramea, la medicina hipocrática y un oficio que habría de cambiarle la vida: el de calígrafo de la lengua árabe.En el 1013 el ya rabino Samuel inicia su viaje de exilio, tras la guerra civil. Está convencido de que lo guía la Divina Providencia y de que algún día será príncipe de todos los judíos andalusíes. En ese viaje iniciático conocerá a Ilbia, una joven noble recluida en el castillo de Salobreña, con asombrosos conocimientos matemáticos y arquitectónicos, y que habría de convertirse en la mujer de su vida y en la artífice de su sueño: años más tarde, convertido ya en un hombre rico y poderoso, Samuel construirá el nuevo templo de Salomón.Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2023
The #1 bestselling chapter book series is now available as graphic novels! Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked away to ancient…
Japan and the time of ninjas with Jack and Annie!There's a whisper in the shadows, a silent warrior. It's a ninja! The magic tree house has whisked Jack and Annie to ancient Japan. They need to learn the secrets of the ninja in order to help their friend Morgan! But how do you find a ninja, a warrior that hides in the shadows? You don't find a ninja . . . the ninja finds YOU!For the first time in graphic novel--live the adventure again with new full-color vibrant art that brings the magic to life!Par Cheryl A. Head. 2023
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist&’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather…
in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago—inspired by the author&’s own family history Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing along his pregnant wife and young daughter. Birmingham is in its heyday, known as the &“Magic City&” for its booming steel industry, and while Robert and his family find much to enjoy in the city&’s busy markets and vibrant nightlife, it&’s also a stronghold for the Klan. And with his beautiful, light-skinned wife and snazzy car, Robert begins to worry that he might be drawing the wrong kind of attention. 2019: Meghan McKenzie, the youngest reporter at the Detroit Free Press, has grown up hearing family lore about her great-grandfather&’s murder—but no one knows the full story of what really happened back then, and his body was never found. Determined to find answers to her family&’s long-buried tragedy and spurred by the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, Meghan travels to Birmingham. But as her investigation begins to uncover dark secrets that spider across both the city and time, her life may be in danger. Inspired by true events, Time&’s Undoing is both a passionate tale of one woman&’s quest for the truth behind the racially motivated trauma that has haunted her family for generations and, as newfound friends and supporters in Birmingham rally around Meghan&’s search, the uplifting story of a community coming together to fight for change.Par Brendan Slocumb. 2023
A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a…
shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time—his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth that a powerful organization wants to keep hidden, Bern will stop at nothing to right history's wrongs and give Josephine the recognition she deserves.&“A maestro of musical mystery...Slocumb&’s writing is invigorating, and the detail in his character work makes the main characters in both time periods easy to root for.... Thrilling.&” —The New York Times"At once a celebration of music and also a cautionary tale about legacy, privilege, and creative genius." —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The MaidBern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world&’s preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern&’s help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED, he jumps at the chance. With the help of his tech-savvy acquaintance Eboni, Bern soon discovers that the truth is far more complicated than history would have them believe.In 1920s Manhattan, Josephine Reed is living on the streets and frequenting jazz clubs when she meets the struggling musician Fred Delaney. But where young Delaney struggles, Josephine soars. She&’s a natural prodigy who hears beautiful music in the sounds of the world around her. With Josephine as his silent partner, Delaney&’s career takes off—but who is the real genius here?In the present day, Bern and Eboni begin to uncover more clues that indicate Delaney may have had help in composing his most successful work. Armed with more questions than answers and caught in the crosshairs of a powerful organization who will stop at nothing to keep their secret hidden, Bern and Eboni will move heaven and earth in their dogged quest to right history&’s wrongs.Par Leo Tolstoy. 2007
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant,…
engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy&’s master epic. • Nominated as one of America&’s best-loved novels by PBS&’s The Great American ReadWar and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon&’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon&’s army invades, Tolstoy vividly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.Pevear and Volokhonsky have brought us this classic novel in a translation remarkable for its fidelity to Tolstoy&’s style and cadence and for its energetic, accessible prose.Par Kent Monkman, Gisèle Gordon. 2023
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories…
and imagined history that will remake readers&’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island is a genre-demolishing work of genius, the imagined history of a legendary figure through which profound truths emerge—a deeply Cree and gloriously queer understanding of our shared world, its past, its present, and its possibilities.Volume One, which covers the period from the creation of the universe to the confederation of Canada, follows Miss Chief as she moves through time, from a complex lived experience of Cree cosmology to the arrival of European settlers, many of whom will be familiar to students of history. An open-hearted being, she tries to live among those settlers, and guide them to a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of all beings and the world itself. As their numbers grow, though, so does conflict, and Miss Chief begins to understand that the challenges posed by the hordes of newly arrived Europeans will mean ever greater danger for her, her people, and, by extension, all of the world she cherishes.Blending history, fiction, and memoir in bold new ways, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle are unlike anything published before. And in their power to reshape our shared understanding, they promise to change the way we see everything that lies ahead.Par Simon Scarrow. 2023
'Roman discipline clashes with ferocious hordes in Scarrow's epic mix of sword, sweat and savagery' THE SUN1st-century Britannia is the…
setting for an epic and action-packed novel of tribal uprisings, battles to the death and unmatched courage in the Roman army ranks. From Simon Scarrow, author of the bestsellers The Honour of Rome, Centurion and The Gladiator, comes the 22nd Eagles of the Empire novel.AD 60. Britannia is in turmoil. The rebel leader Boudica has tasted victory, against a force of tough veterans in Camulodunum.Alerted to the rapidly spreading uprising, Governor Suetonius leads his army towards endangered Londinium with a mounted escort, led by Prefect Cato. Soon it's terrifyingly clear that Britannia is slipping into chaos and panic, with ever more tribal warriors swelling Boudica's ranks. And Cato and Suetonius are grimly aware that little preparation has been made to withstand a full-scale rebellion. In Londinium there is devastating news. Centurion Macro is amongst those unaccounted for after the massacre at Camulodunum. Has Cato's comrade and friend made his last stand? Facing disaster, Cato prepares his next move. Dare he hope that Macro - battle-scarred and fearless - has escaped the bloodthirsty rebels? For there is only one man Cato trusts by his side as he faces the military campaign of his life. And the future of the Empire in Britannia hangs in the balance.Par Edward Wilson. 2024
"A compelling slice of mid-century espionage that expertly blends history with possibility. All comparisons that will inevitably be made with…
le Carré are entirely apt" Tim Glister'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a 'double-dipper' the Americans believed to be one of their own. His left-wing sympathies have him singled out as a traitor.Henry Bone throws him a lifeline, sending him to Marseille, ostensibly to report on dockers' strikes and keep tabs on the errant wife of a British diplomat. But there's a catch. For his cover story, he's demobbed from the service and tricked out as a writer researching a book on the Resistance.In Marseille, Catesby is caught in a deadly vice between the CIA and the mafia, who are colluding to fuel the war in Indochina. Swept eastwards to Laos himself, he remains uncertain of the true purpose behind his mission, though he has his suspicions: Bone has murder on his mind, and the target is a former comrade from Catesby's SOE days. The question is, which one.Par José Luis Serrano. 2014
La figura de Almanzor, fundador del reino de Granada, y la de su mercenario, Zawi, son las protagonistas de esta…
extraordinaria novela. En el año 1009 comenzó una descarnada guerra civil que duró veinte años. En Córdoba se decidió, de alguna manera, lo que somos hoy. La figura incomparable de Almanzor; la vida de Zawi Zirí, un mercenario bereber; la fundación del reino de Granada y la guerra civil de principios del siglo XI son los cuatro ejes narrativos de este libro, que recrea con acertado rigor una sociedad refinada y exquisita en la que las mujeres gobernaban de puertas para adentro y aún existían hombres tan extraordinarios que sus hazañas daban paso a las leyendas.Par Fernando Rueda. 2016
¿Estados Unidos y la CIA impulsaron a Juan Carlos I para conseguir el trono? ¿Tuvo algo que ver en la…
Operación Compás montada para evitar que la nieta de Franco y su marido Alfonso de Borbón le usurparan la sucesión? España, año 1980. El pueblo vive intensamente un cambio político plagado de conflictos, que no le permite ver en toda su dimensión cómo los servicios secretos de EEUU y sus aliados -entre los que se encuentra España- combaten encarnizadamente contra sus enemigos de la URSS y el Pacto de Varsovia. Las calles son el escenario de la Guerra Fría, en la que el espionaje español, controlado por militares, actúa demasiado pendiente de los intereses de la CIA, un servicio del que dependen hasta niveles insospechados. ETA ha decidido no asesinar durante las elecciones al Parlamento vasco. Mikel Lezarja, El Lobo, tiene que cumplir una extraña misión para la CIA que le molesta y no entiende: descubrir la doble vida de una alemana sospechosa de traición, a la que todos consideran culpable. Pronto comprenderá que en el mundo de las alcantarillas y el espionaje entre servicios secretos nada ni nadie es lo que parece. La crítica ha dicho...«Un thriller intenso y palpitante.»Todoliteratura «Una trepidante historia de espionaje ambientada en la España de 1980.»La voz de GaliciaPar Simon Scarrow. 2023
'Roman discipline clashes with ferocious hordes in Scarrow's epic mix of sword, sweat and savagery' THE SUN1st-century Britannia is the…
setting for an epic and action-packed novel of tribal uprisings, battles to the death and unmatched courage in the Roman army ranks. From Simon Scarrow, author of the bestsellers The Honour of Rome, Centurion and The Gladiator, comes the 22nd Eagles of the Empire novel.AD 60. Britannia is in turmoil. The rebel leader Boudica has tasted victory, against a force of tough veterans in Camulodunum.Alerted to the rapidly spreading uprising, Governor Suetonius leads his army towards endangered Londinium with a mounted escort, led by Prefect Cato. Soon it's terrifyingly clear that Britannia is slipping into chaos and panic, with ever more tribal warriors swelling Boudica's ranks. And Cato and Suetonius are grimly aware that little preparation has been made to withstand a full-scale rebellion. In Londinium there is devastating news. Centurion Macro is amongst those unaccounted for after the massacre at Camulodunum. Has Cato's comrade and friend made his last stand? Facing disaster, Cato prepares his next move. Dare he hope that Macro - battle-scarred and fearless - has escaped the bloodthirsty rebels? For there is only one man Cato trusts by his side as he faces the military campaign of his life. And the future of the Empire in Britannia hangs in the balance.Par Noah Gordon. 1965
Una novela épica sobre el judaísmo en América por el autor de El médico y La bodega. Michael Kind, descendiente…
de judíos criado en un barrio marginal de Nueva York, se debate entre el antagónico legado recibido por su abuelo y su educador, y el proporcionado por su padre. El abuelo le trasmitió su conciencia de pertenencia a la comunidad judía, mientras que su educador se encargó de la enseñanza religiosa. Como contrapunto a esa instrucción anclada en los orígenes de su pueblo, Michael conoció de la mano de su padre a valorar la libertad y a atreverse a cuestionar las normas. Las dos caras de esa formación se reflejarán en la vida de Michael adulto, quien decidirá convertirse en un rabino tolerante y abierto, dispuesto a enfrentarse a todos aquellos obstáculos religiosos y sociales que se opongan a su relación con una mujer que no pertenece a la comunidad judía.Par Karen Engelmann. 2012
La codicia, el poder de la cartomancia y la magia del destino. El futuro de un país depende de una…
misteriosa baraja. Una brillante novela histórica desarrollada en el Estocolmo del siglo XVIII. Estocolmo, 1789. El reinado de Gustavo III se tambalea. Emil Larsson, un joven oficial de aduanas, vividor, bebedor y jugador, visita regularmente el exclusivo Salón de Sofía Sparrow, mujer influyente de la sociedad de la capital sueca.La señora Sparrow ve grandes cosas para el futuro de Emil cuando decide echarle las cartas del Octavo, un poderoso tipo de cartomancia que puede ayudar al joven a solucionar su futuro si consigue averiguar quiénes son las ocho personas que se esconden tras cada unos de los naipes. Sin embargo, Emil y Sofía pronto se darán cuenta de que tras las cartas se esconde mucho más que la felicidad del joven o su fortuna: en medio de la revolución y el caos que pueden derrocar al rey Gustavo, no se puede estar seguro de quién es amigo y quién enemigo...