"Jacky Hart finally knows the thrill of having people laugh with her (not at her). She tries to put her comedy and theater skills to use in her summer job-but the boardwalk crowds aren't exactly adoring. So Jacky jumps at the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expense paid trip to...
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"Jacky Hart finally knows the thrill of having people laugh with her (not at her). She tries to put her comedy and theater skills to use in her summer job-but the boardwalk crowds aren't exactly adoring. So Jacky jumps at the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expense paid trip to...
This is the story of Levi Pepperfield, who tries to navigate his future as a retired English professor while indulging in the sorrow of lost possibilities that define his past. It's about the intersection of parallel worlds, of age and youth, of teacher and student, of man and wo...
Publisher Annotation: The new novel by one of today's most important Colombian authors Between ironies, mockery, expletives, curses, blasphemies, this unpretentious little book will make many laugh and illuminate lots. It modestly tries to capture the frenzied change that has gri...
The moral mask. Because imposture has become a market value, it tries to explain how neoliberalism and the massification of new technologies have redefined our way of relating based on the moral control of others, have sterilized our culture and have disrupted the evolutionary fu...
"Ad accoglierci tra le pagine di questo romanzo è una donna, una scrittrice, che dopo essersi sentita ai margini per molti anni ha finalmente conosciuto il successo. Vive un tempo ruggente di riscatto, che cerca di tenersi stretto ma ogni giorno le sfugge un po' di più. Proprio...
"Pablo sigue un impulso y abandona su vida acomodada en Madrid para recomenzar en una destartalada ciudad del sur de España, aunque nadie logra entender la razón. ¿Qué le convirtió en un ser hermético y atravesado por un dolor que intenta ocultar a los demás? Allí conoce a...
"If you treat every outfit as a set of lables which introduce yourself to everybody who sees you, what do you want others to read into you?" There is a harmonious balance between the image you have and the image you want to have, and anyone who tries to find the right personal st...
"Rita estaba jugando en el huerto, cuando de repente... ¡se convirtió en lombriz! Ahora se arrastra por el suelo y las plantas a su alrededor son enormes. Cuando se pregunta qué ha pasado e intenta volver a ser una niña, conoce al saltamontes Grog, que le presenta a la escarabaja...
Tres jóvenes huyen de una vida sin futuro ni esperanza en Europa y tratan de abrirse camino en el violento y corrupto Buenos Aires de 1913. Raquel, cuya mirada se oculta tras un flequillo de rizos oscuros, sueña con trabajar en una librería aunque a las muchachas de su pueblo, se...
"Extremadura, principios del siglo xx. Antonia Monterroso, más conocida como la Viuda, es la propietaria de una de las mayores haciendas de la región; intenta mantenerla a flote en un momento en el que la hambruna que afecta las zonas rurales no parece terminar jamás. Pero un inc...