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This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

It's easy to fall back into old habits with friends, but with Cole something is different. He's different with me. The touches are gentler. His eyes linger on me. There's something there that wasn't before. My heart flutters just a little too much every time I look at him. What's the worst that could happen if I stopped overthinking and just let go?

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

"Les histoires comme les livres retrouvent toujours leur propriétaire." Hazel, 14 ans, et sa sœur Flora, 5 ans, sont envoyées dans la campagne anglaise pour échapper aux bombes qui pleuvent sur Londres. Afin d'oublier les horreurs de la guerre, elles inventent un royaume magique qui n'appartient qu'à elles : Whisperwood. Quand Hazel reçoit, pour le compte de la boutique de livres anciens où elle travaille, un ouvrage illustré intitulé Whisperwood et la rivière d'étoiles, sa vie est bouleversée. Car la jeune femme en est certaine, elle n'a jamais mentionné cette histoire devant qui que ce soit.

A collection of humorous, sexy, and highly neurotic tales about parenting, long-term relationships, systemic and interpersonal racism, and class conflict from the author of The Town of Babylon, The People Who Report More Stress deftly and poignantly expresses the frustration of knowing the problems and solutions to our society’s inequities but being unable to do anything about them.

Gary Pak has emerged as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers of our time. In this new collection, Pak expertly crafts a memorable cast of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians, amplifying our cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life today.

Bruce Blanc, fresh off a nine-year prison jolt and back on the streets of Honolulu, is about to turn 41. He finds himself embroiled in urban Honolulu’s Asian American nightlife. Kids lighting up the night with cocaine and killing daylight with Xanax. Girls who spend more time looking at themselves in the mirror than Snow White’s stepmom; the older divorcees with means who prey on them. And 90-pound female drug lords and the cops in love with them. A new bar is opening or shutting down daily.

Raised by their mother, a bar owner in Bolohead Row, Honolulu's red-light district, they each face issues of varying addictions. Charlie, the newly divorced stepson, works a dead-end job in an ABC store and spends nights at his mother's bar singing karaoke. Mark is a shut-in who occupies all of his waking hours playing a computer game called Everquest. Within 24 hours of being out of prison, Winnie, the eldest, has a boyfriend, money, and enough drugs to send her back for life. Dangerous people are searching for her, and Charlie is unwittingly swept into her turmoil.

Alejandro Jodorowsky, cineasta, tarólogo, psicomago, novelista, invitando a una mutación en lo más profundo del ser, explora los meandros del alma humana con "humildad de perro", sin dictar pretenciosas sentencias de filólosofo o de maestro místico. "La facultad de pensar es el más cruel regalo que los dioses nos han dado". Poemas que mezclan a la vez la realidad de un mundo cruel y maravilloso, entre sagrado y profano. Palabra tras palabra, como se deshojan uno a uno los pétalos de una flor, Jodorowsky busca un camino entre las espinas.

Notable literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. Justin Chin's fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals, Chin's early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view.

Entre Jane Austen et "Les Chroniques de Bridgerton", une enquête haute en couleurs au temps de la Régence anglaise menée tambour battant par une héroïne malicieuse et attachante. Rien ne gâche mieux une fête qu'un meurtre sanglant dans la bibliothèque... Beatrice Hyde-Clare détonne au sein de la noblesse anglaise : orpheline sans mari, elle dépend de la générosité de son oncle et de sa tante. Elle s'efforce donc de rester docile, respectueuse et à sa place.

IN MY ENEMY'S HEART: Ein Enemies to Lovers Liebesroman. Josh hatte Annie gewarnt, ihm nicht noch einmal zu begegnen. Sie hätte ihn vergessen sollen. Doch als sie nun so unerwartet vor ihm stand, mit ihren roten Locken und den Geheimnissen im Blick, da wusste er, dass er sie nicht noch einmal würde gehen lassen. Sie war sein größtes Problem - und zugleich seine einzige Hoffnung. Und mit jedem Kuss wuchs die Gefahr, nicht nur für sein Herz, sondern auch für ihr Leben.

Kann Wu Ying die flüchtige Chance auf Unsterblichkeit ergreifen? Long Wu Ying hatte sich nie vorstellen können, einer Sekte beizutreten oder ein richtiger Kultivator zu werden. Er verbrachte seine Tage mit Lernen, dem Reisanbau auf den Feldern seiner Eltern und mit seinen Freunden. Das Schicksal jedoch hat andere Pläne für Wu Ying und als die Armee in seinem Dorf eintrifft, werden er und viele andere Dorfbewohner rekrutiert.

¿Recibir y callar la confesión de un crimen pasional nos vuelve su cómplice? ¿Podemos escapar al peso del pasado? ¿Somos los protagonistas de nuestro destino o simples comparsas? Esta y otras preguntas nos plantea Héctor Aguilar Camín en esta emblemática novela de elecciones extremas. Después del éxito de Adiós a los padres, la celebrada novela de Héctor Aguilar Camín, Toda la vida marca su regreso a la ficción en estado puro donde las palabras trabajan al servicio de una perturbadora historia de amor, celos y poder que no dejará indiferente a nadie.

Two men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: They were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their births in the Philippines. Three alternating stories interweave the experiences of father Andrew Breszky and the two sons who try to connect and piece together the puzzle of their reckless, impulsive father. One lives in New York and the other grows up in the south of France, later traveling all over Asia as a documentary filmmaker. Both will discover that their relationships somehow echo that of the young man whose history eludes them.

In Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Tim McLoughlin draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance. A lifetime immersed in New York City feeds short stories that evoke a landscape of characters rife with personal arrogance and misjudgment; and nonfiction essays about toeing the line when the line keeps disappearing.

Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this 20th-anniversary expanded edition to add 20 poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to contemporary performative poetry.

Como indio borrado, el Güero es uno más de los nuevos olvidados en un mundo inmerso en la violencia. El caos reina en todo lo que le rodea, incluso en su propio núcleo familiar: ya no soporta el llanto del Cabrito, el hijo de su hermana, las ojeras de su madre,el olor de su padre. Entre los recuerdos de su niñez,cuando vendía serpientes de madera con su hermana la Leidi, los consejos de su tío Absalón y las voces de unos fantasmas que le hablan del pasado de su ciudad y de sus ancestros, el Güero debe lidiar con el paso a la adultez y los sentimientos dominados por la ira.

When Cuban fisherman first spotted the Key West lighthouse floating in Florida waters, they called her Stella Maris, Star of the Sea. It’s a beacon that draws people from everywhere seeking the end-of-the-line bohemian oasis that can still be found amidst the condo share towers, chain stores, and Redneck Riviera clientele. And it’s a mecca for gay men and the women who love them. Sue Kaufman Prize-winning author Michael Carroll knows the territory intimately. His stories wind in and out of the bars and guesthouses and lives of this singular paradise.

Ana Canción, de quince años, nunca soñó con mudarse a Estados Unidos, como lo hicieron las niñas con las que creció en el campo dominicano. Pero cuando Juan Ruiz propone y promete llevarla a la ciudad de Nueva York, ella tiene que decir que sí. No importa que tenga el doble de su edad, que no haya amor entre ellos. Su matrimonio es una oportunidad para que toda su familia unida pueda eventualmente emigrar.