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1) Háblame
Author
Publisher
LID Editorial Empresarial
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
03 ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
Español
Description
Si hay algo que asusta y sobrecoge al ser humano es la muerte. Sólo pensar en ella produce, cuanto menos, dudas, angustia o escalofríos. Pero, ¿es el final de todo o una parte más de una vida concebida como algo distinto de lo puramente físico? ¿Y si los adioses no fueran más que un hasta luego? ¿Existe un más allá? Maribel Maseda reflexiona sobre la vida y la muerte y cómo enfrentarse al difícil momento de la despedida. Lo hace...
Author
Language
English
Description
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
3) Calypso
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from...
Author
Language
English
Description
A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister
...Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the National Book Award-winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence. Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet's past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side of the Delaware River in Lambertville, Gerald Stern explores questions about who and why we are, locating nothingness in the divine and the divine in nothingness"...
10) Falling ill
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
54 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A capstone to an unforgettable career; Over the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet's task: to record with candor and ardor the burden of being alive. In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind's encounter with the brute fact of the body's decay, the spirit's erasure. Written with unsparing lyricism and relentless discursive...
Series
DHHS publication volume no. (PHS) 98-1150-1
Publisher
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Pub. Date
[1997-]
Physical Desc
volumes ; 28 cm.
Language
English
12) Rouge: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
Author
Series
DHEW publication volume no. (HRA) 75-1150--75-1151
Publisher
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration, National Center for Health Statistics
Pub. Date
1975 i.e. 1975-[1977]
Physical Desc
2 volumes in 7 ; 26 cm.
Language
English
15) The black ice
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned...
Author
Series
DHEW publication volume no. (NIH) 74-615
Publisher
The institute
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
v, 729 pages ; 24 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Science professor Curt Stager declares, "There's nothing like a lake to reflect and reveal the world." He does the same in this philosophical meditation on lakes, their inhabitants, and the human threats they face. He begins his literary tour with Thoreau's Walden Pond, which provides a jumping-off point for discussions of diatoms, algae, Thoreau, debates about the starting date of the Anthropocene, the different approaches of environmentalists and...
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