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El padrino de Jackson Heights hace mucho mAs que arreglos de viajes desde su diminuta agencia escondida en un rincOn del sector de Queens conocido como la PequeNa Colombia de Nueva York. Con frecuencia Fernando PadrOn es la Unica mano amiga para miles de inmigrantes latinos. Entre sus diversos oficios estAn el de contador, buscador de empleos, generador de fondos y detective en busca de personas perdidas.

Un roman sensible, qui nous transporte dans l’Algérie des années 1970 et nous propose un regard encore très actuel sur la condition des femmes dans des pays de confession musulmane. Alger, 1978. Dès sa descente d’avion, Anna subit un choc : femmes voilées, présence inquiétante de l’armée, regards hostiles et mépris des hommes pour la femme occidentale qu’elle incarne. Mariée depuis peu à un diplomate canadien, la jeune pianiste vient d’abandonner sa vie et sa carrière à Boston pour suivre son mari en Algérie.

J’ai 54 ans et je vis une douce retraite. Ce qui m’a permis d’avoir enfin du temps pour écrire. Je suis native de Montréal et j’ai grandi dans les centres d’accueil. L’école de la vie n’a pas toujours été douce pour moi. J’ai un diplôme de programmeuse-analyste et j’ai aussi une véritable passion pour l’écriture sous toutes ses formes, qu’il s’agisse de poésie, de paroles de chansons ou d’un livre. Sophie Leblanc survit à un grave accident, elle sort d’un coma profond de vingt jours et elle a tout oublié de sa vie d’avant, mais personne n’en est conscient.

À cheval entre le récit autobiographique et l’essai socioculturel, ce livre nous mène au cœur d’une quête de vérité et de transformation. C’est à partir de l’intérieur que Sarah nous invite dans son univers. Nous le découvrons pas à pas, au travers d’une mosaïque de poèmes, d’images, de légendes et de réflexions sur l’identité tzigane. Elle nous fait parcourir le cheminement de sa conscience toujours en voyage vers un constant désir de liberté.

In this, her second book, Catherine Black weaves together the wonder, heartache, and “unlovely beauty” of a youth that is by turns charmed and disquieting. Straddling genres of memoir, prose, and poetry, A Hard Gold Thread delights in the layering of keenly observed moments, in the subtle play of remembering and forgetting, and in the shift in perspective brought to bear on memory as it is transmuted by time.

Can a breakup break you apart? In Self-Titled, Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic, a complex consciousness captured in crystalline prose. Memories, manias, miasmas - Brown morphs the machinery of his mind into an utterly original entity, equal parts diary, criminal confession, sex manual and mash note, as he contemplates a breakup.

The third and final novel in Tolstoy's Autobiographical Trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. In Youth, Leo Tolstoy's protagonist-now a fervent sixteen-year-old-eagerly prepares to strike out on his own. And as he does so, he begins to savor life in all its glory, both grand and miniscule. From his interactions with friends, old and new, to his perceptions of the beauty of nature, the young man has an entirely new world to look forward to.

The author of The Razor's Edge explores the longing for love and freedom in this coming-of-age story-"a novel of the utmost importance" (Theodore Dreiser). Born with a clubfoot and orphaned at an early age, Philip Carey has long felt set apart from others. In the care of his doting aunt and dismissive uncle, he finds solace and escape in reading. But when he is sent to boarding school, he finds himself once again alone in heart and spirit. It is these cold beginnings that set him on a search for true happiness.

Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy. Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature. It is the story of the ten-year-old son of a wealthy Russian landowner in the mid-1800s, as told by the child himself.

Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy. Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature. It is the story of the ten-year-old son of a wealthy Russian landowner in the mid-1800s, as told by the child himself.