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Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Todas las mañanas de camino al colegio, Emily ve a un señor mayor comiendo solo en un cafetín. Pero un día, el señor no llega. El día siguiente, Emily se pone muy contenta cuando lo vuelve a ver en el mismo lugar de siempre. Cuando Emily le pregunta al señor sobre su ausencia del día anterior, el señor se presenta y empieza a compartir con Emily algunos de sus mejores recuerdos, recuerdos que no son para nada solitarios ni tristes.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Herb's charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her seventies, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a much-needed sense of contentment. But then Herb and Susan's adult children arrive to stage an...
Author
Publisher
A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Estoy seguro de que puedo contar esta historia. Tambien estoy seguro de que nadie se la creera. Eso me da igual. Me basta con contarla. Para mi --y esta claro que para muchos escritores, no solo los novatos como yo--, el problema es decidir por donde empezar ... Y ahora, mientras pienso en esas cosas, veo un claro hilo que conduce a lo largo de los anos hasta el senor Bowditch y el cobertizo cerrado con candado detras de su vieja y ruinosa casa victoriana....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A veteran Washington journalist recounts his long friendship with Charlie White, the centenarian next door who, sharing his good and meaningful life, mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human wisdom as his sense of adventure guided him through a century of upheaval.
When Von Drehle moved to the Midwest, his neighbor was Charlie White-- who was already a century old. In coming to know his neighbor, Von Drehle came to understand...
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