Fer's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:28:48 -0700 60 Fer's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Nuestra piel muerta 52610550
Nuestra piel muerta explora ese mundo ínfimo, más perfecto que el humano y más sagrado que Dios, y para ello se sirve de un acusado tono lírico y una estructura que va atando los recuerdos del protagonista con el momento presente como si de una telaraña se tratase, en cuyo centro se encuentran preguntas y reflexiones sobre el mal, la enfermedad, la muerte y la locura. ¿Llama la descomposición a la vida o al fin de esta? ¿Dónde se encuentra lo divino? ¿El milagro es la cordura o la enajenación?]]>
151 Natalia GarcĂ­a Freire 8412008936 Fer 0 3.87 2021 Nuestra piel muerta
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La mano que cura 153244749 256 Lina MarĂ­a Parra Ochoa 8412652800 Fer 0 to-read 4.33 La mano que cura
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Rituales para la amistad 216322209 104 Jazmina Barrera 8412852753 Fer 0 to-read 4.38 Rituales para la amistad
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<![CDATA[Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol]]> 202633889 Año 5540 del calendario andino. Noa decide escaparse de su Guayaquil natal con su mejor amiga, Nicole, para asistir al Ruido Solar, un macrofestival popular que anualmente congrega, durante ocho días y siete noches, a miles de jóvenes —entre músicos, bailarines, poetas y chamanes� a los pies de uno de los numerosos volcanes de los Andes. Atrás quedan las familias y la violencia de las ciudades, y se despliega un paisaje alucinado que tiembla al ritmo de la música y las erupciones volcánicas bajo un cielo surcado por meteoritos. Para Noa esta será la primera parada antes de ir al reencuentro del padre que la abandonó cuando era una niña y que desde hace años habita los bosques altos, un territorio donde también se esconden los desaparecidos, aquellos que una vez subieron al Ruido y nunca regresaron a sus hogares.

Sostenida por una lírica extraordinaria, una estética deslumbrante y un brutal sentido del ritmo, Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol es un gran viaje místico al corazón primitivo de la música y de la danza; un viaje lisérgico y emocional que es a la vez la búsqueda de un padre y de un sentido de pertenencia en un mundo que solo conoce la pérdida y el desamparo.]]>
288 Mónica Ojeda 8439743009 Fer 0 to-read 3.82 2024 Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol
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Ronson 123016444
¿Pero esto es tebeo Autsaider? ¡Vaya si lo es! Excelencia formal, pensamientos divergentes y estendalazo potencial para almas sensibles.

Un clásico instantáneo, como dice Eduardo Bravo. Un libro de esos que puedes leer y releer, que no pierden impacto y que circula por una vía paralela a las tendencias o a las modas. Recursos propios innovadores, que de puro novedosos son absolutamente ajenos a lo que se estila. El dibujo merece capítulo aparte, una maestría entre la línea clara y lo académico que, con un increíble dominio de la anatomía en las diferentes edades del hombre, hace llorar a John Byrne, incluso al propio John Buscema cada vez que se acuerda de sus dibujos de los hermanitos Maximoff.

RONSON es la primera novela gráfica de César Sebastián.]]>
128 César Sebastián Fer 0 to-read 4.23 2023 Ronson
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El cuerpo de Cristo 199510212 184 Bea Lema 8419670146 Fer 0 to-read 4.63 2023 El cuerpo de Cristo
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<![CDATA[Circuito cerrado de vigilancia]]> 208614789
Conforma así un texto, escrito desde Alemania que intercala poemas para ordenadores y para un porvenir más amable con nosotras mismas, sin descuidar la análisis al sujeto cuyo único puente con el amor se reduce a veces al online. Una colección de poemas sobre el trabajo, la distancia y la relación contemporánea y sentimental que sostenemos por las máquinas.]]>
112 Mayte GĂłmez Molina 841274389X Fer 0 to-read 4.52 Circuito cerrado de vigilancia
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Temporary 45011012 Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, "there is nothing more personal than doing your job."

This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.]]>
208 Hilary Leichter 1566895669 Fer 0 to-read 3.80 2020 Temporary
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Hum 195791689 From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wife and mother who—after losing her job to AI—undergoes a procedure that renders her undetectable to surveillance…but at what cost?

In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called “hums,� May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.

Seeking some reprieve from her recent hardships and from her family’s addiction to their devices, she splurges on passes that allow them three nights� respite inside the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals flourish. But her insistence that her son, daughter, and husband leave their devices at home proves far more fraught than she anticipated, and the lush beauty of the Botanical Garden is not the balm she hoped it would be. When her children come under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain motives as she works to restore the life of her family.

Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities. As New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer says, “Helen Phillips, in typical bravura fashion, has found a way to make visible uncomfortable truths about our present by interrogating the near-future.”]]>
262 Helen Phillips 1668008831 Fer 0 to-read 3.49 2024 Hum
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<![CDATA[When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency]]> 202169074
In When Driving is Not an Option disability advocate Anna Letitia Zivarts shines a light on the number of people in the US who cannot drive and explains how improving our transportation system with nondrivers in mind will create a better quality of life for everyone.

Drawing from interviews with involuntary nondrivers from around the US and from her own experience, Zivarts explains how nondrivers get around and the changes necessary to make our communities more accessible. These changes include improving sidewalk connectivity; providing reliable and affordable transit and paratransit; creating more options for biking, scooting, and wheeling; building more affordable and accessible housing; and the understanding the unrecognized burden of asking and paying for rides.

Zivarts shows that it is critical to include people who can’t drive in transportation planning decisions. She outlines steps that organizations can take to include and promote leadership of those who are most impacted—and too often excluded—by transportation systems designed by and run by people who can drive. The book ends with a checklist of actions that you, as an individual living in a car-dependent society, can take in your own life to help all of us move beyond automobility.

When the needs of involuntary nondrivers are viewed as essential to how we design our transportation systems and our communities, not only will we be able to more easily get where we need to go, but the changes will lead to healthier, climate-friendly communities for everyone.]]>
175 Anna Zivarts 1642833150 Fer 0 to-read 4.45 When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
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Orgullo y prejucio 18587441 385 Jane Austen 8467840560 Fer 3 4.25 1813 Orgullo y prejucio
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<![CDATA[An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness]]> 361459 NATIONAL BESTSELLER � A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.
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240 Kay Redfield Jamison 0679763309 Fer 4 4.06 1995 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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So Sad Today: Personal Essays 25904473 So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love, low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores—in prose that is both gutsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic—questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.]]> 206 Melissa Broder 1455562726 Fer 0 3.81 2016 So Sad Today: Personal Essays
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<![CDATA[Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender]]> 656293 244 Sally R. Munt 030433958X Fer 0 to-read 3.79 1997 Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender
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S/He 328740 189 Minnie Bruce Pratt 155583888X Fer 0 to-read 4.14 1995 S/He
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Felita 271086 112 Nicholasa Mohr 0141306432 Fer 0 currently-reading 3.94 1979 Felita
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Alphabetical Diaries 127282792
Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are her alphabetical diaries.]]>
224 Sheila Heti 0374610789 Fer 0 to-read 3.95 2024 Alphabetical Diaries
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Acts of Desperation 49535227
Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?

Heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability.]]>
288 Megan Nolan Fer 0 to-read 3.71 2021 Acts of Desperation
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 26074156 New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.�

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,� Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.]]>
306 Roxane Gay 0062362593 Fer 5 4.17 2017 Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Tomates verdes fritos 11917389 432 Fannie Flagg 8490060363 Fer 0 to-read 4.31 1987 Tomates verdes fritos
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El submayordomo Minor 39776270 Lucy Minor, un joven que está dejando atrás la adolescencia y adentrándose en el mundo adulto, se marcha del pueblo entre montañas del que no ha salido jamás. Lo hace después de sufrir un desengaño amoroso y constatar que en ese lugar en el que abundan los rudos gigantones será siempre un marginado. Lleva en el bolsillo una carta con una oferta de trabajo: un puesto de ayudante de mayordomo en el castillo Von Aux.


El ingenuo Lucy se topará con personajes variopintos: un mayordomo dado a filosofar y a la melancolía; una cocinera inepta que no acepta críticas; un aristócrata que cada día envía una desesperada carta de amor sin obtener nunca respuesta; unos peculiares guerrilleros que combaten en las montañas sin saber muy bien por qué; dos ladrones profesionales que ejercen su oficio en los trenes, y Klara, la hija de uno de ellos... Rodeado por esta galería de excéntricos, Lucy indagará en la misteriosa desaparición de su antecesor, descubrirá en el castillo a un ser humano salvaje que come roedores, será testigo de una extraña orgía en la que una tarta se convierte en instrumento sadomasoquista, escuchará algunas historias sobre pérfidos seductores y maestros del engaño y, sobre todo, irá descubriendo las pasiones y pesares del mundo adulto y los vaivenes del amor, que «no es para pusilánimes».


DeWitt toma como punto de partida la novela centroeuropea, los antihéroes de Robert Walser y el universo kafkiano, y los mezcla con un protagonista que parece salido de un slapstick con unas gotas de cine expresionista. El resultado es un Bildungsroman posmoderno, que combina un humor descacharrante con una profunda mirada sobre las incertezas y perplejidades de un joven ante las paradojas de la vida.

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384 Patrick deWitt 8433939246 Fer 0 to-read 3.65 2015 El submayordomo Minor
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Como caracol... 43489913 327 AlaĂ­de Ventura Fer 0 to-read 4.51 Como caracol...
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Leonora 10806851
Fantasiosa y excéntrica en su infancia, desafiante en su adolescencia, Leonora vivió la más turbulenta historia de amor con el pintor Max Ernst. Con él se sumergió en el torbellino del surrealismo, y se codeó en París con Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, André Breton o Pablo Picasso; por Max enloqueció cuando fue enviado a un campo de concentración. A Leonora se la confinó en un manicomio de Santander, del que escapó para conquistar Nueva York de la mano de Peggy Guggenheim. Se instaló en México casándose con el poeta y periodista Renato Leduc; aquí culmina una de las obras artísticas y literarias más singulares y geniales.

No es la primera vez que Elena Poniatowska retrata como nadie a una mujer excepcional. La increĂ­ble vida de Leonora Carrington es, en sus manos, una aventura apasionante, un grito de libertad y una elegante aproximaciĂłn a las vanguardias histĂłricas de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Elena Poniatowska escribe como habla; al narrar, cuenta, y al contar, seduce, lo que convierte esta historia real en una de esas novelas que uno, simplemente, no puede perderse.]]>
510 Elena Poniatowska 6070706323 Fer 0 to-read 4.12 2011 Leonora
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El principito 866618 87 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Fer 0 to-read 4.38 1943 El principito
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<![CDATA[Asesinato para principiantes (Asesinato para principiantes, #1)]]> 49093228
Pero Pippa ha crecido en la misma ciudad que ha sido y no lo tiene tan claro... Decidida a desenterrar la verdad, Pippa convierte este asesinato en el tema de su proyecto de final de curso. Poco a poco, empezará a descubrir secretos que alguien se ha empeñado en ocultar. Si el asesino sigue suelto ¿qué será capaz de hacer para mantener a Pippa alejada de la verdad?]]>
432 Holly Jackson 8408223127 Fer 0 to-read 4.30 2019 Asesinato para principiantes (Asesinato para principiantes, #1)
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Estrellas de ciudad 219529794
Zora Pavlova, la nueva promesa de Hollywood, tiene un objetivo claro: conseguir el papel que le permitirá demostrarle al mundo qué tipo de actriz es en realidad. Con lo que Zora no contaba era con que su pareja, el actor del momento, le pusiera los cuernos delante de medio mundo haciendo que su reputación peligrara y alejándola de su oportunidad de brillar.

Giovanni Brunelli tiene al alcance de su mano todo lo que cualquier estrella de rock podría desear: un contrato con una de las mejores discográficas de Estados Unidos, una oportunidad para dar el salto definitivo a una fama sin fin, y el atractivo y carisma necesario para dejar huella allá donde pase. ¿Qué lo detiene? Su incapacidad para componer nada que le guste y una reciente espiral de decisiones que no lo están dejando en buen lugar.

Zora y Gio necesitan desesperadamente que su imagen cambie para conseguir aquello que más anhelan y estarán dispuestos a lo que sea con tal de hacerlo realidad. Incluso mantener una relación falsa pactada por sus equipos. ¿Qué son cuatro meses comparados con la promesa de alcanzar sus sueños?

Quizás lo es todo. O quizás no es nada.]]>
528 Carla MartĂ­ 8419822418 Fer 0 to-read 4.14 2025 Estrellas de ciudad
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<![CDATA[Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas]]> 181334764 176 Irene SolĂ  8433906283 Fer 0 to-read 3.79 2023 Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
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µţľ±˛őłÜłŮ±đ°ůĂ­˛ą 206086634 Alejandra Eme Vazquez Fer 0 to-read 4.75 µţľ±˛őłÜłŮ±đ°ůĂ­˛ą
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Medea me cantĂł un corrido 220154289
En Medea me cantó un corrido encontramos seis magistrales relatos interconectados entre sí, al ya muy particular y distintivo estilo de la autora. Las protagonistas y narradoras son en su mayoría mujeres que dentro de realidades sumamente complicadas y violentas encuentran la forma de labrarse su propio destino, atrapadas entre el fuego cruzado de la violencia del narco y el ejército, o de padres o parejas machistas con todos los habituales arquetipos de los celos y demás. Sin embargo, en esta ocasión contarán con la providencial ayuda del personaje mitológico de Medea, quien acude en su auxilio para hacerles compañía, aconsejarlas o incluso ayudarlas a abortar.

Se trata de una obra de gran calado, que sin duda continuará encontrando el favor de miles de lectoras y lectores, que en muy poco tiempo han encumbrado a De la Cerda como una autora de referencia en las letras mexicanas contemporáneas.]]>
110 Dahlia de la Cerda 6078895796 Fer 0 to-read 4.34 2024 Medea me cantĂł un corrido
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<![CDATA[Las dos amigas (Un recitativo)]]> 128807682
El único y deslumbrante relato de la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, «un gigante de su época y de la nuestra» (Margaret Atwood), con un epílogo de Zadie Smith.

«Ella lideraba y nosotros la seguí nos enseñó la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se unen un gran corazón y una mente feroz». -Salman Rushdie

Dos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca y otra negra. Ambas se rechazan de inmediato, pero poco a poco se dan cuenta de que tienen en común más de lo que esperaban. «La sal y la pimienta», como las empiezan a llamar los demás, se vuelven inseparables, y con el paso del tiempo se van encontrando en distintos un restaurante, un supermercado, una manifestación, siempre en lados opuestos de los conflictos sociales.

En el único relato que escribió, la gran Morrison imagina el mapa de las identidades raciales de forma alternativa y sitúa al lector en el centro de uno de sus experimentos literarios más complejos. Esta edición incluye, además, un epílogo en el que Zadie Smith ahonda en la maestría de este sofisticado artefacto literario.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER � A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith

“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an â€experimentâ€� she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader.â€� —Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth
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In this 1983 short story—the only short story Morrison ever wrote—we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
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Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white, and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage?
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A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times]]>
96 Toni Morrison 8426424619 Fer 0 to-read 4.05 1983 Las dos amigas (Un recitativo)
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<![CDATA[CĂłmo pesa el silencio de los muertos]]> 216432555 178 Zel Cabrera 6075980954 Fer 0 to-read 4.50 CĂłmo pesa el silencio de los muertos
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Ciudad Real (City of Kings) 1187363 Book by Castellanos, Rosario 272 Rosario Castellanos 9707310111 Fer 0 to-read 4.17 1960 Ciudad Real (City of Kings)
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Imposible decir adiĂłs 220500564
Pero, desafortunadamente, cuando Gyeongha llega a Jeju se desata una terrible tormenta de nieve. ¿Llegará a tiempo para salvar al pájaro antes de que caiga la noche?, ¿sobrevivirá al viento helado que la envuelve a cada paso? Lo que ni siquiera sospecha es que algo más oscuro la espera en casa de su amiga.

Allí, la historia enterrada de la familia de Inseon está a punto de salir a la luz a través de los sueños y los recuerdos transmitidos de madre a hija y de un archivo cuidadosamente compilado que documenta una de las peores masacres de la historia de Corea.

Imposible decir adiós, la novela más reciente de la premio Nobel y galardonada con el Médicis Étranger, es un himno a la amistad y un canto a la imaginación, pero sobre todo una poderosa denuncia contra el olvido.]]>
256 Han Kang 8439745001 Fer 0 to-read 4.10 2021 Imposible decir adiĂłs
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<![CDATA[Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery]]> 56179372 Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.

A spirited young Englishwoman, Abitha, arrives at a Puritan colony betrothed to a stranger � only to become quickly widowed when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, Abitha fights for what little freedom she can grasp onto, while trying to stay true to herself and her past.

Enter Slewfoot, a powerful spirit of antiquity newly woken ... and trying to find his own role in the world. Healer or destroyer? Protector or predator? But as the shadows walk and villagers start dying, a new rumor is whispered: Witch.

Both Abitha and Slewfoot must swiftly decide who they are, and what they must do to survive in a world intent on hanging any who meddle in the dark arts.

Complete with 8 pages of Brom’s mesmerizing full-color artwork and chapter illustrations throughout, his latest book is sure to delight.]]>
305 Brom 125062200X Fer 4 4.23 2021 Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
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<![CDATA[La fosa de agua: Desapariciones y feminicidios en el rĂ­o de los Remedios]]> 42093214
Aunque este caso confirmó, por la juventud de los victimarios y la brutalidad con que violentaron a la única joven de la que se ha podido esclarecer con certeza su destino, que estamos ante una crisis humanitaria de grandes proporciones, muchas dudas aún prevalecen: ¿cuántas de las desapariciones, de los feminicidios, pueden atribuirse a la banda del Mili? ¿Será que este caso sacó a la luz la evidencia de un tipo de crimen organizado más sádico y voraz? ¿Quién está detrás de las desapariciones que todavía ocurren en la zona?]]>
240 Lydiette CarriĂłn 6073170025 Fer 5 4.71 La fosa de agua: Desapariciones y feminicidios en el rĂ­o de los Remedios
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Carmilla and Laura 42602313
With charm unparalleled and habits as mysterious as her history, Carmilla’s allure is undeniable, drawing Laura closer with every affectionate touch and word. Attraction blossoms into a temptation Laura fears to name, a tantalizing passion burning brighter than the fires of hell. But when a mysterious plague begins stealing the lives of young women in her home and the village beyond, Laura wrestles to reconcile the truth � that the gentle, fragile woman she loves may be a monster cast out of heaven.

Carmilla, the classic vampire novella written by J Sheridan LeFanu, receives new life in this gorgeous retelling, centered on the provocative, controversial leads of the original, Carmilla and Laura.]]>
159 S.D. Simper 1732461171 Fer 0 to-read 4.24 2018 Carmilla and Laura
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Confessions 19161835 Her pupils killed her daughter.
Now, she will have her revenge.

After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.

But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.

Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions explores the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.]]>
240 Kanae Minato 0316200921 Fer 0 3.91 2008 Confessions
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Feminist City: A Field Guide 51151492 Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.

We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment.

In Feminist City, through history, personal experience, and popular culture, Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and woman-friendly cities together.]]>
200 Leslie Kern 1771134577 Fer 0 to-read 3.93 2019 Feminist City: A Field Guide
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Universality 214269374 Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a "powerful new voice in British Literature� (The Sunday Times).

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.

An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers, Who wrote it? Why? And how much of it is true? Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, the book focuses in on what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.

The thrilling novel from one of the most acclaimed and incisive young novelists working today, Universality is a compelling, unsettling celebration of the spectacular, appalling force of language. It dares you to look away.]]>
176 Natasha Brown 0593977300 Fer 0 to-read 3.42 2025 Universality
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<![CDATA[How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)]]> 198493860
Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time.

This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side.

Burningblade & Silvereye
Ashes of the Sun Ěý
Blood of the Chosen Ěý
Emperor of Ruin]]>
392 Django Wexler 0316392200 Fer 0 to-read 3.67 2024 How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)
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<![CDATA[Criaturas (Avalancha) (Spanish Edition)]]> 223323809 Las Criaturas que habitan estas historias no solo buscan abrir sus jaulas, intentan tambiĂ©n desentrañar -con toda la fuerza de laĚý imaginaciĂłn- los enigmas de un entorno hostil,Ěý y paradojal.
Nubia Bado nos trae una prosa que altera las percepciones y sorprende por su fuerza y ​​sencillez, mientras revela cómo, bajo esas normas, funcionan los pactos sociales más crueles y violentos.
"De a ratos tierna, de a ratos desesperanzada, la mirada sobre lo humano que proponen estos cuentos nos descoloca, como quien desarma de un manotazo un rompecabezas demasiado conocido y nos obliga a repensar su diseño" (Fragmento del Dictamen del Jurado del Premio Fundación El Libro 2024, integrado por Betina González, Federico Jeanmaire y Guadalupe Nettel).]]>
139 Nubia Bado 6319063742 Fer 0 to-read 4.71 Criaturas (Avalancha) (Spanish Edition)
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El acontecimiento 466265 128 Annie Ernaux 8483101645 Fer 0 to-read 4.26 2000 El acontecimiento
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<![CDATA[La Ăşnica lesbiana de Ăvila (Spanish Edition)]]> 216623429 Un testimonio personal de la periodista queer Laura Terciado acerca de su experiencia de vida como lesbiana y defensora de los derechos del colectivo LGBT.

Seguramente alguna vez hayas sentido que todos son normales menos tĂş.

Yo nacĂ­ y crecĂ­ en Ăvila pensando que era la Ăşnica lesbiana de la ciudad y

estando segura de que el Diablo vendrĂ­a a por mĂ­.

Me sentía sola, rara, atrapada en una "fase" que se eternizaba y dentro de un armario con tantas puertas que creía que jamás sería capaz de salir de él.

Odiaba el instituto, odiaba el color rosa, odiaba los motes, los insultos, las preguntas, la palabra lesbiana. Pero, por encima de todas las cosas, me odiaba a mĂ­ misma.

Hasta que exploté. Y todo saltó por los aires.]]>
93 Laura Terciado 8403524617 Fer 0 to-read 4.05 La Ăşnica lesbiana de Ăvila (Spanish Edition)
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Mejor que muerto 220352927 344 Fidel Moreno 8439744846 Fer 0 to-read 3.33 Mejor que muerto
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<![CDATA[Los ruidos vienen de la cocina]]> 216819943
En Los ruidos vienen de la cocina, Maia Debowicz narra para entender: ¿es su propia vida la que está contando?, ¿es esa su madre, ese su novio?, ¿esos sus conejos? No lo sabremos. Lo que sí sabemos es que una hija puede sobrevivir a una madre inestable y salir triunfante, y eso es mucho más que un descubrimiento, es una respiración que acompaña todo el trayecto.]]>
280 Maia Debowicz 987601353X Fer 0 to-read 4.13 Los ruidos vienen de la cocina
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<![CDATA[The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition]]> 14848343 Information from Foreword of the associated Kindle edition
There are three main versions of the Diary: Version A, as originally written by Anne Frank; Version B, as edited by Anne Frank herself; and Version C, as edited and abridged by her father Otto Frank. Version C is the one that is best known; however, all three versions were published in The Critical Edition. This â€Definitive Editionâ€� is for general readers that has been compiled by Mirjam Pressler from Version C, supplemented with approximately 30% additional material from Versions A and B as well as material from five pages that were discovered in 1998.The definitive 70th anniversary edition of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the world's most famous diary and 'one of the greatest books of the century'.

'12th June, 1942:
I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.'

In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse.

Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, being cut off from the outside world, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.

An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, this is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank.]]>
361 Anne Frank 0241952433 Fer 0 to-read 4.48 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
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<![CDATA[Cuando no queden más estrellas que contar]]> 58295801 ¿Cómo se recupera el rumbo de una vida trazada por una mentira?

Desde muy pequeña, Maya se ha sacrificado en cuerpo y alma por el ballet. Trabaja como solista en la Compañía Nacional de Danza y los ballets más prestigiosos han puesto sus ojos en ella. Sin embargo, un grave accidente acaba con su futuro prometedor.
El Ăşnico mundo que Maya conoce se ha derrumbado.
Su abuela, que ha guiado cada uno de sus pasos, la culpa por lo sucedido.
La ausencia de su madre pesa más que nunca.
Y un hallazgo fortuito abrirá una profunda herida.

Un viaje inesperado, una chica rota y una verdad escondida en una caja de mĂşsica.
A veces, dejar que suceda es todo lo que necesitas.]]>
472 Maria Martinez Fer 0 to-read 4.38 2021 Cuando no queden más estrellas que contar
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El Plan C (Spanish Edition) 53467496 536 Anna PĂłlux 8417829024 Fer 0 to-read 4.00 El Plan C (Spanish Edition)
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<![CDATA[Sombras y otros lugares que recorrer por la noche]]> 218428313 150 RocĂ­o Stevenson 841987924X Fer 0 to-read 4.17 Sombras y otros lugares que recorrer por la noche
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Carmilla 48037
But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day� Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.]]>
108 J. Sheridan Le Fanu 0809510839 Fer 0 to-read 3.88 1872 Carmilla
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Trece latas de atún 27391690 Este conjunto de relatos biográficos, ficciones y trazos literarios no necesitan la definición del gé están aquí para ser leídos...

Un libro que va más allá de un diario personal o de una libreta de apuntes í es una obra literaria de la imaginación y la vivencia.

Trece latas de atĂşn es el primer libro de la cantante Amandititita.

Amanda ha tenido siempre una mirada aguda e irónica acerca de sí misma y de quienes la sabe estar sola y acompañada. Sin embargo, en este libro nos revela dos aspectos de su ser menos su destreza informal para la fabulació sabe relatar historias breves por medio de un ritmo más seductor que acosador. Y, por otra parte, abandona la guerra cotidiana que libra a cada momento de su vida como artista popular y nos propone a un ser menos glamuroso, pero más humano.

Este conjunto de relatos biográficos, ficciones y trazos literarios no necesitan la definición del gé están aquí para ser leídos como quien se asoma a una ventana y se da cuenta de que la aparente sencillez de las cosas que nos rodean y de las que formamos parte, se halla contenida en la diversidad de sus dramas y de sus tribulaciones.

Trece latas de atĂşn no es un libro gratuito porque posee un valor inusual en estos tiempos de penuria y comercio ha sido escrito con desgarbo, humor y perspicacia. No es una construcciĂłn artificial y sĂ­ la consecuencia de una pelea y destrucciĂłn constante y animada.

Guillermo Fadanelli]]>
166 Amandititita 6073134800 Fer 0 to-read 4.31 Trece latas de atĂşn
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<![CDATA[La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante]]> 152015728 168 Salomé Esper 9878281469 Fer 0 to-read 3.90 2023 La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante
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El mar está lleno de medusas 63105758
Esta novela es el resultado de un duelo afectivo y un tributo a las relaciones que se acaban. También es una reflexión sobre crecer y cometer errores, sobre lo que significa transitar los veinte y los treinta como mujer millennial en México: una historia para quienes no leímos las letras chiquitas del contrato de la adultez.]]>
121 Paola Carola 1915457084 Fer 0 to-read 4.10 2022 El mar está lleno de medusas
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Nuestra piel muerta 59144698
Nuestra piel muerta explora ese mundo ínfimo, más perfecto que el humano y más sagrado que Dios, y para ello se sirve de un acusado tono lírico y una estructura que va atando los recuerdos del protagonista con el momento presente como si de una telaraña se tratase, en cuyo centro se encuentran preguntas y reflexiones sobre el mal, la enfermedad, la muerte y la locura. ¿Llama la descomposición a la vida o al fin de esta? ¿Dónde se encuentra lo divino? ¿El milagro es la cordura o la enajenación?]]>
122 Natalia GarcĂ­a Freire 6078646877 Fer 0 to-read 3.88 2021 Nuestra piel muerta
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En los brazos de la abuela 157486068 78 Rebeca AnahĂ­ Favila Montana Fer 0 to-read 4.67 En los brazos de la abuela
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<![CDATA[Sobre los huesos de los muertos]]> 26253902 304 Olga Tokarczuk 6077356212 Fer 0 to-read 3.76 2009 Sobre los huesos de los muertos
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<![CDATA[La interpretación de los sueños, 1]]> 545415 Ordenamiento, comentarios y notas de James Strachey con la colaboración de Anna Freud, asistidos por Alix Strachey y Alan Tyson.

Traducción directa del alemán a cargo de José Luis Etcheverry, cotejada con la edición inglesa bajo la dirección de James Strachey –Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud- cuyo ordenamiento, comentarios y notas se reproducen en la presente versión.

«... Hemos tratado de justificar un modo de traducción; consistió en practicar una encuesta por los textos para registrar sus constantes, su composición molecular, su juego interno, y ello para que la versión pudiera servir de punto de partida a un pensamiento creador. Tuvimos siempre presente la reflexión que dirigió Don Quijote en Barcelona a uno que traducía del italiano: los originales son como esos bellísimos tapices de Flandes, de maravilloso colorido; las traducciones los muestran del revés, sólo su trama, sólo su esqueleto. Nos hemos empeñado en mostrar la trama, y no desesperamos de que algo de los brillantes colores del texto original haya pasado al nuestro.» José Luis Etcheverry, 1978

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252 Sigmund Freud 8420638439 Fer 0 to-read 3.79 1900 La interpretación de los sueños, 1
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein 57693262 For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted.

Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.

As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.]]>
368 Coco Mellors 1635576814 Fer 0 to-read 3.70 2022 Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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Pretty: A Memoir 198137728
Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions�Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.

“I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body,â€� Brookins writes. “Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I’m perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can’t change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says â€female,â€� and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean â€� to be a girl-turned-man when you’re something else entirely?â€�

Informed by KB Brookins’s personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency—whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as “other”]]>
240 KB Brookins 0593537149 Fer 0 4.31 Pretty: A Memoir
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La casa de los secretos 31180311
Patricia vive en una antigua hacienda de Oaxaca que fue escenario del viejo esplendor de su familia. Ha dedicado su vida a mantener a flote la casona y a cuidar de la anciana Cienne, con quien sostiene largas conversaciones que, sin imaginarlo, la llevarán a desentrañar el escandaloso secreto que oculta la verdadera historia de su linaje. Así, emprenderá un doloroso viaje al pasado donde descubrirá una promesa hecha en época de guerra, que marcó su futuro y el de su familia para siempre.

Ambientada en dos momentos históricos fascinantes, la intervención estadounidense y la Revolución, La casa de los secretos es una novela llena de pasión, ambición y misterios, que nos sumerge en las tradiciones oaxaqueñas más exquisitas, sus exóticas fiestas, el olor inconfundible del café y el dulce sabor de platillos ancestrales.]]>
391 MarĂ­a de Lourdes Victoria 607073520X Fer 0 to-read 4.19 La casa de los secretos
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El vals de la bruja 58508419
Todo indicaba que podría ser una noche más en la Academia Covenant, cuando Eliza Kyteler y Kate Saint German, dos jóvenes Sangre Negra, deciden despertar a todos los muertos del cementerio Little Hill.

Lo que parecía una simple travesura, se convierte en una expulsión definitiva de la Academia Covenant. Ahora, lo único que le queda a Eliza es ser presentada en sociedad y encontrar al marido perfecto. Dos cosas que, por más que sea la prioridad número uno de sus tíos, es la última en la lista de deseos de Eliza.

Pero mientras sus días comienzan a transcurrir entre llamativos vestidos, telas caras y bailes en donde todo lo que brilla parece ser oro, una oscura amenaza comienza a crecer en los rincones más oscuros de Londres.

Veintisiete años después del asesinato de los padres de Eliza, la muerte vuelve a azotar a los Sangre Negra. Y cada víctima aparece en un estado más macabro que la anterior.

¿Quién está detrás de los asesinatos de los Sangre Negra? ¿Cuál es la amenaza que pone en peligro tanto a los brujos como a los no mágicos?]]>
506 Belén Martínez Sánchez 8417854282 Fer 0 to-read 4.23 2021 El vals de la bruja
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Ruta 70: Recuerdos del aula 36945892 Ave Barrera 6074535175 Fer 0 to-read 3.36 Ruta 70: Recuerdos del aula
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<![CDATA[Si los gatos desaparecieran del mundo]]> 35216428
Empieza por los teléfonos, sigue el cine, luego los relojes... Pero cada uno le evoca aspectos de su vida, la relación con su exnovia, con su padre cuya relación terminó mal... Cuando le llega el turno a los gatos, encuentra una carta que su madre le dejó escrita antes de morir pidiéndole que se reconciliase con su padre. ¿Y qué pasará cuando desaparezcan los gatos?

Genki Kawamura nos deleita en "Si los gatos desaparecieran del mundo" con una novela ágil, evocadora, emotiva, fantástica..., divertida en la interrelación entre el gris e introvertido cartero, el peculiar diablo y el gato Col. Una novela que pone en valor nuestra existencia cotidiana y lo que nos rodea, al mismo tiempo que critica a una desnortada sociedad en la que prima el individualismo y lo superfluo sobre lo esencial de la vida.]]>
176 Genki Kawamura 8491047840 Fer 4 3.83 2012 Si los gatos desaparecieran del mundo
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Thin Girls 46183698
Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food—or not—to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. when Rose stops eating, Lily starts—consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.

Within a few years, Rose is about to mark her one-year anniversary in a rehabilitation facility for anorexics. Lily, her sole visitor, is the only thing tethering her to a normal life.

But Lily is struggling, too. A kindergarten teacher, she dates abusive men, including a student’s married father, in search of the close yet complicated companionship she lost when she became separated from Rose.

When Lily joins a cult diet group led by a social media faux feminist, whose eating plan consists of consuming questionable non-caloric foods, Rose senses that Lily needs her help. With her sister’s life in jeopardy, Rose must find a way to rescue her—and perhaps, save herself.

Illuminating some of the most fraught and common issues confronting women, Thin Girls is a powerful, emotionally resonant story, beautifully told, that will keep you turning the pages to the gratifying, hopeful end.]]>
Diana Clarke Fer 4 3.87 2020 Thin Girls
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<![CDATA[Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes]]> 48748023 From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot button topics for modern women, including internet feminism, impossible beauty standards in social media, shifting ideals about sexuality, and much more.

Gabrielle Korn starts her professional life with all the right credentials. Prestigious college degree? Check. A loving, accepting family? Check. Instagram-worthy offices and a tight-knit group of friends? Check, check. Gabrielle’s life seems to reach the crescendo of perfect when she gets named the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of one of fashion’s most influential publication. Suddenly she’s invited to the world’s most epic parties, comped beautiful clothes and shoes from trendy designers, and asked to weigh in on everything from gay rights to lip gloss on one of the most influential digital platforms.

But behind the scenes, things are far from perfect. In fact, just a few months before landing her dream job, Gabrielle’s health and wellbeing are on the line, and her promotion to editor-in-chief becomes the ultimate test of strength. In this collection of inspirational and searing essays, Gabrielle reveals exactly what it’s truly like in the fashion world, trying to find love as a young lesbian in New York City, battling with anorexia, and trying not to lose herself in a mirage of women’s empowerment and Instagram perfection.

Through deeply personal essays, Gabrielle recounts her struggles to reconcile her long-held insecurities about her body while coming out in the era of The L Word, where swoon-worthy lesbians are portrayed as skinny, fashion-perfect, and power-hungry. She takes us with her everywhere from New York Fashion Week to the doctor’s office, revealing that the forces that try to keep women small are more pervasive than anyone wants to admit, especially in a world that’s been newly branded as woke.

From #MeToo to commercialized body positivity, Korn’s biting, darkly funny analysis turns feminist commentary on its head. Both an in-your-face take on impossible beauty standards and entrenched media ideals and an inspiring call for personal authenticity, this powerful collection is ideal for fans of Roxane Gay and Rebecca Solnit.]]>
272 Gabrielle Korn 1982127783 Fer 0 to-read 3.57 2021 Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
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<![CDATA[Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out]]> 31930493 A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first relationship, and figuring out what it means to be an adult.

When Katie Heaney published her first book of essays chronicling her singledom up to age 25, she was still waiting to meet the right guy. Three years later, a lot changed. For one thing, she met the right girl.

Here, for the first time, Katie opens up about realizing that she is gay. She tackles everything from the trials of dating in New York City to the growing pains of her first relationship, from obsessing over Harry Styles (because, actually, he does look a bit like a lesbian) to learning to accept herself all over again. Exploring love and sexuality with her neurotic wit and endearing intimacy, Katie shares the message that it's never too late to find love--or yourself.]]>
235 Katie Heaney Fer 0 to-read 3.77 2018 Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out
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<![CDATA[Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes]]> 29633758 Body Horror, Anne Elizabeth Moore explores the global toll of capitalism on women with thorough research, surprising humor, and ease—especially when examining her own experiences with disease and health care—to create a portrait of contemporary American culture that is gory and fascinating.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Unmarketable and Cambodian Grrrl, co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, a founding editor of Best American Comics, a Fulbright scholar, former UN Press Fellow, and USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow.]]>
229 Anne Elizabeth Moore 1940430887 Fer 0 to-read 3.59 2017 Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
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Platform Capitalism 32999998
Historically, thinkers on the left demanded reduced work hours, economic democracy, and freely available abundance. Paradoxically, just as such demands seem as elusive as ever at a political level, they are becoming encoded into the very technological foundations of neoliberalism. Srnicek examines technologies such as automated logistics, cybernetic planning, and additive manufacturing in order to re-interpret older debates about worker control over the means of production, the 'fetters' of capitalist development, and situationist concepts of détournement. In so doing, the foundations and future of neoliberalism are brought under intense scrutiny.]]>
171 Nick Srnicek Fer 0 to-read 3.91 2016 Platform Capitalism
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Mona 53317483 From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixarac's Mona, where success as a writer of color proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman abroad.

Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she's something of an anthropological curiosity herself--a "woman writer of color" treasured in her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings--she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity.

When she is unexpectedly nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distractions, and so she trades the temptations of California for small, gray village in Sweden close to the Artic. Now she's stuck in the company of all her jetlagged--and mostly male--competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together--and all the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain.

As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous and finally jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing a hipster elite in which she both does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won't stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her to the test of a lifetime.]]>
176 Pola Oloixarac 0374211892 Fer 0 to-read 3.28 2019 Mona
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<![CDATA[La biblioteca de los nuevos comienzos]]> 177329990 La novela japonesa sobre el poder de los libros vendida en 22 paĂ­ses.
En el corazón de Tokio hay una pequeña biblioteca donde trabaja la Señora Komachi.
Teclea en su ordenador a velocidad de vértigo y en sus momentos de ocio elabora pequeñas figuras de fieltro que ofrece a los visitantes más especiales, ya sea una flor, un pequeño gato o un cangrejo.
Y también les hace una pregunta que parece fácil de contestar: "¿Qué estás buscando?" Su extraño magnetismo lleva a los clientes a compartir con ella sus grandes sueños y, sin esperarlo, salen de la biblioteca con un libro muy especial entre las manos, recomendado por la Sra. Komachi.
Tras leer, descubren puertas donde antes solo veían muros, nuevos caminos donde antes solo había obstáculos. Cada uno de ellos descubrirá un libro tiene el gran poder de cambiarnos la vida.]]>
304 Michiko Aoyama 8408277189 Fer 2 3.98 2020 La biblioteca de los nuevos comienzos
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<![CDATA[Please Stop Trying to Leave Me]]> 199460236 A debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arrival of a truly original, haunting voice in fiction who will make you laugh, cry, and scream, all in the same breath.

In the midst of god sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify telling her to break up with her girlfriend, twenty-seven-year-old Norma meets a new therapist for one she really needs to write again. With only one story left to finish her collection, Norma is desperate for an should she leave her girlfriend in order to finish her manuscript?

When her new therapist diagnoses her with depersonalization/derealization disorder, Norma insists she doesn't have it’s just Oblivion, the thing that started happening to her when she was two and a half. Haunted by SSRI side effects, her girlfriend’s kindness, her father’s incessant calls, and a world that becomes less hazily fictional by the day, Norma has never felt crazier. And whenever she attempts to write The Last Story, Norma is faced with the reality and unrealities of her past, the society she lives in, and everything that she’s ever believed about life, writing, and love. Against the backdrop of climate change, racial injustice, Google ads, and the metaverse, Norma begins sharing other stories, hoping that they'll help her connect the dissociative dots once and for all. Maybe it's crazy not to be crazy in a place like this. And in the midst of it all is Norma's girlfriend, who may well be an answer in Norma's search for meaning.

Told alternately through Norma's barely fictional fiction and through her crackling stream of consciousness, Please Stop Trying To Leave Me is an honest, comedic, horrifying, and heart-wrenching story about existing in today’s world, challenging all we’ve been taught about the distance between fiction and reality, sanity and insanity, mental illness and healing.]]>
416 Alana Saab 0593686780 Fer 0 to-read 4.00 2024 Please Stop Trying to Leave Me
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Sula 11346 174 Toni Morrison 0452283868 Fer 0 to-read 4.05 1973 Sula
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Beware of Pity 59149 Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.

Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of his barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder, yet one that will go on to destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.]]>
353 Stefan Zweig Fer 0 to-read 4.28 1939 Beware of Pity
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<![CDATA[Los árboles caídos también son el bosque]]> 28341458
Simples acciones como preparar un té, cocinar un desayuno perfecto o cavar un pozo se transforman en ceremonias privadas imbuidas de una profunda filosofía –una filosofía que se filtra desde las raíces familiares japonesas de la autora�; en otro plano, bajo la superficie de la acción, el límite entre lo normal, lo cotidiano y lo extraño puede tornarse difuso y el presente idílico de una historia sencilla puede abrir una ventana sorprendente y hasta trágica.

Si bien casi todos los cuentos de Los árboles caídos también son el bosque han sido premiados en Argentina, América Latina y España, varios forman parte de antologías y le han valido a la autora un sólido reconocimiento como cuentista, es probable que para la mayoría de los lectores este libro de Alejandra Kamiya sea una grata novedad: el descubrimiento de una magnífica escritora.]]>
120 Alejandra Kamiya 9874729309 Fer 0 to-read 4.27 2015 Los árboles caídos también son el bosque
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<![CDATA[La paciencia del agua sobre cada piedra]]> 123058743 119 Alejandra Kamiya 9877122936 Fer 0 to-read 4.03 2023 La paciencia del agua sobre cada piedra
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<![CDATA[El existencialismo es un humanismo]]> 753974 128 Jean-Paul Sartre 8435027031 Fer 0 to-read 4.04 1946 El existencialismo es un humanismo
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<![CDATA[Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent]]> 187149
Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.

Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.

This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende’s inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.]]>
317 Eduardo Galeano 0853459916 Fer 0 to-read 4.31 1971 Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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Ten Myths About Israel 31171856
In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.

The “ten myths� that Pappe explores—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, accepted without question by the world’s governments—reinforce the regional status quo. He explores the claim that Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration, as well as the formation of Zionism and its role in the early decades of nation building. He asks whether the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948, and whether June 1967 was a war of “no choice.� Turning to the myths surrounding the failures of the Camp David Accords and the official reasons for the attacks on Gaza, Pappe explains why the two-state solution is no longer viable.]]>
192 Ilan Pappé 1786630192 Fer 0 to-read 4.39 2017 Ten Myths About Israel
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<![CDATA[The Hundred Years� War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917�2017]]> 41812831
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.� Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.

Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.]]>
336 Rashid Khalidi 1627798552 Fer 0 to-read 4.50 2020 The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
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<![CDATA[20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada]]> 833096 Así se describe Pablo Neruda, autor de una obra fecundísima, a través de la cual se pueden seguir las diferentes tendencias que ha experimentado la poesía hispanoamericana de nuestro siglo.
Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada, una de sus obras más importantes, revela una voz poética muy personal. Se trata de un libro de amor juvenil, apasionado, exultante y amargo, escrito con un tono cálidamente humano y sencillo, aunque con imágenes poéticas originales.
El conjunto de su obra mereció el Premio Novel de Literatura en 1971. Antes, sin embargo, ya había alcanzado algo que "muchos desdeñan pero que es, en realidad, para muchos inalcanzable. He llegado - escribe Neruda - mediante una dura lección de estética y búsqueda, a través de los laberintos de la palabra escrita, a ser poeta de mi pueblo. Mi premio es ése."]]>
100 Neruda 9706660712 Fer 0 currently-reading 3.92 1924 20 poemas de amor y una canciĂłn desesperada
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The Very Nice Box 54310999
But when Ava’s new boss—the young and magnetic Mat Putnam—offers Ava a ride home one afternoon, an unlikely relationship blossoms. Ava remembers how rewarding it can be to open up—and, despite her instincts, she becomes enamored. But Mat isn’t who he claims to be, and the romance takes a sharp turn.

The Very Nice Box is a wryly funny, suspenseful debut—with a shocking twist. It’s at once a send-up of male entitlement and a big-hearted account of grief, friendship, and trust.]]>
320 Laura Blackett Fer 4 3.76 2021 The Very Nice Box
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La mala costumbre 123723946
La mala costumbre es una novela cruda y feroz, pero también poética y conmovedora, en la que los extremos se tocan para mostrarnos por qué el resentimiento y la rabia contra el sistema son completamente válidos para sobrevivir en una sociedad que no acepta a los que son diferentes.]]>
252 Alana S. Portero 8432242187 Fer 0 4.56 2023 La mala costumbre
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The Last Cuentista 56817365
But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children � among them Petra and her family � have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race.

Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet � and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard � or purged them altogether.

Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?]]>
320 Donna Barba Higuera 1646140893 Fer 0 to-read 4.05 2021 The Last Cuentista
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Almendra 51484920
Yunjae tiene dieciséis años, está en la edad de las emociones desbordadas, el amor y la rabia. Pero las amígdalas de su cerebro son pequeñas, más pequeñas que una almendra y, como consecuencia, Yunjae es incapaz de sentir nada.

Educado por su madre y su abuela, aprende a identificar las emociones de los demás y a fingir estados de ánimo para no destacar en un mundo que pronto lo tachará de extraño. «Si tu interlocutor llora, tú entrecierra los ojos, baja la cabeza y dale una suave palmada en la espalda», le dice su madre. Así construye una aparente normalidad que se hace trizas el día en que un psicópata ataca a ambas mujeres en la calle. Desde entonces, Yunjae debe aprender a vivir solo, sin deseo de derramar una lágrima, sin tristeza ni miedo ni felicidad.

A Yunjae le tienden la mano personas improbables: un antiguo amigo de su madre, una chica capaz de romper certezas e incluso un abusón con más afinidad de la esperada. Los tres quebrarán la soledad del protagonista de Almendra.

Una novela breve y lacerante en la que solo la empatĂ­a puede llevar a la esperanza.]]>
256 Sohn Won-Pyung 8499987915 Fer 0 to-read 4.16 2017 Almendra
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Interesting Facts about Space 176443380
As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid must contend with her mounting suspicion that something is seriously wrong with her. Because at the end of the day there’s only one person she can’t outrun—herself.

Brimming with quirky humor, charm, and heart, Interesting Facts about Space effortlessly shows us the power of revealing our secret shames, the most beautifully human parts of us all.]]>
320 Emily R. Austin 1668014238 Fer 0 currently-reading 3.84 2024 Interesting Facts about Space
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Mostly Dead Things 41817578 356 Kristen Arnett 1947793306 Fer 0 to-read 3.36 2019 Mostly Dead Things
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Big Swiss 60701439
One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship…]]>
336 Jen Beagin 1982153083 Fer 0 to-read 3.69 2023 Big Swiss
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Milk Fed 54304105 The Pisces and So Sad Today.

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.

Early in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam—by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family—and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche—both sacred and profane.]]>
304 Melissa Broder 1982142499 Fer 0 to-read 3.56 2021 Milk Fed
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The Lily and the Crown 34828410
The Lily and the Crown is a lesbian romance about daring to risk your heart with someone you shouldn’t.

87,000 words]]>
263 Roslyn Sinclair 3955339424 Fer 0 to-read 4.29 2017 The Lily and the Crown
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<![CDATA[A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)]]> 58132544
As Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together, they find they make better allies than rivals as their partnership turns into something more. But with each passing song, it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than they first expected, and an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all.]]>
480 Rebecca Ross 0063055988 Fer 2 4.06 2022 A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
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The Ride of Her Life 198123560
Molly has always loved weddings, ever since she was a little girl, and for nearly as long she’s dreamed of starting her own wedding planning company. But that dream has remained stubbornly out of reach, and between Molly’s first job as a barista, her second at a call center, and her crushing student loans, it seems farther away than ever. The absolute last thing she needs is to inherit a run-down, struggling horse barn, courtesy of her estranged late aunt.

Molly is so ill-equipped to run the barn, it’s laughable. She certainly doesn’t know how to save it, no matter how much faith everyone who loved her aunt has that she will. But maybe her aunt left Molly a blessing in disguise—if she can sell the land, the profits could be the small-business seed money miracle she’s been waiting for. Doesn’t matter if she’s starting to love the mismatched family this barn brought together, and feeling closer to the aunt she never got a chance to know.

The real snag in her plan is the woman who took care of Molly’s aunt in her last days, and still lives and works on the property as a farrier: Shani. Judgmental, grouchy Shani, who thinks she’s so morally superior because she hasn’t given up on the crumbling barn while Molly wants to “destroy� everything her aunt built; who’s really good with the horses, and always comes whenever Molly calls her in a panic; and is actually kind of thoughtful, and obnoxiously hot, and unfailingly loyal…and oh no, has Shani become an entirely different kind of problem? One Molly can’t possibly solve, no matter how much her heart wants to?]]>
352 Jennifer Dugan 0063307510 Fer 0 to-read 3.56 2024 The Ride of Her Life
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Clean 205435919 NTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!

From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking point

A young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death.

Estela came from the countryside, leaving her mother behind, to work for the señor and señora when their only child was born. They wanted a housemaid: “smart appearance, full time,� their ad said. She wanted to make enough money to support her mother and return home. For seven years, Estela cleaned their laundry, wiped their floors, made their meals, kept their secrets, witnessed their fights and frictions, raised their daughter. She heard the rats scrabbling in the ceiling, saw the looks the señor gave the señora; she knew about the poison in the cabinet, the gun, the daughter’s rebellion as she grew up, the mother’s coldness, the father’s distance. She saw it all.

After a series of shocking betrayals and revelations, Estela stops speaking, breaking her silence only now, to tell the story of how it all fell apart. Is this a story of revenge or a confession? Class warfare or a cautionary tale? Building tension with every page, Clean is a gripping, incisive exploration of power, domesticity, and betrayal from an international star at the height of her powers.]]>
272 Alia Trabucco Zerán 0593850513 Fer 0 to-read 3.55 2022 Clean
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<![CDATA[Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire]]> 60746110
Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation.

Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving and wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. It constitutes a collective effort to organize and center Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle. As political discourse shifts toward futurism as a means of reimagining a better way of living, beyond the violence and limitations of colonialism, Light in Gaza is an urgent and powerful intervention into an important political moment.

Table of Contents

Map: Gaza strip and Gaza district before 1948
Foreword (Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Michael Merryman-Lotze)

- Introduction (Jehad Abusalim)

- Gaza Asks: When Shall This Pass? (Rafaad Alareer)

- On Why We Still Hold Onto Our Phones and Keep Recording (Asmaa Abu Mezied)

- Breaking the Vicious Circle of Permanent Temporality (Shahd Abusalama)

- Don't Step on My Feet Again (Basman Aldirawi)

- Lost Identity: The Tale of Peasantry and Nature (Asmaa Abu Mezied)
- Why Are You Still Here? (Basman Aldirawi)

- Ethical Implications of Experimental Design on Affected Communities in the Gaza Strip (Salem Al Qudwa)

- People's Light In Gaza's Darkness (Suhail Taha)

- Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Restoring Palestinian Rights and Improving the Quality of Life (Nour Naim)

- Exporting Oranges and Short Stories: Cultural Struggle in the Gaza Strip (Mosab Abu Toha)

- In the Haze of Fifty-One Days (Dorgham Abusalim)

- Travel Restrictions as a Manifestation of Nakba: Gazam the Path Backward is the Path Forward (Yousef M. Aljamal)

- Let Me Dream (Isram Mohammed Jamal)

- Gaza 2050: Three Scenarios (Basman Aldirawi)

- A Rose Shoulders Up (Mosab Abu Toha)

Notes
Index]]>
300 Jehad Abusalim 164259699X Fer 0 to-read 4.70 2022 Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
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The Salt Grows Heavy 61884779 USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.

You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes.

On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three 'saints' who control them.

The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.

Includes the bonus short story, "And In Our Daughters, We Find a Voice", set in the same universe.]]>
106 Cassandra Khaw 1250830915 Fer 0 to-read 3.55 2023 The Salt Grows Heavy
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I Hope This Finds You Well 200987323 In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to her colleagues� private emails and DMs and decides to use this intel to save her job—a laugh-till-you-cry debut novel you’ll be eager to share with your entire list of contacts, perfect for fans of Anxious People and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text colour to white so no one can see. That is, until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment: sensitivity training (led by the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff) and rigorous email restrictions.

When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their coworkers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss’s favour, convince HR she’s Supershops material and beat out the competition.

But as Jolene is drawn further into her coworker’s private worlds and secrets, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble—especially around Cliff, who she definitely cannot have feelings for. Soon she will need to decide if she’s ready to leave the comfort of her cubicle, even if it means coming clean to her colleagues.

Crackling with laugh-out-loud dialogue and relatable observations, I Hope This Finds You Well is a fresh and surprisingly tender comedy about loneliness and love beyond our computer screens. This sparkling debut novel will open your heart to the everyday eccentricities of work culture and the undeniable human connection that comes with it.]]>
338 Natalie Sue 0063320363 Fer 0 to-read 3.74 2024 I Hope This Finds You Well
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<![CDATA[A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London, #3)]]> 198132991
London, 1885

A lesbian in a lavender marriage, Jo Smith cuts a dashing figure in pin-striped trousers, working in her bookshop and keeping polite company. But her hard-earned stability is about to be upended thanks to her husband’s pregnant paramour, who needs medical attention that no reputable doctor will provide.

Enter Dr. Emily Clarke, a tantalizing bluestocking working at a quaint village hospital outside the city. Emily has reservations about getting mixed up in Jo’s scandalous arrangement, but her flustered, heart-racing response to Jo has her agreeing to help despite herself.

There’s a world of difference between Jo’s community of underground clubs and sapphic societies and Emily’s respectable suburbs. Perhaps it’s a gap that even fervent desire can’t bridge.

But for those bold enough to take the risk, who knows what delicious adventures might be in store �

Lucky Lovers of London

Book 1: The Gentleman's Book of Vices
Book 2: A Rulebook for Restless Rogues
Book 3: A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence]]>
304 Jess Everlee 1335428569 Fer 0 to-read 3.71 2024 A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence (Lucky Lovers of London, #3)
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The Only Living Girl on Earth 62841210 How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future.

Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets.

She’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch� postcards, “History: The Poster!� and “War: The Soundtrack� to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own.

Told, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.]]>
120 Charles Yu Fer 0 to-read 3.33 2021 The Only Living Girl on Earth
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Stone Butch Blues 139569
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the "Ozzie and Harriet" McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town.

Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.

Dear Reader:
I want to let you know that Stone Butch Blues is an anti-oppression/s novel.
As a result, it contains scenes of rape and other violence.
None of this violence is gratuitous or salacious.
Leslie]]>
308 Leslie Feinberg 1555838537 Fer 0 currently-reading 4.52 1993 Stone Butch Blues
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Rejection 199635125
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.

In “The Feminist,� a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid. A young woman’s unrequited crush in “Pics� spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in “Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,� a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.]]>
272 Tony Tulathimutte 0063337878 Fer 0 to-read 3.87 2024 Rejection
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Zipper Mouth 10996592 Zipper Mouth chronicles the exuberance and mortification of a junkie, and transcends the chaos of everyday life.

WINNER OF A 2012 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD

Selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading.

"Laurie Weeks' Zipper Mouth is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." —Eileen Myles, author of Inferno

"Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drugs drugs drugs." —Michelle Tea, co-founder of Sister Spit]]>
166 Laurie Weeks 1558617485 Fer 5 3.69 2010 Zipper Mouth
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