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Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
By Graham A. Thomas. 2019
On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an…
epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative, after a series of pursuits and sea battles he returned laden with booty and with a reputation as one of the most audacious and shrewd fighting captains of the age. He was then appointed governor of the Bahamas by George I with the task of suppressing the pirates who roamed this corner of the Caribbean and preyed on its shipping. He was equally successful as a privateer and pirate-hunter in an age when brutality and ruthlessness were the law of the sea.Les petits bonheurs
By Bernard Clavel. 1999
Ñamérica
By Martín Caparrós. 2021
"There is a certain region of the world in which twenty countries and more than 400 million people share a…
language, a history, a culture, concerns and hopes. We know it poorly; we know mostly its myths, its reflections, its commonplaces; we think of it as it was in other times. This region is called or could be called Ñamérica - and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is now. Martín Caparrós has been traveling through it for many years and has looked at it from all sides: from its big cities to its small towns, from its reggaeton to its economies, from its violence to its food, from its governments to its soccer, from its inequality to its insurrections, from its migrants to its books, from its defiant women to its corrupt politicians, from its new rich to its always poor, from its history to its diverse futures. With all this, Ñamérica assembles a fresco that shows us that Ñamérica is not what we thought it was. A mestizo book, a crossbreed of words, Ñamérica is, like The Hunger before it, a chronicle that thinks, an essay that tells, a great story assembled with that style that defines its author as one of the language's decisive storytellers." -- Translation provided by NLSIn defense of women (The Barnes & Noble Library of essential reading)
By H. L Mencken. 2009
One of the most influential writers of the 20th century clarified his many contradictory ideas about women in this controversial…
1918 treatise. The essays reveal he was never more clueless about women than when believing himself enlightened about themThe uncollected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books classics)
By Elizabeth Hardwick. 2022
"|The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick| is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation…
of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here-none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick's work-make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner's Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci's inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick's passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything." -- Provided by publisherThis powerful anthology collects some of the best personal essays from the poets, novelists and critics who have appeared in…
the journal's pages. Readers will explore a kaleidoscope of memories and experiences, including the power of a planting season, the catharsis that fishing holds for an adolescent boy, the literary fallout from a cousin's death, the lessons learned in the parlor of a Puerto Rican grandmother, the impact of discovering an identical twin's homosexuality, and the revelations of a homecoming. -- GoodreadsLas genealogías
By Margo Glantz. 2019
"At the heart of this brilliant and colourful Mexican novel lies the search for a family history. Using ancestral recollections,…
flashbacks through history, and personal memory, the author traces her family roots from pre-Revolutionary Russia to contemporary Mexico. Margo Glantz's Mexico is a mysterious world--a cultural carnival where Flash Gordon crosses paths with Columbus: a Mexico of Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, hijacked by Dracula and King Kong, filled with the aromas of a kosher bakery and the echoes of jokes, some corny, some not." -- GoodreadsBen-Ur: théâtre
By Jean Barbeau. 1971
Une histoire de la lecture: essai
By Alberto Manguel. 1998
« L'astronome qui lit une carte d'étoiles disparues ; le tisserand qui lit les dessins complexes d'un tapis en cours…
de tissage; les parents qui lisent sur le visage du bébé des signes de joie, de peur ou d'étonnement; l'amant qui lit à l'aveuglette le corps aimé, la nuit sous les draps (...) - tous partagent avec le lecteur de livres l'art de déchiffrer et de traduire des signes. » Index abondant et curieux de la lecture ! Ses commencements, ses mystères, ses jeux, ses mœurs... De Babylone à la civilisation maya, des générations de savants ont tenté de devenir des lecteurs d'écritures. Lire l'avenir, lire des images, écouter lire, lire en silence... De Caligula qui ordonna de brûler tous les ouvrages d'Homère au génial Oscar Wilde, chaque récit est une histoire folle, merveilleuse, émouvante. D'une anecdote à l'autre, ce livre, chronique minutieuse des lecteurs et de leurs passions, nous transporte dans un univers quasi mythique.Regards et jeux dans l'espace, suivi de Les solitudes: poésie
By Saint-Denys Garneau. 1993
Sept suites poétiques composent le célèbre recueil de Saint-Denys Garneau, Regards et jeux dans l'espace. Chacune de ces suites jalonne…
le voyage au bout de la nuit du poète de l'errance, de l'ascension et de la chute. Le recueil est savamment et rigoureusement structuré, les diverses parties de l'oeuvre se répondant suivant la dialectique des contraires. Outre le regard et le jeu, associé au monde de l'enfance, déjà présents dans le titre, le poète célèbre la femme auréolée de lumière, l'amour spirituel qui transcende l'amour humain et charnel, la lumière, les espaces, associés à la quête d'un équilibre, à la mort finalement. L'oeuvre de Saint-Denys Garneau a donné lieu à bon nombre d'interprétations, révélant ainsi sa grande valeur et ses très hautes qualités, tant thématiques que formelles.To my trans sisters
By Charlie Craggs. 2018
"Dedicated to trans women everywhere, this inspirational collection of letters written by successful trans women shares the lessons they learnt…
on their journeys to womanhood, celebrating their achievements and empowering the next generation to become who they truly are. Written by politicians, scientists, models, athletes, authors, actors, and activists from around the world, these letters capture the diversity of the trans experience and offer advice from make-up and dating through to fighting dysphoria and transphobia. By turns honest and heartfelt, funny and furious or beautiful and brave, these letters send a clear message of hope to their sisters: each of these women have gone through the struggles of transition and emerged the other side as accomplished, confident women; and if we made it sister, so can you!" -- Provided by publisherThe journey West: the pioneer journals of Horace K. Whitney with insights by Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
By Horace K Whitney. 2018
Indigo: arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
By Padgett Powell. 2021
"Gathering pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely in subject matter and tone, opening with "Cleve Dean,"…
which takes Padgett Powell to Sweden for the World Armwrestling Federation Championships, through to its closing title piece, which charts Powell's lifelong fascination with the endangered indigo snake, "a thinking snake," and his obsession with seeing one in the wild. "Some things in between" include an autobiographical piece about growing up in the segregated and newly integrated South and tributes to writers Powell has known, among them Donald Barthelme, who "changed the aesthetic of short fiction in America for the second half of the twentieth century," and Peter Taylor, who briefly lived in Gainesville, Florida, where Powell taught for thirty-five years. There are also homages to other admired writers: Flannery O'Connor, "the goddesshead"; Denis Johnson, with his "hard honest comedy"; and William Trevor, whose Collected Stories provides "the most literary bang for the buck in the English world." A throughline in many of the pieces is the American South--the college teacher who introduced Powell to Faulkner; the city of New Orleans, which "can render the improbable possible"; and the seductions of gumbo, sometimes cooked with squirrel meat. Also here is an elegy for Spode, Powell's beloved pit bull: "I had a dog not afraid, it gave me great cheer and blustery vicarious happiness." In addressing the craft of fiction, Powell ventures that "writing is controlled whimsy." His idiosyncratic playfulness brings this collection to vivid life, while his boundless curiosity and respect for the truth keep it on course. As Pete Dexter writes in his foreword to Indigo, "He is still the best, even if not the best-known, writer of his generation."" -- Provided by publisherThe George Sand-Gustave Flaubert letters
By George Sand. 2007
A translation of the correspondence between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert. These letters are sufficiently rewarding in and of themselves…
but in a relationship extending over twelve years, including the trying period of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune insurrection of 1870-71, these extraordinary personalities disclose the aspects of their diverse naturesJulio Verne: una versión (Grandes biografías #1)
By David Mayor Orguillés. 2007
"The French novelist's life unfolded peacefully, punctuated with small maritime adventures only disturbed by the problems brought on by his…
son. Different mistresses have been attributed to Verne and he has even been accused of being a pedophile, but this does not seem to be based on very evident facts. The last third of the 19th century offered Europe a rapidly advancing industrial society. Verne observed this new panorama that was opening up to the real world and, also, to the literary world. A collector of scientific reviews, Verne patiently noted new technical theories. The success he achieved with his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon would not abandon him in successive publications, making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He was a forerunner of the science fantasy genre and foretold many scientific inventions and adventures." -- Translation provided by NLSVHS: (unas memorias)
By Alberto Fuguet. 2017
"Alberto Fuguet returns to non-fiction in VHS to tell the story of his adolescence and youth in the 70s and…
80s, marked by his unleashed love for cinema, while discovering the city and living his sexual awakening and his professional beginnings in an intense way. Analyzing the films of his life and the career of some of his favorite filmmakers and actors, such as Matt Dillon and Jacqueline Bisset, commenting on the art of the poster and the tagline, recalling his trips to the old movie theaters or the video stores that invaded Santiago three decades ago, telling hot anecdotes of his time in the media and reflecting on the disco and pop wave, Fuguet manages to articulate a funny and at the same time emotional, fragmentary and coherent, cheeky and versatile book, which draws on verses, photos and personal archives." -- Translation provided by NLSSimon Girty, turncoat hero: the most hated man on the early American frontier
By Phillip W Hoffman. 2009
Simon Girty has been portrayed as a turncoat for much of history. In this revealing biography, the author details Girty's…
capture at age 15 by Indians in Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War, his training as an interpreter, and his role during the American Revolution. 2008Groundglass
By Kathryn Savage. 2022
"|Groundglass| takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts…
the transgressions of U.S. Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of a cancer with known environmental risk factors, Savage traces concentric rings of connection-between our bodies, one another, our communities, and our ecosystem. She explores the porous boundary between self and environment, and the ambiguous yet growing body of evidence linking toxins to disease. Equal parts mourning poem and manifesto for environmental justice, |Groundglass| reminds us that no living thing exists on its own." -- Provided by publisherTonguebreaker: poems and performance texts
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. 2019
"In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class…
queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved's Queens neighborhood. Building on her groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of disabled queer-of-color nature, narrating disabled femme-of-color moments on the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme futures where we live--a ritual for our collective continued survival. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure." -- Provided by publisherLa llama inmortal de Stephen Crane
By Paul Auster. 2021
"Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.…
With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster's probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville's most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death." -- Provided by publisher. Some violence and some strong language. L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography. Spanish language