Literature Books And Fiction Novels

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(135 pages)

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O escritor e ex-senador, deputado e prefeito do Rio de Janeiro Roberto Saturnino Braga abre para uma obra que questiona os limites entre ficção e biografia. Internado em um health facility após sofrer um atentado, o protagonista-autor escreve um livro refletindo sobre a vida que levou. Em suas lembranças – reais ou inventadas – surgem amores, arrependimentos e acertos do personagem, que, nas entrelinhas da sua história, constrói um possível retrato do Ser.

A los angeles Havane, une petite fille aux cheveux crépus négocie le difficile tournant de l'enfance à l'adolescence, dans une famille condamnée à los angeles cohabitation par les stipulations sociales du will pay: un père officier de toutes les guerres de los angeles Révolution, une mère argentine droguée au tango, une tante novice d'opéra, un oncle masseur et une grand-mère gardienne de los angeles morale. L'enfant va peu à peu découvrir que tout le fragile édifice familial ne tient que sur le mensonge.
Celle qu'on a surnommée P'tit Mec fuit los angeles famille pour fréquenter des amis de son âge, les fêtes des années eighty, les débats où l’on refait le monde, mais se despatched toujours aussi étrangère. Et comprend que c’est dans los angeles solitude et le silence qu’elle doit chercher sa voie.

"Il a préparé l. a. salle, méticuleusement. Il a disposé les sept cobayes en cercle. Pour améliorer l’artifice, il n’a pas hésité à reproduire précisément les lésions de chaque victime, à les plonger dans un sommeil artificiel et à enlever quelques néons pour obtenir une lumière los angeles plus proche attainable du fameux jour où il a échoué. Dans un processus hystérique, il a cousu les prénoms sur les corps. Il a trouvé sans mal les sujets de son expérience. Dans cette vallée perdue, on ne se soucie guère des symptômes lorsqu’ils débordent le champ des maladies communes. Même quand il s’agit d’enfants."

Tutto comincia con un weekend in Irlanda. L'addio al celibato di Carlo Boschi, un trentenne milanese, impiegato modello e futuro marito di Sara. Insieme a lui c'è l'amico di una vita, Romeo, che, a dieci giorni dalle nozze, gli propone tre giorni memorabili a Dublino in step with festeggiare le nozze imminenti con una sbronza colossale. Birra dopo birra, però, il promesso sposo finisce all'ospedale, in coma etilico.Quando si sveglia, l. a. sorpresa: Carlo è convinto di essere los angeles reincarnazione del suo scrittore preferito, Charles Bukowski, morto proprio quella notte. Possibile? Da quel momento in avanti, los angeles vita dell'uomo cambierà radicalmente. Rinuncerà a sposarsi, mollerà il lavoro, comincerà a rimorchiare donne nei bar e a vivere di espedienti e lavoretti saltuari, comportandosi proprio come lo scrittore statunitense. Un crescendo di avventure grotteshe, sgangherati studying di poesia, scazzottate nei vicoli e, naturalmente, sbronze colossali fino all'inaspettato finale.Taccuino di una sbronza è un romanzo sorprendente e ironico che, capitolo dopo capitolo, ci accompagna con uno stile pungente attraverso quattordici anni di storia italiana.

Unconventional knowledge, confirmation, and recommendation from one in every of Tibetan Buddhism's such a lot influential dwelling teachers.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a grasp at explaining Buddhism's radical yet powerful tools for reworking anguish into happiness, which were practiced and taught via Tibetans for 1000 years. it is a not easy technique to imagine - how can or not it's that the issues that reason us soreness are literally blessings?

In Dear Lama Zopa, Rinpoche applies that problem to our daily, real-life difficulties - from the littlest to the largest. each year he gets hundreds of thousands of letters from humans world wide soliciting for recommendation - on dealing with every little thing from habit, grief, and melancholy, to conflict, terrorism, and death.

In his distinct and deeply being concerned responses to those letters, reproduced right here, Rinpoche indicates time and again that the simplest process for fixing our difficulties is to transform the way in which we understand them; that via emphasizing their internal explanations we will be able to even switch the ensuing outer circumstances.

Even humans conversant in notions like karma and reincarnation, which suggest that we're the creators of our personal stories, may well locate the recommendation tough. but uncountable millions of individuals of all backgrounds have positioned Rinpoche's loving suggestions into perform - and feature noticeable genuine and optimistic switch of their lives. Now, with Dear Lama Zopa, you'll discover for yourself...

Viagem à Calábria conta a história de um personagem em busca de suas origens. Na verdade, mais do que isso, a ida até a Itália e o reencontro com o irmão representam a resposta que enfim pode lhe trazer paz: por que, emblem após o golpe de sixty four, seu irmão, Zuiudo, teria revelado à polícia o neighborhood em que ele e o pai se escondiam?
Os irmãos passeiam pela região da Calábria em meio a diversas lembranças. As cenas de sua infância em Uberlândia voltam à cabeça como flashes. Em instantes, o protagonista se transporta para sua meninice no cerrado, onde, aos eleven anos, through as dificuldades e a tristeza do pai – caixeiro-viajante que ensaia Antígona com a trupe de teatro que criara com seus oito filhos – por não ter dinheiro para retornar à Itália, sua terra natal. Relembra também os passos da revolta do povo, cansado das ameaças contra a greve e das mentiras que envolviam a morte de Nego Juvêncio. Mergulha com o Zuiudo nas recordações, tentando descobrir o que realmente aconteceu no passado: a crítica em público do pai à ação policial, a emboscada que provocou a fuga para Brasília e o dia de sua captura.
Em linguagem direta e comovente, Viagem à Calábria nos fala das mudanças que vieram com a construção de Brasília, a nova capital, e dos novos rumos do cerrado. E fala também das mudanças emocionais desse protagonista, da raiva, que, transformada em arrependimento, o torna capaz de restabelecer sua relação com o irmão, e dar sentido à sua história.

Edgar Rice Burroughs used to be born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. His early occupation used to be unremarkable. After failing to go into West aspect he enlisted within the seventh Calvary yet was once discharged after cardiovascular disease have been clinically determined. a chain of brief time period jobs gave no indication as to a profession direction yet eventually, in 1911, married and with little ones, he grew to become his hand to writing. He aimed his works squarely on the highly regarded pulp serial magazines. His first attempt ‘Under The Moons Of Mars’ ran in Munsey’s journal in 1912 below the pseudonym Norman Bean. With its luck he started writing complete time. a continuous subject of his paintings used to be to increase sequence in order that every one personality had abundant possibilities to come back in sequels. John Carter was once within the Mars sequence and there has been one other on Venus and one on Pellucidar between others. yet maybe the simplest recognized is Tarzan. certainly Burroughs sought after quite a bit to capitalise upon the logo that he brought a syndicated Tarzan sketch, videos and item. He bought a wide ranch north of la, California, which he named "Tarzana." the encompassing groups open air the ranch voted in 1927 to undertake the identify as their very own. by means of 1932 Burroughs manage his personal corporation to print his personal books. right here we put up the 8th within the Tarzan sequence ‘Tarzan the Terrible’. one other cultural classic.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2037. Die Erdbevölkerung steht auch noch 18 Jahre nach dem Ausbruch des Yellow Stone Vulkans in Wyoming united states, bei dem mehr als ein Drittel der Weltbevölkerung ums Leben kam, unter Schock. Die ehemaligen Länder Europas haben sich unter einer gemeinsamen Regierung zusammengeschlossen und dank einer erfolgreichen Energie- und Wirtschaftspolitikpolitik, schaut Europa unabhängig in die Zukunft.
Dr. Charles Antoine, junger französischer Arzt im mallorquinischen Koma-Zentrum, wird am Tag vor Heilig Abend des Jahres 2037 von einer Krankenschwester auf die Reaktion eines Koma Patienten aufmerksam gemacht. Nachdem sich diese Behauptung bewahrheitet, findet der Franzose heraus, dass es seltsamerweise über diesen Patienten, mit Namen Alfred Prinz, wenig Informationen gibt. Die monatlichen Pflegekosten für die deepest Klinik werden anonym überwiesen und nur das Geburtsdatum des vermeintlichen Deutschen ist ein brauchbarer Identitätshinweis. Professor Staier, Leiter des Zentrums drängt aus überzogen Ego zur Aufklärung und tischt der Presse, die schlecht recherchierten Informationen und überzogenen Phantasien des französischen Arztes in shape der Geschichte über den angeblichen Gewaltverbrecher Alfred Prinz auf.
Tasso Hahn-Brücher, ehemaliger Botschafter und Staatsekretär in Ruhestand, wird zur gleichen Zeit aufgrund einer schweren Ordnungswidrigkeit vom mallorquinischen Gericht zur Ableistung von Sozialstunden verurteilt. Tasso lebt mit seinen beiden Freunden Max Sterney, einem ehemalige Butler des englischen Königshauses und dem Saarländischen Ex-Kaufhausdetektiven Hans Rupp im foundation Gürtel der Insel.
Nachdem sich der Zustand von Alfred Prinz verbessert hat, plant guy dessen Verlegung in ein geeignetes Reha-Zentrum auf der, seit den 2020er Jahren ausschließlich zu Ausquartierung von Europas Senioren genutzten, Baleareninsel.
Dort kreuzen sich die Wege von Dr. Antoine, Alfred Prinz und Tasso Hahn-Brücher.