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Face

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When a devastating fall destroys a man's face in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, he embarks on an agonizing struggle to rebuild his identity.Helio Cara loses his livelihood as a barber and his place in society after a catastrophic accident leaves his countenance shattered beyond recognition. Shunned by his community, abandoned by his lover Lula, and denied surgical aid by an indifferent bureaucracy, ... Read more

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When a devastating fall destroys a man's face in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, he embarks on an agonizing struggle to rebuild his identity.Helio Cara loses his livelihood as a barber and his place in society after a catastrophic accident leaves his countenance shattered beyond recognition. Shunned by his community, abandoned by his lover Lula, and denied surgical aid by an indifferent bureaucracy,
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Bardo99

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Depicting the 20th century as a character, this novel explores what happens when that character, dying, passes through a Bardo state—an intermediate state of the soul between death and rebirth. ... Read more

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Depicting the 20th century as a character, this novel explores what happens when that character, dying, passes through a Bardo state—an intermediate state of the soul between death and rebirth.
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The Love Queen of the Amazon

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A dazzling, subversive feminist satire that playfully upends magical realism and high-society conventions along the winding waters of the river.Raised in a strict convent in Malyerba, the spirited Ana Magdalena Figueroa disrupts high society with her fearless nature and unyielding independence. Thrust into an absurd arranged marriage with the pompous, self-absorbed writer Don Federico Orgaz y ... Read more

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A dazzling, subversive feminist satire that playfully upends magical realism and high-society conventions along the winding waters of the river.Raised in a strict convent in Malyerba, the spirited Ana Magdalena Figueroa disrupts high society with her fearless nature and unyielding independence. Thrust into an absurd arranged marriage with the pompous, self-absorbed writer Don Federico Orgaz y
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Three Tides

Writing at the Edge of Being

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In THREE TIDES, a "writer's writer" lets readers peek over her shoulder as she talks about writing, revealing the process that allows her to stumble, crawl and run. Through memoir chronicling a particular period of writing, she moves to documenting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, mediated through the oral histories of some of its survivors. The receding echoes of their voices guide her as ... Read more

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In THREE TIDES, a "writer's writer" lets readers peek over her shoulder as she talks about writing, revealing the process that allows her to stumble, crawl and run. Through memoir chronicling a particular period of writing, she moves to documenting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, mediated through the oral histories of some of its survivors. The receding echoes of their voices guide her as
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Devil's Tango

How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step

by Cecile Pineda ...

As much personal journal as investigative journalism, this second edition traces the worsening developments at Fukushima Daiichi during the first year following the nuclear disaster. Often poetic in tone and philosophic in scope, this day-to-day reportage is peppered with the author's reflections and dramatic monologues as she investigates the public's willing blindness toward the nuclear power ... Read more

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As much personal journal as investigative journalism, this second edition traces the worsening developments at Fukushima Daiichi during the first year following the nuclear disaster. Often poetic in tone and philosophic in scope, this day-to-day reportage is peppered with the author's reflections and dramatic monologues as she investigates the public's willing blindness toward the nuclear power
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Frieze

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This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse–artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work—a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler ... Read more

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This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse–artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work—a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler
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Redoubt

A Mononovel

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A solitary sentinel stationed at the edge of an endless desert confronts the fragile boundaries of memory, body, and self in this haunting existential meditation.In Redoubt: A Mononovel, Cecile Pineda constructs an intense psychological portrait of a lone holdout locked inside a concrete dugout on an unnamed frontier. Chained by duty and routine, the narrator observes the shifting sands, measures ... Read more

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A solitary sentinel stationed at the edge of an endless desert confronts the fragile boundaries of memory, body, and self in this haunting existential meditation.In Redoubt: A Mononovel, Cecile Pineda constructs an intense psychological portrait of a lone holdout locked inside a concrete dugout on an unnamed frontier. Chained by duty and routine, the narrator observes the shifting sands, measures
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Apology to a Whale

Words to Mend a World

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Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecological thinking, Apology to a Whale addresses what the intersection of relative linguistics and archeology reveals about the present world's power relations, and what the extraordinary communication of plants and animals can teach us. This masterpiece of ... Read more

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Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecological thinking, Apology to a Whale addresses what the intersection of relative linguistics and archeology reveals about the present world's power relations, and what the extraordinary communication of plants and animals can teach us. This masterpiece of
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Fishlight

A Dream of Childhood

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Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination. ... Read more

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Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.
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Entry Without Inspection

A Writer's Life in El Norte

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Cecile Pineda—award-winning Chicana novelist, memoirist, theater director, performer, activist—felt rootless throughout much of her life. Her father was an undocumented Mexican immigrant, and her mother was a French-speaking immigrant from Switzerland. Pineda, born in New York City, felt culturally disconnected from both of her parents, while also ill at ease in U.S. culture. In her life, we see ... Read more

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Cecile Pineda—award-winning Chicana novelist, memoirist, theater director, performer, activist—felt rootless throughout much of her life. Her father was an undocumented Mexican immigrant, and her mother was a French-speaking immigrant from Switzerland. Pineda, born in New York City, felt culturally disconnected from both of her parents, while also ill at ease in U.S. culture. In her life, we see
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Climate Wars

How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives)

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From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political ... Read more

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From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political
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SuperFuel

Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future

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A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold WarIn this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far ... Read more

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A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold WarIn this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far
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