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Télécharger le livre :  Junk
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Junk


Ayad Akhtar


From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a fast-paced play that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s. Set in 1985, Junk tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of...

Parution : 2017-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Invisible Hand
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The Invisible Hand


Ayad Akhtar


A "tense, provocative" play (Seattle Times) from the author of Homeland Elegies and the Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced -- a chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan,...

Parution : 2015-08-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Show Me A Hero
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Show Me A Hero


Lisa Belkin


NOW AN HBO MINISERIESNot in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and...

Parution : 2015-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Signifying Rappers
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Signifying Rappers


Mark Costello , David Foster Wallace


David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989,David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white...

Parution : 2013-07-23
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Télécharger le livre :  On Celestial Music
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On Celestial Music


Rick Moody


Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a...

Parution : 2012-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  La Hija de la Chuparrosa
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La Hija de la Chuparrosa


Luis Alberto Urrea


“Inmensamente entretenida.” —David Hellman, San Francisco ChronicleElegida como uno de los mejores libros del año por el Chicaogo Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, y Washington...

Parution : 2011-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Soul of A New Machine
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The Soul of A New Machine


Tracy Kidder


Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry....

Parution : 2011-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ornament of the World
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The Ornament of the World


Maria Rosa Menocal


This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance...

Parution : 2009-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again


David Foster Wallace


These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation.  In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of...

Parution : 2009-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  This Body
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This Body


Laurel Doud


An unforgettable story of reincarnation and redemption in which a middle-aged woman relives her life in the body of a 22-year-old drug addict, this book signals an astonishing debut from an original writer.

Parution : 2009-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The System
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The System


David S. Broder , Haynes Johnson


Taking as an example the Clinton health care reform initiative, the authors show how a policy that aimed to please everyone ended by satisfying no one due to pressure groups, political gamesmanship and the inertia of the American 'system'.

Parution : 2009-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Transparency
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Transparency


Frances Hwang


With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants -- struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to...

Parution : 2009-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sheep Queen
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The Sheep Queen


Thomas Savage


An epic family saga set on the sprawling, beautiful ranches of the American West, from the author of The Power of the Dog, "a masterful novelist working at the peak of his form" (Washington Post). A Western family story at once intimate and epic,...

Parution : 2009-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Everybody Loves Somebody
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Everybody Loves Somebody


Joanna Scott


Joanna Scott's unparalleled gift for storytelling has inspired hyperbole from critics and her devoted fanbase, which includes some of the most preeminent writers of our time. But not since Various Antidotes, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, has she turned her...

Parution : 2009-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Tomorrow They Will Kiss
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Tomorrow They Will Kiss


Eduardo Santiago


Written with buoyant humor and a sharp sense of human desire, this is the story of love pursued at any cost, of how friendship and history unite people for better or worse, and of the hope for that redemptive kiss capable of reconciling estranged lovers and countries.

Parution : 2009-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Hank Williams
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Hank Williams


Colin Escott , William Macewen , George Merritt


- Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many previously unpublished photographs, as well as a complete catalog...

Parution : 2009-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Rumbo al Hermoso Norte
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Rumbo al Hermoso Norte


Luis Alberto Urrea


Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village --...

Parution : 2009-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Me Talk Pretty One Day


David Sedaris


A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his...

Parution : 2009-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Naked
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Naked


David Sedaris


In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing...

Parution : 2009-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Infinite Jest
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Infinite Jest


David Foster Wallace


A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions...

Parution : 2009-04-13
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