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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Long defamed as a vicious pirate, Captain James Cook (a.k.a Hook) was in fact a dazzling wordsmith who left behind a vibrant, wildly entertaining, and entirely truthful memoir. His chronicle offers a counter narrative to the works of J.M. Barrie, a "dour Scotsman" whose spurious accounts got it all wrong. ... Cook's story begins in London, where he lives with his widowed mother. At thirteen, he runs away from home, but is kidnapped and pressed into...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Provocador e inteligente, La otra chica negra es un debut electrizante sobre la tensión que se crea cuando dos jóvenes negras se encuentran cara a cara en el mundo editorial neoyorkino, predominantemente blanco. La joven asistente editorial Nella Rogers está cansada de ser la única empleada negra en Wagner Books. Harta del aislamiento y las pequeñas ofensas, no puede evitar entusiasmarse cuando una nueva compañera negra, nacida y criada en Harlem,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The great story of New York City in the past half-century has been its near collapse and miraculous rebirth. A battered town left for dead, one that almost a million people abandoned and where those who remained had to live behind triple deadbolt locks, was reinvigorated by the twinned energies of starving artists and financial white knights. Over the next generation, the city was utterly transformed. It again became the capital of wealth and innovation,...
Author
Publisher
Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The United States of America and Bangistan, a forgotten, former Soviet satellite dictatorship crushed between the borders of Russia and China, are engaged in a war of words. This verbal conflict begins when the brother of Great Leader Hakim Akim learns about Twitter from a sado-masochistic call girl in a Zurich bordello. As Yogi sets up an account for Hakim - @bestdespot - he stumbles across President Ronald Rump's threat: "Bangistan! Bangistan!...