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Don't You Wish
by Roxanne St. ClaireAlternate universes exist! Perfect for moviegoers who loved 17 Again, Sliding Doors, and The Family Man, as well as the novel Before I Fall.When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad's whacked-out inventions, she lands in a parallel universe where her life becomes picture-perfect. Now she's Ayla Monroe, daughter of the same mother but a different father--and she's the gorgeous, rich queen bee of her high school. In this universe, Ayla lives in glitzy Miami instead of dreary Pittsburgh and has beaucoup bucks, courtesy of her billionaire--if usually absent--father. Her friends hit the clubs, party backstage at concerts, and take risks that are exhilirating . . . and illegal. Here she's got a date to lose her V-card with the hottest guy she's ever seen.But on the insde, Ayla is still Annie.So when she's offered the chance to leave the dream life and head home to Pittsburgh, will she take it?The choice isn't as simple as you think.From the Hardcover edition.
Don't You Wish (Sierra Jensen #3)
by Robin Jones GunnFrom the bestselling author of The Christy Miller Series, this series centers around Christy Miller's friend Sierra Jensen. Sierra is a spunky and bold sixteen-year-old with big dreams and unconventional clothes. Today's teens can truly relate to what is going on in Sierra's life -- whether it's friendships, dating, or learning to trust in God. Sierra shows readers how to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and how to grow in their commitment to Him.
Don't turn on the light
by J. F. OrvayJavier is a writer who just did the purchase of his life: Glow House. an incredible mansion in Hill town, a small and peaceful village in England. Without thinking twice, he decides to move there with his wife and their two kids. There the kids will grow up breathing fresh air and he will be able to focus in writing his new terror novel. When they arrive, they realize everything is better than they imagined: the mansion is incredible and the people very kind, mostly Michael and Margaret, two likeable elderly who live near their new house. But, soon they discover Glow House hides a terrible secret which will drag them to a terrible nightmare and from it will be practically impossible to escape. Do you fear the dark? Before long, it will be the only place you will feel safe.
Dona Barbara
by Romulo GallegosPublicada por primera vez en 1929, este clásico de la literatura venezolana y latinoamericana narra el apasionado triángulo amoroso entre Santos Luzardo, doña Bárbara y su hija, Marisela. Cuando el abogado Santos Luzardo vuelve a Los Llanos de Apure para reclamar las tierras de su familia, descubre que éstas están en mano de su déspota prima doña Bárbara, que las dirige con mano de hierro y malas artes. La decisión de Santos de luchar por lo que es suyo y la aparición de la hija de doña Bárbara abrirán antiguas heridas y revelarán el trágico pasado de doña Bárbara. El conflicto que se producirá desestabilizará la hacienda y cambiará todo para siempre. Más allá de su ardiente historia, Doña Bárbara simboliza la lucha entre dos fuerzas, el bien y el mal; la civilización y la barbarie; el mundo de ayer y el de mañana. Una historia universal de amor, seducción y violentas pasiones.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home \ Doña Cleanwell se va de casa (Spanish edition)
by Ana Castillo«Ana Castillo es un tesoro estadounidense. Temeraria, compasiva y absolutamente brillante: es la escritora que necesitamos mientras enfrentamos los retos de nuestro mundo cambiante». —Tayari Jones, autora de Un matrimonio americano«Ana Castillo es una narradora de primera». —Julia Álvarez, escritora galardonadaLa leyenda literaria Ana Castillo explora los secretos ocultos de los hogares y las mujeres a quienes más impactan en esta colección que cimienta su lugar como una voz destacada de la ficción feminista.Katia, la primera en su tradicional familia mexicoestadounidense en terminar la secundaria, entra a la edad adulta en una época de cambios turbulentos. En todo el país, los jóvenes luchan por los derechos civiles y de las mujeres, y protestan contra la Guerra de Vietnam y las brutales dictaduras de América del Sur. Como muchos de su generación, Katia quiere hacer del mundo un lugar mejor y está decidida a seguir su propio camino.Mientras considera mudarse a California para unirse a La Causa —movimiento del activista mexicoestadounidense César Chávez para mejorar las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores rurales migrantes—, Katia recibe un regalo inesperado de su padre: un boleto de avión a la Ciudad de México. “Tráete a tu madre, le dice, sus hijos la necesitan”. Así que, Katia se une a su causa para traer a Tina de regreso a Chicago. Pero no será fácil. Katia debe aprender a sortear una versión liberada de su madre en un nuevo país, donde supuestamente se dedica a la venta ambulante de productos de limpieza de alta calidad llamados Donna Crean Well.Desde Chicago a México y a Nuevo México, los relatos de Doña Cleanwell deja su hogar iluminan a un grupo de personas cuyas historias nos dejaran sin aliento. “Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliant—she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world.”—Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage“Ana Castillo is de primera storyteller.”—award-winning author Julia AlvarezLiterary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women’s rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal dictatorships in South America. Like so many of her generation, Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to follow her own path. As she considers moving to California to join La Causa, Mexican American activist Cesar Chavez’s movement to improve the working conditions of migrant farmer workers, Katia receives an unexpected gift from her father: a plane ticket to Mexico City. Bring back your mother, he says, tell her, her children need her. And so Katia joins this cause, to get Tina back to Chicago. But it won't be easy. Katia must learn to navigate a liberated version of her mother in a new country where she is now hawking supposedly superior cleaning products, called Donna Clean Well. Katia is but one of the voices introduced in this dazzling collection of short fiction from revered writer Ana Castillo. Spanning from Chicago to Mexico to New Mexico, the stories in Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home illuminate a chorus of people whose stories will leave you breathless.
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories
by Ana Castillo“Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliant—she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world.”—Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage“Ana Castillo is de primera storyteller.”—award-winning author Julia AlvarezLiterary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women’s rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal dictatorships in South America. Like so many of her generation, Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to follow her own path. As she considers moving to California to join La Causa, Mexican American activist Cesar Chavez’s movement to improve the working conditions of migrant farmer workers, Katia receives an unexpected gift from her father: a plane ticket to Mexico City. Bring back your mother, he says, tell her, her children need her. And so Katia joins this cause, to get Tina back to Chicago. But it won't be easy. Katia must learn to navigate a liberated version of her mother in a new country where she is now hawking supposedly superior cleaning products, called Donna Clean Well. Katia is but one of the voices introduced in this dazzling collection of short fiction from revered writer Ana Castillo. Spanning from Chicago to Mexico to New Mexico, the stories in Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home illuminate a chorus of people whose stories will leave you breathless.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Vintage International Series)
by Jorge AmadoIt surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart
by Pat MoraDoña Flor is a giant woman who lives in a puebla with lots of families. She loves her neighbors–she lets the children use her flowers for trumpets, and the families use her leftover tortillas for rafts. So when a huge puma is terrifying the village, of course Flor is the one to investigate. Featuring Spanish words and phrases throughout, as well as a glossary, Pat Mora&’s story, along with Raúl Colón&’s glorious artwork, makes this a treat for any reader, tall or small. Award-winning author Pat Mora&’s previous book with Raúl Colón, Tomás and the Library Lady, received the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children&’s Book Award, an IRA Teacher&’s Choice Award, a Skipping Stones Award, and was also named a Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List title and an Americas Award for Children&’s and Young Adult Literature commended title. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Dona Perfecta
by Benito Pérez GaldósUpon getting to know each other, Pepe and Rosario declare their eternal love, but in steps Don Inocencio, the cathedral canon, who meddles and obstructs the marriage as well as the good intentions of Doña Perfecta and her brother Don Juan. Over the course of time, several events lead up to a confrontation between Pepe Rey and his aunt Perfecta, which is caused by her refusal to allow Pepe and Rosario to marry, because Pepe is a non-believer. The novel ends up with the death of Pepe Rey due to his aunt Perfecta. Rosario, Perfecta's daughter and Pepe's love turns mad and ends up in a madhouse.
Dona y Deva
by Pedro De SilvaDona e Itziar (Deva), las mujeres con quienes el protagonista de esta novela mantiene una relación ardiente, cruda y extrema, son los dos principios de la existencia. La acción se desarrolla dentro de 40 años, en una Europa confederal, de régimen presidencialista. En España reina todavía un anciano rey, gracias al cual se mantiene cierta cohesión formal entre los pueblos que la forman. La República Independiente de Euskadi pone en marcha una experiencia: la gestión privada de gobierno. Y en el resto del mundo se desata un enfrentamiento entre los poderes mediáticos de la tierra, a propósito del restablecimiento de la pena de muerte en Europa. Un periodista "free-lance", en su intento de penetrar en las claves del problema, se ve llevado a otra época, cuarenta años anterior, cuando comenzaron a fraguarse las ideas y valores de su tiempo. Es un viaje a las raíces de la violencia, pero también a las del amor. "Dona y Deva" es un relato cuya complejidad se va desarrollando con implacable precisión, a un ritmo trepidante, planteando ante los ojos del lector una impresionante visión anticipatoria: las comunicaciones, los poderes, las formas de vida, la ingeniería genética, las drogas del próximo siglo. Es una novela futurista, de intriga, erótica, de ideas. Una propuesta literaria para el siglo que ya se nos viene.
Donají
by Keila Ochoa Harris¿Cómo puede un hombre enfrentar la historia y cambiar su destino?Cuandose topan en Oaxaca un pintor criollo frustrado y una industriosa mujerde ascendencia indígena, su encuentro desencadena una relación queencierra más de quinientos años de historia. La política inestable ylas corrientes de mitología indígena y religión contemporáneaentrelazan el trasfondo desde el cual los protagonistas tienen quedecidir si ceder o forjar su propio destino.
Donal Grant
by George MacdonaldDonal Grant is the story of Donal, a man who has just finished college and sets out on a journey to a nearby town. There, he finds a spiritual mentor and several of his family members. The story is filled with supernatural occurrences - ghosts, legends, and somnambulism. MacDonald, per usual, incorporates many "sermonettes" into the novel, and topics like evil and secrets and discussed with a religious bent. This is one of MacDonald's more challenging novels due to its 800 print page length and the realistic Scottish dialect he uses for dialogue, but the story is well worth the struggle. Fans of MacDonald will enjoy this less well-known work.
Donal Grant (The Cullen Collection #27)
by George MacDonaldA gothic thriller of good versus evil played out in the heart of a mysterious castle—the sequel to Sir Gibbie by the 19th-century Scottish author. As well as being MacDonald&’s longest book, the magnificent Donal Grant is a novel with everything—a Gothic castle with hidden rooms and passageways, good guys and bad guys, mysteries and inheritances, and poignant yet bittersweet love. Little does Gibbie&’s friend Donal realize what he is in for when he takes a tutoring job at mysterious Castle Graham. Woven throughout, of course, are many signature tunes of MacDonald&’s wisdom and spiritual insight, including one of C.S. Lewis&’s favorite MacDonald lines, that God is &“easy to please but hard to satisfy.&” Along with Malcolm, Donal Grant presents one of MacDonald&’s most intricate and riveting plots, led by another of his stellar characters of virtue and truth. Its massive length, however (786 pages in the original), difficult Scots dialect, and numerous digressive tangents, illustrate better than any MacDonald title the need for condensed contemporary editions. Donal Grant is unique in the MacDonald corpus as being originally released in two different editions in Great Britain and America. This updated edition by Michael Phillips, which Phillips ranks as one of his favorite MacDonald titles, epitomizes the value and significance of The Cullen Collection in bringing the fiction of George MacDonald alive for new generations.
Donald Barthelme (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)
by Maurice Couturier Régis DurandIn the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary postmodernism, a key and central experimental writer. In this study, originally published in 1982, two leading critics present Donald Barthelme’s work in its most radical and innovative aspects. Their essay combines textual analysis, critical theory and cultural awareness and aims at investigating the impact of Barthelme’s fictions on the reader and at defining the type of reading experience and pleasure such fictions can produce. Included in the aspects of Donald Barthelme’s work discussed here are his use of language, his sense of comedy, his parody, his vision of the modern self as fragmented and displaced, and his relation to psychoanalysis and other forms of art.
Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition
by Jerome KlinkowitzDonald Barthelme (1931-1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective--informed by Klinkowitz's expert command of postmodern American fiction--contributes significantly to a new understanding of Barthelme's work. Klinkowitz argues that the central piece in the Barthelme canon, and the key to his artistic method, is his widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Dead Father. In turning to this pivotal work, as well as to Barthelme's short stories and other novels, Klinkowitz explores the way in which Barthelme reinvented the tools of narration, characterization, and thematics at a time when fictive techniques were largely believed to be exhausted. Klinkowitz, who was one of the first scholars to study Barthelme's work and became its definitive bibliographer, situates Barthelme's life and work within a broad spectrum of influences and affinities. A consideration of developments in painting and sculpture, for example, as well as those of contemporaneous fiction, contribute to Klinkowitz's analysis. This astute reading will provide great insight for readers, writers, and critics of contemporary American fiction seeking explanations and justifications of Barthelme's critical importance in the literature of our times.
Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (LOA #343)
by Donald BarthelmeThe definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the formThe short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention and pathos that have dazzled and delighted readers since the 1960s. Here, for the first time, these essential stories are preserved as they were published in Barthelme's original collections, beginning with Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964), a book that made a generation of readers sit up and take notice. Collected Stories also includes the work that appeared for the first time in Barthelme's two retrospective anthologies, Sixty and Forty, as well as a selection of uncollected stories.Discover, in this comprehensive gathering, Barthelme's unique approach to fiction, his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths, his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights, and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, which was for him "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century." Engage with sophisticated works of fiction that, often in just the space of a few pages, wrest profundities out of what might first seem merely ephemeral, even trivial. And experience, along with Barthelme's imaginative and frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring. Introduced with a sharp and discerning essay by editor Charles McGrath and annotation that clarifies Barthelme's freewheeling, wide-ranging allusions, the landmark volume is a desert-island edition for fans and the ideal introduction to new readers eager to find out why, as Dave Eggers writes, Barthelme's "every sentence ... makes me want to stop and write something of my own. He fires all of my synapses and connects them in new ways."
Donald Cries "Wolf!"
by The Editors at the Walt Disney CompanyWhen Donald and Mickey go on a camping trip, Donald is afraid of the animals that live in the woods. He wants Mickey to stay up so he won't have to face the scary woods alone.
Donald Duck Goes Camping
by DISNEY BOOK GROUPWhen Donald Duck takes his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, on a camping trip, he thinks he knows everything about the outdoors. But things don't always go as planned, and soon Huey, Dewey, Louie are showing him a thing or two with the help of their handy camping guidebook! Join Donald and his nephews in this hilarious story as they rough the wilderness!
Donald Duck and the Secret of the 313
by Fabio MicheliniDonald Duck is having car trouble, but he won't get rid of the car. Is Donald keeping a secret? And is he willing to risk losing Daisy forever in order the save the car? Jump in for an adventure that's packed with cool comic book art.
Donald Duck's Christmas Tree
by The Walt Disney CompanyDonald Duck and Pluto go to the woods to collect a Christmas Tree. They bring back more than they bargain for as Chip 'n' Dale are hiding in the tree.
Donald Duk
by Frank ChinOn the eve of Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown, 12-year-old Donald Duk attempts to deal with his comical name and his feelings for his cultural heritage.
Donald and the Fish That Walked
by Edward Raphael RicciutiOriginally brought to Florida as an aquarium pet, the walking catfish soon spread throughout southern Florida threatening the ecological balance.
Donald's Magic Stone
by Mary PackardDonald Duck uses a magic stone to make dinner. this book includes study activities.
Donato Leotardos
by Asun PerrucaEn su lucha por vencer su timidez, el príncipe Donato descubre que no puede ser feliz si no lo son sus amigos. Este libro te propone leer, repasar tus conocimientos, aprender nuevas palabras, jugar, investigar, compartir momentos y sobre todo... pensar. Donato es el único heredero del reino, pero tiene un gran problema: es muy, pero que muy vergonzoso. Sus padres, los reyes, están dispuestos a todo para remediar el problema de su hijo. Por eso deciden enviarlo a estudiar a la escuela, con los demás niños. Pero el príncipe, como muchas personas tímidas, guarda en su interior una poderosa fuerza, de esas que pueden cambiar el mundo.
Donavan
by Diana Palmer"Anything worth having is worth fighting for. . . "From the moment the elegantly dressed society woman walked into the bar on the wrong side of town, rugged Texan Donavan Langley knew she was trouble-and just the type of woman he'd vowed to avoid. But the lovely Fay York awoke a tenderness in him that he'd never known. . . and a yearning for something he could never have. The electrifying instant Fay gazed into a pair of glittering silver eyes, she fell hard for Donavan. Even though the rough-and-tumble cowboy was determined to keep his heart from her, he needed Fay. And it wasn't such a big step from needing to loving. . . .