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      • Fiction
        November 2018

        30 Ways to Doff your Hat

        by Elvira Lindo

        30 Ways to Doff Your Hat is a selection of thirty literary pieces in which Elvira Lindo portrays female artists, painters, writers, actresses, and photographers who pursue their work at the margins of the conventional male canon that looms over society, and who have managed to make their mark doing so. Elvira Lindo, one of the most distinguished figures on the contemporary Spanish scene, retraces her path in life and in art, incorporating her own self-portrait into this pantheon of female artists. The author’s voice is the guiding thread that runs through each of these essays: through her experience, through her gaze, Elvira Lindo invites the reader to analyze the era and the accomplishments of these pioneering women whose brilliance, tenacity, and free spirit led them to blaze new trails for future generations. Throughout history, many women have felt obliged to doff their hat before rules imposed by a society that has isolated them from the male-dominated intellectual community. In this narrative mosaic, Elvira Lindo’s astonishing prose reveals her boundless empathy, erudition, and eclectic and inquisitive spirit. Portrayed artists: Astrid Lindgren, Anna Frank, Concepción Josefa Pantaleona, María Guerrero, Elena Fortún, Gloria Fuertes, Adelaida García Morales, Tristana, Louisa May Alcott, Carson McMullers, Patricia Highsmith, Victoria Kent, Alice Munro, Mary Beard, Monica Zgustova, Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie, Margaret Atwood, Edna O’Brien, Joan Didion, Lucia Berlin, Dorothy Parker, Angelika Schrobsdorff, Sally Mann, Joyce Maynard, Marjorie Eliot, Vivian Gornick, Olivia Laing, Nelle Harper Lee, Grace Paley, Elvira Lindo.

      • August 2023

        The Night of Nevermore

        by Lyuba Yez

        L, a forty-two-year-old woman with two young children, is wakened in the middle of the night by a crash in the bedroom. It must be my husband having insomnia again, she thinks. But after the sound of footsteps comes a thud: R has fallen to the ground. What seems at first like an isolated scene – a moment of terrible stress triggered by the news that her father-in-law is succumbing to covid – will become hell on earth, a movie no one would want to star in. After long hours of waiting amid fluorescent lights and sterile halls, the medical staff will confirm the worst: R has had a stroke, and his chances of survival are slim.  So begins The Night of Nevermore, an unclassifiable book that marks the debut of Chilean journalist Lyuba Yez. Both delicate and painful, this story – breaking with the sentimentalism of set phrases and clichés – recounts the grief, rage, and contradictions of a woman confronting the void. Heir to the analytical acuity of Joan Didion and the art of making life into literature as exemplified by Annie Ernaux and Piedad Bonnet, the author finds refuge in books, film, and music – and discovers a candid way of enduring pain, uncertainty, and the ripple effects of the accident that has endangered her marriage.

      • Fiction
        January 2019

        The Ally

        by Iván Repila

        The Ally is an intense, extreme and provocative novel with an easy-to-grasp plot: boy meets girl. Girl is a feminist leader. Boy thinks he’s progressive, a feminist, but he soon realizes there is much still to be done. Boy is impatient and is in a hurry for feminism to triumph. Boy has a simple idea: incite the revolution. But in order to do this, he will have to pay a price: to turn his beloved into enemy number one.

      • Health & Personal Development

        Los frutos de la inteligencia emocional

        ¡Atrévete… ya! El cielo es el límite

        by Mariel Mambretti

        This volume will crown your journey, making you a participant in one of the greatest contributions that applied psychology made both to the business world and to all related areas of life: the value of emotional intelligence. From its definition to the means to make the most of it and achieve your ends, you will find the keys to making emotions not a stumbling block, but a weapon for job advancement.  Paying attention to the other, giving him a framework of trust and appreciation, stimulating him and accompanying his moods, have been revealed as essential points for the development of all productive activities. Today it is known that whoever smiles and knows how to relate well with their environment is the most capable of climbing positions of great responsibility in the workplace. You will also find suggestions aimed at ensuring that everything obtained in this field results in a particularly full life and suitable for enjoying what has been achieved. These pages are, then, the corollary to make your triumph comprehensive and lasting. Enjoy them!

      • Adventure

        The Awakening of the Stars

        A novel in the mystical fiction category

        by Vanessa Gani / Vanny Gani

        The Enchanted Ones - Volume 1: What would you do if you discovered you had a special power? Create the future, enhance your five senses, be a radar of information, read people's souls. Clarice, the protagonist of this story is a fashion designer and, on the verge of turning 30 amid a professional crisis, resorts to seeing a psychic, who tells her she has a special power Hermetic precepts from ancient Egypt can help to activate her powers and prepare her to fight an upcoming enemy Who could want to destroy her? In fashion, acompetitive and vain industry, enemies are very easy to find. (Full translated EN/PT-BR)   The Illuminated Ones - Volume 2: Clarice, travels to India for work and suffers from burn out due to professional pressure In an encounter with the fortune teller, it is revealed that the powers are  related to astrology and that her crisis is due to her Saturn Return Status Writing completed. (PT-BR)   The Reborned Ones - Volume 3: Clarice travels to Thailand to join the Order of the Golden Dawn Where each sign has an apprenticeship and a final test to face. (PT-BR)

      • Biography & True Stories

        Aerial Roots

        The grandmother big lies

        by Vanessa Gani / Vanny Gani

        How would you feel if you found out your grandmother was a big liar? The protagonist believed that the grandmother was a famous French actress, but comes to suspect that she might be a prostitute. In search of the truth, after finding documents from her  grandmother with eight different names, she travels with her family to the places where she lived, Romania, Israel and France, and makes surprising discoveries. Read to find out how this Jewish grammy escape to the war and ends up in Brazil. This is not a sad story.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference

        Ciclo 1. Velocidad-percepción: desarrollo de habilidades perceptivas

        Sistema Integral de Lectura Rápida. Comprensión y memorización

        by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez

        In this cycle Speed - perception: development of perceptual skills, you will significantly improve the speed of your reading thanks to the exercises of each lesson, whose main objective is that you achieve rapid perception of words, as well as identify and eliminate all those noises, distractions and bad habits that affect your reading process.

      • May 2017

        Los mejores días

        by Magalí Etchebarne

        Certain events unfold, exquisitely and poetically, until we reach an illuminating passage: the precise moment of learning something important. With rare maturity for someone in her thirties, in the manner of Clarice Lispector, Lorrie Moore, or Grace Paley, these stories are a space for inquiry. Undoubtedly, this first book by Magalí Etchebarne is the best possible beginning to a work. It is also the book we all wish we could write someday. I Acevedo

      • The colors of the pandemic

        Los colores de la pandemia

        by Illescas Mariñelarena, María Fernanda Guiochin Sotomayor, Nidia Huerta Papalotzi, Héctor Jair Cevada Barrales, Humberto Santibáñez Torres, Israel Mendoza García, Rafael Ángel Ruíz Ramírez, Víctor Alejandro Gómez Bonilla, Víctor Hugo Castillero Lomelí, Andrea Valle Guillermo, Carolina Nepomuceno Torres, Estefanía Solís Zepeda, María Luisa Salvador Hernández, Mariel de Jesús Ramírez Cuervo, Thelma Itzel

        The work is the result of a call addressed to the community of the School of Plastic and Audiovisual Arts of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, in the year 2021, in which students and teachers were invited to share their experience since the beginning of the confinement within the framework of the sanitary contingency; this through a plastic work, a text, or both, so that different expressions about how life has been modified since the existence of the coronavirus were combined.

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