Center for Literary and Art Studies (1995). Independent boutique publisher. Spanish and Portuguese authors. Narrative, essay, company, children, poetry, travel. Catalogs. Editions and printing. 450 titles in its catalog.
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It is the late sixties and a town is about to be drowned because the government decided to build a dam there. The inhabitants are exhorted, in one way or another, to abandon everything and start again somewhere else. Little by little the families succumb to the inevitable, except Violeta, who refuses to leave, abandon her dead, leave her roots. This is how she becomes the witness of everything that is happening: the corruption, the desolation, the sadness. With a mirror and a machete, she walks through the streets of the town, through the cemetery, attends her work in the church and, above all, resists. With a wonderful narrative voice, Suzette Celaya Aguilar builds a contained universe, in which The characters wander before a reality that is fading, where violence is exercised from different angles and, yet, manages to maintain a light that amalgamates all the eviction that is coming.
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A beautiful new edition of award-winning author Thomas Wharton’s classic novel Icefields, featuring updated maps, a brand-new interview with the author, and an afterword from award-winning author Suzette Mayr. In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb.
In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse keeper and Byrne's lover. First published in 1995, Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here—where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and histories they tell one another—is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr.
For ages 15 and up, a new psychological suspense… "Unforgettable." —Sharon Sala, New York Times Bestselling Author She hid the secret from everyone, including herself. Sarah Hausman must hide a secret—even from herself. If she acknowledges the truth, it will destroy everyone she loves. Timid fourteen-year-old Sarah wants her controlling mother to stop prying into what happened the night of the freshman dance. Confess to the police? No way. Confide in her mother? Get real. The woman is too busy, too proud, and too jealous of Sarah to really care if her life disintegrates. Besides, her mother will say Sarah is totally to blame for what the boys did—which Sarah believes is true. So she doubly needs to shield the truth. Not just from Momma. But from everyone. Including herself. Beautiful, confident, eighteen-year-old Judith Murielle lives the ideal life. She has college plans, respect from family and friends, and a fiancé she adores. But as a mysterious connection pulls her toward Sarah, Judith's perfect world unravels. Acting as Sarah's sole confidante, Judith gains the power to expose her secret. Will the truth be worth the sacrifice? Or will Sarah stop at nothing to keep Judith quiet? Marjorie Brody, an award-winning short story author and Pushcart Prize Nominee, crafts a riveting debut novel of psychological suspense with a shocking twist. A former psychotherapist, she now writes fulltime. Visit her at www.marjoriespages.com. “Marjorie Brody handles family dysfunction the way a top-notch surgeon handles a scalpel.” —Robin Allen, author of the Poppy Markham: Culinary Cop mystery series “TWISTED is a stunning psychological suspense novel . . . The story illuminates the staggering twists and turns in seemingly ‘normal’ families of yearning teenagers and their equally yearning mothers and fathers.” —Lori Gordon, Ph.D., Founder of PAIRS, author of Passage to Intimacy and If You Really Loved Me “. . . a compelling story of the aftermath of a young girl’s horrible trauma. . . . the suspense builds, making it impossible to put the book down as it becomes more and more apparent that we don’t know the whole truth.” —Suzette Stoks, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
A passionate author, a gourmet editor, a stalking pianist, a depressive puppeteer, a seductive psychologist, a ghost lawyer, a mother hen concierge, a poetry glasses maker ... these are the main characters of this suspense fiction novel where lies and manipulation are at the heart of a story full of mysteries. 2010 - Clémence James, a silent and lonely pianist, receives a package containing 502 drawings made by her mother Julia, during her long hospital stay in a Norman convent after a serious car accident. Clémence is upset because her mother was declared dead just after the tragic event in 1989. These sketches prove she was alive until 1999. Ten years of lies … Clémence was unable to visit her. Julia James was a writer. Just before her accident, she took refuge in a small Norman house in order to finish working on her manuscript. It was entitled The Great Art of Small Scams. In her fascinating writings, Julia indicates the progress of her research into history of impostors, liars, and other deceivers. But these notes will remain a draft forever and, it is a shame for her editor Marius who, now retired, has chosen to drown his fears into the culinary art. Why did someone fake Julia’s death? Was it her husband, who was about to divorce and wanted to rush things in order to get married again quickly with another woman? Or her publisher, who granted her an astronomical advance he had to pay every month for the writing of a book that would never be released? And, was the accident really an accident? The truth is probably hiding near the Norman house where Julia stayed with her daughter at the twilight of her life. Behind the half-timbering of this house and across the surrounding area, a large-scale sham had emerged and had spread like weeds. Did the author find out about it? Twenty years later, Clémence is determined to drop the masks.
Do you know history coaching ? It's when you use historical figures as models to prosper in your own life. Each of these five heroines are an incredible source of inspiration to us, women of the twenty-first century. How to write the first european bestseller when you are a poor single mother during the Middle Ages without welfares ? How to reign the court of Versailles when everyone wants to take your place ? How to have the most powerful man in Europe but the least romantic under your thumb ? How to be a free and famous woman in a puritan and corseted society ? How to know a global success, more than Madonna, when you have red hair, you are thin and you don't speak a word of English language ? Christine de Pisan, first woman of letters in the Middle Ages, Madame de Montespan, Louis XIV's favorite mistress, Joséphine de Beauharnais, empress and Napoléon Bonaparte's wife, George Sand, writer who is free in love and Sarah Bernhardt, theater's star, managed to create their own life with brilliance, in a male world. So, don't hesitate, be inspire yourself by these five beautiful rebels !
Helen Middleton is a British artist, who travels to a little coastal town called Scarborough in South Africa to recover from an unpleasant divorce and several failed attempts to have a baby. Rather than focusing on tired post-apartheid clichés, this is a novel about the healing nature of an inspired natural environment as well as the search for a love that builds rather the breaks. Helen encounters two men, Max de Villiers – a writer and wealthy wine maker and his brother Jared – who runs the family vineyard of Bourgogne with him. Though she falls for one of them, is there more to him than meets the eye and is he really the right person to complete her?
