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Lush Life: A Novel |
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Written by Rafael Acero
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
 Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2008
Price: About $26.00
“Lush Life” takes an uncompromising look at a supposedly revitalized New York City, exposing the junkie beneath the expensively tailored suit that Rudy Giuliani likes to claim he single-handedly rehabilitated during his two controversial terms as Mayor. Richard Price is too good a writer to opt for the easy polemic, though, instead presenting a morally ambiguous cast of characters as compelling as the city itself, their personal dramas playing out against the backdrop of the investigation of a murder on the Lower East Side, and the so-called "Quality of Life" initiatives that arguably created a police state for all but the most privileged, enabling the quickest path to gentrification of impoverished but trendy neighborhoods. |
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Water for Elephants: A Novel |
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Written by Rafael Acero
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
 Author: Sara Gruen
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2007
Price: About $13.95In “Water for Elephants”, Sara Gruen explores coming of age, growing old and other compelling topics through the protagonist and sometimes hero, Jacob. At 93, stuck ina nursing home, he laments every passing day, every single white hair, every memory lost… everything that has to do with the passage of time. He reminisces of his life, and wonders why he is in that current state of depression and pensiveness and his isolation from his family and relatives that deem him utterly irrelevant. |
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead |
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Written by Rafael Acero
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
 Author: David Shields
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2008
Price: About $23.95Unlike other autobiography authors, for David Shields, an autobiography is, and needs to be put together and have the same flow a regular novel has. David Shields does not stick to the usual autobiography format and approaches his life-story quite differently. Instead of focusing on the ups and downs, the good and the bad, he shies away from the black-and-white point of view and focuses on the gray areas. |
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Una Etapa Difícil: Mi Lucha contra el Cáncer |
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Written by Ivett Romo-Verdin
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
 Autor: Mayte Prida
Publicado por: Planeta Publising Corporation
Año: 2005
Precio: $12.95
Ser diagnosticado con cáncer es una de las peores noticias que un ser humano puede recibir. Se necesita ser muy valiente para afrontar esta enfermedad y salir adelante. Mucha gente lo logra, pero también mucha se queda en el intento. Mayte Prida es una presentadora de televisión que sobrevivió al cáncer de mama y que decidió escribir un libro titulado “Una etapa difícil: mi lucha contra el cáncer”, donde comparte con el lector todo lo que tuvo que pasar después de haberse enterado de que tenía cáncer. |
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Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me |
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Written by Rafael Acero
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 Author: Ben Karlin
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Year: 2008
Price: About $24.00 This book comes to you via Ben Karlin, former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report- that’s enough to give you a clue about the stuff you’ll find here. Pretty much it all hilariously flows and its short-story format makes it even more enjoyable. He collected stories by men who have one thing in common: all have been dumped. Some pieces may be a paragraph in length while others will be full-blown essays. All of them will be about that something they’ve learn from a failed relationship. |
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