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Letters in Charcoal (Hardcover)
Irene Vasco; Illustrated by Juan Palomino; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R397
R322
Discovery Miles 3 220
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In the pueblo of Palenque in Colombia, hardly anybody knows how to
read. Curious about the letters her older sister Gina receives from
a young doctor each month — letters that she is sure contain
promises of love — one young girl makes a decision that will
change her life, and the lives of every child in the pueblo,
forever. With the help of Señor Velandia, the owner of the village
shop, she will slowly unlock the letters of the alphabet and
discover the magic of reading. And soon she will make a discovery
that is more miraculous still — that letters are literally all
around her . . .
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The WILD BOOK (Paperback)
Juan Villoro; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R279
R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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Thirteen-year-old Juan's summer is off to a terrible start. First,
his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his
strange Uncle Tito's house for the entire holiday! Who wants to
live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows, drinks
fifteen cups of smoky tea a day, and lives inside a huge,
mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to his new life among
teetering, dusty shelves, he notices something odd: the books move
on their own! He rushes to tell Uncle Tito, who lets his nephew in
on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader, which means books respond
magically to him, and he's the only one who can find the elusive,
never-before-read Wild Book. An unforgettable adventure story about
books, libraries, and the power of reading.
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Balam and Lluvia's House 2023
Julio Serrano Echeverria; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R280
R228
Discovery Miles 2 280
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Meet Balam, a boy who could be a cat. Meet Lluvia, a girl who could
be the dawn. Balam and Lluvia are siblings who catch fireflies, bid
farewell to their pet fish in the bathroom, and wait for Raton
Perez to collect their teeth. In Balam and Lluvia's House, the
secret tastes and sounds of the everyday are waiting to be found.
From the smell of crushed laurel leaves to the whispers of the
peach tree in their back garden, every day is a day of discovery.
Full of lively and reflective poems, this book invites the reader
to run alongside Balam and Lluvia captivated by the world that
surrounds them. Lawrence Schimel's translation brings the work of
acclaimed Guatemalan author and playwright Julio Serrano Echeverria
into English for the first time.
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The Day Saida Arrived (Hardcover)
Susana Gomez Redondo; Illustrated by Sonja Wimmer; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R466
R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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Jane Addams Children's Book Award Finalist (2020) Two girls forge a
forever-friendship by learning each other's language. The Day Saida
Arrived demonstrates the power of language to build bonds beyond
borders. What happens when a new friend arrives who doesn't speak
your language? A young girl searches for the words to help her
friend feel welcome and happy in her new home, and along the way
learns about differences and similarities in countries and words.
The two forge a strong bond while they each learn the other's
language, exploring the world around them. A joyous, lyrical
text-including English translations and pronunciations and the
complete Arabic alphabet-offers an accessible, fresh approach to
talking about immigration. Paired with lushly vivid illustrations,
The Day Saida Arrived demonstrates the power of language to build
bonds beyond borders. Printed on FSC-certified paper with
vegetable-based inks.
A metafictional novel about two intertwined stories of love that
seek to perpetuate themselves in history. The Worst Thing of All Is
the Light tells two stories. First, that of the friendship of two
heterosexual men, Koldo and Edorta, through the decades of the late
twentieth century in Spain’s Basque Country. In the book Edorta
writes in order to try and save from oblivion his relationship with
Koldo—a bond for which the word “friendship†falls short yet
for which he is too afraid to use the word “love.†It is the
story of two men who are in love and don’t know it, or don’t
want to know it. The second story is that of its author, José Luis
Serrano, in the present day as he enjoys his summer holiday in the
same Basque Country and talks with his husband at length about many
different things, but mostly about how to narrate the relationship
of Koldo and Edorta, two men who did not allow themselves to
construct the domestic life that their counterparts enjoy today.
Together these stories show a love that the lovers hope will
outlive them, a love that is the same even if we give it different
labels.
The heartfelt and funny memoir of a boy who built himself a
prosthetic arm out of the world-famous toy bricks. David Aguilar
was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to
define his life and limit people's ideas of who he was and who he
could be. But in this funny and heartfelt memoir, David proves that
he can throw out the rulebook and people's expectations and maybe
even make a difference in the world-and all with a sense of humor.
At only nine years old, David built his first prosthesis from LEGO
bricks, and since then he hasn't stopped creating and thinking
about how his inventions, born from a passion for building things,
could fuel change and help others. With a voice full of humor and
heart, David tells his powerful story, of family and friendship, of
heartbreak and loss, and ultimately of triumph and success, as he
continues to dream big and build a life and a better world-piece by
piece.
New Englanders have a sense of lineage unmatched in any other
region of America. To this day those whose ancestors were the first
Europeans to settle here tend to regard families whose first
ancestors arrived as early as 200 years ago as newcomers. This New
England fondness for lineage is akin to the longevity of the
vampire, whose life (or unlife) is extended by draining the lives
and blood of others. The stories in Blood Lines explore the ancient
mysteries of vampirism, along with the rich literary tradition
begun with Lord Byron and with Bram Stoker's Dracula, first
published in 1897 long after the aristocratic blood lines were
established. The stories include: "One for the Road," Stephen King;
"Investigating Jericho," Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; "The Brotherhood of
Blood," Hugh B. Cave; "Chastel," Manly Wade Wellman; "The Doom of
the House of Duryea," Earl Peirce, Jr.; "Moonlight in Vermont,"
Esther Friesner; "Secret Societies," Lawrence Schimel; "When the
Red Storm Comes," Sarah Smith; "The Beautiful, the Damned,"
Kristine Kathryn Rusch; "The Shunned House," H. P. Lovecraft
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The Wild Book (Paperback)
Juan Villoro; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R364
R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
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The City. Suggestive of the sophistication and naivete, success and
failure, culture and brutality, victim and predator. Does this city
ever truly rest? And those who watch from dark places, each night
hoping and thirsting? For what? Life? Revenge? Another day? Only
the vampires, returned from the dead to drain life from the living,
know for sure, and the Streets of Blood are their domain. All the
stories in Streets of Blood are set in the greater New York City
area. They include: Softly While You're Sleeping, Evelyn E. Smith;
Lowlifes, Esther M. Friesner; To Feel Another's Woe, Chet
Williamson; Appetites, Lawrence Schimel; Following the Way, Alan
Ryan; Seat Partner, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Night Laughter, Ellen
Kushner; The Land of Lost Content, Suzy McKee Charnas
Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the
mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from
the living.
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The Book of Denial (Hardcover)
Ricardo Chávez Castañeda; Illustrated by Alejandro Magallanes; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
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From award-winning Mexican author
Ricardo Chávez Castañeda and the visionary Mexican
designer Alejandro Magallanes comes a horror story and
ghost story that is both daringly and beautifully told in word and
image. There are stories so terrible that we tremble to hear even a
whisper of them. Even more terrible, some of them are true.This is
one such story, a story of our deepest inhumanity—one that
confronts the history of violence against children, and
through its young narrator attempts to find a way out. A
horror story and ghost story told as much through art as through
text, The Book of Denial is an antidote to our
collective silence. By uplifting storytelling as a means of
understanding the past and shaping the future, it is
also—improbably—a beacon of hope. Written by genre-defying
Mexican author Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, The Book of
Denial is a dark and powerful story within a story,
illustrated with a striking graphic sensibility by Alejandro
Magallanes and translated by Lawrence Schimel. This is the third
book to appear under Unruly, an imprint of picture books for older
readers, and will include a short note to readers about how it
continues to build this experimental framework of visually complex,
sophisticated picture books for teens and adults.
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Some Days (Hardcover)
MarÃa Wernicke; Illustrated by MarÃa Wernicke; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R415
R315
Discovery Miles 3 150
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From an Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominee comes a touching
story of family, security, and loss. A young girl tells her mother
about a passageway in their yard. Down this passageway, it is not
cold, there is no danger, and nothing bad can ever happen—and the
person she longs for is with her again. The only problem is that,
on some days, the passageway is not there. But maybe, together,
mother and daughter can find a way to carry that feeling with them
always. First published in Argentina, this lovely picture book will
tug on the heartstrings of anyone who knows what it means to miss a
loved one.
The heartfelt and funny memoir of a boy who built himself a
prosthetic arm out of the world-famous toy bricks. David Aguilar
was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to
define his life and limit people's ideas of who he was and who he
could be. But in this funny and heartfelt memoir, David proves that
he can throw out the rulebook and people's expectations and maybe
even make a difference in the world-and all with a sense of humor.
At only nine years old, David built his first prosthesis from LEGO
bricks, and since then he hasn't stopped creating and thinking
about how his inventions, born from a passion for building things,
could fuel change and help others. With a voice full of humor and
heart, David tells his powerful story, of family and friendship, of
heartbreak and loss, and ultimately of triumph and success, as he
continues to dream big and build a life and a better world-piece by
piece.
The stories in Streets of Blood all take place in the greater New
York City area. Authors include Mercedes Lackey, Norma Collins,
Laura Ann Gilman, Edward Bryant, Evelyn E. Smith, Esther F.
Friesner, Chet Williamson, Lawrence Schimel, Alan Ryan, Chelsea
Quinn Yarbro, Ellen Kushner, Suzy McKee Charnas, and Julian
Hawthorne.
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La Bastarda (Paperback)
Trifonia Melibea Obono; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R210
Discovery Miles 2 100
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9 Kilometers (Hardcover)
Claudio Aguilera; Illustrated by Gabriela Lyon; Translated by Lawrence Schimel
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R368
R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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font-family: "Times New Roman";} -winning First Person Queer:
intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men's desire. The stories
push at the parameters of queer erotic life, featuring contributors
both novice and well-known; subject matter ranges from single,
significant encounters to the ephemera of emotional desire that
never lead to physical pleasure. Throughout, the book deals with
the essential erotics of queer male life, to be used as a launching
point for exploring the queer male condition: essays that delve
into the diverse manifestations of desire between and among
men.
This is an anthology of non-fiction essays on LGBT life written in
the second-person. Each takes the form of a letter to an eclectic
array of recipients; family and friends, missives to homophobes,
confessions to lovers and words of advice for the next generation.
The stories and comics in this anthology cover issues like cloning,
gene manipulation and gender assignment and ask questions such as:
Is true assimilation possible? What are the implications of
cloning, gender choice and gender reassignment? How will 'the
right' react to further progress of GLBT concerns?
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