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Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that reimagines the United States emerging from a different outcome in a pivotal presidential election. Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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El enfrentamiento de un hombre con su historia, su clase, su sexualidad. A través de una serie de encuentros con personas que fueron parte de su pasado, el narrador de Los hombres que no fui se enfrenta a su memoria, a sus decisiones y a las derivas que ha tomado su vida, dando paso al retrato de "un mundo de formas bellas, tiránicas e infructuosas, de reglas inculcadas que podían llegar a ser mortales". Con una mirada esclarecedora, conjugando...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Parec?a ser una enfermedad. Una epidemia que se esparce sin que sepamos c?mo y que vuelve locas a sus v?ctimas con recuerdos de una vida ajena. Pero la fuerza que est? avasallando al mundo no es un pat?geno. Es apenas una primera ola provocada por un sorprendente descubrimiento. Y lo que est? en juego no es nuestra salud mental, sino el tejido mismo del tiempo. En Nueva York, el detective Barry Sutton est? a punto de descubrir la verdad. Y en un laboratorio...
10) Austral
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the author of Natural History, a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Determined to finish her final book and reverse her fortunes before her mind goes, Dora Frenhofer uses fascinating real characters from her own life, including her missing brother, her estranged daughter, her erstwhile lover, and her last remaining friend, that results in an unforeseen twist.
13) Last summer
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate wedding are all locked in her memory. But what she can't remember is the tragic car accident that ripped her unborn child from her. Ella can't even recall being pregnant. Hoping...
14) Beso
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Pub. Date
c2010
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Español
Description
Cuando Shauna McAllister vuelve a su hogar de la niñez para recuperarse de un accidente de coche que acabó con seis meses de su memoria y dejó a su hermano gravemente dañado el cerebro, ella lucha para resolver lo que sucedió esa noche.
When Shauna McAllister returns to her childhood home to recover from a car accident that wiped out six months of her memory and left her brother severely brain damaged, she struggles to sort out what happened...
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Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Before Madeleine Kimble's mountaineer husband, Aidan, climbs Mount McKinley's south face, he makes her a solemn vow: I will come back to you. But late one night, Maddie gets the devastating news that Aidan has died in an avalanche, leaving her to care for their son--a small boy with a very big secret. The call comes from J.C., Aidan's best friend and fellow climber, whose grief is seasoned with survivor's guilt and something more. J.C. has loved Maddie...
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Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán. Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo. Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su hogar,...
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