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Sanmao recalls the years she shared with her husband, José Quero, in the Canary Islands. Everyday encounters, the experience of making a home abroad and the dramatic changes in their lives shape these autobiographical pieces. The island setting becomes a place from which to consider love, movement and the fragile connections that give a life its direction.
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In a future where human society drifts toward extinction, an advanced robot and two people become linked by the rediscovery of reading and connection. Their paths challenge a world of managed comfort and isolation, raising the possibility that a diminished humanity might still find a way forward.
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In an Italian abbey in 1327, Brother William of Baskerville's religious mission is interrupted by a series of deaths. His investigation leads through manuscripts, symbols and the abbey's library, where questions about knowledge and belief meet a murder mystery. Originally published in Italian in 1980, Umberto Eco's independent novel combines historical fiction with an inquiry into how signs are interpreted.
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Gacel Sayah offers shelter to two fugitives in the Sahara. When soldiers violate that protection, he sets out to answer an offence that the authorities scarcely understand. His journey pits the demands of hospitality and honour against the power of a modern state and the limits of vengeance.
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In occupied Poland in 1941, two doctors devise a false typhus epidemic to protect the people of a town on the railway to Auschwitz. Their deception places medical ingenuity alongside armed resistance, as ordinary residents face the risks and moral choices of opposing Nazi rule.
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A mysterious book draws Bastian into the adventures of Atreyu and the threatened realm of Fantastica. As reading becomes participation, Bastian discovers that entering a world of wishes is only the beginning of the challenge of finding his way home.
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After years of silence, Lydia Harris hears from her sister in Rome and receives an Egyptian jackal-shaped game piece. A burglary makes the gift still more puzzling. Seeking answers, the nurse follows a trail from Rome to Cairo and the Valley of the Kings.
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Ancient-language scholar Ben Messer receives scrolls written by a man who lived in the aftermath of Christ’s lifetime. As he studies them, his growing identification with their author unsettles his relationships and his sense of himself. A historical discovery becomes an increasingly personal mystery.
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Retired theatre director Charles Arrowby moves to the coast to write about his life and escape its entanglements. An encounter with his first love disrupts that retreat. His account gradually exposes the distance between the story he tells himself and the desires of the people around him.
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A powerful businessman becomes entangled in a blackmail plot that threatens the Panama Canal. An actor drawn into his orbit is caught between private ambitions and an international crisis. The novel turns a strategic waterway into the centre of a struggle over money, influence and survival.
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Jack Torrance accepts a winter caretaking job at the isolated Overlook Hotel and moves there with his wife and son. Young Danny’s psychic perceptions reveal a disturbing past, while the hotel’s influence and the family’s existing tensions make their isolation increasingly dangerous.
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Sanmao recounts her life in the Sahara with her Spanish husband, bringing everyday encounters, unfamiliar customs and practical difficulties into a series of autobiographical stories. Humour and curiosity accompany reflections on belonging, love and the possibilities of a life far from home.
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Bullied at school and constrained by her mother’s religious severity, Carrie White begins to discover telekinetic abilities. Her hope of joining ordinary teenage life meets escalating cruelty, as the approach of the school prom brings private suffering and public humiliation together.
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Momo has a rare gift for listening, but the arrival of mysterious grey men changes the lives of everyone around her. As people try to save time and lose the pleasure of living, the young girl must confront those who are stealing the hours that make life meaningful.
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Different voices reconstruct the life of Mararía, a woman whose beauty and misfortune haunt the village of Femés. Against Lanzarote’s volcanic landscape, memories mingle with rumour and desire. Her story reveals a community shaped by isolation, resentment and the harsh consequences of its judgments.
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Retired teacher Dunstan Ramsay looks back on a life shaped by a childhood incident and its lasting consequences. War, guilt and a fascination with saints and illusion connect his memories, as apparently minor actions reveal their influence on other people’s lives.
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A sailor survives ten days adrift without food or water. García Márquez reconstructs his ordeal and the public response to his rescue, tracing the distance between an individual’s experience and the heroic story built around him.
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Under a Peruvian dictatorship, private lives unfold within a society shaped by repression and moral compromise. Vargas Llosa’s novel examines how political corruption enters ordinary relationships, bringing the choices of individuals into contact with the wider damage caused by authoritarian power.
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Paul Atreides now rules an empire and is worshipped as a religious figure, but victory has brought new constraints. Political opponents and conspirators close to his court threaten both his rule and the future of the family on which his dynasty depends.
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Angelou recalls her childhood and adolescence, from life with her grandmother in Arkansas to the difficult passage toward independence. Family bonds, racism, violence and the discovery of her own voice shape a memoir about growing up and claiming a place in the world.
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