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The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Michael Booth
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Living in Denmark, Michael Booth sets out across the five Nordic countries to question their reputation as models of happiness and social success. Encounters and reporting explore national differences, everyday habits and less comfortable realities beneath the image of a Scandinavian ideal.
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A faulty boiler almost kills Marta Jiménez Serrano and her partner in their home in November 2020. Years later, she reconstructs the accident alongside the relationship that preceded it and the difficult recovery that followed. Her personal account brings love, anxiety and ordinary domestic life into contact with the shock of nearly losing everything.
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¡Paren el mundo, que me bajo!
Pedro Ruiz approaches contemporary life through humour, polemic and occasional poetry. His observations turn to digital dependence, public outrage and social habits, inviting readers to examine the everyday absurdities in which they may also take part.
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Laura C. Vela brings together memories, conversations and messages while revisiting abuse experienced during adolescence. The book follows the effort to find words for what happened and to reconsider her own history. Rather than arranging pain into a neat resolution, it records the uneven work of rebuilding a sense of self.
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