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(0)Howard Jacobson
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English
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Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular BBC worker, and his old school friend Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, meet with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, and reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.
2) Zoo time
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English
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In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past.
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Hogarth
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English
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At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, get around without the aid of a walking frame, and speak without spitting. Among the widows of North London,...
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Hogarth
Language
English
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In a magnificent modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare¿́¿s most provocative characters¿́¿Shylock¿́¿Simon Strulovitch, riddled with grief after the death of his wife, struggles with his daughter Beatrice¿́¿s betrayal of family and his daughter Jessica¿́¿s rejection of her Jewish roots (summary from online).
5) J
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A profound, darkly comedic parable set in a future where collective memory has vanished following a historic catastrophe, and one young couple's love affair could have shattering consequences for the human race. In a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. After the devastation of WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED, all that should remain...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight,"--Amazon.com.
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English
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What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals...
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Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
2014.
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Español
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"The China Study" revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. "Whole" answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? "Whole" demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten offtrack and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism.
"El...