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What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just a random occurrence? What if it's all part of a bigger plan? What if there's no such thing as a chance encounter? What if there are people we don't know determining our destiny? And what if they are even planning the fate of the world? Enter the Coincidence Makers - Guy, Emily, and Eric - three seemingly ordinary people who work for a secret organization devoted to creating and carrying out coincidences. What the rest of the world sees as random occurrences, are, in fact, carefully orchestrated events.
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Amazing!
- De Gal Wolff en 07-31-18
De: Yoav Blum
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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Thunder and Lightning
- Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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The challenge we face as writers, Natalie Goldberg says, begins with the process of turning inward and then trying to communicate what we find. From the secret of letting characters and stories "write themselves" to finding mentor sources and responding to criticism to writing's one essential ingredient, which is the mind - here are all-new Zen-based lessons and reflections, refined and proven at Natalie's acclaimed national writers' workshops.
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Inspiring
- De StoryDtechtive en 02-11-17
De: Natalie Goldberg
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The Geography of Genius
- A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
- De: Eric Weiner
- Narrado por: Eric Weiner
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity.
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Very, very disappointing
- De Tamara Greer en 06-08-16
De: Eric Weiner
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Outline
- The Outline Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Kate Lock
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking - about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.
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Difficult and Better in Print
- De Nick O. en 07-18-23
De: Rachel Cusk
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Amulet
- De: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrado por: Adriana Sananes
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
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A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry", hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University.
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Read The Savage Detectives first
- De Alicia Grega en 12-05-13
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- De mohammed en 08-11-21
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Writing Down the Bones
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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Here is a new collector's edition of this modern classic as you have never heard it before, read by Natalie Goldberg herself and then infused with her most personal reflections about this "magic manual" for all writers. Try these ingenious, Zen-based exercises to expand your writing skills - or just for fun.
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The Substance
- De Krissy D. en 07-09-10
De: Natalie Goldberg
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Where the Heart Beats
- John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- De: Kay Larson
- Narrado por: Jason Wineinger
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.
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Mind Expansion
- De Robert Keith en 04-04-15
De: Kay Larson
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Pages for You
- The Pages for You Series, Book 1
- De: Sylvia Brownrigg
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 6 h
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In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The 17-year-old, new to everything around her - college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life - is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her.
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A gorgeous listen
- De MissLynn en 03-09-20
De: Sylvia Brownrigg
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Sanshiro
- Penguin Classics
- De: Natsume Soseki, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
- Narrado por: Andrew Koji
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.
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This story had no point.
- De icelandicponies en 12-30-21
De: Natsume Soseki, y otros
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Distant Star
- De: Roberto Bolano
- Narrado por: Walter Krochmal
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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Omg
- De Sierra en 08-03-16
De: Roberto Bolano