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Call Me Cassandra

Marcial Gala
Call Me Cassandra Book PDF

Author : Marcial Gala
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374602024

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Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala Pdf

Finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction “Dazzling." —Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." —Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn’t understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. Moving between Rauli’s childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala’s Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba’s utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli’s is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.

The Black Cathedral

Marcial Gala
The Black Cathedral Book PDF

Author : Marcial Gala
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374719449

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The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala Pdf

Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral. Told by a chorus of narrators—including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer—who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away.

Tell Me a Story

Cassandra King Conroy
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Author : Cassandra King Conroy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062905635

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Tell Me a Story by Cassandra King Conroy Pdf

“Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I’ve read.” — Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature. Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, ending Pat's long commutes from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last eighteen years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016. In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent together, cut short by Pat’s passing at seventy, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of the South Carolina Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend—her husband, the original Prince of Tides.

Cassandra Speaks

Elizabeth Lesser
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Author : Elizabeth Lesser
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062887207

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What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories—stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human. Lesser has walked two main paths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate. Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted. Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.

Queen of Broken Hearts

Cassandra King
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Author : Cassandra King
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401342968

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Queen of Broken Hearts by Cassandra King Pdf

The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novel It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking property on the Alabama coast owned by her mother-in-law. Make that former mother-in-law, a colorful eccentric who teaches Clare much about love and sacrifice and living freely. When Clare's marriage ends in tragedy, her work becomes the sole focus of her life. While Clare has no problem helping the hundreds of men and women who seek her advice to mend their broken hearts, healing her own is another matter entirely. Falling in love again is the last thing she wants. So when Lex -- a charismatic, charming, burly sea captain -- moves to town to run the marina, Clare insists they remain friends and nothing more. But even though she fights it, she begins to fall for him -- and then finds she has a rival, his estranged wife Annalee. A story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town, with a rich, resonant center, Queen of Broken Hearts is a bold step forward for Cassandra King.

They Call Me Crazy

Kelly Stone Gamble
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Author : Kelly Stone Gamble
Publisher : Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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They Call Me Crazy by Kelly Stone Gamble Pdf

Cass Adams is crazy, and everyone in Deacon, Kansas, knows it. But when her good-for-nothing husband, Roland, goes missing, no one suspects that Cass buried him in their unfinished koi pond. Too bad he doesn’t stay there for long. Cass gets arrested on the banks of the Spring River for dumping his corpse after heavy rain partially unearths it. The police chief wants a quick verdict—he’s running for sheriff and has no time for crazy talk. But like Roland’s corpse, secrets start to surface, and they bring more to light than anybody expected. Everyone in Cass’s life thinks they know her—her psychic grandmother, her promiscuous ex-best friend, her worm-farming brother-in-law, and maybe even her local ghost. But after years of separate silences, no one knows the whole truth. Except Roland. And he’s not talking.

The All-Consuming World

Cassandra Khaw
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Author : Cassandra Khaw
Publisher : Erewhon Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645660248

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In Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw’s first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. But the universe’s highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda... and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again. In space, everything hungers. Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies during her dangerous career with the Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy before their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade . . . but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy will do whatever it takes to keep humanity from regaining control. As Maya and her comrades spiral closer to uncovering the AIs’ vast conspiracy, this band of violent women—half-clone and half-machine—must battle both sapient ageships and their own traumas, in order to settle their affairs once and for all.

The Leftovers

Cassandra Parkin
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Author : Cassandra Parkin
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800310094

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'It was dark and sad and powerful and poetic. Just addictive, and bloody marvellous' Louise BeechThe Leftovers is a story about sexual power and consent, the myth of the perfect victim, and a dark exploration of the things we do for – and to – the ones we love.Callie’s life is spent caring for others – for Frey, her client, and for Noah, her brother. When a tragic car accident shatters her family, she’s left alone with her mother Vanessa. Vanessa's favourite child was Noah; Callie's favourite parent was her dad. Now they're stuck with each other - the leftovers of their family - and they'll have to confront the ways they've been hurt, and the ways they've passed that hurt on to others.Praise for Cassandra:'A thoughtful novel. Parkin creates authentic, interesting characters' Carys Bray'Fresh and original, written vividly and with lair. I was completely engrossed!' Katherine Webb'A dark, eloquently creepy tale. Parkin's prose quivers with visceral terror' Carol Lovekin

Seal's Plaything

Cassandra Dee,Awt Designs
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Author : Cassandra Dee,Awt Designs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154843177X

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Seal's Plaything by Cassandra Dee,Awt Designs Pdf

He wants to use my body. Mason Jones is the hottest SEAL I've ever seen. But he's not into anything serious. And in exchange for a wild night tearing up the sheets, I agree to keep it casual. So I let him call me Pussycat. Sweet thing. Pretty baby. Because it doesn't matter, right? It's just no strings hook-up. But the problem is that I keep coming back for more. I keep begging the SEAL. Worshipping him. Panting and pleading. On my knees and bent over every which way. Because I desperately want Mason ... But what if he doesn't want me back? What if I'm just the SEAL's plaything?

Cassandra the Lucky

Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams
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Author : Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442488182

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Cassandra the Lucky by Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams Pdf

Determined to prove that her prophecies are real, Cassandra sends special fortune cookies to Mount Olympus Academy, and her fortunes end up coming true in very unexpected ways.

This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Díaz
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Author : Junot Díaz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101596951

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This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz Pdf

Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012 Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... "Electrifying." –The New York Times Book Review “Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize… Díaz’s prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic.” –O Magazine From the award-winning author, a stunning collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.”

The Ancient Ones

Cassandra Thompson
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Author : Cassandra Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735686328

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When David stumbles upon a tragic young woman in a sordid Limehouse pub, he has no idea she'd recognize him as the last vampyre alive, nor that she'd be the one to pull out his story. Yet as he recalls his life from the sweltering vineyards of Ancient Rome to the cold horrors of Medieval Romania - as well as his tumultuous past with the mad and mysterious Lucius - he realizes she is much more than what she seems. Gothic horror and mythological fantasy blend seamlessly together in this thrilling adventure, breathing new life into vampire lore as it reveals its true origins. The Ancient Ones is a tale of myth, mayhem, and magic ... with a dash of romance that bites.

Cassandra

Christa Wolf
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Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : Daunt
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907970118

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Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After ten years of brutal war, Troy has fallen to the Greek army, and Cassandra is now a prisoner of war, shackled outside the gates of a foreign fortress, Agamemnon's Mycenae. Through memories of her childhood and reflections on the long years of conflict, Cassandra pieces together the legendary fall of her city. A woman living in an age of heroes, Cassandra reveals the untold personal story that has been lost among the triumphs of Achilles and Hector.

Cassandra at the Wedding

Dorothy Baker
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Author : Dorothy Baker
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034656739

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Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker Pdf

I'm not, at heart, a jumper; it's not my sort of thing . . . I think I knew all the time I was sizing up the bridge that the strong possibility was I'd go home, attend my sister's wedding as invited, help hook-and-zip her into whatever she wore, take the bouquet while she received the ring, through the nose or on the finger, wherever she chose to receive it, and hold my peace when it became a question of speaking now of forever holding it.' It is the hottest June on record and the longest day of the year. Cassandra Edwards -tormented, intelligent, mordantly witty - leaves her graduate studies and her Berkeley flat to drive through the scorching heat to her family's ranch. There they are all assembled: her philosopher father, smelling sweetly of five-star Hennessy; her kind, fussy grandmother; her beloved, identical twin sister Judith, who is about to be married - unless Cassandra can help it.

Clockwork Princess: The Mortal Instruments Prequel

Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess The Mortal Instruments Prequel Book PDF

Author : Cassandra Clare
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780356503363

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Clockwork Princess: The Mortal Instruments Prequel by Cassandra Clare Pdf

A net of shadows tightens around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy them. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray. When Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever. Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in this breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.