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When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,...
2) False memory
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A deeply sinister and endlessly surprising tale of a rare and terrifying phobia: autophobia - fear of oneself. Martie Rhodes is a young wife (happily married to Dustin for three years), a video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend Carol to therapy sessions. Carol is so afraid of leaving her apartment that the trips are grim ordeals for both women - but bonding experiences as well. Then one morning Martie experiences...
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Komi can't communicate volume 26
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Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. Tadano's sister and mom are super supportive about his romantic prospects-- they just somehow got the wrong idea about who he's dating!...
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Komi can't communicate volume 21
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"It's a new year full of new challenges! Komi's class trip is going to be overseas this time, but the terrifying adventure begins now as Komi must gather her courage to go to the passport office and hand in her paperwork!"--
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Komi can't communicate volume 22
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Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. Komi and her classmates are in the Big Apple, and Manbagi sees it as a chance to make a Big Confession. But as much as she wants to...
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"Bernadette Fox es famosa. Para Elgin, su marido y gurú de Microsoft, es una esposa con mucho carácter. Para las madres del colegio privado de Seattle adonde lleva a su hija es una deshonra. Para el gremio de arquitectos es un genio, y para Bee, su hija adolescente, es sencillamente mamá. Esta historia comienza cuando Bee llega a casa con excelentes notas. Sus padres le habían prometido que podría escoger el regalo soñado, y Bee decide que quiere...
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"When Lauren's parents die in a small plane crash, she inherits the fortune they made with the sale of their software business. Determined to follow in their footsteps, she moves her young family to Austin and launches her own successful company. But her charmed life begins to fray at the edges when an idle threat made eighteen years earlier comes back to haunt her. Someone with a grudge is willing to stop at nothing to destroy her. Someone with time...
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"Christina Goering, eccentric and adventurous, and Frieda Copperfield, anxious but enterprising, are two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves. Old friends, each will take a surprising path in search of salvation: during a visit to Panama, Mrs. Copperfield abandons her husband, finding solace in a relationship with a teenage prostitute; while Miss Goering, a wealthy spinster, pursues sainthood via sordid encounters with the basest...
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"Kiedy piętnastoletnia Bee upomina się o obiecaną wycieczkę na Antarktydę w zamian za wzorowe świadectwo, jej inteligentna i agrofobiczna matka Bernadette rzuca się w wir przygotowań. Kobieta, znudzona życiem w Seattle, którego nigdy nie chciała, jest jednak na skraju załamania. w Obliczu wielu następujących po sobie katastrof Bernadette znika, zostawiając rodzinę samą sobie. Bee zbiera e-maile, oficjalne dokumenty, prywatną korespondencję,...
13) Collected writings: Two serious ladies ; In the summer house ; Stories & other writings ; Letters
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Library of America volume 288
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One novel, one play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters from 1935-1970.
Two serious ladies: A modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, and only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles. Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, both upper-class women, embark on separate quests of salvation, ultimately descending into debauchery--Miss...
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