October 6, 2024 5:28 am

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WHEN INNER-NIGHTMARES BECOME CREATIVITY – William Kurelek: the double voyage to the ancestral farmlands

WILLIAM KURELEK 1/4 – He was the son of Ukrainian immigrant farmers, and was born in a shack on the Prairies during an winter. He grew up working on his parents’ farm, ploughing fields and tending cows. As a painter he became one of the most successful artists in Canadian history, using scenes from his past to capture the spirit …

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FOR COMICI EMILIO – Poetry, by Antonia Pozzi

PER EMILIO COMICI > Si spalancano laghi di stupore, a sera nei tuoi occhi, fra lumi e suoni. Si aprono lenti fiori di follia, sull’acqua dell’anima, a specchio della grande cima coronata di nuvole. Il tuo sangue che sogna le pietre, è nella stanza, un favoloso silenzio. FOR COMICI EMILIO > Open wide with wonder lakes in the evening in …

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REVIVAL – Romance, by Stephen King

REVIVAL This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along …

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LIGHT OF HEART – Poetry, by Nichita Stănescu

LIGHT OF HEART > Fluctuate hours next to your shoulder, blue spheres, and between them there is Saturn. And while they spend, they decrease more evening and night. I do not mind, I’m not sorry for them. How are straight, their passing, almost childlike and gentle, shining in your eyes still. And I forget about them, forget it, too, and …

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STATION ELEVEN – Romance, by Emily St. John Mandel

STATION ELEVEN An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, one snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named watches in horror as Jeevan performs, pumping Arthur’s chest …

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DOWNTOWN CORAL GABLES & MIRACLE MILE – The Little Paris in Miami

Welcome to Downtown Coral Gables and Miracle Mile. Designer shops, art galleries, live theatre, great restaurants, bridal bliss, and houseware heaven. It’s all here. Relax, shop and dine with style, only at Miracle Mile. It is the main east-west road through the city’s downtown central business district, consisting of many shops, financial institutions, restaurants and arts institution. Downtown Coral Gables …

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THE HUSBAND’S SECRET – Romance, by Liane Moriarty

THE HUSBAND’S SECRET Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses, and, ultimately, ourselves. Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the …

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HERBERT MARSHALL – Poetry, by Edgar Lee Masters

HERBERT MARSHALL > All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me, sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness of spirit and contempt of your soul’s rights, which made me turn to Annabelle and forsake you. You really grew to hate me for love of me, because I was your soul’s happiness, formed and tempered, to solve your life for …

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DENIS NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ, CUBAN PAINTER – A painting that capturesand enchants

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THE COMPLEX MAZE – Denis Nunez Rodriguez: painting the nature of human beings

DENIS NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ 1/4 – Cuban painter, he was born in Mantanzas. He studied drawing and painting in Cuba`s National Art School and graduated in 1986 as a painter and professor of painting and drawing. Subtle elements in his works reinforce the image of the psychological island in the artist’s concept, a stone pedestal where the figures or true martyrdom …

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