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1) Tirana
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This edition of the Bradt guide to Tirana by expert author Gillian Gloyer combines what to see and do with maps, walking tours , historical and cultural perspectives and suggestions for hotels, guest houses, restaurants, cafés and bars as well as detailed information on city transport, shopping, activities and out-of-town recommendations. It is written in an engaging and colourful style that sets out to entertain as well as inform and is drawn from...
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Los dos célebres poemarios de Diego Maquieira en un volumen. Edición definitiva y corregida por el autor. La primera edición fue noviembre de 2012.
Nos educaron para atrás padre
Bien preparados, sin imaginación
Y malos para la cama.
No nos quedó otra que sentar cabeza
Y ahora todas las cabezas
Ocupan un asiento, de cerdo.
Nos metieron mucho Concilio de Trento
Mucho catecismo litúrgico
Y muchas manos a la obra, la misma
Que en esos...
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Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, Tirana Modern draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. As its starting point, this book asks: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity?
Drawing on material collected through fieldwork with a community of readers, writers, and translators...
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Claws volume 1
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Set in a South Florida nail salon, this is a midnight-dark, wickedly funny meditation on female badness which follows the rise of five diverse and treacherous Florida manicurists at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County Salon, where there is a lot more going on than silk wraps and pedicures. At the center is salon owner Desna, her mentally ill twin brother, Dean, and her staff of four friends.
9) Spell Search
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When freedom comes with a cost, would you pay the price?Imprisoned by the mage guild and cut off from her friends and her magic, Merry's hope of returning to her own world seems impossible. With hidden adversaries ready to strike, a desperate escape attempt could land her in even more trouble. But she will not give up on her quest to stop witch hunters from entering Tirana.Her allies are scattered and time is running out, so Merry must do the unthinkable;...
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"An epic people's history of Europe's fraught East-West divide, by an intrepid author who followed its path from the Arctic to Turkey"--
Initially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain became the front of a new kind of war: it divided Europe from north to south for forty-five years. New generations have grown up since these borders came down, bu what has the Iron Curtain left in its wake? Phillips travels its...
11) Albania
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This new, fully revised seventh edition of Bradt's Albania remains the most authoritative standalone guide to what is still a relatively little known part of Europe. Coverage is comprehensive, starting in the capital, Tirana, then moving through central, northern and southern Albania to provide all the information needed for a successful trip. Included are knowledgeable and rigorously researched historical and archaeological background, detailed notes...
12) Spell Struck
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Magic may be her undoing When Merry inherits a bookshop from a grandmother she never knew existed, the last thing she expected was to be transported to another world. But while claiming her inheritance, she accidentally triggers a spell that takes her to Tirana; a world where magic is real, and where her grandmother left behind powerful enemies. Now those enemies are after Merry, and she has to return home before they catch up with her. With the transportation...
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Get the Summary of Ingrid Fetell Lee's Joyful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Joyful," Ingrid Fetell Lee explores the transformative power of color and light on human emotions and behaviors. She recounts how Edi Rama, the former mayor of Tirana, Albania, revitalized the city by painting buildings in bright colors, leading to positive changes in the community. Lee connects this to the universal happiness bright...
14) Sworn virgin
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2014.
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Several years after choosing to identify as male to become a sworn virgin according to Albanian tradition, Mark accepts an invitation to join his cousin in Washington, D.C., allowing him to escape his vow and revert back to life as Hana.
15) Canción para dos
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¿Sería la noticia de su embarazo un acorde equivocado o música para sus oídos?
Mia Navarro, una joven dulce y callada, se había pasado la vida a la sombra de su hermana gemela, la princesa del pop, pero una aventura breve y secreta con Nate Tucker, famoso cantante y productor musical, lo cambió todo: Mia se quedó embarazada. Sin embargo, ella no lograba decidir si debía seguir cuidando de la tirana de su hermana o lanzarse a la vida que llevaba...
16) Normal
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Kareron
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A documentary that brings the real life stories of male, female and transgender migrants working in the sex industry to the screen. Drawing on original interviews with people working in the sex industry in Albania, Italy and the UK, documentary director and anthropologist Nicola Mai reveals their unheard voices.. .In Tirana we meet Besnik, an Albanian young man who uses violence to stop his women getting under his skin. In Rome, Catalin is a Romanian...
17) sidetracked
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When risking it all, in a quest to find joy in the art of living, comes at just the right time.
In the wake of Trump's presidency, the #metoo movement, emboldened racism, gun violence rising, three layoffs in five years, and the height of commercialism, this successful ad executive has had enough. Spirit dampened, with mostly anger where there once was laughter, she risks it all in search of a more meaningful connection with herself, her family,...
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Cuando La Soledad Duele, es una maravillosa historia. Es la vida de un personaje, creado por la fecunda imaginacin de la autora. Es el reconocimiento a tantos seres olvidados, que recorren los caminos y existen sin existir. Que luchan por sobre vivir an en las ms aterradoras adversidades. Esta es una sorprendente novela, que describe el cansancio como fuente de amargor, de desilusin sin aliciente sin incentivos. Esta obra nos muestra en su ficcin,...
19) Spell Stone
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Meddling with magic comes with deadly consequences The magical world of Tirana is on the brink of revolution. After losing control of her Earth magic, Merry never wants to cast another spell. With three more charms to collect before she can return to her world, she may not have a choice. Renegade lords, rogue mages and guild enforcers will be the least of her troubles as she makes her way to the Water focal point. For treachery is not the only poison...
20) Spell Shock
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Magic always comes with a price Merry has the first charm she needs to remake the transportation spell to take her home, and four more to get. With the mage guild still after her, she knows reaching the rest of the elemental focal points will not be easy. Not even she expected to be drawn into a plot to destroy the guild. On the way to the Earth focal point, Merry and her allies are caught up in a Tiranian lord's plan to wrest power from the mages....
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