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Robert Ferro, Felice Picano

It was a family dealing with old values, acceptance and death. Max Desir loved his Italian roots and hearing his mother, Marie, recount tales of the old country. And he loved his American family, his father John a successful self-made businessman in New Jersey. As he came of age, Max discovered something else he loved – men – and met the love of his life in Italy. Now, at age 40, the family is split: Marie and his siblings accept Max and Nick as a stable, long-term couple but his father Jo...

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Robert Ferro

“Incandescent angels of love ... an electric voyage” – The AdvocateTwo heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and Peter pursues his passion for Lorenzo, a beautiful young Florentine. The past impinges on the present as the story of Chase’s ancestor, Orvil Starkweather, is revealed -- the secrets of his life sounding a counterpoint ...

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Robert Ferro, Tom Cardamone

Mark Valerian, the second son in the Valerian family, is ill, but determined to live life to the fullest – and live forever if he can. When he discovers Bill Mackey, a young theatrical designer who is also suffering from this disease neither wants to name, he also finds the lover of his dreams.Together they develop an incredible plan to survive that will take them to Europe, to rustic Maine, and finally to the wonderful seaside summer mansion of the Valerian family, where father an...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2016, held in Bogotá, Colombia, in September 2016.The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer science; computational intelligence; simulation systems; fuzzy sets and systems; power systems; miscellaneous applications.

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Forth Workshop onEngineering Applications, WEA 2017, held in Cartagena, Colombia, inSeptember 2017.The 59 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom156 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as computerscience; computational intelligence; simulation systems; internet of things; fuzzy sets and systems; power systems; logistics and operations manag...

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The EFPP Monograph Series

'Until now no book has ever attempted to compare and contrast contributions on analytic field theory and at the same time to explore its clinical and technical implications. This volume is intended for the first time to link together many of these writings and to provide an initial wide-ranging survey of the subject - for it is our contention that a theory of the field in various of its loci can also be inhabited by different theories. A particular aim of this book is to present not only t...

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Alison Bechdel

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTime Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book AwardAlison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling literary graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

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Olivia Laing

“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining their role ...

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The Best American Series

The acclaimed author of Pulphead collects "21 of the year's most urgent and at times painfully truthful pieces of nonfiction published in the U.S." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay assumes many two-sided forms, and thes...

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Carmelo Massimo Tidona

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ZEdLab

A few days before the 25th of December, a vicious killer roams the town, targeting men in Santa Claus costume. Clueless, the police gropes in the red.

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O. Henry, George Lakon

“The Gift of the Magi” is the O. Henry classic Christmas story that has touched generations.-The language of a hundred years ago has been updated making the story easily understood by today’s readers.-End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text.-Every effort has been made to keep the story as close to the original as possible--only word order and difficult vocabulary have been changed.-Modern readers will better understand, enjo...

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Patti Smith

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-Second Street, and eventuall...