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Rape: A Love Story

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Zorba the Greek

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De fuego cercada. Geografía secreta de Madrid

by Servando Rocha

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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1 libro, 2 meses. Para todos aquellos que quieren unirse a un club de lectura y por falta de tiempo no pueden :)

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