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El Duque Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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'I once asked a bird, "How is it that you fly in this gravity Of darkness?" She responded, "Love lift me.' 'True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.' Hafez

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Book Cover for: The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges

The Aleph and Other Stories

Jorge Luis Borges
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“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...” Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories https://t.co/Kv8EMN2l1G

Paperback, 2004

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Book of Questions, Pablo Neruda

Book of Questions

Pablo Neruda
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'In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?' Pablo Neruda The Book of Questions

Hardcover, 2022

$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges
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“They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy” Jorge Luis Borges, quote from Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings https://t.co/A9Am3U3jeX

Paperback, 2007

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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'Time was not passing . . . it was turning in a circle.' Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude https://t.co/5yR7Fn1MCJ

Paperback, 2006

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley
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“We can pool information about experiences, but never experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.” Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell https://t.co/nFIHQ8AIgG

Paperback, 2009

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
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'1984 thoughtcrime? Does it matter that George Orwell pinched the plot?' George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic – but it owes its plot, characters and conclusion to Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1920s novel We https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/jun/08/george-orwell-1984-zamyatin-we

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin
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''People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son https://t.co/7RdIAEPQG0

Paperback, 2012

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book