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Awarded the Prix des libraires by France's booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one's faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss.
Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yu's violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his father's arrest. He will never see him again. Salvaging...
62) The Graduate
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When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small eastern college and comes home to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Benjamin has no idea. Feeling empty, embittered, and adrift, he stumbles into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner. But then he falls in love with a woman closer to his own age: Mrs. Robinson's daughter. A scathingly entertaining tale of idealism and materialism,...
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A collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature
Reading, writing, translating, the avant-garde and tradition, the fate of the novel: these are just some of the themes of The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, forewords, articles, interviews, notes, and other occasional pieces, this work displays Calvino's remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp...
64) Lucy Jinx
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At once gargantuan and miniaturist THE LUCY JINX TRILOGY is an intimate Epic, spanning eight years in the life (and innermost mind) of the titular poet as she navigates ambitions, friendships, lovers, and, above all, her monstrous, psychically tumultuous relationships with language, identity, and purpose-a portrait-of-the-artist equal parts romance, comedy, and existential horror-show. NOTE: This is the fully revised and updated 2023 edition of Book...
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This novel was first published by Faber in August 1940 under the title, The Loss of Eden. It was then reissued by the British Publishers Guild (a wartime cooperative venture), in March 1941, with the more arresting and overt title, If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale. It was a work of speculative fiction with a moral purpose. It was a counterblast to the waverers, to those of a defeatist mien who could convince themselves an arrangement between Great...
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On a property in New South Wales, a widower named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. Over the years as she grows into a beautiful woman, Holland plants hundreds of different eucalyptus trees on his land, filling the landscape, making a virtual outdoor museum of trees. When Ellen is nineteen, Holland announces that she may only marry the man who can correctly name the species of each and every gum tree on his property. A strange contest begins,...
67) Tourism in India
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This book is about India and the tourist attractions she has to offer that many people had no knowledge of. The beautiful country of India has many sights seeing and beautiful places to visits, lots of UNESCO sights, archeological and ancient monuments dating from the common era. Places like the Himalayan and Karakoram mountains, the sacred Ganges River, statue of unity, butterfly beach, Mumbai, festivals and many more. The country has lots of cultural,...
68) A Week in Winter
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A Week in Winter is the story of a group of refugees that have sought asylum at an American consulate in Eastern Europe. As the staff prepares for the arrival of the ambassador, events unfold and the fate of the refugees becomes increasingly uncertain.
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Sam was an indifferent Chicago lawyer content to drift though life on his good looks and his wife's money, until a violent incident shatters his world. Newly addicted to watching Sister North, a nun with a popular TV show, Sam embarks on a trip to Lake Eagleton, Wisconsin to see the wise nun personally, seeking forgiveness and spiritual guidance.
When he arrives, he discovers that he has been watching reruns-Sister North has vanished and all sorts...
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History tells us that the short and violent life of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, ended at the hand of Pat Garrett on the moonless night of July 14, 1881. But I Am Billy the Kid tells a different story, straight from Billy himself. This revisionist history seen through the lens of a twenty-first century sensibility features the picaresque hero we thought we knew and the unexpected one that we don't: a fearless and determined young...
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A compelling new novel about a couple's getaway to a Mexican paradise that goes horribly wrong.
Joy Nicholson's second novel, The Road to Esmeralda, is a dark, seductive story about Americans abroad. Fed up with their L.A. lives, Nick and Sarah decide to head south to Mexico. They are looking for something: love, self-fulfillment, inspiration, or even just peace of mind. However, as the roads get windier and the jungle thicker, this naïve pair realizes...
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As alluring as The Love-Artist, a contemporary tale of love and ambition, betrayal and revenge, set in two gloriously watery cities
In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his body and his beloved city, and dreams up a way to hold mortality at bay. In New York, Lach steps out into the crisp, clear night to savor his new freedom, having just dropped Vera to join his new love, Francesca, in Venice. In rainy London, Max...
73) The Trap
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Dan Billany's The Trap, first published in 1950, still stands - in the opinion of M.R.D. Foot - as 'one of the most powerful English novels to come out of the [Second World War].' It echoes the wartime experiences of its author, who is believed to have died in 1943 while on the run from an Italian POW camp, but not before entrusting the manuscripts of The Trap to safekeeping.The book's narrator, army lieutenant Michael Carr, tells of his early years...
74) Cruise Control
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An intensely personal investigation of loss told with intelligence and restraint, Victoria Jenkins' second novel, Cruise Control, is an exploration of space and self, real and unreal, and a noir celebration of language and observation.
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Becky, Hugh, Dahlia, and Max. Friends who have formed a dysfunctional but necessary surrogate family. Callie, the crisis-prone, vivid, manipulative chameleon whose friendship has damaged them all individually but who still haunts their waking and sleeping dreams.
Becky, orphan, survivor, caffeine addict, on the verge of 30 and hoping to become famous with her first solo show of dismemberment collages in New York's East Village. Hugh, now a CPA...
76) Valentine
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This is George Sand's second novel. Like Indiana, her first, it explores the relationship between men and women. Valentine, an aristocratic girl, falls despearately in love with Benedict, the son of a poor farmer. Again, like Indiana, this novel challenges preconceived masculine assumptions about woman's role in society. In loving Benedict, Valentine rebels against her family and her class.
77) The Shade Place
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After an early retirement, Evans buys acreage in rural Pennsylvania and, against the advice of others, restores the dilapidated farmhouse. As he digs into the history of this old farm he encounters some colorful characters and uncovers some surprising relationships. Along the way he helps re-unite two old friends as the three of them work together to solve an old mystery.
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Von Liebe, Ehrverletzung, Mord und Rache handelt das um 1200 entstandene "Nibelungenlied". In über 2000 Strophen erzählt das Heldenepos von Siegfried, dem heldenhaften Drachentöter, von König Gunther und dessen schöner Schwester Kriemhild, von der isländischen Königin Brunhild und dem verschlagenen Vasallen Hagen von Tronje, der den Schatz der Nibelungen bei Worms im Rhein versenkt. Hier in der lesefreundlichen Übersetzung aus dem Mittelhochdeutschen...
79) La extraña en mí
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Nunca se presentó, no sabía cómo se llamaba, pero me acompañaba en todo momento como si fuese mi madre. En silencio estuvo allí por muchos años esperando hacer su aparición. Por momentos me hacía sentir culpable de las cosas que sucedían.
Vania nos lleva al interior de su agonía y nos muestra de cerca el rostro de una enfermedad como la depresión, que hoy padecen millones de adolescentes.
El autor de MalEducada nos trae otra emocionante...
80) Rock Springs
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In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West-and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfriend in a stolen, cranberry-colored Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve...
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