Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy
By: David Smail
4.30
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This book offers a refreshing and modern perspective on personal distress.
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1. Mercure
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.70
Format: 188 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Sur une île au large de Cherbourg, un vieil homme et une jeune fille vivent isolés, entourés de ser… read more
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"لولا الكُتب ، لكنت قد مِت قبل مدة طويلة"-Amélie Nothomb, Mercure
"قال سانتدال ؛ إن الرواية مرآة نصحبها معنا في الطريق"-Amélie Nothomb, Mercure
"ليس لديك فكرة عما هو الحب : إنه مرضٌ يجعل الإنسان شريراً"-Amélie Nothomb, Mercure
"فضلتُ إنتظار الحب الحقيقي الذي عشت بسببه أوهاماً تُثير السخرية"-Amélie Nothomb, Mercure
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. The Riddle of the Sands
By: Erskine Childers , Milton Bearden
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret Germ… read more
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4. Green Phoenix
By: George Barr , Thomas Burnett Swann
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
THOMAS BURNETT SWANN has earned a distinguished reputation among writers of science fiction and fan… read more
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5. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
By: Dervla Murphy
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphy's account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europ… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Great Pursuit
By: Tom Sharpe
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
The gullible author of a totally filthy novel, sure to make a shameful pile of money in America, is… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
By: Patañjali , Alistair Shearer
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
"A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth."--Jacob Nee… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
10. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
11. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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12. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
By: Evelyn Waugh , Eric Newby
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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13. The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan
By: Alan Booth
3.50
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth tra… read more
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14. Biografi: A Traveler's Tale
By: Lloyd Jones
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
In 1991, with communism in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, Jones journeyed to a most unlikely de… read more
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15. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
16. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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17. Surrealist Poetry in English
By: Various , None
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The surrealist movement was founded in France in 1924, brother of the anarchist Dada, heir of exper… read more
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18. The White Hart (The Book of Isle, #1)
By: Nancy Springer
3.75
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
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19. The Road to Corlay (The White Bird of Kinship #1)
By: Richard Cowper , None
4.58
Format: None pages,
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20. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
21. Druids: A Very Short Introduction
By: None
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Druids have been known and discussed for at least 2400 years, first by Greek writers and later … read more
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22. Finnegans Wake
By: James Joyce
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1… read more
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23. The Rig Veda
By: Anonymous , Wendy Doniger
4.60
Format: None pages,
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive com… read more
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24. Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more
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25. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
26. Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy
By: David Smail
4.30
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This book offers a refreshing and modern perspective on personal distress. read more
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27. How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
By: Diogenes of Sinope
3.39
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocate… read more
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28. Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Theory and Practice for Treating Disorders of Overcontrol
By: Thomas R. Lynch
4.31
Format: 600 pages, Hardcover
Based on over twenty years of research, radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO-DBT) is a b… read more
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- psychology
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29. The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
By: James Davies
4.33
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live… read more
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30. Principles of the Enneagram
By: Karen Webb
3.42
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Still the definitive introduction to the Enneagram, this revised and updated edition covers all the… read more
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