Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire (Graphic History Series)
By: Jennifer A. Rea
3.77
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Ge…
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1. The Professor's House
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himsel… read more
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"He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidence of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel diff…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and plac…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"I had no plans, I wanted nothing but to get back to the mesa and live a free life and breathe free air, and never, never again to see hundreds of little black-coated men pouring out of white building…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
2. Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
By: Kevin Kwan
3.95
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an upro… read more
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"Alamak, it's that Ed Saranwrap! I love his music!"-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
"If someone wrote a book about her, no one would believe it."-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
"Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of fear and pain—generations of it. I can acknowledge whenever my mother…"-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
3. China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
By: Kevin Kwan
3.84
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of soc… read more
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"Her family are the Medicis of Asia."-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
"It's a long story, one that could only happen in China."-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
"Some people had all the luck, being born into the right family."-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
"Bernard has no money. He only gets about ten million a year to live on," Carol confirmed."-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
4. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This… read more
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"Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
5. Seconds
By: Bryan Lee O'Malley , Nathan Fairbairn
4.07
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Katie’s got it pretty good. She’s a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
6. Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch and Quintus Curtius
By: Plutarch , James Romm , Diodorus Siculus , Pamela Mensch , Arrian , None
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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8. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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9. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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10. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
11. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
12. They Called Us Enemy
By: George Takei
4.42
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more
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"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
13. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
14. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
15. A Thousand Heartbeats
By: Kiera Cass
3.91
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Selection series Kiera Cass is back with her most epic … read more
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"...Anika was beautiful in the same way a sunset was: so heartbreakingly sweet your soul could only stand taking in one glimpse a day."-Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats
16. Lies and Weddings
By: Kevin Kwan
3.82
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more
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17. Portrait of a Thief
By: Grace D. Li
3.46
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by t… read more
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"We’re children of the diaspora,"-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"Art could be beauty, but it was also power."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"She had never liked anything she did not excel at."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
18. Yes No Maybe So
By: Becky Albertalli
3.73
Format: 464 pages, ebook
New York Times bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed have crafted a resonant, funny,… read more
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"Time is literally what life is made of."-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
"Oranges don't have nipples," says Sophie"-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
"There's nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year."-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
"The truth is, it's a weird time to be coming of age. The world is really messy right now. And it's so hard to be twelve or thirteen or fifteen or seventeen, when you're old enough to get it, but... y…"-Becky Albertalli, Yes No Maybe So
19. The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Graphic History Series)
By: Michael G. Vann
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkl… read more
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20. Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire (Graphic History Series)
By: Jennifer A. Rea
3.77
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Ge… read more
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21. A Brief History of the Romans
By: Mary T. Boatwright
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the mightiest … read more
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