Les Femmes, ou les silences de l'histoire
By: Michelle Perrot
4.15
Format: 498 pages, Broché
Les femmes font aujourd'hui du bruit ? C'est en regard du silence dans lequel les a tenues la socié…
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1. La promesse de l'aube
By: Romain Gary
4.24
Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more
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"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending."-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
2. The Opposing Shore
By: Julien Gracq
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is thr… read more
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"[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art. [My translation to English] Giovanni hadn't …"-Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
3. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
4. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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5. Le Creuset Français: Histoire De L'immigration Xi Xe X Xe Siècle
By: Gérard Noiriel
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Dans la France d'aujourd'hui, au moins un habitant sur trois a des ascendances etrangeres, pour peu… read more
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- history
6. Fräulein Else
By: Arthur Schnitzler , F.H. Lyon
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
A young woman is contacted by her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by visi… read more
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8. Heartsnatcher
By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
11. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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12. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
13. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
14. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
15. The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)
By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late… read more
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16. Nana
By: Émile Zola
3.84
Format: 473 pages, Paperback
Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat k… read more
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"The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time."-Émile Zola, Nana
"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."-Émile Zola, Nana
"Kalau kau sendiri tidak senang melakukan sesuatu, itu bukan alasan untuk mencegah orang lain menyukainya."-Émile Zola, Nana
"The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too."-Émile Zola, Nana
17. Persian Letters
By: Montesquieu , None
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more
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18. Cher connard
By: Virginie Despentes
3.62
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
C’est une suite de lettres entre amis qui se sauvent la vie. Dans ce roman épistolaire, Virginie De… read more
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19. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
20. Proust, roman familial
By: Laure Murat
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
«Toute mon adolescence, j'ai entendu parler des personnages d' À la recherche du temps perdu , pers… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Au revoir là-haut
By: Pierre Lemaitre
4.20
Format: 567 pages, Paperback
Sur les ruines du plus grand carnage du XXe siècle,deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés… read more
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"Même les grandes joies vous laissent un peu de regret, il y a un fond de manque dans tout ce qu'on vit."-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
"Elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvait banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot."-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
"Le pays tout entier était saisi d'une fureur commémorative en faveur des morts, proportionnelle à sa répulsion vis-à-vis des survivants."-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
22. Les grandes oubliées : Pourquoi l’histoire a effacé les femmes
By: Titiou Lecoq
4.67
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
De tout temps, les femmes ont agi. Elles ont régné, écrit, milité, créé, combattu, crié parfois. Et… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
23. Beyrouth-sur-Seine
By: Sabyl Ghoussoub
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Lorsque le narrateur décide de questionner ses parents sur leur pays d'origine, le Liban, il ne sai… read more
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- nonfiction
24. In the Country of Others
By: Leïla Slimani
3.76
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more
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"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
25. Fille
By: Camille Laurens
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Laurence Barraqué est née en 1959 dans une famille de la petite bourgeoisie de Rouen. Son père est … read more
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26. Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)
By: Leïla Slimani
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the … read more
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27. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
28. Meeting in Positano
By: Goliarda Sapienza
3.85
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
In this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women for… read more
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29. El dique (Blackwater, #2)
By: Michael McDowell
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more
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"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
30. Les Femmes, ou les silences de l'histoire
By: Michelle Perrot
4.15
Format: 498 pages, Broché
Les femmes font aujourd'hui du bruit ? C'est en regard du silence dans lequel les a tenues la socié… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
31. Le berceau des dominations : Anthropologie de l'inceste, livre 1
By: Dorothée Dussy
4.68
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Dorothée Dussy se penche sur les mécanismes complexes par lesquels l’inceste, en théorie interdit e… read more
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