The Long Home
By: Christian Wiman
4.10
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 11th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, "The Long Home" is Christian Wiman's
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1. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more
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"Master, I go hunting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
2. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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3. Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more
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- literature
4. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more
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5. Duma Key
By: Stephen King
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemant… read more
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7. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- literature
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
8. Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers
By: Rowan Williams , Desmond Tutu
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The place where God happens, according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathe… read more
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9. New Selected Poems
By: Les Murray
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A fresh selection of the finest poems--some previously uncollected--by one of our finest English-la… read more
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10. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- literature
- poetry
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
11. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.33
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more
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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)
12. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- literature
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
13. The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
By: Chelsea Abdullah
4.01
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hun… read more
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14. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
15. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
16. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
17. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- literature
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
18. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- literature
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
19. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
By: Kristen Radtke
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more
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"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
20. Four Treasures of the Sky
By: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
4.08
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and… read more
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"In calligraphy, as in life, we do not retouch strokes, Master Wang often said. We must accept that what is done is done."-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky
"An entire year has passed. Time is important. This I know now. As in, how much time has to pass for a forgetting to occur."-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky
"My life was written for me from the moment the name was given to me. Or it was not. That is the true beauty. That is the intent. We can practice all we want, telling and retelling the same story, but…"-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky
"At my most alone, I trace English letters in the dirt floor. Next to them, I write the Chinese characters that match their sounds. The one that puzzles me most is the English letter I, companion soun…"-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky
21. Apeirogon
By: Colum McCann
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep… read more
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"We are running from our pain to our pain."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
"When you divide death by life you find a circle."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
"He had learned that the cure for fate was patience."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
22. Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
By: J.M. Miro
3.79
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His … read more
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"Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other."-J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
23. Perilous Times
By: Thomas D. Lee
3.89
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polar… read more
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"Oi!' says the squirrel. 'Get your filthy hands off me! I'll fucking have you!"-Thomas D. Lee, Perilous Times
24. Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
By: Matthew Ichihashi Potts
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world … read more
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"Forgiveness reckons unflinchingly with a past that cannot be undone. The futility of retribution's urge to turn time backwards is precisely what forgiveness understands and works against."-Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
"Forgiveness rejects retaliation precisely because of the futility of vengeance with respect to the irrevocability of time. Much of the popular and scholarly discourse around forgiveness implies that …"-Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
"Just as the realism of mourning involves an acceptance of a future bereft of one's beloved, forgiveness's refusal to forget its wrong imagines what a wronged life lived well might be. It does not vai…"-Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
"Forgiveness is the habit of non-retaliation; or better, it is the judgment non-retaliation renders. We cannot forgive virtues. We forgive only sins. But as it issues its condemnation of sin, as it re…"-Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account
25. Like: Poems
By: A.E. Stallings
4.07
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry A stunning new collection by the award-winning young p… read more
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26. The Long Home
By: Christian Wiman
4.10
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 11th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, "The Long Home" is Christian Wiman's read more
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