Cecil
By: Elizabeth Eliot
3.70
Format: 216 pages, ebook
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1. The Stone Angel
By: Margaret Laurence , Adele Wiseman
3.77
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The Stone Angel , The Diviners , and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret La… read more
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"Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young."-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
"Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
"Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to."-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
"I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'…"-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
2. Abide with Me
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles … read more
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"You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world."-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me
"He thought of the words of the hymn he had always loved: Help of the helpless, O abide with me. He knew one could say - perhaps Rhonda Skillings might say - that this was merely the plea of a frighte…"-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me
3. Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
By: Truman Capote
4.19
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truma… read more
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- classics
"Els gossos no em mosseguen mai. Només ho fan els homes."-Truman Capote, Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
"she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contempora…"-Truman Capote, Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
4. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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- classics
- fiction
5. The Age of Grief
By: Jane Smiley
2.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Griefexplore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, a… read more
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- fiction
6. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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- classics
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7. Mariana
By: Harriet Lane , Monica Dickens
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Monica Dickens's first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana - an Englishw… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
- fiction
8. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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9. Rain (Blackwater, #6)
By: Michael McDowell
4.16
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more
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10. Christmas Pudding
By: Nancy Mitford
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease may have terminated the hunting at the Compton Bobbins' in th… read more
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11. Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
By: Angela Thirkell
3.69
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of R… read more
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- classics
- modern classics
- fiction
"What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie. 'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes. 'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians o…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
"...And of course they'll get their milk from us, because Gooch's milk in the village really can't be trusted. I do hope, Henry, the vicarage drains are all right if Martin is to go there, because the…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
"Perhaps as one gets older one takes one's joys altruistically,"said John, in turn thinking aloud. "I must say though I sometimes wish I could get it selfishly, just for myself, as Gay used to give me…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
"Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it w…"-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
12. The Third Wedding
By: Costas Taktsis , Κώστας Ταχτσής
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
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13. The Distance Between Us
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of t… read more
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14. O Alienista
By: Machado de Assis
4.10
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Clássico da literatura brasileira, este texto de Machado de Assis continua sendo, cento e trinta an… read more
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- fiction
"Portando que se devia admitir como normal e exemplar o desequilíbrio das faculdades."-Machado de Assis, O Alienista
"Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god."-Machado de Assis, O Alienista
"Los locos de amor eran tres o cuatro, pero sólo les resultaban asombrosos por la curiosa índole de su delirio."-Machado de Assis, O Alienista
"Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent."-Machado de Assis, O Alienista
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16. Breakfast at Tiffany's
By: Truman Capote
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more
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17. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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- fiction
"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
18. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
By: Michael McDowell
4.05
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more
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"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
19. La casa (Blackwater, #3)
By: Michael McDowell
4.19
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more
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20. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
21. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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22. Rewind
By: Juan Tallón
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Una explosión en un edificio que marca un antes y un después. Una novela sobre la posibilidad o no … read more
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"A veces lleva demasiado tiempo saber cuándo exactamente fuiste más feliz."-Juan Tallón, Rewind
"Creía que no poner en riesgo la felicidad del momento constituía un buen principio por el que guiarse. Eso era distinto, y desde luego más inteligente, que arriesgar el futuro por alcanzar la felicid…"-Juan Tallón, Rewind
"Nos encontrábamos en esa edad en que todos nos mostrábamos confiados en la idea de que vivir consistía también en desperdiciar el tiempo, sin llegar a perder su control. Nadie quería alcanzar la edad…"-Juan Tallón, Rewind
23. The Last Chairlift
By: John Irving
3.44
Format: 889 pages, Hardcover
John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a g… read more
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24. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
25. Le Grand Monde
By: Pierre Lemaitre
4.10
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
La famille Pelletier Trois histoires d’amour, un lanceur d’alerte, une adolescente égarée, deux pr… read more
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26. Clothes-Pegs
By: Susan Scarlett
3.86
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more
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27. 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)
28. Historia de una mujer soltera
By: Uno Chiyo
3.38
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Una novela excepcional, mezcla de autobiografía y ficción, por «una de las principales escritoras… read more
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29. Cecil
By: Elizabeth Eliot
3.70
Format: 216 pages, ebook
As I waited for the carriage I realized that whereas before I had been accustomed to think of her a… read more
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30. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)
By: Michael McDowell
4.04
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more
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31. La riada (Blackwater, #1)
By: Michael McDowell
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more
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