The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
By: Edmund White
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world'…
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1. Exercises in Style
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Barbara Wright
4.06
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The plot of Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger … read more
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"C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron"-Barbara Wright, Exercises in Style
2. So Long, See You Tomorrow
By: William Maxwell
3.91
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship … read more
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"His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
"I don't know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness."-William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
3. The Secret Life of the Seine
By: Mort Rosenblum
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mort Rosenblum, a celebrated foreign correspondent, invites us aboard his fifty-four-foot launch ti… read more
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4. The Financial Lives of the Poets
By: Jess Walter
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The Financial Lives of the Poetsis a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jes… read more
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5. Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
By: Joachim Fest , Margot Dembo
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged… read more
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6. The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
By: Edmund White
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world'… read more
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7. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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8. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
By: Sarah Churchwell
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Tracing the genesis of a masterpiece, a Fitzgerald scholar follows the novelist as he begins work o… read more
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9. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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10. Murder in the Marais (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #1)
By: Cara Black
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Meet Aimee Leduc, the smart, stylish Parisian private investigator, in her bestselling first invest… read more
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12. Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's m… read more
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14. And Quiet Flows the Don
By: Mikhail Sholokhov
2.00
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15. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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16. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
By: John Baxter
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Immoveable Feastand We'll Always Have Pariscomes a guided tour of the most beaut… read more
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17. The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more
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18. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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19. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
20. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
By: Edward Chisholm
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more
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21. To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.22
Format: 352 pages, ebook
During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the … read more
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"There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"about putting on the light in a dark room. He told me that when we keep secrets they grow inside us, and we can’t see the truth of them anymore."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"Tragedy is so personal, but it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before, to someone, somewhere—it’s what helps us to understand and bring solace to others, knowing something of what they feel."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"And I know only too well how time can cast a sort of skin over an event—a membrane that gets thicker until a point where broaching the subject is all but impossible, even when you think you can face …"-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
