The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting
By: Michael Rips
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasure…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs
By: Elaine Sciolino
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Bestseller "Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris―th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Can't and Won't: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
Here is a new collection of short stories from the writer Rick Moody has called "the best prose sty… read more
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4. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Artful
By: Ali Smith
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of prais… read more
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6. Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
By: Lauren Elkin
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, … read more
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7. Beginning French: Lessons from a Stone Farmhouse
By: None
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
First they took French. Then they took leave of their senses. They bought a 400-year-old cottage in… read more
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8. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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9. The Garden of Evening Mists
By: Tan Twan Eng
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more
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11. Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, Vol. 1
By: Shio Usui
4.37
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
A YURI ROMANCE FOR THE MODERN CAREER WOMAN! Uno Hinako throws herself into makeup, fashion, and … read more
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12. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.18
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more
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13. The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
By: Tracy Walder
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the C… read more
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14. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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15. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
16. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
17. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
By: Alba Donati
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more
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"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
18. 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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19. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- history
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20. Siblings
By: Brigitte Reimann
3.55
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us … read more
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21. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
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"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
22. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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23. Nina Simone's Gum
By: Warren Ellis
4.26
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more
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24. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
By: Ken Jennings
3.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more
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25. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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26. The House without the Door (Henry Gamadge #4)
By: Elizabeth Daly
3.96
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
Acquitted of murdering her husband, Mrs. Vina Gregson remains essentially a prisoner, trapped in he… read more
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27. Nothing Can Rescue Me (Henry Gamadge #5)
By: Elizabeth Daly
3.87
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
In mid-1943, and up to his elbows in war work, Henry Gamadge is longing for a quiet weekend. But wh… read more
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28. And Dangerous to Know (Henry Gamadge #14)
By: Elizabeth Daly
4.08
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
In this mystery novella by Agatha Christie’s favorite American author, a 1940s antiquarian book dea… read more
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29. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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30. The Book of the Dead (Henry Gamadge #8)
By: Elizabeth Daly
4.13
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it’s not a… read more
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31. The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting
By: Michael Rips
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasure… read more
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