Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
By: Susan McClary
4.21
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of …
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1. L'Écume des jours
By: Boris Vian
3.93
Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellingt… read more
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"Per me, ciccino mio"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Те се умълчаха за миг. Една кана използва настъпилата тишина, за да издаде сребрист звук, който отекна о стените."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le ciel bleu-vert pendait presque jusqu'au pavé et de grandes taches blanches marquaient sur le sol la place où des nuages venaient de se fracasser. (p. 220)"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
4. Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada
By: Carolina Maria de Jesus , None
4.47
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
O diário da catadora de papel Carolina Maria de Jesus deu origem à este livro, que relata o cotidia… read more
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"Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?"-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada
"A noite está tépida. O céu está salpicado de estrelas. Eu que sou exótica gostaria de recortar um pedaço do céu para fazer um vestido"-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada
"Eskiden unlu maddeler pahalı idi. Şimdi de pirinç ve fasulye onları gölgede bıraktı.Yeni zenginler gibi asillerin tarafına geçtiler. Demek siz de, fasulye ve pirinç, bizi terkettiniz?"-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada
"Skeçler yazıp sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yazık ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. Kıvırcık saçlarımla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiğimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlarını beyazla…"-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada
5. Persuasion
By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch
4.15
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co… read more
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"Time will explain."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
6. Music and Imagination
By: Aaron Copland
3.19
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most forthright and talented of American composers writes here of the part played by the… read more
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7. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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8. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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9. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
By: Muriel Barbery , Alison Anderson
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We… read more
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10. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- philosophy
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
11. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- philosophy
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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13. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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14. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
15. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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- nonfiction
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
16. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
17. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
18. No siento nada
By: Liv Strömquist
4.22
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Una radiografía del amor en la era del narcicismo extremo, el nuevo ensayo de la historietista más … read more
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- feminism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
19. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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- philosophy
"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
20. Cauterio
By: Lucía Lijtmaer
3.64
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Una novela redonda sobre la huida del dolor como forma de supervivencia y la rebelión ante los role… read more
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- feminism
21. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
By: Susan McClary
4.21
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of … read more
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- music
- lgbt
- feminism
- academic
- philosophy
- college
- nonfiction
- gender studies
- essays
- queer
