Saint Teresa of Avila
By: Marcelle Auclair
4.53
Format: 457 pages, Paperback
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1. Kira-Kira
By: Cynthia Kadohata
3.97
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lyn… read more
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"The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time."-Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
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"I cried and cried. But then I had to stop. One thing about me was that when I was having a serious wish session, I tried never to wish impossible wishes. I might have wished for sixteen crayons inste…"-Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
2. L'Avversario
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
3.99
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
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"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
3. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
By: Michael Eliot Howard
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perha… read more
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4. Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold – A true story of faith, forgiveness, sacrifice, and community
By: Peter Mommsen
4.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Those who knew J. Heinrich Arnold later in life wondered at the way people were drawn to this stran… read more
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5. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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6. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
7. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
8. Moon Palace
By: Paul Auster
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more
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9. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
10. The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
3.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more
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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
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"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
11. La vida es sueño
By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more
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12. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
13. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
14. Hide (Detective Harriet Foster, #1)
By: Tracy Clark
4.15
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
A mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who’s on the hunt for a serial ki… read more
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15. A Long Petal of the Sea
By: Isabel Allende
4.06
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Le miracle Spinoza : Une philosophie pour éclairer notre vie (Documents) (French Edition)
By: Frédéric Lenoir
4.02
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
Banni de la communauté juive à 23 ans pour hérésie, Baruch Spinoza décide de consacrer sa vie à la … read more
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17. Salvador Allende: La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular
By: Daniel Mansuy
4.46
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
Daniel Mansuy analiza el legado político de Salvador Allende y la izquierda chilena desde la década… read more
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18. Saint Teresa of Avila
By: Marcelle Auclair
4.53
Format: 457 pages, Paperback
Marcelle Auclair, the author, a delightful, sparkling woman of many achievements, strikes one as be… read more
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