The Delivery
By: Peter Mendelsund
3.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Enter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must pedal his way to 5-star customer ratings--and, perhap…
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1. Lo stereoscopio dei solitari
By: Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Amico di Borges e di Bioy Casares, J.Rodolfo Wilcock approdo a Roma negli Anni Cinquanta, quando gi… read more
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- fiction
2. L'isola di Arturo
By: Elsa Morante
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Il romanzo e un'esplorazione attenta della prima realta verso le sorgenti non inquinate della vita.… read more
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3. Permagel
By: Eva Baltasar
3.85
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l’heroïn… read more
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- fiction
"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"-Eva Baltasar, Permagel
"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permagel
"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permagel
4. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
5. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
6. The Last Children of Tokyo
By: Yōko Tawada
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
7. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
8. Dragon Palace
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 From the bestselling author of Strange Weather i… read more
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- adult
- fiction
9. The Details
By: Ia Genberg
3.90
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."-Ia Genberg, The Details
10. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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- adult
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
11. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
12. The Parade
By: Dave Eggers
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far fro… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"No man should have to endure another man quoting poetry."-Dave Eggers, The Parade
13. Alone Out Here
By: Riley Redgate
3.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
What do you stand for, when you're one of the last left standing? The year is 2072. Soon a volcani… read more
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- fiction
14. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming bec… read more
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"Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
15. Popisho
By: Leone Ross
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more
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- fiction
"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."-Leone Ross, Popisho
16. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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17. At Least You Have Your Health
By: Madi Sinha
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Behind the wholesome veneer of a wellness clinic lies a dangerous secret in this compelling women's… read more
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- adult
- fiction
18. In Tongues
By: Thomas Grattan
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more
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- adult
- fiction
19. Stradario aggiornato di tutti i miei baci
By: Daniela Ranieri
3.48
Format: 509 pages, Kindle Edition
Una donna in dialogo perpetuo con sé stessa e con il mondo disegna una mappa delle sue ossessioni, … read more
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20. The Weeds
By: Katy Simpson Smith
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.A Mississip… read more
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- adult
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"You can't demand love. Not expect it, not wait for it, not want it. It comes on air like a scent."-Katy Simpson Smith, The Weeds
21. The Delivery
By: Peter Mendelsund
3.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Enter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must pedal his way to 5-star customer ratings--and, perhap… read more
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