William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
By: William Wordsworth
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of p…
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1. Ransom
By: David Malouf
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A reimagination of one of the most famous stories in all of literature-Achilles's slaughter and des… read more
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"The world, for Achilles, reassembled itself around a new centre."-David Malouf, Ransom
"He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story."-David Malouf, Ransom
"Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world."-David Malouf, Ransom
"Far out where the gulf deepens, small waves kick up, gather, then collapse, and new ones replace them; and this, even as he watches, repeats itself, and will do endlessly whether he is here or not to…"-David Malouf, Ransom
2. My Brilliant Career
By: Miles Franklin
3.80
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
"My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th cen… read more
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"life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache"-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
"This is not a romance — I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]"-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
"I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement."-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
"I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through life…"-Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
3. The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more
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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
4. Bad Dreams and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.69
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history… read more
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5. The Longest Memory
By: Fred D'Aguiar
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turnerto Toni Morrison's Beloved, modern American fict… read more
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6. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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7. Jerusalem
By: Jez Butterworth
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun… read more
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8. In Search of April Raintree - Critical Edition
By: Beatrice Culleton , Beatrice Culleton Mosionier , Cheryl Suzack
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless to change their fortunes, they ar… read more
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9. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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10. The Complete Poems
By: John Keats
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 … read more
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11. Photograph 51
By: Anna Ziegler , Matthew Arkin , Maxwell Caulfield
4.40
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets o… read more
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12. The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comi… read more
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13. Selected Poems
By: W.B. Yeats , John Kelly
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: " "One time it was a woman's face, or worse-" "T… read more
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14. Creative Evolution
By: Henri Bergson
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically. If.… read more
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15. John Keats
By: John Keats
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the Great Poets series--exquisite small-format collections of classic poetry enhanced by full-… read more
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16. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more
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17. The Hate Race
By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin… read more
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18. Sonnets from the Portuguese
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3.88
Format: None pages,
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese But only three in all God's universe Have heard this word … read more
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19. Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, Parts 1-2
By: David Bevington , Christopher Marlowe , Eric Rasmussen
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is t… read more
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20. The Dressmaker
By: Rosalie Ham
3.50
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture--soon to be a major motion pictu… read more
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21. Good Morning, Midnight
By: Jean Rhys
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more
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"Quite like old times,' the room says."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"And then the days came when I was alone."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
22. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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23. The Memory Police
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.72
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more
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"No one can erase the stories!"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"Few people here have any need of novels"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
24. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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25. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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26. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
27. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
28. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
29. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
30. Lady Macbeth
By: Ava Reid
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more
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"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth
31. William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
By: William Wordsworth
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of p… read more
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