How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
By: David King Dunaway
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Who is this skinny, 78-year-old man with the five-string banjo, whose performances over five decade…
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1. Of Love and Other Demons
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more
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"<>, dijo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Do not allow me to forget you"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
2. The Pastures of Heaven
By: John Steinbeck
4.08
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on … read more
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3. Cup of Gold
By: John Steinbeck , Susan F. Beegel
3.43
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, r… read more
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"But don't you see that I must go, for it seems that I am cut in half and only one part of me here. The other piece is over the sea, calling and calling me to come and be whole."-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"Why are you making no more songs?' I said to him in a tone like that. 'Why are you making no more songs?' 'I have grown to be a man. Only children make songs -- children and idiots."-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ev…"-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
"There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outw…"-John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
4. The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more
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"The fool supply was controlled..."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"The flies have conquered the flypaper."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"...rose like cream to the top of milk."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
5. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
6. To a God Unknown
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne … read more
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"He's eating God the way a bear eats meat against the winter."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"مرگ حتی هنگامیکه میدانیم باید بیاید ما را به وحشت میاندازد."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"ما همه او را دوست داشتیم، اما میان محبت و تنفر فاصله اندکی وجود دارد."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
"These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes."-John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown
7. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
8. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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9. Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more
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10. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
11. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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13. The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
By: Alec Wilkinson
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
A true American original is brought to life in this rich and lively portrait of Pete Seeger, who, w… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nonfiction
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
15. East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
4.42
Format: 601 pages, Paperback
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more
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"All great and precious things are lonely."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"A man without words is a man without thought."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
16. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
17. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
18. Kafka on the Shore
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
4.13
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable character… read more
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"In dreams begins responsiblities."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"I don’t know what it means to live."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
19. 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
"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
20. First Person Singular: Stories
By: Haruki Murakami
3.54
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Mura… read more
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"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"It’s important in life to get used to losing."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
21. How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
By: David King Dunaway
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Who is this skinny, 78-year-old man with the five-string banjo, whose performances over five decade… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
