Distant Transit
By: Maja Haderlap
3.62
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Infused with movement, the poems in Maja Haderlap’s distant transit traverse Slovenia’s scenic land…
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1. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
By: Susan Blackmore
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness… read more
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"إننا أحيانًا نعتقد أننا لا نقوم بشيء في حين أننا نقوم به بالفعل ص 94"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"إذا كان هناك سؤال لا يمكن الإجابة عنه، فربما من الأفضل أن نتوقَّفَ عن طرحه ص 119"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"نقلاً عن ليبيت: على الرغم من أنه ليسَتْ لدينا إرادة حرة للفعل، فإن لدينا إرادةً حرة لعدم الفعل ص 91"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"في التأمُّل، هناك دائمًا خطران: أن تُصاب بالنعاس وتنام، أو أن تنفعل بسبب الأفكار المشوشة أو الشعور بعدم الراحة ص 114"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
2. The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
By: Meik Wiking
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness Meik Wiking is the CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Ins… read more
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"Remember: Danes are direct descendants of Vikings, so we enjoy watching things burn: bonfires, candles, villages. It's all good."-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
"Some of the best decisions we make come from that inner voice that says, "Why not?" That says, "Andiamo." So much disappointment arises from what is desired but not chosen."-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
"My, ludzie, jesteśmy szczęśliwsi, kiedy czujemy się związani z innymi. Oczywiście za tym, co nas uszczęśliwia, musi stać coś więcej niż tylko zaspokojenie tęsknoty za miłością, przyjaźnią i wspólnotą…"-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
"For the ambitious among us, once we reach our goal we soon formulate another to pursue. This is the hedonic treadmill. We continuously raise the bar for what we want or feel we need in order to be ha…"-Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
3. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
By: Kathleen Collins
3.84
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the… read more
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"The South must be a terrible place."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"Louise lives on excellent terms with her solitude."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"Is it possible to imagine any greater amputation, any greater karmic debt, than reincarnation as a Negro?"-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ..."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
4. The Angel Esmeralda
By: Don DeLillo
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time, a collection of short stories, written between 1979 a… read more
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"That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease."-Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda
"Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer día apenas llegué a mirar. Creía estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mi…"-Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda
5. Lend Me Your Character
By: Dubravka Ugrešić , Celia Hawkesworth , Michael Henry Heim
3.99
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
The pieces collected in Lend Me Your Character—the novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" and a… read more
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6. Address Unknown
By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
3.84
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it fi… read more
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7. Girl Meets Boy
By: Ali Smith
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more
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8. You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
By: Anna Moschovakis
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and … read more
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9. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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10. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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11. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
12. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
13. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- poetry
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
14. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- poetry
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
15. New Animal
By: Ella Baxter
3.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more
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"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
16. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
17. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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18. Little Weirds
By: Jenny Slate
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more
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- poetry
"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
19. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
20. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
21. Panics
By: Barbara Molinard
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradic… read more
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22. The Pastor
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.48
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A major work of contemporary fiction from Norway by a National Book Award-nominated author, transla… read more
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23. DMZ Colony
By: Don Mee Choi
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more
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"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony
24. Invisible Ink
By: Patrick Modiano
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale Univers… read more
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"I have never respected chronological order. It has never existed for me."-Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink
"There are blanks in a life, but also sometimes what they call a refrain. For periods of varying length, you don’t hear this refrain, as if you’ve forgotten it."-Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink
"I’m afraid that once you have all the answers, your life closes in on you like a trap, with the clank of keys in a prison cell. Wouldn’t it be better to leave empty lots around you, into which you ca…"-Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink
"Ja, al schrijvend komen de herinneringen. Je moet ze niet proberen te dwingen, maar gewoon blijven schrijven, met zo weinig mogelijk doorhalingen. En dan zijn er altijd een paar details die je om de …"-Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink
25. Love
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.63
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their dis… read more
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"He looks at her as he listens, smiling when she's finished. She feels like touching the stubble of his beard with the tips of her fingers, smoothing her hands over his face the way she does with the …"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
"The sound of the car. When he's waiting he can never quite recall it. I've forgotten, he tells himself. But then it comes back to him, often in pauses between the waiting, after he's stopped thinking…"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
26. Eye Level: Poems
By: Jenny Xie
4.14
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New… read more
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"Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill."-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"Like a mule I understand one suffers by the load one chooses"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"[13] (from "Visual Orders") Look at how I perform for you Look at how you perform for me An eye for an eye is how you and I take on forms in the mind"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
27. The Naked Woman
By: Armonía Somers
3.80
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
When The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be resp… read more
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"—No lo sé exactamente —respondió ella—. Ven, toca, estoy desnuda. Tomé mi libertad y salí. He dejado los códigos atrás, las zarzas me arañaron por eso. El bosque me lanzó el aliento a la cara, la ser…"-Armonía Somers, The Naked Woman
28. Tali Girls: A Novel of Afghanistan
By: Siamak Herawi
4.36
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate look at the lives, loves, horrors, and dreams of girls and women in an Afghan mountain … read more
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29. Second Star, and Other Reasons for Lingering
By: Philippe Delerm
3.75
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Second Star is a series of lyrical meditations on life’s often overlooked joys, from peeling a clem… read more
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30. Distant Transit
By: Maja Haderlap
3.62
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Infused with movement, the poems in Maja Haderlap’s distant transit traverse Slovenia’s scenic land… read more
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31. A Symmetry: Poems
By: Ari Banias
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2022 Publish Triangle Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Award Finalist for the 202… read more
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