Stories of Books and Libraries (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
By: Jane Holloway
3.90
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that tes…
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1. The Professor's House
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himsel… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidence of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel diff…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and plac…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"I had no plans, I wanted nothing but to get back to the mesa and live a free life and breathe free air, and never, never again to see hundreds of little black-coated men pouring out of white building…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
2. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
3. Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureat… read more
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- classics
- fiction
4. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
5. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
6. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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- fiction
7. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he h… read more
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- classics
8. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
9. A Bookshop in Berlin
By: Françoise Frenkel
3.86
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
The memoir of a Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe. … read more
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10. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
By: Buzz Bissinger
3.81
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more
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11. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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- fiction
- books about books
12. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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- fiction
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
13. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
By: Maureen Johnson
4.01
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Thinking of a foray to a quaint English village? You'll think twice after reading this tongue-in-ch… read more
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14. The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)
By: Shion Miura
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the … read more
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- fiction
15. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
16. The Best American Short Stories 2023
By: Min Jin Lee
3.77
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
17. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
18. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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- fiction
19. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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- fiction
20. Ghost Station
By: S.A. Barnes
3.57
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more
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- fiction
21. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- books about books
22. Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)
By: Suzanne Palmer
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fe… read more
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- fiction
"your species has such wonderful contradictions that we find you a maddening puzzle."-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)
"F--- that," she interrupted. "If everyone always waited till they felt ready, we'd all still be fish living on trees."-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)
"Where do you feel your pull?" the Shielder asked. "That's how you become unstuck, by going where you are meant to be drawn, or where there are unfinished drawings of you that need completion."-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)
23. Books and Libraries: Poems
By: Andrew D. Scrimgeour
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poet collection of poems from around t… read more
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- books about books
24. The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2)
By: Hisashi Kashiwai
3.65
Format: None pages, ebook
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Kamogawa Food … read more
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- fiction
25. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
By: Katie Holten
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . … read more
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- short stories
26. Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
By: Lisa Kröger
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Fr… read more
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- books about books
"What do queer activism and vampires have in common? Turns out, a lot."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Perhaps the weirdest tale is how we’ve managed to forget the women who created such amazing stories."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
"There seems to be an unspoken assumption that women aren't interested in horror and speculative fiction, despite ample evidence to the contrary."-Lisa Kröger, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
27. The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)
By: Wendy Holden
3.77
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Princess Diana was the most famous woman in the world, celebrated across the globe for her poise an… read more
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- fiction
"And Charles can keep Camilla in his cupboard,"-Wendy Holden, The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)
"That’s what I want more than anything, Sandy. To fall in love and become a part of someone forever."-Wendy Holden, The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)
"All she had wanted was for the man of her dreams to return her love. And of all that had happened in her epic, extraordinary life, that was the one simple thing that never had."-Wendy Holden, The Princess (Royal Outsiders, #3)
28. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)
By: Alan Bradley
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more
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- fiction
29. Stories of Books and Libraries (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
By: Jane Holloway
3.90
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that tes… read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
- books about books
30. Permafrost
By: Eva Baltasar
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
El permafrost es esa capa de la tierra permanentemente congelada y es también la membrana que cubre… read more
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- fiction
"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost
"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, Permafrost
"«¿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, Permafrost
31. Lives and Deaths
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
’When we read Tolstoy, it feels easy. This is life itself’ Howard Jacobson ’No other writer wrot… read more
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- classics
- fiction
