Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish
By: Ahmad Al-Ashqar
4.21
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
"Advances in Embroidery" is Ahmad Al-Ashqar's first book of poems and includes his translations fro…
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1. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
2. The Wall
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Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
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"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
3. Letters to Milena
By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská
3.89
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"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
4. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
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An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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5. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
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In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
6. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
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7. A River Dies of Thirst: journals
By: Mahmoud Darwish , Catherine Cobham
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8. No Longer Human
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Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more
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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
9. The Hour of the Star
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4.09
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The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
10. Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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3.89
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11. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
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12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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4.00
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13. Time Is a Mother
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3.94
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14. Paradise Rot
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3.55
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
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By: Tatsuya Endo
4.43
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
予知犬のボンドが家族に加わり、オペレーション〈梟（ストリクス）〉もフォージャー家もようやく軌道に乗ったと思われた――が、中間考査でアーニャ史上最大のピンチ!? 星（ステラ）と雷（トニト）をかけた波乱… read more
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"Knowledge is a swole chihuahua?"-Tatsuya Endo, SPY×FAMILY 5
16. SPY×FAMILY 3
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.51
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
フォージャー家にヨルの弟・ユーリが来訪!! 互いがスパイと秘密警察であることを隠しながら、黄昏とユーリは腹を探り合う。姉を偏愛するユーリは黄昏に本物の夫婦であることを証明しろと迫り…!? read more
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17. SPY×FAMILY 2
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.54
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
東国と西国、両国間の平和を守る任務のため、名門校受験に挑んだフォージャー一家。だが、標的デズモンドに近づくにはアーニャが特待生にならなくてはいけない!! そこで黄昏は“ナカヨシ作戦”を実行するが…!? read more
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18. SPY×FAMILY 4
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.55
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
爆弾犬を使っての西国大臣暗殺計画が判明! アーニャの飼う犬を求め家族で出かけたはずが、黄昏は、テロを止める緊急作戦に加わる事に…!! 一方アーニャは、何故かフォージャー家を知る不思議な犬と出会い――… read more
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19. 어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다 1 (Who Made Me a Princess, Vol. 1)
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4.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
어느 날 눈을 떠보니 공주님이 되었다! 금수저를 입에 물고 태어난 건 좋은데, 하필이면 친아버지의 손에 죽는 비운의 공주라니! 피도 눈물도 없는 냉혈한 황제 클로드!… read more
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20. The Perfect Nanny
By: Leïla Slimani
3.40
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
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"The baby is dead."-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny
"Nous devons prouver que, vous aussi, vous êtes une victime."-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny
"Several times during the night, she opened her eyes, unsure if an hour had passed or a month."-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny
"Yeah. Maybe. But honestly, I don’t understand.’ ‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand."-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny
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4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
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22. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
By: Wanda Coleman
4.28
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Haye… read more
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"to love and not act is to not know love"-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
"only love could want this body wanting guarantees love"-Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
23. Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish
By: Ahmad Al-Ashqar
4.21
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
"Advances in Embroidery" is Ahmad Al-Ashqar's first book of poems and includes his translations fro… read more
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