Of Tales and Enigmas
By: Minsoo Kang
4.05
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A beautiful lady who can only be seen from far away, a machine that generates an entire civilizatio…
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1. Agnes
By: Peter Stamm
3.22
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
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"Sie war unruhig, und doch schienen wir - ohne mehr voneinander zu wissen als unsere Namen - über Nacht vertrauter miteinander geworden zu sein."-Peter Stamm, Agnes
"Glück macht keine guten Geschichten. Glück lässt sich nicht beschreiben. Es ist wie Nebel, wie Rauch, durchsichtig und flüchtig. Hast du jemals einen Maler gesehen, der Rauch malen konnte?"-Peter Stamm, Agnes
"Ich kannte kaum jemanden in der Stadt. Niemanden, um genau zu sein. Ein paarmal hatte ich mich verliebt in ein Gesicht, aber ich hatte gelernt, solchen Gefühlen auszuweichen, bevor sie zu einer Bedro…"-Peter Stamm, Agnes
"It feels to me as thought I've become the character in it, and the character's life ends when the books does. I suppose there are times I'm glad too. Then the ending is like coming out of a bad dream…"-Peter Stamm, Agnes
2. Viper Wine
By: Hermione Eyre
3.30
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciousl… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
3. Color: A Natural History of the Palette
By: Victoria Finlay
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saff… read more
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4. Paris: The Memoir
By: Paris Hilton
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length: 8 hours and 22 minutes ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the… read more
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"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir
5. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
6. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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- fiction
7. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
8. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
9. Taste: My Life Through Food
By: Stanley Tucci
4.21
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more
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"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
10. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home
By: Anya von Bremzen
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more
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11. Vox
By: Christina Dalcher
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable … read more
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- fiction
"<>"-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"you can't protest what you don't see coming."-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"Everything lately seems to be a choice between degrees of hate."-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?"-Christina Dalcher, Vox
12. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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13. Ghost Music
By: An Yu
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative note… read more
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- fiction
"What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the …"-An Yu, Ghost Music
14. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
15. Bored Gay Werewolf
By: Tony Santorella
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more
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- fiction
16. All's Well
By: Mona Awad
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more
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- fiction
"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"-Mona Awad, All's Well
17. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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18. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
19. Deep Wheel Orcadia
By: Harry Josephine Giles
3.72
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a lif… read more
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20. Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Davis
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age … read more
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21. Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
By: Mary Wellesley
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A stunning book about significant medieval manuscripts; their authors, their histories and the mome… read more
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22. The End of Nightwork
By: Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his… read more
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23. Unknown Language
By: Huw Lemmey
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Long before the collapse of the Information Age, in the twelfth century since the appearance of the… read more
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24. Of Tales and Enigmas
By: Minsoo Kang
4.05
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A beautiful lady who can only be seen from far away, a machine that generates an entire civilizatio… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
25. Wreck: The Art of Being Lost at Sea
By: Tom de Freston
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An artist's obsession with Géricault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely… read more
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26. Nettleblack
By: Nat Reeve
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Subversive and playful, Nettleblack is a neo-Victorian queer farce that follows a runaway heir/ess … read more
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