Imbarazzismi: Quotidiani imbarazzi in bianco e nero
By: Kossi Komla-Ebri
3.17
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
A self-deprecating, sobering book about a world that continues to move forward without anyone reall…
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1. Daisy Miller
By: Henry James
3.37
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"-Henry James, Daisy Miller
2. L'Avversario
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
3.99
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
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- nonfiction
"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
3. Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
By: Jude Ellison S. Doyle , Sady Doyle
0.00
Format: None pages,
She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her h… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
5. Accabadora
By: Michela Murgia
4.07
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more
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- italian literature
"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
6. Il più grande uomo scimmia del Pleistocene
By: Terry Pratchett , Carlo Brera , Roy Lewis
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
<>ha scritto Terry Pratchett. E vero, tanto tempo e passato, da quando vissero Ernest, il narratore… read more
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7. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
By: Marisha Pessl
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinct… read more
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8. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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9. I Malavoglia
By: Giovanni Verga
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realta locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e rac… read more
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10. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
11. Il fu Mattia Pascal
By: Luigi Pirandello
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more
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- italian literature
"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"E dimentichiamo spesso e volentieri di essere atomi infinitesimali per rispettarci e ammirarci a vicenda, e siamo capaci di azzuffarci per un pezzettino di terra o di dolerci di certe cose, che, ove …"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
12. L'amico ritrovato
By: Arthur Koestler , None , Fred Uhlman
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found . Due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclu… read more
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13. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
14. The Swimmers
By: Julie Otsuka
3.67
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more
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"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
15. Premier sang
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.81
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
« Il ne faut pas sous-estimer la rage de survivre. » read more
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- africa
16. Come d'aria
By: Ada D'Adamo
4.05
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
Daria è la figlia, il cui destino è segnato sin dalla nascita da una mancata diagnosi. Ada è la mad… read more
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- nonfiction
- italian literature
17. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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- italian literature
"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
18. Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
By: Michela Murgia
3.58
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
S'innamorano di una sagoma di cartone o di un pretoriano in miniatura, odiano i bambini pur portand… read more
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- italian literature
"Scegliere è sempre invecchiare, ma è solo a 19 anni che il mondo ti accorda ancora l'indulgenza di chiamarla crescita."-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"Un uomo smette di essere bambino solo quando diventa padre, altrimenti passa dalla madre alla moglie senza troppe differenze."-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"La verità è semplice e forse non ti piace, ma è quella: la maggior parte delle persone non fa figli proprio per non sopportare neanche dai suoi [figli] quello che tu stai chiedendo di tollerare dal t…"-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"Secondo te mi sento così inutile perché non ho figli da guardar crescere?" mi ha chiesto mentre facevamo i piatti. "Ma come non ne hai, hai sposato un bambinone che non se ne andrà mai di casa, non p…"-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
19. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
By: Christina Lamb
4.63
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an… read more
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- nonfiction
"Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war."-Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
"Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude ston…"-Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
20. If Cats Disappeared from the World
By: Genki Kawamura
3.80
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage… read more
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"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World
"They say that when a man is dying, the first name that comes to mind is his first love."-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World
"Throughout history we’ve given birth to new things, only to lose the old way of doing things."-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World
"Yeah, but just being alive doesn't mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important."-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World
21. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
By: Alison Espach
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more
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"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
22. Il vaso di Pandoro: Ascesa e caduta dei Ferragnez
By: Selvaggia Lucarelli
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Il 15 dicembre del 2023 Chiara Ferragni, fashion blogger e imprenditrice digitale di fama internazi… read more
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- nonfiction
- italian literature
23. Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza
By: Maura Gancitano
4.13
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
La bellezza oggi è qualcosa di ben preciso a cui adeguarsi: un certo modo di vestire, di mangiare, … read more
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- nonfiction
- italian literature
"Il bello è libero e davvero indipendente, non è una merce, non può essere consumato, non si fa pubblicità, non può essere posseduto, non provoca la noia e l’insoddisfazione che proviamo non appena co…"-Maura Gancitano, Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza
24. Poverine. Come non si racconta il femminicidio
By: Carlotta Vagnoli
4.02
Format: 52 pages, ebook
«Ogni volta in cui le donne vengono ammazzate la reazione unanime è sempre quella di un composto, s… read more
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- nonfiction
25. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
4.17
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
26. Libri che mi hanno rovinato la vita e altri amori malinconici
By: Daria Bignardi
3.26
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
«Le situazioni pericolose, tristi, luttuose mi facevano vibrare come se solo nel dramma la vita si … read more
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- nonfiction
- italian literature
27. Tutta intera
By: Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Il fiume Sele taglia in due la città, e Sara ogni giorno lo attraversa per andare nella scuola di B… read more
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- africa
- italian literature
28. Bello l'amore, ma non ci vivrei: Un libro a cuore aperto
By: Daniela Collu
3.34
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
«Io l’amore lo conosco ma non lo capisco, lo conosco ma non lo controllo. Non lo so dosare e non lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- italian literature
29. Gaza, la scorta mediatica. Come la grande stampa ha accompagnato il massacro. E perché me ne sono chiamato fuori
By: Raffaele Oriani
4.32
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
Il 7 ottobre 2023, un orrendo massacro sconvolge Israele; da quel giorno, la vendetta israeliana fa… read more
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30. Imbarazzismi: Quotidiani imbarazzi in bianco e nero
By: Kossi Komla-Ebri
3.17
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
A self-deprecating, sobering book about a world that continues to move forward without anyone reall… read more
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- africa
- nonfiction
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