Shelf Life
By: Livia Franchini
2.77
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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Want to Read $ 10.99"You thought a short walk in the spring chill would scare us? We can walk three miles to your house in the snow if we love you, six miles from your house if we're leaving you."-Livia Franchini, Shelf Life
"You thought a short walk in the spring chill would scare us? We can walk three miles to your house in the snow if we love you, six miles from your house if we're leaving you."-Livia Franchini, Shelf Life
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1. Endless Love
By: Scott Spencer
3.55
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
"All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
"I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
"I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms."-Scott Spencer, Endless Love
2. Enigma Variations
By: André Aciman
4.23
Format: 336 pages,
A passionate portrait of love's contradictory power, in five illuminating stories. Andre Aciman, wh… read more
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3. La simmetria dei desideri
By: Eshkol Nevo , Ofra Bannet , Raffaella Scardi
4.13
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Quattro amici guardano in televisione la finale dei Mondiali di calcio del 1998. Non hanno ancora t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Quando si viaggia con una persona per dei mesi, tutti i normali canali di conversazione, quelli forzosi, si esauriscono, e si arriva a comportarsi con la massima naturalezza. Si conversa con parsimon…"-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri
"Si, ho pensato. Voglio salire. Certo che voglio salire. E già per le scale afferrarti i fianchi. Forte. E darti un piccolo bacio leggero sulla nuca. Proprio dove finisce la spina dorsale. E più tardi…"-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri
4. The Shock of the Fall
By: Nathan Filer
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand wha… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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. The Penguin Lessons
By: Tom Michell
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
"I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name,… read more
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7. Lacci
By: Domenico Starnone
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
Che cosa lasciamo, quando lasciamo qualcuno? Una casa, una famiglia, il passato, un'idea di futuro,… read more
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8. How to Fall in Love
By: Cecelia Ahern
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love - with his own life. Adam Basil … read more
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9. John
By: Julian Lennon , None
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestselling expose of the real John Lennon The time has come wh… read more
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10. L'età fragile
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
11. Giù nella valle
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.58
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Un padre ha piantato due alberi davanti alla sua casa, uno per ogni figlio. Il primo, un larice, … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
12. Another Life
By: Jodie Chapman
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
She could be the girl dancing on tables one night, and the next she'd be hiding in the shadows. … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. Cat Lady
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady
14. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
15. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
16. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
By: Carla Lonzi
4.28
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
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"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
17. At the Table
By: Claire Powell
3.74
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
18. Turbulence
By: David Szalay
3.62
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic n… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. Weirdo
By: Sara Pascoe
3.28
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
20. A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
By: Otto Rosenberg
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All a… read more
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21. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
22. Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria
By: Sara Marzullo
3.48
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
«Ero triste, di una tristezza vischiosa e pervasiva, come melassa o incenso. E soprattutto, era cos… read more
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- contemporary
23. You Are Not Alone
By: Cariad Lloyd
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by her award-winning podcast, Griefcast, You Are Not Alone is Cariad Lloyd's frank, funny … read more
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24. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
25. Oh, Sister
By: Jodie Chapman
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Meet Isobel, Jen and Zelda.Three women whose bodies and minds are not their own.They belong to the … read more
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- contemporary
26. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth
By: Rebecca Humphries
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more
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27. Single Bald Female
By: Laura Price
4.23
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
'Life-affirming, tearjerking and gorgeously written . . . An extraordinary, hugely moving story abo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Sirens
By: Emilia Hart
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can ima… read more
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- fiction
29. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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- contemporary
30. Parenting Hell
By: Rob Beckett
4.25
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more
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31. Shelf Life
By: Livia Franchini
2.77
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"You thought a short walk in the spring chill would scare us? We can walk three miles to your house in the snow if we love you, six miles from your house if we're leaving you."-Livia Franchini, Shelf Life
