Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
By: Frances Larson
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifr…
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1. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. The Scarlet Plague
By: Jack London
3.88
Format: 136 pages,
'An old man, James Howard Smith, walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgro… read more
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4. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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- womens
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"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
5. Roads to Berlin
By: Cees Nooteboom , Laura Watkinson
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall… read more
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6. Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach
By: Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak
4.44
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Autorka Służących do wszystkiego wraca do tematu wiejskich kobiet, ale tym razem to opowieść zza dr… read more
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- womens
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- history
7. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
9. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
10. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
11. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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- history
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- science
12. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
13. Bezduszni. Zapomniana zagłada chorych
By: Kalina Błażejowska
4.42
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Jeszcze przed atakiem na Polskę Hitler dał sygnał do rozpoczęcia tajnego programu "uwalniania od ci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. Kudos
By: Rachel Cusk
3.89
Format: 236 pages, ebook
En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more
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"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
15. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
16. La Fortuna
By: Valeria Parrella
3.39
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Il prodigio viene dalla terra, e scuote aria e acqua. Dal cielo piovono pietre incandescenti e cene… read more
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17. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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18. Matrymonium. O małżeństwie nieromantycznym
By: Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć
3.79
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć przygląda się dziewiętnastowiecznemu rynkowi matrymonialnemu, na którym liczył… read more
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- history
19. Ludowa historia kobiet
By: Przemysław Wielgosz
3.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Autorki […] przyglądają się statusowi kobiet w średniowieczu oraz ścieżkom, na które wstępowały one… read more
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- history
20. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
21. Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
By: Frances Larson
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the first decades of the 20th century, five women - Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifr… read more
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- anthropology
