The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
By: Grigory Kanovich
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich’s “Litvak saga,” his tribute to Jewish life be…
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1. People in the Summer Night: An Epic Suite (Ihmiset suviyossa)
By: Alan Blair , Frans Emil Sillanpää
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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- fiction
2. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
3. Lykke-Per
By: Henrik Pontoppidan
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Per Sidenius vokser op pa en ostjysk praestegard under en streng og pietistisk fader. Faderens krav… read more
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- fiction
4. Zeno's Conscience
By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more
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- fiction
5. Cat and Mouse
By: Günter Grass , Ralph Manheim
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple… read more
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- fiction
6. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
By: Salman Rushdie
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginati… read more
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7. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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8. Utz
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged … read more
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9. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
10. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
11. L'Argent
By: Émile Zola
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dix-huitieme volume des Rougon-Macquart, L'Argentest le premier grand western financier des temps m… read more
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12. The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)
By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late… read more
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13. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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14. Silence in October
By: Jens Christian Grøndahl , Anne Born
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
After eighteen years of marriage, an art historian wakes up one morning to find his wife standing i… read more
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16. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
17. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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- fiction
"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
18. Tiems, kurie neskaito
By: Benas Lastauskas
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Knygos veikėjai Ofisinis, Rūtelė, Edgaras, Tautvydas ir Arina gyvena tarp aukštų didmiesčio daugiab… read more
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- fiction
19. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
By: Jessica Bruder
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more
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"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
20. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
21. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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- fiction
"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
22. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
23. Grybo sapnas
By: Gabija Grušaitė
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
„Grybo sapnas“ – tai romanas apie žmones, pasiklydusius savo vidiniuose labirintuose. Visuomenės ak… read more
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24. Scenes from a Childhood
By: Jon Fosse
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more
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25. Pranešėjas ir Prezidentas
By: Birutė Davidonytė
4.39
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Artėjant 2019-ųjų prezidento rinkimams Valstybės saugumo departamento žvalgybos pareigūnas gauna ne… read more
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26. Poltava
By: Robertas Petrauskas
4.74
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Istorinė knyga, nukelianti į pačią XVIII a. pradžią. Jos kulminacija – 1709 m. įvykęs Poltavos mūši… read more
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27. Pavojingi žodžiai
By: Undinė Radzevičiūtė
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Kaip sakoma Biblijoje, pradžioje buvo Žodis. Ir jis buvo ne tas. Kiekviena šalis, kiekviena vals… read more
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28. Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
By: Sigrid Undset
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—th… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed."-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
"And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a go…"-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
29. The Tears and Prayers of Fools: A Novel (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
By: Grigory Kanovich
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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30. The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police: By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
By: Samuel Schalkowsky
4.07
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
“Remarkable . . . provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the… read more
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