The Go-away Bird and Other Stories
By: Muriel Spark
3.78
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Contents: - The Black Madonna - The Pawnbroker's Wife - The Twins - Miss Pinkerton's Apocalyp…
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1. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple n… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"الناس في الظلام مختلفين كثيرا"-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"إن الجرائم الصغيرة تؤدي إلى الجرائم الكبيرة .. أليس كذلك ؟"-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
2. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
By: Slavenka Drakulić
4.13
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Hailed by feminists and scholars as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in r… read more
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"Humor is the only way to overcome depression"-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
"Category of 'enemy' could spread to the whole nation"-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
"Only when there is no privacy can there be total control"-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
"How could you forget something you never learned or had?!"-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
3. They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home – but someone else dies… Miss Marple senses danger wh… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"His eyes now were bright and beady with pleasurable anticipation."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Into the Gothic gloom of the library, Gina brought an exotic glow."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Her eyes were shining, and her long thin mouth was curved in a triumphant smile."-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
"Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!"-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
4. The Return of the Soldier
By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
5. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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- fiction
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
6. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- female authors
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
7. Breakfast of Champions
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more
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- fiction
8. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- fiction
9. Mr Norris Changes Trains
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship … read more
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- fiction
10. Raising Demons
By: Shirley Jackson
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Life Among the Savages charmed thousands with its insightful wit and contrasting warmth. In this se… read more
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11. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
12. Penance
By: Philip Gabriel , Kanae Minato
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma. When they were children, Sae… read more
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- fiction
13. A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a finan… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
14. The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants an… read more
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- fiction
15. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)
By: Tana French
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen year old kid with a dream of escaping his family's crampe… read more
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16. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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17. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more
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18. Lives of Girls and Women
By: Alice Munro
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The only novel from Alice Munro -- award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman-- is an insight… read more
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19. Strangeland
By: Tracey Emin
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would … read more
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20. Bluebeard
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.06
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more
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- fiction
"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
21. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Don’t go,"-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
22. 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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- short stories
- 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
23. Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
By: Minnie Driver
4.09
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A MARIE CLAIRE BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY MUST READ BOOK - A W MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED… read more
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- british literature
"We all pretend until pretense becomes practiced and I suppose, looks like reality."-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
"I think again of that thing no one tells you about birth, that as your body offers up your child to the outside world your very first job as a mother is to let go. I really never thought about the fa…"-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
24. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- fiction
25. Take What You Need
By: Idra Novey
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more
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26. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
27. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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- fiction
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
28. The Soul of a Woman
By: Isabel Allende
4.03
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspir… read more
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"I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle."-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
"This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved."-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
"Since my daughter died I am perfectly aware of death's proximity; and now, in my seventies, death is my friend. It's not true that she looks like a skeleton armed with a scythe and trailed by a rotte…"-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
29. Swimming For Beginners
By: Nicola Gill
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
'The perfect mix of funny, poignant and heartwarming.' - Good Housekeeping 'Warm, witty but also … read more
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- fiction
30. The Go-away Bird and Other Stories
By: Muriel Spark
3.78
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Contents: - The Black Madonna - The Pawnbroker's Wife - The Twins - Miss Pinkerton's Apocalyp… read more
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- short stories
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- female authors
