The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning
By: Dore Ashton
4.18
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international…
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1. The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.26
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
In the winter of 1933 eighteen-year-old Patrick (“Paddy”) Leigh Fermor set out to walk across Europ… read more
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"A shadow appeared on the awnings further up the land, gliding across each rectangle of canvas towards my table, sinking in the sag, rising again at the edge, and moving on to the next with a flicker …"-Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
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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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
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"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
3. 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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4. The Foundation Pit
By: Mirra Ginsburg , Andrei Platonov , Andrey Platonov
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
The Foundation Pitportrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundati… read more
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5. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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6. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
By: J. Kenji López-Alt
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-r… read more
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7. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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8. Between the Woods and the Water
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts The journey that Patrick Le… read more
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9. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
10. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
By: Mary Gabriel
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more
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11. Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
By: Alexander Nemerov
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth-century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler… read more
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12. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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13. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
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"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
14. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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15. The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning
By: Dore Ashton
4.18
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international… read more
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