Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris
By: Caroline Weber
3.93
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- france
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
By: Sebastian Smee
3.93
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artis… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
3. The Guermantes Way
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne
4.27
Format: 619 pages, Paperback
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more
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- france
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش میآید، چون تخیل با توست"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک میشناسد"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
4. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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- historical
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
5. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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- historical
6. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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7. How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves, #12)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidabl… read more
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8. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- art
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
9. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
10. Winter (Seasonal, #2)
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more
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"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)
11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- historical
12. Disappearing Earth
By: Julia Phillips
3.84
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducte… read more
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"Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el …"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
"Near him, she couldn't think of anything but him. But when they were a little apart she returned to herself, and she liked that woman she came back to. Someone...capable. Someone who maintained stand…"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
"He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred p…"-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
13. The Waters
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more
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"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
14. Diva
By: Daisy Goodwin
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more
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- historical
15. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
16. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
17. Do You Mind If I Cancel?: Things That Still Annoy Me
By: Gary Janetti
3.50
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time,… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
18. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
By: Ali Smith
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more
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"We move from one invisibility to another."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
19. Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
By: Ali Smith
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mothe… read more
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"I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other."-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"But that's summer for you. Summer's like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn't just a merry tale. Because there's no merry tale without dar…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
"And summer's surely really all about an imagined end. We head for it instinctually like it must mean something. We're always looking for it, looking it, heading towards it all year, the way a horizon…"-Ali Smith, Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
20. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
By: Carmela Ciuraru
3.57
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five famous writers, illuminating the … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
21. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- historical
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
22. Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture
By: Justine Picardie
3.75
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“Remarkable” ―Hamish Bowles, Vogue The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior's extraordinary life,… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- france
- fashion
23. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: Natalie Dykstra
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
By: Mark Braude
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2022 On… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- france
25. The House of Fragile Things: A History of Jewish Art Collectors in France, 1870 - 1945
By: James McAuley
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- historical
- nonfiction
- france
26. Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
By: Valerie Fridland
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Smart and funny--I loved it!" --Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl's… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels
By: Gary Janetti
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
28. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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29. Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris
By: Caroline Weber
3.93
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- france
- fashion
30. The Mighty Red
By: Louise Erdrich
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more
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