Altered States
By: Anita Brookner
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and w…
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1. Espresso Tales (44 Scotland Street, #2)
By: Alexander McCall Smith , Iain McIntosh
3.88
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinbu… read more
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- literary fiction
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"…She had been perfectly happy before she had met him; indeed she had been even slightly happier then. So the inscription might more accurately have read: “To remind you of how happy you’ve been in Ed…"-Alexander McCall Smith, Espresso Tales (44 Scotland Street, #2)
"I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances…"-Alexander McCall Smith, Espresso Tales (44 Scotland Street, #2)
2. Charms for the Easy Life
By: Kaye Gibbons
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of Nor… read more
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3. 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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- classics
- female authors
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"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
4. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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5. Dirt Music
By: Tim Winton
0.00
Format: 194 pages,
Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Be… read more
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6. Daughters-in-Law
By: Joanna Trollope
4.08
Format: 348 pages,
As Anthony and Rachel Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, they don't quite … read more
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- fiction
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7. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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8. This House of Grief
By: Helen Garner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more
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9. A Passionate Man
By: Joanna Trollope
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagemen… read more
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- novels
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10. Under the Net
By: Iris Murdoch
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more
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12. Altered States
By: Anita Brookner
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and w… read more
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13. City of Friends
By: Joanna Trollope
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
She glanced at her phone again. There were appeals from the girls, from her colleagues, a text from… read more
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- fiction
14. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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15. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
16. The Matisse Stories
By: A.S. Byatt
3.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Three delightful stories inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse—from the Booker Prize-winning auth… read more
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- classics
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"It is not flippant to see a painting in a predicament."-A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories
"Her fingers remembered the slow, careful work in the wood, with a quiet grief, that didn't diminish, but was manageable."-A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories
17. The Spectator Bird
By: Wallace Stegner
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, in… read more
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18. The Camomile Lawn
By: Mary Wesley
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more
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19. Felicia's Journey
By: William Trevor
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts t… read more
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20. Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain th… read more
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21. Sights Unseen
By: Kaye Gibbons
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
The acclaimed New York Timesbestselling author of Ellen Foster,Kaye Gibbons paints intimate family … read more
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22. Another World
By: Pat Barker
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Plagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother die, Nick's grandfather Go… read more
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23. Harnessing Peacocks
By: Mary Wesley
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Mary Wesley creates one of the most enchanting heroines of recent literature in this story of indep… read more
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24. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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25. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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26. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
27. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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28. Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale
By: Paul Yamazaki
4.22
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of t… read more
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29. The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee (44 Scotland Street, #17)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest installment in the warm and welcoming 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite r… read more
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30. The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.08
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, A… read more
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"He loved Elspeth so much, and he hoped that she knew it. Yet it occurred to him that she might not be sure of that because he had not told her – or at least he had not told her recently. Wives and hu…"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)
31. A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street, #14)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.07
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
The latest, delectably witty installment of Alexander McCall Smith's sumptuous 44 Scotland Street s… read more
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"Mothers need to be ambitious for their children otherwise. . .well, nobody would ever learn the piano."-Alexander McCall Smith, A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street, #14)
