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Ransom: A Novel

by David Malouf

Published: 2011-01-25

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In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his ...

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Zorba the Greek

by Nikos Kazantzakis

Published: 2014-12-23

Paperback: 368 pages

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A stunning new translation of the classic book—and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film—brings the clarity and beauty of Kazantzakis’s language and story alive.First published in 1946, Zorba the Greek, is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lo...

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Gould's Book of Fish

by Richard Flanagan

Published: 2002-12-26

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Winner of the Commonwealth PrizeNew York Times Book Review?Notable Fiction 2002Entertainment Weekly?Best Fiction of 2002Los Angeles Times Book Review?Best of the Best 2002Washington Post Book World?Raves 2002Chicago Tribune?Favorite Books of 2002Christian Science Monitor?Best Books 2002Pub...

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Burnt Shadows: A Novel

by Kamila Shamsie

Published: 2009-04-27

Kindle Edition: 386 pages

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Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Orange Prize FinalistNagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white.In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan...

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A Strangeness in My Mind: A novel (Vintage International)

by Orhan Pamuk

Published: 2016-09-20

Paperback: 624 pages

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Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karata? is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems to be on Mevlut’s side. He spends three years writin...

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The Collector (Back Bay Books)

by John Fowles

Published: 1997-08-04

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Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young ...

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Farbenblind (German Edition)

by Trevor Noah

Published: 2017-03-06

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Trevor Noah kam 1984 im Township Soweto als Sohn einer Xhosa und eines Schweizers zur Welt. Zu einer Zeit, da das südafrikanische Apartheidsregime „gemischtrassige“ Beziehungen weiterhin unter Strafe stellte. Als Kind, das es nicht geben durfte, erlebte er Armut und systematischen Ras...

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The Eden Express

by Mark Vonnegut

Published: 1988-10-01

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“One of the best books about going crazy . . . required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside.”—The New York Times Book ReviewMark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals. But genetic predisposition and �...

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Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design (MIT Press)

by Anthony Dunne

Published: 2008-09-26

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As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products -- from "intelligent" toasters to iPods -- it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthon...

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The Vagina Monologues

by Eve Ensler

Published: 2007-12-26

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"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred women. I tal...