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Serotonin

Serotonin

Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.
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Platform
★★★★★

Platform

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.
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<span>The Map and the Territory</span>

The Map and the Territory

Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps – beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world – Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. 
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19.50 lv. 26.00 lv.
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Submission

Submission

François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. 
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Broadening the Field of Struggle

Broadening the Field of Struggle

It’s a first person narrative by a man of 31 whose name is never told. He is Our Hero. He’s a single Parisian programmer who works for an IT company that has just won a contract with the Ministère de l’A
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13.50 lv. 18.00 lv.
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The Elementary Particles
★★★★★

The Elementary Particles

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is an strikingly original novel that plunges headfirst into the ills and pains of the contemporary man.
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19.50 lv. 26.00 lv.
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He Only Dreamed of Places Now and of the Lions on the Beach

He Only Dreamed of Places Now and of the Lions on the Beach

July 1960. In the quiet haven of Villa Finca Vigia near Havana, Ernest Hemingway finds writing increasingly difficult. Suffering from creative impotence, tired, exhausted, and depressed, he leaves for Spain with the intention of finishing his book on bullfighting.
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13.69 lv. 22.00 lv.
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Istria Black

Istria Black

James Joyce lived in Pula, but this master of the pen did not dedicate a single literary work to the beautiful Croatian peninsula of Istria. His compatriot Mike Downey corrects this injustice with his trilogy "The Colors of Istria," in which family mysteries and secrets from the past are unraveled against the backdrop of significant world events.
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Rhymed Tales

Rhymed Tales

"Rhymed Tales" by Maya Dalgacheva is a colorful book of rhyming tales, in which each story is dedicated to a different color. Yellow, green, red, pink and blue - all colors burst from the pages to blend into cosy, funny and touching poems suitable for both toddlers and grown-ups.
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You Are Writing About This Too?

You Are Writing About This Too?

February 3, 2020. "I won't lie to you," the doctor shrugs. "The metastases are everywhere." What does a person do when they learn they have an incurable disease? Despair? Blame fate? Herman Koch sits down and writes a book. 
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<span>Sabbath's Theater</span>

Sabbath's Theater

Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; 
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<span>PETE AND BOB DETECTIVE DOGS: The case of the sweet tooth</span>

PETE AND BOB DETECTIVE DOGS: The case of the sweet tooth

Pete and Bob are good friends and enthusiastic detectives. Today, they are on the trail of the mystery of who ate Mrs. Goose's cake, leaving a single tooth on the plate as evidence...
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13.69 lv. 16.00 lv.
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One Lonely Man

One Lonely Man

His last work, "One Lonely Man", could easily have been titled "A Tale of My Father". Frédéric Begbédér turns Jean-Michel Begbédér into a true hero of a novel. 
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<span>The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories</span>

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories is William Saroyan's debut collection of short fiction, described as ”the most talked-about literary discovery of 1934." 
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<span>We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies</span>

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

For those of us who cannot return home, the whole world is a dream.
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<span>James</span>
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James

When Jim finds out he will be sold to another town and forever separated from his wife and daughter, he flees his master's home, trying to come up with a plan that will allow him to ransom them. 
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Death Does Not Exist

Death Does Not Exist

Written as a message to his daughter, to whom he wishes to bequeath his research experience, Death Does Not Exist also excites us with its subject matter, which can be collectively denoted by the terms “paranormal”
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What is it? Riddles in verse
★★★★★

What is it? Riddles in verse

The famous aphorism “ For children must be written as for adults, only better ” refer to Tolstoy, Chekhov or Kornei Chukovsky.
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<span>Be Your Best</span>
<span>Be Your Best</span>

Be Your Best

Written in pleasant and easy-to-read language and with plenty of examples that the reader can easily recognize, Give Your Best can be used as a guide for all kinds of everyday situations.
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<span>The Scent of Freedom</span>

The Scent of Freedom

The year is 1923 and the place is a small village in Sicily named Jesso. A brave boy leaves the known world and rushes with all the energy of his twenties to the new and unknown continent of America.
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Soldiers of Salamis
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Soldiers of Salamis

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest. When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time
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How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence
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How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence

Time and again, the work performed at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has demonstrated that children from birth to age six are capable of learning better and faster than older children. How To Teach Your Baby To R
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The Bowman's Whistle

The Bowman's Whistle

"A short novel that dialogues between times, between the exiled and the lives they recommence, between gods and men. In terms of contemporary cinema, The Bowman's Whistle is the polyphonic remake of a classic, written with an expressiv
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Leonora

Leonora

Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rul
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13.69 lv. 28.00 lv.
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Venerare

Venerare

A foul smell invades a young writer's room, tearing him away from his work. In an attempt to find the source of the stench, he looks outside and sees that others have also climbed out the windows in search of the same answer. The answer tur
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To Discover Sofroniy. Sinner, Saint, or Action Hero

To Discover Sofroniy. Sinner, Saint, or Action Hero

“To Discover Sofroniy”, authored by Iskren Krasimirov, is dedicated to one of the greatest Bulgarian national heroes. Based on scientific research, skillfully accompanied by his own comments, the book presents life and work of Sofroniy V
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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation. 'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year
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Italian Folktales
★★★★★

Italian Folktales

In 1956, Italo Calvino, one of Italy's most popular post-war writers, published "Italian Folk Tales", a collection of 200 tales, drawing on a rich folklore tradition. The source of each tale is noted, the edition is provided with extensive notes. Th
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13.69 lv. 30.00 lv.
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Deadly Game

Deadly Game

DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations – but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radi
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The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines

The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines

In a secluded Italian village, Jewish and Catholic families live side by side. As the storm clouds of war gather, everyone will have to make a heart-breaking choice to save the lives of those they love... Bella's Jewish family has run the lo
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Odyssey of the Girls from the East

Odyssey of the Girls from the East

Like frames from a film, scenes from the lives of two Bulgarian women in France at the beginning of the new century alternate. Armed with "The Great Encyclopedic Dictionary of Larousse" and "The Little Larousse of Good M
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Writing Degree Zero. Mythologies

Writing Degree Zero. Mythologies

Mythologies is the title of a collection of essays examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the semiology of the process of myth creation, updating Ferdinand de Saussure's system of
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Trainspotting

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilisti
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The Uses of Literature: Essays

The Uses of Literature: Essays

This volume of essays is a kind of intellectual autobiography of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century, often cited as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Selected by the author him
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13.69 lv. 32.00 lv.
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In Amber's Wake

In Amber's Wake

Ethan Grieg, a film student, is in love with his close friend Amber Deering, an environmental activist, who lives at her family’s seemingly picture-perfect stud farm. Amber loves Ethan dearly, but not the way that Ethan longs for. Instead,
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13.69 lv. 24.00 lv.
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Knife

Knife

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring — and surviving — an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him   On the mo
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The Stew Pot

The Stew Pot

Set in a Parisian apartment building, this tenth novel in the Rougon Macquart series by Émile Zola follows the greedy, dishonest, and unpleasant elements lurking behind the building's new façade. The novel is an indictment of the hypoc
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13.69 lv. 35.00 lv.
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Yakov's Ladder

Yakov's Ladder

At first glance, Yacov’s Ladder perfectly embodies the generic definition of a “family saga.” The story of several generations of Osetskys, who were originally from Kiev and then transplanted to Moscow, spans an entire c
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13.69 lv. 29.00 lv.
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The Day the River Froze

The Day the River Froze

Budapest, February 12, 1985. In the bitter cold, the river freezes over and a prophecy that sounds like a croak marks the birth of Janos: ‘bad seed, bad tidings’. Twenty-seven years later, the man who the oracle confirmed as ‘Jan
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The Hearing Trumpet

The Hearing Trumpet

Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian L
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The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves mo
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The Conspiracy of the Dead

The Conspiracy of the Dead

"The Conspiracy of the Dead" by Marin Georgiev is a story about the "intermediate Bulgarian time". For a time that supposedly no longer exists, but which must be witnessed if we want to understand what and how it was. The stories and testimonies
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Summer of Caprice

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vančura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language mastering and also the development of the metatextual context of the last 80 years together form this unmist
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The Bad Girl

The Bad Girl

Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolut
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Perla, The Mighty Dog

Perla, The Mighty Dog

In the first children's book written by critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling superstar Isabel Allende, Perla, the mighty dog, teaches her human brother, Nico Rico, how to use his superpowers to stand up to a bully. Perla is a migh
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Job and Jobbery
★★★★★

Job and Jobbery

The book covers short journalistic texts written on various occasions in the period 2000-2024. The style is sometimes serious and sad, other times - cheerful, playfully intellectual. Some of the texts are longer and reflective, others are shorter
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Hygiene and the Assassin
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Hygiene and the Assassin

An eighty-three year old Nobel prize winner author of twenty-two novels is found passed out at his home. Two months before his death of a rare cartilage cancer journalists from all over the world came to interview the viscious fat old man, loathin
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

New York Times Bestseller The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea is an enthralling feminist retelling of the classic Korean folktale “The Tale of Shim Cheong,” perfect for fans of Wintersong, Uprooted, and Miyazaki’s Spiri
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Inseparable

Inseparable

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront t
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The Girl in the Eagles Talons

The Girl in the Eagles Talons

Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series • Also known as the Millennium series “Lisbeth Salander is back — and maybe better than ever. Karin Smirnoff&
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Through The Looking-glass, And What Alice Found There

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Through The Looking-glass, And What Alice Found There

In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a friend. The adventures of Alice - named for one of the little girls to whom the book was
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me

A Fortune-Teller Told Me

“An utterly charming and engaging travel book that offers vivid portraits of unusual corners of Asia, told by a skilled raconteur whose eyes were open wide.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Warned by a Hong Kong fort
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The Martins

The Martins

This is the story of a writer who fell into a creative crisis and decided to write about the first person he met on the street. He comes across eighty-year-old Madeleine Tricot, whose life he will describe, as well as the li
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Unmanageable or Atypical?

Unmanageable or Atypical?

Autistic children, "strange birds", hypersensitive, with some kind of disorder, high potential, atypical or just different - this reality is defined by the term "neurodiversity" and affects 20% of the population. How to raise a child who does not
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"The Solitude of Prime Numbers", Giordano's first novel, took Italy by storm where it has sold over a million copies. It was translated into thirty languages and has been selling all over the world. Paolo Giordano narrates the childhood and young
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Tasmania

Tasmania

"Tasmania" is a novel about the future. The future we fear, but also dream of, that we will hardly have, but can still build. The general feeling in our age is that we are already losing control of the world and ourselves, and Paolo Giordano's
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<span>Minerva's Matchbook</span>

Minerva's Matchbook

Pete Townsend started with the idea of an opera, but as he said in an interview, he turned the plot into a "psychological novel".
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The World According to Anna

The World According to Anna

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate
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The Map of Regrets

The Map of Regrets

Nathalie Skowronek’s La Carte des regrets (The Map of Regrets), one of the winners of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, is the story of Véronique, a charismatic editor at a Paris publishing house who is found d
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Allegro Pastell

Allegro Pastell

Allegro Pastell is an absorbing meditation on the nature of love in the twenty-first century, life after thirty, the danger of slipping into old patterns of behaviour, and what it means to be true to yourself. The novel
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Live Fast

Live Fast

This autobiographical novel is the author’s dissection of a tragic moment in her life, allowing her to reflect upon the events that led to the motorcycle accident that cost the life of her husband Claude on June 22nd, 1999. Over twenty ye
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Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or s
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HOMO sapienne

HOMO sapienne

HOMO sapienne follows the lives of five young people in the “little big city” of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. Each one is given a chapter in the book to narrate their feelings and experiences at a time in their lives, when
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Past Imperfect. Novel about

Past Imperfect. Novel about

Mysterious murder in autumn Sofia. It appears to be the work of a psychopath, and the manner of the perpetrator is vaguely familiar. Inspector Kamen Petkov and his colleagues from the "Investigation" Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
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Night Is Mother to the Day. And Give Us the Shadows. Andante

Night Is Mother to the Day. And Give Us the Shadows. Andante

The present collection of three plays presents three significant themes in Lars Norén's work: Night is Mother to the Day (1982) is a family drama with conflicts borrowed from Norén's personal destiny. And Give Us the Shadows (1988)
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The Sad Guest

The Sad Guest

The first-person narrator who roams through contemporary Berlin in The Sad Guest is a flickering, elusive being. The narrator is a writer, has already published three books and comes from Poland. But this novel is not autobiographical. The main cha
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Natural Stories / Petals and Other Awkward Stories

Natural Stories / Petals and Other Awkward Stories

This volume contains two collections of short prose by Guadalupe Nettel: Natural Stories (2013) and Petals and Other Awkward Stories (2008). The stories are often written as a first-person confession, tight, without unnecessary drama, but with skill
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It Happened at Night

It Happened at Night

Let's hear the author: “I usually give the floor to two characters. This time there are nine. I did my best to infiltrate their gang, and I succeeded. The nine characters of this book only know each other virtually, but they are true fr
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The Gospel of Afranius

The Gospel of Afranius

What if Bulgakov's Afranius, the chief of the secret guard at Pontius Pilate, had also written a gospel? And what if this gospel presents Jesus Christ as a secret agent of the Jewish procurator? The book you hold in your hands is a witty and inge
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Mary
★★★★

Mary

The year is 1816 when Mary Shelly, only eighteen years of age, creates the iconic story of Frankenstein’s monster. It is the same summer that Mary and her lover Percy Shelley visit Lord Byron and John Polidori at Lake Geneva. The
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Leave the World Behind

Leave the World Behind

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, qual
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Dear Pier Paolo
★★★★

Dear Pier Paolo

Dacia Maraini was one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's closest friends, with whom she shared readings, film projects and even a house, when Dacia had the writer Alberto Moravia as a partner. The three traveled the world and especially Africa,
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Comparative Theories of Literature. The Femme Fatale and Five European Patterns of Novel

Comparative Theories of Literature. The Femme Fatale and Five European Patterns of Novel

This edition introduces the reader to European comparative literature. In the five chapters of the book, we read about mytho-criticism, literary history, the theory of narration in the text of the novel, the commonality between literature and m
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The Meursault Investigation

The Meursault Investigation

Best Translated Novel of the Decade – Lit Hub A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 — Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015, New York Times — TIME Magazine, Top Ten Books of 2015 — Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the
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Julia

Julia

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideolo
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Gaps

Gaps

Gaps begins with Bohumil Hrabal receiving the long anticipated advance copy of his first short story collection, Perlicka na dne (Pearl of the Deep). Hrabal's career as a successful writer starts here, and the novel details his rise on
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Polish Boys

Polish Boys

"Polish Boys" is a story of young bohemian-intellectuals who have settled in old dilapidated buildings and who follow their ideals. The plot unfolds in socialist Poland but space and time are irrelevant and can be seen as an allegory. "Polish Boy
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The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens
★★★★★

The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens

Kostya is an ordinary Ukrainian, a product of our time. Politics and Maidan protests are of little interest to him. But the subtitle of the novel "Homo Compatiens" - the man who sympathizes suggests: the main character will not be able t
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In Search of Sleep

In Search of Sleep

"Bregje Hofstede is an extraordinary writer." — Rutger Bregmans, author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History In Search of Sleep is both a self-help manual for insomniacs, and a sweeping critique of the hustle culture
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Mirror of Our Sorrows

Mirror of Our Sorrows

"Tremendous and enjoyable" - La Libre Belgique "A great success" - La Croix April, 1940. Louise Belmont runs, naked, down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the tragic scene she has just experienced, she will have to plunge i
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Clockwork Stories

Clockwork Stories

Fifteen stories, fifteen pieces of life against the background of the brutal war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. On the border between real and imaginary, with shades of surrealism and magical realism, war scenes alternate, dreams o
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Octopus

Octopus

Alexander's contract with the bank in Nagoya where he worked is expiring and he must return home to Russia. But before that, the young man decides to visit the small fishing island of Himakajima, where he is involved in complicated relation
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The Children Are Kings

The Children Are Kings

The book takes us back to the heart of the 2000s. It opens with the disappearance of the daughter of the Youtubeuse star Mélanie Claux, the little Kimmy Diore aged six, later turns into a thriller without warning, before end
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SuperLife

SuperLife

In this groundbreaking health and lifestyle guide, Darin Olien — superfoods expert, nutritionist, creator of Shakeology, and co-host of the Netflix docuseries Down to Earth with Zac Efron — provides the key to understanding and ut
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When We Were Birds

When We Were Birds

A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead. You were never the smartest child, but even you should know that when a de
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The Child I Wanted So Badly is Driving Me Crazy

The Child I Wanted So Badly is Driving Me Crazy

A relaxed approach to the age of temper tantrums and stubbornness Won’t my child EVER go to bed? Will my child EVER climb up the stairs alone? Instead of throwing a temper tantrum themselves, parents should read this book. The “terrib
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The Legend of La Peregrina

The Legend of La Peregrina

The Legend of La Peregrina tells the true story of the most valuable pearl in the world, which started as a gift for Philip II and ended up in Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry box. This novel has been named the great literary success of Chri
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Databiography

Databiography

What is it like to narrate your life quantitatively? That is the question this book tackles. Charly Delwart – both author and main character – has always asked about everything. When he discovered while reading a statistic that th
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Libreto

Libreto

Spain's labor protests and Catalonia's struggles for independence. Damir Romić, a migrant from Bosnia and Herzegovina, works as a security guard at a cigarette factory. He is in love with the mysteriously missing Maria, with the Babylonian g
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The Station

The Station

Conspiracy and adventure at Milan Central Station, from where the trains of deported Jews left during World War II. Milan, April 2003. Riccardo Mezzanotte is a young police inspector, who recently joined the Railway Police at Milan Central Stat
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The Heart of the Labyrinth

The Heart of the Labyrinth

The collection (a novella and eight short stories) takes us into a paradoxical and aestheticized world of masks, labyrinths and divergent paths, where every fork is a move away from the exit and closer to the center. A world where the real, th
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Adam's Perfume

Adam's Perfume

"Adam’s Perfume" follows the story of an environmental activist who frees animals from an experimental laboratory in Poland in 2005 and becomes embroiled in a murderous plot to save the world instead of human lives in poor countries. Jean-
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First Blood

First Blood

WINNER OF THE 2021 RENAUDOT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2022 STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb’s own father, who died of Covid related symptoms in early 2020, this is the acclaimed author’s most personal and hear
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Afraid of the Light

Afraid of the Light

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing
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Selected Essays

Selected Essays

Rarely in the Spanish-speaking world has anyone covered the different sides of world culture with such breadth as Octavio Paz, and reflected with such depth on the problems, contradictions and tragedies of both the past and his own time. Rarely has
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The Cave

The Cave

José Saramago is a master at pacing. Readers unfamiliar with the work of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner would do well to begin with The Cave, a novel of ideas, shaded with suspense. Spare and pensive, The Cave follows the fortunes of an
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The Wild Roses

The Wild Roses

This is what Carol Martinez herself tells about her latest novel, filled with both joy and sorrow, but also with a lot of poetry: “Shortly after The Threads of the Heart came out, a reader told me about a Spanish custom observed in Andalusia,
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The River
★★★★★

The River

The life of Rute is prosperous, but it is filled with an emptiness made more and more intolerable by memories of her harsh childhood, longing for a long-lost sister, painful thoughts about a mother in prison and an inability to open up to (the) peop
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Vita Nuova

Vita Nuova

"Vita Nuova" is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal’s wife, Elis.ka, about their life in Prague from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was at its peak. Hrabal’
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The Baby Jesus Was Born

The Baby Jesus Was Born

With this book, the artist Tonya Goranova tells the magical story of Christmas and Jesus nativity. Exquisite and captivating illustrations take us back 2,000 years in time to initiate us into the wonder and meaning of the holy night of Ch
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The Entanglement of the Bag and Life

The Entanglement of the Bag and Life

In The Entanglement of the Bag and Life, the reader will find an old acquaintance - the anonymous detective and main character in the parody series "The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt", "The Labyrinth of the Olives" and "The Ad
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Bee Family

Bee Family

The seven short stories in "Bee Family" are linked by rituals, ancient customs and traditions of Slovenian culture, which are transposed into a different context or a contemporary setting, where they take on a new role and shape. The theme of f
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How Did I Not Buy This Painting?!

How Did I Not Buy This Painting?!

This book is a unique panorama of gallery life in Sofia at the border between the 20th and 21st centuries. For nearly twenty years, the author recorded in notebooks and diaries what he heard, saw and experienced in the "Natalie" gallery
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Selected Plays

Selected Plays

Hjalmar Bergman (1883-1931) is one of the classics of Swedish literature, the author of numerous novels and plays. Along with Selma Lagerlöf, he is also one of the first Swedish writers whose works were filmed. The current collection includes
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The Witness

The Witness

“The evocative imagery and ideas revealed in The Witness are not easily forgotten.” — Washington Times “Haunting and beautifully written.” — Independent on Sunday The novel The Witness (19
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A Life in Movies

A Life in Movies

The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-50-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, and Creed. His films have been nominated for 52 Academy Awards, including five movies for Best
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