Lilly's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:34:58 -0700 60 Lilly's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Choix de poĂšmes 2084012
Cette Ă©dition propose un choix de poĂšmes rĂ©alisĂ© par Celan lui-mĂȘme. C'est le parcours de l'auteur dans son Ɠuvre. L'extrĂȘme dispersion des Ă©ditions de Celan en français confĂšre Ă  ce livre une fonction d'Ă©claireur, de viatique. Celui-ci invite Ă  plus qu'Ă  la dĂ©couverte d'un poĂšte majeur de ce siĂšcle : il favorise une approche qui se change en reconnaissance.
À l'effrayante question : comment Ă©crire aprĂšs Auschwitz ? Celan rĂ©pond : en usant du langage de la mort. Car il eut Ă  affronter et Ă  vivre l'un des plus tragiques paradoxes qui soit : sa langue maternelle, l'allemand, est Ă  la fois celle qui fonde sa culture et son identitĂ©, mais aussi celle qui rĂ©git le camp d'extermination oĂč disparaissent ses propres parents. Et pourtant, Celan ne peut sans «mentir» (c'est lui qui le note) se soustraire Ă  cette langue de l'enfance et de l'oppression mĂȘlĂ©es.]]>
384 Paul Celan 2070403114 Lilly 0 my-library 3.72 1970 Choix de poĂšmes
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<![CDATA[Munich Marco Polo Pocket Guide (Marco Polo Pocket Guides)]]> 40247197 152 Marco Polo Travel 3829707762 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.00 2004 Munich Marco Polo Pocket Guide (Marco Polo Pocket Guides)
author: Marco Polo Travel
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<![CDATA[MARCO POLO ReisefĂŒhrer St. Petersburg (German Edition)]]> 52256595 144 Lothar Deeg 3829771525 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 2013 MARCO POLO ReisefĂŒhrer St. Petersburg (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[1001 Alben - Musik, die Sie hören sollten, bevor das Leben vorbei ist.]]> 22211551 Neunzig international anerkannte Kritiker haben Insiderwissen und prĂ€gnante Analysen beigetragen. Das Werk enthĂ€lt ĂŒber 900(!) Abbildungen von KĂŒnstlern, Bands und deren Alben. Die Welt der Musik ist von vielen EinflĂŒssen und einer Vielzahl unterschiedlichster Genres bestimmt. Rock, Pop, Rock’n’Roll, Jazz, Funk, Punk, Disco, Soul, Hip Hop, Experimentalmusik, Weltmusik und Dance-Music bilden eine faszinierende Bandbreite. Das Kultige und das Obskure, das PopulĂ€re und der Mainstream â€� mit 1001 Alben können Sie sich auf eine erschöpfende Reise durch das Universum der Musikkultur freuen.]]> 960 Robert Dimery Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.25 2005 1001 Alben - Musik, die Sie hören sollten, bevor das Leben vorbei ist.
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Il Principe 60667724
Dall'incipit del Sogliono, el piĂč delle volte, coloro che desiderano acquistare grazia appresso uno Principe, farseli incontro con quelle cose che infra le loro abbino piĂč care, o delle quali vegghino lui piĂč delettarsi; donde si vede molte volte essere loro presentati cavalli, arme, drappi d’oro, prete preziose e simili ornamenti, degni della grandezza di quelli.

gli e-book editi da E-text in collaborazione con Liber Liber sono tutti privi di DRM; si possono quindi leggere su qualsiasi lettore di e-book, si possono copiare su piĂč dispositivi e, volendo, si possono modificare.

Questo e-book si puĂČ scaricare anche gratuitamente, dal sito (la mediateca che ospita migliaia di capolavori liberamente accessibili). Tuttavia, chi decidesse di acquistarlo aiuterĂ  il progetto Liber Liber a crescere, e a offrire un numero di titoli sempre piĂč grande.]]>
100 NiccolĂČ Macchiavelli 8897313361 Lilly 0 to-read, libri-italiani 3.61 1513 Il Principe
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The Catcher in the Rye 169183 277 J.D. Salinger 0241900972 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.74 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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<![CDATA[Generation des Unbedingten: Das FĂŒhrungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes]]> 1761057 In An Uncompromising Generation, Michael Wildt follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics—who came from the educated, bourgeois stratum of society—as they started to identify with the Nazi concept of Volksgemeinschaft, which labeled Jews as enemies of the people and justified their murder.
ÌęÌę ÌęWildt’s study traces the intellectual evolution of key members of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) from their days as students until the end of World War II. Established in 1939, this office fused together the Gestapo, the Criminal Police, and the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) of the SS. Far from being small cogs in a big bureaucratic machine, Wildt finds that the people who made up the RSHA constructed the concepts and operated the apparatus that carried out the Holocaust.
ÌęÌę ÌęAt the center of both theory and practice of persecution and genocide in Nazi-occupied Europe, these young men of the RSHA—none of whom envisioned the systematic annihilation of the European Jews—became radicalized. How this occurred is the central question of Wildt’s book. Wildt also discusses the postwar careers of the members of the RSHA. Strikingly, he shows how the leaders of the RSHA evaded the consequences of their actions under the Nazi regime and went on to have important careers in the rebuilt West Germany.]]>
964 Michael Wildt 3930908751 Lilly 0 my-library-history-books 5.00 2002 Generation des Unbedingten: Das FĂŒhrungskorps des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes
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<![CDATA[The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804-1999]]> 2694076 726 Misha Glenny 1862070504 Lilly 0 3.92 1999 The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804-1999
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Der Sandmann 648337 74 E.T.A. Hoffmann 3150002303 Lilly 0 my-library 3.59 1816 Der Sandmann
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The Master and Margarita 25716554
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters. Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, and finally published in 1966 and 1967, The Master and Margarita became a literary phenomenon, signaling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere.]]>
412 Mikhail Bulgakov 0143108271 Lilly 0 currently-reading 4.17 1967 The Master and Margarita
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L'orecchio di Kiev 125514998 In questo tumultuoso e vacillante mondo pre-sovietico, dominato dalla totale assenza di regole, il giovane studente Samson Kolečko si ritrova da un giorno all’altro a dover badare a se stesso, dopo aver perso in un’imboscata il padre (e l’orecchio destro) sotto la spada di un cosacco. Da quel momento, la sua vita prende una piega inaspettata. Arruolato in modo del tutto fortuito nel neonato corpo di polizia, Samson si butta a capofitto nella prima una serie di traffici loschi che coinvolgono due soldati, sgraditi occupanti del suo appartamento. Oltre all’inaspettata assistenza che riceve â€� ebbene sĂŹ â€� dall’orecchio perduto, Samson puĂČ contare sulla bella NadeĆŸda, una ragazza con la speranza nel nome, impiegata dell’Ufficio statistiche e bolscevica convinta, che in breve conquista il suo cuore.
Denso dei colori e del fervore polifonico della grande letteratura dell’Est Europa, L’orecchio di Kiev Ăš il primo episodio di una nuova serie firmata da Andrei Kurkov, un romanzo picaresco che ridĂ  vita al passato del suo paese, confermandolo come uno dei migliori autori viventi di lingua russa. Un poliziesco di grande ritmo e, per di piĂč, un libro divertente. E in tempi bui, abbiamo tutti bisogno di storie che, oltre ad aiutarci a capire, siano anche capaci di farci ridere.]]>
280 Andrey Kurkov 8829719757 Lilly 0 to-read, libri-italiani 3.19 2018 L'orecchio di Kiev
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<![CDATA[A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics]]> 17472023 Ìę
Imagine experiencing all the things that happen in dreams, but with one extraordinary You are “lucid”––consciously, joyously in control. Not just an adventure (yes, you can fly), a lucid dream is a time ripe for creative thinking, healing, inspiration, and self-knowledge.
Ìę
This lively dream guide shows step-by-step how to become lucid, and then what to do once awake in the dream world. Here’s how to reconnect with dreams, and the importance of keeping a journal and timing REM cycles. How to use simple reality checks to differentiate between waking and sleeping states. How to incubate a dream to solve a problem.
Ìę
With every dream we are washing up on the shores of our own inner landscape. Now, learn to explore this strange and thrilling world.
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274 Dylan Tuccillo 0761177396 Lilly 5 my-library 3.95 2012 A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics
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Buch der Lieder 1926834 420 Heinrich Heine 3937389903 Lilly 5 my-library 4.00 1827 Buch der Lieder
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<![CDATA[Deutschland. Ein WintermĂ€rchen]]> 30134737 Deutschland. Ein WintermĂ€rchen etwas verfaßt hatte, das "mehr Furore machen wird, als die populĂ€rste BroschĂŒre, und das dennoch den bleibenden Wert einer klassischen Dichtung haben wird". Recht hatte er. Mit seinem Versepos sollte er zwar in kĂŒrzester Zeit die gesamte empörte Presse gegen sich haben, aber auch heute noch ist es aus unseren BĂŒcherschrĂ€nken nicht wegzudenken.

Was hier zunĂ€chst als genauer Reisebericht ĂŒber eine Reise daherkommt, die Heine im Jahre 1843 von Paris ĂŒber Aachen und Köln nach Hamburg fĂŒhrte, entpuppt sich auf den zweiten Blick als eine bissige politische Satire. Heine prangert u.a. die politische RĂŒckstĂ€ndigkeit an, die das in viele Kleinstaaten zersplitterte Deutschland kennzeichnete; die drastischen Zensurpraktiken, mit denen die freie MeinungsĂ€ußerung verhindert wurde; sowie die WillkĂŒr des Polizeistaats Preußen unter der Herrschaft von Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

Es verwunderte niemanden, daß Heines Werk sofort nach dem Erscheinen verboten wurde. Was ihm als besonders negativ vorgeworfen wurde, war nicht nur der brisante Inhalt, sondern vielmehr die Verbindung von Form und Inhalt. Der Dichter hatte hier nĂ€mlich eine Variation der Vagantenstrophe verwendet, durch die die Strophen eine besondere Leichtigkeit erhielten und die zusammen mit der saloppen Sprache den Kritikern und Bewahrern der politischen ZustĂ€nde geradezu wie schallendes HohngelĂ€chter anmuteten.

Gerd Wameling bringt in der Erarbeitung fĂŒr das Hörbuch diese pointierte Sprache zum Schillern und lĂ€ĂŸt in seiner Lesung die originellen Wortspiele und den scharfen Sprachwitz des großen Dichters von neuem aufblitzen.

So erwarten den Hörer fast eineinhalb Stunden VergnĂŒgen auf höchstem Niveau bei diesem -- erfreulicherweise ungekĂŒrzten -- Hörgenuß. --Anne Hauschild

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129 Heinrich Heine 3458362371 Lilly 5 my-library 3.75 1844 Deutschland. Ein WintermÀrchen
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<![CDATA[1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow]]> 138829 672 Adam Zamoyski 0007123744 Lilly 5 my-library-history-books 4.32 2004 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
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<![CDATA[Rommel: L'AmbiguitĂ  di un Soldato]]> 10355441 576 David Fraser 8804418443 Lilly 3 libri-italiani 3.77 1993 Rommel: L'AmbiguitĂ  di un Soldato
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<![CDATA[Über den Umgang mit Emails: Der Scholz & Friends E-Mail-Knigge]]> 114750041 0 unknown author 3874397963 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Über den Umgang mit Emails: Der Scholz & Friends E-Mail-Knigge
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<![CDATA[Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us]]> 62879960
In this illuminating new book, Manchan Magan sets out on a journey, through bogs, across rivers and over mountains, to trace these ancestor's footsteps. He uncovers the ancient myths that have shaped our national identity and are embedded in the strata of land that have endured through millennia - from ice ages through to famines and floods.

Here, the River Shannon is a goddess, and trees and their life-sustaining root systems are hallowed. See the world in a new light in this magical exploration into the life-sustaining wisdom of what lies beneath us.]]>
295 ManchĂĄn Magan 0717192601 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.18 2022 Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
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<![CDATA[Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#1- #3)]]> 55307755 Friedrich Schiller Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#1- #3)
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<![CDATA[Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#4 - #6)]]> 55307740 Friedrich Schiller Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#4 - #6)
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<![CDATA[Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#7- #9)]]> 55307737 Friedrich Schiller Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#7- #9)
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<![CDATA[Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#10 - #12)]]> 55307696 Friedrich Schiller Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Schillers sÀmtliche Werke in 12 BÀnden (#10 - #12)
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<![CDATA[The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)]]> 58957615
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.

While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?

From an upmarket spa to a prison cell complete with espresso machine to a luxury penthouse high in the sky, this third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman's bestselling series.]]>
413 Richard Osman 0241512425 Lilly 0 to-read, my-library 4.32 2022 The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
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<![CDATA[Das Geisterschiff (Steidl Nocturnes) (German Edition)]]> 56675160
Neben dieser Geschichte, mit der sich Richard Middleton in die Herzen seiner Leser schrieb, finden sich in diesem Band die ebenso eleganten wie psychologisch genauen ErzĂ€hlungen, in denen es um die existenzielle Einsamkeit von Außenseitern geht. All diesen Geschichten â€� ĂŒber einsame Kinder, Landstreicher, ĂŒberforderte Polizisten oder SargverkĂ€ufer â€� ist eine besondere Tonlage eigen, die neben der melancholischen Grundierung etwas Zauberisches hat.]]>
125 Richard Middleton 3958298206 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.75 Das Geisterschiff (Steidl Nocturnes) (German Edition)
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The Paris Bookseller 57926108 The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves.

When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself.

Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It's where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth century are forged--none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and Sylvia herself. When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company.

But the success and notoriety of publishing the most infamous and influential book of the century comes with steep costs. The future of her beloved store itself is threatened when Ulysses' success brings other publishers to woo Joyce away. Her most cherished relationships are put to the test as Paris is plunged deeper into the Depression and many expatriate friends return to America. As she faces painful personal and financial crises, Sylvia--a woman who has made it her mission to honor the life-changing impact of books--must decide what Shakespeare and Company truly means to her.]]>
336 Kerri Maher 0593102185 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.65 2022 The Paris Bookseller
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<![CDATA[Bei geschlossenen TĂŒren/Tote ohne BegrĂ€bnis/Die ehrbare Dirne. Drei Dramen]]> 2630352 126 Jean-Paul Sartre 3499107880 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.28 Bei geschlossenen TĂŒren/Tote ohne BegrĂ€bnis/Die ehrbare Dirne. Drei Dramen
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<![CDATA[Eine Abrechnung - Die Wahrheit ĂŒber Adolf Hitlers "Mein Kampf"]]> 57327695 318 Matthias Kessler Lilly 0 2.75 2015 Eine Abrechnung - Die Wahrheit ĂŒber Adolf Hitlers "Mein Kampf"
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Sex: Lessons From History 57007911
So: what is sex for?

In this wide-ranging and powerful new history of sex, Dr Fern Riddell will uncover the sexual lives of our ancestors and show that, just like us, they were as preoccupied with sexual identities, masturbation, foreplay, sex and deviance; facing it with the same confusion, joy and accidental hilarity that we do today.

By looking at how history has dealt with different parts of our sexual experience, we're taken on an illuminating and entertaining journey about why we have sex - and what that means today.]]>
368 Fern Riddell 1473666252 Lilly 0 3.82 2021 Sex: Lessons From History
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<![CDATA[Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Collections (2nd ed) /anglais]]> 56923047 0 MAURIES PATRICK 0500023441 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.65 Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Collections (2nd ed) /anglais
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<![CDATA[Der lange Weg nach Westen - Deutsche Geschichte II: Vom 'Dritten Reich' bis zur Wiedervereinigung (Beck Paperback 6139)]]> 56548752 1177 Heinrich August Winkler 3406761720 Lilly 0 4.00 Der lange Weg nach Westen - Deutsche Geschichte II: Vom 'Dritten Reich' bis zur Wiedervereinigung (Beck Paperback 6139)
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<![CDATA[Heines Werke in fĂŒnf BĂ€nden. Dritter Band]]> 55976734 362 Heinrich Heine Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Heines Werke in fĂŒnf BĂ€nden. Dritter Band
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<![CDATA[The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)]]> 55440232 A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy.

Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean.

It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.

Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.]]>
307 Pat Barker 0385546696 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.81 2021 The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
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Cuore di cane - Uova fatali 29483959 304 Mikhail Bulgakov 8807902125 Lilly 0 3.77 1990 Cuore di cane - Uova fatali
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<![CDATA[»Meine geheimnisvolle Heimat«: Rilke und Russland (insel taschenbuch)]]> 54635530 Die intensive BeschĂ€ftigung mit den »russischen Dingen« hat zu einer Vielzahl von Spuren im Werk Rilkes gefĂŒhrt, in seiner Prosa und den Gedichten ebenso wie in seinen Essays, Briefen und TagebĂŒchern. Die hier vorgelegte Auswahl dokumentiert das Erweckungserlebnis, das Russland fĂŒr Rilke in persönlicher, kĂŒnstlerischer und spiritueller Hinsicht bedeutete, auf eindrucksvolle Weise.]]> Rainer Maria Rilke Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.00 »Meine geheimnisvolle Heimat«: Rilke und Russland (insel taschenbuch)
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<![CDATA[Ich rede von der Cholera: Ein Bericht aus Paris von 1832 (German Edition)]]> 54177556 61 Heinrich Heine Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.81 Ich rede von der Cholera: Ein Bericht aus Paris von 1832 (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Nahe Fremde: Paul Celan und die Deutschen (German Edition)]]> 53465318 510 Wolfgang Emmerich 3835344579 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.67 Nahe Fremde: Paul Celan und die Deutschen (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)]]> 36373413 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girls.

London 1940, bombs are falling. Emmy Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent seem suddenly achievable. But the job turns out to be typist to the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird. Emmy is disappointed, but gamely bucks up and buckles down.

Mrs Bird is very clear: Any letters containing Unpleasantness—must go straight in the bin. But when Emmy reads poignant letters from women who are lonely, may have Gone Too Far with the wrong men and found themselves in trouble, or who can’t bear to let their children be evacuated, she is unable to resist responding. As the German planes make their nightly raids, and London picks up the smoldering pieces each morning, Emmy secretly begins to write letters back to the women of all ages who have spilled out their troubles.

Prepare to fall head over heels with Emmy and her best friend, Bunty, who are spirited and gutsy, even in the face of events that bring a terrible blow. As the bombs continue to fall, the irrepressible Emmy keeps writing, and readers are transformed by AJ Pearce’s hilarious, heartwarming, and enormously moving tale of friendship, the kindness of strangers, and ordinary people in extraordinary times.]]>
281 A.J. Pearce 1501170066 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.76 2018 Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
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<![CDATA[BRANDT to go: Politische Zitate (German Edition)]]> 53097996 97 Heli Ihlefeld 3355500461 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 BRANDT to go: Politische Zitate (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Das 20. Jahrhundert vermessen: Signaturen eines vergangenen Zeitalters (Geschichte der Gegenwart 13) (German Edition)]]> 48924718 333 Martin Sabrow 3835340050 Lilly 0 0.0 Das 20. Jahrhundert vermessen: Signaturen eines vergangenen Zeitalters (Geschichte der Gegenwart 13) (German Edition)
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The Midnight Library 52578297
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]>
288 Matt Haig 0525559477 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.96 2020 The Midnight Library
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<![CDATA[William Blake: A Selection of Poems and Letters]]> 18111358 here.

Features 104 of Blake's poems: "A Song of Liberty," "The Argument," "Proverbs of Hell," "The Mental Traveller," "The Land of Dreams," "To the Evening Star" and many more.]]>
251 William Blake Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.60 1994 William Blake: A Selection of Poems and Letters
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<![CDATA[Das Duell: Der Kampf zwischen Habsburg und Preußen um Deutschland]]> 52209649 0 Ulrich Schlie 3549074018 Lilly 0 4.00 Das Duell: Der Kampf zwischen Habsburg und Preußen um Deutschland
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Bob Dylan 46037204 Rare Book 0 Jens Rosteck 3518182188 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.00 Bob Dylan
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<![CDATA[The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)]]> 46000520
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

Alternate cover edition can be found here .]]>
382 Richard Osman Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.87 2020 The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive]]> 45692429
In The Ratline Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of a senior Nazi and fugitive, and of his wife. Drawing on a remarkable archive of family letters and diaries, he unveils a fascinating insight into life before and during the war, on the run, in Rome, and into the Cold War. Eventually the door is unlocked to a mystery that haunts WĂ€chter's youngest son, who continues to believe his father was a good man - what happened to Otto WĂ€chter, and how did he die?]]>
411 Philippe Sands 1474608124 Lilly 0 4.17 2020 The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
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Gente di Dublino 3324485 208 James Joyce 8804448318 Lilly 0 to-read, libri-italiani 3.48 1914 Gente di Dublino
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A Long Petal of the Sea 46042377 From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.

In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires.

Together with two thousand other refugees, they embark on the SS Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, to Chile: “the long petal of sea and wine and snow.â€� As unlikely partners, they embrace exile as the rest of Europe erupts in world war. Starting over on a new continent, their trials are just beginning, and over the course of their lives, they will face trial after trial. But they will also find joy as they patiently await the day when they will be exiles no more. Through it all, their hope of returning to Spain keeps them going. Destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world, Roser and Victor will find that home might have been closer than they thought all along.

A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile, and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea shows Isabel Allende at the height of her powers. ]]>
325 Isabel Allende Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.03 2019 A Long Petal of the Sea
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<![CDATA[Hitlers Hofstaat: Der innere Kreis im Dritten Reich und danach (German Edition)]]> 44430353
"Wenn Sie abziehen, was Politik an ihm ist, bleibt wenig oder nichts", urteilte Ian Kershaw ĂŒber Hitler, und Joachim Fest "Ein Privatleben hatte er nicht." FĂŒr Alan Bullock war der "FĂŒhrer" ein "Entwurzelter ohne Heim und Familie". Doch damit gingen seine Biographen der Selbstinszenierung Hitlers auf den Leim. Sein innerer Kreis, die Berghof-Gesellschaft, war sein privater RĂŒckzugsraum. Doch der Hofstaat war mehr als das. Er gab Hitler erst den nötigen RĂŒckhalt, um die Rolle des "FĂŒhrers" ĂŒberhaupt ausfĂŒllen zu können. Er produzierte Vertrauensleute, die Hitler politisch nutzen konnte. Und er stellte eine verschworene Gemeinschaft dar, deren kleinster gemeinsamer Nenner im Antisemitismus bestand.
Heike Görtemaker leistet in diesem Buch Sie erschließt zahlreiche bisher unbekannte Quellen, stellt neue Fragen an das alte Material und erforscht erstmals auch den "Kreis ohne FĂŒhrer", die Vernetzung des inneren Zirkels nach 1945.]]>
785 Heike B. Görtemaker Lilly 0 3.93 2019 Hitlers Hofstaat: Der innere Kreis im Dritten Reich und danach (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Brandenburgisch-preussische Geschichte ... Mit drei Karten die Entwickelung des preussischen Staates darstellend, etc. (German Edition)]]> 44113633
British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World.

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xvi, 623 p. ; 8Âș.
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660 Edwin Evers 0274643340 Lilly 0 0.0 Brandenburgisch-preussische Geschichte ... Mit drei Karten die Entwickelung des preussischen Staates darstellend, etc. (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Diamond Jewelry: Seven Centuries of Glory and Glamour]]> 43726596 256 Diana Scarisbrick 0500021503 Lilly 0 4.36 Diamond Jewelry: Seven Centuries of Glory and Glamour
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<![CDATA[Let History Judge, The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism]]> 43511604 0 Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev 3944464532 Lilly 0 4.30 Let History Judge, The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism
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<![CDATA[The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company]]> 52371836 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India � A book of beauty' � Gerard DeGroot, The Times

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army � what we would now call an act of involuntary privatisation.

The East India Company's founding charter authorised it to 'wage war' and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional international trading corporation dealing in silks and spices and became something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. In less than four decades it had trained up a security force of around 200,000 men � twice the size of the British army � and had subdued an entire subcontinent, conquering first Bengal and finally, in 1803, the Mughal capital of Delhi itself. The Company's reach stretched until almost all of India south of the Himalayas was effectively ruled from a boardroom in London.

The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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576 William Dalrymple 1408864401 Lilly 0 4.37 2019 The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
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<![CDATA[Kaisertage - Die unveröffentlichten Aufzeichnungen (1914 bis 1918) der Kammerdiener und Adjutanten Wilhelms II.]]> 42941951 160 Paul Schönberger 3878001207 Lilly 0 3.50 Kaisertage - Die unveröffentlichten Aufzeichnungen (1914 bis 1918) der Kammerdiener und Adjutanten Wilhelms II.
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<![CDATA[Was heißt persönliche Verantwortung in einer Diktatur? (German Edition)]]> 43251828 97 Hannah Arendt 3492992684 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.00 Was heißt persönliche Verantwortung in einer Diktatur? (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays]]> 23353652 348 Oscar Wilde Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.75 The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays
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<![CDATA[Adlige Lebenswelten Im Rheinland: Kommentierte Quellen Der Fruhen Neuzeit (German Edition)]]> 42177121 448 Martin Braun 3412202517 Lilly 0 0.0 Adlige Lebenswelten Im Rheinland: Kommentierte Quellen Der Fruhen Neuzeit (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Ludwig Van Beethovens Briefe (German Edition)]]> 41473075 332 Leitzmann Albert 1867-1950 0274605074 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Ludwig Van Beethovens Briefe (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men]]> 46158570 Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives.

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.

If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap â€� a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.

From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women.

Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the impact this has on their health and well-being. In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew.]]>
411 Caroline Criado Pérez 1784706280 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.33 2019 Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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The Lost Pianos of Siberia 50616973
Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell.

Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos � grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble, Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood.

How these pianos travelled into this snow-bound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accomplished extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decemberist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle.

The Lost Pianos of Siberia is largely a story of music in this fascinating place, following Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of different instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful � and peppered with pianos.]]>
448 Sophy Roberts 0802149286 Lilly 0 3.95 2020 The Lost Pianos of Siberia
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<![CDATA[Krieg in Nordafrika 1940â€�1943: Reclam â€� Kriege der Moderne (German Edition)]]> 39337655 130 Peter Lieb 3159613453 Lilly 0 3.50 Krieg in Nordafrika 1940–1943: Reclam – Kriege der Moderne (German Edition)
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The Prince 393134 'One must be a fox in order to recognise traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves'

The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaming absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. NiccolĂČ Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded by some as an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognising the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideals but with a regime that would last, The Prince has become the bible of realpolitik, and still retains its power to alarm and to instruct.

In this edition Machiavelli's tough-minded and pragmatic Italian is preserved in George Bull's clear, unambiguous translation, while Anthony Grafton's introduction depicts Machiavelli's world of power struggles and intrigue, and discusses his role as a political teacher of Europe.]]>
106 NiccolĂČ Machiavelli 0140449159 Lilly 0 to-read 3.68 1513 The Prince
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Dont Touch My Hair 40232729 Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair.

Emma Dabiri can tell you the first time she chemically straightened her hair. She can describe the smell, the atmosphere of the salon, and her mix of emotions when she saw her normally kinky tresses fall down her shoulders. For as long as Emma can remember, her hair has been a source of insecurity, shame, and—from strangers and family alike—discrimination. And she is not alone.

Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society’s perception of black hair—and how it is often used as an avenue for discrimination. Dabiri takes us from pre-colonial Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, and into today's Natural Hair Movement, exploring everything from women's solidarity and friendship, to the criminalization of dreadlocks, to the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian's braids.

Through the lens of hair texture, Dabiri leads us on a historical and cultural investigation of the global history of racism—and her own personal journey of self-love and finally, acceptance.]]>
256 Emma Dabiri 0241308348 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.27 2019 Dont Touch My Hair
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<![CDATA[The French Revolution and What Went Wrong]]> 40026402 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.

The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it’s surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to oust the king, let alone guillotine him. But things quickly escalated until there was no turning back.

The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks at what went wrong and why France would be better off if they had kept their monarchy.]]>
687 Stephen Clarke 1473536669 Lilly 0 4.19 2018 The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
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Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’nâ€� roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]>
368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
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Heinrich Heine fĂŒr Boshafte 39339455 Rare Book Joseph Anton Kruse 3458349730 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 1.50 Heinrich Heine fĂŒr Boshafte
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<![CDATA[Das kleine Buch vom guten Morgen: Die besten Yoga-Übungen, Rituale und Rezepte fĂŒr den Start in den Tag (German Edition)]]> 38895717 Jeden Tag ein guter MorgenDieses Buch zeigt, wie man mithilfe von kleinen Ritualen, einer liebevollen Körperpflege und einer Prise Achtsamkeit aus einem normalen oder gar miesen Morgen einen guten machen kann â€� fĂŒr einen richtig guten Tag. Dazu gehören neben einem gesunden, schmackhaften FrĂŒhstĂŒck u.a. auch ein wenig Yoga, eventuell eine kleine Morgenmeditation und â€� als Grundlage eines guten Morgens â€� eine erholsame Nachtruhe. Eine beispielhafte Morgenroutine fĂŒr eine Woche rundet das Buch ab und hilft dabei, zur eigenen Morgenroutine zu finden.]]> 175 Inga Heckmann 3641211883 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.77 Das kleine Buch vom guten Morgen: Die besten Yoga-Übungen, Rituale und Rezepte fĂŒr den Start in den Tag (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[The Compendium of Amazing Garden Innovations]]> 38741039 112 Abigail Willis 1786273179 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.38 2018 The Compendium of Amazing Garden Innovations
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<![CDATA[What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women]]> 36991835
Boudicca stuck up for herself and now she can help you do the same. It is time to start channelling the spiky superwomen of history to conquer today. It is time to turn to women like Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker, Hypatia and Cleopatra, Coco Chanel and Empress Cixi. In this irreverent guide they will help you figure out how to dispatch a loverat, back yourself, kill it at work and trounce FoMo.

With original illustrations by Bijou Karman, What Would Boudicca Do? will make you fired-up and ready for anything.]]>
309 Elizabeth Foley 0571340482 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.71 2018 What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women
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The Doll Factory 38591165 The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession.

London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment � forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning.

When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.

But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening . . .]]>
336 Elizabeth Macneal 1529002397 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.76 2019 The Doll Factory
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<![CDATA[These Truths: A History of the United States]]> 43726521 New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,â€� Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?


These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradictionâ€� will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,â€� Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.]]>
960 Jill Lepore 0393357422 Lilly 0 4.38 2018 These Truths: A History of the United States
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<![CDATA[Zeit ist Geldverschwendung: KĂŒhle SprĂŒche (Klassiker der Weltliteratur) (German Edition)]]> 37934161 160 Oscar Wilde 384380561X Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.10 Zeit ist Geldverschwendung: KĂŒhle SprĂŒche (Klassiker der Weltliteratur) (German Edition)
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Was bedeuten gelbe Rosen? 37654451 0 Heinrich Heine 345581235X Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Was bedeuten gelbe Rosen?
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<![CDATA[1917. Revolution: Russland Und Europa, Katalog (German Edition)]]> 37498427 320 Julia Franke 3954982757 Lilly 0 4.00 1917. Revolution: Russland Und Europa, Katalog (German Edition)
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Create Dangerously 36436073 'To create today is to create dangerously'

Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.]]>
58 Albert Camus 024133912X Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.84 1957 Create Dangerously
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<![CDATA[The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy]]> 60670064 A richly illustrated examination of the Ottoman Empire, 100 years since its dissolution, unraveling its complex cultural legacy and profound impact on Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

A hundred years after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate on November 1, 1922, enough time has passed to reexamine the Ottomans and reassess their legacy. This illustrated volume, by critically acclaimed author Diana Darke, explores their unique achievements in architecture, cuisine, music, science, and medicine, as well as the political challenges they met. The Ottoman Empire faced issues shared by modern European and Middle Eastern how to maintain a balance between religious ideology and secular politics and how to promote fairness and equality among citizens in a multicultural society. While many still equate the Ottomans with the decadence of Istanbul―extravagant architecture, harems, and hookahs―they are unaware that the secrets of Ottoman success lay in a disciplined bureaucracy and a standing army that both awed and seduced its opponents. The Ottomans harnessed the talents of their diverse populations and quickly buttressed the crumbling edifice of Byzantine Christianity. Their dynamism and resilience helped fuse the cultures of Asia, Europe, and Africa, from the Himalayas to the Sahara, absorbing whatever impressed them, from Mongol armor to Persian tile work. Alongside their essential rigor, they enjoyed the finer aspects of in music, cuisine, and art, unafraid, even as rugged fighters, to display their love of flowers and gardens, especially tulips and roses. Behind the fine robes, carpets, and ceramics on display today in their great architectural monuments, Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace and Hagia Sophia, lie centuries of migration, trade, and struggle. In this original and beautifully illustrated book, Darke reveals a radically new picture of the Ottoman EmpireÌę 150 color illustrations]]>
288 Diana Darke 0500252661 Lilly 0 3.97 2022 The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
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<![CDATA[Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth]]> 50839555 A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest.

Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator?

Whilst he displayed elements of these traits at certain times, Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man, and as Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some phases of his life but it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he and others had toiled so hard to construct. A brilliant tactician, he was no strategist.

But nor was Napoleon an evil monster. He could be selfish and violent but there is no evidence of him wishing to inflict suffering gratuitously. His motives were mostly praiseworthy and his ambition no greater than that of contemporaries such as Alexander I of Russia, Wellington, Nelson, Metternich, Blucher, Bernadotte and many more. What made his ambition exceptional was the scope it was accorded by circumstance.

Adam Zamoyski strips away the lacquer of prejudice and places Napoleon the man within the context of his times. In the 1790s, a young Napoleon entered a world at war, a bitter struggle for supremacy and survival with leaders motivated by a quest for power and by self-interest. He did not start this war but dominated his life and continued, with one brief interruption, until his final defeat in 1815.

Based on primary sources in many European languages, and beautifully illustrated with portraits done only from life, this magnificent book examines how Napoleone Buonaparte, the boy from Corsica, became ‘Napoleonâ€�; how he achieved what he did, and how it came about that he undid it. It does not justify or condemn but seeks instead to understand Napoleon’s extraordinary trajectory.]]>
752 Adam Zamoyski 0008116091 Lilly 0 4.43 2018 Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
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<![CDATA[Harro Harring - Rebell der Freiheit: Die Geschichte des Dichters, Malers und RevolutionÀr 1798 -1870 (German Edition)]]> 36317346 409 Peter Mathews 3958901751 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 5.00 Harro Harring - Rebell der Freiheit: Die Geschichte des Dichters, Malers und RevolutionÀr 1798 -1870 (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz]]> 36316835 How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror?

This is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War.

In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich.

His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre -- Auschwitz.

It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazi’s terrifying designs. Over the next two and half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities to the West, culminating in the mass murder of over a million Jews. His reports from the camp were to shape the Allies response to the Holocaust - yet his story was all but forgotten for decades.

This is the first major account of his amazing journey, drawing on exclusive family papers and recently declassified files as well as unpublished accounts from the camp’s fighters to show how he saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

The result is a enthralling story of resistance and heroism against the most horrific circumstances, and one man’s attempt to change the course of history.]]>
400 Jack Fairweather 0753545160 Lilly 0 4.33 2019 The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
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<![CDATA[Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War (Cultural Expressions)]]> 36258245 Ìę
Anchored in close textual analysis of works by Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, Louis MacNeice, Denis Devlin, and Patrick Kavanagh, and supported by archival material and historical research, Emergency Writing shows how Irish late modernism was a response to the sociopolitical conditions of a newly independent Irish Free State and to a fully emerged modernism in literature and art. What emerges in Irish writing in the wake of Independence, of the Gaelic Revival, of Yeats and of Joyce, is a body of work that invokes modernism as a set of discursive practices with which to counter the Free State’s political pieties.
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Emergency Writing provides a new approach to literary modernism and to the literature of conflict, considering the ethical dilemma of performing neutrality—emotionally, politically, and rhetorically—in a world at war.]]>
280 Anna Teekell 0810137259 Lilly 0 0.0 Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War (Cultural Expressions)
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<![CDATA[China: A History in Objects (British Museum: A History in Objects)]]> 35407484

From the earliest archaeological relics and rituals, through the development of writing and state, to the advent of empire, the author charts China’s transformation from ancient civilization into the world’s most populous nation and influential economy, offering historical insights and cultural treasures along the way. This accessible book presents an eclectic mix of materials including Chinese theater, the decorative arts, costume, jewelry, and furniture-making, running through to the most recent diffusion of Chinese culture.]]>
352 Jessica Harrison-Hall 0500519706 Lilly 0 3.92 2018 China: A History in Objects (British Museum: A History in Objects)
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<![CDATA[Inside the Royal Wardrobe: A Dress History of Queen Alexandra (Dress and Fashion Research)]]> 34918659
More than 130 extraordinary garments from Alexandra's wardrobe survive, from sumptuous court dress and politicised fancy dress to mourning attire and elegant coronation gowns, and can be found in various collections around the world, from London, Oslo and Denmark to New York, Toronto and Tokyo. Curator and fashion scholar Kate Strasdin places these garments at the heart of this in-depth study, examining their relationships to issues such as body politics, power, celebrity, social identity and performance, and interpreting Alexandra's world from the objects out.

Adopting an object-based methodology, the book features a range of original sources from letters, travel journals and newspaper editorials, to wardrobe accounts, memoirs, tailors' ledgers and business records. Revealing a shrewd and socially aware woman attuned to the popular power of royal dress, the work will appeal to students and scholars of costume, fashion and dress history, as well as of material culture and 19th century history.]]>
192 Kate Strasdin 1474269931 Lilly 0 4.14 Inside the Royal Wardrobe: A Dress History of Queen Alexandra (Dress and Fashion Research)
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<![CDATA[I don't like Mondays: Die 66 grĂ¶ĂŸten SongmissverstĂ€ndnisse (German Edition)]]> 34624930 222 Michael Behrendt 3806235104 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.10 I don't like Mondays: Die 66 grĂ¶ĂŸten SongmissverstĂ€ndnisse (German Edition)
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Anatomy of a Scandal 34466492
Sophie’s husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart.

Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute the case: an experienced professional who knows that the law is all about winning the argument. And yet Kate seeks the truth at all times. She is certain James is guilty and is determined he will pay for his crimes.

Who is right about James? Sophie or Kate? And is either of them informed by anything more than instinct and personal experience? Despite her privileged upbringing, Sophie is well aware that her beautiful life is not inviolable. She has known it since she and James were first lovers, at Oxford, and she witnessed how easily pleasure could tip into tragedy.

Most people would prefer not to try to understand what passes between a man and a woman when they are alone: alone in bed, alone in an embrace, alone in an elevator� Or alone in the moonlit courtyard of an Oxford college, where a girl once stood before a boy, heart pounding with excitement, then fear. Sophie never understood why her tutorial partner Holly left Oxford so abruptly. What would she think, if she knew the truth?]]>
392 Sarah Vaughan 1501172166 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.57 2018 Anatomy of a Scandal
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<![CDATA[The Girlboss Workbook: An Interactive Journal for Winning at Life]]> 34419229 Hot on the heels of the new Netflix show based on #GIRLBOSS comes Sophia Amoruso's workbook of tips, doodles, and fill-in-the-blanks that will help you become your best Girlboss yet.

A graphic and whimsical easy-to-carry life bible filled with to-do lists, timelines, exercises, illustrations and plenty of scribble room, The Girlboss Workbook is fit for both the dreamer and the doer. It invites you--hell, implores you--to get in there and mess it up a little. Write in the blank spaces and in between them.

#GIRLBOSS started as Sophia's story, but The Girlboss Workbook is your story. It includes the best advice from #GIRLBOSS, of course, and will remind readers of the story of the girl who got her start fumbling and failing hard, but now it is time to take her story and use it to help you write your own.

Use The Girlboss Workbook to design your own freak flag to your heart's content. Ask yourself (or your mom) what makes you special and then draw in your own special snowflake. Revisit #GIRLBOSS's sage career wisdom and then use it to draft your own dream cover letter and answer your own practice interview questions. Fill in the blanks with your turn-ons and turn-offs, your most badass accomplishments, your mistakes. Write your own lemonade recipe with your own personal lemons. Use this workbook as a diary, a mood board, a stress ball.

No need to handle this book with care and no need to live a typical, cookie-cutter life. Sophia's has been anything but.]]>
176 Sophia Amoruso 0143131974 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.49 The Girlboss Workbook: An Interactive Journal for Winning at Life
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<![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II]]> 22008520 Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!

Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written.

The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty.

In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.

Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.]]>
737 Arthur Conan Doyle 0553212427 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 4.48 1986 Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
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Red Famine 37857018 Gulag and Iron Curtain.

In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.

The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering.

The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine's cultural and political leadership - and then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country's true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.]]>
482 Anne Applebaum 0141978287 Lilly 0 4.47 2017 Red Famine
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These Dividing Walls 33848298 One Parisian summer

A building of separate lives

All that divides them will soon collapse...

In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building.

Within its walls, people talk and kiss, laugh and cry; some are glad to sit alone, while others wish they did not. A woman with silver-blonde hair opens her bookshop downstairs, an old man feeds the sparrows on his windowsill, and a young mother wills the morning to hold itself at bay. Though each of their walls touches someone else's, the neighbours they pass in the courtyard remain strangers.

Into this courtyard arrives Edward. Still bearing the sweat of a channel crossing, he takes his place in an attic room to wait out his grief.

But in distant corners of the city, as Paris is pulled taut with summer heat, there are those who meet with a darker purpose. As the feverish metropolis is brought to boiling point, secrets will rise and walls will crumble both within and without Number 37...]]>
250 Fran Cooper Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.82 These Dividing Walls
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Munich 36114375 MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938

Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.

They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place.

As Chamberlain’s plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer’s train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides.

As Britain’s darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they’re hiding.

Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace?]]>
434 Robert Harris 1784751855 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.70 2017 Munich
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<![CDATA[Bob Dylan: Kleine Anekdoten aus dem Leben eines großen Musikers]]> 33818706 0 Christoph Spöcker 3742301799 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.50 Bob Dylan: Kleine Anekdoten aus dem Leben eines großen Musikers
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<![CDATA[MilitĂ€rgeschichte der Antike (Beck'sche Reihe 2447) (German Edition)]]> 32336868 Die Morgenröte der europĂ€ischen Literaturgeschichte, die wir Homers Ilias verdanken, erstrahlt in dĂŒsterem Glanz â€� sie beleuchtet den Krieg. Ihr sollten noch in der Antike zahlreiche Werke folgen, die dem gleichen Thema gewidmet waren, wie etwa Herodots Darstellung der Perserkriege, Caesars Gallischer Krieg und Prokops Gotenkriege, um nur einige ganz wenige der bekannteren Texte zu nennen. Auch archĂ€ologische Spuren militĂ€rischer Ereignisse aus dieser Zeit haben sich oft erstaunlich gut erhalten, so dass wir ĂŒber kaum ein antikes PhĂ€nomen so grĂŒndlich unterrichtet sind wie ĂŒber den Krieg. KriegsverlĂ€ufe entschieden damals wie heute nicht nur ĂŒber Leid, Leben und Tod zahlloser Individuen, sondern nicht selten auch ĂŒber den Fortbestand von Staatswesen ĂŒberhaupt. Daher hat man bereits in der Antike hohen Aufwand mit militĂ€rischer RĂŒstung und Waffentechnik â€� zu Lande und zu Wasser â€�, aber auch mit der Entwicklung von Strategie und Taktik betrieben. Dieses kleine Buch soll eine EinfĂŒhrung in das MilitĂ€rwesen der Antike als eines zentralen Elements der Geschichte dieser Epoche bieten.

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163 Leonhard Burckhardt Lilly 0 4.43 MilitÀrgeschichte der Antike (Beck'sche Reihe 2447) (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[The Russian Revolution: A New History]]> 31933203 In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation: by the end of these two decades, a new regime was in place, the economy had collapsed, and over 20 million Russians had died during the revolution and what followed. Still, Bolshevik power remained intact due to a remarkable combination of military prowess, violent terror tactics, and the failures of their opposition. And as McMeekin shows, Russia's revolutionaries were aided at nearly every step by countries like Germany and Sweden who sought to benefit—politically and economically—from the chaotic changes overtaking the country.

The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in a decade, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning point of the twentieth century.]]>
496 Sean McMeekin 0465039901 Lilly 0 3.85 2017 The Russian Revolution: A New History
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<![CDATA[Pedalare! Pedalare! A History of Italian Cycling]]> 11420073 Pedalare! Pedalare! is the first complete history of Italian cycling to be published in English. The book moves chronologically from the first Giro d'Italia (Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France) in 1909 to the present day. The tragedies and triumphs of great riders such as Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali appear alongside stories of the support riders, snow-bound mountains and the first and only woman to ride the whole Giro.
Cycling's relationship with Italian history, politics and culture is always up front, with reference to fascism, the cold war and the effect of two world wars. The sport is explored alongside changes in Italian society as a whole, from the poor peasants who took up cycling in the early, pioneering period, to the slick, professional sport of today. Scandals and controversy appear throughout the book as constant features of the connection between fans, journalists and cycling.
Concluding with an examination of doping, which has helped to destroy what was at one time the most popular sport of all, Pedalare, Pedalare is an engrossing history of a national passion.]]>
372 John Foot 0747595216 Lilly 0 3.88 2011 Pedalare! Pedalare! A History of Italian Cycling
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<![CDATA[I'd Die for You: And Other Lost Stories]]> 36690497 The Great Gatsby who is more widely read today than ever.

What to Do About It is a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel. Some of these stories were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, but were never printed. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald in the 1930s. Readers will experience Fitzgerald writing about controversial topics, depicting young men and women who actually spoke and thought more as young men and women did, without censorship. Rather than permit changes and sanitizing by his contemporary editors, Fitzgerald preferred to let his work remain unpublished, even at a time when he was in great need of money and review attention.

“What to Do About It,â€� the collection’s title story, is drawn from Fitzgerald’s stays at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore when his health, and that of his wife Zelda, was beginning to fall apart, and his solution—what to do about it—was to keep writing. Most of the stories come from the 1930s, though the collection spans Fitzgerald’s career from 1920 to the end of his life.

Written in his characteristically beautiful, sharp, and surprising language, exploring themes both familiar and fresh, these stories provide new insight into the bold and uncompromising arc of Fitzgerald’s career. What to Do About It is a revealing, intimate look at Fitzgerald’s creative process that shows him to be a writer working at the fore of modern literature—in all its developing complexities.]]>
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<![CDATA[Heine-Jahrbuch 2015 (German Edition)]]> 30459600 319 Kenneth A. Loparo 3476025748 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Heine-Jahrbuch 2015 (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Heine-Jahrbuch 2014 (German Edition)]]> 30459586 333 Kenneth A. Loparo 3476025438 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Heine-Jahrbuch 2014 (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Heine-Jahrbuch 2013: 52. Jahrgang (German Edition)]]> 30459557 329 Kenneth A. Loparo 3476024970 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Heine-Jahrbuch 2013: 52. Jahrgang (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Heine-Jahrbuch 2012: 51. Jahrgang (German Edition)]]> 30459536 300 Kenneth A. Loparo 3476024601 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 2.00 Heine-Jahrbuch 2012: 51. Jahrgang (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Heine-Jahrbuch 2011: 50. Jahrgang (German Edition)]]> 30459501 300 Kenneth A. Loparo 3476024059 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Heine-Jahrbuch 2011: 50. Jahrgang (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[Heine-Jahrbuch 2010: 49. Jahrgang (German Edition)]]> 30459471 332 Kenneth A. Loparo 3476023621 Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 0.0 Heine-Jahrbuch 2010: 49. Jahrgang (German Edition)
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<![CDATA[My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun (Penguin Little Black Classics, #114)]]> 29354537 52 Emily Dickinson Lilly 0 my-library, to-read 3.88 1880 My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun (Penguin Little Black Classics, #114)
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