Perrin's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:04:40 -0700 60 Perrin's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Runner's World Complete Book of Running]]> 619853
The sport of running is ever-changing, be it the shoes we wear or the goals we set, the training methods we use or the role models we emulate. But there is one constant: for more than 30 years, Runner's World magazine has been recognized worldwide as the most reliable and authoritative source of running knowledge. And for the past 7 years, Runner's World Complete Book of Running has been the classic book of choice for runners looking to run better, longer, and faster.

Inside, all the secrets of running are laid bare. Need to know the best ways to start a running program? You'll find it. Looking for tips on buying and preserving your running shoes? It's in there. From a complete look at running injuries to the benefits of sports drinks vs. water to the best way to increase your endurance and train for a marathon, look no further than Runner's World Complete Book of Running. Contents include:

- A sure-fire plan for beginners to get "hooked" on running
- 15 surprising foods to boost your running performance
- Tips for triathletes to maximize your training efficiency
- 11 rules to run a great marathon
- A woman's encyclopedia of running
- How to incorporate speedwork into your training
- How to think like a champion
- How to taper your eating, and your training, before a race

Whether you are a beginner or veteran runner, here is the advice--both timeless and cutting-edge--guaranteed to maximize your performance and your running pleasure.]]> 312 Amby Burfoot 1579549292 Perrin 4 3.63 Runner's World Complete Book of Running
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]]> <![CDATA[Burglars and Bluestockings (Wishes and Wellingtons, #3)]]> 60704832
But just when it seems like her dreams might one day come true, thieves looking to steal Mermeros put Maeve and her friends in danger. With the help of two charmed silver mirrors, Maeve can outwit almost any burglar, but she knows magic will continue to cause her trouble at every turn. What if it's time to give up her djnnni once and for all? Is Maeve ready to throw away all her wishes?]]> 352 Julie Berry 1728259452 Perrin 4 4.26 2022 Burglars and Bluestockings (Wishes and Wellingtons, #3)
author: Julie Berry
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Crime and Carpetbags (Wishes and Wellingtons, #2)]]> 56628268 352 Julie Berry 1728231493 Perrin 4 4.10 2021 Crime and Carpetbags (Wishes and Wellingtons, #2)
author: Julie Berry
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[Return to Gone-Away (Gone-Away Lake, #2)]]> 547853
Empty for half a century, ugly as a horned toad, Villa Caprice is a mildewy, cobwebby, boarded-up, junk-cluttered museum to a way of life long forgotten. But it is also a wonderland, filled to the rafters with fifty years' worth of treasures and secrets - small mysteries that Portia and Julian must solve to uncover the greatest secret of all....

Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright's beloved stories about two children and their discovery of a ghostly lakeside resort. These two modern classics are once again available in Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic editions, but now with handsome new cover art by Mary GrandPré to complement Beth and Joe Krush's original interior illustrations.]]> 212 Elizabeth Enright 0152022635 Perrin 5 4.16 1961 Return to Gone-Away (Gone-Away Lake, #2)
author: Elizabeth Enright
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]]> <![CDATA[Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake, #1)]]> 175824 Summer has a magic all its own.

When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she expects fun and adventure, but of the usual kind: exploring in the woods near Julian's house, collecting stones and bugs, playing games throughout the long, lazy days.

But this summer is different.

On their first day exploring, Portia and Julian discover an enormous boulder with a mysterious message, a swamp choked with reeds and quicksand, and on the far side of the swamp...a ghost town.

Once upon a time the swamp was a splendid lake, and the fallen houses along its shore an elegant resort community. But though the lake is long gone and the resort faded away, the houses still hold a secret life: two people who have never left Gone-Away...and who can tell the story of what happened there.]]> 256 Elizabeth Enright 0152022724 Perrin 5 4.13 1957 Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (The Melendy Family, #4)]]> 421643
Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and a bit mischievous. Miranda is ten and a half. She loves dancing and painting pictures. Oliver is the youngest. At six, he is a calm and thoughful person. They all live with their father, who is a writer, and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, who takes on the many roles of nurse, cook, substitute mother, grandmother, and aunt.

Elizabeth Enright’s Melendy Quartet, which captures the lively adventures of a family as they move from the city to the country, are being published in new editions. Each of the books features a foreward and signature black-and-white interior illustrations by the author. Popular artist Tricia Tusa provides irresistible new cover art that will appeal to today’s readers.]]> 224 Elizabeth Enright 080507063X Perrin 5 4.01 1951 Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (The Melendy Family, #4)
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3)]]> 421640
Here is Elizabeth Enright's classic story of a long and glorious summer in the country with the resourceful, endearing Melendy bunch.]]> 260 Elizabeth Enright 0805070621 Perrin 5 4.27 1944 Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3)
author: Elizabeth Enright
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)]]> 421642 196 Elizabeth Enright 0805070613 Perrin 5 4.29 1942 The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2)
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)]]> 5019 children take turns to spend their pooled allowances. Actor Mona 13 recites poetry and Shakespeare at the drop of a hat. Engineer Rush 12, mischievous, builds Meccano bridges. Miranda "Randy" 10 dances and paints pictures. Oliver, 6, calm and thoughtful, is a train engineer. Father writes. Housekeeper Cuffy mothers.]]> 177 Elizabeth Enright 0805070605 Perrin 5 4.17 1941 The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People]]> 199534697 A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry

Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for that which lies beyond the current conditions. But blue is also the color of deep melancholy and heartache, echoing Louis Armstrong’s question, “What did I do to be so Black and blue?� In this book, celebrated author Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color as a springboard for a riveting emotional, cultural, and spiritual journey—an examination of race and Blackness that transcends politics or ideology.

Perry traces both blue and Blackness from their earliest roots to their many embodiments of contemporary culture, drawing deeply from her own life as well as art and history: The dyed indigo cloths of West Africa that were traded for human life in the 16th century. The mixture of awe and aversion in the old-fashioned characterization of dark-skinned people as “Blue Black.� The fundamentally American art form of blues music, sitting at the crossroads of pain and pleasure. The blue flowers Perry plants to honor a loved one gone too soon.

Poignant, spellbinding, and utterly original, Black in Blues is a brilliant new work that could only have come from the mind of one of our greatest writers and thinkers. Attuned to the harrowing and the sublime aspects of the human experience, it is every bit as vivid, rich, and striking as blue itself.]]> 256 Imani Perry 0062977393 Perrin 0 currently-reading 4.34 2025 Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
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]]> Lungfish 59877157
Tuck is a woman whose husband's addiction has drained their finances and driven them to move illegally to an abandoned island off the coast of Maine. There, she must care for their young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives—or before they are found out—while her husband struggles to detox.

Tuck finds herself at the mercy of what the island has to offer for sustenance and answers (little green crabs, bladderwrack, rosehip tea; notes scrawled out by her grandmother, smells held by the damp walls of the house, a failed invention left behind by her missing father)—living moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life.

With exquisite prose that is displacing and even transformative, Lungfish explores the wild, unknown spaces of what makes a family, and the darkness that must be grappled through to find a way out. Meghan Gilliss� debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and the ground that is ever-shifting beneath our feet.]]> 320 Meghan Gilliss 1646220919 Perrin 0 to-read 3.51 2022 Lungfish
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]]> You or Someone Like You 5841747 Washington Post.

New York Magazine calls You or Someone Like You, "The highbrow humanist name-dropping book of the summer." The remarkable first novel by Chandler Burr, the New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent, is funny, smart, and provocative—an extraordinarily ambitious work of fiction that succeeds on many different levels. It is a book David Ebershoff, (author of The 19th Wife) enthusiastically recommends "for anyone who defiantly clings to the belief that a book can change our lives."]]> 336 Chandler Burr 0061715654 Perrin 0 to-read 3.14 2009 You or Someone Like You
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]]> <![CDATA[Green Water, Green Sky (Bloomsbury classics)]]> 661311 192 Mavis Gallant 0747518580 Perrin 0 currently-reading 3.59 1959 Green Water, Green Sky (Bloomsbury classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live]]> 13707578
From debunking the caveman diet to unraveling gender stereotypes, Zuk gives an analysis of widespread paleofantasies and the scientific evidence that undermines them, all the while broadening our understanding of our origins and what they can really tell us about our present and our future.]]> 328 Marlene Zuk 0393081370 Perrin 3 3.66 2013 Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
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average rating: 3.66
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]]> The Slap 5396496
This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap.

In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.

What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth.]]> 485 Christos Tsiolkas Perrin 3 3.26 2008 The Slap
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average rating: 3.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)]]> 1736739
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.

As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life � sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty.]]> 270 Elizabeth Strout Perrin 4 3.85 2008 Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> A Personal Matter 25191
His most personal book, A Personal Matter, is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.]]> 165 KenzaburĹŤ ĹŚe 0802150616 Perrin 5 3.91 1964 A Personal Matter
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]]> So Big 257443 So Big as being about a "material man, son of his earth-grubbing, idealistic mother". Left an orphan at 19 years old in the late 1880s, Selina Peake needs to support herself. She leaves the city life she has known to become a teacher in the farming community of High Prairie, IL. Her father had told her that life is an adventure, and one should make the most of it.

Selina sees beauty everywhere, including in the fields of cabbages. She has a natural curiosity about farming and oversteps the woman's traditional role by having the audacity to ask the men questions. She soon marries Pervus DeJong, a farmer. Selina eagerly offers suggestions for operational improvements, but Pervus ignores her, preferring to use the unprofitable farming methods employed by his father.

Though she suffers many hardships, Selina always remembers the importance of beauty, and she admires those who exercise their creative talents. She tries to instill these views in her son Dirk and fights with her husband over the need for their child to get a full education. Once Dirk finishes college and starts work, will he retain Selina's values?

So Big was the first book to have the rare distinction of being the best-selling book of the year and win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.]]> 376 Edna Ferber 1417906774 Perrin 4 4.04 1924 So Big
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]]> Troll: A Love Story 100485
Angel begins researching frantically. Angel searches the Internet, folklore, nature journals, and newspaper clippings, but his research doesn't tell him that trolls exude pheromones that have a profound aphrodisiac effect on all those around him. As Angel's life changes beyond recognition, it becomes clear that the troll is familiar with the man's most forbidden feelings, and that it may take him across lines he never thought he'd cross. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, peculiar, and beguiling story of nature and man's relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves.]]> 278 Johanna Sinisalo 0802141293 Perrin 4 3.52 2000 Troll: A Love Story
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average rating: 3.52
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]]> <![CDATA[Magical Thinking: True Stories]]> 79790 304 Augusten Burroughs 0312315953 Perrin 2 3.96 2004 Magical Thinking: True Stories
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work: Film by Film, Stills, Polaroids & Writings]]> 43824458 This new smaller-format edition of a 2012 publication was compiled and edited by Tarkovsky's son Andrey Jr., along with film historian and critic Hans-Joachim Schlegel and Lothar Schirmer. Beautifully designed and printed, Andrey Life and Work pays homage to a great visionary who produced poetic and sometimes disturbing images of near biblical intensity through his films. Featuring stills from each of his films, a selection of his influential writings, private photographs from the family album, as well as Polaroids from Russia and Italy, it is buttressed with comments from prominent voices who have commented on Tarkovsky's work and personality, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Ingmar Bergman and Aleksandr Sokurov.]]> 288 Andrei Tarkovsky 382960811X Perrin 5 4.44 2012 Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work: Film by Film, Stills, Polaroids & Writings
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average rating: 4.44
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]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Spades and Other Stories]]> 97381 The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.]]> 336 Alexander Pushkin 0192839543 Perrin 5 4.16 1841 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[One Hundred Famous Views of Edo]]> 600483 256 Hiroshige Utagawa 0807611433 Perrin 5 4.53 1856 One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
author: Hiroshige Utagawa
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average rating: 4.53
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]]> The Swimming-Pool Library 30106 352 Alan Hollinghurst 0679722564 Perrin 5 re-reading 3.77 1988 The Swimming-Pool Library
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> Great Expectations 2623
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.]]> 544 Charles Dickens 0192833596 Perrin 5 3.78 1861 Great Expectations
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]]> <![CDATA[That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation]]> 310357 340 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 1932360565 Perrin 3 4.05 2004 That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> The Death Cycle Machine 1720382 75 Charlotte Mayerson 0517702797 Perrin 5 4.43 1996 The Death Cycle Machine
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]]> The Year of Magical Thinking 7815
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."]]> 227 Joan Didion 1400078431 Perrin 5 3.94 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking
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]]> Sacred Country 209487 321 Rose Tremain 0671886096 Perrin 5 3.96 1992 Sacred Country
author: Rose Tremain
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> Peter Hujar: A Retrospective 1340569 Peter Hujar 1881616355 Perrin 5 4.60 1994 Peter Hujar: A Retrospective
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average rating: 4.60
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]]> <![CDATA[A Natural History of the Senses]]> 76611 352 Diane Ackerman 0679735666 Perrin 5 4.16 1990 A Natural History of the Senses
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]]> The Ways of White Folks 133914
One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but these stories showcase his talent as a lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.

Stories included in this collection:
"Cora Unashamed"
"Slave on the Block"
"Home"
"Passing"
"A Good Job Gone"
"Rejuvenation Through Joy"
"The Blues I'm Playing"
"Red-Headed Baby"
"Poor Little Black Fellow"
"Little Dog"
"Berry"
"Mother and Child"
"One Christmas Eve"
"Father and Son"]]> 255 Langston Hughes 0679728171 Perrin 5 4.45 1934 The Ways of White Folks
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]]> <![CDATA[The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)]]> 38447
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.]]> 311 Margaret Atwood 038549081X Perrin 5 4.15 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe]]> 1103403
Ellenzweig situates each of his artists within their historical context, with chapters devoted to specific photographers and eras. He begins with nineteenth-century French photographer Eugène Durieu and his studies of the male nude, created under the direction of painter Eugène Delacroix. He then takes readers all the way through the rebellious 1960s and the disputes surrounding Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial retrospective in 1989 and 1990. Showing that homoeroticism in photography is anything but a contemporary invention, Ellenzweig unites photographers across the stylistic spectrum within a theme that came to inspire a host of larger spiritual, physical, and intellectual ideals.]]> 230 Allen Ellenzweig 0231075367 Perrin 5 4.27 1992 The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe
author: Allen Ellenzweig
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Two or Three Things I Know for Sure]]> 91873 Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.

Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.

As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.]]> 94 Dorothy Allison Perrin 5 4.13 1995 Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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]]> The Complete Claudine 89839
Janet Flanner described these books as "amazing writing on the almost girlish search for the absolute of happiness in physical love . . . recorded by a literary brain always wide awake on the pillow."]]> 632 Colette Gauthier-Villars 0374528039 Perrin 5 4.19 1903 The Complete Claudine
author: Colette Gauthier-Villars
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1903
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Between the Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics]]> 381122 208 John Berger 193178888X Perrin 5 4.19 2003 Between the Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Untitled Film Stills]]> 349086 Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives. Sherman began making these pictures in 1977 when she was 23 years old. The first six were an experiment: fan-magazine glimpses into the life (or roles) of an imaginary blond actress, played by Sherman herself. The photographs look like movie stills--or perhaps publicity pix--purporting to catch the blond bombshell in unguarded moments at home. The protagonist is shown preening in the kitchen and lounging in the bedroom. Onto something big, Sherman tried other characters in other roles: the chic starlet at her seaside hideaway, the luscious librarian, the domesticated sex kitten, the hot-blooded woman of the people, the ice-cold sophisticate and a can-can line of other stereotypes. She eventually completed the series in 1980. She stopped, she has explained, when she ran out of clichés.

Other artists had drawn upon popular culture but Sherman's strategy was new. For her the pop-culture image was not a subject (as it had been for Walker Evans) or raw material (as it had been for Andy Warhol) but a whole artistic vocabulary, ready-made. Her film stills look and function just like the real ones--those 8 x 10 glossies designed to lure us into a drama we find all the more compelling because we know it isn't real. In the Untitled Film Stills there are no Cleopatras, no ladies on trains, no women of a certain age. There are, of course, no men. The 69 solitary heroines map a particular constellation of fictional femininity that took hold in postwar America--the period of Sherman's youth and the starting point for our contemporary mythology. In finding a form for her own sensibility, Sherman touched a sensitive nerve in the culture at large. Although most of the characters are invented, we sense right away that we already know them. That twinge of instant recognition is what makes the series tick and it arises from Cindy Sherman's uncanny poise. There is no wink at the viewer, no open irony, no camp.

In 1995, The Museum of Modern Art purchased the series from the artist, preserving the work in its entirety. This book marks the first time that the complete series will be published as a unified work, with Sherman herself arranging the pictures in sequence.]]> 164 Cindy Sherman 0870705075 Perrin 5 4.08 1990 The Complete Untitled Film Stills
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]]> Lambs of God 259764 336 Marele Day 1573227226 Perrin 5 3.65 1998 Lambs of God
author: Marele Day
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]]> <![CDATA[Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey]]> 147120 In this acclaimed novel, Dan Rhodes, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, has created a tragicomic work of macabre beauty that both amuses and moves in equal measure.]]> 226 Dan Rhodes 0156029952 Perrin 5 3.56 2003 Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
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]]> <![CDATA[Wishes and Wellingtons (Wishes and Wellingtons, #1)]]> 49181801
Soon an orphan boy from the charitable home next door, a mysterious tall man in ginger whiskers, a disgruntled school worker, and a take-no-prisoners business tycoon are in hot pursuit of Maeve and her magical discovery. It'll take all of her quick thinking and sass to set matters right.]]> 363 Julie Berry 1728223253 Perrin 4 3.87 2018 Wishes and Wellingtons (Wishes and Wellingtons, #1)
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]]> The Golden Orchard 50986363
Maya loves to cook with her grandmother - her Halmunee - to connect with the rich family history associated with each dish, a history Maya's mom would prefer stayed in the past. While cooking with Halmunee, something remarkable happens - the food creates such a strong memory that Maya and Halmunee are transported back in time through the memory itself. Halmunee explains that the women in her family have the gift of time travel through food and Maya can do it too, if she practices. While eating her way through the past, Maya meets Jeff: another young time traveler who brings her to the Golden Orchard, a garden of memories filled with the trees of so many people's lives. Maya learns that time moves in ways she couldn't imagine and sometimes family keep their memories secret to protect the ones they love.]]> 6 Flora Ahn Perrin 4 3.74 2020 The Golden Orchard
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]]> <![CDATA[Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It]]> 8727466 An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.

In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates�not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough research, keen insight, and unassailable common sense, Good Calories, Bad Calories immediately stirred controversy and acclaim among academics, journalists, and writers alike. Michael Pollan heralded it as “a vitally important book, destined to change the way we think about food.�

Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Taubes now revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change—in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes’s crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.

Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century, none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out� model of why we get fat, and the good science that has been ignored, especially regarding insulin’s regulation of our fat tissue. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid?

Packed with essential information and concluding with an easy-to-follow diet, Why We Get Fat is an invaluable key in our understanding of an international epidemic and a guide to what each of us can do about it.]]> 272 Gary Taubes Perrin 4 3.99 2010 Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
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]]> iPad 2 Fully Loaded 11653975 304 Alan Hess 1118093194 Perrin 4 3.40 2011 iPad 2 Fully Loaded
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me]]> 155685403
Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior.
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For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb’s life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha’s inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests—a love story like no other.
Ěý]]> 344 Caleb Carr 0316503606 Perrin 0 to-read 4.11 2024 My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
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]]> The Scoop 49663377
The three of them are thrown together for an intense rollercoaster ride in Alice a converted bright pink ice cream van through some of the most beautiful and dangerous places in the world, from Tulse Hill to Tibet.

"A wonderful tale of journeys, both geographical and emotional, that will keep you entertained at every turn... Cat Walker is a brilliant storyteller" Zoe Lyons]]> 356 Cat Walker 1913062104 Perrin 0 to-read 3.76 The Scoop
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]]> Tomb of Sand 58703758
At the older woman's insistence they travel back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist.

Rather than respond to tragedy with seriousness, Geetanjali Shree's playful tone and exuberant wordplay results in a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent and timely protest against the destructive impact of borders and boundaries, whether between religions, countries, or genders.]]> 739 Geetanjali Shree Perrin 0 to-read 3.65 2018 Tomb of Sand
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]]> <![CDATA[To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism]]> 13587160 The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-life democracy.

In the very near future, technological systems will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions into many more areas of public life: politics, culture, public debate, even our definitions of morality and human values. But how will these be affected once we delegate much of the responsibility for them to technology? The temptation of the digital age is to fix everything—from crime to corruption to pollution to obesity—by digitally quantifying, tracking, or gamifiying behavior. But when we change the motivations for our moral, ethical, and civic behavior, we may also change the very nature of that behavior itself. Technology, Evgeny Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement—but only if we abandon the idea that it is necessarily revolutionary and instead genuinely interrogate what we are doing with it and what it is doing to us.

From urging us to abandon monolithic ideas of “the Internet� to showing how to design more humane and democratic technological solutions, To Save Everything, Click Here is a dazzling tour of our technological future, and a searching investigation into the digital version of an enduring struggle: between man and his machines.]]> 415 Evgeny Morozov 1610391381 Perrin 0 to-read 3.68 2013 To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
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]]> <![CDATA[Inspector Morrison's Case Book: Revisiting the World of E.F.Benson's Mapp & Lucia through the files of Tilling's Senior Police Officer]]> 59520593 346 Deryck J. Solomon Perrin 1 4.00 Inspector Morrison's Case Book: Revisiting the World of E.F.Benson's Mapp & Lucia through the files of Tilling's Senior Police Officer
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]]> That Mad Ache 5547739 That Mad Ache, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960’s, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As Lucile explores these two versions of love, she vacillates in confusion, but in the end she must choose, and her heart’s instinct is surprising and poignant. Originally published under the title La Chamade, this new translation by Douglas Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English.

In Translator, Trader, Douglas Hofstadter reflects on his personal act of devotion in rewriting Françoise Sagan’s novel La Chamade in English, and on the paradoxes that constantly plague any literary translator on all scales, ranging from the humblest of commas to entire chapters. Flatly rejecting the common wisdom that translators are inevitably traitors, Hofstadter proposes instead that translators are traders, and that translation, like musical performance, deserves high respect as a creative act. In his view, literary translation is the art of making subtle trades in which one sometimes loses and sometimes gains, often both losing and gaining at the same time. This view implies that there is no reason a translation cannot be as good as the original work, and that the result inevitably bears the stamp of the translator, much as a musical performance inevitably bears the stamp of its artists. Both a companion to the beloved Sagan novel and a singular meditation on translation, Translator, Trader is a witty and intimate exploration of words, ideas, communication, creation, and faithfulness.]]> 311 Françoise Sagan Perrin 0 to-read 3.96 1965 That Mad Ache
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]]> The Shipping News 7354
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
(back cover)]]> 337 Annie Proulx 0743225422 Perrin 5 3.88 1993 The Shipping News
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average rating: 3.88
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rating: 5
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]]> Oblomov 254308 586 Ivan Goncharov 1933480092 Perrin 0 to-read 4.09 1859 Oblomov
author: Ivan Goncharov
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average rating: 4.09
book published: 1859
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]]> Year of Wonders 4965
Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition.

As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love.

As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders."

Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. ]]> 304 Geraldine Brooks 0142001430 Perrin 3 4.00 2001 Year of Wonders
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]]> Another Country 38474
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.]]> 448 James Baldwin 0141186372 Perrin 5 4.32 1962 Another Country
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]]> The Complete Poems 45286 Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful “Song of Myself� and “I Sing the Body Electric� to the elegiac “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,� Whitman’s art fuses oratory, journalism, and song in a vivid celebration of humanity. Containing all Whitman’s known poetic work, this edition reprints the final, or “deathbed,� edition of Leaves of Grass (1891�92). Earlier versions of many poems are also given, including the 1855 “Song of Myself.�
Features a completely new—and fuller—introduction discussing the development of Whitman's poetic career, his influence on later American poets, and his impact on the American cultural sensibility


Includes chronology, updated suggestions for further reading, and extensive notes]]> 896 Walt Whitman 0140424512 Perrin 0 to-read 4.26 1892 The Complete Poems
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead]]> 1785957 193 Barbara Comyns 0984469311 Perrin 4 3.84 1954 Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
author: Barbara Comyns
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 1954
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946�2006]]> 3090941 216 Friederike Mayröcker 1857548965 Perrin 0 to-read 4.30 2008 Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946–2006
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> Howl 6300 208 Allen Ginsberg 0060926112 Perrin 5 4.21 1956 Howl
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]]> Confessions of a Hooligan 1952579 107 Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin 0902145487 Perrin 0 to-read 4.49 1921 Confessions of a Hooligan
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]]> The Collected Poems 197132
Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.

Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions, and other photos, including a portrait photo of Esenin and his wife Isadora Duncan, American dancer (v. 2, p. [7]).]]> 700 Sergei Yesenin 0970580304 Perrin 0 to-read 4.30 1961 The Collected Poems
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]]> Cynics 4631397 237 Anatoly Mariengof 0883550121 Perrin 0 to-read 4.35 1928 Cynics
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]]> <![CDATA[A Novel Without Lies (New Russian Writing)]]> 2419225 192 Anatoly Mariengof 5717200498 Perrin 0 to-read 4.14 1926 A Novel Without Lies (New Russian Writing)
author: Anatoly Mariengof
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average rating: 4.14
book published: 1926
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]]> <![CDATA[Travel Manchester, England, UK 2011 - Illustrated Guide & Maps. Entertainment Bonus: FREE Sudoku Puzzles & "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (Mobi Travel)]]> 8255875 This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide is complimented by clearly marked maps that are linked to city attractions.

Table of Contents:

Essentials: Eat | Drink | Sleep | Contact | Cope | Respect | Stay Safe | Driving in UK | Units Conversion

1. General: Geography | History | Governance | Talk

2. Maps: Districts | Manchester | Metrolink | The Gay Village | Greater Manchester | Regions of England | UK

3. Transport: Get in | Get around | Manchester Airport | Metrolink

4. Attractions: Top 10 | Do | Buy

5. Culture: Architecture | Museums | Theatres & Concert Venues | Festivals & Events | Sport

6. Landmarks: See | Buildings | Churches | Parks | Streets & Squares

7. By Area: Districts | Greater Manchester | Get out
7.1 Other Cities: Altrincham | Ashton-under-Lyne | Bolton | Bury | Oldham | Rochdale | Sale | Stockport | Wigan

8. England: Regions | Geography | History | Culture | Cuisine | Get in & Get around | See & Do | Buy

Read: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle | Play: Sudoku

]]> MobileReference Perrin 0 to-read 0.0 Travel Manchester, England, UK 2011 - Illustrated Guide & Maps. Entertainment Bonus: FREE Sudoku Puzzles & "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (Mobi Travel)
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]]> Lady into Fox 785371 (Summary by Annise )]]> 78 David Garnett 1932416056 Perrin 0 to-read 3.63 1922 Lady into Fox
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]]> X 55949809 A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, and dungeons across New York City, X is a novel that delves into the psyches of characters on the margins

The world is ending, and down-and-out sadist Lee spends their days working for a big corporation and their nights wandering the streets of Brooklyn listening to true crime podcasts. But everything changes when Lee is dragged to a warehouse party by their best friend, where they find themself in the clutches of the seductive and bloodthirsty X. When Lee seeks her out again, she’s nowhere to be found.

Amid the steady constriction of civil rights and the purging of migrants and refugees, the U.S. government has recently begun encouraging the semi-voluntary “exporting� of undesirable citizens—the radicalized, the dissident, and the ungovernable. Word has it that X may be among those leaving. If Lee doesn’t track her down soon, she may be gone forever.]]> 288 Davey Davis 1646220935 Perrin 0 to-read 3.39 2022 X
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]]> <![CDATA[The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)]]> 40275288
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction � but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.]]> 845 Samantha Shannon 1408883457 Perrin 0 to-read 4.18 2019 The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women]]> 58495632 194 Alissa Wilkinson 1506473555 Perrin 0 to-read 3.64 2022 Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women
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]]> Tiepolo Blue 59883014 Ben turns and grins ironically. â€When you stopped just now and looked at the sky, you weren’t measuring it. You weren’t thinking about classical proportion. You were feeling something.â€�

Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience of life and love.

When an explosive piece of contemporary art is installed on the lawn of his college, it sets in motion Don’s abrupt departure from Cambridge to take up a role at a south London museum. There he befriends Ben, a young artist who draws him into the anarchic 1990s British art scene and the nightlife of Soho.

Over the course of one long, hot summer, Don glimpses a liberating new existence. But his epiphany is also a moment of self-reckoning, as his oldest friendship � and his own unexamined past � are revealed to him in a devastating new light. As Don’s life unravels, he suffers a fall from grace that that shatters his world into pieces.]]> 352 James Cahill 1529369398 Perrin 0 to-read 3.27 2022 Tiepolo Blue
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]]> Solo Dance 59422061
Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan, is working an office job in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden—including her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to Japan. There is also her unusual fascination with death: she knows from personal experience how devastating death can be, but for her it is also creative fuel. Solo Dance depicts the painful coming of age of a gay person in Taiwan and corporate Japan. This striking debut is an intimate and powerful account of a search for hope after trauma.

Translated from Japanese by Arthur Reiji Morris]]> 149 Kotomi Li 1642861162 Perrin 0 to-read 3.68 2017 Solo Dance
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]]> Land of Big Numbers: Stories 52782536 A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women of modern China and its diaspora

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers depicts the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present.
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Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited. Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist. A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend. A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of China’s volatile stock exchange. And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave.
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With acute social insight, Te-Ping Chen layers years of experience reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose in this taut, surprising debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.

Lulu --
Hotline girl --
New fruit --
Field notes on a marriage --
Flying machine --
On the street where you live --
Shanghai murmur --
Land of big numbers --
Beautiful country --
Gubeikou spirit]]> 233 Te-Ping Chen 0358272556 Perrin 0 to-read 3.93 2021 Land of Big Numbers: Stories
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]]> Instinct to Ruin 34586668 78 L. Mathis 1544111029 Perrin 5 4.37 Instinct to Ruin
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]]> <![CDATA[How Did You Get This Number: Essays]]> 7091863 A brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Crosley.

From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, the indignity of entry-level work, and the special joy of suburban nostalgia-and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own.

Crosley still lives and works in New York City, but she's no longer the newcomer for whom a trip beyond the Upper West Side is a big adventure. She can pack up her sensibility and take us with her to Paris, to Portugal (having picked it by spinning a globe and putting down her finger, and finally falling in with a group of Portuguese clowns), and even to Alaska, where the "bear bells" on her fellow bridesmaids' ponytails seemed silly until a grizzly cub dramatically intrudes. Meanwhile, back in New York, where new apartments beckon and taxi rides go awry, her sense of the city has become more layered, her relationships with friends and family more complicated.

As always, Crosley's voice is fueled by the perfect witticism, buoyant optimism, flair for drama, and easy charm in the face of minor suffering or potential drudgery. But in How Did You Get This Number it has also become increasingly sophisticated, quicker and sharper to the point, more complex and lasting in the emotions it explores. And yet, Crosley remains the unfailingly hilarious young Every woman, healthily equipped with intelligence and poise to fend off any potential mundanity in maturity.

Show me the doll --
Lost in space --
Take a stab at it --
It's always home you'll miss --
Light pollution --
If you sprinkle --
An abbreviated catalog of tongues --
Le Paris! --
Off the back of a truck]]> 274 Sloane Crosley 1594487596 Perrin 0 to-read 3.52 2010 How Did You Get This Number: Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays]]> 2195289 From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney Sullivan. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays from Sloane Crosley is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.

From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of intentions -- or perhaps because of them. Together, these essays create a startlingly funny and revealing portrait of a complex and utterly recognizable character who aims for the stars but hits the ceiling, and the inimitable city that has helped shape who she is. I Was Told There'd Be Cake introduces a strikingly original voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.

The pony problem --
Christmas in July --
The ursula cookie --
Bring your machete to work day --
The good people of this dimension --
Bastard out of Westchester --
The beauty of strangers --
Fuck you, Columbus --
One-night bounce --
Sign language for infidels --
You on a stick --
Height of luxury --
Smell this --
Lay like broccoli --
Fever faker]]> 230 Sloane Crosley 159448306X Perrin 4 3.47 2008 I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
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]]> Cult Classic 58772761 Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.

One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past.

What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only with the viability of her current relationship but with the fact that both her best friend and her former boss, a magazine editor turned mystical guru, might have an unhealthy investment in the outcome. Memories of the past swirl and converge in ways both comic and eerie, as Lola is forced to decide if she will surrender herself to the conspiring of one very contemporary cult.

Is it possible to have a happy ending in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips and sanity is for sale? With her gimlet eye, Sloane Crosley spins a wry literary fantasy that is equal parts page-turner and poignant portrayal of alienation.]]> 304 Sloane Crosley 0374603391 Perrin 0 to-read 3.28 2022 Cult Classic
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]]> <![CDATA[The Women Widowed to Themselves, 2021 Edition]]> 58018559 84 Lora Mathis 1777365686 Perrin 0 to-read 5.00 2015 The Women Widowed to Themselves, 2021 Edition
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]]> <![CDATA[The Women Widowed to Themselves]]> 25838579 Lora Mathis Perrin 0 to-read 4.07 2015 The Women Widowed to Themselves
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]]> <![CDATA[Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty]]> 360934 128 Zygmunt Bauman 0745639879 Perrin 4 3.91 2007 Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty
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]]> <![CDATA[Baladi: A Celebration of Food from Land and Sea]]> 40311717
Dishes are designed to complement one another, and Joudie explains which work well together as a meal, as well as the varied and diverse origins of the recipes. At the end of the day she takes an entirely flexible approach, using influences from her homeland to create new dishes, and bringing her own twist to more traditional recipes.]]> 256 Joudie Kalla 162371981X Perrin 5 4.55 Baladi: A Celebration of Food from Land and Sea
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]]> <![CDATA[Levant: New Middle Eastern Cooking from Tanoreen]]> 39851790 ** FREE SAMPLER **

`Cookery to me is about history and connection, but to remain vibrant, a cuisine must also evolve.' Thus author Rawia Bishara explains her approach in this book. She believes one of the greatest assets of Middle Eastern cuisine is its inherent fluidity, its remarkable capacity to adapt and transform over time. In Levant, she offers more than 100 recipes that represent a new modern style. These are the very best of the dishes she has developed over the last twenty years in her New York City restaurant for the contemporary palate. Relying on a traditional pantry (including olive oil, tahini, za'atar, sumac), she updates classic flavour profiles to dazzling effect. The Mediterranean diet has always been a healthy one, with so many of what we now call `superfoods' at its base. But here Rawia takes it a step further by focusing on dishes that are naturally vegetarian or vegan and gluten-free, as well as meat dishes where vegetables take the leading role. These recipes represent the way more and more people eat and cook today. Among them are Cauliflower `Steak' with Pomegranate Molasses, Roasted Beetroot Hummus, Jerusalem Artichoke and Beef Stew, Peppers with Walnut Stuffing and Freekeh and Butternut Squash Salad. Levant explores the sensational cross-cultural possibilities of culinary exchange; it sets the path for the future of Middle Eastern cooking. @tanoreen

]]> 224 Rawia Bishara 1909487724 Perrin 5 4.18 Levant: New Middle Eastern Cooking from Tanoreen
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]]> Thinking with Trees 58015891 New Poetries VIII anthology.]]> 128 Jason Allen-Paisant 1800171137 Perrin 4 4.05 2021 Thinking with Trees
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]]> What Belongs to You 22929602
What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.

Listening length: 6 hours, 11 minutes]]> 195 Garth Greenwell 0374288224 Perrin 4 3.79 2016 What Belongs to You
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]]> Blue Nights 10252302 Ěý
Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?� Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.
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Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.]]> 208 Joan Didion 0307267679 Perrin 5 3.92 2011 Blue Nights
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]]> Love in the Big City 57500766 Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Both award-winning for its unique literary voice and perspective, and particularly resonant with young readers, it has been a phenomenon in Korea and is poised to capture a worldwide readership.

Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life.

A brilliantly written novel filled with powerful sensory descriptions and both humor and emotion, Love in the Big City is an exploration of millennial loneliness as well as the joys of queer life, that should appeal to readers of Sayaka Murata, Han Kang, and Cho Nam-Joo.]]> 240 Sang Young Park 0802158781 Perrin 4 3.68 2019 Love in the Big City
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]]> <![CDATA[Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine]]> 55919297 304 Klara Hveberg 0063038323 Perrin 4 3.75 2019 Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning]]> 35297297 A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called »ĺö˛őłŮä»ĺ˛Ôľ±˛Ô˛µ, »ĺö meaning “deathâ€� and ˛őłŮä»ĺ˛Ôľ±˛Ô˛µ meaning “cleaning.â€� This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.

Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you’d ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children’s art projects). Digging into her late husband’s tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.]]> 117 Margareta Magnusson 1501173243 Perrin 3 3.39 2017 The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
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]]> How to Cure a Ghost: Poems 43908903
Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I , Fariha Róisín’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.]]> 160 Fariha Róisín 1419737562 Perrin 0 to-read 3.56 2019 How to Cure a Ghost: Poems
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]]> Aftershocks 52766142 This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma.

Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world—from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone.

When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen she still felt as if she had so many competing personas that she couldn’t keep track of them all without cracking under the pressure of trying to hold herself together. A powerful coming-of-age story that explores timely and universal themes of identity, Aftershocks follows Nadia’s life as she hauls herself out of the wreckage and begins to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one she writes into existence.]]> 299 Nadia Owusu 1982111224 Perrin 0 to-read 3.90 2021 Aftershocks
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]]> <![CDATA[Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History]]> 6556745
Wells has a remarkable ability to dig up the curious and the At one time, a worm found in a hazelnut prognosticated ill fortune. Rowan trees were planted in churchyards to prevent the dead from rising from their graves. Greek arrows were soaked in deadly yew, and Shakespeare’s witches in Macbeth used “Gall of goat and slips of Yew� to make their lethal brew. One bristlecone pine, at about 4,700 years old, is thought to be the oldest living plant on earth. All this and more can be found in the beautifully illustrated pages (themselves born of birch bark!) of 100 Trees .]]> 369 Diana Wells 156512491X Perrin 0 to-read 3.82 2010 Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Poems Of John Donne]]> 7973953
Extensive editorial commentary for each poem
Headnotes set poems in historical context
Text has been modernised in punctuation and spelling except where to do so would alter or disrupt a rhyme]]> 989 John Donne 1408231247 Perrin 0 to-read 4.32 1633 The Complete Poems Of John Donne
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]]> <![CDATA[Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993]]> 54785548 Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled--and beat--The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them.

Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.]]> 736 Sarah Schulman 0374185131 Perrin 0 to-read 4.54 2021 Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
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]]> Diary of a Drug Fiend 432342 384 Aleister Crowley 0877281467 Perrin 0 to-read 3.81 1922 Diary of a Drug Fiend
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]]> Under the Whispering Door 53205888 Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.]]> 376 T.J. Klune 1250217342 Perrin 0 to-read 4.11 2021 Under the Whispering Door
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]]> Cleanness 45892271 In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire

Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song.

In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with another foreigner opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves.]]> 240 Garth Greenwell 0374124582 Perrin 0 to-read 3.82 2020 Cleanness
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]]> Circe 35959740
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.]]> 393 Madeline Miller 0316556343 Perrin 0 to-read 4.22 2018 Circe
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]]> The End of San Francisco 16006608
Using an unrestrained associative style to move kaleidoscopically between past, present, and future, Sycamore conjures the untidy push and pull of memory, exposing the tensions between idealism and critical engagement, trauma and self-actualization, inspiration and loss. Part memoir, part social history, and part elegy, The End of San Francisco explores and explodes the dream of a radical queer community and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it.]]> 186 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 087286572X Perrin 0 to-read 3.97 2013 The End of San Francisco
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]]> <![CDATA[Sending Nudes: short stories and poetry]]> 56537384
Our contributors: Lynda Scott Araya, Glen Armstrong, Claire Askew, Issy Flower, Edward Ginn, Emma Grae, Katy Haber, Michael Wayne Hampton, Liam Hogan, Shyama Laxman, Rebekah LS, Karla Linn Merrifield, Molly McLellan, Ellie Nova, Michal Kamil Piotrowski and Miriam Navarro Prieto.]]> 148 Julianne Ingles 1999882393 Perrin 4 4.18 2021 Sending Nudes: short stories and poetry
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]]> <![CDATA[Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42]]> 8708336 &gt; 224 Stefan Zweig 1441107126 Perrin 5 3.92 2010 Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42
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]]> <![CDATA[The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)]]> 53317528 Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing

Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969-71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child's single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.

Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her competing roles as daughter, wife, mother, and drug addict, and she writes about female experience and identity in a way that feels very fresh and pertinent to today's discussions around feminism. Ditlevsen's trilogy is remarkable for its intensity and its immersive depiction of a world of complex female friendships, family and growing up--in this sense, it's Copenhagen's answer to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Her trilogy is drawn from her own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind of fiction.

Born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in 1917, Ditlevsen became famous for her poetry while still a teenager, and went on to write novels, stories and memoirs before committing suicide in 1976. Having been dismissed by the critical establishment in her lifetime as a working-class, female writer, she is now being rediscovered and championed as one of Denmark's most important modern authors, with Tove fever gripping readers.]]> 371 Tove Ditlevsen 0374602395 Perrin 5 4.36 1967 The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
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]]> All Boys Aren’t Blue 44280883
Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.]]> 304 George M. Johnson 0374312710 Perrin 0 to-read 4.19 2020 All Boys Aren’t Blue
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]]> The Yellow House 43347603
A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the "Big Easy" of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.]]> 376 Sarah M. Broom 0802125085 Perrin 0 to-read 3.88 2019 The Yellow House
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