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چاپ اول ۱۳۵۳
چاپ ششم ۱۳۶۹
چاپ هفتم ۱۳۷۴]]> 271 Meindert De Jong Shaghayegh 0 3.41 1954
author: Meindert De Jong
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]]> 1671821 111 شهرام رحیمیان 9644481208 Shaghayegh 5 3.69
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]]> 36809135
But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.]]> 384 Delia Owens 0735219117 Shaghayegh 4 4.35 2018
author: Delia Owens
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]]> 65678550
Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants, helped by her husband, Moshe, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state came looking for a deaf black child, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionalized, Chicken Hill's residents—roused by Chona's kindess and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin—banded together to keep the boy safe.

As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town’s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain us.]]> 385 James McBride 0593422945 Shaghayegh 5 3.83 2023
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> 2898787 464 Iraj Pezeshkzad Shaghayegh 4 4.34 1970
author: Iraj Pezeshkzad
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 4.34
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]]> 58844852
�� [A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.�� —Anne Applebaum

“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.”��—George Packer

“A rare [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually have influence in the arena of practical politics. . . . Passionate and personal.�� —Joe Klein, New York Times Book Review

From one of our most important political thinkers and the author of the forthcoming book The Identity Trap , a brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest challenge of our time—how to bridge the bitter divides within diverse democracies enough for them to remain stable and functional

Some democracies are highly homogeneous. Others have long maintained a brutal racial or religious hierarchy, with some groups dominating and exploiting others. Never in history has a democracy succeeded in being both diverse and equal, treating members of many different ethnic or religious groups fairly. And yet achieving that goal is now central to the democratic project in countries around the world. It is, Yascha Mounk argues, the greatest experiment of our time.
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Drawing on history, social psychology, and comparative politics, Mounk examines how diverse societies have long suffered from the ills of domination, fragmentation, or structured anarchy. So it is hardly surprising that most people are now deeply pessimistic that different groups might be able to integrate in harmony, celebrating their differences without essentializing them. But Mounk shows us that the past can offer crucial insights for how to do better in the future. There is real reason for hope.
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It is up to us and the institutions we build whether different groups will come to see each other as enemies or friends, as strangers or compatriots. To make diverse democracies endure, and even thrive, we need to create a world in which our ascriptive identities come to matter less—not because we ignore the injustices that still characterize the United States and so many other countries around the world, but because we have succeeded in addressing them.
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The Great Experiment is that rare book that offers both a profound understanding of an urgent problem and genuine hope for our human capacity to solve it. As Mounk contends, giving up on the prospects of building fair and thriving diverse democracies is simply not an option—and that is why we must strive to realize a more ambitious vision for the future of our societies.]]> 368 Yascha Mounk 0593296818 Shaghayegh 4 3.72 2022
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]]> 63876547
The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture�� overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back

In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed. They jam-pack their schedules with AP classes, fill every waking hour with resume-padding activities, and even sabotage relationships with friends to “get ahead.�� Family incomes and schedules are stretched to the breaking point by tutoring fees and athletic schedules. Yet this drive to optimize performance has only resulted in skyrocketing rates of anxiety, depression, and even self-harm in America’s highest achieving schools. Parents, educators, and community leaders are facing the same how can we teach our kids to strive towards excellence without crushing them?

In Never Enough, award-winning reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, and finds out what we must do to fight back. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, she exposes how the pressure to perform is not a matter of parental choice but baked in to our larger society and spurred by increasing income inequality and dwindling opportunities. As a result, children are increasingly absorbing the message that they have no value outside of their accomplishments, a message that is reinforced by the media and greater culture at large.

Through deep research and interviews with today’s leading child psychologists, Wallace shows what kids need from the adults in the room is not more pressure, but to feel like they matter , and have intrinsic self-worth not contingent upon external achievements. Parents and educators who adopt the language and values of mattering help children see themselves as a valuable contributor to a larger community. And in an ironic twist, kids who receive consistent feedback that they matter no matter what are more likely to have the resilience, self-confidence, and psychological security to thrive.

Packed with memorable stories and offering a powerful toolkit for positive change, Never Enough offers an urgent, humane view of the crisis plaguing today’s teens and a practical framework for how to help.]]> 320 Jennifer Breheny Wallace 0593191862 Shaghayegh 4 4.15 2023
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> 502674 116 Oriana Fallaci Shaghayegh 0 3.74 1975
author: Oriana Fallaci
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]]> 2228272 ابتدا توسط آنتون وی تز به فرانسوی و از آنجا به فارسی ترجمه شده است.]]> 1960 Mikhail Sholokhov 9645676266 Shaghayegh 0 4.12 1928
author: Mikhail Sholokhov
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 4.12
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]]> 8293417 231 Goli Taraghi 9644481623 Shaghayegh 0 3.78
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]]> 44318414
The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures.

Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.]]> 337 Ann Patchett 0062963678 Shaghayegh 4 4.08 2019
author: Ann Patchett
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]]> 4691009
کتاب اولین بار در سال ۱۳۵۹ چاپ شد؛ این نسخه چاپ اول از ویراست دوباره کتاب است.]]> 217 Romain Gary 9649283161 Shaghayegh 4 4.06 1975
author: Romain Gary
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> 118120 405 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 9646194265 Shaghayegh 0 4.02 1979
author: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 194563 240 Nader Ebrahimi 9645529123 Shaghayegh 0 3.60 1997
author: Nader Ebrahimi
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.60
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]]> 35820731 Rare Book 516 Nizami Ganjavi 9645958393 Shaghayegh 0 4.36
author: Nizami Ganjavi
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]]> 48836769 A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and overpopulation, a suspenseful second book from the author of the story collection, Man V. Nature.

Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the City—an over-populated, over-built metropolis where most of the population lives—is destroying her lungs. But what can Bea do? No one leaves the City anymore, because there is nowhere else to go. But across the country lies the Wilderness State, the last swath of open, protected land left. Here forests and desert plains are inhabited solely by wildlife. People are forbidden. Until now.��


Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State as part of a study to see if humans can co-exist with nature. Can they be part of the wilderness and not destroy it? Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, this new community wanders through the grand country, trying to adhere to the strict rules laid down by the Rangers, whose job it is to remind them they must Leave No Trace. As the group slowly learns to live and survive on the unpredictable and often dangerous land, its members battle for power and control and betray and save each other. The farther they roam, the closer they come to their animal soul.

To her dismay, Bea discovers that, in fleeing to the Wilderness State to save Agnes, she is losing her in a different way. Agnes is growing wilder and closer to the land, while Bea cannot shake her urban past. As she and Agnes grow further apart, the bonds between mother and daughter are tested in surprising and heartbreaking ways.

Yet just as these modern nomads come to think of the Wilderness State as home, its future is threatened when the Government discovers a new use for the land. Now the migrants must choose to stay and fight for their place in the wilderness, their home, or trust the Rangers and their promises of a better tomorrow elsewhere.]]> 398 Diane Cook 0062333135 Shaghayegh 3 3.64 2020
author: Diane Cook
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average rating: 3.64
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]]> 2468147 بعضی روزها نمی‌گذر��
نمی‌گذر��
...
مثل یادت]]> 1640 علی‌اشر�� درویشیان 9646194664 Shaghayegh 0 4.11 1991
author: علی‌اشر�� درویشیان
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> 115795 408 Alba de Céspedes 0313207313 Shaghayegh 5 3.82 1967
author: Alba de Céspedes
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.82
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rating: 5
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]]> 1942304 632 Carlos Fuentes 9643290107 Shaghayegh 0 3.98 1967
author: Carlos Fuentes
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.98
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]]> 146285 70 1562549146 Shaghayegh 0 3.20 2008
author: Saddleback Educational Publishing
name: Shaghayegh
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]]> 16068905 A coming-of-age tale of fanfiction, family, and first love.

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan.... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she's really good at it. She and her twin, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.

Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend; a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world; a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... and she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?]]> 483 Rainbow Rowell Shaghayegh 2 3.93 2013
author: Rainbow Rowell
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> 135479 Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...]]> 306 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Shaghayegh 0 currently-reading 4.17 1963
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]]> 54120408
In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?]]> 340 Kazuo Ishiguro 059331817X Shaghayegh 0 3.71 2021
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]]> 32187419 A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple.

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment.

Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth."]]> 304 Sally Rooney 0451499077 Shaghayegh 0 3.74 2017
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]]> 56291986
This book is about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both "promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of repression. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. Moreover, Dukalskis looks at the degree to which some authoritarian states succeed in using image management to enhance their internal and external security, and, in turn, to make their world safe for dictatorship.

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship uses a diverse array of data, including interviews, cross-national data on extraterritorial repression, examination of public relations filings with the United States government, analysis of authoritarian propaganda, media frequency analysis, and speeches and statements by authoritarian leaders. Dukalskis also builds a new dataset--the Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database--that uses publicly available information to categorize nearly 1,200 instances in which authoritarian states repressed their critical exiles abroad, ranging from vague threats to confirmed assassinations. The book looks closely at three cases, China, North Korea, and Rwanda, to understand in more detail how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using combinations of promotional and obstructive tactics. The result is a new way of thinking about the international dimensions of authoritarian politics.]]> 264 Alexander Dukalskis 0197520138 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.78
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]]> 19288640 In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives.
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From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital.
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But what if almost everything we were told about learning is wrong?��And what if there was a way to achieve more with less effort?
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In How We Learn, award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. What he discovers is that, from the moment we are born, we are all learning quickly, efficiently, and automatically; but in our zeal to systematize the process we have ignored valuable, naturally enjoyable learning tools like forgetting, sleeping, and daydreaming. Is a dedicated desk in a quiet room really the best way to study? Can altering your routine improve your recall? Are there times when distraction is good? Is repetition necessary? Carey’s search for answers to these questions yields a wealth of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday lives—and less of a chore.
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By road testing many of the counterintuitive techniques described in this book, Carey shows how we can flex the neural muscles that make deep learning possible. Along the way he reveals why teachers should give final exams on the first day of class, why it’s wise to interleave subjects and concepts when learning any new skill, and when it’s smarter to stay up late prepping for that presentation than to rise early for one last cram session. And if this requires some suspension of disbelief, that’s because the research defies what we’ve been told, throughout our lives, about how best to learn.
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The brain is not like a muscle, at least not in any straightforward sense. It is something else altogether, sensitive to mood, to timing, to circadian rhythms, as well as to location and environment. It doesn’t take orders well, to put it mildly. If the brain is a learning machine, then it is an eccentric one. In How We Learn, Benedict Carey��shows us how to exploit its quirks to our advantage.
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Praise for How We Learn

“This book is a revelation. I feel as if I’ve owned a brain for fifty-four years and only now discovered the operating manual.��—Mary Roach, bestselling author of Stiff and Gulp

“A welcome rejoinder to the faddish notion that learning is all about the hours put in.�� —The New York Times Book Review
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“A valuable, entertaining tool for educators, students and parents.�� —Shelf Awareness
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��How We Learn is more than a new approach to learning; it is a guide to making the most out of life. Who wouldn’t be interested in that?�� —Scientific American
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“I know of no other source that pulls together so much of what we know about the science of memory and couples it with practical, practicable advice.��—Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia]]> 272 Benedict Carey 0812993888 Shaghayegh 0 currently-reading 3.88 2014
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]]> 11468377 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.]]> 499 Daniel Kahneman 0374275637 Shaghayegh 0 4.17 2011
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]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Shaghayegh 0 4.33 2011
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]]> 32929157 168 غزاله علیزاده 6009168589 Shaghayegh 0 3.00 2016
author: غزاله علیزاده
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]]> 40664707
A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,�� the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture�� while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others.

A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious.]]> 320 Anne Boyer Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.18 2019
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]]> 40265832 How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.

In this book, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.]]> 305 Ibram X. Kendi 0525509283 Shaghayegh 0 currently-reading 4.36 2019
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]]> 53091994 9780358380887

For fans of��Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems.

There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.

An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother’s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor.

After enduring a “hell week�� of training, Darren, the only Black person in the company, reimagines himself as “Buck,�� a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family.��But when things turn tragic at home and Buck feels he’s hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.

Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of America’s workforce; it is a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream.]]> 388 Mateo Askaripour Shaghayegh 0 3.68 2021
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]]> 7045823 272 Harrison Monarth 0071632875 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.59
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]]> 1322337 ترجمه احمد پوری August Strindberg Shaghayegh 4 3.80 2005
author: August Strindberg
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2005
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]]> 18770267 Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.

Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned.

Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.]]> 313 Peter C. Brown 0674729013 Shaghayegh 0 4.14 2014
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Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime.

Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but from her colleagues - evangelical Christian missionaries who don't know or choose to ignore that Suki doesn't share their faith. She is mystified by how easily her students lie, unnerved by their obedience to the regime. To them, everything in North Korea is the best, the tallest, the most delicious, the envy of all nations. Still, she cannot help but love them - their boyish enthusiasm, their eagerness to please, the flashes of curiosity that have not yet been extinguished.

As the weeks pass, she begins to hint at the existence of a world beyond their own - at such exotic activities as surfing the Internet or traveling freely and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors risk torture and execution. The students in turn offer Suki tantalizing glimpses into their lives, from their thoughts on how to impress girls to their disappointment that soccer games are only televised when the North Korean team wins. Then Kim Jong-il dies, leaving the students devastated, and leading Suki to question whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged.

Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."]]> 291 Suki Kim 0307720659 Shaghayegh 4 3.92 2014
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]]> 28514451 An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe's most provocative novelists

Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava river, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of a former writer gather to hear him tell a story that will last until dawn: the tale of the once well-known writer's odyssey across Europe. As his story unwinds, he seeks out places that represent stages of his and the continent's past, many now lost or irrecoverably changed through war, death, and the subtler erosions of time. His wanderings take him from the Balkans to Spain to Austria, from a congress for experts on noise sickness to a clandestine international gathering of Jew's harp virtuosos. His story--and its telling--are haunted by a beautiful stranger, a woman who has a preternatural hold over the writer, and seems to be as much of a demon as she is the longed-for destination of his travels.

Powerfully alive, honest, and at times deliciously satirical, The Moravian Night tracks the anxieties, angers, fears, and pleasures of life. In crystalline prose, Peter Handke tenaciously follows the movement of his own thoughts while gracing the world with a mythic dimension. As Jeffrey Eugenides writes, "Handke's sharp eye is always finding a strange beauty amid this colorless world." The Moravian Night is a bruising self-portrait, an elegy for the lost and forgotten, and a novel of self-interrogation and uneasy discovery from one of world literature’s great voices.]]> 320 Peter Handke 0374212554 Shaghayegh 0 currently-reading 3.33 2008
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average rating: 3.33
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]]> 22557272
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]> 336 Paula Hawkins 1594633665 Shaghayegh 4 3.97 2015
author: Paula Hawkins
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.97
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]]> 37506437 Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran.

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his first-ever trip to Iran, and it's pretty overwhelming—especially when he's also dealing with clinical depression, a disapproving dad, and a chronically anemic social life. In Iran, he gets to know his ailing but still formidable grandfather, his loving grandmother, and the rest of his mom's family for the first time. And he meets Sohrab, the boy next door who changes everything.

Sohrab makes sure people speak English so Darius can understand what's going on. He gets Darius an Iranian National Football Team jersey that makes him feel like a True Persian for the first time. And he understands that sometimes, best friends don't have to talk. Darius has never had a true friend before, but now he's spending his days with Sohrab playing soccer, eating rosewater ice cream, and sitting together for hours in their special place, a rooftop overlooking the Yazdi skyline.

Sohrab calls him Darioush—the original Persian version of his name—and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he's Darioush to Sohrab. When it's time to go home to America, he'll have to find a way to be Darioush on his own.]]> 316 Adib Khorram 0525552960 Shaghayegh 3 4.23 2018
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average rating: 4.23
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rating: 3
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]]> 3450744 From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions

New York Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and the Financial Times

Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture�� to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.]]> 260 Richard H. Thaler 014311526X Shaghayegh 0 3.86 2008
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> 2230888
برای شصت ثانیه، عقربه‌ها�� سیاه ساعت‌ها�� برقی شهر، قرص و محکم و هم‌زمان�� با خیزی کوتاه، خود را به سوی دقیقۀ بعد پرتاب می‌کنن��. هوپ! چشمان چهارگوش ساعت‌ه�� با ارقامی که بر روی آنها در حرکت‌ان�� ناگهان پلک می‌زنن�� و شمارۀ دیگری بر رویشان ظاهر می‌شو��.]]> 260 Italo Calvino 9647081472 Shaghayegh 0 3.17 1958
author: Italo Calvino
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]]> 1512985 192 Machado de Assis 9642090147 Shaghayegh 3 3.73 1963
author: Machado de Assis
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1963
rating: 3
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]]> 585474 272 William Zinsser 0062720406 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.80 1988
author: William Zinsser
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.80
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]]> 18079767 Solving the Procrastination Puzzle brings clarity and scientific studies—and a touch of humor!—to the quest for successfully achieving goals.��This accessible guide is perfect for entrepreneurs, parents, students, and anyone who wants to get unstuck, stop delaying, and start living their most inspired life.]]> 128 Timothy A. Pychyl 0399168125 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.67 2013
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]]> 36373463
Soon a new team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you’ll ever see; Benji, the intense lone wolf; and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. But bringing this team together proves to be a challenge as old bonds are broken, new ones are formed, and the enmity with Hed grows more and more acute.

As the big match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up and their mutual contempt grows deeper. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent.
]]> 448 Fredrik Backman 1501160796 Shaghayegh 4 4.34 2017
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> 28574710
This story is truly a debut psychological suspenseful narrative that will everlastingly transform the way you look and imagine the life of other people. It is an interwoven and complex thriller having variable themes of domestic violence, abuse and drug addiction.

This story of slow disintegration of a woman's life after her husband left her for a new mistress. The breakup further worsened her drinking problem which made her lose her job. Now the girl, Rachel Watson, is reduced to commuting everyday on the train to and from London as she pretends to her friends and family that she still has a job. In order to escape the melancholy, she drinks to forget what had happened. Rachel created a fantasy involving a couple living in of the houses along the railroad track. She gave them names and imagines they have a perfect life. She envy's that it should had been her and her husband. All of a sudden things she never expected happened, and turned her world upside down. Read more to find out.


You Will Also Get..

Key Analysis Character Analysis Detailed Plot Author's Information Bonus Information So Much More!


Available on PC, Mac, Kindle, Tablets, Iphones & Androids

©2015 All Rights Reserved

]]> 67 EzBooks Shaghayegh 3 4.13
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]]> 594146
Nel vecchio paese della Bassa, Peppone e don Camillo continuano, negli anni dell'immediato dopoguerra, la loro guerra privata conducendo una strategia di opposti estremismi, in un susseguirsi di avventure, vendette, scherzi. Ma, come si sa, a volte gli estremi si toccano: può così capitare che i due uomini escano dalle cabine elettorali e non si sappia chi ha fatto la croce sul Pci e chi ha consegnato la scheda bianca, oppure addirittura che nascondano insieme un carro armato, ingombrante ricordo della guerra da poco finita. Don Camillo e Peppone, al di là di ogni divergenza politica, sono fatti della stessa pasta: si capiscono senza parlare, sono intrisi della stessa umanità.]]> 441 Giovannino Guareschi 8817114804 Shaghayegh 4 4.32 1953
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 4.32
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rating: 4
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]]> 1734323 64 Nizami Ganjavi 9640005711 Shaghayegh 0 3.87 1192
author: Nizami Ganjavi
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.87
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]]> 663124 Samad Behrangi Shaghayegh 0 3.69
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]]> 5116
The stories are:

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
"Just Before the War with the Eskimos"
"The Laughing Man"
"Down at the Dinghy"
"For Esmé �� with Love and Squalor"
"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes"
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"
"Teddy"]]> 149 J.D. Salinger 0140237534 Shaghayegh 0 4.21 1953
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 4.21
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]]> 71059 ��
For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic, The Little Prince, has captured readers' hearts. The whimsical story with a fairy tale��feel has sold over 3 million copies in all formats. This exciting pop-up edition includes the��complete original text accompanied by Saint-Exupery's beautiful illustrations brought to life through paper engineering. Perfect for longtime fans and those meeting��the little prince��for the first time!��]]> 12 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 2070555526 Shaghayegh 0 4.36 1943
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]]> 2189870 این رمان شرح مارجراهای یک سالی است که طی آن روزنامه‌نگا�� سالخورده تلخ‌تری�� عذاب‌ه�� را تاب می‌آور�� تا به دلپذیرترین شادکامی‌ه�� برسد و عشق ناب و پاک و بی‌چشمداش�� را بمثابه والاترین موهبت کهنسالی از آنِ خود سازد

-
عمر که بی‌عش�� رفت هیچ حسابش مگیر
آب حیاتست عشق در دل و جانش پذیر

دیوان شمس / مولانا جلال‌الدی�� بلخی]]> 124 Gabriel García Márquez 9644482522 Shaghayegh 0 3.28 2004
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]]> 42119077 Freedom. Equality. Sisterhood. WOMEN IN BATTLE is the book for anyone who wants to learn as much as possible about the history of feminism in as short a time as possible.

Presented as a graphic novel and spanning 150 years of recent history, WOMEN IN BATTLE celebrates the fight for women's rights all over the world.

Topics include the suffragette movement, female world leaders, abortion and contraception, gay marriage and #MeToo.

Slowly but surely we are making progress. We need only dare to be heard.]]> 130 Marta Breen 1471408132 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.32 2018
author: Marta Breen
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 4.32
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]]> 27414493
Quiet the mind, feel less stressed and less tired, and achieve a new level of calm and fulfillment in just ten minutes a day.

Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, the Voice of Headspace, and the UK's foremost mindfulness expert, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day to sit in the here and now.

Like his readers and students, Andy began his own meditation practice as a normal, busy person with everyday concerns, and he has since designed a program of mindfulness and guided meditation that fits neatly into a jam-packed daily routine - proving that just 10 minutes a day can make a world of difference.

Accessible and portable, The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness offers simple but powerful meditation techniques that positively impact every area of physical and mental health: from productivity and focus, to stress and anxiety relief, sleep, weight-loss, personal relationships...the benefits are limitless. The result? More headspace, less stress. Andy brings this ancient practice into the modern world, tailor made for the most time starved among us.

Switch off after work
Fall asleep at night
Feel less anxious, sad, or angry
Control your cravings
Find a healthy weight

©2011 Andy Puddicombe (P)2012 Macmillan Audio]]> 224 Andy Puddicombe 1250104904 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.00 2011
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]]> 15818440 The Jungle, has taken up residence with his family. This is a quiet, bookish community - elite, intellectual and indisputably privileged. But when a savage lynching in a nearby town is hushed up, a horrifying chain of events is initiated - until it becomes apparent that the families of Princeton have been beset by a powerful curse. The Devil has come to this little town and not a soul will be spared. 'The Accursed' marks new territory for the masterful Joyce Carol Oates - narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling fantastical elements to stunning effect.]]> 669 Joyce Carol Oates 0062231707 Shaghayegh 2 3.20 2013
author: Joyce Carol Oates
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average rating: 3.20
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]]> 439867 سلینجر در عین حال به تقابل کودکی و بزرگسالی دست می‌زند�� به تقابل بی‌گناه�� و پلیدی، امید و نومیدی و حقیقت و دغل‌کار��. مواجهه‌�� فساد آدم‌ه�� و ادراک کودک موضوعی بکر در داستان‌نویس�� امروز است. این کودک که هم قربانی دغل‌کاری‌ها�� ماست و هم نجات‌دهنده�� با چشمان نگران خود در اکثر داستان‌ها�� سلینجر حضور دارد.
نه داستان سلینجر که حکایت تنهایی در آزادی است یکی از ده کتاب کلاسیک مدرن جهان شمرده شده است.


عناوین دلستان‌ه��:
یک روز خوش برای موزماهی
عمو ویگیلی در کانِه‌تی‌کِ��
پیش از جنگ با اسکیموها
مرد خندان
انعکاس آفتاب بر تخته‌ها�� باراَنداز (پایین، در قایق تفریحی)
تقدیم به اِزمه با عشق و نکبت
دهانم زیبا و چشمانم سبز
دلتنگی‌ها�� نقاش خیابان چهل و هشتم (دورانِ آبیِ دو دمیه-اسمیت)
ت��دی�ձ�> 263 J.D. Salinger 9643111563 Shaghayegh 0 3.68 1953
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]]> 26065569
I know or suspect that I am underpaid, but I hate negotiating.

I do everything else first and then write in the time left over.

I'm not sure exactly what the promotion requirements are in my department.

Since earning tenure, my service load has increased and my research is suffering.

I don't get enough time with my family.

This is a practical guide for women in academe whether adjuncts, professors or administrators who often encounter barriers and hostility, especially if women of color, and generally carry a heavier load of service, as well as household and care responsibilities, than their male colleagues. Rena Seltzer, a respected life coach and trainer who has worked with women professors and academic leaders for many years, offers succinct advice on how you can prioritize the multiplicity of demands on your life, negotiate better, create support networks, and move your career forward.

Using telling but disguised vignettes of the experiences of women she has mentored, Rena Seltzer offers insights and strategies for managing the situations that all women face such as challenges to their authority while also paying attention to how they often play out differently for Latinas, Black and Asian women. She covers issues that arise from early career to senior administrator positions.

This is a book you can read cover to cover or dip into as you encounter concerns about time management; your authority and influence; work/life balance; problems with teaching; leadership; negotiating better; finding time to write; developing your networks and social support; or navigating tenure and promotion and your career beyond.]]> 246 Rena Seltzer 1579228968 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.94 2015
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]]> 34347433 Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.

Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them.

Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god.

Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are.]]> 272 John Hodgman 0735224803 Shaghayegh 4 4.04 2017
author: John Hodgman
name: Shaghayegh
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]]> 1692949 48 Abolqasem Ferdowsi Shaghayegh 0 4.38
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]]> 71726 93 Black and White Photographs 0380007797 Shaghayegh 0 3.45 1970
author: Black and White Photographs
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.45
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]]> 2735168 324 Victor Hugo 1434489183 Shaghayegh 0 3.88 1869
author: Victor Hugo
name: Shaghayegh
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]]> 20439328
How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance.

A NOTE TO THE READER:
Who says stories reach everybody in the same order?
This novel can be read in two ways and this book provides you with both.
In half of all printed editions of the novel the narrative EYES comes before CAMERA.
In the other half of printed editions the narrative CAMERA precedes EYES.
The narratives are exactly the same in both versions, just in a different order.

The books are intentionally printed in two different ways, so that readers can randomly have different experiences reading the same text. So, depending on which edition you happen to receive, the book will be: EYES, CAMERA, or CAMERA, EYES. Enjoy the adventure.]]> 376 Ali Smith Shaghayegh 5 3.65 2014
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]]> 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]> 352 Tara Westover 0399590501 Shaghayegh 4 4.46 2018
author: Tara Westover
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]]> 1868155 105 Bohumil Hrabal 9645709520 Shaghayegh 5 3.96 1976
author: Bohumil Hrabal
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.96
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]]> 32503822 This is an alternate cover edition for 9789643056704

سکوت من گذشته دارد. به خاطر آن بارها تشویق شده‌ا��. هفت هشت ساله بودم که دانستم هر بچه‌ا�� آن را ندارد. سکوت من اولین دارایی‌ا�� به حساب می‌آم��... در طول سال‌های�� که بعد از آن آمد بارها مورد تحسین زن‌ها�� خانواده‌ما�� قرار گرفتم به خاطر توداری‌ا��. به خاطر رازداری‌ا��. خیلی زود فهمیدم که به یک صندوقچه می‌مان�� با دری کیپ و پر از راز...
امیر از سکوت‌ها�� من کلافه می‌ش��. سکوت من او را می‌ترسان��. کم کم عادت به پرحرفی پیدا کردم حتی در مواقعی که لازم نبود. سال‌ه�� بعد یاد گرفتم که حرف می‌توان�� حتی مخفیگاهی بهتر از سکوت باشد
[متن پشت جلد]]]> 141 Fariba Vafi Shaghayegh 0 3.09 2002
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]]> 7821447 "That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them."

"Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking."

"The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two."More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.]]> 159 Justin Halpern 0061992704 Shaghayegh 3 3.97 2010
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]]> 23602504
This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer�� for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller’s hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an “innate talent for subordination�� but running through his veins is a “virus�� born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . .]]> 207 Jo Nesbø 0385354193 Shaghayegh 3 3.57 2014
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average rating: 3.57
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]]> 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 Shaghayegh 3 3.61 2007
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]]> 20418 The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras’s adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover, this later novel, written toward the end of her life, emphasizes the tougher aspects of her youth in Indochina, and possesses the feel of an intimate documentary.

Both shocking and enthralling, the story Duras tells is “so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it . . . lingers like a strong perfume�� (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the French critics as a return to “the Duras of the great books and the great days,�� it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period in the author’s life.


]]> 240 Marguerite Duras Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.98 1991
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]]> 18779662 A Fighting Chance

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt. Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington DC to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws?

Thus began an impolite education into the bare-knuckled, often dysfunctional ways of Washington. She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years and lost. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis but became a target of the big banks. She came up with the idea for a new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory bankers and was denied the opportunity to run it. Finally, at age 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitive—and watched—Senate race in the country.
In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class—and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families.]]> 365 Elizabeth Warren 1627790527 Shaghayegh 4 4.12 2014
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]]> 22621840 چاپ اول ۱۳۹۲]]> 227 Fariba Vafi 9642132273 Shaghayegh 4 3.31 2013
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]]> 12898 'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'

Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?]]> 144 Arthur Miller 0435233076 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.57 1949
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average rating: 3.57
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]]> 28194747
Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners—Demirtay the student, the doctor, Kamo the barber, and Uncle Küheylan—sit, awaiting their turn at the hands of their wardens. When they are not subject to unimaginable violence, the condemned tell one another stories about the city, shaded with love and humor, to pass the time. Quiet laughter is the prisoners�� balm, delivered through parables and riddles. Gradually, the underground narrative turns into a narrative of the above-ground. Initially centered around people, the book comes to focus on the city itself. And we discover there is as much suffering and hope in the Istanbul above ground as there is in the cells underground.

Despite its apparently bleak setting, this is a novel about creation, compassion, and the ultimate triumph of the imagination.]]> 256 Burhan Sönmez 1682190382 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.01 2015
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]]> 60111
Updated to include changes from Calvino's definitive Italian edition, previously censored passages, and his newly translated, unabridged preface, in which Calvino brilliantly critiques and places into historical context his own youthful work.

The Path to the Spiders' Nests is animated by the formidable imagination that has made Italo Calvino one of the most respected writers of our time.]]> 185 Italo Calvino 0060956585 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.77 1947
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]]> 187060 Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world's most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as delicious a read in the twenty-first century as it was in the 1950s.]]> 299 Patrick Dennis 0767908198 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.11 1955
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> 636223 158 Anna Kavan 0720612683 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.70 1967
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]]> 25200 "In my opinion one of the finest novels of our time." - Graham Greene

Shusaku Endo is Japan's foremost novelist, and Silence is generally regarded to be his masterpiece. In a perfect fusion of treatment and theme, this powerful novel tells the story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian community.]]> 219 Shūsaku Endō 0800871863 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.11 1966
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]]> 11797365 A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived.

North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did.

In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.]]> 205 Blaine Harden 0670023329 Shaghayegh 4 3.99 2012
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]]> 2455670
«دوست داشتم کسی جایی منتظرم باشد»
مجموعه داستانی است که بلافاصله پس از انتشار به موفقیت بزرگ در دنیای ادبیات دست یافت.
داستان ها هم خارق العاده اند، هم گزنده و در عین حال غم انگیز، جذاب و تا اندازه ای غیر معمول.
در هر داستان، عشق همچون زندگی موضوع اساسی است، عشقی که هم دل انگیز و اسرار آمیز و هم درد آور و صدمه زنده...]]> 198 Anna Gavalda 9643416119 Shaghayegh 4 3.20 1999
author: Anna Gavalda
name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.20
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]]> 28922
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the “floating world”—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.]]> 206 Kazuo Ishiguro 0571225365 Shaghayegh 4 3.79 1986
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> 4772110
A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap�� his talent . . .

Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combination of the two—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp.

An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction.]]> 221 Kazuo Ishiguro 0307397874 Shaghayegh 5 3.52 2009
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average rating: 3.52
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]]> 2469893
در داستان گوركي، مادر، زني است ميانه‌سا�� با غباري از غم و اندوه بر چهره و تحمل رنج و تحقيري كه سال‌هاس�� بر جسم و روحش تازيانه مي‌زن�� و اما هنوز پرتوان و مقاوم است. در برابر ناملايمات زندگي هم‌دو�� پاول ــ پسرش ــ مبارزه مي‌كند�� اعلاميه‌ه�� را مخفيانه ميان كارگران و كشاورزان پخش مي كند و�� همواره چشمان نگرانش مراقب پاول و دوستان هم‌رز�� اوست. رمان مادر ممنوعه بود، اما دست‌به‌دس�� مي‌گش�� و رونويس مي‌ش��. داستان پاول و مادر در خلوت‌خانه‌ها�� هسته‌ها�� سازماني، كنج زندان‌ه�� و�� خوانده مي‌شد�� مادر با آن نگاه مهربان و درد كشيده هميشه برنده بود.

مخاطب گوركي ذهن‌ها�� بيدار و جواني‌س�� كه تشنه‌�� حقيقت‌ان��. سركوبگران مي‌پندارن�� که ستم همواره ماندني است اما گوركي آرام و مطمئن به جوانان مي‌گوي��: «آنچه مي‌نماي�� بدين قرار نخواهد ماند…د�� اين عشق سوزاني كه بچه‌ها�� ما به جهان دارند، زندگي نويي آفريده مي‌شو��.»]]> 496 Maxim Gorky 9645521076 Shaghayegh 0 3.54 1906
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]]> 9557 alternate cover can be found here

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.

Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.

Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...]]> 229 Haruki Murakami 0099448475 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.85 1999
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]]> 22370991 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting with a J. It wasn't then, and isn't now, the time or place to be asking questions. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. He doesn't ask who hurt her. Brutality has grown commonplace. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?

Hanging over the lives of all the characters in this novel is a momentous catastrophe - a past event shrouded in suspicion, denial and apology, now referred to as What Happened, If It Happened.]]> 327 Howard Jacobson 0224101978 Shaghayegh 3 2.89 2014
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average rating: 2.89
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]]> 23525189
آنچه آمد بخشی از نامه احمد شاملو به ع. پاشایی از آمریکاست، در زمانی که هنوز نامه‌نگار�� مهم‌تری�� وسیله برای ارتباط با دوستان و آشنایان بود و رسیدن هر نامه، به‌خصو�� برای افرادی که از نزدیکانشان دورافتاده بودند، بسیار خوشحال‌کنند�� و شوق‌انگی�� به شمار می‌آم��.
آشنایی پاشایی با شاملو به سال ۱۳۳۷ برمی‌گردد�� زمانی که کتابِ «هوای تازه» را از کتاب‌فروش�� انتشارات نیل می‌خر�� و اندک زمانی بعد (به قول خودش) شاملوخوانی حرفه‌ا�� می‌شو�� و هنگام تدریس ادبیات در دبیرستان، برای شاگردانش مدام از شاملو و اشعارش حرف می‌زن��. در اواخر دهه چهل شاملو مجله خوشه را منتشر می‌کند�� ع. پاشایی هم ترجمه‌های�� برای او می‌فرست��. و سرانجام: «تابستان ۱۳۴۷، روزی از اداره‌�� آموزش‌وپرور�� به من زنگ زدند که آقایی آمده اداره آدرس شما را می‌خواه��. اسمش را پرسیدم، گفتند آقای شاملو. مستخدم اداره ایشان را به طرف منزل ما می‌آور�� که بین راه به آن‌ه�� رسیدم. احمد شاملو بود.»

با چنین پیش‌زمینه‌ا�� از همان اولین دیدار، ارتباطی دوستانه و نزدیک بین آن‌ه�� برقرارمی شود. شاملو که برای ساختن فیلم‌های�� مستند به شمال آمده، درباره‌�� کتاب کوچه با پاشایی مشورت می‌کن�� و همین نقطه آغاز سه دهه همکاری و دوستی نزدیک آن‌ه�� می‌شو��.

نامه‌نگاری‌ها�� میان «شاملو» و «پاشایی»، مربوط به ایامی‌س�� که شاملو در خارج از کشور به سر می‌برد��. بخش عمده نامه‌ه�� به نیمه دوم دهه‌�� ۵۰ که شاملو به دلایل سیاسی کشور را ترک کرده برمی‌گرد��. بخشی هم حاصل نامه‌نگاری‌ها�� آن‌ه�� در سال‌ها�� پس از انقلاب است، در زمانی که شاملو برای درمان بیماری یا سخنرانی در دانشگاه‌ها�� مختلف به خارج از ایران سفر کرده است.]]> 198 احمد شاملو Shaghayegh 5 3.00 2014
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average rating: 3.00
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]]> 25056551 The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change—a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life.

Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage and family, many friends, and a brilliant journalism career culminating in his twenty-two years as anchor of the NBC Nightly News and as bestselling author. But in the summer of 2013, when back pain led him to the doctors at the Mayo Clinic, his run of good luck was interrupted. He received shocking news: He had multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer. Friends had always referred to Brokaw’s “lucky star,�� but as he writes in this inspiring memoir, “Turns out that star has a dimmer switch.��

Brokaw takes us through all the seasons and stages of this surprising year, the emotions, discoveries, setbacks, and struggles—times of denial, acceptance, turning points, and courage. After his diagnosis, Brokaw began to keep a journal, approaching this new stage of his life in a familiar role: as a journalist, determined to learn as much as he could about his condition, to report the story, and help others facing similar battles. That journal became the basis of this wonderfully written memoir, the story of a man coming to terms with his own mortality, contemplating what means the most to him now, and reflecting on what has meant the most to him throughout his life.

Brokaw also pauses to look back on some of the important moments in his career: memories of Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the morning of September 11, 2001, in New York City, and more. Through it all, Brokaw writes in the warm, intimate, natural voice of one of America’s most beloved journalists, giving us Brokaw on Brokaw, and bringing us with him as he navigates pain, procedures, drug regimens, and physical rehabilitation. Brokaw also writes about the importance of patients taking an active role in their own treatment, and of the vital role of caretakers and coordinated care.

Generous, informative, and deeply human, A Lucky Life Interrupted offers a message of understanding and empowerment, resolve and reality, hope for the future and gratitude for a well-lived life.]]> 240 Tom Brokaw Shaghayegh 3 3.76 2015
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.76
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rating: 3
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]]> 18813642 Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink—all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.

In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.

Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.

Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me --
Peculiar benefits --
Typical first year professor --
To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically --
How to be friends with another woman --
Girls, girls, girls --
I once was Miss America --
Garish, glorious spectacles --
Not here to make friends --
How we all lose --
Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's Skinny --
The smooth surfaces of idyll --
The careless language of sexual violence --
What we hunger for --
The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion --
The spectacle of broken men --
A tale of three coming out stories --
Beyond the measure of men --
Some jokes are funnier than others --
Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown --
So much they would let him beat them --
Blurred lines, indeed --
The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us --
The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on The help --
Surviving Django --
Beyond the struggle narrative --
The morality of Tyler Perry --
The last day of a young black man --
When less is more --
The politics of respectability --
When Twitter does what journalism cannot --
The alienable rights of women --
Holding out for a hero --
A tale of two profiles --
The racism we all carry --
Tragedy, call, compassion, response --
Bad feminist : take one --
Bad feminist : take two]]> 320 Roxane Gay 0062282719 Shaghayegh 4 3.93 2014
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> 4670201 در رؤيای بابل از موفق‌تري�� و ماندگارترين آثار ريچارد براتيگان، نويسنده‌�� نوآور آمريکايي، است. رمانی درنهايت جذابيت، که حاصل تجربيات اعجاب‌انگي�� نويسنده در عرصه‌�� خلاقيت ادبی است. اين اثری همتا و حتی فراتر از صيدقزل‌آلادرآمريک�� است که سنت‌شکن�� ادبی را در آميزه‌ا�� از ژانرهای سنتی (داستان کارآگاهی و رمان علمی ـ تخيلی) به نمايش می‌گذار��: براتيگان در بهترين براتيگان‌بازی‌ا��.]]> 238 Richard Brautigan 9643623874 Shaghayegh 3 3.57 1977
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average rating: 3.57
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rating: 3
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Their idea was simple. Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control their personal data, instead of surrendering it to big businesses like Facebook. They called it Diaspora. In days, they raised $200,000, and reporters, venture capitalists, and the digital community’s most legendary figures
were soon monitoring their progress. Max dreamed of being a CEO. Ilya was the idealist. Dan coded like a pro, and Rafi tried to keep them all on track. But as the months passed and the money ran out, the Diaspora Four fell victim to errors, bad decisions, and their own hubris. In November 2011, Ilya committed suicide.

Diaspora has been tech news since day one, but the story reaches far beyond Silicon Valley to the now urgent issues about the future of the Internet. With the cooperation of the surviving partners, New York Times bestselling author Jim Dwyer tells a riveting story of four ambitious and naÏve young men who tried to rebottle the genie of personal privacy—and paid the ultimate price.]]> 384 Jim Dwyer 0670025607 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 3.53 2014
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average rating: 3.53
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]]> 678422 کتاب شامل ۱۱ داستان کوتاه از این نویسنده‌�� ایتالیایی است.]]> 279 Alba de Céspedes 9643114562 Shaghayegh 3 3.13 1940
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average rating: 3.13
book published: 1940
rating: 3
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"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 Shaghayegh 0 4.28 1939
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> 27999 The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace.

These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent.

The half-skinned steer --
The mud below --
55 miles to the gas pump --
The bunchgrass edge of the world --
A lonely coast --
Job history --
Pair a spurs --
People in Hell just want a drink of water --
The governors of Wyoming --
The blood bay --
Brokeback Mountain]]> 289 Annie Proulx 0684852225 Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.01 1999
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]]> 4921527 An alternate cover edition can be found here.


پس از جنگ جهانی دوم در آمریکا همه تفنگ به دست داشتند. روای نوجوان این داستان هم مثل باقی مردم صاحب تفنگی است. او در یک روز بهاری به جای آن که به یک مغازه‌�� ساندویچ�� فروشی برود، از یک مغازه‌�� اسلحه�� فروشی یک بسته فشنگ می‌خرد�� وقتی که به قصد شکار طاووس با دوستش به باغ سیب می‌رود�� خیال می‌کن�� دوستش یک طاووس است و او را با تیر می‌زن��. با این واقعه کودکی او در دوازده سالگی به پایان می‌رس��. «پس باد همه چیز را با خود نخواهد برد» آخرین رمانی است که از ریچارد براتیگان دو سال پیش از مرگ منتشر شد. بدین ترتیب نقطه‌�� آغاز تلاش ادبی براتیگان که با رمان معروف «صید قزل‌آل�� در امریکا» آغاز شد، پس از سه دهه تلاش با این رمان به نقطه‌�� پایان می‌رس��. مضمون «مرگ» سرفصل مشترک همه‌�� آثار برتیگان است.]]> 176 Richard Brautigan 9641910035 Shaghayegh 4 3.63 1982
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.63
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rating: 4
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By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.]]> 258 David Benioff 0670018708 Shaghayegh 5 4.28 2008
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average rating: 4.28
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rating: 5
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]]> 13538873
Clay Jannon tells how serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has sent him from Web Drone to night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay realizes just how curious this store is.

A few customers come in repeatedly without buying anything. Instead they “check out�� obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. All runs according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes.

He embarks on a complex analysis of the customers�� behavior and ropes in friends to help. Once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. A quest to New York City dips in a world conspiracy for eternal life. The current of romance pulls Clay onward.]]> 288 Robin Sloan 0374214913 Shaghayegh 2 3.71 2012
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.71
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rating: 2
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Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.

His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is well, something quite different.

We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler's lovely novel resonates so deeply.]]> 277 Anne Tyler 0307272400 Shaghayegh 3 3.32 2009
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.32
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rating: 3
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Maybe that was always beside the point.

Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her �� Neal is always a little upset with Georgie �� but she doesn't expect him to pack up the kids and go home without her.

When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.

That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts...

Is that what she’s supposed to do?

Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?]]> 320 Rainbow Rowell 1250049377 Shaghayegh 2 3.54 2014
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.54
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rating: 2
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]]> 25893709 193 Elizabeth Strout 1400067693 Shaghayegh 3 3.56 2016
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average rating: 3.56
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rating: 3
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In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends--growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration--come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime--but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side.]]> 416 Matt Taibbi 081299342X Shaghayegh 0 to-read 4.24 2014
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Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.]]> 771 Donna Tartt 0316055433 Shaghayegh 4 3.94 2013
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name: Shaghayegh
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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