en-US Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:04:22 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 205063378 “I adore this book as much as I adore empowered spiders, poker-faced narrators, and cooperative bookstores. It’s wry, whip-smart, and freaking gorgeous. Sid Sharp is a maestro of comic timing and subversion.� —Kyo Maclear, author of It Began With a Page

From the acclaimed author of The Wolf Suit comes another weirdly hilarious, masterfully thought-provoking, and lushly painted early reader graphic novel.

Two sisters, one stubbornly cheerful (Beatrice) and one relentlessly grumpy (Magnolia), live in a drafty old house with a family of helpful spiders. When Beatrice is gifted magic yarn from a giant forest spider obsessed with sustainability named Bog Myrtle, she and the spiders set to work knitting up a perfectly warm sweater.

But greedy Magnolia sees only the opportunity for profit, and quickly converts the old house into a magic sweater factory. The exhausted spiders are driven to strike, and Bog Myrtle is not pleased . . .

Bog Myrtle is a witty modern folktale that touches on themes of capitalism, environmentalism, labor rights, and being a nice person.]]> 144 Sid Sharp 1773218921 Lea 5 4.48 2024
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]]> 218945605 Wie ein Traum uns daran erinnern kann, wer wir eigentlich sind

Luchs denkt, seine Geschichte wäre gelebt. Er ist Friedhofswächter und dreht da jede Nacht seine Runden � und damit scheint er auch zufrieden zu sein. Bis die 13-jährige Teresa auftaucht und er ihr Feuer leiht, ohne zu ahnen, dass er sich damit eine Suspendierung einheimst. Nach anfänglichem Ärger werden er und Teresa Freunde. Sie bringt ihm bei, Gitarre zu spielen, und erinnert ihn daran, dass er es einmal gewagt hatte, sein Leben zu leben. Und so lässt Luchs den Friedhof hinter sich und fährt zurück an den Ort seiner Träume, nach Santa Tereza, wo er sich nicht scheut, wieder er selbst zu sein.



Was hält uns davon ab, das ganze Leben zu leben? Flurin Jecker zeichnet ein liebenswürdiges Portrait einer Figur, die uns fragen lä Wie schaffen wir es, unsere Desillusionen hinter uns zu lassen und in eine neue Naivität zu kommen?]]> 145 Flurin Jecker 3312013593 Lea 5 3.36
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]]> 223453346 Christopher Tauber 3440511073 Lea 0 3.47
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]]> 10381195 Body and Soul. The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body - a sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural but instead supernatural.

Body and soul - they're also what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, and the assistance of beautiful jazz aficionado Simone Fitzwilliam, Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace - one that leads right to his own doorstep and to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented trumpet player named Richard "Lord" Grant - otherwise known as Peter's dear old dad.]]> 375 Ben Aaronovitch 0575097604 Lea 0 4.05 2011
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]]> 13563062 144 Milena Michiko Flašar 380313241X Lea 4 4.08 2012
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]]> 1873630 306 Lady Anne Clifford 0750931787 Lea 0 3.32 1990
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]]> 78234368 Seine geliebte Großmutter, die den Holocaust überlebte und deren Schtetl-Akzent ihn vor den anderen Familien am Strand mit Scham erfüllt, und seine verhasste »monströse« Tante bedeuten für ihn zugleich widerwillige Geborgenheit und die beständige Gegenwart einer Vergangenheit, deren Trauma auf seinen Schultern liegt.
In so gefühlvoller wie genauer Sprache erzählt Hugo Lindenberg diesen Roman in einer Reihe von Szenen des Sommers, der Stille, des Lichts, der Begegnungen, in einer Stimmung sich dem Ende zuneigender Sommerferien und doch durchzogen von einer Unheimlichkeit und Bewegungslosigkeit, die unter die Haut gehen.]]> 154 Hugo Lindenberg 3960543123 Lea 0 3.80 2020
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]]> 63219041
Es sei denn, sie nimmt ihr Schicksal in die eigene Hand und sucht sich ein paar schillernde Verbündete für ihren Plan - denn Marra will den Prinzen nicht küssen, sondern ihn töten!]]> 368 T. Kingfisher 3847901338 Lea 5 3.96 2022
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]]> 216345251
Kann Heimatschutz Gewalt rechtfertigen? Während sich die Situation zuspitzt und in Selbstjustiz der Bevölkerung zu eskalieren droht, flüchtet Jannes zu seinen Schafen in die Heide. Bis er dort immer wieder auf eine merkwürdige Frau trifft. Er beginnt, ihr zu folgen, und kommt Schritt für Schritt hinter die Geheimnisse dieser vermeintlichen Sehnsuchtslandschaft, stößt auf Brutalität, völkische Ideologie � und auf ein tiefes Schweigen. Markus Thielemann begibt sich mit seinem fesselnden Anti-Heimatroman tief hinein in die Abgründe eines „urdeutschen� Idylls.]]> 286 Markus Thielemann Lea 4 4.03
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]]> 43758 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.ĚýĚý±ő˛Ô The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.

Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:

- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco.  Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . .

- The sleep of certain men and women--vampires and mortals scattered around the world--is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy.  It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end . . .

- Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to "save" mankind from itself and make "all myths of the world real" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: "I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause" . . .

These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings.  As the stories of the "first brood" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created--mortals succumbing to the sensation of "being emptied, of being devoured, of being nothing." Vampires are destroyed.  Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world.  And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 448 Anne Rice 0345419626 Lea 0 3.93 1988
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]]> 60766698 Das Leben als moderne Hexe war nie einfach � jetzt wird es apokalyptisch!
Nach einem Bürgerkrieg unter den Hexen versuchen die Freundinnen Niamh, Leonie, Helena und Elle, in ihr »normales« Leben zurückzukehren. Doch Niamh trauert um ihre große Liebe und hadert mit ihren Gefühlen für den Gemüselieferanten Luke; Leonie kämpft für ihren eigenen Zirkel aus Hexen of Color; Helena muss als Hohepriesterin des Hexenzirkels ihrer Majestät die magische Behörde am Laufen halten; und Elle ist mit einem Nicht-Magier verheiratet, der nichts von ihren Kräften ahnt � bis ihre Tochter sich als Hexe entpuppt.

Als die Orakel das Ende aller Hexen vorhersagen, gerät ein magisch begabtes Kind in den Fokus der vier Freundinnen. Jetzt müssen die Hexen Entscheidungen treffen, die ihre Freundschaft für immer verändern werden �

»Der Hexenzirkel Ihrer Majestät � Das begabte Kind« ist der erste Teil der Urban-Fantasy-Trilogie »Die Hexen Ihrer Majestät« um vier starke Frauen mit magischen Kräften � und ein begabtes Kind, das die Welt verändern wird.]]> 464 Juno Dawson 3426528797 Lea 4 3.65 2022
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]]> 60003006 On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh's High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor - Iris, who says she comes from a future where women are still persecuted for who they are and what they believe.
As the hours pass and dawn approaches, Geillis recounts the circumstances of her arrest, brutal torture, confession and trial, while Iris offers support, solace - and the tantalising prospect of escape.

Hex is a visceral depiction of what happens when a society is consumed by fear and superstition, exploring how the terrible force of a king's violent crusade against ordinary women can still be felt, right up to the present day.]]> 104 Jenni Fagan 1846975689 Lea 4 3.82 2022
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]]> 123136728 207 Samantha Harvey 0802161545 Lea 0 to-read 3.56 2023
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]]> 3435276 230 Margaret Cavendish 1551112876 Lea 4 3.42 2002
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]]> 196652379 120 Thomas D'Urfey 1021992186 Lea 4 4.00
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]]> 30244499 268 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lea 0 3.50
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]]> 202165946 A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying to outrun and outmatch a powerful, underground world

One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A breakup that starts a spiral. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. Little Rot is a whirling journey through the city’s dark side, told through the eyes of five people, each determined to run from the twisted powers out to destroy them.

Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, intersect with the three old friends as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt underworld, they’re all looking for a way out of the trouble they’ve instigated, driven by loss and fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them. They careen madly in the face of the poison of power, sexual violence, murder, betrayals. Little Rot tests how far these five will go to save each other—or themselves—when confronted by evil, culminating in a shattering denouement.

With each novel, with each creation, Akwaeke Emezi shows their genius as a storyteller, as a visionary force who has created a thrilling tale of sex, power, and deviance in Little Rot. You won’t be able to look away.]]> 276 Akwaeke Emezi 0525541632 Lea 0 to-read 3.59 2024
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]]> 211871274 Ein bildgewaltiges Epos über die Freiheit - »Ein kühnes, wildes, oft betörendes Buch.« Guardian

Nördlich von St. Louis liegt in den 1830er Jahren eine Stadt, die auf keiner Landkarte verzeichnet Ours. Gegründet und beschützt von der mächtigen Saint, einer geheimnisvollen Frau mit noch geheimnisvolleren Kräften, ist sie Zufluchtsort für die Verlorenen, ehemals Versklavten, die Geretteten. Hier schlagen sie Wurzeln, werden zu Nachbarn und Familien, zu Liebenden. Jahrzehntelang gelingt es Saint und ihrem stummen Begleiter, die Gemeinschaft vor den brutalen Übeln der Welt zu bewahren. Doch als ihre eigenen Verwundungen immer dunklere Schatten werfen und eine neue Macht in die Stadt eindringt, beginnt die Gemeinschaft sich zu fragen, ob Sicherheit sich nicht unweigerlich auf Unfreiheit gründen muss, sogar an einem Ort wie dem ihren. Phillip B. Williams' »Ours« ist ein visionärer Roman, der in der radikalen Neuschöpfung der Vergangenheit eine Stimme für unsere Gegenwart findet, und eine so intime wie elementare Geschichte darüber, was es heißt, ein Mensch zu sein. 




»Dieser Roman erhebt sich in den höchsten Himmel.« Los Angeles Times

»Fans von The Underground Railroad und Der Wassertänzer werden diese lyrische und surreale Saga verschlingen� Absolut befreiend.« Oprah Daily


]]> 691 Phillip B. Williams 3104919925 Lea 0 to-read 3.50 2024
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]]> 210491111
Josephine Teys Krimis sollte man nicht Einer wurde Grundlage für einen Hitchcock-Film, einen anderen wählte die »Crime Writers� Association« 1990 zum »besten Kriminalroman aller Zeiten«!»Inspektor Alan Grant, ein super Typ und die Bücher sind richtig gut geschrieben.« NDREin Klassiker des Golden Age der Kriminalliteratur und erster Band der sechsteiligen Alan-Grant-ReiheGroßes Lesevergnügen mit einer ordentlichen Prise britischen Humors]]> 193 Josephine Tey 3641324505 Lea 4 3.45 1929
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]]> 50250552 188 Anne Clifford 1164484354 Lea 0 4.33
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]]> 711823
All these women were originally city folk. Glikl bas Judah Leib was a merchant of Hamburg and Metz whose Yiddish autobiography blends folktales with anecdotes about her two marriages, her twelve children, and her business. Marie de l'Incarnation, widowed young, became a mystic visionary among the Ursuline sisters and cofounder of the first Christian school for Amerindian women in North America. Her letters are a rich source of information about the Huron, Algonquin, Montagnais, and Iroquois peoples of Quebec. Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname. Along the way she abandoned her husband to join a radical Protestant sect in the Netherlands.Drawing on Glikl's memoirs, Marie's autobiography and correspondence, and Maria's writings on entomology and botany, Davis brings these women to vibrant life. She reconstructs the divergent paths their stories took, and at the same time shows us each amid the common challenges and influences of the time--childrearing, religion, an outpouring of vernacular literature--and in relation to men.

The resulting triptych suggests the range of experience, self-consciousness, and expression possible in seventeenth-century Europe and its outposts. It also shows how persons removed from the centers of power and learning ventured in novel directions, modifying in their own way Europe's troubled and ambivalent relations with other "marginal" peoples.]]> 400 Natalie Zemon Davis 0674955218 Lea 4 3.68 1995
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]]> 162693097
One of the tourists is Evan, taking an enforced holiday from his family and work in Belfast after breaking down after the death of his daughter in infancy. He has come to try to process his grief and make himself desirable again as a husband, a father and a business partner.

But he hasn't been there a week until he gets trapped by lockdown. When Grace saves his life in a kayaking accident - if it was an accident - and Evan's troubled son arrives to stay, all three are drawn together in a way that forces a reckoning with their personal traumas and draws them back into society.

This is a moving and funny debut novel set in a quirky coastal community you will be desperate to visit after reading. It will appeal to readers of Elizabeth Strout, Maggie O'Farrell and Alice Munro.]]> 302 Roisin Maguire 1800816758 Lea 0 to-read 4.11 2024
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]]> 61379879
Sich gegen das Patriarchat zur Wehr zu setzen, ist besonders im Alltag schwierig. Denn Vieles ist uns so vertraut, dass wir es gar nicht hinterfragen. Sogar bekennende Feminist:innen tappen immer wieder in die gleichen Fallen. Wir schließen Frauen durch Sprache aus, folgen veralteten Vorstellungen von einer glücklichen Kleinfamilie inklusive traditionellen Rollenbildern. Oder wir passen uns männergemachten und kapitalistischen Strukturen an, wenn wir im Beruf erfolgreich sein wollen. Die Beitragenden der Anthologie UNLEARN PATRIARCHY berichten von ihren Erfahrungen und spüren eigenen fatalen Denkmustern nach. Sie zeigen, wie über alle Gesellschaftsbereiche hinweg von Sprache und Liebe über Arbeit bis hin zu Politik, Bildung oder Identität die patriarchalen Handlungsmuster gebrochen werden können und ein besseres Leben für alle möglich wird.]]> 352 Lisa Jaspers 3550202199 Lea 0 to-read 4.27 2022
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]]> 212356936 117 Emilia Roig 3446281959 Lea 0 to-read 3.93
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]]> 210448793 Die schönste Version erzählt die Geschichte von Jella und Yannick, von der ersten großen Liebe, die alles richtig machen will. Bis es kippt. Wieder zurück in ihrem Kinderzimmer fragt Jella sich, wie es so weit kommen konnte. Sie schaut noch einmal genauer auf ihr Aufwachsen in der Lausitz. Kleinstadt und Kiesgruben, Gangsterrap und Glitzerlipgloss. Auf Freundinnen, die sie durch so vieles trugen. Und auf den Moment, in dem Yannicks Hände sich um ihren Hals schlossen.

Die schönste Version ist die Geschichte eines Erwachens, Erkennens, Anklagens, eine große Introspektion: Ruth-Maria Thomas schreibt über das Frauwerden, Frausein, von Körpern, Begierden und tiefen Abgründen. 

«Ich hatte mir das alles anders Yannick und ich hätten einfach nur in unserer schönen hellen Wohnung gelebt, viele Pflanzen, gesundes, kräftiges Grün. Es hätte für immer nach der Minze von unserem Balkon geduftet, wir hätten befreundete Pärchen gehabt, die zum Dinner zu uns gekommen wären, wir hätten Dinner gesagt, nicht Abendbrot. Lunch, Dinner, das wäre uns ganz leicht von den Lippen gegangen. Wir hätten gemeinsam Lasagne gekocht, mit Zitronenpfeffer. Unsere Gesichter wären rötlich gewesen von der Hitze der Herdplatten, dem Wein und unseren angeregten Gesprächen. Fin. Stattdessen liege ich hier in meinem alten Kinderzimmer mit pochendem Hals und einem entrückten Gefühl. Alles kaputt, nirgendwo Minze, keine Scheißlasagne.»]]> 265 Ruth-Maria Thomas 3644019797 Lea 0 to-read 4.32 2024
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]]> 131088113
Jean-Philippe Kindler ist auf der Suche nach neuen gesellschaftlichen Konzepten. Er geht mit sich, seiner Generation und den Linken genauso hart ins Gericht wie mit den Konservativen und dem Kapitalismus � ein wütendes, inspirierendes, langersehntes Buch.

«Auf den ersten Blick scheinen junge Menschen ungemein politisch zu sein. Sie sind sprachsensibel, sie sind rassismuskritisch, sie geben bußfertig Beichte über ihre unverdienten Privilegien ab. Sie sind laut Tinder-Biografie äußerst empathisch und kennen ihren Persönlichkeitstyp, sie ernähren sich vegan und verzichten aufs Fliegen ... Jene Konzepte individueller Glücksmaximierung scheinen aber nur auf den ersten Blick ein kulturelles Gegenprogramm zur neoliberalen Anforderung der Selbstoptimierung zu sein. Denn auch in den unzähligen Aufforderungen sich selbst und den unperfekten Körper zu lieben, seine Mitmenschen korrekt und sprachsensibel anzusprechen, sich nachhaltig und emissionsarm zu verhalten, blitzt die Obsession mit dem eigenen Selbst ganz deutlich auf.» Jean-Philippe Kindler]]> 138 Jean-Philippe Kindler 3499012995 Lea 0 to-read 4.16
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]]> 652275 The Two Noble Kinsmen. They are: "John Fletcher, 'Upon An Honest Man's Fortune'"; "The Portrait--Frontispiece of John Fletcher, 1647"; "Francis Beaumont, The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn"; "Beaumont's 1613 Masque and The Two Noble Kinsmen"; "The Morris"; and "The Music." Finally, a reference section provides a list of abbreviations and references, a catalog of Shakespeare's works and works partly by Shakespeare, and citations for the modern productions mentioned in the text, other collated editions of The Two Noble Kinsmen, and other related reading.

The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the play's foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.]]> 412 William Shakespeare 1904271189 Lea 4 3.43 1614
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]]> 213346837 400 Mithu M. Sanyal 3446280766 Lea 3 3.65 2024
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]]> 43908991 The follow-up to #1 New York Times µţ±đ˛őłŮ˛ő±đ±ô±ô±đ°ůĚýKindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel

In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America’s future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher’s daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.]]> 266 Damian Duffy 1419731335 Lea 4 3.97 2020
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]]> 212163002
Ein Roman über ein tristes Land. Über die Diaspora als Heimat. Über die Freiheit im Fremdsein. Über kaputte Aufzüge und die Wahrheit der Schwäne.]]> 145 Behzad Karim Khani 3446281967 Lea 5 4.40 2024
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Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?

A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale and satire.]]> 291 Ling Ma 0374261598 Lea 0 to-read 3.90 2018
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A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 241 Cormac McCarthy 0307265439 Lea 0 to-read 3.99 2006
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]]> 20170404 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 333 Emily St. John Mandel 0385353308 Lea 0 to-read 4.05 2014
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]]> 61242426
The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success � not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.

But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed.]]> 296 Travis Baldree Lea 0 to-read 4.05 2022
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]]> 42036538
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.

Of course, some things are better left dead.]]> 448 Tamsyn Muir 1250313198 Lea 0 to-read 4.19 2019
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Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic―so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage’s College, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret.

When he’s discovered by the condescending and brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested―but instead of calling the reds, Ramsay surprises Ash by making him an offer: Ramsay will keep Ash's secret if he helps her find the legendary Book of Source, a sacred text that gives its reader extraordinary power.

As Ash and Ramsay work together and their feelings for each other grow, Ash discovers their mission is more dangerous than he imagined, pitting them against influential and powerful alchemists―Ash’s estranged father included. Ash’s journey takes him through the cities and wilds across New Anglia, forcing him to discover his own definition of true power and how far he and other alchemists will go to seize it.

Featuring trans, queer, and polyamorous characters of color, Infinity Alchemist is the hugely anticipated young adult fantasy debut from the extraordinary author of Felix Ever After, King and the Dragonflies, Queen of the Conquered and more.]]> 400 Kacen Callender 125089025X Lea 4 3.47 2024
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]]> 211104914 239 Stefanie vor Schulte 3257615434 Lea 5 4.07
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]]> 212163998 333 Tommy Orange 3446281991 Lea 5 3.98 2024
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]]> 184591437 A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?

From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.]]> 256 Ali Smith 034914639X Lea 0 to-read 3.29
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]]> 200174139 White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapped on an island resort after the sun literally explodes, and suddenly must choose whether to save himself from the chaos, or help fellow guests make it off the island alive�

Vacation Checklist:  
Pack swim trunks. 
Apply sunscreen. 
Survive the apocalypse?

Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a vacation. Sure, his life has been average at best, and yeah, he’s never quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Miller Lites in paradise with his girlfriend, Mara, things are starting to look up.

Then the sun explodes.

With the island resort suddenly plunged into darkness (he really should’ve sprung for the travel insurance), Dan’s holiday goes from bad to worse when elite guests stage a coup and commandeer supplies. As temperatures drop and class tensions rise, revolution begins to brew on the island, and Dan accidentally becomes a beacon of hope for the surviving vacationers. But when one six-person plane is discovered that could get them back to the mainland, Dan realizes he has a choice to make.

Does he escape the island with Mara? Or does he stay and fight to become the most unlikely hero of the end of the world?

]]> 384 M.J. Wassmer 1464218021 Lea 0 to-read 3.69 2024
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]]> 57693584
A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga’s experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?]]> 186 Noor Naga 164445081X Lea 4 3.95 2022
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Martina Voß kennt sich aus mit den nicht so schlimmen Kleinigkeiten, die einer Frau zustoßen können. Deshalb nimmt sie ohne lange nachzudenken Kasia und ihre Tochter auf. Platz hat sie in ihrem großen Haus, nachdem sie sich ohne lange nachzudenken von ihrem Mann getrennt hat. Außerdem ist Sommer, und die Welt verliert ihre Ecken und Kanten, wenn die beiden Frauen Apfelsaft mit Wodka trinken. Aber lange kann das nicht gutgehen. Denn im Dorf wissen immer alle alles. Zielstrebig und intelligent, ohnmächtig und tö Als unzuverlässige Erzählerin bietet diese Heldin keine einfachen Wahrheiten an.]]> 213 Mareike Krügel 3492608809 Lea 3 3.78
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]]> 86095584 In ihrem lang erwarteten neuen Buch zeichnet Nancy Fraser die historische Entwicklung des kapitalistischen Allesfressers über mehrere Epochen hinweg nach. Indem sie den Zusammenhang zwischen unterschiedlichen Krisen analysiert, zeigt sie zugleich auf, wie ein Sozialismus für das 21. Jahrhundert aussehen könnte. Klimawandel, Rassismus, Pflegekrise und demokratische Regression als Symptome desselben Problems zu begreifen weist den Weg zu neuen und starken gegenhegemonialen Allianzen.]]> 0 Nancy Fraser 3518776142 Lea 0 3.65 2022
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]]> 199698485 When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.]]> 490 Liz Moore Lea 0 to-read 4.16 2024
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]]> 199798179 A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all:

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats� from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.

She is tasked with working as a “bridge�: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as �1847� or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,� “Spotify,� and “the collapse of the British Empire.� But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.

Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.]]> 339 Kaliane Bradley 1668045141 Lea 0 to-read 3.54 2024
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]]> 173476035 This �comic and fierce� novel spoofs the classic Western format with the dark, incisive humor we’ve come to expect from its acclaimed author.

One of the earliest works anchoring Percival Everett’s illustrious career, God’s Country is by turns funny, shocking, and devastating. The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. Unfortunately, he’s a coward. When he sees a band of “Injun impersonators� pillaging his home, he has “half a mind to ride down that hill and say somethin�, but it was just half a mind after all.� It’s 1871, and he’s lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder enlists the help of the best tracker in the West: a Black man named Bubba.

With an introduction from renowned novelist Madison Smartt Bell, this is the perfect edition to add to your growing Percival Everett collection. As NPR’s Michael Schaub noted, “It’s impossible to predict what the next Everett book will bring, but it's always a safe bet that it's going to be great.”]]> 219 Percival Everett 0807016292 Lea 0 to-read 4.23 1994
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]]> 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett Lea 5 4.47 2024
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]]> 201862474 256 Caroline Wahl 3755810034 Lea 4 4.40 2024
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]]> 43814 481 Anne Rice 0345476883 Lea 4 4.10 1985
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]]> 53215250 Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" ( New York Times Book Review ) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges.

Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly.

Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.]]> 208 Mariana EnrĂ­quez 0593134079 Lea 4 3.78 2009
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> 58476152 Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time; an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, and unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us.  

Mesmerizing, electric, and wholly original, Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century blurs the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature.]]> 232 Kim Fu 1951142993 Lea 0 to-read 3.84 2022
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]]> 58532200
Decades later, the sisters are separated, and Tenkyi is living with Lhamo's daughter, Dolma, in Toronto. While Tenkyi works as a cleaner and struggles with traumatic memories, Dolma vies for a place as a scholar of Tibetan Studies. But when Dolma comes across the Nameless Saint in a collector's vault, she must decide what she is willing to do for her community, even if it means risking her dreams.

Breathtaking in its scope and powerful in its intimacy, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we'll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over fifty years, this novel provides a nuanced, moving portrait of the little-known world of Tibetan exiles.]]> 368 Tsering Yangzom Lama 1635576415 Lea 0 to-read 4.07 2022
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]]> 123183412
This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain . With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural her parents� volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist�; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail.

More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece� in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.]]> 318 Julia Fox 1668011506 Lea 0 to-read 4.38 2023
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]]> 63017297 In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband--but can their marriage survive her passionate love?

At forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. After all, would a truly infatuated man ever let go of his wife's hand when they're sitting on the couch together?

Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, charting every mistake and punishing him accordingly to help him improve. And she tests him--setting traps to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met.

Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far . . .

The winner of France's First Novel Prize in 2021, My Husband builds on the premise of hits like Gone Girl and Fates and Furies--how well can you really know your spouse?--and adds the tension and creepy obsession of You. The result is an irresistible read--compelling, tense, and engaging, infused with sly subversive humor, and told in an utterly original voice that makes it unforgettable.

Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan]]> 272 Maud Ventura 0063274825 Lea 0 to-read 3.67 2021
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]]> 62315926 "Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance.  In the wet grass, the imprints of Nora’s shoes will fill back slowly, and I won’t suspect that she is walking towards me. 
After Nora meets me on the bench, it will be difficult to recall that in the beginning, when I first arrived at school, there were moments so plain and unconsumed that I felt I could watch them like a distant view. Like hills rolling away.

Once she holds out her hand and asks, do you mind if I sit, it will be impossible for any other memory to exist without touching backwards or forwards over the view of her eyes looking down at me. The soft and penetrable skull of the world will suddenly harden and everything will be seen through the damp and willful light of our first meeting."

Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. Chatty, confident Clara from down the hall, who wants to be her friend; intense, determined Rachel from her poetry class, who is going to be a writer. Natalie doesn't know what she wants. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, who that someone even is.

Just as she is trying to find her footing, she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her. Natalie is drawn magnetically into Nora's orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time off-campus at Nora's perfect home living in her beautiful, quiet world. She lies to her floormates about her absence, inventing a secret boyfriend called Paul, and carefully protects this intimate, sacred adulthood she is building for herself. But when it becomes clear that Nora is lying, too, her secrets begin to take an insidious shape in Natalie's life, even as Natalie tries to look away. What, or who, is Nora hiding?]]> 320 Bronwyn Fischer 1643752723 Lea 0 to-read 3.70 2023
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Over the following three decades, these two lives almost intersect in pivotal moments, the distance between them at times drawing so thin they nearly collide. Against the backdrop of an era including Australia's first Mardi Gras and the AIDS pandemic, we see these two lives ebb and flow, with joy and grief and loss and desire, until at last they come together in the most beautiful and surprising of fashions.

A Language of Limbs is about love and how it's policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak - the jokes you tell as you're dying and the ways laughing at a funeral softens the edges of our grief. An unashamed celebration of queer life in all its vibrancy and colour, this story finds the humanity in all of us, and demands we claim our futures for ourselves.]]> 277 Dylin Hardcastle 1761562428 Lea 0 to-read 4.39 2024
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]]> 122762546 Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran.

Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Lonely and far from home, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher.

Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo’s nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in seedy bars. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light . . .

Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of isolation, desire, love, and ultimately, hope.]]> 352 Hanako Footman 1804440434 Lea 0 to-read 4.31 2024
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]]> 9317452 392 Ben Aaronovitch 0575097566 Lea 4 3.83 2011
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]]> 202440356 »Ein erschütternder Thriller über drei Frauen, die in den Bannkreis eines Serienmörders geraten.« Brit Bennett

In 12 Stunden soll Ansel Packer hingerichtet werden. Doch dies ist nicht seine Geschichte. Dies ist die Geschichte der Frauen, die er zurĂĽckgelassen hat.

Ansel Packer weiß ganz genau, was er verbrochen hat, und wartet nun auf seine Hinrichtung � das gleiche grausame Schicksal, das er vor Jahren seinen Opfern auferlegt hat. Doch er will nicht sterben. Er will anerkannt und verstanden werden.

Durch ein Kaleidoskop von Frauen � eine Mutter, eine Schwester, eine Kommissarin der Mordkommission � erfahren wir die Geschichte von Ansels Leben. Atemberaubend spannend und mit erstaunlichem Einfühlungsvermögen zeichnet Kukafka ein erschütterndes Porträt von Weiblichkeit, während sie gleichzeitig das Narrativ des Serienmörders und unsere kulturelle Besessenheit von Kriminalgeschichten hinterfragt

»Brillant.« Chris Whitaker

»Ein Muss.« The Times

»Umwerfend.« Observer

»Fesselnd.« New York Times

»Meisterhaft.« Guardian]]> 368 Danya Kukafka 3841235360 Lea 4 4.20 2022
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]]> 212192404 Jahre später kehrt Hanna zurück in die alte Heimat, in die Wohnung ihrer verstorbenen Großeltern. Die Stadt steht still, und Hanna fühlt sich einsam. Cem, ihr Fels, ist immer noch da, aber Zeyna schon seit Jahren aus ihrem Leben verschwunden. Hanna begibt sich auf die Suche � nach Zeyna, nach Spuren ihrer Geschichte, nach dem, was damals zwischen sie fiel.
Sprachlich zupackend und gleichzeitig poetisch erzählt Rasha Khayat von den Leer-stellen in unserem Leben und wie wir sie zu überwinden suchen, von der unendlichen Liebe in einer ungewöhnlichen Familienkonstellation und einer tiefen Freundschaft in einer Welt, die aus den Fugen gerät.]]> 184 Rasha Khayat 3755810646 Lea 5 4.06
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A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

Duration: 11 hours 39 minutes.]]> 274 Olga Tokarczuk Lea 4 3.93 2009
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]]> 60110623 112 Claire Keegan 3969990653 Lea 4 4.12 2021
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We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it went from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from dark matter to black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life. But what happens at the end of the story? In billions of years, humanity could still exist in some unrecognizable form, venturing out to distant space, finding new homes and building new civilizations. But the death of the universe is final. What might such a cataclysm look like? And what does it mean for us?

Dr. Katie Mack has been contemplating these questions since she was eighteen, when her astronomy professor first informed her the universe could end at any moment, setting her on the path toward theoretical astrophysics. Now, with lively wit and humor, she unpacks them in The End of Everything, taking us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos� possible finales: the Big Crunch; the Heat Death; Vacuum Decay; the Big Rip; and the Bounce. In the tradition of Neil DeGrasse’s bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Mack guides us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory, and much more, in a wildly fun, surprisingly upbeat ride to the farthest reaches of everything we know.]]> 226 Katie Mack 198210354X Lea 4 4.24 2020
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]]> 210275181 Das nächste Match ist näher, als du denkst � die Rom-Com des Jahres aus Irland

Tara und Colin sind füreinander bestimmt � das wussten sie von dem Moment an, als sie sich zum ersten Mal trafen. Aber nach einigen Jahren ist die Luft raus, und ihre Vorstellungen von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft driften ziemlich auseinander. Gerade ist eine neue App in aller Munde: Fling. Sie ermöglicht es unglücklich Verheirateten, diskret und ohne Verpflichtungen eine Affäre einzugehen. Erst zögern Tara und Colin, doch dann melden sie sich unabhängig voneinander heimlich bei der App an. Und schneller als gedacht beginnt eine Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle …]]> 352 Joseph Murray 3104916063 Lea 3 2.91 2023
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Die sechsundzwanzigjährige Jule flüchtet sich nach einem heftigen Streit mit ihrem Freund zu ihren Eltern. Niemals hätte geschehen dürfen, was geschehen ist. In dem Haus am Dorfrand will sie jetzt bleiben und in Ruhe entscheiden, wie es weitergehen soll. Doch dann ereilt die Nachricht vom Tod ihrer Großmutter die Familie, und Jule stutzt. Warum hat ihre Mutter nie von der Großmutter oder der eigenen Kindheit erzählt? Als sie gemeinsam das Haus der Großmutter aufräumen, findet Jule Hinweise auf lang zurückliegende Ereignisse, die bis in die Gegenwart hinein ihre zerstörerische Macht entfalten.

Es wird Zeit, dass die Heilung beginnt � für alle Frauen der Familie.]]> 289 Kira Mohn 3749907617 Lea 5 4.39 2024
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]]> 14221931 24 Virginia Woolf 1290238936 Lea 0 3.70 1917
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]]> 139400713 Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 331 Kaveh Akbar 0593537610 Lea 0 to-read 4.22 2024
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]]> 1617 Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.]]> 120 Elie Wiesel 0374500010 Lea 0 to-read 4.38 1956
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]]> 28187 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.]]> 377 Rick Riordan 0786838655 Lea 0 to-read 4.31 2005
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]]> 60701439
One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship…]]> 336 Jen Beagin 1982153083 Lea 0 to-read 3.69 2023
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Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.

Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.]]> 240 Julia Armfield 152901722X Lea 0 to-read 3.75 2022
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]]> 128202279 Shortlist National Book Award - ein hintergründiger Roman zur Klimakrise und dem Konflikt zwischen Boomer-Eltern und der nachfolgenden Generation.Die fünfzehnjährige Evie verbringt den Sommer mit ihrer Mittelschicht-Familie am Strand irgendwo an der Ostküste der USA. Ihre Eltern haben gemeinsam mit Freunden aus Collegezeiten ein geräumiges Sommerhaus gemietet. Während die Erwachsenen die Tage mit Alkohol, Drogen und Sex verbringen, sind ihre Kinder sich selbst überlassen und verwildern zusehends. Evie kümmert sich um ihren kleinen Bruder Jack. Er ist ein verträumter, intelligenter Junge, der sich Sorgen um die Umwelt macht und dem Tiere sehr am Herzen liegen. Von einer der Mütter hat Jack eine Kinderbibel bekommen, deren Geschichten er verschlingt und für bare Münze nimmt. Als ein verheerender Wirbelsturm aufzieht und sintflutartiger Regen alles zu zerstören droht, verlassen die Kinder das Haus, um inmitten des Chaos einen sicheren Ort zu finden. Sie schlagen ihr Lager auf einer Farm auf, wo es noch ausreichend Vorräte gibt, bis auch hier das Unheil zuschlägt. Doch am Ende werden sie es sein, die es schaffen, sich an die neue Umwelt anzupassen.]]> 256 Lydia Millet 3641280982 Lea 3 3.25 2020
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Der preisgekrönte Historiker Marcus Rediker stützt sich bei seiner Untersuchung auf dreißig Jahre Forschung in Archiven, um eine so noch nie geschriebene Geschichte dieses menschlichen Dramas zu verfassen. Er rekonstruiert in erschütternden Details das Leben, den Tod und die Schrecken, die an Bord dieser schwimmenden Kerker herrschten.

Das Buch berichtet von den elenden Lebensbedingungen der Sklaven, die mit Hunger, Krankheit und einer furchtbaren Zukunft konfrontiert waren, von der extremen Gewalt der Strafen und Folterungen und vom allgegenwärtigen Tod. Er erinnert an die Angst der an Bord dieser Pulverfässer eingesperrten Mannschaften, die extrem harten hierarchischen Beziehungen, die Beziehungen zwischen Seeleuten und Gefangenen. Schließlich widmet er den Kooperationsformen zwischen Sklaven, denen es gelang, sich über ethnische Grenzen hinweg zu organisieren, um Aufstände mit oft blutigem Ausgang zu führen, breiten Raum.

»Das Sklavenschiff« ist eine Geschichte der Tragödie und des Schreckens, aber auch ein Epos der Widerstandsfähigkeit. Der Autor hat mit ihm ein Standardwerk über eines der erschütterndsten Kapitel des Kolonialismus und der Menschheitsgeschichte geschaffen, das in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt wurde.]]> 480 Marcus Rediker 386241499X Lea 0 4.00 2007
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]]> 261240
It is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly during the eighteenth century) and concerns the revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around the possibility of a person being buried alive or enclosed in a small space with not possibility of escape (aka immurement).

Librarian's note: this entry relates to the story "The Cask of Amontillado." Collections of short stories by the author can be found elsewhere on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ.]]> 24 Edgar Allan Poe 1594561869 Lea 4 4.09 1846
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]]> 762754 48 Edith Wharton 1419176390 Lea 0 3.34 1904
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When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. Reluctant to believe that hostilities will last more than a handful of weeks, she stays behind while the city falls under siege. As the assault deepens and everything they love is laid to waste, black ashes floating over the rooftops, Zora and her friends are forced to rebuild themselves, over and over. Theirs is a breathtaking story of disintegration, resilience and hope.]]> 256 Priscilla Morris Lea 0 to-read 4.21 2022
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]]> 95539628 0 Aeneas Silvius de Piccolomini 3534141482 Lea 4 4.00
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]]> 61350247
Nach der Hinrichtung der Mutter im Tumult der iranischen Revolution fliehen der elfjährige Saam und sein kleiner Bruder Nima mit ihrem Vater nach Deutschland. Doppelt fremd im arabisch dominierten Neukölln, fristet der Vater ein Leben zwischen Taxifahren, Backgammon und Scham, während Saam versucht, die Rolle des Familienoberhaupts auszufüllen. Mit allen Mitteln erkämpft er sich Respekt unter den brutalen Straßengangs, um seinen Bruder Nima zu beschützen. Bis er eines Tages zu weit geht.
In seinem spektakulären Debüt schreibt Behzad Karim Khani über die komplizierten Schicksale von Revolutionären, Kleindealern und Messerstechern und entwickelt dabei einen ganz eigenen Sound, in dem sowohl die Melancholie iranischer Prosa als auch die Härte afroamerikanischen Raps anklingen.]]> 288 Behzad Karim Khani 3446273786 Lea 0 to-read 4.20 2022
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]]> 55241321 304 Lea Singer 3311100271 Lea 0 to-read 3.91
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]]> 205958383
Auch die Tänzerin und ihre Freundin Cléo, der wegen ihrer Krämpfe Medikamente verabreicht werden, dienen als Fallbeispiele. Warum verschlimmert sich die gespenstische Krankheit bei ihnen stetig? Gibt es einen Weg raus aus der Salpêtrière, die man im Paris der Jahrhundertwende die «weibliche Hölle» nannte?

Um nicht den Verstand zu verlieren, hält die Tänzerin alles in ihrem Notizbuch fest. Ein feiner und humorvoller Roman.]]> 128 Alexander Kamber 303926074X Lea 0 to-read 3.37
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]]> 6331901 205 Carlo Ginzburg 3803124441 Lea 4 3.72 1976
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In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of “matron.� Within this landscape of immense privilege, where difference is met with hostility, the matron finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body.

That is until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite—an assured, authoritative paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless summer, their unspoken yearning blooms into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer fades, a choice must be made.

Seductive, stylish, and disarmingly wry, K Patrick’s bold and revelatory debut smolders with the heat of summer as it explores the queer experience and the force of forbidden love.]]> 240 K. Patrick 1609458419 Lea 0 to-read 3.61 2023
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]]> 59232998
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.

It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.

She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love?

Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.]]> 288 Akwaeke Emezi 1982188707 Lea 0 to-read 3.52 2022
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]]> 159269939 'Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, her truest friend.

Interweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.]]> 246 Chukwuebuka Ibeh 0241998034 Lea 0 to-read 4.11 2024
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]]> 62049727
A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.� In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts� of his own suicide.

In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.]]> 272 Joyce Carol Oates 0593535863 Lea 0 to-read 3.43
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]]> 62039259 A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel.

A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting the welfare of a nearby homeless encampment, observing obnoxious hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, and the indignities of sentience. “I have so much language in my brain,� our lion says, “and nowhere to put it.�

When a man-made fire engulfs the encampment, the lion is forced from the hills down into the city the hikers call “ellay.� As the lion confronts a carousel of temptations and threats, they take us on a tour that spans the cruel inequalities of Los Angeles and the toll of climate grief, while scrambling to avoid earthquakes, floods, and the noise of their own conflicted psyche. But even when salvation finally seems within reach, they are forced to face down the ultimate question: Do they want to eat a person, or become one?

In elegiac prose woven with humor, imagination, sensuality, and tragedy, Henry Hoke’s Open Throat is a marvel of storytelling, a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing world told by a lovable mountain lion. Both feral and vulnerable, profound and playful, Open Throat is a star-making novel that brings mythmaking to real life.]]> 160 Henry Hoke 037460987X Lea 0 to-read 4.02 2023
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At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.]]> 145 Caleb Azumah Nelson 0241448778 Lea 0 to-read 4.03 2021
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]]> 49977811 Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide—a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.

When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable.

Once they return to Warsaw, the charismatic Janusz quickly rises in the political ranks of the party and is rewarded with a highly-coveted position in the ministry. Ludwik is drawn toward impulsive acts of protest, unable to ignore rising food prices and the stark economic disparity around them. Their secret love and personal and political differences slowly begin to tear them apart as both men struggle to survive in a regime on the brink of collapse.

Shifting from the intoxication of first love to the quiet melancholy of growing up and growing apart, Swimming in the Dark is a potent blend of romance, post-war politics, intrigue, and history. Lyrical and sensual, immersive and intense, Tomasz Jedrowski has crafted an indelible and thought-provoking literary debut that explores freedom and love in all its incarnations.]]> 191 Tomasz Jedrowski 006289000X Lea 0 to-read 4.25 2020
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Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own.

It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations.

On another hot summer’s day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless.]]> 430 Mieko Kawakami 1609455878 Lea 0 to-read 3.87 2019
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]]> 63028672 I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming’s orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he’s already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition.

From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face tectonic shifts in their relationship and friend circle in the wake of Ming’s transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises—some personal, some professional, some life-altering—Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: Is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are?

Buoyed by a voice as tender, effervescent and wryly funny as the cast of characters it centers, µţ±đ±ô±ôľ±±đ˛őĚýis an unforgettable story of youth, intimacy, hunger and heartbreak, at once boldly original yet fiercely familiar, which unabashedly holds a mirror up to our most vulnerable selves and desires.]]> 368 Nicola Dinan 1335490884 Lea 0 to-read 4.02 2023
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]]> 75715117 Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023'

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.

Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness.

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.]]> 288 Chloe Michelle Howarth 0857308416 Lea 0 to-read 4.33 2023
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]]> 61089551 What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.

It’s 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her � the man she has been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name and, alongside it, her life.

1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted. But she is sure she can sell a painting � and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered.

In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller � and fuller.

Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho reimagines the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as they battle for liberation, justice and control over their own lives.

Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, Eileen Gray, Lina Poletti: these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic, furious and funny, After Sappho celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past � and offers hope for our present, and our futures.]]> 272 Selby Wynn Schwartz 1324092319 Lea 0 to-read 3.46 2022
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Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.]]> Paulo Coelho 3813802922 Lea 3 3.93 1988
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A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.

Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.]]> 272 Lauren Groff 0593418395 Lea 4 3.73 2016
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But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family ... and himself.]]> 320 Alice Oseman 1444951408 Lea 0 4.52 2019
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]]> 197129285 143 Diaty Diallo 3862416410 Lea 0 to-read 4.06 2023
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]]> 1625 Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.]]> 272 William Shakespeare 0743482778 Lea 4 3.97 1602
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]]> 494785 The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition.

Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action.

From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.]]> 142 John Webster 0393900916 Lea 0 3.63 1614
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But alongside the black magic and disturbing disappearances, these stories are fueled by compassion for the frightened and the lost, ultimately bringing these characters—mothers and daughters, husbands and wives—into a surprisingly familiar reality. Written in hypnotic prose that gives grace to the grotesque, Things We Lost in the Fire is a powerful exploration of what happens when our darkest desires are left to roam unchecked, and signals the arrival of an astonishing and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 192 Mariana Enríquez 045149511X Lea 0 to-read 4.04 2016
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His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.� Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he’s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.]]> 209 Agustina Bazterrica 1982150920 Lea 0 to-read 3.76 2017
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