en-US Sun, 04 May 2025 10:59:08 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 10691230 284 Robert Henri Velma 0 art, tbr-recommended 4.53 1929
author: Robert Henri
name: Velma
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1929
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/05/04
shelves: art, tbr-recommended
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]]> 9516
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.]]> 153 Marjane Satrapi 037571457X Velma 0 4.27 2003
author: Marjane Satrapi
name: Velma
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/18
shelves: tbr-recommended, comics-graphic-novels-seql-art, banned-challenged
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]]> 18811400
Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov awakens to discover that his nose is missing, leaving a smooth, flat patch of skin in its place. He finds and confronts his nose in the Kazan Cathedral, but from its clothing it is apparent that the nose has acquired a higher rank in the civil service than he and refuses to return to his face.

THE ART OF THE NOVELLA
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers but beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. The Art of the Novella Series celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners. The series has been recognized for its "excellence in design" by AIGA.]]> 50 Nikolai Gogol 1612193188 Velma 0 3.93 1836
author: Nikolai Gogol
name: Velma
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1836
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/15
shelves: tbr-recommended, classics, boxall-1001-books-to-read
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]]> 17206203
The Vampyre tells of a monstrous demon â€� mirthless, cold and ashen-skinned, and yet possessed of an eloquence and beauty that proves fatally alluring to those who fall under the gaze of his ‘dead grey eyeâ€�. The predecessor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Lord Ruthven embodies a seductive evil that inhabits our fantasies and fears no less today than it did two centuries ago.

This collection presents The Vampyre alongside 11 ghoulish stories, also written in the 19th century. Letitia E. Landon's ‘The Bride of Lindorf â€� is a suspenseful tale that follows the steps of its young hero through creaking forests, ominous storms and secret stairwells, towards an irresistible encounter that will unearth a terrible, life-changing secret. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countessâ€�, which he later extended to form the novel Uncle Silas, is a chilling murder story. In ‘The Lady with the Velvet Collarâ€� by Washington Irving, a German student is intoxicated by a woman of ‘transcendent beautyâ€�, discovering too late that she is not what she seems. Lucasta Miller describes the ineluctable draw of these macabre tales in her introduction, while Anne Yvonne Gilbert’s superb illustrations evoke the interplay of innocence and evil, romance and terror, vitality and death.]]> 224 John William Polidori Velma 0 3.75 1997
author: John William Polidori
name: Velma
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/19
shelves: tbr-recommended, fiction, horror-gothic-lovecraftian-weirdfic, short-stories, anthology
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]]> 354620
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 272 Margaret Cavendish 0140433724 Velma 0 3.25
author: Margaret Cavendish
name: Velma
average rating: 3.25
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: sci-fi, feminism-is-not-just-for-girls, feminist-scifi-fantasy, penguins-classics, tbr-recommended
review:

]]> 50027 Discover the origin story of one of the greatest heroes of the Realms—Drizzt Do’Urden—in this thrilling first installment of the Dark Elf Trilogy

Drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden, first introduced in The Icewind Dale Trilogy, quickly became one of the fantasy genre’s standout characters. With Homeland, Salvatore pulls back the curtain to reveal the startling tale of how this hero came to be—how this one lone drow walked out of the shadowy depths of the Underdark; how he left behind an evil society and a family that wanted him dead.

As the third son of Mother Malice and weaponmaster Zaknafein, Drizzt Do’Urden is meant to be sacrificed to Lolth, the evil Spider Queen, per drow tradition. But with the unexpected death of his older brother, young Drizzt is spared—and, as a result, further ostracized by his family. As Drizzt grows older, developing his swordsmanship skills and studying at the Academy, he begins to realize that his idea of good and evil does not match up with those of his fellow drow. Can Drizzt stay true to himself in a such an unforgiving, unprincipled world?

Homeland is the first book in the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Legend of Drizzt series.]]> 343 R.A. Salvatore Velma 0 4.26 1990
author: R.A. Salvatore
name: Velma
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/06
shelves: tbr-recommended, npr100scifi-fantasy-readerpix
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]]> 14478829
By turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melrose's story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery. "Never Mind, "the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the family's chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his five-year-old son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor. From abuse to addiction, the second novel, "Bad News" opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his father's ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. And back in England, the third novel, "Some Hope, "offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery. The fourth novel, the Booker-shortlisted "Mother's Milk, " returns to the family chateau, where Patrick, now married and a father himself, struggles with child rearing, adultery, his mother's desire for assisted suicide, and the loss of the family home to a New Age foundation.

Edward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty---welcome to the declining British aristocracy.]]> 1191 Edward St. Aubyn 1447223527 Velma 0 4.47 2012
author: Edward St. Aubyn
name: Velma
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/10/28
shelves: tbr-recommended, complete-series, brit-lit
review:
From Flavorwire's 2015 Beach Reads post: "It may not look it from the cover, but this is proper literary trash. Posh British people. Heroin. Drunkenness. Death. Time to hit the beach!"
]]> 226004 A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arachna, which is about to wake up to technology, but the Emergents' plans are sinister.]]> 775 Vernor Vinge 0812536355 Velma 0 4.31 1999
author: Vernor Vinge
name: Velma
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/08/01
shelves: tbr-recommended, sci-fi, hugo-nebula-locus
review:

]]> 1191240 32 Virginia Woolf 0152967834 Velma 0 3.66 1985
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Velma
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/07/27
shelves: tbr-recommended, childrens-kids
review:

]]> 6971080 All of Sandburg's words are significant. His words have not only meaning, they have a definite relation to one another. They dance a measure in The Wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle. They sing a melody in that story of his that belongs with pure poetry rather than with humor--The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy. His stories are joyous rather than humorous. Indeed, they are both joyous and humorous. They have the natural 'tempo' of childhood."

--Mary Gould Davis

This is an omnibus volume including all the stories in "Rootabaga Stories" and "Rootabaga Pigeons." The original illustrations by the Petershams are also included.

--All from the book jacket]]> 218 Carl Sandburg Velma 0 4.05 1922
author: Carl Sandburg
name: Velma
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1922
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/04/22
shelves: tbr-recommended, fairytales-folktales-folklore, childrens-kids
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]]> 235781
For More Than Forty Years, the acclaimed Paris Review interviews have been collected in the Writers at Work series. The Modern Library relaunches the series with the first of its specialized collections -- interviews with sixteen women novelists, poets, and playwrights, all offering rich commentary on the art of writing and on the opportunities and challenges a woman writer faces in contemporary society.]]> 455 The Paris Review 0679771298 Velma 0 4.30 1989
author: The Paris Review
name: Velma
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/04/19
shelves: tbr-recommended, on-writing, interviews
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]]> 57850265
Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects-a pig-develops human speech; a man who, after recovering from his own coma, plans a block party for his neighbours who have also woken up to find that they alone have survived their families; and a widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.

From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world. This is a story of unshakable hope that crosses literary lines to give us a world rebuilding itself through an endless capacity for love, resilience and reinvention. Wonderful and disquieting, dreamlike and all too possible.]]> 293 Sequoia Nagamatsu 0063072645 Velma 0 tbr-recommended, sci-fi 3.81 2022
author: Sequoia Nagamatsu
name: Velma
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/03/25
shelves: tbr-recommended, sci-fi
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]]> 23574136 Anne McCaffrey Velma 0 4.17 1967
author: Anne McCaffrey
name: Velma
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/12/25
shelves: tbr-recommended, sci-fi, hugo-nebula-locus
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]]> 589409 Suite Française, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.

Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Française is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.]]> 405 IrÚne Némirovsky 0099488787 Velma 0 3.85 2004
author: IrĂšne NĂ©mirovsky
name: Velma
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/03/09
shelves: tbr-recommended, boxall-1001-books-to-read, war
review:

]]> 3246396 Whitman Classics 280 H.G. Wells Velma 0 3.71 1898
author: H.G. Wells
name: Velma
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1898
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/03/09
shelves: abe50scifi, tbr-recommended, npr100scifi-fantasy-readerpix, boxall-1001-books-to-read, victoriana, war
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]]> 158454 Cooper's most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition.

Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, The Last of the Mohicans recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, who are struggling to be reunited with their father. They are aided in their perilous journey by Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his companions Chingachgook and Uncas, the only two survivors of the Mohican tribe. But their lives are endangered by the Mangua, the savage Indian traitor who captures the sisters, wanting Cora to be his squaw. In setting Indian against Indian and the brutal society of the white man against the civilization of the Mohican, Cooper, more than any author before or since, shaped the American sense of itself as a nation.
]]> 350 James Fenimore Cooper 0140390243 Velma 0 3.16 1826
author: James Fenimore Cooper
name: Velma
average rating: 3.16
book published: 1826
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/03/09
shelves: tbr-recommended, penguins-classics, classics, boxall-1001-books-to-read, war
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]]> 6259 483 Sebastian Faulks 0679776818 Velma 0 4.11 1993
author: Sebastian Faulks
name: Velma
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/03/09
shelves: tbr-recommended, bbc-big-read, war
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]]> 1003273
This early novel by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is at once a fast paced narrative, a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a speculative foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.]]> 171 J.G. Ballard 0140022295 Velma 0 3.49 1962
author: J.G. Ballard
name: Velma
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/02/23
shelves: covers-david-pelham, abe50scifi, tbr-recommended, penguins-scifi, judge-a-book-by-its-cover, penguins-wbbs, eco-fiction-clifi
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]]> 32718027
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.

In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.

After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...]]> 532 S.A. Chakraborty 0062678108 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 4.12 2017
author: S.A. Chakraborty
name: Velma
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/02/20
shelves: tbr-recommended
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]]> 186439
Isabelle Copley's visionary art frees ancient spirits. As the young student of the cruel, brilliant artist Vincent Rushkin, she discovered she could paint images so vividly real they brought her wildest fantasies to life. But when the forces she unleashed brought tragedy to those she loved, she turned her back on her talent � and on her dreams.

Now, twenty years later, Isabelle must come to terms with the shattering memories she has long denied, and unlock the slumbering power of her brush. And, in a dark reckoning with her old master, she must find the courage to live out her dreams and bring the magic back to life.]]> 400 Charles de Lint 0765316781 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 4.24 1994
author: Charles de Lint
name: Velma
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/02/20
shelves: tbr-recommended
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]]> 321950
In the Mexican city of Merida, ten-year-old Janey lives with Johnny--her "boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father"--until he leaves her for another woman. Bereft, Janey travels to New York City, plunging into an underworld of gangs and prostitution. After escaping imprisonment, she flees to Tangiers where she meets Jean Genet, and they begin a torrid affair that will lead Janey to her demise.

Fantastical, sensual, and fearlessly radical, this hallucinatory collage is both a comic and tragic portrait of erotic awakening.]]> 165 Kathy Acker 080213193X Velma 0 3.50 1984
author: Kathy Acker
name: Velma
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1984
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/01/26
shelves: tbr-recommended, boxall-1001-books-to-read, transgressive
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]]> 2595748 210 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 0385154534 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 3.46 1983
author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
name: Velma
average rating: 3.46
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/01/05
shelves: tbr-recommended
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]]> 31450182 Set on a distant planet, Bloodchild is Octavia E. Butler’s shattering meditation on symbiosis, love, power and tough choices. It won the Hugo, Locus, Nebula and Science Fiction Chronicle awards and is widely regarded as one of her greatest works.

Years ago, a group known as the Terrans left Earth in search of a life free of persecution. Now they live alongside the Tlic, an alien race who face extinction; their only chance of survival is to plant their larvae inside the bodies of the humans.

When Gan, a young boy, is chosen as a carrier of Tlic eggs, he faces an impossible dilemma: can he really help the species he has grown up with, even if it means sacrificing his own life?

Perfect for fans of the thrilling Arrival and the works of Ursula Le Guin.]]> 32 Octavia E. Butler 1472218744 Velma 0 3.70 1984
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Velma
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1984
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/10/13
shelves: tbr-recommended, sci-fi, hugo-nebula-locus
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]]> 71453
Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately, delight.
]]> 144 Amélie Nothomb 0312347324 Velma 0 3.62 1999
author: Amélie Nothomb
name: Velma
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/05/06
shelves: tbr-recommended, boxall-1001-books-to-read
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]]> 1169982 224 Ntozake Shange 0312699727 Velma 0 4.28 1976
author: Ntozake Shange
name: Velma
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/07/30
shelves: tbr-recommended, fiction, feminism-is-not-just-for-girls
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]]> 152647 The winner of Spain's 1978 National Prize for Literature, Gaite's postmodern novel interweaves dreams and fantasies with autobiography and Spanish history, resulting in a book that is complex and elusive, but more than worth the effort. The main character, partially based on the author, narrates with an artful, mystifying self-reflectiveness that would be irritating in less sure hands but that works quite magically in this multi-layered tale. The plot is deceptively simple: the protagonist (also a writer) is awakened from sleep by a male journalist who ostensibly has come to interview her about her work. The author begins to muse about her past, but is interrupted by a phone call from the journalist's female companion, who becomes an integral part of the story. At the end the writer's grown daughter awakens her mother, but it is not clear whether the interview belonged to dream, fantasy, memory or reality. Several intriguing themes run throughout: multi-dimensional time and memory, the effects of the repressive Franco regime on the Spanish middle class, and the conscious, and more mysterious, aspects of the writing process. Gaite also provides an acute analysis of the theatrical performances at the heart of male/female relations, and a touching, honest, semi-autobiographical portrait. The language in this fine translation is sensual and lucid: the tastes, smells and customs of postwar Spain are vivid, and emotions, and ideas have a dream logic that is both evocative and precise.]]> 224 Carmen MartĂ­n Gaite 0872863719 Velma 0 3.71
author: Carmen MartĂ­n Gaite
name: Velma
average rating: 3.71
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/04/28
shelves: tbr-recommended, boxall-1001-books-to-read
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]]> 22021478 This edition is available in Kindle format only. It contains all the stories contained in the original 1895 publication.]]> 214 Robert W. Chambers 1435155459 Velma 0 3.28 1895
author: Robert W. Chambers
name: Velma
average rating: 3.28
book published: 1895
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/01/18
shelves: tbr-recommended, horror-gothic-lovecraftian-weirdfic
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]]> 276750 149 Angela Carter 0099588110 Velma 0
And here is how Flavorwire described it: "Feminist fairy tales, sexy fairy tales, violent, bloody, dark, and secret fairy tales. This is what little girls are made of." ]]> 3.79 1979
author: Angela Carter
name: Velma
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1979
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/12/03
shelves: tbr-recommended, short-stories
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Recommended in:

And here is how Flavorwire described it: "Feminist fairy tales, sexy fairy tales, violent, bloody, dark, and secret fairy tales. This is what little girls are made of."
]]> 234704
It's the most beautiful Spring the great metropolis has seen in modern memory. the sun-drenched air seems full of hope, of promise for a better tomorrow. But across the river, in the suburb on the ridge that overlooks the city, Oliver Wilson is perplexed. Who are those elegant, perfectly-poised, almost exotic people to whom he's rented his house? What impending event has drawn them here, to this sleepy suburb, as if it were the best seat in the house for the greatest show on Earth?

In Another Country by Robert Silverberg:

For time-traveling tourists, the rule about affairs with the locals is clear--look but don't touch. To flout that rule is to invite endless paradoxes and complications--as the well-meaning Thimiroi finds out to his dismay, in this all-new tale by SF master Robert Silverberg, written especially for the Tor Doubles as a companion to C.L. Moore's famous original.]]> 200 Robert Silverberg 0812501934 Velma 0 tbr-recommended, sci-fi 4.05 1990
author: Robert Silverberg
name: Velma
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/09/10
shelves: tbr-recommended, sci-fi
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Another recommendation from Sue Kreitzman
]]> 22386622
The issue features original fiction by Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, N.K. Jemisin, Carrie Vaughn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, and many more. All together there's more than 180,000 words of material, including: 11 original short stories, 15 original flash fiction stories, 4 short story reprints and a novella reprint, 7 nonfiction articles, and 28 personal essays by women about their experiences reading and writing science fiction.

Table of Contents

FROM THE EDITORS

Editorial, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction!

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES � edited by Christie Yant

Each to Each by Seanan McGuire
A Word Shaped Like Bones by Kris Millering
Cuts Both Ways by Heather Clitheroe
Walking Awake by N.K. Jemisin
The Case of the Passionless Bees by Rhonda Eikamp
In the Image of Man by Gabriella Stalker
The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick by Charlie Jane Anders
Dim Sun by Maria Dahvana Headley
The Lonely Sea in the Sky by Amal El-Mohtar
A Burglary, Addressed By a Young Lady by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
Canth by K.C. Norton

REPRINTS � selected by Rachel Swirsky

Like Daughter by Tananarive Due
Love is the Plan the Plan is Death by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
The Great Loneliness by Maria Romasco Moore
Knapsack Poems by Eleanor Arnason
The Cost to Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh (novella)

ORIGINAL FLASH FICTION � edited by Robyn Lupo

Salvage by Carrie Vaughn
A Guide to Grief by Emily Fox
See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! by Tina Connolly
A Debt Repaid by Marina J. Lostetter
The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced by Sarah Pinsker
#TrainFightTuesday by Vanessa Torline
The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 by Rhiannon Rasmussen
Emoticon by Anaid Perez
The Mouths by Ellen Denham
M1A by Kim Winternheimer
Standard Deviant by Holly Schofield
Getting on in Years by Cathy Humble
Ro-Sham-Bot by Effie Seiberg
Everything That Has Already Been Said by Samantha Murray
The Lies We Tell Our Children by Katherine Crighton

NONFICTION � edited by Wendy N. Wagner

Artists Spotlight by Galen Dara
Illusion, Expectation, and World Domination Through Bake Sales by Pat Murphy
Women Remember by Mary Robinette Kowal
Interview: Kelly Sue DeConnick by Jennifer Willis
How to Engineer a Self-Rescuing Princess by Stina Leicht
The Status Quo Cannot Hold by Tracie Welser
Screaming Together: Making Women’s Voices Heard by Nisi Shawl

PERSONAL ESSAYS � edited by Wendy N. Wagner

We are the Fifty Percent by Rachel Swirsky
Science Fiction: You’re Doinâ€� It Wrong by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Join Us in the Future Marissa Lingen
Are We There Yet? by Sheila Finch
Not a Spaceship, Robot, or Zombie in Sight by Anne Charnock
Writing Among the Beginning of Women by Amy Sterling Casil
Toward a Better Future by Nancy Jane Moore
We Are the Army of Women Destroying SF by Sandra Wickham
Read SF and You’ve Got a Posse by Gail Marsella
Stomp All Over That by O. J. Cade
For the Trailblazers by Kristi Charish
Women are the Future of Science Fiction by Juliette Wade
We Have Always Fought by Kameron Hurley
Writing Stories, Wrinkling Time by Kat Howard
Where Are My SF Books? by DeAnna Knippling
Reading the Library Alphabetically by Liz Argall
Stepping Through a Portal by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
The Wendybird by Stina Leicht
I Wanted to be the First Woman on the Moon by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Never Think of Yourself as Less by Helena Bell
An ABC of Kickass by Jude Griffin
Stocking Stuffers by Anaea Lay
Breaching the Gap by Brooke Bolander
Women Who Are More Than Strong by Georgina Kamsika
A Science-Fictional Woman by Cheryl Morgan
Your Future is Out of Date, Pat Murphy
Stray Outside the Lines by E. Catherine Tobler
My Love Can Destroy by Seanan McGuire

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS � edited by Jude Griffin

Seanan McGuire
Kris Millering
Heather Clitheroe
N.K. Jemisin
Rhonda Eikamp
Tananarive Due
Gabriella Stalker
Charlie Jane Anders
Maria Dahvana Headley
Amal El-Mohtar
Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
K.C. Norton
Eleanor Arnason
Maria Romasco Moore
Maureen McHugh]]> 556 Christie Yant Velma 0
From the recommendation section in Women Invent the Future]]> 4.04 2014
author: Christie Yant
name: Velma
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/09/02
shelves: tbr-recommended, anthology, sci-fi
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“Launched via a highly successful Kickstarter, this special edition of Lightspeed Magazine took a shrill cry of fannish complaint from certain corners of the Internet and spun it on its head, creating one of the best modern anthologies of fiction and essays in the process. This collection proves that if women are indeed the destroyers of one mode of science fiction, they are also the creators of something more powerful than we could ever imagine.â€�

From the recommendation section in Women Invent the Future
]]> 22181319 Contents:
The forbidden words of Margaret A. / L. Timmel Duchamp --
My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington --
The mothers of Shark Island / Kit Reed --
The palm tree bandit / Nnedi Okorafor --
The grammarian's five daughters / Eleanor Arnason --
And Salome danced / Kelley Eskridge --
The perfect married woman / Angélica Gorodischer --
The glass bottle trick / Nalo Hopkinson --
Their mother's tears : the fourth letter / Leena Krohn --
The screwfly solution / James Tiptree, Jr. --
Seven losses of na Re / Rose Lemberg --
The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler --
The sleep of plants / Anne Richter --
The men who live in trees / Kelly Barnhill --
Tales from the breast / Hiromi Goto --
The Fall River axe murders / Angela Carter --
Love and sex among the invertebrates / Pat Murphy --
When it changed / Joanna Russ --
The woman who thought she was a planet / Vandana Singh --
Gestella / Susan Palwick --
Boys / Carol Emshwiller --
Stable strategies for middle management / Eileen Gunn --
Northern chess / Tanith Lee --
Aunts / Karin Tidbeck --
Sur / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Fears / Pamela Sargent --
Detours on the way to nothing / Rachel Swirsky --
Thirteen ways of looking at space/time / Catherynne M. Valente --
Home by the sea / Elisabeth Vonaburg.]]> 352 Ann VanderMeer 1629630357 Velma 0 4.11 2015
author: Ann VanderMeer
name: Velma
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/09/02
shelves: tbr-recommended, anthology, feminist-scifi-fantasy, sci-fi, short-stories
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]]> 304806 435 Pat Cadigan 1568581858 Velma 0 tbr-recommended, sci-fi 3.71 1991
author: Pat Cadigan
name: Velma
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/09/02
shelves: tbr-recommended, sci-fi
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]]> 4889214 Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.

Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace—sheriff and perhaps last citizen—patrols a city's ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair.

Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere: a refugee emerges from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to reconnect with human society and take to the road, armed with rough humor and an unlikely ration of optimism.

What Makepeace finds is a world unraveling: stockaded villages enforcing an uncertain justice and hidden work camps laboring to harness the little-understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace's journey—rife with danger—also leads to an unexpected redemption.

Far North takes the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity's origins to its possible end. Haunting, spare, yet stubbornly hopeful, the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world's fragility and beauty, and its ability to recover from our worst trespasses.]]> 288 Marcel Theroux 0571237770 Velma 0 3.79 2009
author: Marcel Theroux
name: Velma
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> 550571 Segu follows the life of Dousika Traore, the king’s most trusted advisor, and his four sons, whose fates embody the forces tearing at the fabric of the nation. There is Tiekoro, who renounces his people’s religion and embraces Islam; Siga, who defends tradition, but becomes a merchant; Naba, who is kidnapped by slave traders; and Malobali, who becomes a mercenary and halfhearted Christian.

Based on actual events, Segu transports the reader to a fascinating time in history, capturing the earthy spirituality, religious fervor, and violent nature of a people and a growing nation trying to cope with jihads, national rivalries, racism, amid the vagaries of commerce.]]> 493 Maryse Condé 014025949X Velma 0 tbr-recommended 4.13 1984
author: Maryse Condé
name: Velma
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1984
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/08/29
shelves: tbr-recommended
review:

]]> 9433558 146 Barbara Comyns 0140161589 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 3.79 1954
author: Barbara Comyns
name: Velma
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1954
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/08/28
shelves: tbr-recommended
review:

]]> 536622 208 Orly Castel-Bloom 0952942607 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 3.58 1992
author: Orly Castel-Bloom
name: Velma
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1992
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2018/08/28
shelves: tbr-recommended
review:

]]> 240188 224 Nuala O'Faolain 0805056645 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 3.62 1996
author: Nuala O'Faolain
name: Velma
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/08/28
shelves: tbr-recommended
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]]> 25025600
Source: ]]> 64 Daisy Ashford Velma 0 tbr-recommended 4.08 1919
author: Daisy Ashford
name: Velma
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1919
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/08/27
shelves: tbr-recommended
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]]> 36498354
Lange’s imaginative excesses and almost hallucinatory images make this uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, voyeurism and female isolation a twentieth century masterpiece. Too long viewed as Borges’s muse, Lange is today recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as a great writer and is here translated into English for the first time, to be read alongside Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Marguerite Duras.]]> 167 Norah Lange 1911508229 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 3.47 1950
author: Norah Lange
name: Velma
average rating: 3.47
book published: 1950
rating: 0
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shelves: tbr-recommended
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]]> 61996 730 Roger Zelazny 0739407007 Velma 0 4.37 1970
author: Roger Zelazny
name: Velma
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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shelves: tbr-recommended, npr100scifi-fantasy-readerpix
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]]> 4737 Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found here and here

In the small East Anglian coastal town of Hardborough, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Hardborough quickly becomes a battleground � for Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done. As a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.]]> 156 Penelope Fitzgerald 0006543545 Velma 0 3.54 1978
author: Penelope Fitzgerald
name: Velma
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1978
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/12/24
shelves: tbr-recommended, man-booker-nom
review:

]]> 873746 ‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. We’re the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied nowâ€�

Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are his unpleasant guardian Sir Theopompus and his governess Sylvia Daisy Pouncer (who, Kay suspects, has stolen all his toys). Life is lonely and dull, until one night Kay’s great-grandpapa Harker, a sea captain, steps out of his portrait to tell him about a stolen treasure that belongs to Kay’s family. The evil Abner Brown is searching for it too, but Kay is helped by the midnight folk: creatures like Nibbins the cat and Rollicum Bitem Lightfoot the fox, and even his lost toys, who will join him on his dangerous quest.

The Midnight Folk is a feast of imaginative story-telling, a glorious cornucopia of pirates and witches, lost treasure and talking animals. Although it was published in 1927, it evokes an older world: houses are lit by oil lamps, and travel is by horse, carriage â€� or broomstick. Masefield perfectly captures a child’s perspective, from the terrors of tigers under the bed to the horrors of declining a Latin adjective. Yet there is also plenty of humour that adults will appreciate, from Miss Piney Trigger, who swigs champagne in bed and prides herself on having backed a host of Derby winners, to Kay’s lessons: ‘Divinity was easy, as it was about Noah’s Ark. French was fairly easy, as it was about the cats of the daughter of the gardener.â€� This mingling of past and present, reality and fantasy, has made this one of the most rewarding and influential children’s books ever written.]]> 192 John Masefield 0006724167 Velma 0 3.77 1927
author: John Masefield
name: Velma
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1927
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2017/01/22
shelves: tbr-recommended, fairytales-folktales-folklore
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]]> 20420973 237 Denis Diderot Velma 0 3.85 1769
author: Denis Diderot
name: Velma
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1769
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/01/11
shelves: tbr-recommended, classics, penguins-classics, boxall-1001-books-to-read
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]]> 33226501 Please be advised that this is not a bedtime story about sparkly fairies and pink unicorns. This book may contain graphic descriptions of poisoned apples and witches� ovens. It is not appropriate for supernatural beings under the age of 377 (excluding vampires and werewolves).

DISCLAIMER: Wicked Witches Inc. and Evil Stepmother Enterprises are not responsible for any maiming, mass murder or permanent insanity resulting from the reading of this book.]]> 98 Robert Thier 3000547118 Velma 0 4.07
author: Robert Thier
name: Velma
average rating: 4.07
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/01/04
shelves: tbr-recommended, fairytales-folktales-folklore
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]]> 576650 448 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0007200285 Velma 0 4.25 2006
author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
name: Velma
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/12/14
shelves: tbr-recommended, boxall-1001-books-to-read, setting-culture-africa
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]]> 26530322 Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition―in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos―to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal―and human―intelligence.]]> 340 Frans de Waal 0393246183 Velma 0 tbr-recommended, animals 3.91 2016
author: Frans de Waal
name: Velma
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/12/09
shelves: tbr-recommended, animals
review:

]]> 23208397
As he works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child--who may be Victor's salvation.

Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost.

Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.]]> 336 Ben H. Winters 0316261246 Velma 0 3.82 2016
author: Ben H. Winters
name: Velma
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/12/09
shelves: tbr-recommended, apocalyptic-dystopian-specfic
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]]> 31054
In For the Love of a Dog, McConnell suggests that one of the reasons we love dogs so much is that they express emotions in ways similar to humans. After all, who can communicate joy better than a puppy? But not all emotional expressions are obvious, and McConnell teaches both beginning dog owners and experienced dog lovers how to read the more subtle expressions hidden behind fuzzy faces and floppy ears.

For those of us who deeply cherish our dogs but are sometimes baffled by their behavior, For the Love of a Dog will come as a revelation–a treasure trove of useful facts, informed speculation, and intriguing accounts of man’s best friend at his worst and at his very best. Readers will discover how fear, anger, and happiness underlie the lives of both people and dogs and, most important, how understanding emotion in both species can improve the relationship between them. Thus McConnell introduces us to the possibility of a richer, more rewarding relationship with our dogs.

While we may never be absolutely certain what our dogs are feeling, with the help of this riveting book we can understand more than we ever thought possible. Those who consider their dogs part of the family will find For the Love of a Dog engaging, enlightening, and utterly engrossing.]]> 382 Patricia B. McConnell 0345477146 Velma 0 4.36 2005
author: Patricia B. McConnell
name: Velma
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/10/16
shelves: tbr-recommended, non-fiction, animals, dogs
review:

]]> 431584 327 Doris Lessing 006095969X Velma 0 3.82 1952
author: Doris Lessing
name: Velma
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1952
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/11
shelves: tbr-recommended, fiction, race, setting-culture-africa
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]]> 28305
Gentle, poignant and richly autobiographical, this delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a world that even in the midst of war, appears sweeter, safer and more livable than out own.]]> 256 William Saroyan Velma 0 tbr-recommended 4.07 1943
author: William Saroyan
name: Velma
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1943
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/07/11
shelves: tbr-recommended
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]]> 6105699 Like new 159 Cay Garrett 0934026394 Velma 0 3.33 1974
author: Cay Garrett
name: Velma
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1974
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/06/05
shelves: tbr-recommended, non-fiction, crafts-for-breakfast, fiber-arts-textiles, weaving
review:

]]> 352552 527 Peter Collingwood 0823052001 Velma 0 4.69 1950
author: Peter Collingwood
name: Velma
average rating: 4.69
book published: 1950
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/06/05
shelves: tbr-recommended, non-fiction, crafts-for-breakfast, fiber-arts-textiles, weaving
review:

]]> 17718087 128 Gertrude Stein 006220307X Velma 0 3.70 1939
author: Gertrude Stein
name: Velma
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/17
shelves: tbr-recommended, childrens-kids
review:

]]> 9334703 The Crows of Pearblossom tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Crow, who live in a cottonwood tree. The hungry Rattlesnake that lives at the bottom of the tree has a nasty habit of stealing Mrs. Crow's eggs before they can hatch, so Mr. Crow and his wise friend, Old Man Owl, devise a sneaky plan to trick him. 

This funny story of cleverness triumphing over greed, similar in tone and wit to the work of A. A. Milne, shows a new side of a great writer. Paired with stunning illustrations by Sophie Blackall, this timeless tale is sure to grab the attention of many readers—adults and children alike.]]> 40 Aldous Huxley 0810997304 Velma 0 3.48 1944
author: Aldous Huxley
name: Velma
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1944
rating: 0
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shelves: tbr-recommended, childrens-kids
review:

]]> 13227524 32 P. Craig Russell 1561636266 Velma 0 4.19 2012
author: P. Craig Russell
name: Velma
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> 50278 127 Leo Tolstoy 1573929395 Velma 0 3.76 1905
author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Velma
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1905
rating: 0
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shelves: tbr-recommended, childrens-kids
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]]> 1983900 Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets.]]> 179 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0226752283 Velma 0 3.49 1820
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: Velma
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1820
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/17
shelves: tbr-recommended, childrens-kids
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]]> 402128
Enjoy the show!

With all your favourite cats, starring ...
Macavity, the Mystery Cat
Mr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring Cat
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
and many more!]]> 56 T.S. Eliot 0151686564 Velma 0 4.07 1939
author: T.S. Eliot
name: Velma
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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shelves: tbr-recommended, childrens-kids
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]]> 16057518
Așa cum marele general chinez Sun Zu a scris Arta războiului, Twain a scris Sfaturi pentru fetițe. Dar nu trebuie să fii neapărat fetiță pentru a profita de sfaturile lui Mark Twain â€� ele sunt la fel de valabile și pentru băieți. Vă avertizăm Ăźnsă că punerea lor Ăźn aplicare poate fi riscantă. Reclamațiile ulterioare se vor adresa direct autorului.

Foarte important, pentru cine are pereți prea albi și uși prea serioase â€� supracoperta cărții se transformă Ăźn afiș!

Contraindicații: nu se recomandă celor sensibili la ironie. Cartea se adresează oamenilor cu vĂąrste peste 6 ani, pĂąnă la 100+, dar neapărat cu simțul umorului. Este potrivită atĂąt pentru părinții care știu să treacă cu vederea greșelile copiilor, cĂąt și pentru copiii care pot să treacă cu vederea seriozitatea părinților și lipsa spiritului ludic.

Mark Twain â€� „Sfaturi pentru fetițeâ€� este cĂąÈ™tigătoarea Marelui Premiu la concursul național de design de carte „Cele mai frumoase cărți din RomĂąniaâ€� ediția 2017.

Autor: Mark Twain
Traducere și text supracopertă: Florin Bican
Redactor: Ioana Gruenwald
Design: Faber Studio â€� Adelina Butnaru, Radu Manelici, Dinu Dumbrăvician
Ilustrații: Adelina Butnaru
Editura: Tzim Tzum Books, BucureƟti, 2017
Tipografia: Fabrik, București





Tzim Tzum Books has prepared for you a little book, signed by Mark Twain and translated into Romanian by Florin Bican: Advice to Little Girls.
A naughty text, not exactly to parents' liking, with illustrations to match the text, done by Adelina Butnaru.

Attention please!
You don't have to neccessarily be a little girl to take advantage of Mark Twain's advice � they are valid for little boys as well.
We warn however that putting these into practice can be risky.
Any subsequent complaints should be addressed to the author directly.

Mark Twain � Advice for Little Girls is the winner of the Great Prize at the national competiton 'The Most Beautiful Books in Romania 2017'.]]> 24 Mark Twain 1592701299 Velma 0 3.84 1867
author: Mark Twain
name: Velma
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1867
rating: 0
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]]> 1980942 32 James Joyce 1851030921 Velma 0 3.81 1936
author: James Joyce
name: Velma
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1936
rating: 0
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shelves: tbr-recommended, childrens-kids
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]]> 18428067
In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed—a failed physician—to the bombed-out hospital, where Sonja, the one remaining doctor, treats a steady stream of wounded rebels and refugees and mourns her missing sister. Over the course of five dramatic days, Akhmed and Sonja reach back into their pasts to unravel the intricate mystery of coincidence, betrayal, and forgiveness that unexpectedly binds them and decides their fate.

With The English Patient's dramatic sweep and The Tiger's Wife's expert sense of place, Marra gives us a searing debut about the transcendent power of love in wartime, and how it can cause us to become greater than we ever thought possible.]]> 416 Anthony Marra 0770436420 Velma 0 tbr-recommended, fiction 4.10 2013
author: Anthony Marra
name: Velma
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/16
shelves: tbr-recommended, fiction
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]]> 101027
The women of the Mustang Ranch poured their stories out to Albert: how they came to be there, their surprisingly deep sense of craft and vocation, how they reconciled their profession with life on the outside. Dr. Albert went as far into this world as it is possible to go â€� some will say too far â€� including sitting in on sessions with customers, and the result is a book that puts an unforgettable face on America’s maligned and caricatured subculture.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 272 Alexa Albert 0449006581 Velma 0 3.70 2001
author: Alexa Albert
name: Velma
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2001
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/05/15
shelves: tbr-recommended, non-fiction, sex, feminism-is-not-just-for-girls, never-be-boring
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]]> 24019187 Humans of New York. In the first three years, his audience steadily grew from a few hundred to over one million. In 2013, his book Humans of New York, based on that blog, was published and immediately catapulted to the top of the NY Times Bestseller List. It has appeared on that list for over twenty-five weeks to date. The appeal of HONY has been so great that in the course of the next year Brandon's following increased tenfold to, now, over 12 million followers on Facebook. In the summer of 2014, the UN chose him to travel around the world on a goodwill mission that had followers meeting people from Iraq to Ukraine to Mexico City via the photos he took.
Now, Brandon is back with the follow up to Humans of New York that his loyal followers have been waiting for: Humans of New York: Stories. Ever since Brandon began interviewing people on the streets of NY, the dialogue he's had with them has increasingly become as in-depth, intriguing, and moving as the photos themselves. Humans of New York: Stories presents a whole new group of humans, complete with stories that delve deeper and surprise with greater candour.]]> 428 Brandon Stanton 1250058902 Velma 0 4.55 2015
author: Brandon Stanton
name: Velma
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/05/13
shelves: tbr-recommended, photography, non-fiction, art, setting-culture-usa, american-northeast
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]]> 89208 388 James Kelman 039332799X Velma 0 3.61 1994
author: James Kelman
name: Velma
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/11
shelves: tbr-recommended, fiction, man-booker, boxall-1001-books-to-read
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]]> 779021 96 Oscar Wilde 0679444734 Velma 0 4.16 1888
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Velma
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1888
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/11
shelves: tbr-recommended, classics, fairytales-folktales-folklore
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]]> 9554049
Transcending divisions of creed, challenging social distinctions of all sorts, and celebrating individual unity with the divine, the poetry of Kabir is one of passion and paradox, of mind-bending riddles and exultant riffs. These new translations by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, one of India’s finest contemporary poets, bring out the richness, wit, and power of a literary and spiritual master.]]> 144 Kabir 1590173791 Velma 0 4.02 1448
author: Kabir
name: Velma
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1448
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/05
shelves: tbr-recommended, poetry, religion-spirituality, sufism, nyrb
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]]> 12052
Paul Bowles was a composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier. According  The Boston Globe , he was “one of the literary class acts of the twentieth century.â€� This Library of America volume, containing his stories and travel writings, is one of two volumes in the first annotated edition of Paul Bowles’s work and is a “treasure trove for readers who haven’t explored beyond  The Sheltering Sky â€� ( The Seattle Times ).

“All the tales are a variety of detective story,â€� wrote Bowles of his first collection,  The Delicate Prey and Other Stories  (1950), “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is the motivation for the charactersâ€� behavior.â€� In such stories as “A Distant Episodeâ€� and “How Many Midnights,â€� Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality.

A master of gothic terror and an acute and at times diabolically funny observer of manners and motives both American and Moroccan, Bowles confirmed his mastery of the short story in such volumes as  A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard  (1962),  The Time of Friendship  (1967),  Things Gone and Things Still Here  (1977), and  Midnight Mass  (1981), all included here along with a selection of his final stories.

This volume also contains  Up Above the World  (1966), a frightening novella set in Latin America in which a trusting American couple are lured into an annihilating trap, and the informed and fascinating travel book  Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue  (1963).

LIBRARY OF AMERICA  is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.]]> 1050 Paul Bowles 1931082200 Velma 0 4.42 1979
author: Paul Bowles
name: Velma
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/05
shelves: tbr-recommended, short-stories, collected-works
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]]> 11790348 53 AntoniÄ­ PogorelÊčskiÄ­ 5050011698 Velma 0 3.73 1829
author: AntoniÄ­ PogorelÊčskiÄ­
name: Velma
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1829
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/05/04
shelves: tbr-recommended, fairytales-folktales-folklore, setting-culture-russia, childrens-kids
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]]> 25330102 256 Joan Aiken 1618731122 Velma 0 3.83 2016
author: Joan Aiken
name: Velma
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/04/27
shelves: tbr-recommended, short-stories, fantasy
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]]> 57636
A literary event—a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetryâ€� The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication of his Opening the Hand.

Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem—so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as The Lice, The Moving Target and (most recently) Opening the Hand, he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech.

Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.]]> 78 W.S. Merwin 0394758587 Velma 0 tbr-recommended, poetry 4.14 1987
author: W.S. Merwin
name: Velma
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1987
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]]> 1047343 The Female Man, a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.

"She didn't write it. She wrote it but she shouldn't have. She wrote it but look what she wrote about. She wrote it but she isn't really an artist, and it isn't really art. She wrote it but she had help. She wrote it but she's an anomaly. She wrote it BUT..."

How to Suppress Women's Writing is a meticulously researched and humorously written "guidebook" to the many ways women and other "minorities" have been barred from producing written art. In chapters entitled "Prohibitions," "Bad Faith," "Denial of Agency," Pollution of Agency," "The Double Standard of Content," "False Categorization," "Isolation," "Anomalousness," "Lack of Models," Responses," and "Aesthetics" Joanna Russ names, defines, and illustrates those barriers to art-making we may have felt but which tend to remain unnamed and thus insolvable.]]> 160 Joanna Russ 0292724454 Velma 0 4.32 1983
author: Joanna Russ
name: Velma
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> 7462855 The Secret Feminist Cabal will appeal to every member of the feminist sf community, to fans and critics interested in the history of the science fiction genre, and to anyone interested in the production of feminist culture, history, and theory.]]> 360 Helen Merrick 1933500336 Velma 0 3.91 2009
author: Helen Merrick
name: Velma
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2009
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]]> 6100768 One of the ironies of the success of The Good Companions is that when he discussed his idea for the book with his publishers they told him that such a book would not appeal to the current reading public. However, the germ of the story was embedded deep into his mind and heart, and writing the novel became something of an obsession. He had made up his mind to write a novel that he himself could enjoy even if nobody else did...and, in the event, a great many others also loved it! (The novel arrived at a time when the country was in depression, and someone commented that The Good Companions "soared out of the gloom like a fairy tale to lift thousands of minds into a world of literary enchantment."
David Hughes in "J.B. Priestley:An Informal Study of His Work", wrote: "The Good Companions is a simple book, plainly constructed and straightforwardly told. Like so much of Priestley's work, its action begins on a note of rebellion, while its impulse is the search for romance without losing sight of reality; indeed, staring into the very heart of reality for the magic. Jess Oakroyd is pitched into loneliness by the drab quarrrelling of his family. Miss Trant, suddenly relieved in early middle age of a burden that might have lasted her lifetime, turns against the trivial monotony of her genteel days in a Cotswold village. Inigo Jollifant, surrounded in the prep school where he teaches by petty rulings, is refused permission to play the piano by the headmaster's wife, gets drunk and escapes into the night. Three separate rebellions against the frustrations of life put three characters on the road for what is probably the longest picaresque novel in English since Pickwick."
Priestley started to write The Good Companions in January 1928, and he delivered the manuscript to Heinemann in March 1929.
At least two films have been made of The Good Companions, and it has been turned into a play on several occasions.]]> 618 J.B. Priestley Velma 0 The Uncommon Reader on Queen Elizabeth's (fictitious) reading list]]> 4.16 1929
author: J.B. Priestley
name: Velma
average rating: 4.16
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One of the books referred to in The Uncommon Reader on Queen Elizabeth's (fictitious) reading list
]]> 17621103 A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan.

A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.

The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.]]> 854 Minae Mizumura 1590512030 Velma 0 tbr-recommended 4.23 2002
author: Minae Mizumura
name: Velma
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2002
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]]> 11655 The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.

Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the mind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.]]> 324 Philip Roth Velma 0 tbr-recommended 3.93 1986
author: Philip Roth
name: Velma
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> 968827 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and hard SF, winning SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication.]]> 251 Kate Wilhelm 0060146540 Velma 0 3.86 1976
author: Kate Wilhelm
name: Velma
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> 26245084 256 Lindy West Velma 0 4.40 2016
author: Lindy West
name: Velma
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 5548 256 Richard P. Feynman 0393320928 Velma 0 4.24 1988
author: Richard P. Feynman
name: Velma
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> 227443 a. lose 7 pounds
b. stop smoking
c. develop Inner Poise

"129 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)..."

"Bridget Jones' Diary" is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement � a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult - and learn to program the VCR.

Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and � like millions of readers the world round � you'll find yourself shouting, "Bridget Jones is me!"]]> 288 Helen Fielding 014028009X Velma 0 3.81 1996
author: Helen Fielding
name: Velma
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> 22781244
A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, "Horrorstor "delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style."]]> Grady Hendrix 1483049787 Velma 0 3.46 2014
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Velma
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> 6643156
In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam's oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.]]> 263 Stephen Benatar 159017335X Velma 0 3.71 1982
author: Stephen Benatar
name: Velma
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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]]> 22253764 Family Life, Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family's younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family's new life.

Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival."]]> 240 Akhil Sharma 0393350606 Velma 0 3.55 2014
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name: Velma
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2014
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]]> 3858
But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,â€� she concludes. “Within.â€� Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death.

Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive.]]> 291 Sarah Macdonald 0767915747 Velma 0 3.53 2002
author: Sarah Macdonald
name: Velma
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 124430 City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way—from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city—today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits that are said to assure the city's Phoenix-like regeneration no matter how many times it is destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure.]]> 350 William Dalrymple 0142001007 Velma 0 4.12 1993
author: William Dalrymple
name: Velma
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> 4682558 The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she will come to both revere and fear.

The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link.

Lilith's story overflows with high drama and heartbreak, and life on the plantation is rife with dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion between slave and master, between slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith finds herself at the heart of it all. And all of it told in one of the boldest literary voices to grace the page recently--and the secret of that voice is one of the book's most intriguing mysteries.]]> 417 Marlon James 1594488576 Velma 0 4.36 2009
author: Marlon James
name: Velma
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> 578367 'His blue eyes, formerly so lively, seemed to have turned a sad leaden grey...People either pitied him or were shocked by him'

Monsieur Goriot is one of a select group of lodgers at Madame Vauquer's Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are reduced he is shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are two beautiful, mysterious young women. Goriot claims that they are his daughters, but his fellow boarders, including master criminal Vautrin, have other ideas. And when EugÚne Rastignac, a poor but ambitious law student, learns the truth, he decides to turn it to his advantage. Old Goriot is one of the key novels of Balzac's Comédie Humaine series, and a compelling examination of two obsessions, love and money. Witty and brilliantly detailed, it is a superb study of the bourgeoisie in the years following the French Revolution.

M. A. Crawford's fine translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Balzac's creation of distinctive characters from all levels of society and his ability to transform the lives of ordinary people into profound tragedy.]]> 304 Honoré de Balzac Velma 0 3.80 1835
author: Honoré de Balzac
name: Velma
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1835
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]]> 15805012 256 Honoré de Balzac 0141913576 Velma 0 3.79 1833
author: Honoré de Balzac
name: Velma
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1833
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]]> 30600 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780140443530

More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo’s Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love

In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor Hugo’s sensational, evocative novel brings life to the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its passing in one of the greatest historical romances of the nineteenth century.

John Sturrock’s clear, contemporary translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing it as a passionate novel of ideas, written in defence of Gothic architecture and of a burgeoning democracy, and demonstrating that an ugly exterior can conceal moral beauty. This revised edition also includes further reading and a chronology of Hugo’s life.]]> 512 Victor Hugo Velma 0 4.11 1831
author: Victor Hugo
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> 14662 The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature.

Roger Gard's fine translation remains faithful to the natural, conversational tone of the original, while his introduction elucidates the complexities of Julien's character. This edition also contains a chronology, further reading and an appendix on Stendhal's use of epigraphs.]]> 577 Stendhal 0140447644 Velma 0 3.91 1830
author: Stendhal
name: Velma
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1830
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]]> 566328 720 Alessandro Manzoni 014044274X Velma 0 3.89 1827
author: Alessandro Manzoni
name: Velma
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1827
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]]> 341172 Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been called 'the greatest novel of Scotland'. Robert Wringhim's family is composed of a father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe that he is one of the Elect, predestined to be saved, while others are damned. Sure of his freedom from the dictates of morality, he embarks on a series of crimes in the company of a new friend Gil-Martin, a man of many likenesses who can be mistaken for Robert, and who explains that they are as one in the holy work of purifying the world. Who or what is this double? Is he the devil? The divided self that appears in the literature of Romanticism is nowhere more powerfully imagined.

This new edition has an introduction by Karl Miller, which discusses the presence in the novel of the life and times of James Hogg. It also contains two of Hogg's most interesting stories, 'Marion's Jock' and 'John Gray o' Middleholm'.]]> 275 James Hogg 0141441534 Velma 0 3.52 1824
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]]> 93218
Its historical background does little to inhibit Maturin's strong penchant for extravagant scenes of violence, horror, and vivid evocations of nature at its least benign.

His many characters people a well-plotted story of impressive density-the heroine, Genevieve, kind hearted, bold, true to her creed; the ruthless bishop of Toulouse; churchmen and women, of varying degrees of piety; maniacal harridans, formidable outlaws, and knights in armor.

The Albigenses received, in general, better reviews than most of his other works, mainly because of its relatively reduced emphasis on blasphemous doings, but the reputation of Melmoth the Wanderer soon overshadowed it.]]> 1686 Charles Robert Maturin Velma 0 3.26 1824
author: Charles Robert Maturin
name: Velma
average rating: 3.26
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]]> 207313 659 Charles Robert Maturin 014044761X Velma 0 3.76 1820
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 1820
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]]> 1116143 354 Walter Scott 0748605746 Velma 0 3.00 1820
author: Walter Scott
name: Velma
average rating: 3.00
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]]> 305203
Thady Quirk is the ever-present steward to four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Racrent, hilariously flattering and encouraging his hapless masters on their road to ruin. Ingeniously drawing on an actual chronicle of Maria Edgeworth's family experiences, the narrative subtly emerges as a devastating commentary on the Anglo Irish occupation of rural Ireland. This volume also includes Ennui, a natural sequel to Castle Rackrent with its family nurse of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the lazy and gullible English earl, Lord Glenthorn, learns a shocking secret that will drive him and his nurse apart

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 361 Maria Edgeworth 0140433201 Velma 0 3.33 1809
author: Maria Edgeworth
name: Velma
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1809
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]]> 728760 313 Maria Edgeworth 0140436448 Velma 0 3.58 1817
author: Maria Edgeworth
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average rating: 3.58
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]]> 543686
Set on the eve of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, Rob Roy brilliantly evokes a Scotland on the verge of rebellion, blending historical fact and a novelist's imagination to create an incomparable portrait of intrigue, rivalry and romance.]]> 501 Walter Scott 0140435549 Velma 0 3.70 1817
author: Walter Scott
name: Velma
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1817
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]]> 18207233 277 Maria Edgeworth Velma 0 3.85 1812
author: Maria Edgeworth
name: Velma
average rating: 3.85
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]]> 789315
Taking its title from the principle of elective affinities - the theory that certain chemicals are naturally drawn to one another - this is a penetrating study of marriage and adultery.

Inspired by Goethe's own conflicting loyalties as he battled to maintain his relationship with his wife and control his feelings for a younger woman, Elective Affinities is one of the greatest works of the romance era: a rich exploration of love, conflict, and the inescapable force of fate.]]> 304 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0140442421 Velma 0 3.75 1809
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
name: Velma
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 29609017
cover artwork by Milton Glaser.]]> 176 Friedrich Hölderlin Velma 0 3.67 1797
author: Friedrich Hölderlin
name: Velma
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1797
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