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It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

This edition also contains three stories: 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'.]]> 157 Truman Capote Dani 0 3.76 1958
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]]> 53824665 Em livro inédito, Ciro Gomes explica a crise política e econômica e convida o leitor a debater o país que desejamos serProjeto O dever da esperança, livro inédito de Ciro Gomes, é um convite para debater racionalmente o país que somos e o país que desejamos ser. "É minha contribuição pessoal a uma reflexão inadiável sobre o Brasil, as raízes de seus graves problemas e as pistas para sua solução", escreve Ciro na introdução. A frase reflete o espírito da obra e de seu não só oferecer um diagnóstico das principais questões que atrapalharam o nosso desenvolvimento com democracia, liberdade e justiça, como também apresentar um vasto conjunto de ideias capazes de direcionar o Brasil rumo a um futuro desejável. É o que Ciro Gomes chama de um novo Projeto Nacional de Desenvolvimento � ele segue a linha de pensadores do nacional-desenvolvimentismo, de que, para superar o atraso e a desigualdade, não basta crescimento econô é necessário criar condições para promover a justiça social, reparar dívidas históricas com o próprio povo, gerar oportunidades menos desiguais e, ao mesmo tempo, garantir dinamismo a este gigantesco mercado interno chamado Brasil.]]> 272 Ciro Gomes 6556430013 Dani 0 currently-reading 4.16
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]]> 6898978 You can find an alternative cover for this edition here.

Estruturado em paralelismos, o livro se articula por meio de contrates - a cidade e o campo; as 'duas capitais' da Rússia (Moscou e São Petersburgo); a alta sociedade e a vida dos mujiques; o intelectual e o homem prático etc. Os dois principais personagens, Liévin, um rico proprietário de terras, e Anna, uma aristocrata casada, só se encontram uma vez, em toda a longa narrativa. Mas nem por isso estão menos ligados, pois a situação de um permanece constantemente referida a situação do outro. Nesta tradução, a frequente repetição das palavras e as frases longas foram mantidas em sua integridade. Além das notas de rodapé, elaboradas pelo tradutor, este volume conta com uma árvore genealógica dos principais núcleos familiares e uma lista completa de personagens, que facilitarão a leitura deste grande clássico]]> 816 Leo Tolstoy 8575038419 Dani 0 currently-reading 4.49 1878
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]]> 37754033 111 Eduardo Moreira 8578814754 Dani 3 3.89 2017
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]]> 60931 The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.]]> 288 Octavia E. Butler 0807083690 Dani 4 4.30 1979
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]]> 59995128 Entre relatos dilacerantes e sempre vigiado por uma onipresente (e rígida) mãe, Kiese Laymon disseca sua própria vida neste que talvez seja um dos livros mais sinceros dos últimos anos.
Um texto escrito não só com palavras, mas também com dor, ginga, peso, subversões da língua e abundância negra. É que reverbera dentro de nós uma pergunta de difícil resposta: até onde a vida nos dobra?]]> 288 Kiese Laymon 6555530502 Dani 4 4.40 2018
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]]> 26213872 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Os efeitos colaterais do discurso motivacional O mercado de palestras e livros motivacionais está crescendo desde o início do século XXI e não mostra sinais de desaquecimento. Religiões tradicionais estão perdendo adeptos para novas igrejas que trocam o discurso do pecado pelo encorajamento e autoajuda. As instituições políticas e empresariais mudaram o sistema de punição, hierarquia e combate ao concorrente pelas positividades do estímulo, eficiência e reconhecimento social pela superação das próprias limitações. Byung-Chul Han mostra que a sociedade disciplinar e repressora do século XX descrita por Michel Foucault perde espaço para uma nova forma de organização coercitiva: a violência neuronal. As pessoas se cobram cada vez mais para apresentar resultados - tornando elas mesmas vigilantes e carrascas de suas ações. Em uma época onde poderíamos trabalhar menos e ganhar mais, a ideologia da positividade opera uma inversão perversa: nos submetemos a trabalhar mais e a receber menos. Essa onda do "eu consigo" e do "yes, we can" tem gerado um aumento significativo de doenças como depressão, transtornos de personalidade, síndromes como hiperatividade e burnout. Este livro transcende o campo filosófico e pode ajudar educadores, psicólogos e gestores a entender os novos problemas do século XXI.]]> 136 Byung-Chul Han 8532649963 Dani 0 3.92 2010
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]]> 40018143 116 Byung-Chul Han 8532654711 Dani 0 4.05 2012
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]]> 18975657 96 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8573265051 Dani 0 3.84 1873
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]]> 517454


Editora : Editora 34; 3ª edição (1 janeiro 2011) : PortuguêsCapa dura : 232 páginasISBN-10 : 8573263105ISBN-13 : 978-8573263107Dimensões : 20.8 x 14 x 1.6 cm]]> 232 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8573263105 Dani 0 4.10
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]]> 36403709 176 Martha C. Nussbaum 8578279786 Dani 0 3.94 2010
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]]> 17130367 Neste livro em que Dostoiévski diz ter colocado "sua alma, sua carne e seu sangue", o jovem narrador Serguei Aleksándrovitch, levado ao ambiente extravagante da propriedade de seu tio, encontra ali uma espécie de micromundo farsesco, cheio de tramas e complôs, no qual cada personagem assume uma voz distinta. Prova do humor inusitado de Dostoiévski, A aldeia de Stepántchikovo traz vários dos ingredientes essenciais de sua poética, bem como a inesquecível galeria de tipos humanos que povoam sua literatura - e que encontraram nos desenhos de Darel Valença Lins uma tradução gráfica da mais alta qualidade.]]> 352 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8573265035 Dani 0 3.92 1859
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]]> 6509743 254 James Joyce 8496142000 Dani 0 3.52 1916
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]]> 48742985
Drawing on thinkers from Hegel and Heidegger to Bauman and Homi Bhabha to examine the characteristics of our contemporary hyperculture, Han poses the question: should we welcome the human of the future as the hypercultural tourist, smiling serenely, or should we aspire to a different way of being in the world?]]> 152 Byung-Chul Han 8532661084 Dani 3 3.62 2005
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]]> 17876 Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (150th Anniversary Edition)

The compelling works presented in this volume were written at distinct periods in Dostoyevsky's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying life to the anxious antihero of Notes from Underground—who both craves and despises affection—the writer's often-tormented characters showcase his evolving outlook on our fate.

Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as "an author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul" and Notes from Underground as "an awe- and terror- inspiring example of this sympathy."]]> 233 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0451529553 Dani 4 4.19 1864
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]]> 322 Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el premio Nobel de literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso «boca a boca» -como gusta decir el escritor- son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero.]]> 495 Gabriel García Márquez 9871138148 Dani 5 4.42 1967
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]]> 52373 On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty?

In Regarding the Pain of Others, Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.

Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.]]> 117 Susan Sontag 0141012374 Dani 0 4.10 2003
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]]> 52372 224 Susan Sontag 0141187166 Dani 0 3.87 1973
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]]> 119673 The Benefactor and submitted it to Farrar & Straus in 1962. By 1992, when her much acclaimed novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance was published, The Benefactor alone]]> 320 Leland Poague 0878058346 Dani 0 to-read 4.39 1995
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]]> 98865 148 Nan Goldin 0893813397 Dani 0 to-read 4.24 1986
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]]> 381440 The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.]]> 154 Guy Debord 0942299795 Dani 0 4.05 1967
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]]> 22374083 J'avais mis beaucoup de moi-même dans cet ouvrage. J'étais en révolte contre le spiritualisme qui m'avait longtemps opprimée et je voulais exprimer ce dégoût à travers l'histoire de jeunes femmes que je connaissais et qui en avaient été les victimes plus ou moins consentantes. J'ai beaucoup joué sur la mauvaise foi qui m'en paraissait inséparable. Ainsi fus-je amenée à la difficile tentative de faire entendre les voix � et les silences � du mensonge. Comme beaucoup plus tard dans La femme rompue, j'ai usé du langage pour dissimuler la vérité.
C'est, somme toute, un roman d'apprentissage où s'ébauchent beaucoup des thèmes que j'ai repris par la suite. Je lui garde une sympathie que j'aimerais voir partagée.»
Simone de Beauvoir écrivit ce premier livre, qui resta longtemps inédit, de 1935 à 1937.]]> 357 Simone de Beauvoir Dani 0 to-read 3.56 1979
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]]> 6684389 C'est l'histoire d'un homme devenu un jouisseur pour se venger d'être quitté, d'un père cynique parce que son cœur était brisé.
C'est l'histoire d'un grand frère qui a tout fait pour ne pas ressembler à ses parents, et d'un cadet qui a tout fait pour ne pas ressembler à son grand frère.
C'est l'histoire d'un garçon mélancolique parce qu'il a grandi dans un pays suicidé, élevé par des parents déprimés par l'échec de leur mariage.
C'est l'histoire d'un pays qui a réussi à perdre deux guerres en faisant croire qu'il les avait gagnées, et ensuite à perdre son empire colonial en faisant comme si cela ne changeait rien à son importance.
C'est l'histoire d'une humanité nouvelle, ou comment des catholiques monarchistes sont devenus des capitalistes mondialisés. Telle est la vie que j'ai vécue : un roman français. »
-- F.B.

]]> 280 Frédéric Beigbeder 2246734118 Dani 0 to-read 3.61 2009
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]]> 219879 The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.

Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.

Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.]]> 288 Elfriede Jelinek 0802118062 Dani 0 3.65 1983
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]]> 222078 KEY TOPICS: Focuses on the most significant works of Western art. Considers each work of art in its context: shows how art reflects the historical setting, the artist's intentions, and the values of that civilization, and how each artist built upon, or sometimes reacted against, the style of his/her predecessors. Contains chronological charts, maps, and notes on art books. Illustrates all works that are discussed. Features a new design with each illustration appearing on the same spread as the narrative that discusses it.]]> 688 E.H. Gombrich 071483355X Dani 0 3.96 1950
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]]> 12750 Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator’s love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann’s passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of � la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).]]> 615 Marcel Proust Dani 0 4.26 1913
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]]> 18085474 , offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation.

Tutu's role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one's story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu's wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world.]]> 230 Desmond Tutu 0062203568 Dani 0 to-read 4.21 2013
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]]> 14891980
Brilliant people aren't a special breed--they just use their minds differently. By using the straightforward and thought-provoking techniques in "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking," you will regularly find imaginative solutions to difficult challenges, and you will discover new ways of looking at your world and yourself--revealing previously hidden opportunities.

The book offers real-life stories, explicit action items, and concrete methods that allow you to attain a deeper understanding of any issue, exploit the power of failure as a step toward success, develop a habit of creating probing questions, see the world of ideas as an ever-flowing stream of thought, and embrace the uplifting reality that we are all capable of change. No matter who you are, the practical mind-sets introduced in the book will empower you to realize any goal in a more creative, intelligent, and effective manner. Filled with engaging examples that unlock truths about thinking in every walk of life, "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" is written for all who want to reach their fullest potential--including students, parents, teachers, businesspeople, professionals, athletes, artists, leaders, and lifelong learners.

Whenever you are stuck, need a new idea, or want to learn and grow, "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" will inspire and guide you on your way.]]> 168 Edward B. Burger 0691156662 Dani 0 to-read 3.99 2012
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]]> 40405444 The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.

Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces far more value than the electronic busyness that defines the modern work day. But his readers had an urgent follow-up question: What about technology in our personal lives?

In recent years, our culture's relationship with personal technology has transformed from something exciting into something darker. Innovations like smartphones and social media are useful, but many of us are increasingly troubled by how much control these tools seem to exert over our daily experiences--including how we spend our free time and how we feel about ourselves.

In Digital Minimalism, Newport proposes a bold solution: a minimalist approach to technology use in which you radically reduce the time you spend online, focusing on a small set of carefully-selected activities while happily ignoring the rest.

He mounts a vigorous defense for this less-is-more approach, combining historical examples with case studies of modern digital minimalists to argue that this philosophy isn't a rejection of technology, but instead a necessary realignment to ensure that these tools serve us, not the other way around.

To make these principles practical, he takes us inside the growing subculture of digital minimalists who have built rich lives on a foundation of intentional technology use, and details a decluttering process that thousands have already used to simplify their online lives. He also stresses the importance of never clicking "like," explores the underappreciated value of analog hobbies, and draws lessons from the "attention underground"--a resistance movement fighting the tech companies' attempts to turn us into gadget addicts.

Digital Minimalism is an indispensable guide for anyone looking to reclaim their life from the alluring diversions of the digital world.]]> 284 Cal Newport 0525536515 Dani 0 to-read 4.03 2019
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]]> 46190 224 Rob Sheffield 1400083028 Dani 4 3.87 2007
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]]> 50275 Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.

Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn, and directed by Darren Aronofsky.

'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'
Allen Ginsberg

'An urgent tickertape from hell'
Spectator]]> 290 Hubert Selby Jr. 0747549923 Dani 0 3.94 1964
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]]> 13264069 176 Antonio Prata 8573264543 Dani 0 4.20 2009
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]]> 13597785 Neste livro de 1991, Roth revisita os altos e baixos da relação com o pai. Em uma narrativa que nunca recorre a um estilo sentimental ou autoindulgente, o autor americano, que começou a carreira no estilo corrosivo de O complexo de Portnoy, adota um tom mais sóbrio.
Essas memórias abrem caminho para as obras de ficção lançada por Roth nos anos seguintes, sobretudo O teatro de Sabbath, e a tetralogia composta por Homem comum, Indignação, A humilhação e Nêmesis. Poucos autores alcançaram, nas últimas décadas, uma produção tardia tão poderosa.]]> 192 Philip Roth 8535920633 Dani 4 4.30 1991
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]]> 15170950 Choro porque sou impotente, porque tudo posso. Eu choro quase sempre, quase o tempo todo, porque o humano que há em mim se atira do parapeito e não há volta. Mas eu volto, todas as vezes. Todos os dias." (Excerpt from back cover)]]> 203 Fal Azevedo 8532523552 Dani 0 to-read 3.75 2008
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]]> 14562811 Vanistendael’s extraordinary art and sensitive text provide a powerful portrayal of a family preparing for life after unimaginable loss.

Praise for When David Lost His Voice:

“NeitherÌýsentimental nor cynical, this narrative holds the most delicate aspects of family life gently and openly forÌýreaders to immerse themselves.â€� â€�Booklist

“Vanistendael’s illustrations are gorgeous, dynamic, and deeply emotive, with a hint of sentimentality.� �Publishers Weekly, starred review

“The sensitive and compelling writing is enhanced by Vanistendael’s color art, which is simple, impressionistic, and beautifully designed.� �Library Journal

"A poignant cancer drama" - The A.V. Club

“Vanistendael’s fine art is dazzling, breathtaking, and a visual tour de force, one of the best things I’ve seen in a graphic novel.� �The Miami Herald

“Vanistendael achieves that rare triumph of capturing in the end of a life the wonder of every day that led up to it.� —Salon.com

]]> 280 Judith Vanistendael 1906838542 Dani 0 to-read 4.07 2012
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]]> 13503109
In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Her lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.�]]> 217 Junot Díaz 1594487367 Dani 0 3.74 2010
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]]> 5328 A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.

The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. The book was written and published in early Victorian era Britain, a period when there was strong nostalgia for old Christmas traditions together with the introduction of new customs, such as Christmas trees and greeting cards. Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.]]> 112 Charles Dickens 1580495796 Dani 0 4.03 1843
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]]> 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf Dani 0 4.22 1929
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]]> 18748070 496 Ana Cristina Cesar 8535923623 Dani 0 4.27 2013
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]]> 375894 This is your book. For any Bourdain fan, this is an indispensable opportunity to hit the road with the man himself.]]> 288 Anthony Bourdain 1596914475 Dani 0 4.01 2007
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]]> 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Dani 0 4.31 1967
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]]> 2149436 235 Manuel Bandeira 8520905374 Dani 0 4.45 2008
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]]> 22889766
Whom to marry, and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence. So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she - along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing - remains unmarried.

This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless - the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life.

Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives - a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.]]> 308 Kate Bolick 0385347138 Dani 0 3.43 2015
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]]> 297673
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss. A true literary triumph, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao confirms Junot Diaz as one of the best and most exciting voices of our time.]]> 335 Junot Díaz 1594489580 Dani 0 3.89 2007
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]]> 29044 559 Donna Tartt 1400031702 Dani 0 4.17 1992
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]]> 30688435
Exit West follows these characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.]]> 231 Mohsin Hamid 0735212171 Dani 0 to-read 3.74 2017
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]]> 30241171 When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,� as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life� into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.]]> 229 Paul Kalanithi 0399590404 Dani 0 to-read 4.39 2016
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]]> 1926080 220 Agatha Christie 0451199871 Dani 0 to-read 3.71 1942
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]]> 13536315 Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize

One of The Atlantic's Best Books I Read This Year

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.
Ìý
This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with a past he never thought much about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony thought he left this all behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.]]> 163 Julian Barnes 0307947726 Dani 0 to-read 3.73 2011
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]]> 234843 68 Sun Tzu 1599869772 Dani 0 to-read 3.87 -400
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]]> 23602569 Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.]]> 52 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 110191176X Dani 4 4.46 2012
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]]> 23513349 Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

It is split into four chapters, with each chapter dealing with a different pain. Healing a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them -- because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.]]> 204 Rupi Kaur 1502784270 Dani 5 3.96 2014
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]]> 6224826
But between Annie and her second chance lie a few obstacles. There's Malcolm, the world's most judgemental therapist, and Barnesy, the north's most extrovert dancer. There's what men and women will do and won't do for love. And, of course, there's Tucker...]]> 406 Nick Hornby 1594488878 Dani 3 3.50 2009
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]]> 15783514
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.]]> 181 Neil Gaiman 0062255657 Dani 3 4.00 2013
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]]> 22693211 273 Kim Gordon 0062295896 Dani 0 3.66 2015
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]]> 16107409
Embora seja mais conhecido por sua obra de ficção, que inclui, entre outros títulos, o aclamado romance Infinite Jest (1996), Wallace também foi um ensaísta e repórter brilhante, que deixou marcas no jornalismo literário e exerce hoje uma influência comparável à de Hunter S. Thompson.

Com a proposta de fornecer uma porta de entrada ao universo literário do autor, o volume abriga três reportagens � entre elas o famoso “texto do navio�, o relato de um cruzeiro pelo Caribe �, uma palestra sobre Kafka, uma crônica poderosa sobre o tenista Roger Federer e “Isto é água�, o discurso de paraninfo que se difundiu como um viral inspirador pela internet.

Na reportagem que dá título ao livro, Wallace, enviado pela Harper’s a uma feira agrícola em Illinois, se sai com uma crônica hilária sobre o estilo de vida americano. Em “Pense na lagosta�, o autor aproveita a visita a uma feira gastronômica para refletir sobre a legitimidade ética de ferver lagostas vivas para degustá-las. Ao tratar desses e de outros temas, o autor ignora as convenções da apuração jornalística e se concentra nos detalhes mais inusitados. Humor, inteligência, inventividade e um poder de observação assombroso são as marcas desse estilo que influenciou toda uma geração de escritores.]]> 312 David Foster Wallace 8535921796 Dani 3 4.43 1996
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]]> 33 One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.]]> 1216 J.R.R. Tolkien 0618640150 Dani 0 4.52 1954
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]]> 164154 334 Walter M. Miller Jr. 0060892994 Dani 4 3.99 1959
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]]> 235560 560 Don Oberdorfer 0465051626 Dani 3 3.96 1997
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]]> 45791 A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.� A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town’s gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes “Wunderkind,� McCullers’s first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South’s finest writers.]]> 160 Carson McCullers 0618565868 Dani 0 to-read 3.97 1951
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]]> 18819896 160 Chloé Cruchaudet 2756039713 Dani 0 to-read 3.93 2013
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]]> 127629
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines of art and music and also as a pianist who understands something about the artist's sensibility from the inside. Readers have come to expect him not only to fill in their knowledge about art but also to inspire them to think about connections between art and the larger world - which is to say, to think more like an artist. Kimmelman's many years of contemplating and writing about art have brought him to this wise, wide-ranging, and long-awaited book.
It explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through pictures and sculptures and the people who make them. It assures us that art - points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart - can be found almost anywhere and everywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book is a kind of adventure or journey.

It carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives. To do so is something of an art itself. A few of the characters Kimmelman describes, like Bonnard and Chardin, are great artists. But others are explorers and obscure obsessives, paint-by-numbers enthusiasts, amateur shutterbugs, and collectors of strange odds and ends. Yet others, like Charlotte Solomon, a girl whom no one considered much of an artist but who secretly created a masterpiece about the world before her death in Auschwitz, have reserved spots for themselves in history, or not, with a single work that encapsulates a whole life.

Kimmelman reminds us of the Wunderkammer, the cabinet of wonders - the rage in seventeenth-century Europe and a metaphor for the art of life. Each drawer of the cabinet promises something curious and exotic, instructive and beautiful, the cabinet being a kind of ideal, self-contained universe that makes order out of the chaos of the world. The Accidental Masterpiece is a kind of literary Wunderkammer, filled with lively surprises and philosophical musings. It will inspire readers to imagine their own personal cabinet of wonders.]]> 256 Michael Kimmelman 0143037331 Dani 0 to-read 3.90 2005
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]]> 11504012
Gabriel Gudding, author of Rhode Island Notebook

This is a subversive & necessary book: the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of individualist American capitalism is revealed as an inherently poetic construct, one that rests on theater, liminality, imaginative drive, contradiction, & failure. I am a Very Productive Entrepreneur is poignant & brilliant; it's worth the investment.

Christian Hawkey, author of Ventrakl]]> 67 Mathias Svalina 0983026351 Dani 0 to-read 4.38 2011
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]]> 1559633 196 Saadi Dani 0 to-read 4.44 1257
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]]> 8333647 Anders Nilsen Dani 0 to-read 4.08 1999
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]]> 23129944 64 Kate Schatz 0872866831 Dani 0 to-read 4.41 2015
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]]> 2895492 168 João Cabral de Melo Neto 8520910629 Dani 4 4.30 1955
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]]> 160653 David Berman is a young Virginian poet with a sly,
intense regard for the past. He comes on like a prankster, restocking the imperial orations of Wallace Stevens and the byzantine monologues of John Ashbery with the pop- cultural bric-a-brac of a new generation: "I am not cub scout seduced by Iron Maiden's mirror worlds." But his words have an easy, eloquent gait; each line needs to be a line. The landscapes are crisply American, and history, especially Southern history, casts a shadow. � The New Yorker

David Berman's poems are beautiful, strange, intelligent and funny. They are narratives that freeze life in impossible contortions. They take the familiar and make it new, so new the reader is stunned and will not soon forget. I found much to savor on every page of Actual Air. It's a book for everyone. � James Tate]]> 96 David Berman 1890447048 Dani 0 to-read 4.38 1999
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]]> 6251983 198 Jir� Taniguchi 8492444282 Dani 0 to-read 4.15 1998
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]]> 3280430 200 Raduan Nassar 8571640335 Dani 5 4.20 1975
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]]> 12867689 Mais ces deux-là sont pleins de bonne volonté et de curiosité. Pourquoi choisit-on de consacrer sa vie à écrire et dessiner des livres ou à produire du vin? Comment et pour qui les fait-on?
Pendant plus d'une année, pour répondre à ces questions, Étienne est allé travailler dans les vignes et dans la cave de Richard, lequel, en retour, s'est plongé dans le monde de la bande dessinée. Ils ont ouvert de nombreuses bouteilles et lu pas mal de livres. Ils se sont baladés, à la rencontre d'auteurs et de vignerons passionnés par leur métier.
Étienne Davodeau fait le pari qu'il existe autant de façons de réaliser un livre qu'il en existe de produire du vin. Il fait le constat que l'un et l'autre ont ce pouvoir, nécessaire et précieux, de rapprocher les êtres humains.
C'est le joyeux récit d'une initiation croisée que vous propose les Ignorants.

]]> 272 Étienne Davodeau 2754803823 Dani 0 to-read 4.26 2011
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]]> 7829373
Written and drawn by one of today's most critically acclaimed creators of manga, Shimura portrays Shuishi and Yoshino's very private journey with affection, sensitivity, gentle humor, and unmistakable flair and grace. Book One introduces our two protagonists and the friends and family whose lives intersect with their own. Yoshino is rudely reminded of her sex by immature boys whose budding interest in girls takes clumsily cruel forms. Shuichi's secret is discovered by Saori, a perceptive and eccentric classmate. And it is Saori who suggests that the fifth graders put on a production of The Rose of Versailles for the farewell ceremony for the sixth graders, with boys playing the roles of women, and girls playing the roles of men. Wandering Son is a sophisticated work of literary manga translated with rare skill and sensitivity by veteran translator and comics scholar Matt Thorn.]]> 210 Takako Shimura 1606994166 Dani 0 to-read 3.97 2003
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]]> 8477057
Meet Brás de Oliva Domingos. The miracle child of a world-famous Brazilian writer, Brás spends his days penning other people's obituaries and his nights dreaming of becoming a successful author himself—writing the end of other people's stories, while his own has barely begun.

But on the day that life begins, would he even notice? Does it start at 21 when he meets the girl of his dreams? Or at 11, when he has his first kiss? Is it later in his life when his first son is born? Or earlier when he might have found his voice as a writer?

Each day in Brás's life is like a page from a book. Each one reveals the people and things who have made him who he is: his mother and father, his child and his best friend, his first love and the love of his life. And like all great stories, each day has a twist he'll never see coming...

In Daytripper, the Eisner Award-winning twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá tell a magical, mysterious and moving story about life itself—a hauntingly lyrical journey that uses the quiet moments to ask the big questions.]]> 247 Fábio Moon 1401229697 Dani 5 4.31 2011
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Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, also known as Myanmar, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal police state can be described as "Orwellian." The life of the mind exists in a state of siege in Burma, and it long has. But Burma's connection to George Orwell is not merely metaphorical; it is much deeper and more real. Orwell's mother was born in Burma, at the height of the British raj, and Orwell was fundamentally shaped by his experiences in Burma as a young man working for the British Imperial Police. When Orwell died, the novel-in-progress on his desk was set in Burma. It is the place George Orwell's work holds in Burma today, however, that most struck Emma Larkin. She was frequently told by Burmese acquaintances that Orwell did not write one book about their country - his first novel, Burmese Days - but in fact he wrote three, the "trilogy" that included Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four . When Larkin quietly asked one Burmese intellectual if he knew the work of George Orwell, he stared blankly for a moment and then said, "Ah, you mean the prophet!"

In one of the most intrepid political travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma using the life and work of George Orwell as her compass. Going from Mandalay and Rangoon to poor delta backwaters and up to the old hill-station towns in the mountains of Burma's far north, Larkin visits the places where Orwell worked and lived, and the places his books live still. She brings to vivid life a country and a people cut off from the rest of the world, and from one another, by the ruling military junta and its vast network of spies and informers. Using Orwell enables her to show, effortlessly, the weight of the colonial experience on Burma today, the ghosts of which are invisible and everywhere. More important, she finds that the path she charts leads her to the people who have found ways to somehow resist the soul-crushing effects of life in this most cruel police state. And George Orwell's moral clarity, hatred of injustice, and keen powers of observation serve as the author's compass in another sense they are qualities she shares and they suffuse her book - the keenest and finest reckoning with life in this police state that has yet been written.]]> 295 Emma Larkin 0143037110 Dani 3 3.95 2004
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]]> 22571687 A groundbreaking guide for women of all ages that shows women’s inherent moodiness is a strength, not a weakness
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As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. Bitches are moody. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control. We have to tamp down our inherent shifts in favor of a more static way of being. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance to be stuffed away. They are a finely-tuned feedback system that, if heeded, can tell us how best to manage our lives. Our changing moods let us know when our bodies are primed to tackle different challenges and when we should be alert to developing problems. They help us select the right tool for each of our many jobs. If we deny our emotionality, we deny the breadth of our talents. With the right care of our inherently dynamic bodies, we can master our moods to avail ourselves of this great natural strength.Ìý
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Yet millions of American women are medicating away their emotions because our culture says that moodiness is a problem to be fixed. One in four of us takes a psychiatric drug. If you add sleeping pills to the mix, the statistics become considerably higher. Over-prescribed medications can have devastating consequences for women in many areas of our lives: sex, relationships, sleep, eating, focus, balance, and aging. ÌýAnd even if we don’t pop a pill, women everywhere are numbing their emotions with food, alcohol, and a host of addictive behaviors that deny the wisdom of our bodies and keep us from addressing the real issues that we face.
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Dr. Julie Holland knows there is a better way. She’s been sharing her frank and funny wisdom with her patients for years, and inÌýMoody BitchesÌýDr. Holland offers readers a guide to our bodies and our moodiness that includes insider information about the pros and cons of the drugs we’re being offered, the direct link between food and mood, an honest discussion about sex, practical exercise and sleep strategies, as well as some surprising and highly effective natural therapies that can help us press the reset button on our own bodies and minds.
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In the tradition ofÌýOur Bodies, Our Selves, this groundbreaking guide for women of all ages will forge a much needed new path in women’s health—and offer women invaluable information on how to live better, and be more balanced, at every stage of life.]]> 432 Julie Holland 1594205809 Dani 0 to-read 3.77 2015
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]]> 23453112
Some of our problems are unique to our time.Ìý“Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?â€�Ìý“Should I go out with this girl even though sheÌýlisted Combos as one of her favorite snack foods?ÌýCombos?!â€� “My girlfriend just got a message fromÌýsome dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did heÌýjust send her a photo of his penis? Should I checkÌýjust to be sure?â€�Ì�

But the transformation of our romantic livesÌýcan’t be explained by technology alone. In a shortÌýperiod of time, the whole culture of finding loveÌýhas changed dramatically. A few decades ago,Ìýpeople would find a decent person who lived inÌýtheir neighborhood. Their families would meetÌýand, after deciding neither party seemed like aÌýmurderer, they would get married and soon haveÌýa kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today,Ìýpeople marry later than ever and spend years ofÌýtheir lives on a quest to find the perfect person, aÌýsoul mate.

For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming hisÌýcomic insight at modern romance, but for ModernÌýRomance, the book, he decided he needed to takeÌýthings to another level. He teamed up with NYUÌýsociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massiveÌýresearch project, including hundreds of interviewsÌýand focus groups conducted everywhere fromÌýTokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzedÌýbehavioral data and surveys and created their ownÌýonline research forum on Reddit, which drewÌýthousands of messages. They enlisted the world’sÌýleading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, HelenÌýFisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, SherryÌýTurkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike anyÌýsocial science or humor book we’ve seen before.

In Modern Romance, Ansari combines hisÌýirreverent humor with cutting-edge social scienceÌýto give us an unforgettable tour of our newÌýromantic world.]]> 279 Aziz Ansari 1594206279 Dani 4 3.79 2015
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]]> 13299045 227 Wolfgang Herrndorf 8564406160 Dani 3 3.66 2010
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]]> 3833419 339 Felicity Lawrence 0141026014 Dani 2 3.97 2008
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]]> 2363958 624 João Guimarães Rosa Dani 5 4.63 1956
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Pedro Juan Gutiérrez hace catarsis en este libro, duro y en gran medida autobiográfico, que reúne tres libros de cuentos -Anclado en tierra de nadie, Nada que hacer y Sabor a mí-. Un lenguaje fuerte y apretado es el único capaz de expresar la rabia de quien habita en el vórtice del huracán. Pedro Juan vive al borde del precipicio. Marginal, aunque su covacha está en el corazón de La Habana de hoy. Disecciona sus alrededores con habilidad de cirujano experto. Sin temor hinca su bisturí afilado, escarba en las entrañas, y lo revuelca todo, irrespetuosamente: sexo, hambre, política, erotismo, desencanto, anhelos, ron y buen humor.]]> 266 Pedro Juan Gutiérrez 8433910817 Dani 5 3.93 1994
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]]> 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Dani 4 3.81 1952
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]]> 5374028 Organizada pela pesquisadora e professora italiana Luciana Stegagno Picchio (1920-2008), uma das mais importantes estudiosas da cultura luso-brasileira, de quem Murilo Mendes foi assistente e amigo, esta edição cobre todas as fases da produção do autor.
Em seus primeiros livros, Murilo Mendes exibe "ímpeto libertário" e "imagens concretas e eróticas" de grande plasticidade, como nota o jornalista e escritor Mario Sergio Conti em texto publicado na Folha em 2001. Na segunda metade de sua carreira, o poeta faz relatos de viagens, homenagens aos amigos e relembra sua infância.]]> 1782 Murilo Mendes 852100009X Dani 3 4.36
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]]> 23263374 304 Murilo Mendes 8540507625 Dani 5 4.20 1966
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]]> 1273436 447 Manuel Bandeira 8520904653 Dani 5 4.48 1966
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]]> 18713130
Bandeira voltou os olhos para o passado em busca do tempo perdido, de suas experiências e miragens e, em particular, de sua Pasárgada, espécie de palavra mágica que o acompanhou por toda a vida. A fixação surgiu aos quinze anos, quando o jovem estudante descobriu o nome dessa cidadezinha fundada por Ciro, nas montanhas da Pérsia.

A partir dai, durante alguns anos ele viveu em Pasárgada. Mais de vinte anos depois, num momento de depressão e desencanto, uma frase de quase libertação surgiu em sua "Vou me embora pra Pasárgada". Símbolo de evasão, de "toda a vida que podia ter sido e que não foi", como em seu verso famoso, Pasárgada acabou se tornando uma identificação do itinerário da própria vida do poeta. Roteiro de uma vida, revivescência do passado, Itinerário de Pasárgada não e um livro de memórias no sentido tradicional.

Franklin de Oliveira observou que se trata da "primeira biografia estritamente literária que se publica no Brasil - historia da formação de uma inteligência poética e não apenas relato de uma vida de poeta". Claro que essas duas vertentes se desenvolvem entrançadas, como os fios de um barbante, desde o momento em que Bandeira ganha consciência da vida, lá pelos três anos de idade, e se emociona assistindo a uma corrida de bicicletas. Mais tarde, identificou essa emoção circunstancial com a emoção de natureza artística. "Desde esse momento, posso dizer que havia descoberto o segredo da poesia, o segredo do meu itinerário em poesia", confessa. Esse itinerário poético, tal como o roteiro de sua vida, deu muitas voltas, que o memorialista evoca com graça e a insuperável simplicidade de seu estilo, desvendando para o leitor as mil e uma seduções de seu mundo, de sua Pasárgada.]]> Manuel Bandeira Dani 5 4.16
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]]> 601188 ±õ±ôí²¹»å²¹, los siguientes poemas: La Cípríada, Los Nostoí, °¿»åí²õ±ð²¹ (publicada también en esta colección) y La Telegonía.]]> 413 Homer 8497644905 Dani 4 3.92 -800
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]]> 13270 'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'

Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation conveys universal truths which we can appreciate more easily than the lessons of history or philosophy. In his short treatise Aristotle discusses the origins of poetry and its early development, the nature of tragedy and plot, and offers practical advice to playwrights.]]> 144 Aristotle 0140446362 Dani 3 3.84 -335
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]]> 62953 Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realized young women.

Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this is a quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author's name) about two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.

]]> 80 Daniel Clowes 1560974273 Dani 4 3.83 1998
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]]> 10959 An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.]]> 403 Jostein Gaarder 1857993284 Dani 4 3.94 1991
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]]> 227463 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"

This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."]]> 192 Anthony Burgess Dani 3 3.98 1962
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]]> 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Dani 5 3.90 1915
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]]> 7963189 157 Jul Maroh 272346783X Dani 5 3.90 2010
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]]> 114737 It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world: a pocket bible for the talented and timid alike to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible.

The world’s top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes, and creativity � all endeavors that can be applied to aspects of modern life.

This uplifting and humorous little book provides a unique insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compilation of quotes, facts, pictures, wit and wisdom � all packed into easy-to-digest, bite-sized spreads. If you want to succeed in life or business, this book is a must.]]> 128 Paul Arden 0714843377 Dani 2 3.67 2003
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]]> 265525 144 Paul Arden 1591841216 Dani 2 3.91 2006
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]]> 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 Dani 5 3.93 1925
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]]> 18135 Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers� final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.]]> 281 William Shakespeare 0743477111 Dani 4 3.74 1597
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]]> 14935 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662

'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.]]> 409 Jane Austen 0141439661 Dani 3 4.10 1811
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Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 216 Douglas Adams Dani 4 4.21 1979
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In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe� of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
--back cover]]> 283 Anne Frank Dani 3 4.19 1947
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]]> 157993
Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.]]> 96 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 0152023984 Dani 2 4.32 1943
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