S 's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:42:43 -0800 60 S 's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Confess 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 S 0 to-read 4.14 2015 Confess
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> 1Q84 الكتاب الأول 28801171 Віра і релігія, кохання й секс, зброя і домашнє насилля, вбивство за переконанням і суїцид, втрата себе й духовна прірва між поколіннями батьків і дітей - усе це майстерно переплетено у детективному сюжеті роману, де події відбуваються у двох паралельних реальностях: Токіо 1984-го і Токіо, за висловлюванням головної героїні Аомаме, "незрозуміло якого (1Q84)" року.
До видання увійшла перша книга роману Харукі Муракамі "1Q84".]]> 557 Haruki Murakami 9953687870 S 0 to-read 4.06 2009 1Q84 الكتاب الأول
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X S 5 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
author: Jules Verne
name: S
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Edgar Allan Poe Collection]]> 35942683 928 Edgar Allan Poe 1788283414 S 0 to-read 4.58 1849 The Edgar Allan Poe Collection
author: Edgar Allan Poe
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average rating: 4.58
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]]> كبرت ونسيت أن أنسى 29244403
عندما سقطتُ وشجّ حاجبي،
عندما أجبرتني معلمة الرياضيات على الوقوف ووجهي للحائط
لأنني نسيت أن 7 × 6 = 42

عندما انكسرت درّاجتي ولم يشتروا لي أخرى
لكي لا أكسرها.
عندما انكسرت زجاجةُ روحي

عندما مات والداي
عندما لم أمت أنا
عندما كان العالم كثيراً وأنا وحدي

عندما نحر أخي دميتي لأن "الباربي" حرام
وشطب قناة "سبيس تون" لأن "البوكيمون" حرام.

عندما خلع صورة أمي وأبي من البرواز ودفنها في الدرج المكسور
كي لا تطرد الملائكة ..
عندما امتلأت شقوق الجدران بالشياطين

عندما أجبرتُ على دخول كلية البنات،
حفاظاً على عفافي.
عندما عرضني على صديقه للزواج،
حفاظاً على عفافي.

عندما مزّقتُ أغلفة كتبي لأحميها من الحرق.
عندما كتبتُ قصيدتي الأولى أسفل علبة الكلينيكس
وأنا أرتجفُ من الخوف

عندما شدّني من حجاب رأسي في أصبوحتي الشعرية الأولى ..
عندما صفعني أخيراً

قالوا لي جميعاً: تكبرين وتنسين.

المشكلة هي أنني كبرتُ ولم أنسَ،
كبرتُ ونسيتُ أن أنسى ..]]> 265 بثينة العيسى S 0 3.62 2013 كبرت ونسيت أن أنسى
author: بثينة العيسى
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average rating: 3.62
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]]> The Thief and the Dogs 96562
After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than one. Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal level, his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to betray him to the police, are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him. But in the most bitter betrayal, his mentor, Rauf Ilwan, once a firebrand revolutionary who convinced Said that stealing from the rich in a unjust society is an act of justice, is now himself a rich man, a respected newspaper editor who wants nothing to do with the disgraced Said. As Said's wild attempts to achieve his idea of justice badly misfire, he becomes a hunted man so driven by hatred that he can only recognize too late his last chance at redemption.]]> 160 Naguib Mahfouz 0385264623 S 0 3.65 1961 The Thief and the Dogs
author: Naguib Mahfouz
name: S
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1961
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[السنة النبوية بين أهل الفقه وأهل الحديث]]> 6164286 205 محمد الغزالي 9771483323 S 0 to-read 4.22 1989 السنة النبوية بين أهل الفقه وأهل الحديث
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average rating: 4.22
book published: 1989
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]]> Another Country 38474
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.]]> 448 James Baldwin 0141186372 S 0 to-read, recommended 4.32 1962 Another Country
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> زئبق 7671553 189 Amélie Nothomb 9953682593 S 0 3.47 1998 زئبق
author: Amélie Nothomb
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average rating: 3.47
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]]> <![CDATA[Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead]]> 46195087 Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.

Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its 'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.

Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.]]> 48 Milan Kundera 0571356907 S 0 to-read 3.66 1963 Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
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average rating: 3.66
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]]> Overcoming Worry 8730083 465 Kevin Meares 1845296362 S 0 to-read 3.85 2008 Overcoming Worry
author: Kevin Meares
name: S
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2008
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]]> 나는 나를 파괴� 권리가 있다 25367317 초판� 출간� 지 14년만� 새로� 컬렉션으� 세상� 나왔�. 'C'와 'K', '미미'와 '유디�', 그리� 죽고 싶어 안달하는 사람들을 위한 자살안내� '�'� 이야기가 흡입� 있게 펼쳐진다. 진실, 죽음, 욕망, 그리� 정체성에 대� 자의� 강한 문학� 탐구� 엿볼 � 있다. 나아가 죽음� 동경하고� 하는 우리 내면� 황폐함을 읽게 된다.]]> 134 Young-ha Kim 895461177X S 0 to-read 3.37 1995 나는 나를 파괴할 권리가 있다
author: Young-ha Kim
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average rating: 3.37
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]]> The Collected Poems 31426 349 Sylvia Plath 0808595040 S 0 currently-reading 4.21 1981 The Collected Poems
author: Sylvia Plath
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]]> The Immortalists 30288282 If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?

It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.

The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.

A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.]]> 346 Chloe Benjamin 0735213186 S 0 to-read 3.68 2018 The Immortalists
author: Chloe Benjamin
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average rating: 3.68
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]]> <![CDATA[Books Do Furnish a Room (A Dance to the Music of Time, #10)]]> 2340618 A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. The tenth volume, Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), finds Nick Jenkins and his circle beginning to re-establish their lives and careers in the wake of the war. Nick dives into work on a study of Robert Burton; Widmerpool grapples with the increasingly difficult and cruel Pamela Flitton—now his wife; and we are introduced to the series� next great character, the dissolute Bohemian novelist X. Trapnel, a man who exudes in equal measure mystery, talent, and an air of self-destruction.]]> 240 Anthony Powell 0434599190 S 0 to-read 4.10 1971 Books Do Furnish a Room (A Dance to the Music of Time, #10)
author: Anthony Powell
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 1971
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]]> <![CDATA[Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science]]> 55515926
In bringing together his forewords, afterwords and introductions to works by some of the leading thinkers of our age—Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert—and a selection of his reviews, both admiring and critical, of a wide range of scientific and other works, Books do Furnish a Life celebrates the writers who communicate the ideas of science and the natural world in both fiction and non-fiction. It celebrates the courage of those who write about their experiences of escaping religion and embracing rationality, of protecting the truths of science and analytical rigour against charlatanry and obfuscation.]]> 464 Richard Dawkins 1787633691 S 0 to-read 3.94 2021 Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> Diary of an Oxygen Thief 1561703
Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.]]> 140 Anonymous 908105841X S 0 to-read 2.72 2006 Diary of an Oxygen Thief
author: Anonymous
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average rating: 2.72
book published: 2006
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]]> Zikora 55612579 The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists

When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she's pregnant, he abandons her. But it's Zikora's demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Shunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, Zikora turns to reflecting on her mother's painful past and struggle for dignity. Preparing for motherhood, Zikora begins to see more clearly what her own mother wants for her, for her new baby, and for herself.

©2020 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc, all rights reserved.]]> 39 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie S 0 to-read, recommended 4.27 2020 Zikora
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping]]> 55155120 A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing workshop by showing how they fail marginalized writers, and how cultural expectations inform storytelling.

The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writing—including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability—and aspects of workshop—including the silenced writer and the imagined reader—Matthew Salesses asks questions to invigorate these familiar concepts. He upends Western notions of how a story must progress. How can we rethink craft, and the teaching of it, to better reach writers with diverse backgrounds? How can we invite diverse storytelling traditions into literary spaces?

Drawing from examples including One Thousand and One Nights, Curious George, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, and the Asian American classic No-No Boy, Salesses asks us to reimagine craft and the workshop. In the pages of exercises included here, teachers will find suggestions for building syllabi, grading, and introducing new methods to the classroom; students will find revision and editing guidance, as well as a new lens for reading their work. Salesses shows that we need to interrogate the lack of diversity at the core of published fiction: how we teach and write it. After all, as he reminds us, "When we write fiction, we write the world."]]> 256 Matthew Salesses 1948226804 S 0 to-read 4.45 2021 Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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average rating: 4.45
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]]> 240976 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.]]> 313 Milan Kundera 0060932147 S 0 to-read 4.01 1979 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
author: Milan Kundera
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy]]> 42771901 232 Jenny Odell 1612197493 S 0 to-read 3.68 2019 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
author: Jenny Odell
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average rating: 3.68
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)]]> 34359130 New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.

Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.

Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.]]> 477 Anthony Horowitz 0062645234 S 0 currently-reading 3.97 2016 Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
author: Anthony Horowitz
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 S 0 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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average rating: 4.12
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i actually finished this as an audio book so...
]]> Necrophilia Variations 2224824 Necrophilia Variations is a literary monograph on the erotic attraction to corpses and death. It consists of a series of texts that, like musical phrases, take up the theme and advance it by means of repetition, contrast, and variation. To love someone dead is merely nostalgia, but to make love with someone dead is necrophilia, and this book is about that.

Although a work of fiction, Necrophilia Variations uses literary means to probe the psychopathology of sexual perversion. Eros, the book asks, is naturally drawn to beauty, and yet nothing would seem to be less inherently beautiful than a cadaver. How is it that a necrophile ends up confusing the two, or making the leap, such that he finds beauty in what most people would find repugnant? How does he come to desire that which would seem to be intrinsically undesirable?

Written in a style that ranges from the lugubrious to the ludicrous � from purple prose to black humor � Necrophilia Variations exhibits a world of depravity from the inside out. Each of its texts utilizes the first person � not because it is autobiographical but rather because it is personal, even intimate. Why intimate? Because that's how death is � near you, beside you, eventually inside you as well. It would be nice to say that that's how sex is too � intimate � but then it's no secret just how impersonal sex can be, especially when your lover is unconscious or worse.

If you have ever contemplated the curious points of contact between eros and thanatos � if you have ever wondered why femmes fatales are alluring, or why sex can be made more exciting by games that simulate danger and pain, or why that bit of French slang that deems orgasm a "little death" seems so appropriate � then you may well enjoy this book. And if you do, then your joy in reading may even unlock the necrophiliac mind for you � since a text is, like a corpse, the remains of a living being, and as a reader you will no doubt be determined to extract pleasure from it.]]> 200 Supervert 0970497113 S 1 Lets buckle up as from here, we only are going down the hill.
First of all i was intrigued by the title, Necrophilia. You know when you are in danger so you close your eyes as a fight/flight reaction and try to ignore your surroundings? This is how i felt about Necrophilia. It was always there but i tried my best to ignore it, no wonder why after reading this book.
Putting all humans moralities aside necrophilia is a very interesting topic when it comes to human psychology. I was very invested to know what exactly lit this desire in human? what differentiate them then from predator animals? etc.
This book was extremely disappointing, jumping from one story to another that will make you wonder wtf i am reading. And asking psychological questions about love and death yadah yadah that has no clear answers or even aim.

Not my cup of tea hence 1 star. ]]> 4.00 2005 Necrophilia Variations
author: Supervert
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average rating: 4.00
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I can't exactly remember how i found this book into my hands but i am sure it all stared with a discord server.
Lets buckle up as from here, we only are going down the hill.
First of all i was intrigued by the title, Necrophilia. You know when you are in danger so you close your eyes as a fight/flight reaction and try to ignore your surroundings? This is how i felt about Necrophilia. It was always there but i tried my best to ignore it, no wonder why after reading this book.
Putting all humans moralities aside necrophilia is a very interesting topic when it comes to human psychology. I was very invested to know what exactly lit this desire in human? what differentiate them then from predator animals? etc.
This book was extremely disappointing, jumping from one story to another that will make you wonder wtf i am reading. And asking psychological questions about love and death yadah yadah that has no clear answers or even aim.

Not my cup of tea hence 1 star.
]]> 82년생 김지� 35297901 192 Cho Nam-Joo 8937473135 S 0 to-read 4.27 2016 82년생 김지영
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]]> Nature 3420140 Book by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 160 Ralph Waldo Emerson 0807015563 S 0 to-read 3.79 1836 Nature
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas]]> 92625 Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

The story 'Omelas" was first published in 'New Dimensions 3' (1973), a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.

The work was subsequently printed in Le Guin's short story collection 'The Wind's Twelve Quarters' (1975).

Ursula K Le Guin (1929�2018) was an American writer who published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry & four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, and more. She was known for her treatment of gender ('The Left Hand of Darkness' (1969), 'The Matter of Seggri' (1994)), political systems ('The Telling' (2000), 'The Dispossessed' (1974)) and difference/otherness in any other form.]]> 32 Ursula K. Le Guin 0886825016 S 0 to-read 4.38 1973 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)]]> 386162
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!]]> 193 Douglas Adams S 0 to-read 4.28 1979 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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]]> Into the Wild 1845 Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.]]> 207 Jon Krakauer 0385486804 S 0 4.01 1996 Into the Wild
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]]> The Lines We Cross 37825509 400 Randa Abdel-Fattah 1338282050 S 1 3.87 2016 The Lines We Cross
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]]> Cut 662597
Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak.

But Callie can only stay silent for so long...]]> 151 Patricia McCormick 0439324599 S 1 3.77 2000 Cut
author: Patricia McCormick
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> How the Mind Works 835623 The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit that prompted Mark Ridley to write in the New York Times Book Review, "No other science writer makes me laugh so much. . . . [Pinker] deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him." The arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates some unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection, and challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, and that nature is good and modern society corrupting. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 Featured in Time magazine, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nature, Science, Lingua Franca, and Science Times Front-page reviews in the Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe Book Section, and the San Diego Union Book Review]]> 660 Steven Pinker 0393318486 S 0 to-read 3.99 1997 How the Mind Works
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]]> <![CDATA[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5]]> 36178457 991 8123923791 S 0 to-read 4.15 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5
author: American Psychological Association
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]]> The Secret History 29044 559 Donna Tartt 1400031702 S 0 to-read 4.17 1992 The Secret History
author: Donna Tartt
name: S
average rating: 4.17
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]]> A Brilliant Madness 27314573 304 Robert M. Drake 0986262765 S 0 to-read 3.89 A Brilliant Madness
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]]> سيجيء الموت وستكون له عيناك 6214737
هو كتاب موسوعي عالم، من الصفحة الأولى إلى الصفحة 656. لكن مسكر. وخاطف، ومستول وصافع، ومدوخ، وجالد، ومقلق، ومخيف، وموحش، ومعذب، ومتوحش، وطارد للنوم ومهشل لسكينة الروح، وخصوصاً مسالم وفاتح لشهية المعرفة والاستزادة.
وهو كتاب يصعق قارئه ويصيبه بالدوار، وإن يكن قارئاً "حديدياً"، متماسكاً، ويقف على أرض ثابتة.]]> 655 جمانة حداد S 0 to-read 3.78 2007 سيجيء الموت وستكون له عيناك
author: جمانة حداد
name: S
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2007
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]]> A Little Life 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride.Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 S 0 4.28 2015 A Little Life
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: S
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> The Travelling Cat Chronicles 40961230
An instant international bestseller and indie bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers around the world. With simple yet descriptive prose, this novel gives voice to Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they take to the road on a journey with no other purpose than to visit three of Satoru's longtime friends. Or so Nana is led to believe...

With his crooked tail—a sign of good fortune—and adventurous spirit, Nana is the perfect companion for the man who took him in as a stray. And as they travel in a silver van across Japan, with its ever-changing scenery and seasons, they will learn the true meaning of courage and gratitude, of loyalty and love.]]> 281 Hiro Arikawa 0735235244 S 0 to-read 4.35 2012 The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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]]> The Little Prince 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 S 0 to-read 4.32 1943 The Little Prince
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]]> أمل دنقل: الأعمال الكاملة 5865674 صوتان صوتك
أنك إن متَ
للبيت رب
وللطفل أب
هل يصير دمى -بين عينيك- ماء؟
أتنسى ردائى الملطخ..
تلبس -فوق دمائى- ثياباً مطرزة بالقصب؟
إنها الحرب
قد تثقل القلب..
لكن خلفك عار العرب
لا تصالح..
ولا تتوخَ الهرب!

لا تصالح على الدم.. حتى بدم!
لا تصالح! ولو قيل رأس برأس
أكل الرؤوس سواء؟
أقلب الغريب كقلب أخيك؟!
أعيناه عينا أخيك؟
وهل تساوى يد... سيفها كان لك
بيد سيفها أثكلك؟
جئناك كى تحقن الدم..
جئناك. كن يا أمير- الحكم
سيقولون
ها نحن أبناء عم
قل لهم إنهم لم يراعوا العمومة فيمن هلك
وأغرس السيف فى جبهة الصحراء..
إلى أن يجيب العدم.
إننى كنت لك.
فارساً
وأخاً
أباَ
وملك!ձ> 478 أمل دنقل 9772084880 S 4 4.30 1987 أمل دنقل: الأعمال الكاملة
author: أمل دنقل
name: S
average rating: 4.30
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rating: 4
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]]> التفكير فريضة إسلامية 3335314
وبديهي أن يرافق الدعوة إلى التفكير إقبالٌ على العلم، أي على جملة المعارف التي يدركها الإنسان، ذلك أن التفكير لا يكون مستقيماً صحيحاً إلا إذا قام على معرفة صحيحة.]]> 152 عباس محمود العقاد S 0 to-read 3.96 1962 التفكير فريضة إسلامية
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name: S
average rating: 3.96
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]]> The Language of Flowers 29770417
Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.]]> 355 Vanessa Diffenbaugh 1447298896 S 0 to-read 3.88 2011 The Language of Flowers
author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
name: S
average rating: 3.88
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]]> Turtles All the Way Down 15837671
Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.]]> 304 John Green 0141346019 S 0 4.02 2017 Turtles All the Way Down
author: John Green
name: S
average rating: 4.02
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]]> Becoming 38744839
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.]]> 599 Michelle Obama S 0 to-read 4.62 2018 Becoming
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name: S
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]]> Educated 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

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

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]> 352 Tara Westover 0399590501 S 0 to-read 4.46 2018 Educated
author: Tara Westover
name: S
average rating: 4.46
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]]> الحرب والسلام - الجزء الأول 18622184 Leo Tolstoy S 0 4.02 1867 الحرب والسلام - الجزء الأول
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name: S
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1867
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]]> The Bells 2989432 Edgar Allan Poe S 0 to-read 3.77 1849 The Bells
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: S
average rating: 3.77
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]]> Letters to a Young Poet 46199 Listy do mlodego poety 80 Rainer Maria Rilke 0486422453 S 0 to-read 4.32 1929 Letters to a Young Poet
author: Rainer Maria Rilke
name: S
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1929
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]]> <![CDATA[Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]]> 19288239 A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine�, and Oumi, ‘blue sea�, while the girls� names were Shirane, ‘white root�, and Kurono, ‘black field�. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.

One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.

Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.]]> 386 Haruki Murakami 0385352107 S 0 to-read 3.82 2013 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
author: Haruki Murakami
name: S
average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles]]> 16112413 142 Yasmin Mogahed 0985751207 S 0 to-read 4.46 2012 Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
author: Yasmin Mogahed
name: S
average rating: 4.46
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]]> فرانكشتاين في بغداد 22028638 352 Ahmed Saadawi 9933350013 S 0 3.50 2013 فرانكشتاين في بغداد
author: Ahmed Saadawi
name: S
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2013
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]]> حين رأيت صوتي 25160497 242 Rashad Hassan رشاد حسن S 0 to-read 3.84 2015 حين رأيت صوتي
author: Rashad Hassan رشاد حسن
name: S
average rating: 3.84
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]]> One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9) 220968
The gunman worked from a parking structure just thirty yards away–point-blank range for a trained military sniper like James Barr. His victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But why does Barr want Reacher at his side? There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. But when Reacher hears Barr’s own words, he understands. And a slam-dunk case explodes. Soon Reacher is teamed with a young defense lawyer who is working against her D.A. father and dueling with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own. Like most things Reacher has known in life, this case is a complex battlefield. But, as always, in battle, Reacher is at his best.

Moving in the shadows, picking his spots, Reacher gets closer and closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. And for Reacher, the only way to take him down is to know his ruthlessness and respect his cunning–and then match him shot for shot…]]> 466 Lee Child 0440241022 S 0 to-read 4.21 2005 One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)
author: Lee Child
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus S 0 to-read 4.04 1942 The Stranger
author: Albert Camus
name: S
average rating: 4.04
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]]> موت صغير 29414792 592 محمد حسن علوان S 0 to-read 4.21 2016 موت صغير
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name: S
average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)]]> 35924705 Adjusting to life as a world-famous cartoonist isn't easy. Terrifying deadlines, piles of junk-food wrappers under a glowing computer screen, and an ever-growing horde of pets....umm, never mind--it's pretty much the same.

With characteristic wit and charm, Sarah Andersen's third collection of comics and illustrated personal essays offers a survival guide for frantic modern life: from the importance of avoiding morning people, to Internet troll defense 101, to the not-so-life-changing futility of tidying up. But when all else fails and the world around you is collapsing, make a hot chocolate, count the days until Halloween, and snuggle up next to your furry beacon of hope.]]> 112 Sarah Andersen 1449489788 S 0 to-read 4.13 2018 Herding Cats (Sarah's Scribbles, #3)
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name: S
average rating: 4.13
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]]> <![CDATA[Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2)]]> 30754980 128 Sarah Andersen 1449479618 S 0 to-read 4.21 2017 Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)]]> 25855506 Are you a special snowflake?
Do you enjoy networking to advance your career?
Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared?

Ugh. Please go away.

This book is for the rest of us. These comics document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas, and wondering when, exactly, this adulthood thing begins. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life.

Sarah Andersen is a young Brooklyn artist. This book is totally not autobiographical. At all.]]> 110 Sarah Andersen 1449474195 S 0 to-read 4.10 2016 Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)
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]]> ليليات 20628245 ليليَّات لا يُرْهقُها بقواعد السياسة، والثقافة، والخسارة، والحرب، والملاحم، والهزائم، والمرأة، والشهوة، والحسرة... يرفع القيد عن حميميَّاتٍ، ويحرِّرُ الكتابة من ضجيجِها...
يا صديقي؛ لقد جعلتني نهائياً، تلك هي لذة قراءتك. أرتشف منها دوماً، وتفعمها دوماً حياة نديَّة. لن أنسى رائحة المكان، وقد سافر معي طويلاً. أقرأ لأختصر الطريق الطويل: باب البيان، وباب الكلام، وباب الصَّدى، وباب الشعر، وصولاً إلى بابها، وعلى ورق متبادل نلتقي لنضئ عتمة الليل.
قدرتك على خلق الكلمة جعلتني أتفتَّح على ذلك السر الوسيع، مثل برعم الغاب الذي يتفتح عند منتصف الليل.
لقد استدرجَتْني ليليَّاتُك، كما كان يستدرجني البُزُقُ إلى خيام النَّوَر تحت جسر الدَّجاج...
يأتي الكتاب بكامل سطوته كلسانٍ جميل في لغة الضَّاد.. يتحرك ويملأ الفضاءات.. ما أحاول أن أكتبه هو تعبير عن الارتباط الوثيق بين اللغة والصداقة، وشاهدٌ على ما فعله من تمرُّدٍ على الواقع، دفاعاً عن الوجود...

مرسيل خليفة]]> 174 عبد الإله بلقزيز 6144280251 S 0 to-read 3.93 2013 ليليات
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name: S
average rating: 3.93
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]]> House of Leaves 24800
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.]]> 710 Mark Z. Danielewski S 0 to-read 4.11 2000 House of Leaves
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> اكسر شيئاً من الماء 8588405 - Mais tu tires comment ?
- Ben, ça s'attrape pas par la main, de l'eau, alors je tire pas dessus comme sur un morceau de bois. Je lui mets la sono à fond, dans une petite boîte, un sacré paquet de décibels. Pour nous, ça revient au même.
- ... et pourquoi tu fais ça ?
- Tu sais, les molécules d'eau, elles ont deux pieds et deux mains pour s'attacher les unes aux autres, mais on comprend pas bien comment. Alors, pour comprendre, je leur casse les pieds, pas seulement les oreilles.
- Vous êtes bizarres, vous autres chercheurs. »
Sébastien Balibar.]]> 124 Sébastien Balibar 9933407058 S 0 to-read 2.55 2008 اكسر شيئاً من الماء
author: Sébastien Balibar
name: S
average rating: 2.55
book published: 2008
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]]> الموت يمر من هنا 4888869

غازي القصيبي
لتحميل كتاب الموت يمر من هنا لكاتبه عبده خال من هذا الرابط
]]> 512 عبده خال S 0 to-read 3.78 2003 الموت يمر من هنا
author: عبده خال
name: S
average rating: 3.78
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]]> رسائل إلى ميلينا 9135305 هو اليائس، الصامت، المعذب، المريض، وأحيانا المجنون. سمة حياته البارزة هي الغضب، الذي يولده القلق، والذي يحيل نفسه إلى أبخرة سامة عند ملامستها الحياة.
بعد فترة طويلة، آن لأعمال كافكا الكاملة أن تظهر. قدمنا له مختارات من القصة الطويلة بعنوان "الدودة الهائلة"، وفي هذا القسم الثاني نقدم مجموعة الرسائل الكاملة إلى ميلينا حبيبته وصديقته ومترجمته:
"كتابة الرسائل... معناها أن يتجرد المرء أمام الأشباح، وهو ما تنتظره تلك الأشباح في شراهة. ولا تبلغ القبلات المكتوبة غايتها، ذلك أن الأشباح تشربها في الطريق".
كافكا في رسائله هنا، لامرأة متزوجة، إنسان عذب، زايله التوتر مؤقتا، واسترخى عاشقا، في غير انتباه، لآلهات النقمة اللائي يطاردنه: (الزهور تتفتح في بطء أمام شرفتي... وتزورني في الغرفة السحالي والطيور وأنواع متباينة من الكائنات، أزواجا أزواجا... إنني أتوق في لهفة بالغة إلى أن تكوني هنا في ميران!) أو هكذا يتشبث بقمة سياج الحياة، ثم يسقط سريعا، متراجعا، بأيد جريحة متسلخة.
...إنه كافكا، وكفى!]]> 337 Franz Kafka S 0 to-read 3.38 1952 رسائل إلى ميلينا
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name: S
average rating: 3.38
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]]> Dead to You 11724850 Some memories are better left untouched.

Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was just seven years old. Now, at sixteen, he has returned to his family.

It's a miracle... at first.

Then the tensions start to build. His reintroduction to his old life isn't going smoothly, and his family is tearing apart all over again. If only Ethan could remember something, anything, about his life before, he'd be able to put the pieces back together.

But there's something that's keeping his memory blocked.

Something unspeakable...]]> 243 Lisa McMann 1442403888 S 0 to-read 3.67 2012 Dead to You
author: Lisa McMann
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> Moon Theory 36421958 240 Robert M. Drake 0998629324 S 0 to-read 4.01 Moon Theory
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]]> The Sun and Her Flowers 35606560 256 Rupi Kaur 1449486797 S 0 4.09 2018 The Sun and Her Flowers
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #3)]]> 35247769 Lara Jean is having the best senior year.

And there’s still so much to look forward to: a class trip to New York City, prom with her boyfriend Peter, Beach Week after graduation, and her dad’s wedding to Ms. Rothschild. Then she’ll be off to college with Peter, at a school close enough for her to come home and bake chocolate chip cookies on the weekends.

Life couldn’t be more perfect!

At least, that’s what Lara Jean thinks . . . until she gets some unexpected news.

Now the girl who dreads change must rethink all her plans—but when your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?]]> 325 Jenny Han 1481430483 S 0 to-read 3.99 2017 Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #3)
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]]> Everything, Everything 18692431
But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change—starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.

Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.]]> 312 Nicola Yoon 0553496646 S 1 3.96 2015 Everything, Everything
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[The Birthday That Changed Everything]]> 27215521 She wanted a birthday surprise, just not the one she got�

The last thing Sally Summers expected from her husband on her special day was that he’d leave her for a Latvian lap dancer half her age. So with her world in tatters, Sally jets off to Turkey for some sun, sea and sanctuary.

The Blue Bay resort brings new friends and the perfect balm for Sally’s broken heart in gorgeous Dubliner James. He’s just the birthday present she needs. And when the chemistry between them continues to spark as the holiday ends, Sally wonders if this is more than just a summer fling.

But James has scars of his own and Sally isn’t quite ready to turn her back on her marriage. This birthday might have changed everything, but what will the next one bring?

]]> 418 Debbie Johnson 0008150176 S 0 4.17 2016 The Birthday That Changed Everything
author: Debbie Johnson
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]]> Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3) 13188676
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that's not all he wants with her.

The Shatter Me series is perfect for fans who crave action-packed young adult novels with tantalizing romance like Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Legend by Marie Lu. Tahereh Mafi has created a captivating and original story that combines the best of dystopian and paranormal and was praised by Publishers Weekly as "a gripping read from an author who's not afraid to take risks."

Don’t miss Restore Me, the electrifying fourth installment of this New York Times bestselling series, available now!]]> 408 Tahereh Mafi 006208559X S 3
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average rating: 4.46
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rating: 3
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]]> عزازيل 3554772
"ما أظن أني تمتعت بعمل من هذا القبيل.. ما أروع هذا العمل"
-- يحيى الجمل

"هذه الرواية عمل مبدع وخطير، مبدع لما يحتويه من مناطق حوارية إنسانية مكتوبة بحساسية مرهفة تمتزج فيها العاطفة بالمتعة، وخطير لأنه يتضمن دراسة في نشأة وتطور الصراع المذهبي بين الطوائف المسيحية في المشرق.. إن يوسف زيدان يتميز بالموهبتين، موهبة المبدع وموهبة الباحث، وكثيرا ما تتداخل الموهبتان في هذا العمل"
-- سامي خشبة

"لو قرأنا الرواية قراءة حقيقية، لأدركنا سمو أهدافها ونبل غاياتها الأخلاقية والروحية التي هي تأكيد لقيم التسامح وتقبل الآخر، واحترام حق الاختلاف، ورفض مبدأ العنف.. ولغة الرواية لغة شعرية، تترجع فيها أصداء المناجيات الصوفية، خصوصا حين نقرأ مناجاة هيبا لربه "
-- د. جابر عصفور

"يوسف زيدان هو أول روائي مسلم، يكتب عن اللاهوت المسيحي بشكل روائي عميق. وهو أول مسلم، يحاول أن يعطي حلولا لمشكلات كنسية كبرى.. إن يوسف زيدان اقتحم حياة الأديرة، ورسم بريشة راهب أحداثا كنسية حدثت بالفعل، وكان لها أثر عظيم في تاريخ الكنيسة القبطية"
-- المطران يوحنا جريجووريوس]]> 470 Youssef Ziedan S 0 4.04 2008 عزازيل
author: Youssef Ziedan
name: S
average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Summary & Study Guide The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]> 9728443 36 BookRags S 0 3.92 2010 Summary & Study Guide The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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]]> An Imperial Affliction 23959944 6 Peter Van Houten S 0 4.08 2013 An Imperial Affliction
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]]> All the Bright Places 18460392 The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.

Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.

When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders� of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.

This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.]]> 388 Jennifer Niven 0385755880 S 0 4.12 2015 All the Bright Places
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]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green S 0 through the book (even if its fiction not a real story) made me understand what does it mean to be a cancer kid, and how difficult their life is.. is it a happy book? a sad book I can't tell, like Hazel knew love and then lost it, would that make her life such a tragedy? Gus died before her does that make him such a hero? then who's the hero in the story?
I just can't stop thinking about the book and all AIA quote's written in the book..]]> 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
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yesterday I finished the book, and i am just shocked, like I wanna scream this is not fair but since when life was fair yo us? the book put me in such a great pain physically and mentally.
through the book (even if its fiction not a real story) made me understand what does it mean to be a cancer kid, and how difficult their life is.. is it a happy book? a sad book I can't tell, like Hazel knew love and then lost it, would that make her life such a tragedy? Gus died before her does that make him such a hero? then who's the hero in the story?
I just can't stop thinking about the book and all AIA quote's written in the book..
]]> Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock 13477676
But first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt; his classmate, Baback, a violin virtuoso; Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on; and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school’s class on the Holocaust. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches.

In this riveting look at a day in the life of a disturbed teenage boy, acclaimed author Matthew Quick unflinchingly examines the impossible choices that must be made—and the light in us all that never goes out.]]> 277 Matthew Quick 0316221333 S 0 to-read 3.88 2013 Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 S 0 Oh... 4.44 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Ruin Everything Deluxe: Essays]]> 30623026 The enhanced eBook edition of writer and musician George Watsky’s How to Ruin Everything provides photographic evidence of Watsky's assorted misadventures. George’s personal photos from his awkward adolescent days, his post-graduation travels, and his recent cross-country music tour are included exclusively in this edition. There is bonus content for every chapter, including five videos and more than sixty photographs.

Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tired of the crushing monotony of leaping gracefully from one lily pad of success to the next? Are you sick of doing everything right?

In this brutally honest and humorous debut, George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays inHow to Ruin Everythingrange from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy), yet all are delivered with the type of linguistic dexterity and self-awareness that has won Watsky nearly 800,000 YouTube subscribers.Alternately ribald and emotionally resonant,How to Ruin Everythingannounces a versatile writer with a promising career ahead.]]> 242 George Watsky 0735214581 S 0 to-read 3.78 2016 How to Ruin Everything Deluxe: Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Ruin Everything: Essays]]> 27068019
In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress. The essays in How to Ruin Everything range from the absurd (how he became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy), yet all are delivered with the type of linguistic dexterity and self-awareness that has won Watsky more than 765,000 YouTube subscribers. Alternately ribald and emotionally resonant, How to Ruin Everything announces a versatile writer with a promising career ahead.]]> 240 George Watsky 0147515998 S 0 to-read 3.87 2016 How to Ruin Everything: Essays
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]]> In My Head 35254618 212 J.M. Storm 1945322063 S 0 to-read 4.51 In My Head
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]]> What's Your Creative Type? 28957178 What's Your Creative Type? helps artists do the same in a fun and witty way. Stepping away from the hyper-focus on how people create, What's Your Creative Type? instead explores why. By identifying your creative motivation type, you'll be able to find renewed energy, overcome creative blocks, and release the artist within.

Drawing from creativity theory and personality typology, each chapter of the book is devoted to a creative type, from the A-Lister seeking recognition to the Activist who wants to change the world. What's Your Creative Type? is peppered with pop-culture studies of famous artists and illustrates each type with entertaining examples from legendary figures.

Whether you're a seasoned artist or writer in search of inspiration or simply looking to explore your budding creative talents and motivations, What's Your Creative Type? has fresh and reliable advice and insight for you.

"A fun, inspiring, and practical trip through our own psyches."
--Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create

"The stories of famous creators are compelling and the lessons learnt can illuminate for you a path to unfold the magic of your unique creative potential."--Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, author, and speaker

"Meta Wagner's book proves that self-discovery can be a real pleasure: lively yet insightful, practical and compassionate, it's a must-read for creatives of all ages."--Camille DeAngelis, author of Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People

“The author, Meta Wagner, is brilliant with this topic! An early read showed a great balance between meaningful academia, total fun, and extraordinary tools for self-examination.�
--Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Widow of Wall Street]]> 241 Meta Wagner 1580056377 S 0 to-read 3.62 2017 What's Your Creative Type?
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Forbidden Feelings]]> 30759223 So I said, "You look great."]]> 152 Lala Bohang 602033189X S 0 to-read 3.71 2016 The Book of Forbidden Feelings
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]]> her 19472329 122 Spike Jonze S 3 4.36 2013 her
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]]> <![CDATA[All the Ugly and Wonderful Things]]> 26114135
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you wont soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.]]> 432 Bryn Greenwood S 0 3.96 2016 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
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]]> Kindred Spirits 26365537 'Are you mad because other people like Star Wars? Are you mad because people like me like Star Wars?'
'Maybe.'

If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. So when she decides to queue outside her local cinema to see the new movie, she's expecting a celebration with crowds of people who love Han, Luke and Leia just as much as she does. What she's not expecting is to be last in a line of only three people; to have to pee into a collectible Star Wars soda cup behind a dumpster or to meet that unlikely someone who just might truly understand the way she feels. Kindred Spirits is an engaging short story by Rainbow Rowell, author of the bestselling Eleanor & Park, Fangirl and Carry On, and is part of a handful of selected short reads specially produced for World Book Day.]]> 96 Rainbow Rowell S 3 3.89 2016 Kindred Spirits
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]]> رُوحٌ مُوسوسة 35995803 المعـــطوبة بظلمــتها
والمتحــــرّرة بنورها
وإلى كلّ روح تشبهها
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ما من كلمات يمكنها أن تعبّر عن كتابي هذا مثل كلمات إميل سيوران:"ليس عليك أن تكتب من أجل أحد.. فقط من أجل نفسك.. وليس لأحد أن يكتب كتاباً من أجل أن يكتب كتاباً فقط.. فهذا لن تكون له صلة بالواقع.. وسيكون مجرد كتاب.. أما أنا فكل ما كتبت كتبته للهرب.. للتخلص من حالة إحساس بضيق أو اختناق.. لم تكن مسألة إلهام.. كما يقولون.. كان نوعاً من التحرر.. ولكي أكون قادراً على التنفس..!" لذلك اخترت أن تكون مقدّمة للكتاب، و وصفا له، ولن أزيد عليها شيئا.]]> Khaoula Guesmi S 0 to-read 3.38 رُوحٌ مُوسوسة
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]]> <![CDATA[Just One Year (Just One Day, #2)]]> 12842134 Just One Day. Just One Year. Just One Read.

Before you find out how their story ends, remember how it began....

When he opens his eyes, Willem doesn’t know where in the world he is—Prague or Dubrovnik or back in Amsterdam. All he knows is that he is once again alone, and that he needs to find a girl named Lulu. They shared one magical day in Paris, and something about that day—that girl—makes Willem wonder if they aren’t fated to be together. He travels all over the world, from Mexico to India, hoping to reconnect with her. But as months go by and Lulu remains elusive, Willem starts to question if the hand of fate is as strong as he’d thought. . . .

The romantic, emotional companion to Just One Day, this is a story of the choices we make and the accidents that happen—and the happiness we can find when the two intersect.]]> 336 Gayle Forman S 0 3.90 2013 Just One Year (Just One Day, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Just One Night (Just One Day, #2.5)]]> 22021611 40 Gayle Forman 0698184890 S 0 4.08 2014 Just One Night (Just One Day, #2.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)]]> 17623975
When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there's an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.]]> 369 Gayle Forman 0142422959 S 0 3.97 2013 Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)
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]]> Note to Self 31443393
Now, two years later, Connor is ready to bring to light a side of himself he’s rarely shown on or off camera. In this diary-like look at his life since A Work In Progress, Connor talks about his battles with clinical depression, social anxiety, self-love, and acceptance; his desire to maintain an authentic self in a world that values shares and likes over true connections; his struggles with love and loss; and his renewed efforts to be in the moment—with others and himself.

Told through short essays, letters to his past and future selves, poetry, and original photography, Note to Self is a raw, in-the-moment look at the fascinating interior life of a young creator turning inward in order to move forward.]]> 308 Connor Franta 1501158015 S 0 to-read 4.00 2017 Note to Self
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]]> A Beautiful Lie 8679854 298 Irfan Master 1408805758 S 0 to-read 3.87 2011 A Beautiful Lie
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]]> <![CDATA[Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution]]> 7742036 Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl, the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s and included incendiary punk bands Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, and Huggy Bear. A dynamic chronicle not just a movement but an era, this is the story of a group of pissed-off girls with no patience for sexism and no intention of keeping quiet.]]> 367 Sara Marcus 0061806366 S 0 to-read 3.96 2010 Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
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]]> <![CDATA[The Guide to Documentary Credits]]> 25233865 456 Gary Collyer 1845166175 S 4 4.00 2007 The Guide to Documentary Credits
author: Gary Collyer
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rating: 4
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]]> Beautiful Chaos 23434371 181 Robert M. Drake S 4 3.90 2014 Beautiful Chaos
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average rating: 3.90
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rating: 4
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I don't think I will ever get enough from this book. A review? Nah, just go and read it. (All my fav quotes are in my blog"
]]> A Man Called Ove 18774964
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.]]> 337 Fredrik Backman 1476738017 S 0 to-read 4.35 2012 A Man Called Ove
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]]> Fifteen Poems 13493398 54 Leonard Cohen 9780307961 S 0 to-read 4.01 2012 Fifteen Poems
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]]> Beautiful Losers 102908
First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.]]> 243 Leonard Cohen 0679748253 S 0 to-read 3.62 1966 Beautiful Losers
author: Leonard Cohen
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]]> Naked Human 23552486 180 Christopher Poindexter S 0 to-read 4.23 2015 Naked Human
author: Christopher Poindexter
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series]]> 20821097
One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything.

He fell in love.

Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Chasers of the Light features some of his most insightful and beautifully worded pieces of work—poems that illuminate grand gestures and small glimpses, poems that celebrate the beauty of a life spent chasing the light.]]> 144 Tyler Knott Gregson 0399169733 S 0 to-read 4.18 2014 Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
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