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Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic]]> 228 Haruki Murakami 1784705373 Го 0 currently-reading 3.69 2014 Men Without Women
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]]> Пътеписът на един котарак 68261061
Ала ето че поради непреодолими обстоятелства младежът трябва да се раздели със своя питомец и да го повери в любящи ръце. И двамата тръгват да търсят достоен осиновител. С котешки нюх и проницателност, с хаплив хумор или добродушна ирония Нана увлича читателя в необичайно пътуване с предизвестен край към множество човешки души и съдби, към традициите на Япония и манталитета на нейните обитатели. Нижат се живописни пейзажи и затрогващи житейски сцени, впечатления и емоции на интелигентен пътеписец с характер и чувствителни сетива.

Хиро Арикава поднася нестандартен роман притча за другарството, емпатията, верността и хармонията между един мъдър котарак и неговия всеотдаен стопанин.]]> 288 Hiro Arikawa 6190211437 Го 5 4.47 2012 Пътеписът на един котарак
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]]> <![CDATA[The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language]]> 26764855

Steven Pinker is one of the world's most influential thinkers and writers on the human condition. His popular and highly praised books include The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Sense of Style, The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, and The Language Instinct. The recipient of several major awards for his teaching, books, and scientific research, Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He also writes frequently for The New York Times, the Guardian and other publications. He has been named Humanist of the Year, Prospect magazine's "The World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals," Foreign Policy's "100 Global Thinkers," and Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today."


'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - Independent

'A marvellously readable book... illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects' - Nature]]> 528 Steven Pinker 014198077X Го 4 3.96 1994 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Illustrated Works of William Shakespeare [37 plays, 5 poems]]]> 192180 1023 William Shakespeare 1851523812 Го 5 4.35 1623 The Complete Illustrated Works of William Shakespeare [37 plays, 5 poems]
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]]> The Witches Are Coming 38362811 In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.
WE’RE WITCHES,
AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You’ve got one.

In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics-and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.

West writes, “We were just a hair’s breadth from electing America’s first female president to succeed America’s first black president. We weren’t done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form—like the Balrog’s whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, ‘If I can’t have you, no one can’—white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House.�

We cannot understand how we got here-how the land of the free became Trump’s America—without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact—checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.]]> 260 Lindy West 0316449881 Го 0 to-read 4.10 2019 The Witches Are Coming
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]]> Butts: A Backstory 59366123 Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out.

Spanning nearly two centuries, this “whip-smart� (Publishers Weekly, starred review) cultural history takes us from the performance halls of 19th-century London to the aerobics studios of the 1980s, the music video set of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back� and the mountains of Arizona, where every year humans and horses race in a feat of gluteal endurance. Along the way, she meets evolutionary biologists who study how butts first developed; models whose measurements have defined jean sizing for millions of women; and the fitness gurus who created fads like “Buns of Steel.� She also examines the central importance of race through figures like Sarah Bartmann, once known as the “Venus Hottentot,� Josephine Baker, Jennifer Lopez, and other women of color whose butts have been idolized, envied, and despised.

Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion—and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others.]]> 311 Heather Radke 1982135484 Го 0 to-read 3.74 2022 Butts: A Backstory
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]]> <![CDATA[Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll]]> 108037 Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and here

Everything that Lewis Carroll ever published in book form appears in this volume. Included are: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, "The Hunting of the Snark," and Lewis' poetry, phantasmagoria, stories, miscellany, and "acrostics, inscriptions, and other verse."

The following have also never appeared in print except in their original editions: "Resident Women Students," "Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection," "Lawn Tennis Tournaments," "Rules for Court Circular," "Croquet Castles," "Mischmasch," "Doublets," "A Postal Problem," "The Alphabet-Cipher," and "Introduction to The Lost Plum Cake."]]> 1232 Lewis Carroll Го 5 3.95 1982 Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
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]]> <![CDATA[Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage]]> 23346487 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.]]> 298 Haruki Murakami 0099590379 Го 3 3.80 2013 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage
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]]> How Do You Live? 54438984 Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan's beloved coming-of-age classic on what really matters in life.

The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out into the city of his childhood. Struck by the thought of the infinite people whose lives play out alongside his own, he begins to wonder, how do you live?

Considering life's biggest questions for the first time, Copper turns to his dear uncle for heart-warming wisdom. As the old man guides the boy on a journey of philosophical discovery, a timeless tale unfolds, offering a poignant reflection on what it means to be human.

The favourite childhood book of anime master Hayao Miyazaki, How Do You Live? is the basis a highly anticipated film from Studio Ghibli.]]> 280 Genzaburo Yoshino 1846046459 Го 5 3.95 1937 How Do You Live?
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]]> <![CDATA[Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet]]> 51810297 Advisers who guided David Attenborough's Our Planet now reveal the full scale of the climate emergency we face, and explain that if we act now, we can stabilize Earth's life support system.

This high-impact book, written by leading climate change experts, explains the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced. The story is accompanied by unique images of Earth produced by Globaïa, the world's leading visualizers of human impact.

The authors explain that in 2009, scientists identified nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth stable, ranging from biodiversity to ozone. Beyond these boundaries lurk tipping points. In order to stop short of these tipping points, the 2020s must see the fastest economic transition in history. This book demonstrates how societies are reaching positive tipping points that make this transition possible: groups such as Extinction Rebellion and the schoolchildren led by Greta Thunberg demand political action; countries are committing to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions; and one tipping point has even already passed - the price of clean energy has dropped below that of fossil fuels.

At the brink of a critical moment in history, this essential book presents a vision of "Planetary Stewardship" based on a new understanding of our rainforests, ice sheets, oceans, atmosphere, and rich diversity of life.]]> 240 Johan Rockström 024146675X Го 5 4.69 2021 Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
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]]> <![CDATA[The Economy: Economics for a changing world]]> 36231914
Since then, courses based on CORE’s text have been taught as the standard introduction to economics at University College London, Sciences Po (Paris), the Toulouse School of Economics, Azim Premji University (Bangalore), Humboldt University (Berlin), the Lahore University of Management Sciences and many other universities throughout the world. In July 2017, as we write this, 3,000 economics teachers from 89 countries have registered for access to our supplementary teaching materials.

Camila’s perspective on The CORE Project at the beginning of our journey captures the motivation that continues to inspire us. She wrote:

We want to change the way economics is taught. Students and teachers tell us this is long overdue. When the Financial Times in the UK wrote about CORE in November 2013, it sparked an online debate about teaching and learning economics that attracted 1,214 posts in 48 hours. Students in economics all over the world were asking, just as I had asked a few years previously: ‘Why has the subject of economics become detached from our experience of real life?�

Nataly Grisales, like me an economics student from Latin America, recently wrote about learning economics on her blog: ‘Before I chose economics a professor mentioned that economics would give me a way to describe and predict human behaviour through mathematical tools. That possibility still seems fantastic to me. However, after semesters of study I had many mathematical tools, but all the people whose behaviour I wanted to study had disappeared from the scene.�

Like Nataly, I remember asking myself if my economics classes would ever get around to addressing the questions that motivated me to take up economics in the first place.

And that’s why my colleagues in the CORE team have created this material. It has made me believe again that studying economics can help you to understand the economic challenges of the real world, and prepare you to confront them.

Please join us.
Camila and Nataly did not get the best that economics has to offer. CORE’s mission is to introduce students to what economists do now, and what we know. Today, economics is an empirical subject that uses models to make sense of data. These models guide government, business, and many other organizations on the trade-offs they face in designing policies.

Economics can provide tools, concepts and ways to understand the world that address the challenges that drive students like Nataly and Camila to the subject. Sadly, they are often not a big part of the courses that thousands of students take.

In the four years that The CORE Project has been running we have tried an experiment in classrooms around the world. We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?� The word cloud below shows the response that students at Hum­boldt University gave to us on the first day of their first class in economics. The size of the word is proportional to the frequency with which they mentioned the word or phrase.]]> 1000 CORE Team 0198810245 Го 0 to-read 4.19 The Economy: Economics for a changing world
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]]> <![CDATA[Котаракът, който спасяваше книги]]> 59747343
Истинска магия се крие между кориците на „Котаракът, който спасяваше книги�. Феноменалният бестселър на Сосуке Нацукава е една от най-харесваните книги за последните години, възхвалявана от специалисти и обикновени читатели. Освен непреходните теми за силата на приятелството и намирането на смелост, тази история има вълшебно въздействие върху всички, за които книгите са много повече от просто думи, напечатани на хартия.

За Ринтаро Нацуки малката книжарница за книги втора ръка, стопанисвана от дядо му, е най-прекрасното място на света - идеално убежище за едно самотно и плахо момче. Тук тийнейджърът е прекарал много щастливи часове в четене на литературни шедьоври. След смъртта на дядо му обаче нещата коренно се променят и Ринтаро е на път да затвори уютното магазинче.

Един необичаен посетител в книжарницата ще промени живота на осиротялото момче. Говорещият котарак Тигър се нуждае от истински любител на книгите, който да се присъедини към него за една специална мисия. Тази доста странна двойка ще се заеме със спасяването на книги от хора, които злоупотребяват с тях и ги осакатяват. Тийнейджърът и неговият пухкав приятел се впускат в три магически приключения, посветени изцяло на своята кауза. Тяхната кулминация е едно незабравимо предизвикателство � последният лабиринт, в който Ринтаро трябва да действа сам...

Вълшебна притча за четенето и за безграничната сила на книгите, „Котаракът, който спасяваше книги� очарова, забавлява и провокира размисъл у всеки. Нацукава предизвиква суперлативи не само с богатата си литературна култура, но и със смелостта да каже открито онова, от което страдат не само книгите, а и застрашеният свят на духа изобщо. „Любителит� на литературни шедьоври и на книгите като цяло ще се прехласнат от уроците, които Ринтаро научава, а и самият той ни учи на толкова много неща� Котки, книги, младежка любов и приключения: в тази книга всеки читател ще намери по нещо за себе си�. Това е коментарът на „Kirkus Reviews�.

Романът на Нацукава връща вярата в доброто, а четенето му е сравнимо с усещането от топла прегръдка, дарява ни досег с нещо наистина прекрасно. У нас книгата излиза с авторски илюстрации, одобрени лично от самия автор. Те са дело на Биляна Василева-Билка. Биляна е завършила художествената гимназия „Или� Петров� и НХА, в момента живее и работи в Лос Анджелис, където се е посветила не само на изящните изкуства, но и на киното.]]> 208 Sōsuke Natsukawa 9543652627 Го 4 3.81 2017 Котаракът, който спасяваше книги
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement]]> 55032554 'Heads up � here's how to run like a pro' - The Times'A fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author of Running With the Kenyans'I'm convinced that Shane's insights were were instrumental in me winning the Marathon des Sables for a second time' - Elisabet Barnes, coach and athlete'Shane is the Indiana Jones of the running world' - Damian Hall, ultra marathon runner'You can't but help go out the door for your next run and try to put it all into practice' - Nicky Spinks, endurance runnerThe Lost Art of Running is an opportunity to join running technique analyst coach and movement guru Shane Benzie on his journey across five continents as he trains with and analyses the running style of some of the most gifted athletes on the planet.Part narrative, part practical, this adventure takes you to the foothills of Ethiopia and the 'town of runners'; to the training grounds of world-record-holding marathon runners in Kenya; racing across the Arctic Circle and the mountains of Europe, through the sweltering sands of the Sahara and the hostility of a winter traverse of the Pennine Way, to witness the incredible natural movement of runners in these environments.Along the way, you will learn how to incorporate natural movement techniques into your own running and hear from some of the top athletes that Shane has coached over the years. Whether experienced or just tackling your first few miles, this groundbreaking book will help you discover the lost art of running.]]> 303 Shane Benzie 1472968115 Го 0 to-read 4.07 The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement
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]]> Anna Karenina 12125008 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853262715.]]> 813 Leo Tolstoy Го 4 4.07 1878 Anna Karenina
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]]> Taste: My Life Through Food 55360284
Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the recipes and into the stories behind them.

Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about growing up in Westchester, New York, preparing for and filming the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia, falling in love over dinner, and teaming up with his wife to create conversation-starting meals for their children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burnt dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last.

Written with Stanley's signature wry humour and nostalgia, Taste is a heartwarming read that will be irresistible for anyone who knows the power of a home-cooked meal.]]> 291 Stanley Tucci 1982168013 Го 0 to-read 4.19 2021 Taste: My Life Through Food
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]]> <![CDATA[Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It]]> 53330118
LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD � “A masterpiece.”—Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit � Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel H. Pink’s Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Winning Selection

One of the best new books of the year—The Washington Post, BBC, USA Today, CNN Underscored, Shape, Behavioral Scientist, PopSugar � Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness starred reviews

Is talking to yourself normal? The truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus—you can do this. But, just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely: I’m going to fail. They’ll all laugh at me. What’s the use?

In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies—from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy—Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk—what he calls “chatter”—can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.

But the good news is that we’re already equipped with the tools we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. These tools are often hidden in plain sight—in the words we use to think about ourselves, the technologies we embrace, the diaries we keep in our drawers, the conversations we have with our loved ones, and the cultures we create in our schools and workplaces.

Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with compelling stories, Chatter gives us the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one we have with ourselves.]]> 272 Ethan Kross 0525575235 Го 0 to-read 3.94 2021 Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
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]]> The Comfort Book 55825273 The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement.

“It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.�

The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.]]> 272 Matt Haig 0143136666 Го 0 to-read 4.07 2021 The Comfort Book
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]]> <![CDATA[Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually]]> 49203394 From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 125k followers on Instagram, comes a hilariously poignant collection of beautifully illustrated short stories that chronicle the ever-evolving perspectives of your twenties on work, therapy, identity, heartbreak, friendship, and more. 

Wielding her trademark balance of artful humor, levity, and heartbreaking introspection, Meichi Ng’s indisputably relatable collection of short stories holds a mirror to our past, present, and future selves.

Featuring a swaddled, gender-neutral, Barely Functional Adult as its protagonist, who says all the things we think but cannot say, this book is equal parts humorous and heartbreaking as it spans a spectrum of topics including imposter syndrome, therapy, friendships, first loves, letting go of exes, and just trying to find your purpose in the world. Prepare to excitedly shove this book in your friend’s face with little decorum as you shout, “THIS IS SO US!�

In this beautiful, four-color collection compiled completely of never-before-seen content, Meichi perfectly captures the best and worst of us in every short story, allowing us to weep with pleasure at our own fallibility. Hilarious, relatable, and heart-wrenchingly honest, Barely Functional Adult will have you laughing and crying in the same breath, and taking solace in the fact that we’re anything but alone in this world]]> 401 Meichi Ng 0062945599 Го 0 to-read 4.17 2020 Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually
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]]> <![CDATA[Broken (In the Best Possible Way)]]> 54305363 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.

With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor―the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball―is present throughout.

A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most.]]> 285 Jenny Lawson 1250077036 Го 0 to-read 4.01 2021 Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
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]]> The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1) 56554626 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong.

Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride� scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two.

That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all.

Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. Vivi and Rhys have to ignore their off the charts chemistry to work together to save the town and find a way to break the break-up curse before it’s too late.]]> 308 Erin Sterling 006302747X Го 0 to-read 3.46 2021 The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1)
author: Erin Sterling
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)]]> 55559887 A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series.

At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year—and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules . . .]]> 388 Naomi Novik 0593128869 Го 0 to-read 4.20 2021 The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)
author: Naomi Novik
name: Го
average rating: 4.20
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]]> Under the Whispering Door 53205888 Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.]]> 376 T.J. Klune 1250217342 Го 0 to-read 4.11 2021 Under the Whispering Door
author: T.J. Klune
name: Го
average rating: 4.11
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]]> The Personal Librarian 55333938 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780593101537.

The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection.

But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.]]> 341 Marie Benedict Го 0 to-read 3.98 2021 The Personal Librarian
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]]> The Dictionary of Lost Words 54814839 Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word "bondmaid" flutters to the floor. She rescues the slip, and when she learns that the word means slave-girl, she withholds it from the OED and begins to collect words that show women in a more positive light.

As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.

Set during the height of the women's suffrage movement with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Based on actual events and combed from author Pip Williams's experience delving into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary, this highly original novel is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.]]> 376 Pip Williams 0593160193 Го 0 to-read 3.93 2020 The Dictionary of Lost Words
author: Pip Williams
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> The Lost Apothecary 53288434 A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.

Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.
Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.

One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose - selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register.

In present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders� that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate - and not everyone will survive.]]> 301 Sarah Penner 0778311015 Го 0 to-read 3.72 2021 The Lost Apothecary
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average rating: 3.72
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]]> <![CDATA[Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)]]> 54886959 The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one of which might just be killer�.

When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case.

With the cops treating her like she’s the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila’s left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted dachshund, Longganisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block�.]]> 308 Mia P. Manansala 0593201671 Го 0 to-read 3.53 2021 Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)
author: Mia P. Manansala
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average rating: 3.53
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]]> The Reading List 55276648 An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.

Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.

Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.

When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list� hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. ]]> 368 Sara Nisha Adams 0063025280 Го 0 to-read 4.02 2021 The Reading List
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> The Guncle (The Guncle, #1) 54508798
So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules� ready to go, Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a somewhat-stalled career, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting—even if temporary—isn’t solved with treats and jokes, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility, and the realization that, sometimes, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human.]]> 326 Steven Rowley 0525542280 Го 0 to-read 4.09 2021 The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
author: Steven Rowley
name: Го
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)]]> 53310061 What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family?

You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!

When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business�"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers.

But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love—and biggest heartbreak—makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?]]> 299 Jesse Q. Sutanto 0593336739 Го 0 to-read 3.67 2021 Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs]]> 894849 439 I. Welsh 0099483580 Го 4 3.57 2006 The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
author: I. Welsh
name: Го
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dance Dance Dance (The Rat, #4)]]> 19169926 393 Haruki Murakami Го 4 3.91 1988 Dance Dance Dance (The Rat, #4)
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Го
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Лагом - шведският начин да живеем добре]]> 44889981
От тази книга научаваме тайните на шведската философия, наречена лагом, която в същността си означава "нещо съвсем на място", "напълно достатъчно", "точно толкова, колкото е необходимо".

В основата на лагом е стремежът за постигане на хармония с обкръжаващия ни свят, без да ни се налага да променяма себе си или принципите си. Тази концепция е широката идея на шведите за умереност във всичко:

начин на живот и хранене
мода и обзавеждане
опазване на околната среда
рециклиране
пътуване и забавления

Лагом е осъзнатото задоволство на шведите от това, че могат да получат най-доброто от живота, но вземат само онова, от което наистина имат нужда.]]> 184 Göran Everdahl 6197120828 Го 2 3.40 Лагом - шведският начин да живеем добре
author: Göran Everdahl
name: Го
average rating: 3.40
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]]> <![CDATA[Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed]]> 37570546 From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.]]> 415 Lori Gottlieb 1328662055 Го 4 4.36 2019 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
author: Lori Gottlieb
name: Го
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Сису: финландският начин за постигане на щастие, хармония, жизненост и благополучие]]> 42632843 „Сис� е комбинация от предизвикателна дързост, безстрашие и издръжливост � способността да продължиш да се бориш, когато повечето хора биха се предали, и да се сражаваш с твърда воля за победа. Финландците превеждат сису като „финландск� дух�, но думата съдържа много повече от това.�
Всекидневна смелост, твърдост, упоритост, ментална сила, психическа устойчивост... Всички тези качества са част от характера на хората, изградили сису манталитет. Но по-важото е, че веднъж развит, този дух води до ново отношение към света. Отношение, според което, независимо колко са големи предизвикателствата, човек успява да ги преодолее, отваря се към нови преживявания и не се притеснява да излезе от ограничената си зона на комфорт.
Веднага след премиерата през пролетта на 2018 година книгата на канадската журналистка Катя Панцар става бестселър и се подготвя за издаване в повече от 20 държави. Българските читатели са сред първите, които имат възможността да я прочетат на родния си език.]]> 214 Katja Pantzar Го 4 3.69 2018 Сису: финландският начин за постигане на щастие, хармония, жизненост и благополучие
author: Katja Pantzar
name: Го
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats]]> 25769447
Enjoy the show!

With all your favourite cats, starring ...
Macavity, the Mystery Cat
Mr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring Cat
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
and many more!]]> 128 T.S. Eliot 0571323448 Го 5 4.05 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
author: T.S. Eliot
name: Го
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1939
rating: 5
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]]> Оцелелият 18709301 Романът, който затвърждава култовия статут на Паланюк

Проба, проба. Едно, две, три.
Проба, проба. Едно, две, три.
Сигурно работи. Не знам. Ще ме чуете ли някога? Не знам.
Но ако ме чувате, слушайте...

Тендър Брансън е единственият пасажер на Полет 2039. По план самолетът трябва да се разбие след няколко часа... Не, това не е грешка. Не е повреда. Не е терористична атака.

Целта не е разруха, страх и паника. Целта е истината.

Тендър Брансън е взел за заложник неразрушимата „черна� кутия на самолета. И докато той лети към смъртта, тя ще запише всяка негова дума и историята на живота му ще оцелее...

Вечният бунтар Чък Паланюк отказва да следва правилата и започва романа си отзад напред. Най-големият екпериментатор в съвременната литература повежда читателя от „първата� 47-ма глава до самото начало, за да ни разкаже историята на Тендър � последния оцелял член на своята секта, домашен прислужник, медийна звезда, а може би убиец.

От появата на „Майк� нощ”о� Кърт Вонегът не е създавана толкова смущаваща и поразителна сатира за цената на славата и дълбоко вкоренената лудост на света, в който живеем. Безпощадно рязък, саркастичен и язвителен към пороците на съвременното общество, „Оцелелият� е романът, който затвърждава култовия статут на Паланюк.]]> 244 Chuck Palahniuk 9543891842 Го 4 4.05 1999 Оцелелият
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Го
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> Wow, No Thank You.: Essays 49960031
Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. This is the bourgeois life of dreams. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "skinny, luminous peoples" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees," and hides Entenmann's cookies under her bed and unopened bills under her pillow.

Into the gross --
Girls gone mild --
Hung up! --
Late-1900s time capsule --
Love and marriage --
Are you familiar with my work? --
Hysterical! --
Lesbian bed death --
Body negativity --
Country crock --
A guide to simple home repairs --
We almost got a fucking dog --
Detachment parenting --
Season 1, episode 1 --
Hollywood summer --
$$$ --
Hello, 911? --
An extremely specific guide to publishing a book]]> 319 Samantha Irby 0525563482 Го 1 3.81 2020 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
author: Samantha Irby
name: Го
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2020
rating: 1
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Right from the start this reminded me of being a teen and watching Sex and the City, but without the plot, the humor, and the witty eloquence. I lasted until the middle of the fifth essay (and I frankly only skimmed through the fourth) before I couldn't take it any longer, closed it, and stared at my thoughts written on the cover: wow, no thank you.
]]> Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels 27430373 Haruki Murakami’s first two novels, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.


'If you’re the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o’clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly.

That’s who I am.'

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J’s Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers.

Three years later, in Pinball, 1973, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the Rat has remained behind, despite his efforts to leave both the town and his girlfriend. The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also, more bizarrely, by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J’s Bar. This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.]]> 336 Haruki Murakami Го 3 3.47 1980 Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Го
average rating: 3.47
book published: 1980
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You]]> 15799936 How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You is an offering of cat comics, facts, and instructional guides from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com.

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You presents fan favorites, such as "Cat vs. Internet," "How to Pet a Kitty," and "The Bobcats," plus 17 brand-new, never-before-seen cat jokes. A pullout poster is included at the back of the book.]]> 131 Matthew Inman 1449410243 Го 4 3.90 2012 How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
author: Matthew Inman
name: Го
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> Селцето (Доктор Павлиш, #7) 16166127 Първоначалната идея, преди Кир Буличов да я доразвие в роман, се появява в повестта със заглавие „Проходът�, публикувана на български в сборника „Среща с медуза� през 1983 г.]]> 336 Kir Bulychev Го 2 4.11 1988 Селцето (Доктор Павлиш, #7)
author: Kir Bulychev
name: Го
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1988
rating: 2
read at: 2016/09/25
date added: 2021/03/30
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]]> Малък наръчник по люка 39345484
В този наръчник Майк Викинг ни повежда на пътешествие в търсене на тези ключове. Любопитните идеи и практики от всички краища на планетата � от Япония и Австралия до Холандия и Великобритания, ни предоставят лесноприложими идеи как да намерим повече хармония и смисъл в ежедневието си.

В „Малъ� наръчник по люка� ще намерите интересна информация и полезни съвети: как да се сближите със съседите и вземате дейно участие в местната общност; как да се забавлявате напълно безплатно; как да повишите щастието си в ежедневието; как да помагате на останалите да са щастливи.

Независимо дали ще се включите в благотворителна инициатива, или ще сторите спонтанен акт на добрина, тази книга ще ви подтикне да внесете повече люка не само в своя живот, но и в живота на другите.]]> 288 Meik Wiking 9542618034 Го 4 4.06 2017 Малък наръчник по люка
author: Meik Wiking
name: Го
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2021/03/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death]]> 43785830
In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five questions. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying, whether you can preserve your best friend’s skull as a keepsake, and what happens when you die on a plane. Beautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it.]]> 200 Caitlin Doughty 039365270X Го 4 4.13 2019 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
author: Caitlin Doughty
name: Го
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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It took me some time to figure out this is a children's book. Anyways, it was both fun and educational, and understandably slightly gross at times.
]]> 1Q84 15772884 Alternate cover edition here.

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that.

But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.

In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both.

Something extraordinary is starting.]]> 1318 Haruki Murakami 0099578077 Го 5 3.91 2009 1Q84
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Го
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> Малък наръчник по хюга 34218533
Датчаните оглавяват повечето класации за най-щастливите хора в света. Една от причините за това е хюга.

Хюга се нарича всичко � от „изкуствот� да създаваш атмосфера на интимност�, „комфорт за душата� и „липсат� на дразнители� до „д� изпитваш удоволствие от наличието на успокояващи неща�, „споделен� моменти на уют� и „д� пиеш какао на светлината на свещи�.

В моментите на хюга ни изпълва спокойствие и сигурност и можем да бъдем себе си. Усещаме хюга, когато се сгушим на дивана с любимия човек, когато споделяме вкусна храна с най-близките си приятели или просто когато в ясното утро през прозореца струи идеалната светлина.

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Майк Викинг е най-подходящият наставник по хюга не само защото е датчанин, а и защото е изпълнителен директор на Института за изследване на щастието в Копенхаген. След години проучване на причините за личната удовлетвореност от живота той разкрива разковничето за щастлив живот на датчаните.]]> 288 Meik Wiking 9542616791 Го 4 4.01 2016 Малък наръчник по хюга
author: Meik Wiking
name: Го
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> Frankenstein 21270506 207 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1847493505 Го 5 3.84 1818 Frankenstein
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: Го
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1818
rating: 5
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Up until now I believed there were classics that were hard to read and classics that were harder to read. I found this one to be rather easy, which made it so much more enjoyable :)
]]> Moby Dick 7845 544 Herman Melville 0140620621 Го 3 3.46 1851 Moby Dick
author: Herman Melville
name: Го
average rating: 3.46
book published: 1851
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art]]> 48890486
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.]]> 280 James Nestor 0735213615 Го 5 4.13 2020 Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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average rating: 4.13
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Calling this a scientific book is a bit of a stretch. That said, I believe that if more people were to read it and adopt at least some of the breathing techniques/exercises described we would all be better off.
]]> Such a Fun Age 43923951 Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.

But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.

With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone family, and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.]]> 310 Kiley Reid 052554190X Го 0 to-read 3.76 2019 Such a Fun Age
author: Kiley Reid
name: Го
average rating: 3.76
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]]> The World Doesn't Require You 41817522

Among its residents—wildly spanning decades, perspectives, and species—are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God’s last son; Tyrone, a ruthless PhD candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga; and Jim, an all-too-obedient robot who serves his Master. As the book builds to its finish with Special Topics in Loneliness Studies, a fully-realized novella, two unhinged professors grapple with hugely different ambitions, and the reader comes to appreciate the intricacy of the world Scott has created—one where fantasy and reality are eternally at war.]]> 304 Rion Amilcar Scott 1631495380 Го 0 to-read 3.64 2019 The World Doesn't Require You
author: Rion Amilcar Scott
name: Го
average rating: 3.64
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]]> Recursion 42046112 Memory makes reality.

That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.

But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?

At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.]]> 326 Blake Crouch 1524759783 Го 0 to-read 4.15 2019 Recursion
author: Blake Crouch
name: Го
average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future]]> 53916142 See the world. Then make it better.

I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.

As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.

I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake - and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right.

We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited.

All we need is the will to do so.]]> 272 David Attenborough 1538719983 Го 0 to-read 4.51 2020 A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
author: David Attenborough
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average rating: 4.51
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: кратка история на човечеството]]> 33132518 384 Yuval Noah Harari 6191529503 Го 4 4.38 2011 Sapiens: кратка история на човечеството
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Го
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect]]> 41081358 'Wonderful ... Illuminating ... Fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world

'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we can think better.]]> 418 Judea Pearl 0141982411 Го 4 3.94 2018 The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
author: Judea Pearl
name: Го
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Това е Нидерландия, или защо лалетата са различни]]> 48651557
След случайна среща Бен Коутс оставя живота си в Лондон и се мести в Нидерландия. Там научава езика, работи за местна фирма и се жени за нидерландка. Авторът успява да разкрие на читателите сърцето на страната, като излиза извън обичайните туристически атракции и клишета. От любовта към млечните продукти и бирата, през отношението към природата и известната нидерландска толерантност до това как успяват да са по-богати от почти всички останали, въпреки че работят далеч по-малко.

Пътепис, история и личен разказ за една непрестанно променяща се страна.

Бен Коутс е роден в Англия. Работил е като политически съветник и журналист. В момента живее в къща в провинция в Нидерландия заедно със семейството си. Книгата "Това е Нидерландия или защо лалетата са различни" е разказ за един англичанин, който се превръща в нидерландец и това му харесва.]]> 390 Ben Coates 9543895562 Го 4 3.55 2015 Това е Нидерландия, или защо лалетата са различни
author: Ben Coates
name: Го
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2015
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Леко, забавно и добре подплатено с история въведение в нидерландската култура.
]]> Computer Networks 25063385 962 Andrew S. Tanenbaum Го 5 4.71 1981 Computer Networks
author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
name: Го
average rating: 4.71
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Principles of Logic and Logic Programming (Volume 13) (Studies in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 13)]]> 4032384 328 G. Metakides 0444816445 Го 4 4.00 1996 Principles of Logic and Logic Programming (Volume 13) (Studies in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 13)
author: G. Metakides
name: Го
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2019/07/31
date added: 2019/08/14
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]]> Атлас на щастието 44588279
Оптимизмът не е лекомислие � той е необходимост!

От Австралия до Уелс, през Бразилия, Финландия, Тайланд, Япония, Холандия, Русия и много други държави, "Атлас на щастието" разкрива тайните на щастието и как те могат да променят нашия живот.

Събрани са разбиранията за добър и пълноценен живот както в страни, които са в челната десетка на проучванията за индекса на щастие, така и в страни, които не попадат там. Да се запознаем с тях ще ни помогне да открием безброй нови начини да сме щастливи.

Настоящите страници без капка срам славят най-хубавите моменти от културата на всяка включена държава, както и най-изтънчените черти на националния й характер.

Така че ето 33 причини да сте щастливи � вдъхновения, които ще ви изпълнят с надежда. Някои от концепциите са в противоречие с други, точно както традициите на някои страни са диаметрално противоположни на обичаите на съседите им. Но всичко това е в реда на нещата � всички сме различни. Вземете това, което би ви било полезно.]]> 288 Helen Russell 9543895171 Го 5 3.91 2018 Атлас на щастието
author: Helen Russell
name: Го
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 11275
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.]]> 607 Haruki Murakami 0965341984 Го 5 4.16 1994 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Го
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo]]> 39319227
A runaway hit that hopped to the top of the charts nationwide! As John Oliver explained on the Ellen DeGeneres talk show, this book’s gay Marlon Bundo gets married to his bunny boyfriend “because that’s the world we want to live in.”]]> 35 Jill Twiss 1452173966 Го 5 4.60 2018 A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
author: Jill Twiss
name: Го
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 4615 299 Jane Austen 0140620222 Го 5 4.30 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: Го
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1813
rating: 5
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]]> Легенда за първия кукер 33303465
Прочетете цялата легенда, за да разберете как се е появил първият кукер, защо злите духове се плашат от кукерската магия и кой защитава градовете в света на „Златнат� ябълка�.]]> 64 Студио „Змей� 9542719450 Го 5 4.70 2016 Легенда за първия кукер
author: Студио „Змей�
name: Го
average rating: 4.70
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2016/12/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)]]> 29056083
It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is the complete and official playscript of the original, award-winning West End production. This updated edition includes the final dialogue and stage directions, a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, the Potter family tree, and a timeline of events in the wizarding world leading up to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."]]> 343 J.K. Rowling 0540027340 Го 0 to-read 3.42 2016 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Го
average rating: 3.42
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (Texts in Computer Science)]]> 9494221 More than just a source of “recipes,� this exceptionally authoritative and comprehensive textbook/reference also takes a scientific approach to basic vision problems, formulating physical models of the imaging process before inverting them to produce descriptions of a scene. These problems are also analyzed using statistical models and solved using rigorous engineering techniques. Topics and structured to support active curricula and project-oriented courses, with tips in the Introduction for using the book in a variety of customized courses; presents exercises at the end of each chapter with a heavy emphasis on testing algorithms and containing numerous suggestions for small mid-term projects; provides additional material and more detailed mathematical topics in the Appendices, which cover linear algebra, numerical techniques, and Bayesian estimation theory; suggests additional reading at the end of each chapter, including the latest research in each sub-field, in addition to a full Bibliography at the end of the book; supplies supplementary course material for students at the associated website, Suitable for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in computer science or engineering, this textbook focuses on basic techniques that work under real-world conditions and encourages students to push their creative boundaries. Its design and exposition also make it eminently suitable as a unique reference to the fundamental techniques and current research literature in computer vision.]]> 832 Richard Szeliski 1848829345 Го 3 4.21 2010 Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (Texts in Computer Science)
author: Richard Szeliski
name: Го
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2016/03/19
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]]> <![CDATA[An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems]]> 8534039 488 Michael Wooldridge 0470519460 Го 2 3.57 2002 An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems
author: Michael Wooldridge
name: Го
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2002
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition]]> 908047
- UNIFIED AND COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE FIELD
Covers the fundamental algorithms of each field, whether proposed for spoken or written language, whether logical or statistical in origin.
- EMPHASIS ON WEB AND OTHER PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
Gives readers an understanding of how language-related algorithms can be applied to important real-world problems.
- EMPHASIS ON SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION
Offers a description of how systems are evaluated with each problem domain.
- EMPERICIST/STATISTICAL/MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Covers all the new statistical approaches, while still completely covering the earlier more structured and rule-based methods.]]> 934 Dan Jurafsky 0130950696 Го 4 4.28 2000 Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition
author: Dan Jurafsky
name: Го
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Computational Intelligence: A Methodological Introduction]]> 18265340 504 Rudolf Kruse 1447150147 Го 3 3.00 2011 Computational Intelligence: A Methodological Introduction
author: Rudolf Kruse
name: Го
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> Divergent (Divergent, #1) 13335037
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.]]> 487 Veronica Roth 0062024035 Го 4 4.13 2011 Divergent (Divergent, #1)
author: Veronica Roth
name: Го
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2015/11/01
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]]> <![CDATA[Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)]]> 55881 738 Christopher M. Bishop 0387310738 Го 4 4.32 Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
author: Christopher M. Bishop
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Reader Collection Volume 1: Hikoichi]]> 11329397 While beginners to Japanese can get a lot from this, hiragana knowledge is required. Finally, we invite the reader to contact us with questions or requests for future Japanese readers. You will find our personal email addresses in the book. To your Japanese!]]> 247 Clay Boutwell Го 0 3.95 2010 Japanese Reader Collection Volume 1: Hikoichi
author: Clay Boutwell
name: Го
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Го 5 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Го
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World]]> 10374 Lord Jim.

Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.]]> 400 Haruki Murakami Го 4 4.14 1985 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Го
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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A very good book, although I was expecting more from Murakami.
]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]> 24580
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors.

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn—liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. As Ernest Hemingway said of this glorious novel, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.�
--back cover]]> 520 Mark Twain 0451528646 Го 3 4.10 1884 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
author: Mark Twain
name: Го
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1884
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]]> Chehov Plays 12398630 The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.

Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates Chekhov's entire theatrical canon, rescuing the humor "lost" in most academic translations while respecting the historical context and original social climate.

Schmidt's translations of Chekhov have been successfully staged all over the U.S. by such theatrical directors as Lee Strasberg, Elizabeth Swados, Peter Sellars and Robert Wilson. Critics have hailed these translations as making Chekhov fully accessible to American audiences. They are also accurate -- Schmidt has been described as "the gold standard in Russian-English translation" by Michael Holquist of the Russian department at Yale University.]]> 453 Anton Chekhov Го 0 to-read 4.39 1905 Chehov Plays
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Го
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1905
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]]> Is God a Mathematician? 3095024
Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics� in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that—mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true. Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? If, as Einstein insisted, mathematics is “a product of human thought that is independent of experience,� how can it so accurately describe and even predict the world around us?

Physicist and author Mario Livio brilliantly explores mathematical ideas from Pythagoras to the present day as he shows us how intriguing questions and ingenious answers have led to ever deeper insights into our world. This fascinating book will interest anyone curious about the human mind, the scientific world, and the relationship between them.]]> 320 Mario Livio 074329405X Го 4 3.80 2009 Is God a Mathematician?
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It was a bit more popular than I expected it to be but it was still good.
]]> Kafka on the Shore 818109 Alternate cover edition here.

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.]]> 505 Haruki Murakami 0099458322 Го 5 4.09 2002 Kafka on the Shore
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average rating: 4.09
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There are turns and twists in the plot every 5 pages. I'm almost halfway through the book and still have no idea how it's going to finish (which is a new sensation for me). Murakami just entered my top 5 of authors :)
]]> <![CDATA[Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)]]> 7480479
Thorough updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including new material on Data Transformations, Ensemble Learning, Massive Data Sets, Multi-instance Learning, plus a new version of the popular Weka machine learning software developed by the authors. Witten, Frank, and Hall include both tried-and-true techniques of today as well as methods at the leading edge of contemporary research.
*Provides a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying the tools and techniques to your data mining projects *Offers concrete tips and techniques for performance improvement that work by transforming the input or output in machine learning methods *Includes downloadable Weka software toolkit, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks-in an updated, interactive interface. Algorithms in toolkit cover: data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, visualization]]> 664 Ian H. Witten 0123748569 Го 4 3.87 1999 Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
author: Ian H. Witten
name: Го
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Programming Language Pragmatics]]> 6693716 944 Michael L. Scott 0123745144 Го 4 3.89 1997 Programming Language Pragmatics
author: Michael L. Scott
name: Го
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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date added: 2012/11/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, International Edition (3rd Edition)]]> 634811 848 James F. Kurose 0321269764 Го 4 3.85 2000 Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, International Edition (3rd Edition)
author: James F. Kurose
name: Го
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> Вероятности и Статистика 13572052 383 Боян Димитров Го 3 2.50 2007 Вероятности и Статистика
author: Боян Димитров
name: Го
average rating: 2.50
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2012/07/10
date added: 2012/07/11
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]]> Теория на програмите 13572035 240 Иван Сосков 9540709040 Го 5 5.00 1998 Теория на програмите
author: Иван Сосков
name: Го
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> Софтуерни технологии 13572046 Първият у нас курс по софтуерни технологии беше подготвен и четен от Аврам Ескенази и Владимир Занев в продължение на три години, започвайки от 1984/85 учебна година, за студентите от IV и V курс на Факултета по математика и информатика на Софийския университет. От 1987/88 учебна година след известна преработка той стана задължителен за студентите в това учебно заведение и в четенето на лекциите и упражненията се включиха Нели Манева и Валя Петрова. С известни модификации този курс продължава и до днес да се чете там. Междувременно най-напред в Икономическия университет - Варна (с лектор Георги Зеленков), а по-късно в Пловдивския университет, International University, Нов български университет и на други места започнаха и продължават лекции по този предмет, макар и невинаги под същото име, а понякога и в рамките на повече от един курс.
Невъзможно е една книга да обхване целия предмет, още по-малко възможно е той да се прочете в рамките на един курс. Като пример ще посочим, че в някои университети в САЩ (Тексаския университет, университета в Сиатъл и др.) обучението по софтуерни технологии продължава две години в рамките на 6-8 задължителни и още толкова избираеми курса, практикум и 2-3 курсови проекта. Съответна на тази констатация е и целта на авторите - макар да е предназначена да бъде учебник за студентите по предмета „Софтуерни технологии", настоящата книга би могла да бъде за тях и за всички практикуващи софтуерни специалисти и ръководители въведение в основополагащите направления на тази изключително динамична и с нарастващо за практиката значение дисциплина.]]> 335 Аврам Ескенази 954821203X Го 1 2.14 2006 Софтуерни технологии
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name: Го
average rating: 2.14
book published: 2006
rating: 1
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]]> Циклични кодове 14744159 60 Евгения Великова-Бандова 9541600204 Го 5 4.00 2001 Циклични кодове
author: Евгения Великова-Бандова
name: Го
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> Английският съсед 4013164 Те не искат да печелят от земята си, а от тотото.
Затова доматите им са турски, морковите � македонски, а ракията � шотландска... Шотландската ракия се сервира в местния бар „Лондон�, където редовен посетител е българинът Нотингам Форест...

...Един хубав ден в Плодородно пристига истински англичанин, който си купува къща. След къщата купува и трактор, за да разоре буренясалите парцели. Докато той бръмчи с трактора си, в главите на съселяните му бръмчат други идеи... Как става така, че след време поданикът на Кралицата си сгъва шапка от вестник „Гардиън�, почва да ругае английския парламент и се изказва против монархията?

Всичко това - в романа "Английският съсед" от Михаил Вешим. Една нашенска история, която се чете на един дъх и с усмивка. Не вулгарен роман, а просто смешен. Авторът декларира, че читател, който си купи книгата и не се засмее, ще получи парите си обратно в двоен размер.]]> 196 Mikhail Veshim 9542801904 Го 3 3.80 2008 Английският съсед
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> Двоични Шумозащитни Кодове 13572020 72 Евгения Великова-Бандова 9541600301 Го 3 3.00 2004 Двоични Шумозащитни Кодове
author: Евгения Великова-Бандова
name: Го
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> A Wild Sheep Chase 818111 Alternate cover edition here.

His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist.
~from the back cover]]> 299 Haruki Murakami 0099448777 Го 3 3.89 1982 A Wild Sheep Chase
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average rating: 3.89
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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]]> Lullaby 22206 Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.]]> 260 Chuck Palahniuk 0099437961 Го 5 3.76 2002 Lullaby
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Го
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)]]> 77270
Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling's fables remain as popular today as they ever were.]]> 277 Rudyard Kipling 0812504690 Го 4 3.94 1894 The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> Нашингтон 9865508
Героите от новия роман „Нашингтон� на Михаил Вешим по нещо напомнят на ония симпатяги от „Английкия� съсед�. Може дори да са им роднини по пряка или съребрена линия. Но вече не са жители на българското Плодородно, а на плодородна Калифорния. Там някъде се намира и Нашингтон, за който се разказва в романа.]]> 184 Михаил Вешим Го 0 to-read 3.78 2010 Нашингтон
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> Tartuffe 52823

Condemned and banned for five years in ѴDZè’s day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe worms his way into Orgon’s household, blinding the master of the house with his religious "devotion," and almost succeeds in his attempts to seduce his wife and disinherit his children before the final unmasking.

]]> 180 ѴDZè 1854596373 Го 4 3.68 1664 Tartuffe
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name: Го
average rating: 3.68
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rating: 4
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]]> Патиланско царство 7553171 96 Ran Bosilek Го 5 4.42 1927 Патиланско царство
author: Ran Bosilek
name: Го
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1927
rating: 5
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]]> Karlsson on the Roof 42318 128 Astrid Lindgren 0749710373 Го 4 4.14 1955 Karlsson on the Roof
author: Astrid Lindgren
name: Го
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> The Complete Fairy Tales 46306
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories - called eventyrs, or "fantastic tales" - express themes that transcend age and nationality.

During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide and was feted by royalty. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature listeners/readers as well. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.]]> 803 Hans Christian Andersen 0517092913 Го 4 4.29 1850 The Complete Fairy Tales
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name: Го
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1850
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Епопея на забравените и избрани стихотворения]]> 3310286 142 Ivan Vazov 9548241102 Го 3 4.27 1884 Епопея на забравените и избрани стихотворения
author: Ivan Vazov
name: Го
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1884
rating: 3
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]]> Митология на прехода 6559900 302 Alek Popov 9547397672 Го 5 3.44 2006 Митология на прехода
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name: Го
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> The Iliad / The Odyssey 1375
If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.

Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.]]> 1556 Homer 0147712556 Го 3 4.06 -800 The Iliad / The Odyssey
author: Homer
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average rating: 4.06
book published: -800
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]]> <![CDATA[Antigone - Oedipus the King - Electra]]> 1549 178 Sophocles 0192835882 Го 4 3.95 -429 Antigone - Oedipus the King - Electra
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average rating: 3.95
book published: -429
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]]> The Arabian Nights 93101
The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature, as recounted by Sir Francis Burton. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and the social criticism of "The Tale of the Hunchback", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam.']]> 1049 Anonymous 0812972147 Го 4 4.06 800 The Arabian Nights
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name: Го
average rating: 4.06
book published: 800
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]]> Маминото детенце 6184003 Веселина Димитрова]]> 88 Любен Каравелов 9545272430 Го 2 3.55 1869 Маминото детенце
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average rating: 3.55
book published: 1869
rating: 2
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]]> Ян Бибиян 5525957
"Който и да си ти, драги читателю" - пише Елин Пелин, - "от тази книга ще научиш как Ян Бибиян се сдружи с малкото дяволче Фют, как то замени главата му с глинена, как след това попадна във вълшебното царство на Великия магьосник Мирилайлай и как след чудни и смели приключения се спаси. Неговите страдания и борбата му да се освободи от злото облагородиха душата му, калиха волята му, направиха го смел и предприемчив. Така той се качи на Луната и можа да постигне мечтата, която от векове е движила непримирими учени с буйна фантазия."

"Ян Бибиян" (1933) и „Я� Бибиян на Луната"(1934)са най-популярните български детски романи. "Ян Бибиян" е филмиран през 1985г.]]> 197 Elin Pelin 9542603185 Го 4 4.05 1933 Ян Бибиян
author: Elin Pelin
name: Го
average rating: 4.05
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales]]> 22917 880 Jacob Grimm Го 4 4.30 1812 The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
author: Jacob Grimm
name: Го
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1812
rating: 4
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