en-US Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:32:25 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 61149872 1) Treat all prisoners with respect.
2) Never reveal any personal information.
3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates.

But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates. And they certainly don't know that Shane was Brooke's high school sweetheart―the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke's testimony was what put him there.

But Shane knows. And he will never forget.]]> 388 Freida McFadden رضا 5 4.03 2022
author: Freida McFadden
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> 52158690 526 Elif Shafak 622665211X رضا 0 3.92 2013
author: Elif Shafak
name: رضا
average rating: 3.92
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]]> 59654510 267 Mary Roach 6226652462 رضا 5 4.00 2003
author: Mary Roach
name: رضا
average rating: 4.00
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]]> 56167875 مرکز مطالعات و امور رسانۀ قحطانی حکم اتاق فرمان مأموریت‌ها�� مخفی را داشت. مأموران امنیتی‌ا�� که قرار بود این عملیات را به انجام برسانند به گروه مداخلۀ سریع سعودی معروف بودند. فرماندهشان مأمور امنیتی و مأمور سابق اطلاعات کشور بود که خاشقچی از زمان لندن می‌شناخت�� ــ ماهر مطرب که همان چند ماه قبل در تور چندهفته‌ا�� سفر محمد به امریکا در عکس‌ه�� کنارش حضور داشت. ماهر گروهی از مأموران امنیتی و کلنل صلاح محمد الطُبیقی را با خود برد. طبیقی پزشکی بود که در وزارت کشور کار می‌کر�� و همچنین مدیریت شورای علمی پزشکی قانونی ریاض را بر عهده داشت. حضور طبیقی نشانگر این موضوع است که قتل خاشقچی از همان ابتدا در دستور کار قرار داشت. مطابق با اطلاعات شنود دولت ترکیه از داخل بنای کنسولگری، او حین آنکه بااضطراب انتظار خاشقچی را می‌کشی�� برای افراد توضیح می‌دا�� که چطور حین گوش دادن به موسیقی و نوشیدن قهوه اجساد را کالبدشکافی می‌کن��

کتاب جنجالی «خون و نفت» از رازهای پیچیده‌تری�� خاندان سلطنتی جهان پرده برمی‌دار�� و چگونگی ظهور چهره‌ا�� مرموز و بی‌رح�� به نام محمد بن سلمان را به تصویر می‌کش��. با قدرت گرفتن روزافزون بن سلمان و جاه‌طلبی‌ها�� بی‌پایا�� او، چه آینده‌ا�� در انتظار عربستان، منطقه و جهان خواهد بود؟
نویسندگان این کتاب دو روزنامه‌نگا�� نامدار و افشاگرند که دریافت جایزۀ وال ‌استری�� ژورنال را در کارنامه دارند]]> 400 Bradley Hope 6226652780 رضا 0 3.83 2020
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> 16256798 The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity.]]> 240 Gary Keller 1885167776 رضا 5 4.11 2012
author: Gary Keller
name: رضا
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 5
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]]> 10695150 223 Robin Sharma 0007321112 رضا 5 4.00
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> 44172328 ��
دنيل فلچر يک جاعل حرفه‌ا�� (با هويت جعلی)، مبتلا به اختلال روانی، و معتاد به الکل و مواد مخدر است که به دلیل سردردهای دوره‌ا�� جانفرسا و استفاده از داروی مسکن دچار اوردُز و راهی�� بيمارستان شده است��. آنجا پس از ارزیابی�� يک دکتر روان‌شنا�� مشخص می‌شو�� اوردُز تصادفی بوده يا اقدام به خودکشی. اين موضوع او را در شرايطی وخيم قرار می‌دهد�� زیرا چنانچه�� تشخیص پزشک�� اقدام به خودکشی باشد، دنيل سر از بيمارستان روانی درمی‌آور�� و از سوی ديگر اگر هويت جعلی‌ا�� فاش شود، راهی زندان می‌شو��. او که هيچ گزينه‌‌ا�� جز فريب دادن روانکاو مقابلش نمی‌بیند�� در همان حين داستان زندگی‌ا�� را برای خواننده بازگو می‌کن��.]]> 286 Craig Clevenger 9644085051 رضا 5 4.24 2002
author: Craig Clevenger
name: رضا
average rating: 4.24
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]]> 38348476
If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.

When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.

With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny--it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future.

This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best.]]> 272 David Sedaris 0316392359 رضا 5 4.11 2018
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name: رضا
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 5
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]]> 15749186
But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh.

As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.]]> 355 Jenny Han 1442426713 رضا 5 4.04 2014
author: Jenny Han
name: رضا
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 5
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]]> 34810320 A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial-like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about.

Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.

But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.

When West McCray―a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America―overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.

Courtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career. Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page.]]> 308 Courtney Summers 1250105714 رضا 5 4.04 2018
author: Courtney Summers
name: رضا
average rating: 4.04
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]]> 349090
Nominated for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2008.

When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk!

After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturn's moons, wearing a lady's pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of "Emily Berkenstein."

Joining the Space Corps seemed a good idea. Red Dwarf, a clapped out spaceship, was bound for Earth. It never made it, leaving Lister as the last remaining member of the human race, three million light years from Earth, with only a dead man, a senile computer, and a highly evolved cat for company.

They begin their journey home. On the way, they'll break the light barrier. They'll meet Einstein, Archimedes, God, and Norman Wisdom...and discover an alternative plane of reality.]]> 298 Grant Naylor 0451452011 رضا 5 4.08 1989
author: Grant Naylor
name: رضا
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 5
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]]> 35396595
Your father is a liar. But is he a killer?
Even liars tell the truth... sometimes.

Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she's never been able to banish these ghosts. When she's called to the scene of a murder in Islington, not far from the pub her estranged father still runs, she discovers that Alice Lapaine, a young housewife who didn't get out much, has been found strangled.

Cat and her team immediately suspect Alice's husband, until she receives a mysterious phone call that links the victim to Maryanne Doyle, a teenage girl who went missing in Ireland eighteen years earlier. The call raises uneasy memories for Cat--her family met Maryanne while on holiday, right before she vanished. Though she was only a child, Cat knew that her charming but dissolute father wasn't telling the truth when he denied knowing anything about Maryanne or her disappearance. Did her father do something to the teenage girl all those years ago? Could he have harmed Alice now? And how can you trust a liar even if he might be telling the truth?

Determined to close the two cases, Cat rushes headlong into the investigation, crossing ethical lines and trampling professional codes. But in looking into the past, she might not like what she finds...]]> 368 Caz Frear 0062823280 رضا 5 3.63 2017
author: Caz Frear
name: رضا
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> 42299613
۳۰ سال بعد، ادی تصور می‌کن�� که گذشته دست از سرش برداشته، تا اینکه پاکت‌نامه‌ا�� روی پادریِ خانه‌ا�� می‌افت��. و داخل پاکت نامه�� تصویری از مرد گچی و یک تکه گچ تحریر.

آیا تاریخ قرار است خود را تکرار کند؟ آیا بازی همان ۳۰ سال قبل واقعاً تمام شده بوده؟ آیا این بازی هم قرار است مثل همان بازی سابق پایان بگیرد؟

«اگر کارهای مرا دوست دارید، از مرد گچی هم خوشتان خواهد آمد.»
استیفن کینگ

«این کتاب باید خوانده شود.»
دیلی اکسپرس]]> 402 C.J. Tudor 9642878801 رضا 5 3.86 2018
author: C.J. Tudor
name: رضا
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> 34497 228 Terry Pratchett 0060855924 رضا 5 4.04 1983
author: Terry Pratchett
name: رضا
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> 34189313
Using the science of habits, riveting stories and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, art and business, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a “push moment.�� Then, she’ll give you one simple tool you can use to become your greatest self.

It takes just five seconds to use this tool, and every time you do you’ll be in great company. More than 8 million people have watched Mel’s TEDx Talk, and executives inside of the world’s largest brands are using the tool to increase productivity, collaboration, and engagement.

In The 5 Second Rule, you’ll discover it takes just five seconds

- Become confident
- Break the habit of procrastination and self-doubt
- Beat fear and uncertainty
- Stop worrying and feel happier
- Share your ideas with courage

The 5 Second Rule is a simple, one-size-fits-all solution for the one problem we all face—we hold ourselves back.]]> 263 Mel Robbins 1682612392 رضا 5 3.89 2017
author: Mel Robbins
name: رضا
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> 38588429
از متن کتاب:
وقتی مواد می‌زنی�� تنها چیزی که نگرانشی، مواد زدنه. وقتی موادو می‌ذار�� کنار، باید نگران هزار تا چیز دیگه‌�� باشی. پول نداشته باشی، نمی‌تون�� بری بار مشروب بخوری¬؛ پول داشته باشی، اون‌قد�� می‌خور�� تا جونت دربیاد؛ با هیچ دختری آشنا نشی، سرت بی‌کل�� می‌مونه�� با یکی آشنا بشی، زندگی‌ت�� جهنم می‌کن�� و اجازه نداری یه نفس راحت بکشی. یا باید اونو انتخاب کنی یا این‌ک�� گند بزنی تو رابطه و عذاب‌وجدا�� بگیری.]]> 468 Irvine Welsh 9644084748 رضا 5 4.00 1993
author: Irvine Welsh
name: رضا
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> 23288383 166 Billy Moore رضا 5 3.83 2014
author: Billy Moore
name: رضا
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> 1971304
By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.]]> 258 David Benioff 0670018708 رضا 5 4.28 2008
author: David Benioff
name: رضا
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 5
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]]> 200572 My Man Jeeves is sure to please anyone with a taste for pithy buffoonery, moronic misunderstandings, gaffes, and aristocratic slapstick.

Contents:
"Leave It to Jeeves"
"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
"Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg"
"Absent Treatment"
"Helping Freddie"
"Rallying Round Old George"
"Doing Clarence a Bit of Good"
"The Aunt and the Sluggard"

Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.

Revised versions of all the Jeeves stories in this collection were later published in the 1925 short story collection Carry On, Jeeves. One of the Reggie Pepper stories in this collection was later rewritten as a Jeeves story, which was also included in Carry On, Jeeves.]]> 256 P.G. Wodehouse 1585678759 رضا 5 4.07 1919
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: رضا
average rating: 4.07
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]]> 330919
'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train . . .'

In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been something we said'), through his attempts to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitus, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway').

Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese.

'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express

'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times

'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese

'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard

'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry

Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.]]> 142 Spike Milligan 0140035206 رضا 5 4.01 1971
author: Spike Milligan
name: رضا
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 5
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]]> 25089757
Undermajordomo Minor is an ink-black comedy of manners, an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.]]> 352 Patrick deWitt 1770894144 رضا 5 3.74 2015
author: Patrick deWitt
name: رضا
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> 135836 ''The best book ever written by man or woman . . . Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible" ��Rebel Inc

THE BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT INSPIRED DANNY BOYLE’S CULT FILM

Described by The Sunday Times as "the voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent," Trainspotting follows the lives of a group of Scottish junkies. Its bleak depiction of drug addiction is vivid and brutal, and has lost none of its power to shock. Choose the book that outraged the critics. Choose the literary phenomenon that defined a generation. Choose Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.]]> 431 Irvine Welsh 0099465892 رضا 5 4.16 1993
author: Irvine Welsh
name: رضا
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> 82965 231 Patrick McCabe 0385312377 رضا 5 3.85 1992
author: Patrick McCabe
name: رضا
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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نثر عالي و طنز سياه خاص فرهنگ نويسندگان ايرلندي. كساني كه سوابق خوبي از ادبيات ايرلند در ذهن دارند، حتما از خواندن اين كتاب لذت خواهند برد. چنانچه كسي بخواهد از سوارخ كليد، نگاهي به اعماق روح پرسوناژ اصلي اين رمان بيندازد، كافيست طرح روي جلد نسخه‌�� انتشارات پيكادور را چند لحظه‌ا�� تماشا كند
]]> 29059 Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times.

Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved�� by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him.

When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.

His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, renowned author of classics like Fight Club, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.]]> 293 Chuck Palahniuk 0385720920 رضا 5 3.71 2001
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: رضا
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> 157032 داستان در باره‎�� آشنایی پسر مسلمانی به اسم سعید با دختر یهودی به نام اقلیما است که قرار است تحقیق مشترکی در مورد تاثیر زندگی قدیسان در ساخت جوامع داشته باشند. آنها از دو جای متفاوت آغاز می‎کنن�� و به نقطه مشترکی می‎رسن��.داستان با سه روایت مجزا جلو می‎رو��:
۱-روایت سعید و اقلیما که زبان ساده‎ا�� دارد.
۲-روایت شدرک که از متون قدیمی یهودی نوشته شده است.
۳-قصه احمد بشیری که از متون کهن فارسی استفاده شده است و تقریبا پیچیده است.]]> 190 Abutorab Khosravi 964329059X رضا 4 3.84 2001
author: Abutorab Khosravi
name: رضا
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> 84553 Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.

Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature.]]> 249 Walter Mosley 031615931X رضا 5 پيرنگ مرد توي زيرزمين خانه‌ا�� خيلي ساده آغاز مي‌شو��: مردي جلوي در خانه‌ا�� ظاهر شده و مي¬خواهد زيرزمينت را اجاره کند، اما ادامه و پايان آن... فقط¬ مي‌تواني�� بگوييم؛¬ به اين سادگي‌ه�� نيست.
اين رمان، اگرچه ابتدا اثري معمايي به�� نظر مي‌رسد�� اما در مسير داستان، خواننده را در برزخي ميان نثر مختص ژانر معمايي و مجموعه‌ا�� از تمثيل‌ها�� كافكايي سرگردان مي‌كن��.
والتر موزلي در اين اثر، براي نماياندن فرايند سقوط اخلاقيِ راوي، با رويكردي بيرحمانه، نوعي سرگيجه‌�� فكري در خواننده ايجاد مي‌كن��. قلم وي به‌گونه‌ا�� حركت كرده كه هرگونه تلاش ذهني خواننده را در راستاي¬ هم‌درد�� با راوي عقيم بگذارد. در حقيقت، راوي و شخصيت¬ اصلي داستان، دقيقاً به ‌اندازه‌�� هر يك از ابناء بشر، و نه بيشتر، از سوي خواننده حس همدردي دريافت مي‌كن��.
]]> 3.67 2004
author: Walter Mosley
name: رضا
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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بزرگ‌تري�� فريب شيطان، اين بود كه دنيا را متقاعد كرد، فقط يك نسخه از او وجود دارد
پيرنگ مرد توي زيرزمين خانه‌ا�� خيلي ساده آغاز مي‌شو��: مردي جلوي در خانه‌ا�� ظاهر شده و مي¬خواهد زيرزمينت را اجاره کند، اما ادامه و پايان آن... فقط¬ مي‌تواني�� بگوييم؛¬ به اين سادگي‌ه�� نيست.
اين رمان، اگرچه ابتدا اثري معمايي به�� نظر مي‌رسد�� اما در مسير داستان، خواننده را در برزخي ميان نثر مختص ژانر معمايي و مجموعه‌ا�� از تمثيل‌ها�� كافكايي سرگردان مي‌كن��.
والتر موزلي در اين اثر، براي نماياندن فرايند سقوط اخلاقيِ راوي، با رويكردي بيرحمانه، نوعي سرگيجه‌�� فكري در خواننده ايجاد مي‌كن��. قلم وي به‌گونه‌ا�� حركت كرده كه هرگونه تلاش ذهني خواننده را در راستاي¬ هم‌درد�� با راوي عقيم بگذارد. در حقيقت، راوي و شخصيت¬ اصلي داستان، دقيقاً به ‌اندازه‌�� هر يك از ابناء بشر، و نه بيشتر، از سوي خواننده حس همدردي دريافت مي‌كن��.

]]> 824173 Dunk the dead by lightning in a cold water bath for two hours and if still dead, add vinegar and soak for an hour more."

So begins Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s extraordinary first novel, a seductive and thrilling book that captures the heart and imagination, as filled with the magic and mystery of life as it is with its lurking evils and gut-wrenching hardships. The Cure for Death by Lightning sold a staggering 100,000 copies in Canada alone and became a bestseller in Great Britain, later to be published in the United States and Europe. It was nominated for the Giller Prize, the richest fiction prize in Canada, and received a Betty Trask Award in the U.K.

The Cure for Death by Lightning takes place in the poor, isolated farming community of Turtle Valley, British Columbia, in the shadow of the Second World War. The fifteenth summer of Beth Weeks’s life is full of strange happenings: a classmate is mauled to death; children go missing on the nearby reserve; an unseen predator pursues Beth. She is surrounded by unusual characters, including Nora, the sensual half-Native girl whose friendship provides refuge; Filthy Billy, the hired hand with Tourette’s Syndrome; and Nora’s mother, who has a man’s voice and an extra little finger. Then there’s the darkness within her own family: her domineering, shell-shocked father has fits of madness, and her mother frequently talks to the dead. Beth, meanwhile, must wrestle with her newfound sexuality in a harsh world where nylons, perfume and affection have no place. Then, in a violent storm, she is struck by lightning in her arm, and nothing is quite the same again. She decides to explore the dangers of the bush.

Beth is a strong, honest, and compassionate heroine, bringing hope and joy into an environment that is often cruel. The character of Beth’s haunted mother infuses the book with life by means of her scrapbook of recipes scattered throughout, with luscious descriptions of food, gardening, and remedies, both practical and bizarre. Seen through Beth’s eyes, the West Coast landscape is full of beauty and mysteries, with its forests and rivers, and its rich native culture.

The Globe and Mail commented that The Cure for Death by Lightning was "Canadian to the core," with hints of Susannah Moodie and Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Anderson-Dargatz’s vision of rural life has drawn comparisons with William Faulkner and John Steinbeck. A magic realism reminiscent of Latin American literature is also present, as flowers rain from the sky, and men turn into animals. Yet the style of The Cure for Death by Lightning, which the Boston Globe called "Pacific Northwest Gothic," is wholly original. Launched in a year with more than the usual number of excellent first novels (1996 was also the year of Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald and Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels), this book with its assured voice heralds a worthy successor to Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro.]]> 304 Gail Anderson-Dargatz 1860493874 رضا 5 3.71 1996
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average rating: 3.71
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“A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver’s or Jeffrey Eugenides’s voice did when we first heard it."�� The Washington Post

Three brothers tear their way through childhood�� smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful.

"We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful. It resembles no other book I’ve read.”—Michael Cunningham

"A fiery ode to boyhood . . . A welterweight champ of a book."�� NPR, Weekend Edition]]> 128 Justin Torres 0547576722 رضا 5 3.72 2011
author: Justin Torres
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average rating: 3.72
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 رضا 5 4.66 2010
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name: رضا
average rating: 4.66
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 496 John Steinbeck 067001690X رضا 5 4.06 1939
author: John Steinbeck
name: رضا
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1939
rating: 5
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]]> 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X رضا 5 4.34 2003
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: رضا
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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From the author of the #1 best-seller "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories", comes a hilarious thriller that establishes a new genre: Clown Noir. In Top Town, a ghetto full of washed-up circus lifers in the shadow of a big city, Rex Koko is a pariah. Yet this clown's brand of chaos helps him solve the most heinous crimes, as he tries to earn personal redemption.

In "Honk Honk, My Darling", Rex is hired by a haughty trapeze star to bring back his wayward wife. Every time Rex comes close to finding her, however, other aerialists come to gruesome and spectacular ends. Is Addie Carlozo a "black widow"? Is Rex really cursed with bad luck? Why is he being followed by those red-headed roustabout bastards, the Redd Brothers? And will "circus justice" intervene before the police do?

Revenge, corruption and murder headline the bill in Top Town, where life comes 3 balls for a nickel. Babes, bullets, banana peels! As the poet said, "Damn everything, but the circus!"]]> 178 James Finn Garner رضا 5 3.98 2011
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average rating: 3.98
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rating: 5
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]]> 1033974 122 J.P. Donleavy 0140028323 رضا 5 3.48 1966
author: J.P. Donleavy
name: رضا
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1966
rating: 5
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author: J.P. Donleavy
name: رضا
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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اگر شما جزو آن‌دست�� از افراد نيستيد كه معتقدند، «پول الزاماً شادي نمي‌آور��.» خواندن اين كتاب را به شما توصيه مي‌كن��. جي. پي. دانليوي در اين رمان، پرتره‌ا�� از نجيب‌زادگ�� ناشاد را به تصوير مي‌كش�� كه با بسياري از نمونه‌هاي�� كه در زندگي‌ما�� مشاهده كرده‌اي�� هم‌خوان�� دارد. از سوي ديگر، زندگي فارغ از نيازهاي مالي - اما سراسر ناشادي - نجيب‌زادگ�� را از گوشه‌ا�� امن به عنوان خواننده به تماشا نشستن، لذت خاص خود را دارد كه با مطالعه‌�� اين رمان، دست‌يافتني‌س��. جهت ايجاد تعادل، با پرسوناژ اصلي رمان (بالتازار بي)، دانليوي شخصيت نقش مكمل (بيفي) را خلق مي‌كن�� كه با گزيده‌گويي‌ها�� مختص طبقه‌�� نجيب‌زاده‌�� عاطل و باطل، زندگي خاكستري بالتازار بي را رنگ‌آميز�� كرده و به مايه‌ها�� شادتر زينت مي‌بخش��. شخصاً اعتقاد دارم كه «سعادت ددمنشانه‌�� بالتازار بي» به لحاظ طنز تلخ و سياه، با شاهكار ابديِ دانليوي يعني «مرد زنجبيلي» پهلو مي‌زن��
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author: David Gerrold
name: رضا
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 5
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Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.]]> 347 J.P. Donleavy 0802137954 رضا 5 3.65 1955
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average rating: 3.65
book published: 1955
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]]> 1429493 198 John Burnside 0099582716 رضا 5 اين كاخ به نام لال‌خان�� يا گُنگ‌مح�� شهرت يافت.
جان بِرن‌سايد�� نويسنده‌�� اسكاتلندي، به سال 1997 در اولين رُمان خود، امكان تجربه‌�� آزمايش اكبر شاه را در دنياي مدرن به بحث مي‌گذار��. راويِ روان‌پريش�� بي‌نا�� داستان، تحت تأثير افسانه‌�� گنگ‌مح�� و آزمايش اكبر شاه گوركاني كه در كودكي از زبان مادرش شنيده، نسخه‌ا�� متفاوت از گنگ‌مح�� را خلق مي‌كن�� تا شخصاً از صحت نتيجه‌�� آزمايش اكبر شاه اطمينان حاصل كند.
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author: John Burnside
name: رضا
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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در افسانه آمده است كه اكبر شاه گوركاني كاخي ساخت و آن را پر كرد از نوزاد انسان. وي گروهي مستخدم خاموش را به مراقبت از آن‌ه�� گماشت و حرف زدن را به كل در آن عمارت قدغن اعلام كرد، تا از اين طريق به پاسخ يكي از سؤالات ديرين بشر دست يابد: آيا قدرتِ تكلم فطري است، يا اكتسابي؟
اين كاخ به نام لال‌خان�� يا گُنگ‌مح�� شهرت يافت.
جان بِرن‌سايد�� نويسنده‌�� اسكاتلندي، به سال 1997 در اولين رُمان خود، امكان تجربه‌�� آزمايش اكبر شاه را در دنياي مدرن به بحث مي‌گذار��. راويِ روان‌پريش�� بي‌نا�� داستان، تحت تأثير افسانه‌�� گنگ‌مح�� و آزمايش اكبر شاه گوركاني كه در كودكي از زبان مادرش شنيده، نسخه‌ا�� متفاوت از گنگ‌مح�� را خلق مي‌كن�� تا شخصاً از صحت نتيجه‌�� آزمايش اكبر شاه اطمينان حاصل كند.

]]> 89724 Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.]]> 152 Shirley Jackson 0143039970 رضا 5 3.93 1962
author: Shirley Jackson
name: رضا
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1962
rating: 5
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