Livia's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:31:35 -0700 60 Livia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Obelisku i zi 24640081 Ludvigu, i vetëquajturi poet, shumë shpejt ndien se një erë e re po fryn në atdheun e vet, era e hidhur e krizës që do ta përfshijë atë edhe njëherë në flakë të tjera, kësaj here jo nga lufta... Koment nga autori Mos më qortoni që po u rikthehem kohërave të shkuara. Mbi botë po derdhet prapë drita e shpëlarë e një apokalipsi të ri.
Era e gjakur dhe pluhuri i shkatërrimeve të fundit ende nuk janë davaritur e, megjithatë, laboratorët dhe uzinat i janë përveshur punës për të ruajtur paqen në botë, duke shpikur armë që janë në gjendje të hedhin në erë të gjithë planetin tonë...]]> 416 Erich Maria Remarque 9992759488 Livia 5 4.53 1956 Obelisku i zi
author: Erich Maria Remarque
name: Livia
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1956
rating: 5
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]]> Qyteti i fundit 5904562 Brenda 7 ditëve, aq sa qëndrojnë italianët e mbledhur në portin e Durrësit për t'u kthyer në Itali, shkrimtari në romanin "Qyteti i fundit" do të zbulojë dhe do të rrëfejë historitë dhe fatet e disave nga ushtria fashiste që para 4-5 viteve e kishte pushtuar Shqipërinë. Në këtë pleksje historish e fatesh, autori do të sajojë linjën e rrëfimit që ndjek hetimi për zbulimin e një krimineli lufte, të maskuar dhe të fshehur brenda turmës së "Qytetit". Në krye të grupit që duhet ta organizojë dhe ta udhëheqë këtë zbulim është toger Leka. Pista që ndjek togeri në këtë drejtim, e ngjashme me labirintet e romaneve dedektive, do të ecë dhe përmes prostitutës italiane - Ana Maria Monti. Dhe do të lindë dashuria mes tyre, që është shumëfish më "mëkatare" se ajo mes Gorit dhe Anitës. Leka është toger i Sigurimit Shtetëror të Shqipërisë së sapodalë nga lufta, që la pas shkatërrime dhe krime, ndërsa italiania Ana është e palës që i kreu ato krime, e palës së cilës i shërbente.
Kështu shkrimtari, duke ndjekur këtë linjë do të ecë nëpër një teh të mprehtë: do ta lejojë togerin e Sigurimit t'i nënshtrohet zërit të brendshëm dhe të dashurohet me italianen e bukur, apo do të nxjerrë para tij fuqinë e përgjegjësisë dhe të mëkatit ndaj "mollës së ndaluar"? Romani "Qyteti i fundit", në këtë drejtim, sjell mjeshtërinë e të rrëfyerit të Petro Markos, që, i futur vetë mes dy zjarreve, arrin të manovrojë dhe t'u krijojë hapësirë artikulimi të dy krahëve, duke realizuar portrete komplekse, në radhë të parë si ai i toger Lekës. Gjithsesi ai si shkrimtar, pati i pari kurajo krijuese që të prekë sfera delikate, të rrezikshme të realitetit shqiptar të kohës, pasojat e të cilave i ndjeu gjithë jetën.]]> 374 Petro Marko 9992740388 Livia 0 4.34 2000 Qyteti i fundit
author: Petro Marko
name: Livia
average rating: 4.34
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]]> The White Book 40338442
In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book offers a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and of our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.]]> 157 Han Kang 0525573062 Livia 4 ]]> 3.86 2016 The White Book
author: Han Kang
name: Livia
average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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“I saw differently when I looked with your eyes. I walked differently when I walked with your body. I wanted to show you clean things. Before brutality, sadness, despair, filth, pain, clean things that were only for you, clean things above all�

]]> <![CDATA[Asgjë të re nga fronti i perëndimit]]> 57811211 250 Erich Maria Remarque 9928217904 Livia 5 4.80 1928 Asgjë të re nga fronti i perëndimit
author: Erich Maria Remarque
name: Livia
average rating: 4.80
book published: 1928
rating: 5
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Jam shumë i qetë. Le të më vijnë muajt dhe vitet po të duan; ato nuk kanë se ç’të më marrin më, nuk mund të më marrin më asgjë. Nuk kam ethe pritjeje dhe jam aq i vetmuar, saqë mund t’i vështroj pa pikën e frikës drejt e në sy. Ndër duart e mia dhe ndër sytë e mi e ndiej akoma jetën, atë jetë që më ka drejtuar nëpër gjithë këto vite. Në i kam bërë dot ballë siç duhet këtë nuk e di. Por, për sa kohë ajo do të ekzistojë, do ta kërkojë e do ta çajë rrugën e vet, dua apo s’dua unë.
]]> <![CDATA[One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each]]> 32489952 A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry.

The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection.

Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan.]]> 304 Fujiwara no Teika 0141395931 Livia 5 fill me with melancholy
as I gaze upon the moon,�

Haiku që do i rilexoja e rilexoja gjer në pafundësi. ]]> 4.23 1235 One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
author: Fujiwara no Teika
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“Thoughts of a thousand things
fill me with melancholy
as I gaze upon the moon,�

Haiku që do i rilexoja e rilexoja gjer në pafundësi.
]]> <![CDATA[On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho]]> 517190 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.]]> 92 Matsuo Bashō 0140444599 Livia 4 How full of life
His song.
]]> 4.22 1985 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
author: Matsuo Bashō
name: Livia
average rating: 4.22
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Dying cricket
How full of life
His song.

]]> Dashuria në kohërat e kolerës 30894524
La otra historia es la de un amor que hace de esos tormentos su alimento. Un amor acechado por los enemigos: el deterioro fisico, la vejez, la muerte, pero que es capaz, no solo de resistirlos, sino tambien de transformarlos en el impetu del deseo. Una muchacha de dieciocho años rechaza al hombre de quien ha estado enamorada y con quien le han impedido unirse.

Mas de cincuenta años despues, cuando ha muerto otro hombre con quien se ha casado para vivir un lapso de sucedaneos desdeñables, se reune con aquel primer amor suyo a bordo de un barco que se llama Nueva Fidelidad.

La exacerbacion del deseo se alia a la muerte y a la enfermedad porque se les parece: "Los sintomas del amor son los mismos del colera."

En este relato infinitamente seductor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez narra la obsesion del deseo con un arrebato que lo aparta de sus grandes novelas anteriores y a la vez lo acerca a ellas.

A la circularidad del tiempo en Macondo, al enclaustramiento del tirano aislado en su poder demencial, sucede ahora la vigencia imbatible del deseo ahincado en si mismo. Un deseo que avanza hacia su origen en un movimiento que no cesa. Como el movimiento del barco Nueva Fidelidad, que seguira yendo y viniendo "toda la vida". Son las palabras que cierran, reanudandola, esta historia de amor.]]> 456 Gabriel García Márquez Livia 5 4.64 1985 Dashuria në kohërat e kolerës
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Livia
average rating: 4.64
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Një jetë zgjasin dashuritë që lindin vetë si dhe një jetë mjafton për të mësuar të duash dikë.
]]> Zonja Bovari 22008785 348 Gustave Flaubert Livia 0 3.72 1856 Zonja Bovari
author: Gustave Flaubert
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]]> Jealousy: Vintage Minis 33876547
Selected from the book In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Desire by Haruki Murakami
Eating by Nigella Lawson
Home by Salman Rushdie
Babies by Anne Enright]]> 96 Marcel Proust 1784872695 Livia 5 ]]> 3.28 Jealousy: Vintage Minis
author: Marcel Proust
name: Livia
average rating: 3.28
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“Jealousy is moreover a demon that cannot be exorcised, but constantly reappears in new incarnations�

]]> 100 Poems from the Japanese 707569 100 Poems from the Japanese 140 Kenneth Rexroth 0811201813 Livia 5 But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always.]]> 4.26 1955 100 Poems from the Japanese
author: Kenneth Rexroth
name: Livia
average rating: 4.26
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No, the human heart Is unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always.
]]> The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 30597
The novel has been described as a key text in French literature[1] and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce (both as Quasimodo).

The novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form.]]> 510 Victor Hugo 0451527887 Livia 5 4.01 1831 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
author: Victor Hugo
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]]> 1984 40961427 Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life—the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language—and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.]]> 298 George Orwell Livia 5 4.24 1949 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Livia
average rating: 4.24
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]]> <![CDATA[The Discontented Little Baby Book]]> 22827765 A revolutionary new approach to caring for your baby

The first months after a baby’s arrival can be exhausting, and attempts at quick fixes are often part of the problem. The first 16 weeks of life are a neurologically sensitive period, during which some babies will cry a lot and broken nights are to be expected. Attempts at quick fixes are often part of the problem. The Discontented Little Baby Book gives you practical and evidence-based strategies for helping you and your baby get more in sync. Dr. Pamela Douglas offers a path that protects your baby’s brain development so that he or she can reach his or her full potential, at the same time as you learn simple strategies to help you enjoy your baby and live with vitality when faced with the challenges of this extraordinary time. With parents� real-life stories, advice on dealing with feelings of anxiety and depression, and answers to your questions about reflux and allergies, this book offers a revolutionary new approach to caring for your baby from a respected Australian GP.]]> 272 Pamela Douglas 0702253227 Livia 4 4.35 2014 The Discontented Little Baby Book
author: Pamela Douglas
name: Livia
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> Arsye dhe ndjenjë 200379916
Elinora dhe Mariana Deshud janë krejtësisht të kundërta me njëra-tjetrën. Mariana, e cila udhëhiqet nga zemra, bie kokë e këmbë në dashuri me një djalosh të pashëm, por aspak të qëndrueshëm, gjithnjë në kërkim të një vajze me prikë. Ajo shpërfill krejtësisht paralajmërimet e së motrës, Elinorës që, me natyrën e vet tejet të përmbajtur, përpiqet të fshehë zhgënjimet e veta romantike edhe nga njerëzit e saj më të afërt.

Përmes përvojave të tyre paralele të dashurisë, vajzat piqen dhe mësojnë të pajtojnë arsyen dhe ndjenjën, në përpjekje për të gjetur lumturinë në një shoqëri ku statusi dhe paratë qeverisin edhe dashurinë.

Kjo vepër satirike, e shkruar me ndjenjë e humor të hollë, konsiderohet sot e kësaj dite një gur themeli i letërsisë botërore, prandaj dhe është ekranizuar shumë herë për kinemanë dhe televizionin.]]> 478 Jane Austen 9928371601 Livia 4 4.50 1811 Arsye dhe ndjenjë
author: Jane Austen
name: Livia
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1811
rating: 4
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]]> 14 novela 35223133 254 Anton Chekhov Livia 5 4.50 14 novela
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name: Livia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]]> 240976 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.]]> 313 Milan Kundera 0060932147 Livia 4 4.01 1979 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
author: Milan Kundera
name: Livia
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1979
rating: 4
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Siç dihet, engjëjt dhe djajtë ndajnë me njëri-tjetrin sundimin e botës. Megjithatë, e mira e kësaj bote nuk nënkupton se engjëjt paskan epërsi ndaj) djajve (siç pandehja unë kur isha kalama), por se pushteti i njërës dhe i tjetrës palë është pak a shumë në ekuilibër. Nese bota ka tepricë kuptimi të pakundërshtueshëm (pushteti i engjëjve), njeriu dërrmohet nën peshën e tij. Nëse bota e humb çdo kuptim (mbretëria e djajve), është githaq e pamundur të jetosh.
]]> The Schopenhauer Cure 19508 358 Irvin D. Yalom Livia 5 4.28 2005 The Schopenhauer Cure
author: Irvin D. Yalom
name: Livia
average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 Livia 5 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
author: Milan Kundera
name: Livia
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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]]> Bel-Ami 780581 416 Guy de Maupassant 0140443150 Livia 4 3.85 1885 Bel-Ami
author: Guy de Maupassant
name: Livia
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1885
rating: 4
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Pse vuajme kështu, ne? Sepse kemi lindur pa dyshim per te jetuar me shume sipas materies dhe më pak sipas shpirtit, por duke menduar githmone e me shumë, erdhi e u bë nje shpërpjestim midis gendjes së inteligencës sonë të zmadhuar dhe kushteve të pandryshueshme të jetës sonë.
]]> Love: Vintage Minis 35269410 VINTAGE GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis by Nigella LawsonJealousy by Marcel ProustBabies by Anne EnrightDesire by Haruki Murakami]]> 119 Jeanette Winterson Livia 4 ]]> 4.12 2017 Love: Vintage Minis
author: Jeanette Winterson
name: Livia
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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“What would it be like if we didn’t have a body? If we communicated as spirits do? �

]]> Ward No. 6 211760 77 Anton Chekhov Livia 5 4.25 1892 Ward No. 6
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Livia
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1892
rating: 5
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“After all, if a man didn’t sleep at night it could only mean that he was suffering pangs of conscience � and what evidence that would be!
]]> Death 33876549
Selected from the book Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Calm by Tim Parks
Drinking by John Cheever
Babies by Anne Enright
Psychedelics by Aldous Huxley]]> 128 Julian Barnes 1784872601 Livia 4 ]]> 3.61 2017 Death
author: Julian Barnes
name: Livia
average rating: 3.61
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rating: 4
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“When we are young, we think we are inventing the world as we are inventing ourselves; later, we discover how much the past holds us, and always did.�

]]> Liberty 33876561 A Room of One's Own, The Waves, and Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf.


]]> 128 Virginia Woolf 1784872717 Livia 5 ]]> 3.92 2018 Liberty
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Livia
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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“Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.�

]]> <![CDATA[Twelve Hours' Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old: A Step-by-Step Plan for Baby Sleep Success]]> 719836
Giordano is the mother of five children and one of the most sought-after baby sleep specialists in the country. The Washington Post calls her a baby sleep "guru" and "an underground legend in the Washington area for her ability to teach newborns how to achieve that parenting nirvana: sleeping through the night." Her sleep plan has been tested with singletons, twins, triplets, babies with special needs, and colicky babies—and it has never failed.

Whether you are pregnant, first-time parents, or parents who seek a different path with your second or third child, anyone can benefit from the Baby Coach’s popular system of regular feeding times, twelve hours of sleep at night and three hours of sleep during the day, and the peace of mind that comes with taking the parent and child out of a sleep- deprived world.]]> 176 Suzy Giordano 0525949593 Livia 0 3.69 2006 Twelve Hours' Sleep by Twelve Weeks Old: A Step-by-Step Plan for Baby Sleep Success
author: Suzy Giordano
name: Livia
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2006
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]]> Motherhood: Vintage Minis 33876558
Selected from Helen Simpson’s short story collections Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life and Constitutional

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Language by Xiaolu Guo
Fatherhood by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Eating by Nigella Lawson
Drinking by John Cheever]]> 128 Helen Simpson 1784872733 Livia 0 3.60 Motherhood: Vintage Minis
author: Helen Simpson
name: Livia
average rating: 3.60
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]]> Desire: Vintage Minis 33952849
Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman and Men Without Women.]]> 109 Haruki Murakami 1784872636 Livia 4 3.87 2017 Desire: Vintage Minis
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Livia
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain]]> 200094811 240 Nicole Pensak 1682688305 Livia 3 4.37 Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain
author: Nicole Pensak
name: Livia
average rating: 4.37
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Antología de la poesía aragonesa contemporánea.]]> 127335982 0 Ana María.- NAVALES Livia 5 5.00 Antología de la poesía aragonesa contemporánea.
author: Ana María.- NAVALES
name: Livia
average rating: 5.00
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham (Modern Library, 14.2)]]> 31325
The letter --
The verger --
The vessel of wrath --
The hairless Mexican --
Mr. Harrington's washing --
Red --
Mr. Know-all --
The alien corn --
The book-bag --
The round dozen --
The voice of the turtle --
The facts of life --
Lord Mountdrago --
The colonel's lady --
The treasure --
Rain --
P. & O.]]> W. Somerset Maugham 0394600142 Livia 5 4.42 1957 The Best Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham (Modern Library, 14.2)
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Livia
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1957
rating: 5
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]]> Gruaja me flatra 24794230 231 Dino Buzzati Livia 5 4.57 Gruaja me flatra
author: Dino Buzzati
name: Livia
average rating: 4.57
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]]> <![CDATA[To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche]]> 25490 182 Erich Fromm 0826417388 Livia 4 4.24 1976 To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
author: Erich Fromm
name: Livia
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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]]> Mein Kampf 6562917 722 Adolf Hitler Livia 0 3.04 Mein Kampf
author: Adolf Hitler
name: Livia
average rating: 3.04
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]]> Ferdydurke 15581
Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style. and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century."

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) wrote three other novels. Trans-Atlantyk. Pornografia. and Cosmos. which together with his plays and his three-volume Diary have been translated into more than thirty languages.]]> 320 Witold Gombrowicz 0300082401 Livia 5 3.78 1937 Ferdydurke
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rating: 5
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]]> House of Incest 11043 72 Anaïs Nin 0804001480 Livia 4 3.95 1915 House of Incest
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name: Livia
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1915
rating: 4
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“The loved one’s whitest flesh is what the broken glass will cut and the wheel crush. The long howls in the night are howls of death. Night is the collaborator of torturers.�
]]> The Idiot 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Livia 5 4.22 1869 The Idiot
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.22
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]]> Dead Souls 28381 Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.

In his introduction to this new translation, Robert A. Maguire discusses Gogol's life and literary career, his depiction of Russian society, and the language and narrative techniques employed in Dead Souls. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading, appendices, a glossary, map and notes.]]> 464 Nikolai Gogol 0140448071 Livia 5 4.00 1842 Dead Souls
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]]> <![CDATA[Një shëtitje me rumiun dhe tragorën]]> 59764634 Edison Çeraj Livia 5 4.33 Një shëtitje me rumiun dhe tragorën
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]]> <![CDATA[I burgosuri i qiellit (Varreza e librave të harruar, #3)]]> 19548625
Daniel Sempere, protagonisti i paharrueshëm i romani "Hija e erës", tani është një burrë i martuar dhe drejton librarinë e familjes me të atin dhe Ferminin besnik, me të cilin e lidh një miqësi e fortë. Një mëngjes hyn në librari një i panjohur, i zymtë, i çalë dhe pa një dorë, që blen botimin e shtrenjtë të "Kontit të Montekristos", duke paguar trefishin e çmimit.

Aty për aty ai ia kthen librin Danielit që t'ia dorëzojë me një kushtim turbullues Ferminit. Hapen kështu dyert e së shkuarës dhe fantazma të vjetra vijnë për të trazuar të tashmen përmes kujtimeve të Ferminit. Për të mësuar një të vërtetë të dhimbshme, që i ështe mbajtur e fshehur deri më tani, Danielit i duhet të hyjë në një epokë të mallkuar, në rropullitë e burgjeve të Montjuicit, dhe të zbulojë se cila ujdi djallëzore mbante lidhur David Martinin, tregimtarin te "Loja e engjëllit", me gardianin e tij, Mauricio Valls, një njeri i pabesë që mëshiron çka pasur më të mbrapshtë regjimi i Frankos...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón kthehet në gjininë që u bë i famshëm në të gjithë botën dhe në sagën aq fortë të dashur për lexuesit e tij, me një ndodhi emocionuese që është pjesë e universit letrar të Varrezës së Librave të Harruar. "I burgosuri i Qiellit" lidh sërish dramat e "Hijes së erës" dhe "Lojës së Engjëllit" dhe hedh dritë mbi misteret që kishin mbetur të pazgjidhura, vetëm për të hapur pyetje të tjera shqetësuese. Dhe mbi të gjitha, na tërheq në vorbullën e një tregimi të plot me tension dhe të papritura, duke na joshur me hijeshinë delikate të një Barcelone në dritëhije, që nuk resht së magjepsuri.]]> 292 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 992810347X Livia 5 4.30 2011 I burgosuri i qiellit (Varreza e librave të harruar, #3)
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.30
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rating: 5
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]]> Othello 12996 319 William Shakespeare Livia 5 3.89 1603 Othello
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> Lie With Me 40539136 The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.

We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him, that I’m holding on to him outside.

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.

Dazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love—and the heartbreaking passage of time.]]> 149 Philippe Besson 1501197878 Livia 4 ]]> 4.25 2017 Lie With Me
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.25
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rating: 4
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“And I feel a profound loneliness, the kind you feel when you are alone in the beating heart of a crowd. The only thing to do now is to leave the station. And to walk. To walk for a long time.�

]]> <![CDATA[The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)]]> 24874312
With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readers.

Contains 'The Nose' and 'The Carriage'.]]> 53 Nikolai Gogol 0141397527 Livia 5 3.77 1836 The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)
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name: Livia
average rating: 3.77
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]]> Heart Bones 51007311
With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.

Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.

She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.]]> 338 Colleen Hoover Livia 2 4.20 2020 Heart Bones
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.20
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rating: 2
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]]> Identiteti 45361772 Ndodh në disa situata, për një çast, të mos njohim personin që kemi pranë, kur identiteti i tjetrit befas fshihet si me dorë dhe ne nisim e dyshojmë edhe për tonin. Kjo ngjan edhe me çiftet � përnjëmend, sidomos me çiftet, sepse të dashuruarit i tremben më shumë se gjithçkaje tjetër të "humbasin nga sytë" të dashurin e zemrës.

Me një art që të mahnit dhe duke luajtur me variacionet e këtij momenti domethënës, Milan Kundera e ka bërë këtë situatë - dhe ndjesitë e panikut që ajo frymëzon - subjektin e romanit të tij.

Këtu lakonizmi shkon në një hap me forcën e rrëfimit dhe një moment hutimi vë në lëvizje një zinxhir kompleks ngjarjesh, që e detyron lexuesin ta kalojë e rikalojë kufirin mes fantazisë dhe së vërtetës, mes asaj që ndodh në botën jashtë dhe asaj çka mendja krijon në vetminë e vet.

Ndër të gjithë shkrimtarët bashkëkohorë, vetëm Kundera mund ta shndërrojë një perceptim kaq të fshehtë dhe shqetësues në një roman � një ndër më të mirët e tij, më i dhimbshmi, më i shndritshmi. Ai që, çuditërisht, qëllon të jetë një histori dashurie.

Fragmente nga libri:
Dhe unë pyes veten: kush pa ëndërr? Kush e pa në ëndërr këtë histori? Kush e imagjinoi? Ajo? Ai? Të dy? Secili pa në ëndërr tjetrin? Dhe që nga cili çast, jeta e tyre e vërtetë u shndërrua në këtë fantazi të mbrapshtë?

Një hotel në një qytet të vogël buzëdetit të Normandisë, që ata e kishin gjetur rastësisht në një udhërrëfyes. Shantali mbërriti të premten në mbrëmje për të kaluar aty natën vetëm, pa Zhan-Markun, i cili duhet të vinte ta takonte të nesërmen, afër mesditës.

Ajo la një valixhe të vogël në dhomë, doli, dhe pasi bëri një shëtitje të shkurtër në rrugët e panjohura, u kthye në restorantin e hotelit. Në orën shtatë e gjysmë të darkës, salla ishte ende bosh. U ul në një tryezë dhe priti që ta vinin re. Në anën tjetër, pranë derës së kuzhinës, dy kameriere ia kishin krisur bisedës.

Ngaqë e urrente ngritjen e zërit, Shantali u çua, i ra përmes sallës dhe u ndal pranë tyre; porse ato i kishte rrëmbyer tema e bisedës: "Po të them që kam dhjetë vjet që i njoh. Dhe është e tmerrshme. Asnjë gjurmë. Asnjë. Ka dalë dhe në televizor." Tjetra: "Ç'mund t'i ketë ndodhur vallë?" "Po as që mund të imagjinohet.

Këtu qëndron edhe tmerri..." "Ta kenë vrarë?" "Nuk lanë vend pa kërkuar në rrethina." "Ta kenë rrëmbyer?" "Po kush? Dhe përse? Nuk ishte as i pasur dhe as i rëndësishëm. I nxorën në TV. Fëmijët dhe të shoqen. Çfarë hidhërimi. E merr dot me mend?"

... duhen ujitur kujtimet si lulet në saksi dhe kjo ujitje kërkon një kontakt të rregullt me dëshmitarët e së kaluarës, domethënë me miqtë. Ata janë pasqyra jonë; kujtesa jonë; nuk kërkojmë prej tyre veçse ta përndrisin këtë pasqyrë, që të mund të shihemi në të.]]> 172 Milan Kundera 9928426074 Livia 4 3.89 1997 Identiteti
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> The Sorrows of Young Werther 16640 149 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0812969901 Livia 4 3.71 1774 The Sorrows of Young Werther
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
name: Livia
average rating: 3.71
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rating: 4
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]]> Honor 15811554 An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London

Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children.

In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in. After Adem abandons his family, Iskender, the eldest son, must step in and become the one who will not let any shame come to the family name. And when Pembe begins a chaste affair with a man named Elias, Iskender will discover that you could love someone with all your heart and yet be ready to hurt them.

Just published to great acclaim in England, Honor is a powerful, gripping exploration of guilt and innocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the trials of the immigrant, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tear families apart.]]> 352 Elif Shafak 0670784834 Livia 4 4.19 2011 Honor
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (Jail stories)]]> 27574834 36 Oscar Wilde 1502452316 Livia 5 4.67 1898 The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (Jail stories)
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.67
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography]]> 36820477 A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman.

The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure of women's names, spaces, and stories in the modern everyday. In this “living autobiography� infused with warmth and humor, Deborah Levy critiques the roles that society assigns to us, and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual gendered rituals. What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?

Levy draws on her own experience of attempting to live with pleasure, value, and meaning--the making of a new kind of family home, the challenges of her mother's death--and those of women she meets in everyday life, from a young female traveler reading in a bar who suppresses her own words while she deflects an older man's advances, to a particularly brilliant student, to a kindly and ruthless octogenarian bookseller who offers the author a place to write at a difficult time in her life. The Cost of Living is urgent, essential reading, a crystalline manifesto for turbulent times.]]> 144 Deborah Levy 163557191X Livia 4 4.18 2018 The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
author: Deborah Levy
name: Livia
average rating: 4.18
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rating: 4
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]]> Novecento. Un monologo 61266 Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai sentita prima, meravigliosa. Dicono che la sua storia fosse pazzesca, che fosse nato su quella nave e che da lì non fosse mai sceso. Dicono che nessuno sapesse il perché.

]]> 62 Alessandro Baricco 8807813025 Livia 4 4.22 1994 Novecento. Un monologo
author: Alessandro Baricco
name: Livia
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> The Practice of Not Thinking 54737796
What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily lives, we can reconnect with our five senses and live in a more peaceful, positive way.

When we focus on our senses and learn to re-train our brains and our bodies, we start to eliminate the distracting noise of our minds and the negative thoughts that create anxiety. By following Ryunosuke Koike's practical steps on how to breathe, listen, speak, laugh, love and even sleep in a new way, we can improve our interactions with others, feel less stressed at work and make every day calmer. Only by thinking less, can we appreciate more.]]> 144 Ryūnosuke Koike 0141994614 Livia 3 3.41 2013 The Practice of Not Thinking
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name: Livia
average rating: 3.41
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rating: 3
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]]> The Uncommon Reader 1096390 120 Alan Bennett 0374280967 Livia 3 3.75 2007 The Uncommon Reader
author: Alan Bennett
name: Livia
average rating: 3.75
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rating: 3
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 13079982 Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.� But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 194 Ray Bradbury Livia 5 3.97 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house."
]]> Ariel 395090 Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection.

When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Her husband, Ted Hughes, brought the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered worldwide acclaim. This collection showcases the beloved poet’s brilliant, provoking, and always moving poems, including "Ariel" and once again shows why readers have fallen in love with her work throughout the generations.]]> 128 Sylvia Plath 0060931728 Livia 0 4.22 1965 Ariel
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.22
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]]> Why Men Love Bitches 9201647
Do you feel like you are too nice? Sherry Argov's Why Men Love Bitches delivers a unique perspective as to why men are attracted to a strong woman who stands up for herself. With saucy detail on every page, this no-nonsense guide reveals why a strong woman is much more desirable than a "yes woman" who routinely sacrifices herself. The author provides compelling answers to the tough questions women often ask:

· Why are men so romantic in the beginning and why do they change?
· Why do men take nice girls for granted?
· Why does a man respect a woman when she stands up for herself?

Full of advice, hilarious real-life relationship scenarios, "she says/he thinks" tables, and the author's unique "Attraction Principles," Why Men Love Bitches gives you bottom-line answers. It helps you know who you are, stand your ground, and relate to men on a whole new level. Once you've discovered the feisty attitude men find so magnetic, you'll not only increase the romantic chemistry—you'll gain your man's love and respect with far less effort.]]> 288 Sherry Argov 1605501557 Livia 2 Nuk e di pse e lexova. 3.78 2009 Why Men Love Bitches
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average rating: 3.78
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Nuk e di pse e lexova.
]]> The Secret (The Secret, #1) 52529 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781582701707.

The worldwide bestselling phenomenon that has helped millions tap the power of the law that governs all our lives to create—intentionally and effortlessly—a joyful life.

In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe�The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller.

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions, and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.

In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.

The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.]]> 199 Rhonda Byrne Livia 0 3.74 2006 The Secret (The Secret, #1)
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name: Livia
average rating: 3.74
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]]> The Malady of Death 40464 60 Marguerite Duras 0802130364 Livia 3 ]]> 3.87 1982 The Malady of Death
author: Marguerite Duras
name: Livia
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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“Nor will you, or anyone else, ever know how she sees, how she thinks, either of the world or of you, of your body or your mind, or of the malady she says you suffer from. She doesn't know, herself. She couldn't tell you. You couldn't find out anything about it from her.�

]]> The Lover 275 117 Marguerite Duras Livia 4 There's never any centre to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one."]]> 3.79 1984 The Lover
author: Marguerite Duras
name: Livia
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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"The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist.
There's never any centre to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one."
]]> The Invention of Morel 94486 The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

Inspired by Bioy Casares’s fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction’s now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Last Year at Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.]]> 103 Adolfo Bioy Casares 1590170571 Livia 4 4.03 1940 The Invention of Morel
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1940
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Livia 4 3.66 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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name: Livia
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> The Dying Animal 29776 'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex'
With these words America's most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college - as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.
The agency of Kepesh's undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous, humblingly beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged helplessly into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling the themes of eros and mortality, licence and repression, freedom and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.]]> 156 Philip Roth Livia 4 ]]> 3.62 2001 The Dying Animal
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“The passage of time. We're in the swim, sinking in time, until finally we drown and go. �

]]> After Dark 17803 In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.

Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents—models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians—collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.]]> 191 Haruki Murakami 0307265838 Livia 4 3.75 2004 After Dark
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]]> The Lost Soul 53377292 The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is a beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life.

Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018
Prix de l'Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY)
The White Raven (IJB Munich)
Łódź Design Festival Award

"Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul - he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " -from The Lost Soul

The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return.
The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old.

"You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul."]]> 48 Olga Tokarczuk 1644210347 Livia 3 4.24 2017 The Lost Soul
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U lodha shumë duke e lexuar xp
]]> <![CDATA[How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen]]> 112974860 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain

As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.�

And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?

Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and his determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.

The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood.]]> 304 David Brooks 059323006X Livia 4 4.09 2023 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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She who only looks inward will find only chaos, and she who looks outward with the eyes of critical judgment will find only flaws. But she who looks with the eyes of compassion and understanding will see complex souls, suffering and soaring, navigating life as best they can.
]]> The House on Mango Street 139253 The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero.

Told in a series of vignettes � sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous–it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.]]> 110 Sandra Cisneros 0679734775 Livia 3 ]]> 3.69 1984 The House on Mango Street
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average rating: 3.69
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rating: 3
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“I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.�

]]> Woyzek 69623436 Orthographisch behutsam modernisierte Ausgabe mit Worterläuterungen.

E-Book mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Buch und E-Book können parallel benutzt werden.]]> 0 Georg Büchner 3868474277 Livia 0 2.65 1836 Woyzek
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Why must we all be rushing about so? I don't understand it. All you'll do is rush to your death, Doctor ... not the kind of thing a man with a clear conscience would do. Not at all.
]]> Three Comrades 91203
Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure.]]> 496 Erich Maria Remarque 0449912426 Livia 5 4.49 1936 Three Comrades
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.49
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rating: 5
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]]> Confusion of Feelings 61243285 Stefan Zweig Livia 5 4.29 1926 Confusion of Feelings
author: Stefan Zweig
name: Livia
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1926
rating: 5
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]]> The Woman Destroyed 141421 254 Simone de Beauvoir Livia 5 4.01 1967 The Woman Destroyed
author: Simone de Beauvoir
name: Livia
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 5
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]]> Don Kishoti i Mançës I 32314830
Shumë pak mund të ketë ngelur pa thënë për Don Kishotin. Në këtë kulm të letërsisë universale, në romanin e parë modern, Servantesi trilloi historinë e një sojliu fshatar, i cili marroset prej leximit të tepërt të romaneve kalorësiake dhe, si kalorës i mirëfilltë endacak, merr udhët me qëllimin e mirë për t’u ardhur në ndihmë nevojtarëve.

Kësisoj, në shoqëri të babaxhanit dhe të të padjallëzuarit Sanço Pança, Don Kishoti përfshihet në një sërë aventurash të pabesueshme, të cilat i rrëmbejnë të qeshurat lexuesit, pasi jeta që na rrëfen Servantesi është e gëzueshme, shpotitëse e dramatike, dhe njëherazi e këndshme dhe optimiste, pavarësisht ndeshtrashave të ekzistencës.]]> 396 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 992816486X Livia 5 Noli ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.80 1605 Don Kishoti i Mançës I
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Noli ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
]]> Immortality 28634
'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ]]> 400 Milan Kundera 057114456X Livia 5 4.16 1990 Immortality
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.16
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]]> Tundimi i fundit 57650580 505 Nikos Kazantzakis Livia 5 4.33 Tundimi i fundit
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]]> <![CDATA[On a Happy Life, On the Shortness of Life, and On Providence: (Annotated)]]> 59589244 De Vita Beata ("On the Happy Life") is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD. It was intended for his older brother Gallio, to whom Seneca also dedicated his dialogue entitled De Ira ("On Anger"). It is divided into 28 chapters that present the moral thoughts of Seneca at their most mature. Seneca explains that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reason � reason meant not only using logic, but also understanding the processes of nature.The dialogue has the full title ad Gallionem de Vita Beata ("To Gallio on the happy life"). It was probably written in early 58 or a little earlier. From incidental remarks made in the work, it is thought Seneca wrote it when he was in a position of power near the beginning of Nero's reign between 54 and 59. Furthermore, Tacitus tells us that Publius Suillius Rufus had made a series of public attacks concerning Seneca's wealth in 58, and De Vita Beata contains a defense of wealth which may be a response to this or similar criticisms made around this time.

The work ends rather abruptly and is followed in the manuscripts by Seneca's De Otio which is missing its beginning. The earliest surviving manuscript is from the Codex Ambrosianus, a Milan Codex, from the 11th century and other copies are derived from this archetype.

De Brevitate Vitae ( On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives people enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly. In general, time is best used by living in the present moment in pursuit of the intentional, purposeful life.

Similar ideas can be found in Seneca's treatise De Otio (On Leisure) and discussion of these themes can often be found in his Letters to Lucilius (letter 49, 101, etc.).De Providentia (On Providence) is a short essay in the form of a dialogue in six brief sections, written by the Latin philosopher Seneca (died AD 65) in the last years of his life. He chose the dialogue form (as in the well-known Plato's works) to deal with the problem of the co-existence of the Stoic design of providence with the evil in the world—the so-called "problem of evil."

The dialogue is opened by Lucilius complaining with his friend Seneca that adversities and misfortunes can happen to good men too. How can this fit with the goodness connected with the design of providence? Seneca answers according to the Stoic point of view. Nothing actually bad can happen to the good man (the wise man) because opposites don't mix. What looks like adversity is in fact a means by which the man exerts his virtues. As such, he can come out of the ordeal stronger than before.

So, in perfect harmony with the Stoic philosophy, Seneca explains that the truly wise man can never surrender in the face of misfortunes but as he will always go through them and even if he should fall he will continue fighting on his knees ("si cecidit de genu pugnat"). The wise man understands destiny and its design, and therefore he has nothing to fear from the future. Neither does he hope for anything, because he already has everything he needs � his good behaviour.

The conclusion is that actually nothing bad happens to good men.]]> 104 Seneca Livia 0 5.00 On a Happy Life, On the Shortness of Life, and On Providence: (Annotated)
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]]> Trëndafili në gotë 15674091 300 Dritëro Agolli 9992734159 Livia 4 3.87 Trëndafili në gotë
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[Perfectum Trinum: poezi të zgjedhura]]> 57583370 Eugenio Montale 999563547X Livia 5 5.00 Perfectum Trinum: poezi të zgjedhura
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse]]> 43708884
Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.]]> 128 Charlie Mackesy 1529105102 Livia 5 4.56 2019 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.56
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rating: 5
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]]> Orpheus Descending 205132
"... because of the power and the brilliance and the humor of his writing, it emerges as a consistently moving and captivating experience ... the author has done a masterful job of getting inside his characters." —NY Journal-American.]]> 83 Tennessee Williams 0822208652 Livia 5 3.85 1957 Orpheus Descending
author: Tennessee Williams
name: Livia
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1957
rating: 5
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]]> Farewell Waltz 50605
And so begins a comedy in which, during five madcap days, events unfold with ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, jealous wife; the nurse's equally jealous boyfriend; a fanatical gynecologist; a rich American, at once Don Juan and saint; and an elderly political prisoner who, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa, are all drawn into this black comedy, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.]]> 288 Milan Kundera 0571194710 Livia 4 3.92 1972 Farewell Waltz
author: Milan Kundera
name: Livia
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1972
rating: 4
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]]> Wandering 100793 Wandering, a love letter to this magic-garden world that can be read as a meditation on his attempt to begin a new life. His pure prose, his heartfelt lyricism, and his love for the old earth, for its blessings that renew themselves, all sing in this serene book.

The first German edition of Wandering included facsimiles of fourteen watercolor landscapes. Hesse's painting had blossomed in the southern countryside and he even toyed with the idea "that I might still succeed in escaping literature entirely and making a living at the more appealing trade of painter." Unfortunately, his original pictures for Wandering have disappeared; this edition reproduces in black-and-white the full-color reproductions of the 1920 edition.]]> 119 Hermann Hesse 0224008048 Livia 5
T’bënte mirë për shpirtin ]]> 4.20 1920 Wandering
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average rating: 4.20
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don’t know at what intervals, and slowly covers my sky with clouds. It begins with an unrest in the heart, with a premonition of anxiety, probably with my dreams at night.

T’bënte mirë për shpirtin
]]> <![CDATA[E madhe është gjëma e mëkatit (Tat Tanushi i Bubutimës)]]> 13616959
Vepra ka tre tituj: 1- “E Madhe është Gjëma e Mëkatit�,- 2-“Tat Tanushi�, 3-“Rrëfime Nga Liqeri i Kaltër�. Të tre titujt, nuk kanë të bëjnë me kohën e botimit, pasi vepra u botua pas gjysmë shekulli, dhe vetëm me titullin e parë. Ne dorëshkrimet, punimet dhe ripunimet e veprës ajo titullohet herë me njërin titull herë me tjetrin. Është i pëlqyeshëm titulli i dytë “Tan Tanushi�, pasi ai të fut menjëherë në ngjarjen dhe historinë se ç’farë i ndodh këtij iliriani të pashëm, vetëm se dashuroi marrëzisht, duke e ditur se përjetësisht dashuritë e mëdha janë të destinuara të vdesin. Pra është një titull që do t’i shkonte më shumë veprës dhe mënyrës se si është shkruar. Ndërsa titulli i tretë “Rrëfime Nga Liqeri i Kaltër� është i gjerë, ai lidhet me rrëfimet e rrëfyera më parë nga banorët buzë liqerit, me të cilët ndërthuren pothuajse të gjitha rrëfenjat e Kutelit. Titulli i parë, i cili sa të bën kurioz për ta lexuar aq edhe të tremb, duke menduar se kjo botë është tërësisht mëkatare, përpara shkrimeve të ungjillit dhe besimit ndaj perëndisë, ndaj s’ka se si të mos e ndjesh veten mëkatar përpara tyre. Por megjithatë, titujt nuk ndryshojnë asgjë në përmbajtjen dhe mesazhin e madh të veprës. Kuteli e ka shkruar me aq mjeshtëri dhe fantazi të përkryer artistike sa që ti dëshiron të kesh qenë brenda kësaj “gjëme të madhe� të këtij “mëkati�.]]> 60 Mitrush Kuteli 9994383744 Livia 0 4.30 2006 E madhe është gjëma e mëkatit (Tat Tanushi i Bubutimës)
author: Mitrush Kuteli
name: Livia
average rating: 4.30
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]]> Simple Passion 399257 80 Annie Ernaux 1583225749 Livia 3 3.92 1991 Simple Passion
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Livia
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal]]> 60153064 Healing is not a one-time event.

It can begin with a one-time event � typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.

In her follow up collection to the international bestseller 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest shares 45+ new pieces that will help you find your inner sanctum and embark on the path of true transformation. Wiest's words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming.]]> 235 Brianna Wiest Livia 3 ]]> 4.25 2022 When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
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average rating: 4.25
book published: 2022
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Once in a while lexojme “stoiket� e koherave qe po jetojme.

]]> The Master and Margarita 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

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

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Livia 5 Masterpiece.]]> 4.31 1967 The Master and Margarita
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average rating: 4.31
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Masterpiece?
Masterpiece.
]]> The Fugitive 23208906 284 Marcel Proust Livia 5 Më mahnit fakti sesa ndryshe dashurojmë ose mendojmë se dashurojmë. Proust-i me mjeshtërinë e tij, më mahniti dhe më bëri të kuptoj më tepër sesa e magjishme është mendja njerëzore.]]> 4.08 1925 The Fugitive
author: Marcel Proust
name: Livia
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 5
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Një libër kaq i bukur për dashurinë, xhelozinë, harresën dhe ndjesinë e përkatësisë. A mundet të duash dikë dhe të ndihesh sikur të përket, sikur dashuria jote e robëron?
Më mahnit fakti sesa ndryshe dashurojmë ose mendojmë se dashurojmë. Proust-i me mjeshtërinë e tij, më mahniti dhe më bëri të kuptoj më tepër sesa e magjishme është mendja njerëzore.
]]> Les Fleurs du Mal 203220 Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time.

In Spleen et idéal," Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and anguish--of sexual and romantic love. Tableaux Parisiens condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul and praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. Le Vin centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of Fleurs du Mal while rebellion is at the heart of éDZٱ.]]> 365 Charles Baudelaire 0879234628 Livia 5 4.23 1857 Les Fleurs du Mal
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.23
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]]> Men Without Women 33652490 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.

Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.]]> 242 Haruki Murakami 0385689454 Livia 4 3.75 2014 Men Without Women
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name: Livia
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand]]> 12117
Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' when his wife cavalierly informs him that his nose tilts to the right; suddenly he realizes that ``for others I was not what till now, privately, I had imagined myself to be,'' and that, consequently, his identity is evanescent, based purely on the shifting perceptions of those around him. Thus he is simultaneously without a self--``no one''--and the theater for myriad selves--``one hundred thousand.'' In a crazed search for an identity independent of others' preconceptions, Moscarda careens from one disaster to the next and finds his freedom even as he is declared insane.

It is Pirandello's genius that a discussion of the fundamental human inability to communicate, of our essential solitariness, and of the inescapable restriction of our free will elicits such thoroughly sustained and earthy laughter.]]> 174 Luigi Pirandello 0941419746 Livia 5 4.14 1925 One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
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average rating: 4.14
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“I am dying every instant, and being born anew and without memories: alive and whole, no longer in myself, but in everything outside. �
]]> Man’s Search for Meaning 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Livia 4 4.38 1946 Man’s Search for Meaning
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name: Livia
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1946
rating: 4
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
]]> Where the Crawdads Sing 36809135
But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.]]> 384 Delia Owens 0735219117 Livia 3 4.35 2018 Where the Crawdads Sing
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]]> Lumi i madh me dy zemra 20969765 128 Ernest Hemingway Livia 3 2.50 1925 Lumi i madh me dy zemra
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Livia
average rating: 2.50
book published: 1925
rating: 3
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]]> No One Writes to the Colonel 859844 Alternate cover edition here

Set in the decaying Colombian town of Macondo, the Colonel is scraping together the money for food and medicine. It is the Colonel's rooster that gives him hope for a better future as it has become a symbol of defiance in the face of despair.]]> 69 Gabriel García Márquez 0140157492 Livia 4 3.71 1961 No One Writes to the Colonel
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rating: 4
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]]> East of Eden 4406
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.

First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.]]> 601 John Steinbeck 0142000655 Livia 5 “T� 4.41 1952 East of Eden
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average rating: 4.41
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]]> <![CDATA[A Gentle Creature and Other Stories]]> 617078
No other edition brings together these specific stories--which are most interesting when read alongside one another--and the new translations capture all the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing at its best.]]> 158 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0192822802 Livia 5 4.14 1876 A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
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]]> The Trial 17690 The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.]]> 255 Franz Kafka Livia 5 4.00 1925 The Trial
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average rating: 4.00
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rating: 5
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]]> A Weak Heart 18272510 96 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1427064261 Livia 5 3.62 1848 A Weak Heart
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]]> Father Sergius 1264155
For some weeks Father Sergius had been living with one persistent thought: whether he was right in accepting the position in which he had not so much placed himself as been placed by the Archimandrite and the Abbot. That position had begun after the recovery of the fourteen-year-old boy. From that time, with each month, week, and day that passed, Sergius felt his own inner life wasting away and being replaced by external life.]]> 58 Leo Tolstoy 1406952907 Livia 5 3.94 1911 Father Sergius
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]]> The Song Of Love Triumphant 2768178 48 Ivan Turgenev 1425474381 Livia 5 3.41 1879 The Song Of Love Triumphant
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]]> Asya 1463501 75 Ivan Turgenev 1594919992 Livia 5 3.96 1858 Asya
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]]> A Doll's House 37793

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".

The Student Edition contains these exclusive features:

· A chronology of the playwright's life and work

· An introduction giving the background of the play

· Commentary on themes, characters. language and style

· Notes on individual words and phrases in the text

· Questions for further study

· Bibliography for further reading.

]]> 122 Henrik Ibsen 1406914835 Livia 5 3.76 1879 A Doll's House
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]]> A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1622 298 William Shakespeare 0743477545 Livia 4 3.95 1595 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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rating: 4
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]]> Knulp 24854 136 Hermann Hesse 3518380710 Livia 4 3.89 1915 Knulp
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