Lisa's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:21:43 -0700 60 Lisa's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx]]> 385255 Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies. Jessica and Boy George ride the wild adventure between riches and ruin, while Coco and Cesar stick closer to the street, all four caught in a precarious dance between survival and death. Friends get murdered; the DEA and FBI investigate Boy George; Cesar becomes a fugitive; Jessica and Coco endure homelessness, betrayal, the heartbreaking separation of prison, and, throughout it all, the insidious damage of poverty.

Charting the tumultuous cycle of the generations - as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation - LeBlanc slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and true story.]]> 409 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 0743254430 Lisa 5 favorites one million stars<br />wow 4.27 2003 Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)]]> 91440
Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.

With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.

Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a stunning work of dramatic fiction.]]> 367 Louise Erdrich 0060786469 Lisa 0 4.02 1984 Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
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]]> Out of Place 22136 295 Edward W. Said 1862073708 Lisa 0 4.03 1999 Out of Place
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women]]> 13013007 These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again.An orthodox African-American woman must face her growing attraction to her female friend.A young girl defies her South Asian parents' cultural expectations with an interracial relationship. And a Southern woman agrees to consider an arranged marriage, with surprising results.
These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable.]]> 290 Nura Maznavi 1593764286 Lisa 0 3.83 2012 Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
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]]> Martyr! 139400713 Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 331 Kaveh Akbar 0593537610 Lisa 0 4.22 2024 Martyr!
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]]> Chicken with Plums 9525 84 Marjane Satrapi 0375424156 Lisa 0 3.88 2004 Chicken with Plums
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]]> <![CDATA[We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs]]> 124974 We Are Iran may serve as the only serious record of their existence.]]> 384 Nasrin Alavi 1933368055 Lisa 0 3.91 2005 We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs
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]]> <![CDATA[Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran]]> 150373 Women Without Men in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women’s sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, Women Without Men creates an evocative allegory of life for contemporary Iranian women. In the interwoven destinies of five women, simple situations such as walking down a road or leaving the house become, in the tumult of post-WWII Iran, horrific and defiant as women escape the narrow confines of family and society only to face daunting new challenges.

Now in political exile, Shahrnush Parsipur lives in the Bay Area. She is the author of several short story collections including Touba and the Meaning of Night.]]> 192 Shahrnush Parsipur 1558614524 Lisa 0 3.82 1973 Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
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]]> <![CDATA[Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran]]> 129118
“An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold Bloom

Roya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with intellectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty, satirical exchanges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also part of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fist of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip. It is with the innocent confusion of youth that Roya describes her discovery of a swastika—“a plus sign gone awry, a dark reptile with four hungry claws”—painted on the wall near her home. As a schoolgirl she watched as friends accused of reading blasphemous books were escorted from class by Islamic Society guards, never to return. Only much later did Roya learn that she was spared a similar fate because her teacher admired her writing.

Hakakian relates in the most poignant, and at times painful, ways what life was like for women after the country fell into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists who had declared an insidious war against them, but we see it all through the eyes of a strong, youthful optimist who somehow came up in the world believing that she was different, knowing she was special.

A wonderfully evocative story, Journey from the Land of No reveals an Iran most readers have not encountered and re-createsa time and place dominated by religious fanaticism, violence, and fear with an open heart.]]> 256 Roya Hakakian 0609810308 Lisa 0 3.75 2004 Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
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]]> I Love Dick 243991
Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.]]> 280 Chris Kraus 1584350342 Lisa 0 3.53 1997 I Love Dick
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]]> Seasonal Associate 39655234
No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition, Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary account of corporate flex-time employment that offers "freedom" to workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.]]> 240 Heike Geissler 1635900360 Lisa 0 3.70 2014 Seasonal Associate
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]]> Тінь Юнґера 203524525 100 Banine 6179534705 Lisa 0 4.08 Тінь Юнґера
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]]> Book of Mutter 31862023 Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childhood. I take things away. I smash things, relations are broken. I am the bad mother. -- from Book of Mutter

Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes -- and dead calm -- of grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The text spirals out into a kind of fractured anatomy of melancholy that comes to contain critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha , Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form on Bourgeois's Cells sculptures -- at once channeling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space.

Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, Book of Mutter is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem/postmodern theater.]]> 216 Kate Zambreno 1584351969 Lisa 0 to-read 4.23 2017 Book of Mutter
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]]> A Short Border Handbook 3161679 164 Gazmend Kapllani 1846271495 Lisa 0 4.05 2008 A Short Border Handbook
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]]> <![CDATA[Industrial Park (Latin American Women Writers)]]> 2258001 A member of Brazil's avant-garde in its heyday, Patrícia Galvão (or, to use her nickname, Pagu) was extraordinary. Not only was her work among the most exciting and innovative published in the 1930s, it was unique in portraying an avant-garde woman's view of women in São Paulo during that audacious period.
Industrial Park, first published in 1933, is Galvão's most notable literary achievement. Like Döblin's portrayal of Berlin in Alexanderplatz or Biely's St Petersburg, it is a book about the voices, clashes, and traffic of a city in the middle of rapid change. It includes fragments of public documents as well as dialogue and narration, giving a panorama of the city in a sequence of colorful slices.
The novel dramatizes the problems of exploitation, poverty, racial prejudice, prostitution, state repression, and neocolonialism, but it is by no means a doctrinaire tract. Galvão's ironic wit pervades the novel, aspiring not only to describe the teeming city but also to put art and politics in each other's service.
Like many of her contemporaries, Galvão was a member of the Brazilian Communist Party. She attracted Party criticism for her unorthodox behavior and outspokenness. A visit to Moscow in 1934 disenchanted her with the communist state, but she continued to militate for change upon returning to Brazil. She was imprisoned and tortured under the Vargas dictatorship between 1935 and 1940. In the 1940s she returned to the public through her journalism and literary activities. She died in 1962.
]]> 168 Patrícia Galvão 0803270410 Lisa 0 3.69 1933 Industrial Park (Latin American Women Writers)
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]]> <![CDATA[Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness]]> 13202092
In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as a champion athlete with a plant-based diet and inspires runners at every level. From his Midwestern childhood hunting, fishing, and cooking for his meat-and-potatoes family to his slow transition to ultrarunning and veganism, Scott’s story shows the power of an iron will and blows apart the stereotypes of what athletes should eat to fuel optimal performance. Full of stories of competition as well as science and practical advice—including his own recipes—Eat and Run will motivate readers and expand their food horizons.]]> 272 Scott Jurek 0547569653 Lisa 0 3.99 2012 Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
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]]> <![CDATA[Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen]]> 6289283 Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.

With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.]]> 287 Christopher McDougall Lisa 0 4.29 2009 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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]]> <![CDATA[Нікого немає в лісі. Історії про людей, будівлі і психіатрію]]> 198369192
«Чи чути звук дерева, що падає у лісі, якщо нікого немає поруч?» � це запитання запрошує стати свідками: уявно переступити поріг психіатричної лікарні, вислухати чужі переживання, побачити, як вони перестають бути незрозумілими і відлякуючими, стаючи натомість частинами загальнолюдського досвіду.]]> 232 Христина Шалак 6178203756 Lisa 0 4.57 2023 Нікого немає в лісі. Історії про людей, будівлі і психіатрію
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]]> <![CDATA[How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease]]> 25663961 New York Times Bestseller

"This book may help those who are susceptible to illnesses that can be prevented."—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Absolutely the best book I've read on nutrition and diet" –Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones Solution

From the physician behind the wildly popular NutritionFacts website, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.

The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more-and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.

The simple truth is that most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses but bad at preventing chronic disease. The fifteen leading causes of death claim the lives of 1.6 million Americans annually. This doesn't have to be the case. By following Dr. Greger's advice, all of it backed up by strong scientific evidence, you will learn which foods to eat and which lifestyle changes to make to live longer.

History of prostate cancer in your family? Put down that glass of milk and add flaxseed to your diet whenever you can. Have high blood pressure? Hibiscus tea can work better than a leading hypertensive drug-and without the side effects. Fighting off liver disease? Drinking coffee can reduce liver inflammation. Battling breast cancer? Consuming soy is associated with prolonged survival. Worried about heart disease (the number 1 killer in the United States)? Switch to a whole-food, plant-based diet, which has been repeatedly shown not just to prevent the disease but often stop it in its tracks.

In addition to showing what to eat to help treat the top fifteen causes of death, How Not to Die includes Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen -a checklist of the twelve foods we should consume every day. Full of practical, actionable advice and surprising, cutting edge nutritional science, these doctor's orders are just what we need to live longer, healthier lives.]]> 576 Michael Greger 1250066115 Lisa 0 4.41 2015 How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
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no chapter on shaheds, but otherwise very useful
]]> The Thief's Journal 328208 268 Jean Genet 0802130143 Lisa 0 4.03 1949 The Thief's Journal
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]]> Мабуть Естер 26249692 228 Katja Petrowskaja 6176141052 Lisa 0 4.08 2014 Мабуть Естер
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]]> Дороги камени 41717651 264 Неля Шейко-Медведєва 617728633X Lisa 0 4.20 2018 Дороги камени
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]]> <![CDATA[Моя кар'єра. Жіноча проза 20-х років]]> 34880615
До збірки жіночої прози 20-х років увійшли повість Олександри Свекли "Надломлені серцем" і оповідання Марії Галич, Галини Орлівни й Варвари Чередниченко.]]> 464 Ярина Цимбал 6175693108 Lisa 0 4.11 Моя кар'єра. Жіноча проза 20-х років
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]]> War Diaries, 1939�1945 29771643 These personal diaries kept by Astrid Lindgren, author of the world famous Pippi Longstocking books, chronicle the horrors of World War II.

Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer a civilian's, a mother's, and an aspiring writer’s unique account of the devastating conflict. She emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and war, as well as a deeply sensitive and astute observer of world affairs. We hear her thoughts about rationing, blackouts, the Soviet invasion of Finland, and the nature of evil, as well as of her personal heartbreaks, financial struggles, and trials as a mother and writer.

Posthumously published in Sweden to great international acclaim, these diaries were called in the Swedish press an “unparalleled war narrative,� “unprecedented.� and a “shocking history lesson.� Illustrated with family photographs, newspaper clippings, and facsimile pages, Lindgren’s diaries provide an intensely personal and vivid account of Europe during the war.]]> 240 Astrid Lindgren 0300220049 Lisa 0 4.11 2015 War Diaries, 1939–1945
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]]> Austerlitz 88442 Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable� (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, the fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, he follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.]]> 415 W.G. Sebald 0140297995 Lisa 5 favorites 3.97 2001 Austerlitz
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]]> Шляхами і стежками життя 54506575
У повісті «Шляхами і стежками життя» Н. Королева перебуває в ролі автора та головної героїні водночас. Це захоплива розповідь про тернисті дороги, якими пройшла письменниця в пошуках кращої долі і свого призначення. Видворення з Іспанії через дружбу і кохання з Альфонсо ХІІІ. Переїзд до Києва, одруження з князем Іскандером, небезпечна подорож на Схід. Богемне життя у Франції. Знову Київ і Перша світова війна. Новий шлюб із відомим українським письменником.]]> 444 Наталена Королева 9660389523 Lisa 0 4.00 Шляхами і стежками життя
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]]> Бтс (Ukrainian Edition) 218155018 56 Френкі Френкі Lisa 0 0.0 Бтс (Ukrainian Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Зібрання творів у 10 томах. Том 9]]> 219221568 392 Ольга Кобилянська 9669970970 Lisa 0 5.00 Зібрання творів у 10 томах. Том 9
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]]> <![CDATA[Жінка на бойовій лінії. Спогади, щоденник]]> 220146748 Спогади та щоденникові записи письменниці в основному висвітлюють два періоди: Першу світову війну та розвиток кооперації.
Її подвижницьке життя гідне подиву й наслідування. Правдиво й проникливо розкрила авторка спогадів поневіряння галичан під час австро-угорського панування, воєнних лихоліть, польської та німецької окупацій.
Мужня, невтомна в обороні українства, ця жінка не корилася жодній владі�
Книга неодмінно зацікавить істориків, краєзнавців, студентів, усіх шанувальників творчості письменниці.]]> 336 Іванна Блажкевич 9661052190 Lisa 0 0.0 Жінка на бойовій лінії. Спогади, щоденник
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]]> Слово про будинок "Слово" 39705345
Це спогади Володимира Куліша, сина письменника і драматурга Миколи Куліша. На сторінках цієї книжки можна поглянути на приватне життя одного з найталановитіших поколінь української літератури � мешканців харківського будинку «Слово» � на початку 30-х років минулого століття в той період, коли хмари тоталітарного терору лише починали згущуватись.

Книжку проілюстровано зображеннями, наданими Харківським літературним музеєм.]]> 68 Володимир Куліш Lisa 0 4.72 1966 Слово про будинок "Слово"
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average rating: 4.72
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]]> Long Live the Post Horn! 53168757
This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.]]> 240 Vigdis Hjorth Lisa 5 favorites 3.75 2012 Long Live the Post Horn!
author: Vigdis Hjorth
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> All Fours 197798168
A semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.]]> 336 Miranda July 0593190262 Lisa 5 favorites 3.54 2024 All Fours
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name: Lisa
average rating: 3.54
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rating: 5
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]]> Нога #1 52889334
12 художньо-документальних текстів написаних в Україні наприкінці 2019 року. Тут: автобіографія людини, що живе на подільских вулицях, тюремні спогади студентки лінгвістичного університету, отруєне озеро та його пристосовані істоти, побоювання депутата, що лікарня це портал до аду, роздуми над мертвим тілом дельфіна, Google Borscht Results і дещо інше.

Автори першого випуску:
Назар Беницький
Оксана Брюховецька
Сашко Протяг
Олена Думашева
Олександр Авербух
Філіп Оленик
Володимир Жбанков
Катя Лібкінд
Ріке Феронія
Мішель Якобі
Антон Полунін
Ліза Білецька

Всередині журналу 104 сторінки. Картинок немає.]]> 104 Назар Беницький Lisa 0 4.62 2020 Нога #1
author: Назар Беницький
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]]> Is Mother Dead 60059857 Will and Testament

'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought about a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonious absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house.]]> 330 Vigdis Hjorth 1839764317 Lisa 0 3.95 2020 Is Mother Dead
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]]> Історія, яку варто почути 210153748 488 Євген Дубровський 6178082940 Lisa 0 thats-that-shit-i-dont-like 5.00 Історія, яку варто почути
author: Євген Дубровський
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women � and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—TܰԱ
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]> 129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Lisa 4 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Lisa
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]]> Against Love: A Polemic 123732
Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions.

But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love.

Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.]]> 224 Laura Kipnis 0375719326 Lisa 0 3.65 2003 Against Love: A Polemic
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name: Lisa
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]]> Жінка в Берліні 45301042 Кмітлива, спостережлива, сповнена вітальних сил і непохитного здорового глузду, героїня-оповідачка «Жінки в Берліні» стала голосом безсловесних мільйонів жінок, яким випало відбудовувати життя з руїн, у матеріально й морально знищеному світі.]]> 304 Anonymous 6177286488 Lisa 5 4.61 1953 Жінка в Берліні
author: Anonymous
name: Lisa
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rating: 5
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]]> Скажи, скажи: ні 204874691 152 Тарас Ріль Lisa 0 thats-that-shit-i-dont-like 3.75 Скажи, скажи: ні
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]]> Terminal Boredom: Stories 55251789
Women and Women: The fissures in a queer matriarchal utopia are exposed when a boy, a creature usually contained in ghettoised isolation - appears beneath young Yūko's window
You May Dream: An extreme government initiative curbing overpopulation prompts a woman to re-evaluate her friendships
Night Picnic: The last family in a desolate city learns to be human through the awkward appropriation of popular culture
That Old Seaside Club: Passive-aggressive furniture provides unwelcome romantic advice
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Tense interplanetary politics distort Emma's love life
Forgotten: Jane's ex-girlfriend reppears, radically altered and insistent on a catch-up
Terminal Boredom: Tokyo's teenagers, disaffected and numb from excessive screentime, find distraction in violence.

Suzuki's singular slant on science fiction remains fresh and essential. Concerns about society, gender and imperialism dovetail irresistibly with flights of speculative wonder. And with a kitchen sink in the corner of even her wildest stories, Suzuki reminds us that while society may be limitless, relationships remain impossible]]> 218 Izumi Suzuki 1788739884 Lisa 0 3.59 2021 Terminal Boredom: Stories
author: Izumi Suzuki
name: Lisa
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]]> Beneath the Wheel 25905 Beneath the Wheel or The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of tireless study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to imagine other possibilities outside the narrowly circumscribed world of the academy. Finally sent home after a nervous breakdown, Hans is revived by nature and romance, and vows never to return to the gray conformity of the academic system.]]> 192 Hermann Hesse 031242230X Lisa 0 3.90 1906 Beneath the Wheel
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Lisa
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]]> School For Design Fiction 21452542 128 Franciska Zolyom 3944669274 Lisa 0 3.60 2014 School For Design Fiction
author: Franciska Zolyom
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.60
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]]> <![CDATA[Колективні фантазії та восточные ресурсы]]> 123232310 48 Катерина Алійник Lisa 0 4.75 2023 Колективні фантазії та восточные ресурсы
author: Катерина Алійник
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.75
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]]> The Storyteller 8966433 120 T.J. Demos 3037640863 Lisa 0 3.00 2010 The Storyteller
author: T.J. Demos
name: Lisa
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]]> <![CDATA[Migrants and refugees on the Curonian Spit: resettlement in the mid-20th century]]> 61449090 156 Vasilijus Safronovas 6094473183 Lisa 0 2.33 Migrants and refugees on the Curonian Spit: resettlement in the mid-20th century
author: Vasilijus Safronovas
name: Lisa
average rating: 2.33
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]]> <![CDATA[Practical Training In Thinking]]> 106108378 78 Snejanka Mihaylova 9549294315 Lisa 0 4.00 Practical Training In Thinking
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]]> Нога #2 215090413
На обкладинці використано візуальну роботу Каті Лібкінд. А що всередині?

Випуск починається з тексту Дарини Малюк. Вона розмірковує про бажані предмети, шанс отримати які було безповоротно втрачено.

Інеса Марґ описує вбивство і перетворення на їжу кози, що постарішала.

Назар Беницький згадує дитинство та інтернат. У його зошитах спогади чергуються з щоденниковими записами про спроби побудувати автономне життя на острові.

Альона Думашева продовжує розповідати про своє ув’язненн� у рф. Її новий текст про життя жінок-увʼязнених у Володимирській колонії.

Антон Полунін у поетичному тексті заповідає нам одну цінну річ.

Ліза Білецька розповідає про своє знайомство з компанією, що надає людям похилого віку послуги “пожиттєвог� утримання� в обмін на спадщину на квартиру.

Філіп Оленик переповідає історії нігерійців та українців нігерійського походження.

Текст Дарини Малюк, яким починається випуск, було написано у 2020-му році. У останньому тексті Дарина розповідає про своє життя у 2023-му.]]> 96 Дарина Малюк Lisa 0 4.83 2024 Нога #2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nature Reset: A Practical Guide to Restore Your Nervous System, Reclaim Your Body, and Reawaken Your Spirit Wherever You Are]]> 209670017 From a forest-ecologist-turned-nature-therapist with 25 years of leading therapeutic Nature experiences, comes a practical and powerful guide for restoring your nervous system, rekindling creativity and passion, and reclaiming flow both in body and spirit, whether you are in the heart of the city or a suburban backyard.



“A detailed map that reveals true practices for awakening harmony in ourselves, and for bringing more peace into the world.� - Robin Rose Bennett, author of Healing The Gift of Healing Herbs

Follow a clear path forward through foundational lessons, healing rituals, and easy practices rooted in the alchemy of nature and somatic therapies, and mindfulness.

In The Nature Reset, you will

25 practices that are restorative, enlivening, and guide you home to your true selfStrategies to rewild right where you are through local foraging, elemental embodiment, earthing, and growing medical herbsDetailed charts that support you with incorporating Nature’s medicine into your daily lifeNature’s lessons, such as awakening the heart, embodiment, and getting groundedWays to create your own nature retreat, forest bathing experiences, and profoundly connect children with natureThis step-by-step guide will support your journey of feeling at home within your body—that unconditional, deep-down feeling that you are safe and all is well—and lead you to new paths of vitality and inner peace.

“Kathleen wisely and gently guides the reader through a multi-sensory experience as she teaches how connecting with nature can be a pleasure-filled pathway to accessing the best evidence-based approaches to restoring and sustaining well-being, resilience, and authentic self-compassion." - Wayne M. Sotile, Ph.D., author and Founder of Sotile Center for Resilience

"A kind and encouraging guide for any age to help restore our connections with Nature. Kathleen helps us find mindfulness, solace, balance, and endurance through her intelligent practices for Nature resetting." Clare Walker Leslie, author of A Year In A Memoir of Solace

“This guide gently weaves together scientific insights and practical advice to highlight the profound impacts of nature on your nervous system, body, and spirit." Angie Stegall, ANFT Certified Forest Therapy Guide & Martha Beck Certified Wayfinder Life Coach

“This book challenges the reader to practice the lessons prescribed rather than just assimilate them mentally. This is not a book about learning; it is a book about trying…it leads the reader into a mindful relationship with Nature that can both renew and restore physical, mental and spiritual health.� Hope Andersen, author of How to Remodel a Life

-Ǵdzٱ wisdom in helping the seeking individual reconnect with their body and access nature for their own natural therapy—brilliant! Truly one of the best self-help books.� - Mandy Bird, M.A., LCMHC]]> 208 Kathleen McIntyre Lisa 0 thats-that-shit-i-dont-like 4.50 The Nature Reset: A Practical Guide to Restore Your Nervous System, Reclaim Your Body, and Reawaken Your Spirit Wherever You Are
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]]> <![CDATA[Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing]]> 153347 Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for 'great' writing: "The School of the Dead"--the notion that something or someone must die in order for good writing to be born; "The School of Dreams"--the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration and output; and "The School of Roots"--the importance of depth in the 'nether realms' in all aspects of writing.

Cixous's love of language and passion for the written word is evident on every page. Her emotive style draws heavily on the writers she most admires: the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, the Austrian novelists Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard, Dostoyevsky, and, most of all, Kafka.]]> 162 Hélène Cixous 0231076592 Lisa 0 to-read 4.33 1993 Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
author: Hélène Cixous
name: Lisa
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]]> <![CDATA[Woman Running in the Mountains]]> 1226281 275 Yūko Tsushima Lisa 0 3.85 1980 Woman Running in the Mountains
author: Yūko Tsushima
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1980
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]]> Schoolgirl 12483882 Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against "them" -- a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.]]> 103 Osamu Dazai 1935548085 Lisa 0 4.02 1939 Schoolgirl
author: Osamu Dazai
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1939
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]]> <![CDATA[True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness]]> 190054
How to make the "effortless effort" that will vivify the present moment
� Meditative self-inquiry and "The Way of Subtraction": how to ask a spiritually powerful question―and determine the real answer
� Two guided meditations on CD intended to reveal what Adyashanti calls "your home as awareness itself"
"We've been taught that awakening is difficult," explains Adyashanti, "that to wake up from the illusion of separation takes years. But all it really takes is a willingness to look into the depths of your experience here and now." True Meditation gives you the opportunity to reclaim the original purpose of meditation―as a gateway to "the objectless freedom of being."]]> 104 Adyashanti 1591794676 Lisa 0 4.43 2006 True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[Мария Башкирцева. Дневник (Russian Edition)]]> 56555244 880 Marie Bashkirtseff Lisa 0 4.43 1884 Мария Башкирцева. Дневник (Russian Edition)
author: Marie Bashkirtseff
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1884
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept]]> 48987 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is an enigmatic and nearly indescribable book, a small classic of poetic prose whose author has been compared with Anaïs Nin and Djuna Barnes. In lushly evocative language, Smart recounts her love affair with the poet George Barker with an operatic grandeur that takes in the tragedy of her passion; the suffering of Barker's wife; the children the lovers conceived. Accompanied in this edition by The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, a short novel that may be read as its sequel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has been hailed by critics worldwide as a work of sheer genius.]]> 240 Elizabeth Smart 0679738045 Lisa 0 3.54 1945 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
author: Elizabeth Smart
name: Lisa
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]]> Imago 57287698 Она не дает конкретной инструкции, как найти и полюбить себя... Но она точно расскажет, что необходимо преодолетт и принять на этом пути.]]> 216 Bad Mama 9669862272 Lisa 1 thats-that-shit-i-dont-like 4.07 Imago
author: Bad Mama
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]]> Simultan. Erzählungen 1944698 211 Ingeborg Bachmann 3492212964 Lisa 5 4.00 1972 Simultan. Erzählungen
author: Ingeborg Bachmann
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1972
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Земля Загублених, або Маленькі страшні казки]]> 34818907
В оформленні обкладинки використано фото Катерини Калитко.]]> 224 Катерина Калитко Lisa 0 4.46 2017 Земля Загублених, або Маленькі страшні казки
author: Катерина Калитко
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.46
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]]> Palestine 769712 Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995—Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996.

Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present the first single-volume collection of this landmark of journalism and the art form of comics.

Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium.

Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best. This edition of Palestine also features an introduction from renowned author, critic, and historian Edward Said (Peace and Its Discontents and The Question of Palestine), one of the world's most respected authorities on the Middle Eastern conflict.

]]> 288 Joe Sacco 156097432X Lisa 0 4.23 1996 Palestine
author: Joe Sacco
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]]> <![CDATA[Записки Кирпатого Мефістофеля. Повісті та оповідання]]> 16065420 381 Volodymyr Vynnychenko Lisa 0 4.39 1917 Записки Кирпатого Мефістофеля. Повісті та оповідання
author: Volodymyr Vynnychenko
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1917
rating: 0
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]]> oberih 61674845 216 Daša Anosova Lisa 5 5.00 2022 oberih
author: Daša Anosova
name: Lisa
average rating: 5.00
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Болото солодше за мед. Голоси комуністичної Албанії]]> 200455102
Компонуючи історії своїх героїв у хор зворушливих голосів, Малґожата Реймер відкриває невідоме обличчя Албанії та найтемніший період її історії.

Малґожата Реймер � польська письменниця, репортажистка.
Випускниця культурознавства Варшавського університету.
2009 року вийшов друком її роман «Токсимія», що був номінований на літературну премію міста Ґдиня і премію Польської асоціації книговидавців.
2013 року опублікувала збірку репортажів «Бухарест: пил і кров», за яку отримала премію часопису Newsweek ім. Терези Торанської, літературну премію для письменниць «Ґрифія» і премію Гарантія культури TVN Kultura.
За свою третю книжку «Болото солодше за мед. Голоси комуністичної Албанії» (2019) отримала Paszport часопису Polityka, премію Фундації ім. Косцєльських, а також «Бурштинового метелика».
Публікується у польських виданнях Duży Format, Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, Herito.]]> 336 Małgorzata Rejmer 6179533628 Lisa 5 4.75 2018 Болото солодше за мед. Голоси комуністичної Албанії
author: Małgorzata Rejmer
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.75
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> Забуття 31846486 256 Tanja Maljartschuk Lisa 0 3.99 2016 Забуття
author: Tanja Maljartschuk
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Звірослов 8673967 281 Tanja Maljartschuk 9660348991 Lisa 0 4.31 2009 Звірослов
author: Tanja Maljartschuk
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> Очі демона. Франко 200391830 80 Георгій Бабанський Lisa 0 3.11 2022 Очі демона. Франко
author: Георгій Бабанський
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.11
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Orlando 18839 Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.]]> 336 Virginia Woolf 0141184272 Lisa 0
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it all went well until the thames unfroze

Orlando is almost entirely a winking, quipping aside to us (/Vita), the humor of which falls flat

then there are the interminable lists, something between spasmodic and soporific

romps don’t do V any good. her worst. glad she had fun though.]]> 3.88 1928 Orlando
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.88
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a no good poopoo book, virginia

update:

it all went well until the thames unfroze

Orlando is almost entirely a winking, quipping aside to us (/Vita), the humor of which falls flat

then there are the interminable lists, something between spasmodic and soporific

romps don’t do V any good. her worst. glad she had fun though.
]]> <![CDATA[Contemporary Ukrainian prose and poetry in Vogue]]> 180740149
Ukrainian Vogue publishes a book of contemporary Ukrainian prose and poetry The book "Modern Ukrainian Prose and Poetry" is another collector's edition of Ukrainian Vogue. The works in it were written specifically for Vogue Ukraine. Under the cover, the voices of modern Ukrainian novelists and poets are Serhii Zhadan, Yevgenia Kuznetsova, Maryana Savka, Iryna Tsylyk, Oksana Zabuzhko, Tetyana Malyarchuk, Oli Rusina, Iryna Slavinska, Tetyana Vlasova, Lyudmila Horova, Kateryna Kalytko, Oleksandr Mykheda, Myroslava Layuk , Gasky Shiyan, Miriam Dragina, Irena Karpa, Olga Kupriyan and Hanna Ulyura. The illustrations were created by Olena Yemchuk, a world-renowned photographer and artist of Ukrainian origin. In English and Ukrainian Just as foreign glossy publications once published Hemingway, Capote and Fitzgerald, so Ukrainian Vogue consistently gave voice to our modern writers in its columns. So the release of this book was a dream come true � and timely. All works have been translated into English to enable the foreign reader to get to know our authors even more closely. Creating Ukrainian fashion in the world is our goal.]]> 304 Сергій Жадан 9669865328 Lisa 0 4.12 Contemporary Ukrainian prose and poetry in Vogue
author: Сергій Жадан
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[Human Diastrophism (Luba and Palomar, #2)]]> 405556 Love and Rockets is finally being released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order.


This volume will collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of "Palomar," the small Central American town, beginning with the landmark "Human Diastrophism," named one of the greatest comic book stories of the twentieth Century by The Comics Journal, and continuing on through more modern-day classics.


"Human Diastrophism" is the only full graphic novel length "Palomar" story ever created by Gilbert. In it, a serial killer stalks Palomar—but his depredations, hideous as they are, only serve to exacerbate the cracks in the idyllic Central American town as the modern world begins to intrude. "Diastrophism" concludes with the death (the suicide, in fact) of one of Palomar's most beloved characters, and a postscript that provides one of the most hauntingly magical moments of the entire series as a rain of ashes drifts down upon Palomar.


Also included are all the post-"Diastrophism" stories, in which Luba's past (as seen in the epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and the seeds are sown for the "Palomar diaspora" that ends this dense, enthralling book.]]> 288 Gilbert Hernández 1560978481 Lisa 0 4.36 2005 Human Diastrophism (Luba and Palomar, #2)
author: Gilbert Hernández
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2005
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]]> OLD KHATA BOOK 199261402
Old Khata Book � не енциклопедія регіональних стилів будівництва, хоча різноманітні традиції будови хати читачі тут знайдуть. Це документальний нарис на перетині фотографії та літератури, репортажу та візуальної історії. Розмовляючи з господарями хат, авторки починали із запитань про житло, але часто все закінчувалося монологами людей про життя.

Тому ця книжка виходить за межі архітектури й етнографії на ширшу тему: якими є українці, як розуміють дім, красу, життя і смерть. Вона не вичерпує цієї теми, а запрошує далі її досліджувати.]]> 200 Анна Ільченко 617953361X Lisa 0 4.88 2023 OLD KHATA BOOK
author: Анна Ільченко
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.88
book published: 2023
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]]> Lawn of Excluded Middle 1617510 88 Rosmarie Waldrop 0927920042 Lisa 0 4.39 1993 Lawn of Excluded Middle
author: Rosmarie Waldrop
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> From A to Z 817758 30 Etel Adnan 0942996003 Lisa 0 4.07 1982 From A to Z
author: Etel Adnan
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home]]> 38531325
Skaudžius istorinius ir asmeninius II pasaulinio karo įvykius pasakoti padeda itin išradingas knygos dizainas, kuriantis šeimos albumo įspūdį. Nora Krug į vientisą koliažą sujungia savo pieštas iliustracijas, ranka rašytą tekstą, senas fotografijas, laiškus ir archyvinius dokumentus. Ši knyga � tai nepaprasta kelionė, į kurią verta leistis dėl be galo įtraukiančios patirties, keičiančios mūsų suvokimą apie atsakomybę ir tapatybę.

„Priklausyti kokiai nors vietai � reiškia negalėti pasirinkti, ko ji iš mūsų pareikalaus. Bet mes galime pasirinkti, ką mes iš jos gausime. Nora Krug paima iš savo tėvynės Vokietijos ir duoda mums suprasti, ko reikia norint būti vokiečiu šiandien, įteikia vadovą, kaip galima stoti į akistatą su praeitimi.„“]]> 288 Nora Krug 1476796629 Lisa 0 4.28 2018 Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
author: Nora Krug
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Bad Bad 1091121 123 Chelsey Minnis 0977106497 Lisa 0 4.23 2007 Bad Bad
author: Chelsey Minnis
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson]]> 102645 Orlando. The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, their son Nigel combines his mother's memoir with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters. Even during her various love affairs with women, Vita maintained a loving marriage with Harold. Portrait of a Marriage presents an often misunderstood but always fascinating couple.]]> 278 Nigel Nicolson 0226583570 Lisa 0 4.09 1973 Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
author: Nigel Nicolson
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Загублений острів. Книга репортажів з окупованого Криму]]> 51790135
Ця книжка є справжнім голосом анексованого Криму, його багатоголоссям, в якому окремі розповіді творять єдину спільну історію, яка ще не завершилася.]]> 312 Наталя Гуменюк 617679594X Lisa 0 4.60 2020 Загублений острів. Книга репортажів з окупованого Криму
author: Наталя Гуменюк
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/09/26
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]]> <![CDATA[My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness]]> 33113683
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman’s exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist’s burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects of her life that will resonate with readers.]]> 144 Kabi Nagata 1626926034 Lisa 0 4.11 2016 My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
author: Kabi Nagata
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Танжер 35249516 256 Йван Козленко Lisa 0 to-read 3.35 Танжер
author: Йван Козленко
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.35
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West]]> 53328405 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'

At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's tragic death in 1941.

Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and glimpse into their extraordinary lives: from Vita's travels across the globe, to Virginia's parties with the Bloomsbury set; from their shared love of dogs and nature, to their grief at the beginning of the Second World War. Discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable.

WITH AN ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.]]> 280 Virginia Woolf 1784876720 Lisa 0 4.53 1926 Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1926
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]]> Дар (сборник) 34574347 592 Vladimir Nabokov Lisa 4 4.09 1937 Дар (сборник)
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1937
rating: 4
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]]> Flush 18844 ]]> 204 Virginia Woolf 0156319527 Lisa 5 3.86 1933 Flush
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1933
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]]> 2195464
Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.]]> 188 Haruki Murakami Lisa 0 3.87 2007 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> Medea 153480 208 Christa Wolf 0385518579 Lisa 0 3.99 1996 Medea
author: Christa Wolf
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1996
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]]> Medea 752900
Euripides' masterly portrayal of the motives fiercely driving Medea's pursuit of vengeance for her husband's insult and betrayal has held theater audiences spellbound for more than twenty centuries. Rex Warner's authoritative translation brings this great classic of world literature vividly to life.

Reprint of the John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1944 edition.]]> 59 Euripides 0486275485 Lisa 0 3.93 -431 Medea
author: Euripides
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.93
book published: -431
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]]> <![CDATA[Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan]]> 6658129
At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan’s most infamous yakuza boss—and the threat of death for him and his family—Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.

In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter—who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor—to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day yakuza that even few Japanese ever see, Tokyo Vice is a fascination, and an education, from first to last.]]> 335 Jake Adelstein 0307378799 Lisa 0 3.88 2009 Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
author: Jake Adelstein
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2009
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]]> A True Novel 17621103 A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan.

A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.

The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.]]> 854 Minae Mizumura 1590512030 Lisa 0 4.22 2002 A True Novel
author: Minae Mizumura
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Тіні забутих предків. Fata Morgana]]> 50741807 192 Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky 6177489753 Lisa 0
fata morgana shockingly grim; stubs of fingers preserved in oil and buried in the backyard against a psychological group portrait of broiling disenfranchised peasantry ]]> 4.28 Тіні забутих предків. Fata Morgana
author: Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.28
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тіні забутих предків 5/5

fata morgana shockingly grim; stubs of fingers preserved in oil and buried in the backyard against a psychological group portrait of broiling disenfranchised peasantry
]]> <![CDATA[The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)]]> 148905 ]]> 375 Virginia Woolf 0156028050 Lisa 4 3.77 1915 The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1915
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Hour of the Star (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> 61121980 96 Clarice Lispector 024160057X Lisa 0 4.01 1977 Hour of the Star (Penguin Modern Classics)
author: Clarice Lispector
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/07/26
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]]> Мої запасні життя 49416255 152 Ірина Славінська 617679711X Lisa 0 4.01 Мої запасні життя
author: Ірина Славінська
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.01
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]]> Танці з кістками 61867327
Проста, на перший погляд, історія про патологоанатома-невдаху. Северина не цінують на роботі й мало платять, з особистим життям чоловіка відбувається щось незрозуміле, самооцінка на нулі. Тож перебуваючи практично на дні, він одразу ж хапається за можливість підзаробити. Так, пропозиція не зовсім легальна, так, навряд чи можна чекати чогось доброго від ринку трансплантації органів, але так спокусливо нарешті влаштувати собі забезпечене життя. Зрештою, Северин має забрати в уже мертвих людей якусь дрібничку, те, що їм і так не потрібно. Поки що у мертвих людей, поки що дрібничку.

Крок за кроком, рішення за рішенням патологоанатом змінюється, трансформується � так в усіма зневаженого чоловіка на межі алкоголізму спершу проростає впевненість у собі, а за нею і безпринципність.

Скоївши один злочин, він набагато легше вчиняє інший, а за ним і наступний. Те, що вчора Северин вважав неприпустимим, стає новою нормою. Та й узагалі виникає питання: чи здатен він тепер зупинитися і як далеко може зайти?


Андрій Семʼянків � лікар, автор блогу MED GOblin та бестселера «Медицина доказова і не дуже».]]> 368 Андрій Сем’янкі� 6177960677 Lisa 0 4.40 Танці з кістками
author: Андрій Сем’янкі�
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.40
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]]> Огненный ангел 35515340 687 Valery Bryusov 3961899916 Lisa 0 to-read 3.67 1908 Огненный ангел
author: Valery Bryusov
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1908
rating: 0
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]]> Kokoro 762476 The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"

Kokoro�"the heart of things"—is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the very essence of loneliness and stands as a stirring introduction to modern Japanese literature.

What is love, and what is friendship? What is the extent of our responsibility to ourselves and to others? A trilogy of stories that explores the very essence of loneliness, Kokoro opens with "Sensei and I," in which the narrator recounts his relationship with an intellectual who dwells in isolation but maintains a sophisticated worldview. "My Parents and I" brings the reader into the narrator's family circle, and "Sensei and His Testament" features the eponymous character's explanation of how he came to live a life of solitude.

Natsume Soseki (1867�1916), perhaps the greatest novelist of the Meiji period, remains one of Japan's most widely read authors. He wrote this novel in 1914, at the peak of his career, and it remains an excellent introduction to modern Japanese literature.]]> 256 Natsume Sōseki 0809260956 Lisa 0 4.05 1914 Kokoro
author: Natsume Sōseki
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1914
rating: 0
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]]> Детство. Отрочество. Юность 23532995 «Отрочество» � вторая повесть в псевдо-автобиографической трилогии Льва Толстого, впервые напечатана в 1854 году в журнале Современник. Эта книга описывает события, происходящие в жизни подростка во время отрочества: первое предательство, изменение моральных ценностей и т. п.
«Юность» � третья и последняя повесть в псевдо-автобиографической трилогии Льва Толстого, впервые напечатана в 1857 году в журнале Современник � 1 . Книга описывает университетские годы жизни главного героя и его сокурсников.]]> 320 Leo Tolstoy Lisa 0 to-read, memoirs-and-letters 4.01 1886 Детство. Отрочество. Юность
author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1886
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartbreak Soup (Luba and Palomar, #1)]]> 405552 The Complete Love and Rockets Library, and the first that collects comics writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's main "Palomar" storyline and more. Heartbreak Soup reprints the earliest tales a small Central American town, Palomar, beginning with the groundbreaking "Sopa de Gran Pena" (which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children, plus imposing newcomer Luba), and continuing on through such classics as "Ecce Homo," "Act of Contrition," "Duck Feet," and the great love story "For the Love of Carmen." In addition to seeing Hernandez develop as a cartoonist from 1983 to 1988, readers will see how he draws characters with various body types that change as they age in "real-time."


These stories first appeared in the long-running (and ongoing) Love and Rockets comics series, also featuring work by Gilbert's brothers, Jaime and Mario. L has been called "the greatest American comic book series of all time" by Rolling Stone and "a great, sprawling American novel" by GQ. It broke ground with its craft and the casual intersectionality of its huge and diverse casts of nuanced characters (many of whom are LGBQTIA+) who live and have relationships in often-naturalistic settings and situations (although L has SF and magical realist elements too). Along with contemporaries Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, and Daniel Clowes, the Hernandez brothers pushed the comics medium into new artistic heights.]]> 288 Gilbert Hernández 1560977833 Lisa 5 4.36 2005 Heartbreak Soup (Luba and Palomar, #1)
author: Gilbert Hernández
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2005
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]]> Embroideries 9526
Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.

As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake one’s virginity, how to escape an arranged marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, keep a man or, most important, keep up appearances.

Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhere—and to teach us all a thing or two.]]> 144 Marjane Satrapi 0375714677 Lisa 0 3.92 2003 Embroideries
author: Marjane Satrapi
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir of a Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992]]> 43565325 The penultimate installment in the bestselling French graphic memoir series—hailed as “exquisitely illustrated� and “irresistible”—covering the years of Riad Sattouf’s adolescence, from 1987-1992.

In the fourth volume of The Arab of the Future, little Riad has grown into a teenager. In the previous books, his childhood was complicated by the pull of his two cultures—French and Syrian—and his parents� deteriorating relationship. Now his father, Adbel-Razak, has left to take a job in Saudi Arabia, and after making a pilgrimage to Mecca, turns increasingly towards religion. But after following him from place to place and living for years under the harsh conditions of his impoverished village, Riad’s mother Clementine has had enough. Refusing to live in a country where women have no rights, she returns with her children to live in France with her own mother� until Abdel-Razak shows up unexpectedly to drag the family on yet another journey.

As the series builds to a climax, we see Riad struggle with problems both universal (bullies at school) and specific (his mother’s sudden illness, the judgment of his religious relatives). And as Abdel-Razak returns again to the same fantastical dreams he pursued in previous books, we see him become more and more unhinged, until ultimately he crosses the line from idealism to fanaticism, leading to a dramatic breaking point.

Full of the same gripping storytelling and lush visual style for which Sattouf’s previous works have won numerous awards, The Arab of the Future 4 continues the saga of the Sattouf family and their peripatetic life in France and the Middle East.]]> 288 Riad Sattouf 1250150663 Lisa 0 4.46 2018 The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir of a Childhood in the Middle East, 1987-1992
author: Riad Sattouf
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe]]> 2786102 336 Timothy Snyder 0465002374 Lisa 5 3.99 2008 The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe
author: Timothy Snyder
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead]]> 1785957 193 Barbara Comyns 0984469311 Lisa 0 3.85 1954 Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
author: Barbara Comyns
name: Lisa
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1954
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arab of the Future 3: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987]]> 33911350 The much-awaited third installment in Riad Sattouf's graphic memoir--which has been translated into fifteen languages and become an international phenomenon

The Arab of the Future is the widely acclaimed, internationally bestselling graphic memoir that tells the story of Riad Sattouf's peripatetic childhood in the Middle East. In the first volume, which covers the years 1978-1984, his family moves between rural France, Libya, and Syria, where they eventually settle in his father's native village of Ter Maaleh, near Homs. The second volume recounts young Riad's first year attending school in Syria (1984-1985), where he dedicates himself to becoming a true Syrian in the country of Hafez al-Assad. In this third volume, (1985-1987), Riad's mother, fed up with the grinding reality of daily life in the village, decides she cannot take it any longer. When she resolves to move back France, young Riad sees his father torn between his wife's aspirations and the weight of family traditions.]]> 160 Riad Sattouf 1627793534 Lisa 0 4.34 2016 The Arab of the Future 3: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987
author: Riad Sattouf
name: Lisa
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2016
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir]]> 28696601 The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf’s internationally acclaimed, #1 French bestseller, which was hailed by The New York Times as “a disquieting yet essential read�

In The Arab of the Future: Volume 1, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood as his family shuttles back and forth between France and the Middle East. In Libya and Syria, young Riad is exposed to the dismal reality of a life where food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and his cousins, virulently anti-Semitic and convinced he is Jewish because of his blond hair, lurk around every corner waiting to beat him up.

In Volume 2, Riad, now settled in his father’s hometown of Homs, gets to go to school, where he dedicates himself to becoming a true Syrian in the country of the dictator Hafez Al-Assad. Told simply yet with devastating effect, Riad’s story takes in the sweep of politics, religion, and poverty, but is steered by acutely observed small moments: the daily sadism of his schoolteacher, the lure of the black market, with its menu of shame and subsistence, and the obsequiousness of his father in the company of those close to the regime. As his family strains to fit in, one chilling, barbaric act drives the Sattoufs to make the most dramatic of changes.

Darkly funny and piercingly direct, The Arab of the Future, Volume 2 once again reveals the inner workings of a tormented country and a tormented family, delivered through Riad Sattouf’s dazzlingly original talent.]]> 154 Riad Sattouf 1627793518 Lisa 0 4.22 2015 The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir
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name: Lisa
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2015
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]]> Перший вінок 56398060
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Перший вінок [Електронна копія] : жіночий альм. / вид коштом Наталії Кобринської і Олени Пчілки. � Електрон. текст. дані (1 файл : 347 Мб). � Львів : З друк. Т-ва ім. Шевченка, 1887 (Київ: НБУ ім. Ярослава Мудрого, 2018).]]> 430 Наталія Кобринська Lisa 0 4.75 Перший вінок
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name: Lisa
average rating: 4.75
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