Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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The Ancestor's Tale
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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The Laying on of Hands
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It's funny, but not too cruel; it's British, so it's understated, and it's subtle and brilliant and a little sad but hilarious at the same time.
Aspects of the Novel
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The Untouchable
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The Stone Carvers
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In the Skin of a Lion
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The Snows of Yesteryear
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The Book of Not: a Novel
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The Book of Joe
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My Name Is Red
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Never Let Me Go
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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed-even comforted-by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood-and about their lives now. A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance-and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro's finest work.
Locus Solus
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Kafka on the Shore
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Spring Snow
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Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial familes, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.
Goodbye Tsugumi
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Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs
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Strange Times, My Dear: the PEN anthology of contemporary Iranian literature
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The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
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The House That George Built
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American popular song -- and songwriters -- of the golden age: super!
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: the Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
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Extremely lively and incisive condemnation of the push to Iraq.
Fiasco: the American Military Adventure in Iraq
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The best overall account of how we wound up in Iraq.
How to Read the Bible
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A reader's companion to the Bible draws on classic interpretations as well as modern scholarship to explain how the Bible may also be a metaphorical reflection of anthropological history.
Just what it says
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
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A dual and mercifully slim biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Falling down brilliant.
A stunning novel, especially if you've ever read and enjoyed Oliver Sacks.
Inside the White Cube: the Ideology of the Gallery Space
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Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
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Art and Objecthood
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The People of Paper
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A Few Days: Poems
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Palm-of-the Hand Stories
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Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
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Five years after the initial publication of Worldchanging, the landscape of environmentalism and sustainability has changed dramatically. The average reader is now well-versed--even inundated--with green lifestyle advice. In 2011, green is the starting point, not the destination. This second edition of the bestselling book is extensively revised to include the latest trends, technologies, and solutions in sustainable living. More than 160 new entries include up-to-the-minute information on the locavore movement, carbon-neutral homes, novel transportation solutions, the growing trend of ecotourism, the concept of food justice, and much more.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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The Master and Margarita
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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 of 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 to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth.
The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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An Awfully Big Adventure
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Elegy: Poems
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The Politics of Small Things: the Power of the Powerless in Dark Times
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
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The Future of the Image
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Metaphors We Live By
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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The Uncommon Reader
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war. Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade.
Garlic and Sapphires: the secret life of a critic in disguise
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Tender at the Bone
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
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Pride and Prejudice
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Jane Austen's Guide to Dating
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My First Summer in the Sierra
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