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I Am Charlotte Simmons

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 2:53:12 PST

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Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achiev ...

The History of Love

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 2:52:51 PST

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, "The History of Love" by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called "The History of Love"...' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to ...

The City of Your Final Destination

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 2:52:35 PST

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Omar Razaghi, a twenty-eight-year-old doctoral student at the University of Kansas, has won a grant to write a biography of Jules Gund, a deceased Latin American writer. There's just one obstacle: Gund's family has not given him authorization. Undeterred, Omar travels to Uruguay, unannounced, to petition the author's three executors in person: Gund's widow, his much younger mistress, and his brot ...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 2:51:11 PST

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It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he’s more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope—or his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. James’s sense o ...

Eve's Diary

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 2:48:30 PST

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A companion piece to "Extracts from Adam's Diary", "Eve's Dairy" was published in 1906 with the stunning illustrations of Lester Ralph. The Quiet Vision copy of this book includes all 50 plus illustraions from the original. "Eve's Diary" is viewed by many as a humorous love story, but also can be viewed as an eulogy to his deceased wife Olivia. This work along with "Extracts from Adam's Diary" ...

High Fidelity

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 2:45:36 PST

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Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, ...

The Winter of Frankie Machine

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:03:10 PST

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Frank Machianno is the guy, a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. That's when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his long board. He's a beloved fixture of the community, a stand-up businessman, a devoted father to his daughter. Frank's also a hit man. Well, a retired hit man. Back in the day, when ...

The Diviners

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:02:23 PST

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This is a spectacularly epic comedy of love, politics, sex and work from one of the most admired and influential American writers of his generation. It is the autumn of election year 2000, and scores of film-business strivers are focused on one goal - getting themselves connected to an elusive but potentially huge television saga, one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with ...

54

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:00:04 PST

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From the authors of the bizarre and extraordinary Q comes this equally bizarre and powerful thriller about the Cold War. The year is 1954. The world is divided into East and West. In Naples, Lucky Luciano is busy fixing horse-races and overseeing the creation of the global heroin trade. In Hollywood, members of Her Majesty’s Secret Service have a bizarre and dangerous mission for Cary Grant. ...

Music for Chameleons

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:59:45 PST

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At the centre of "Music for Chameleons" is Handcarved Coffins, a 'nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven 'conversational portraits' including a touching one ...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:59:28 PST

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Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not to S ...

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:59:12 PST

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Occupying a similarly sinister and macabre world to the American artist Edward Gorey, Tim Burton's work is similarly difficult to place. This is a beautifully produced book filled with fine line drawings--many in colour--illustrating 23 small verse stories which all centre on a surreal deformity--the eponymous Oyster Boy, Stain Boy, The Boy with Nails in his Eyes, Junk Girl, The Pin Cushion Q ...

Evolution Man

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:58:54 PST

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"Artfully told and laugh-out-loud funny", says the Los Angeles Times Book Review of this long out-of-print novel--now being rediscovered. Lewis's hilarious tale of one Stone Age family offers highly-revised accounts of the invention of fire, the origins of courtship, and much more. Charles Darwin may turn over in his grave.

Gomorra

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:58:30 PST

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Un libro che racconta il potere della camorra, la sua affermazione economica e finanziaria, e la sua potenza militare, la sua metamorfosi in comitato d'affari. Una scrittura in prima persona fatta dal luogo degli agguati, nei negozi e nelle fabbriche dei clan, raccogliendo testimonianze e leggende. La storia parte dalla guerra di Secondigliano, dall'ascesa del gruppo Di Lauro al conflitto interno ...

Les oeuvres complètes de Sally Mara

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:58:11 PST

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Cathedral

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:57:44 PST

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Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw ...

Rimini

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:55:17 PST

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Un giornalista milanese scende in riviera per il suo primo incarico importantee viene travolto da una girandola ossessiva di fatti e personaggi. Nellainfuocata estate riminese, dominata dal gusto frenetico del divertimento (emagari di perversi piaceri), le storie di un suonatore di sax, di unoscrittore in crisi, di un gruppo di travestiti giocosi e molte altre ancora siintrecciano con la vita quo ...

Altri libertini

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:55:12 PST

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American Pastoral

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:54:47 PST

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As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and ...

The Music of Chance

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:54:24 PST

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Nashe comes into an inheritance and decides to pursue a life of freedom. He meets Pozzi, a gambler, who exerts a terrible fascination over him, and together they take a desperate gamble. By the author of "The New York Trilogy", "Moon Palace" and "The Invention of Solitude".

Musicophilia

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:53:33 PST

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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compell ...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:53:31 PST

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"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this book for? Who is it ...

Barney's Version

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:53:09 PST

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Before his brain began to shrink, Barney Panofsky clung to two cher-ished beliefs. Life was absurd, and nobody ever truly understood any-body else. Even his friends tend to agree that Barney is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a pen-chant for violence and probably a murderer'. But when his sworn enemy threatens to publish this calumny, Barney is driven to wri ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:52:41 PST

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This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, ...

Journey to the End of the Night

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:52:14 PST

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When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-Century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of t ...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:51:50 PST

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Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:51:33 PST

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This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. ...

The Rotters' Club

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:51:09 PST

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Jonathan Coe's new novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin on to events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British politics - the ...

A touch of love

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:51:05 PST

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The Brotherhood of the Grape

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:49:59 PST

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Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, brick laying father, Nick, though weak and alcoholic, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, though ill and devout to her Catholicism, still has the power to comfort and confuse her children. This is typical of Fan ...

Ask the Dust

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:49:47 PST

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Fiction. John Fante was born in Colorado in 1909 and began writing in 1929. He published numerous short stories, novels and screenplays in the following decades. ASK THE DUST, a coming-of-age novel set in Los Angeles, was first published in 1939. Says Charles Bukowski, in the preface to ASK THE DUST, of his first encounter with Fante's work, "Then one day I pulled a book down and opened it, and t ...

Rumble Tumble

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:49:24 PST

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The fifth installment in Joe R. Lansdale's low-key East Texas thrillers finds Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, despite their best efforts, once again in the midst of grim violence. It begins when Hap volunteers to help his girlfriend, Brett, retrieve her daughter from a life of prostitution just outside Oklahoma City. And where Hap goes, Leonard follows, as always with an eye on the aspects of the ...

The Catcher in the Rye

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:10:19 PST

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The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:06:09 PST

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Marcovaldo

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:06:05 PST

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"Marcovaldo" is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. As always with Calvino, nothing is quite as it seems.

Six Memos for the Next Millennium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:05:49 PST

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Six Memos for the Next Millenium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: the universal values he pinpoints become the watch-words for out appreciation of Calvino himself. What should be cherished in literature? Calvino devotes one lecture, or memo to the reader, toe each of five indispensable qualities: lightness, q ...

Difficult Loves

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:05:47 PST

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Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. ÂThe quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work,...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection well worth readingÂ (Margaret Atwood). Translated by William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Baron in the Trees

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:05:42 PST

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Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.

Cosmicomics

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:05:40 PST

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Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?" Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolf ...

Marcovaldo

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:57 PST

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"L'amore per la natura di Marcovaldo è quello che può nascere solo in un uomo di città: per questo non possiamo sapere nulla d'una sua provenienza extracittadina; questo estraneo alla città è il cittadino per eccellenza". (Dalla presentazione di Calvino all'edizione del 1966) Venti novelle che seguono una classica struttura narrativa: quella delle storielle e vignette dei giornalini per l'infanz ...

Le città invisibili

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:54 PST

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Città reali scomposte e trasformate in chiave onirica, e città simboliche e surreali che diventano archetipi moderni in un testo narrativo che raggiunge i vertici della poeticità.

Norwegian Wood

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:03:30 PST

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When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between t ...

Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:02:28 PST

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Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues n'est pas un dictionnaire. Flaubert souhaitait " qu'une fois qu'on l'aurait lu on n'osât plus parler, de peur de dire naturellement une des phrases qui s'y trouvent ". Le Dictionnaire n'expose pas seulement des idées reçues mais les expressions convenues d'idées reçues. Et, de cette œuvre d'une vie, Flaubert se voulait absent : " Il faudrait que, dans tout le cour ...

Madame Bovary

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:01:50 PST

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Tender is the Night

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:58:06 PST

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To the French Riviera come Dick and Nicole Diver. Handsome, rich and glamorous, their dinners are legendary, their atmosphere magnetic. But something is wrong - Nicole has a secret and Dick a weakness. Together they head towards the rocks on which their lives crash - and only one of them really survives. Fitzgerald worked on seventeen versions of this novel, the obsessions of which consumed his m ...

The Great Gatsby

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:57:58 PST

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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach...Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows ...

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:57:02 PST

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Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley,aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealou ...

The Old Man and The Sea

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:56:53 PST

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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of perso ...

Freaky Deaky

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:56:19 PST

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He used to be on the bomb squad, but it's not until he transfers out that Chris Mankowski really begins juggling with dynamite. Rape and revenge are just the tip of the iceberg in a twisty tale that brings Detroit's denizens to life -- and occasional death -- in all their seedy glory. Electrifying, explosive, and unexpected, this is Elmore Leonard at his suspenseful best.

Girlfriend in a Coma

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:55:39 PST

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Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear - all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, Rip van Winkle-like, a middle-aged mother whose friends have all gone through all the normal marital, social and political traumas ...

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:48:35 PST

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Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hi ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:48:21 PST

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Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic di ...

Great Jones Street

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:47:41 PST

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Underworld

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:47:19 PST

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Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.

Il deserto dei Tartari

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:57 PST

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Giovanni Drogo, un sottotenente, viene mandato in una lontana fortezza. A nord della fortezza c'è il deserto da cui si attende un'invasione dei tartari. Ma l'invasione, sempre annunciata, non avviene e l'addestramento, i turni di guardia, l'organizzazione militare, appaiono cerimoniali senza senso. Quando Drogo torna in città per una promozione, si accorge di aver perso ogni contatto con il mondo ...

Vernon God Little

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:13 PST

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In the town jail of Martirio, Texas under the terrifying care of the dynastic Gurie family, and wearing only his New Jack trainers and underpants fifteen-year-old Vernon Little is in trouble. His friend has just blown away sixteen of his classmates before turning the gun on himself. And Vernon has become the focus of the whole town's need for vengeance, and the media's appetite for sensationa ...

Someone to Run with

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:44:37 PST

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The story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem are portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on he ...

La fée carabine

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:43:31 PST

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"Si les vieilles dames se mettent à buter les jeunots, si les doyens du troisième âge se shootent comme des collégiens, si les commissaires divisionnaires enseignent le vol à la tire à leurs petits-enfants, et si on prétend que tout ça c'est ma faute, moi, je pose la question : où va-t-on?" Ainsi s'interroge Benjamin Malaussène, bouc émissaire professionnel, payé pour endosser nos erreurs à tou ...

No Country for Old Men

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:42:57 PST

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In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in ...

The Road

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:42:49 PST

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to b ...

Anatomy of Restlessness:Selected Writings 1969-1989

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:40:25 PST

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The dangling ends of Bruce Chatwin's writing career were posthumously tied together by Jan Borm and Matthew Graves in a collection of 17 previously neglected or unpublished essays, articles, short stories, and travel tales. They span 20 years of writing, yet common threads emerge: his compulsive storytelling, the endless lure of the remote, and his keen sense of place. Borm and Graves have compil ...

The Rules of Attraction

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:39:29 PST

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This novel offers a satirical yet bleak vision of the modern world - a world devoted to conspicuous consumption and consumer-as-king culture - and highlights the feelings of futility and superficiality that mark an entire generation.

L'écume des jours

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:37:23 PST

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Un titre léger et lumineux qui annonce une histoire d’amour drôle ou grinçante, tendre ou grave, fascinante et inoubliable, composée par un écrivain de vingt-six ans. C’est un conte de l’époque du jazz et de la science-fiction, à la fois comique et poignant, heureux et tragique, féerique et déchirant. Dans cette œuvre d’une modernité insolente, livre culte depuis plus de cinquante ans, Duke Ell ...

Ascolta il mio cuore

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:31 PST

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Polissena del Porcello

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:20 PST

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Fino all'età di undici anni Polissena è vissuta felice con la sua famiglia, ma un brutto giorno viene a sapere di essere una figlia adottiva, una trovatella abbandonata in fasce insieme ad alcuni oggetti che potrebbero aiutarla a trovare i suoi veri genitori. Sconvolta, scappa di casa e si unisce alla Compagnia di Animali Acrobatici di Lucrezia, piccola acrobata stracciona, che l'aiuterà nella su ...

The Complete Maus

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:35:13 PST

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"The Complete Maus" by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story. "The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust". ("Wall Street Journal"). "The first masterpiece in comic book history". ("The New Yorker"). "The Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist ...

Sostiene Pereira

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:34:12 PST

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"Tabucchi è convinto che è arrivato il tempo in cui dobbiamo chiedere anche alla letteratura di dire la verità: non la verità metafisica e del cuore, ma proprio la verità degli uomini, quella della loro condizione storica, dei pericoli che stanno correndo, degli assassini di cui sono autori e vittime." (Angelo Guglielmi)

Il codice di Perelà

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:33:41 PST

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