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Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman • 2017

<p><b>Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time OscarTM Nominee James Ivory<br><br>The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay</b><b><br><br>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br>A <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller <br>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Bestseller<br>A <i>Vulture</i> Book Club Pick </b><br><br><b>An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time<br><br></b>Andre Aciman's <i>Call Me by Your Name</i> is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.<br><br>Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition<br><br>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year • A <i>Publishers Weekly </i>and <i>The Washington Post </i>Best Book of the Year • A <i>New York </i>Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A <i>Chicago Tribune</i> and <i>Seattle Times</i> (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year</p>

I Love You in Every language

Ikeli O'farrell • 2020

Where the Muses Live

Marianela Dos Santos • 2023

<p><i>¿Qué tienen en común las historias más románticas de la mitología griega con tu propio dolor convertido en poesía?</i><b> </b>Acompaña a la autora en un poemario sincero y emocional que te llevará desde los mitos atemporales más conocidos, hasta su propio corazón desbordado de versos. Una experiencia literaria que te ayudará a salir en busca de la inspiración incluso en tus momentos más oscuros. Porque en este viaje las musas susurran a aquellos que creen en la magia... y solo cuando creemos, la magia nos encuentra.</p>

The Art of Being a Disaster

Jennifer McCartney • 2019

Product Description The New York Times bestseller Es posible que hayas oído hablar de un libro (sí, un libro entero) dedicado al tema de la limpieza, uno que habla sobre lo mágico y liberador que es ponerte a ordenar y deshacerte de TODAS TUS COSAS. Pues bien, ha llegado la hora de luchar contra esa ridiculez y responder comprando todavía más cosas para poder ir dejándolas tiradas por ahí, donde te dé la gana. Porque, ¿sabéis qué, ordenaditos? La ciencia demuestra que las personas desordenadas somos más creativas.Así que si ya hace tiempo que no ves el suelo de tu cuarto y todavía guardas aquella camiseta que tus abuelos te trajeron de Benidorm, no te preocupes, no pasa nada malo contigo, y Jennifer McCartney está aquí para demostrarlo. Puede que ser un desastre no siempre sea fácil (de hecho, es un arte), pero gracias a sus consejos te aseguramos que podrás desordenar a conciencia y conseguir resultados alucinantes.Respira, haz desaparecer tu lista de tareas y súmate a la causa del caos, la acumulación y la anarquía. Es hora de recuperar tu vida. Book Description Si odias el orden, y a Marie Kondo, este es tu libro.

Love and Other Demons

Gabriel Garcia Marquez • 1994

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, Garcia Márquez, Gabriel

If Cats Disappeared from the world

Genki Kawamura • 2023

Un joven cartero regresa a su casa después de que el médico le diagnosticara un tumor cerebral en fase avanzada. Allí se encuentra a su gato Col y a un extraño personaje, idéntico a él excepto en su actitud y en su vistosa indumentaria. Dice ser el diablo y le anuncia su muerte inminente. Pero le ofrece un trato: por cada objeto animado o inanimado que acepte que desaparezca del mundo, ganará un día de vida. Empieza por los teléfonos, sigue el cine, luego los relojes... Pero cada uno le evoca aspectos de su vida, la relación con su exnovia o con su padre, que acabó tan mal... Cuando les llega el turno a los gatos, encuentra una carta que su madre le dejó escrita antes de morir pidiéndole que se reconciliase con su padre. ¿Y qué pasará cuando desaparezcan los gatos? Genki Kawamura nos deleita en Si los gatos desaparecieran del mundo con una novela ágil, evocadora, emotiva, fantástica y divertida.

White Nights

Fiodor Dostoievski • 2007

How to Read a Person Like a Book

Gerard I. Nierenberg • 1990

The Subtle Art of Noy Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson • 2022

Por el autor best seller mundial, Mark Manson, llega un diario interactivo e irreverente basado en los fenómenos superventas El sutil arte de que (casi todo) te importe una mierda y Todo está jodido, que ofrece preguntas y percepciones agudas en su inimitable voz.<br/><br/>En el estilo clásico de Mark Manson, este diario no es un objeto de «una vez al día» o «una vez a la semana». Puedes usarlo en cualquier momento. O no. Dejarlo y volver. O no.<br/><br/>El diario está dividido en cinco secciones que reflejan los temas de El sutil arte de que (casi todo) te importe una mierda e incluyen indicaciones guiadas que nos ayudan a considerar las preguntas más profundas sobre las emociones, los valores y el propósito. La sabiduría de Manson se complementa con ejercicios para hacerte reír, pensar y crecer, y su actitud franca solo se compara con su sinceridad al querer que realmente luches contigo mismo y con las cosas que importan.<br/><br/>Cuando se trata de los grandes temas, como la felicidad, los valores y la responsabilidad, la vida está marcada por preguntas aparentemente interminables. Manson aborda estos problemas con su irreverencia única, ofreciendo ideas y observaciones para ayudarnos a encontrar nuestras propias respuestas. Este diario nos brinda un amplio espacio para contemplar los altibajos de la vida y nos guía para ver cómo los momentos clave de nuestras vidas, tanto los trágicos como los cómicos, son oportunidades de crecimiento (y, a veces, solo una buena risa).<br/><br/>Un diario ilustrado por el propio Mark Manson.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>#1 New York Times Bestseller • More than 10 million Copies Sold<br/><br/>In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.<br/><br/>For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.<br/><br/>Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.<br/><br/>There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Why Love Hurts

Eva Illouz • 2023

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience.<br/><br/>Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love.<br/><br/>The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire.<br/><br/>This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.

Don't Believe Everything You Think

Joseph Nguyen • 2023

What Would You Do If You Weren''t Afraid?

VILASECA Borja • 2013

Este libro es un experimento: pretende remover tus creencias acerca del dinero, el trabajo y el consumo, que han determinado, en gran medida, el lugar que ocupas en el escenario laboral. Nos han educado para ser empleados obedientes, contribuyentes, pasivos y consumidores voraces, perpetuando así el funcionamiento del sistema económico. Sin embargo, la crisis actual nos demuestra cada día que ese sistema caducó hace tiempo y que nos encontramos ante una nueva era, con unas reglas del juego radicalmente diferentes.

The Lords of Death

Olivie Blake • 2024

Lie with Me

Philippe Besson • 2020

Acts of Desperation

Megan Nolan • 2021

Heralding the arrival of “a huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard), Megan Nolan’s riveting debut is “a blistering anti-romance” (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us.<br/><br/>Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him?<br/><br/>In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her…<br/><br/>Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?<br/><br/>Heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability.<br/><br/>"Hot as viscera." —The New Republic

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong • 2021

The End of Loneliness

Benedict Wells • 2019

From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live<br/><br/>“[D]azzling storytelling...The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished -- and eternal.” —John Irving<br/><br/>"An exquisitely wrought and utterly absorbing meditation upon life, loss and love." —Ian McEwan<br/><br/>Jules Moreau’s childhood is shattered after the sudden death of his parents. Enrolled in boarding school where he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are forced to live apart, the once vivacious and fearless Jules retreats inward, preferring to live within his memories – until he meets Alva, a kindred soul caught in her own grief. Fifteen years pass and the siblings remain strangers to one another, bound by tragedy and struggling to recover the family they once were. Jules, still adrift, is anchored only by his desires to be a writer and to reunite with Alva, who turned her back on their friendship on the precipice of it becoming more. But, just as it seems they can make amends for time wasted, invisible forces – whether fate or chance – intervene.<br/><br/>A kaleidoscopic family saga told through the fractured lives of the three Moreau siblings, alongside a faltering, recovering love story, The End of Loneliness is a stunning meditation on the power of our memories, of what can be lost and what can never be let go. With inimitable compassion and luminous, affecting prose, Benedict Wells contends with what it means to find a way through life, while never giving up hope you will find someone to go with you.

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart • 2020

My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell • 2020

I Fear My Pain Interests You

Stephanie Lacava • 2022

A punky, raw novel of millenial disaffection, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to to the Pacific Northwest. She’s seeking to escape both the eyes of the world and the echoing voice of that last bad man. But a chance encounter with a dubious doctor in a graveyard, and the discovery of a dozen old film reels, opens the door to a study of both the peculiarities of her body and the absurdities of her famous family. A literary take on cinema du corps, Stephanie LaCava’s new novel is an audaciously sexy and moving exploration of culture and connections, bodies and breakdowns.

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Mariana Enriquez • 2018

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov • 1989

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

The Friends I Lost

Jaime Bayly • 2000

Manuel es un hombre solo. Vive en una casa confortable y espaciosa en una isla vecina a Miami. Está de pie, ensimismado, mirando una piscina a la que caen lagartijas que él rescata. Espera a que suene el teléfono. Pero el teléfono no suena y no sonará. Porque Manuel ha perdido a esos amigos que quisiera que le llamen. Los ha perdido porque fue torpe y egoísta con ellos, porque se inspiró en ellos para escribir unas novelas que le hicieron famoso pero lo condenaron a la soledad, al silencio y a la indiferencia de esos amigos que ahora echa de menos.<br/>Manuel sabe que tiene la culpa de que esos amigos ya no quieran hablar con él, y por eso se aferra a la ilusión de una última oportunidad para darles una explicación y pedirles disculpas. Pero esa oportunidad no le será dada. El teléfono permanecerá mudo y él seguirá hablándoles a las lagartijas que se ahogan en su piscina. Y para no enloquecer, para expiar las culpas que lo abruman, Manuel se sienta a escribir.<br/>Les escribe a esos amigos a los que ha perdido pero que todavía viven en su memoria, en su corazón, en su imaginación. Les escribe unas cartas cargadas de nostalgia y ternura, no exentas de matices de humor, en las que intentará recordar los altibajos de esas amistades que se fueron y, al hacerlo, logrará revivir esos momentos intensos e inolvidables que dejaron un sello imborrable en sus afectos. Éstas son las cinco cartas que Manuel les escribe a esos cinco amigos del alma que ha perdido pero a quienes recupera en el azaroso territorio de la fantasía: su adorada Melanie, con quien vivió mucho más que una sana amistad; el recordado Daniel, que le enseñó a bailar, a peinarse, a visitar prostíbulos y a hacer cosas aún peores; su tocayo Manuel, que también soñaba con ser escritor; Sebastián, el actor guapo y famoso con el que vivió una aventura secreta y a quien recuerda con especial intensidad; y el ilustre doctor Guerra, pintoresco personaje de la Lima aristocrática que educó a Manuel en el amor a los libros, el periodismo y los paseos sosegados por el parque del Retiro en Madrid.<br/>Éstas son las cartas de un hombre solo que se resiste a perder a sus mejores amigos. Éstas son las cartas de Manuel a los amigos que ha perdido.<br/>En esta extraña y hermosa (y descarada) novela Jaime Bayly, tras La noche es virgen (XV Premio Herralde de Novela) y Yo amo a mi mami, confirma su extraordinario talento narrativo y, si cabe, se supera a sí mismo, alcanzando, gracias a su instinto artístico y su voz singularísima unos niveles de perturbadora y sorprendente belleza.

Midnight Epiphanies

Mariona Molina • 2023

¿Alguna vez has sentido que no podías más?<br/>¿Has logrado recomponerte de ese trauma?<br/><br/>Conoce el libro que ha arrasado en TikTok: Epifanías de medianoche de mariona molina. Este libro te llevará a un viaje a través de pensamientos y poemas sobre distintos sentimientos: desamor soledad amor superación<br/>Epifanías de medianoche te guía desde momentos difíciles hasta la fortaleza, superando distintas etapas de la vida: la melancolía, el amor, la soledad y la sanación. Aprende a sentir tus emociones y descubre la fuerza interna que te permite renacer después de los momentos más duros y avanzar hacia adelante. Reconoce que el crecimiento personal surge al aceptar y superar los momentos difíciles.

The Trial

Franz Kafka • 2017

The Strange Thing Is to Live

Carmen Martín Gaite • 1996

Una chica de treinta y cinco anos que acaba de perder a su madre y busca un dificil acuerdo entre las heridas del pasado y la sed de presente se entrega a investigar los enigmas de un extravagante aventurero dieciochesco. Esta pesquisa de archivo provoca otra, que se le va imponiendo, lo quiera o no: sobre la propia infancia, las relaciones entre sus padres y los sentimientos que la mantienen cada vez mas unida al singular arquitecto con quien convive. / A thirty-five-year-old woman who has just lost her mother and is looking for direction in life gives herself to investigate the riddles of an extravagant adventurer. This research leads her to another riddle, about the feelings that keep her increasingly attached to the singular architect with whom she lives.

The metamorphosis

Franz Kafka • 2013

A Lost Lady

Willa Cather • 2012

Product Description <br/>Con una prosa espléndida, Willa Cather nos traslada al paisaje desolado de un Oeste huraño para explicarnos la historia de una mujer que, tentada por las circunstancias, pasa de ser una dama respetable a una mujer señalada por todas las habladurías que inundarán el día a día de todos los habitantes.<br/> About the Author <br/>Willa Cather (1876-1947) publicó su primera novela, Alexander’s BridgePioneros (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. L) a la que siguieron otras novelas como Mi Ántonia (1918; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XXXV), One of Ours (1922), que mereció el premio Pulitzer, Una dama extraviada (1923; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LX) o Mi enemigo mortal (1926; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XXXII). Es autora de un libro de recuerdos y ensayos, Para mayores de cuarenta (1936; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LV).

Van Gogh the Suicide by Society

ARTAUD • 2014

When Women Kill

Alia Trabucco Zerán • 2022

A genre-bending feminist account of four Chilean women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender. Women Who Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts and victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we—readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment—treat them when they do? Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zerán (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes, brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women.

Things I never Told My Mother

Michele Filgate • 2021

Snowden: No Place to Hide

Glenn Greenwald • 2014

A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden<br/><br/>In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy. As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden's disclosures.<br/><br/>Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity ten-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.<br/><br/>Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation's political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens―and considers what safeguards and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age. Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

Cadáver Exquisito

Agustina Bazterrica • 2023

Into the Water

Paula Hawkins • 2018

Una apasionante novela sobre las historias que nos contamos al recordar nuestro pasado y su poder para destruirnos.<br/>Pocos días antes de morir, Nel Abbott estuvo llamando a su hermana, pero Jules no cogió el teléfono, ignoró sus súplicas de ayuda. Ahora Nel está muerta. Dicen que saltó al río. Y Jules se ve arrastrada al pequeño pueblo de los veranos de su infancia, un lugar del que creía haber escapado, para cuidar de la adolescente que su hermana deja atrás. Pero Jules tiene miedo. Mucho miedo. Miedo al agua, miedo de sus recuerdos enterrados largo tiempo atrás, y miedo, sobre todo, de su certeza de que Nel nunca habría saltado…<br/>No te fíes nunca de una superficie en calma, no sabes lo que puede haber debajo.

The Girl on The Train

Paula Hawkins • 2021

Almendra

Won-pyung Sohn • 2022

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

CHBOSKY • 2014

The Passion According to G.H

Clarice Lispector • 2022

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton • 2018

All the Anxious Girls on Earth

Zsuzsi Gartner • 2000

Love is a Dog From Hell

Charles Bukowski • 2002

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.<br/>A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.<br/>"there is a loneliness in this world so great<br/>that you can see it in the slow movement of<br/>the hands of a clock."

Sirens & Muses

Antonia Angress • 2022

Weird Fucks

Lynne Tillman • 2015

A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers • 2021

The Penguin Book of the Undead

W.E.B. Griffin • 2016

Fue Ayer Y No Me Acuerdo

Jaime Bayly • 1995

Un día cualquiera en Nueva York

Fran Lebowitz • 2021

The Anatomy of Violence

Adrian Raine,Adrian Raine • 2014

Anatomy of Violence

After Dark

Haruki Murakami • 2007

Aphorisms on Love and Hate

Friedrich Nietzsche • 2015

'we Must Learn To Love, Learn To Be Kind, And This From Our Earliest Youth ... Likewise, Hatred Must Be Learned And Nurtured, If One Wishes To Become A Proficient Hater' This Volume Contains A Selection Of Nietzsche's Brilliant And Challenging Aphorisms, Examining The Pleasures Of Revenge, The Falsity Of Pity, And The Incompatibility Of Marriage With The Philosophical Life. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 Books For Penguin's 80th Birthday. Little Black Classics Celebrate The Huge Range And Diversity Of Penguin Classics, With Books From Around The World And Across Many Centuries. They Take Us From A Balloon Ride Over Victorian London To A Garden Of Blossom In Japan, From Tierra Del Fuego To 16th-century California And The Russian Steppe. Here Are Stories Lyrical And Savage; Poems Epic And Intimate; Essays Satirical And Inspirational; And Ideas That Have Shaped The Lives Of Millions. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Nietzsche's Works Available In Penguin Classics Are A Nietzsche Reader, Beyond Good And Evil, Ecce Homo, Human, All Too Human, On The Genealogy Of Morals, The Birth Of Tragedy, The Portable Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight Of Idols And Anti-christ.

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli • 2014

"A serious examination of the faulty reasoning that leads to repeated mistakes by individuals, businesses, and nations…In this fascinating book, Dobelli does not offer a recipe for happiness but a well-considered treatise on avoiding ‘self-induced unhappiness.’” — Booklist (starred review)<br/>The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at human psychology and reasoning — essential reading for anyone who wants to avoid “cognitive errors” and make better choices in all aspects of their lives.<br/>Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn’t worth it? Or continued doing something you knew was bad for you? These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better decisions.<br/>Simple, clear, and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision-making—work, at home, every day. It reveals, in 99 short chapters, the most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them.

Set My Heart on Fire

Izumi Suzuki • 2024

The first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgression Hope I’m in for a good time, I thought. Even if it’s just for tonight. Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication, good music and unreliable men, powerful drugs and disorientating meds. Izumi usually keeps her relationships short but complicated, until she meets Jun. Set My Heart on Fire is a visceral novel about mistaken relationships and the convolutions of desire, about regret and acceptance. Pulsing through the narration is the protagonist’s love of music, a vital soundtrack spanning the Zombies, T. Rex and the Rolling Stones as well as underground Japanese psychedelic-rock bands such as the Tigers and the Tempters.

Mujeres que piensan demasiado

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema • 2013

Aunque en general todas las personas tienden a quedarse atrapadas en un bucle de pensamientos negativos, la conocida psicóloga Susan Nolen-Hoeksema afirma que esta tendencia afecta especialmente a las mujeres. Ha quedado científicamente demostrado que la mayoría de mujeres tienden a sentirse asfixiadas por todos los pensamientos, las emociones y las preocupaciones que se superponen entre ellas sin freno ni control: le dan vuelta y más vuelta a todos los aspectos negativos de sus vidas, piensan en las mil formas en las que podrían haber actuado diferente o por qué no se sienten de una determinada manera. Y tanto rumiar no solo obstaculiza su capacidad para afrontar eficazmente los problemas, sino que también tiene consecuencias nefastas en su estado de ánimo, sus relaciones y su salud. En Mujeres que piensan demasiado, la doctora Nolen-Hoeksema nos muestra qué es lo que hace que tantas mujeres piensen demasiado y, gracias a su pionera investigación, nos enseña cómo liberarnos de este ciclo infernal. A través de testimonios reales, la autora nos ofrece estrategias y ejercicios prácticos con los que podremos romper las cadenas de nuestros pensamientos para calmar nuestros cerebros, ganar confianza y control, y recuperar la tranquilidad y la paz mental.

Diccionario de las cosas que no supe explicarte

Risto Mejide • 2019

<p>«Esto no es un diccionario… aquí detrás no hay estudiosos, ni académicos, ni gente que sepa de lo que habla… Aquí tienes 44 años de aprendizajes emocionales y sentimentales resumidos en frases, definiciones y sentencias más o menos acertadas, eso ya lo decidirás tú…». Risto, en su pura esencia, escribe lo que siente. No pretende definir las cosas, sino lo que significan para él: sentimientos, emociones, experiencias personales, etc., que nos harán identificarnos con él en muchas ocasiones, o no, pero que, como todo lo que escribe, están maravillosamente contados, con ironía, humor e ingenio.<br></p>

The Art of Noticing

Rob Walker • 2019

Working Girl

Sophia Giovannitti • 2023

100% Match

Patrick C. Harrison III • 2022

"What The One Minute Manager was to business, 100% Match is to relationships." -PC3 Books<br/><br/>Bart is thirty. He is bald. He is overweight. He wears glasses. He is a fry cook. He hates cats. And kids. Bart occasionally does very bad things. He is looking for his perfect match. He has done his research.<br/><br/>"Depraved, deranged, and blackly hilarious. PC3 does what he does best here, and doesn't hold back. I suspect 89.3% of you will love this story. The other 10.7% are humorless prudes." -Chris Miller, author of Dust and Dub-Town Blues<br/><br/>"Vile, repulsive, and smart, with a kick-in-the-ass ending. You know, all the stuff we've come to love about PC3" -Rayne Havok, author of Necrosis<br/><br/>"Get ready to squirm, cringe, and maybe even laugh! Patrick C. Harrison III's prose is as slick as it is sick, and 100% Match is one you won't want to miss. Especially if you're deranged and looking for love." -Judith Sonnet, author of No One Rides for Free<br/><br/>"If you like your fiction sick and twisted, this one will be a 100% match for you. PC3 gives us a glimpse into the mind of the truly depraved, and despite the nature of spending time in such a nasty headspace, the story is entertaining as hell. Just don’t read it on a full stomach." -Robert Essig, author of The Circus Oasis and Tweaker Creatures

Thirst for Salt

Madelaine Lucas • 2023

We Do What We Do in the Dark

Michelle Hart • 2022

The Absent Father Effect on Daughters

Susan E. Schwartz • 2020

Despair

Vladimir Nabokov • 1989

Diary of an Oxygen Thief

Anonymous Author • 2016

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn • 2012

The New York Trilogy

Paul Auster • 1990

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin • 2006

From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review).<br/><br/>"One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer<br/><br/>Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

Rebecca

Maurier Daphne Du • 2003

Ripe

Sarah Rose Etter • 2023

The Art of Explanation

Ros Atkins • 2023

**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Communicating with Ros Atkins'** 'A great read for polishing your communication skills' FORBES 'For all those who want their audiences to listen and understand' JEREMY BOWEN 'Precision, deftness and a calming expertise' THE TIMES Do you worry about holding people's attention during presentations? Are you unsure where to start when faced with writing an essay or report? Are you preparing for an interview and wondering how to get all your points across? Explanation - identifying and communicating what we want to say - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos, is something of a master of the form. In this book, Ros shares the secrets he has learned from years of working in high-pressure newsrooms, identifying the ten elements of a good explanation and the seven steps you need to take to express yourself with clarity and impact. Whether at work, school, university or home, we all benefit from being able to articulate ourselves clearly. Filled with practical examples, The Art of Explanation is a must-read for anyone who wants to sharpen their communication skills.

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai • 1973

Hoy estoy mal, Mañana estaré mejor

Victoire Charlie • 2023

En este libro encontrarás consejos que te guiarán por el camino de la sanación emocional y el alivio del estrés.<br/><br/>La ansiedad puede dificultar la vida diaria, apoderarse de nuestros pensamientos e impedirnos dar lo mejor de nosotros mismos. A través de citas inspiradoras, ejercicios prácticos y preguntas de desarrollo personal, este libro está diseñado para ser un verdadero apoyo si estás pasando por períodos de depresión o ansiedad.<br/><br/>Cada página te ofrece la oportunidad de entender mejor tus pensamientos, emociones y reacciones.<br/><br/>Puedes llevarlo contigo a todas partes para ayudarte a controlar tu estrés. ¡Úsalo como una auténtica guía!

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides • 1993

The Princess of 72nd Street

Elaine Kraf • 2025

<p>Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York's Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by 'radiances' - episodes of joyous, reckless unreality. Under the influence of 'radiances' she becomes Princess Esmeralda, and West 72nd Street becomes the kingdom over which she rules. Life as Esmeralda is a liberating experience for Ellen, who, despite the chaos and stigma these episodes can bring, relishes the respite from the confines of the everyday. And yet those around her, particularly the men in her life, are threatened by her incarnation as Esmeralda, and by the freedom that it gives her.<br> <br> <i>The Princess of 72nd Street</i> is Elaine Kraf's witty, dizzyingly inventive take on female liberation and mental health, a work of immense literary power and unbridled energy. Provocative at the time of its publication in 1979 and thoroughly iconoclastic, it is a remarkable portrait of an unforgettable woman.</p>

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre • 2007

Lucky Dogs

Helen Schulman • 2023

Silence

Shusaku Endo • 2010

A young Portuguese Jesuit, Sebastiao Rodrigues (based on the historical figure, Guiseppe Chiara), is sent to Japan to succor the local church and investigate reports that his mentor, Father Cristóvao Ferreira, has committed apostasy. (ferreira is a historical figure who apostatized after torture and later became a Zen Buddhist and wrote a treatise against Christianity).<br/><br/>Father Rodrigues and his companion, Father Francisco Garrpe, arrive in Japan in 1638. There they find the local Christian population driven underground. Security officials force suspected Christians to trample on fumie, crudely carved images of Christ. Those who refuse are imprisoned and killed by anazuri, being hung upside down over a pit and slowly bled. Those Christians who do step on the image to stay alive are deeply shamed by their act of apostasy. The novel relates the trials of the Christians and increasing hardship suffered by Rodrigues, as more is learned about the circumstances of Ferreira's apostasy. Finally, Rodrigues is betrayed by the Judas-like Kichijiro.

BONES AND ALL

Camille DeAngelis • 2022

Maren Yearly è una giovane donna che desidera ciò che desiderano tutti: vorrebbe essere ammirata e rispettata. Vorrebbe essere amata. Ma Maren ha anche delle esigenze particolari e segrete, che l'hanno costretta a una specie di esilio dal genere umano. Si odia per quella cosa brutta che fa, e per ciò che la cosa brutta ha fatto alla sua famiglia e al suo senso di identità, per come la cosa brutta determina il suo posto nel mondo e il modo in cui le persone la vedono e la giudicano. In fondo, non ha scelto lei di essere così. Perché Maren Yearly non si limita a spezzare cuori: li divora. Letteralmente. L'amore può avere molte forme diverse, ma per Maren finisce sempre nello stesso modo: lei che nasconde le prove e sua madre che carica i bagagli in auto. Ma quando, il giorno dopo il suo sedicesimo compleanno, la madre l'abbandona, Maren decide di andare in cerca del padre che non ha mai conosciuto. E finirà per scoprire molto più di quanto si aspettasse: perché, oltre a suo padre, sta cercando se stessa.

Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler • 2011

Go Ask Alice

Anonymous • 1999

La escuela de la carne

Yukio Mishima • 2014

Something Happened Here:

Felicity Meadow • 2024

Something Happened Here was written for girls who want to, or have ever wanted to, disappear.<br/><br/>It follows the story of 17 year-old nothing, Sally Fawn, through ink sketches, poetry, and intimate narrative as she returns to her abandoned childhood home with only the desire to disappear. Home was on the derelict Highway 340 in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Home was dirt, centipedes, and sad dogs, but not Mom. Home was Desiree, who she abruptly had to leave in 5th grade after Dad disappeared into the black Atlantic. That summer, Sally discovers that her home now belongs to someone else. A forcefully charming man named Leon Vaughn, and his jealous dog, Lady. Sally tells him that she's 18. 17 is close enough, right? Leon tells Sally that she's 19.<br/><br/>Something Happened Here reveals the untold story of an invisible girl in an invisible town in rural Nova Scotia, where crime is underreported and when someone disappears, they are forgotten forever. Something Happened Here echoes the voices of women and girls who have been silenced by abuse.<br/><br/>Your voice echoes, and it carries power.

Better Small Talk

Patrick King • 2020

Hannibal

Thomas Harris • 2000

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee • 2002

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath • 2019

Let Him In

William Friend • 2023

Alejandra Pizarnik Prosa completa / Alejandra Pizarnik Complete Prose

Alejandra Pizarnik • 2025

Vida de un idiota

Ryûnosuke Akutagawa • 2011

Retrato de un asesino

Anne Meredith • 2018

Lo estás deseando

Kristen Roupenian • 2014

Humillados y ofendidos

Fiódor Dostoyevski • 2017

Esta novela del escritor ruso Fiódor Dostoyevski (1821-1881) salió a la luz en 1862 poco después de su exilio forzado en Siberia. El relato que escribe es puro trasunto de su vida zarandeada por la clases poderosas. Sin embargo, como sus personajes, los valores familiares, la espiritualidad y la ortodoxia rusa, les ayudan y alivian ante las arbitrariedades injustas. En su descarnado realismo los buenos soportan con resignación todos los golpes y los malos son despiadados sin ningún tipo de generosidad.

El Gato Que Leia Del Reves

Lilian Jackson Braun • 1996

La fotografía como documento social

Gisele Freund • 2001

Collected poems

Sylvia Plath • 1981

Hardcover in good condition. Jacket is scored, scuffed and edge worn, with a few minor nicks. Jacket and hardcover spine heads are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW

Perder el juicio

Ariana Harwicz • 2024

<p>Pensamos que no seríamos capaces de cometer un crimen, hasta que lo hacemos.<br></p><p>Los seres humanos piensan que saben de qué son capaces. Creen que no podrían escapar de los policías, que nunca le harían mal a un niño. Yo no podría matar a mis padres; hagan lo que hagan, me dieron la vida. O yo no llegaría jamás hasta la violación. No sería capaz de acelerar al volante en un puente con mis hijos en el auto y caer al vacío. Pero todo eso lo decimos antes; no somos capaces, es cierto, nos resulta impensable el crimen, hasta que pasamos al acto.<br></p><p>Perder el juicio cuenta la historia de un robo, de una apropiación, de un incendio provocado. Esta obra es el viaje de un secuestro donde la vida es vista como el armado de una evasión. Como dice Harwicz, se escribe una novela cuando se está en desacuerdo con el sentido de las palabras, cuando dejar de mentir es imposible.<br></p>

Living Dead Girl

Elizabeth Scott • 2009

<i>Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. <br> <br> Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. <br> <br> Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.</i> <br><br> When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. <br><br> Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. <br> <br> This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.

No bastó con querer

Loreto Sesma • 2021

El arte de amar

Erich Fromm • 2020

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Chuck Klosterman • 2003

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami • 2021

Acts of Service

Lillian Fishman • 2022

The Portrait of a Mirror

A. Natasha Joukovsky • 2021

<B>A stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives converge and intertwine over the course of a summer, by a sharp new voice in fiction</B><BR /><BR /> Wes and Diana are the kind of privileged, well-educated, self-involved New Yorkers you may not want to like but can't help wanting to like you. With his boyish good looks, blue-blood pedigree, and the recent tidy valuation of his tech startup, Wes would have made any woman weak in the knees—any woman, that is, except perhaps his wife. Brilliant to the point of cunning, Diana possesses her own arsenal of charms, handily deployed against Wes in their constant wars of will and rhetorical sparring.<BR /><BR /> Vivien and Dale live in Philadelphia, but with ties to the same prep schools and management consulting firms as Wes and Diana, they’re of the same ilk. With a wedding date on the horizon and carefully curated life of coupledom, Vivien and Dale make a picture-perfect pair on Instagram. But when Vivien becomes a visiting curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art just as Diana is starting a new consulting project in Philadelphia, the two couples’ lives cross and tangle. It’s the summer of 2015 and they’re all enraptured by one another and too engulfed in desire to know what they want—despite knowing just how to act.<BR /><BR /> In this wickedly fun debut, A. Natasha Joukovsky crafts an absorbing portrait of modern romance, rousing real sympathy for these flawed characters even as she skewers them. Shrewdly observed, whip-smart, and shot through with wit and good humor, <I>The Portrait of a Mirror</I> is a piercing exploration of narcissism, desire, self-delusion, and the great mythology of love.

Rest and Be Thankful

Emma Glass • 2020

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh • 2019

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

Woman, Eating

Claire Kohda • 2022

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors • 2024

Morir es un color

Mario Marín • 2021

Algun Amor Que No Mate

Dulcee Chacon • 1997

How To Read a Film

James Monaco • 2013

Prohibido suicidarse en primavera

Alejandro Casona • 2013

La sociedad del cansancio

Byung-Chul Han • 2012

Drugs Are Nice

Lisa Crystal Carver • 2005

Agua Viva

Clarice Lispector • 2022

In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector • 2022

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis • 1991