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Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller
Dolly Alderton • 2022
Cruces. Historia de DOS Almas
Alex Landragin • 2025
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem • 2014
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes • 1995
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay • 2017
The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong • 2025
O Caledonia: A Novel
Elspeth Barker • 2022
Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism)
Per Faxneld • 2017
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Susan Sontag • 2008
The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm Jones (Everyman's Library)
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1992
Dostoevsky’s greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.<br/><br/>Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father and his three very different sons. The author's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues—brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality—that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia.<br/><br/>This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky—the definitive version in English—magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece."<br/><br/>Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Barbara Kingsolver • 2022
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION<br/>A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year" • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller<br/>"Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick<br/>"May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)<br/>From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity<br/>Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.<br/>Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
La amiga estupenda (Dos amigas 1) (Spanish Edition)
Elena Ferrante • 2012
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton • 2023
One's Company: A Novel
Ashley Hutson • 2022
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Mariana Enriquez
Mariana Enriquez • 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE<br/><br/>'Beautiful, horrible... the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time' Kazuo Ishiguro<br/><br/>'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' Lauren Groff<br/><br/>Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.<br/><br/>Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge.<br/><br/>'There is some serious power in this writing' Daisy Johnson
Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Douglas Stuart • 2020
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heartwrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched by her pride. Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good—her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamorous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion’s share of each week’s benefits—all the family has to live on—on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes’s older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is “no right,” a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her—even her beloved Shuggie. A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Édouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.
Duck Feet
Ely Percy • 2021
Strange The Dreamer
Laini Taylor • 2018
Beautiful World, Where are You
Sally Rooney • 2021
Vicious (Villains Book 1)
V. E. Schwab • 2013
A Masterful Tale Of Ambition, Jealousy, Desire, And Superpowers. Victor And Eli Started Out As College Roommates—brilliant, Arrogant, Lonely Boys Who Recognized The Same Sharpness And Ambition In Each Other. In Their Senior Year, A Shared Research Interest In Adrenaline, Near-death Experiences, And Seemingly Supernatural Events Reveals An Intriguing Possibility: That Under The Right Conditions, Someone Could Develop Extraordinary Abilities. But When Their Thesis Moves From The Academic To The Experimental, Things Go Horribly Wrong. Ten Years Later, Victor Breaks Out Of Prison, Determined To Catch Up To His Old Friend (now Foe), Aided By A Young Girl Whose Reserved Nature Obscures A Stunning Ability. Meanwhile, Eli Is On A Mission To Eradicate Every Other Super-powered Person That He Can Find—aside From His Sidekick, An Enigmatic Woman With An Unbreakable Will. Armed With Terrible Power On Both Sides, Driven By The Memory Of Betrayal And Loss, The Archnemeses Have Set A Course For Revenge—but Who Will Be Left Alive At The End? In Vicious, V. E. Schwab Brings To Life A Gritty Comic-book-style World In Vivid Prose: A World Where Gaining Superpowers Doesn't Automatically Lead To Heroism, And A Time When Allegiances Are Called Into Question. A Dynamic And Original Twist On What It Means To Be A Hero And A Villain. A Killer From Page One...highly Recommended! —jonathan Maberry, New York Times Bestselling Author Of Marvel Universe Vs The Avengers And Patient Zero One Of Publishers Weekly's Best Fantasy Books Of 2013 At The Publisher's Request, This Title Is Being Sold Without Digital Rights Management Software (drm) Applied.
House of Leaves: The Remastered, Full-Color Edition
Mark Z. Danielewski • 2000
THE MIND-BENDING CULT CLASSIC ABOUT A HOUSE THAT’S LARGER ON THE INSIDE THAN ON THE OUTSIDE • A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel.<br/><br/>''Simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times<br/><br/>"Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent—it renders most other fiction meaningless." —Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho<br/><br/>“This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore.” —Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn<br/><br/>One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years<br/><br/>Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.<br/><br/>Now made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices, the story remains unchanged. Similarly, the cultural fascination with House of Leaves remains as fervent and as imaginative as ever. The novel has gone on to inspire doctorate-level courses and masters theses, cultural phenomena like the online urban legend of “the backrooms,” and incredible works of art in entirely unrealted mediums from music to video games.<br/><br/>Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara • 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>•</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Las horas
Michael Cunningham • 1999
HACIA RUTAS SALVAJES
JON KRAKAUER • 1998
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
Tu nombre después de la lluvia (Dreaming Spires 1)
Victoria Álvarez • 2014
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