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The Great Good Place
Ray Oldenburg
A look at informal gathering places--coffe shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars and others. The author considers their importance to our communities and the reasons for their gradual disappearance.
Philosophy
Breakfast with Seneca
David Fideler · 2022
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken · 2024
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it ― how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens?<br/>This third perspective on myself is disconcerting.<br/>The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known―where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.<br/>A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader’s mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader’s imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.
The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays
Albert Camus · 2012
What We Owe to Each Other
T. M. Scanlon · 2000
Classics
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2003
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2024
A groundbreaking novel for its time, it narrates the life of Jane, an orphan who becomes a governess and falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester. Themes of independence, morality, and equality resonate throughout.
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Strange Pictures
Uketsu · 2025
<br> <br> <b>THE TIMES BESTSELLER</b><br> <br> 'So captivating I read it in a day. So disturbing I thought about it all night' - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal<br> <br> 'The twists of a Golden Age whodunit, mixed with a wonderfully innovative use of illustrations. Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever' - G.T. Karber, author of Murdle<br> <br> <b>A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of creepy drawings, in which the reader is the detective - from the YouTube sensation Uketsu</b><br> <br> A series of drawings made by a young woman before her death.<br> <br> A child's disturbing picture of his home.<br> <br> A desperate sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments.<br> <br> Each contains a chilling warning.<br> <br> Each reveals a terrible secret, hidden in plain sight.<br> <br> Uketsu's eerie mysteries have captivated millions of readers. Can you find the clues in these strange pictures and uncover the sinister truth that connects them all?<br> <br> <b>Readers love Strange Pictures:</b><br> <br> 'Unlike anything I've read before... Insanely clever and imaginative'<br> <br> 'This unputdownable read delivers a perfectly constructed puzzle that comes together with a fantastic precision... The strange pictures are truly mesmerizing!'<br> <br> 'This was eerie and so, so clever! I was hooked'<br> <br>
