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Assembly: Natasha Brown
Natasha Brown · 2021

A Girl Returned
Donatella Di Pietrantonio · 2019

Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata · 2025

Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan · 2021

The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2018
<p>Facsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.</p>

Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell · 2004

White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024

The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin, Peter Straub · 2002
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub<br/>For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.<br/>At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.

The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante · 2005

Permafrost
Eva Baltasar · 2021

The Moustache
Emmanuel Carrere, Lanie Goodman · 1989
