Phelipe's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:40:31 -0700 60 Phelipe's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg O Conde de Monte Cristo 15770623 1664 Alexandre Dumas 853780827X Phelipe 0 currently-reading 4.62 1846 O Conde de Monte Cristo
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]]> Bleeding Edge 17208457
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there’s no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what’s left.

Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics—carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people’s bank accounts—without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom—two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood—till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.

With occasional excursions into the DeepWeb and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we’ve journeyed to since.

Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?

Hey. Who wants to know?]]> 477 Thomas Pynchon 1594204233 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.61 2013 Bleeding Edge
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]]> Fair Play: A Novel 217533657 For fans of Anthony Horowitz, Tana French, and Sally Rooney, a wonderfully original, genre-breaking literary debut from Ireland that’s an homage to the brilliant detective novels of the early twentieth century, a twisty modern murder mystery, and a searing exploration of grief and loss.

A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year’s Eve. It is Benjamin’s birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d’oeuvres consumed, and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses the wrong person; someone else’s heart is broken.

In the morning, all of them wake up—except Benjamin.

As Abigail attempts to wrap her mind around her brother’s death, an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer. In this mansion, suddenly complete with a butler, gardener and housekeeper, everyone is a suspect, and nothing is quite as it seems. 

Will the culprit be revealed? And how can Abigail, now alone, piece herself back together in the wake of this loss?

Gripping and playful, sharp and profoundly moving, Fair Play plumbs the depths of the human heart while subverting one of our most popular genres.


]]> 288 Louise Hegarty 0063360578 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.08 Fair Play: A Novel
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]]> The Valachi Papers 55515
In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers—and where the bodies were buried—Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime figures.

The rest is history.

Never again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi's name would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning exposé. broke the back of America's Cosa Nostra and stands today as the classic about America's Mob, a fascinating tale of power and terror, big money, crime ... and murder.]]> 304 Peter Maas 006050742X Phelipe 0 to-read 3.91 1968 The Valachi Papers
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia: a True Story by an FBI Agent]]> 9502745 Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, "connected guys," captains and godfathers.Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings.

With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.]]> 420 Joseph D. Pistone 1101154063 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.33 1988 Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia: a True Story by an FBI Agent
author: Joseph D. Pistone
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) 6088007 Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...

Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.]]> 288 William Gibson Phelipe 0 to-read 3.94 1984 Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
author: William Gibson
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]]> <![CDATA[Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)]]> 40792913
But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn't be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.]]> 544 Richard K. Morgan Phelipe 0 to-read 4.02 2002 Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)]]> 16297
Mr. Shaitana was famous, as were his parties. He was also a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation of cards and viewing Shaitana’s private art collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether
]]> 324 Agatha Christie 0425205959 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.94 1936 Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
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]]> Equal Danger 130221
Equal Danger is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extreme—and gripping—depiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel.]]> 119 Leonardo Sciascia 1590170628 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.86 1971 Equal Danger
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]]> <![CDATA[The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)]]> 22034
Almost fifty years ago, a classic was born. A searing portrayal of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor. The seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and the allegiance to family—these are the themes that have resonated with millions of readers around the world and made The Godfather the definitive novel of the violent subculture that, steeped in intrigue and controversy, remains indelibly etched in our collective consciousness.]]> 448 Mario Puzo Phelipe 0 to-read 4.39 1969 The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> A barcaça da morte 18231417 129 Georges Simenon Phelipe 0 to-read 2.50 1931 A barcaça da morte
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]]> The List of Suspicious Things 157591205
'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, when the police haven't even managed to?'

I sighed. Her questioning my ideas was a recent and unwelcome element to our friendship. But it was a valid point. How would we catch him? We needed some sort of plan, a way of gathering clues and putting them into order.

I thought about what the policeman had said about structure, and then about Aunty Jean and her notebook, and the idea I had hardened like toffee. I knew exactly what we needed to do.

'We'll make a list,' I said. 'A list of the people and things we see that are suspicious.

And then . . . And then we'll investigate them.'

The List of Suspicious Things is a tender and moving coming of age story about family, friendship and community. Sometimes the strongest connections are found in the most unlikely of places.]]> 464 Jennie Godfrey 1529153298 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.19 2024 The List of Suspicious Things
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]]> <![CDATA[Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners]]> 55648673
"Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!"
- Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers

Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you and give you a feeling of progress when reading.

What does this book give you?

· Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary
· Controlled language at your level, to help you progress confidently
· Realistic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability
· Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way
· Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding
· Pleasure! Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'

With intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners will take your grasp of German to the next level with key features to support and consolidate your progress,

· A glossary for bold-face words in each text
· A bilingual word list
· Full plot summary
· Comprehension questions after each chapter.

As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners uses reading as the perfect tool to not only delight in learning German, but to accelerate your journey towards fluency.


These stories are appropriate for intermediate low-mid ACTFL levels

Use the codes inside the book and ebook to access a bonus story for free and the discounted audiobook on our Language Readers Library site or on the Language Readers app.]]> 224 Olly Richards 152936163X Phelipe 0 to-read 3.90 2021 Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners
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]]> Gabriel's Moon 215198466 In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession.

Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into a web of duplicities and betrayals.

As Gabriel’s reluctant initiation takes hold, he is drawn deeper into the shadows. Falling under the spell of Faith Green, an enigmatic and ruthless MI6 handler, he becomes ‘her spyâ€�, unable to resist her demands. But amid the peril, paranoia and passion consuming Gabriel’s new covert life, it will be the revelations closer to home that change the rest of his story.]]> 272 William Boyd 0802164870 Phelipe 0 currently-reading 3.87 2024 Gabriel's Moon
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]]> Five Little Pigs 25395020 336 Agatha Christie Phelipe 4 4.13 1942 Five Little Pigs
author: Agatha Christie
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> <![CDATA[EvguiĂȘni OniĂ©guin: Romance em versos]]> 71426399 Um dos romances mais importantes da literatura russa chega Ă s livrarias brasileiras em tradução inĂ©dita de Rubens Figueiredo.

Obra fundadora da literatura russa, EvguiĂȘni OniĂ©guin Ă© um romance em versos publicado entre os anos de 1825 e 1832. Nesse romance, PĂșchkin narra a vida do dĂąndi OniĂ©guin que, entediado com seu cotidiano, viaja para o campo, onde conhece a bela Tatiana. Ela se apaixona Ă  primeira vista, mas Ă© duramente rejeitada.

Anos depois, Oniéguin percebe o erro que cometeu e tenta desesperadamente retraçar seu caminho no amor. Contudo, o destino e diversas forças sociais não estarão a seu favor.

Obra poĂ©tica magistral e narrativa Ășnica, este livro tem agora sua primeira tradução brasileira completa direta do russo. Rubens Figueiredo tambĂ©m compĂ”e um texto de apresentação e notas para auxĂ­lio da leitura.

Tradução do russo, apresentação e notas de RUBENS FIGUEIREDO.]]> 304 Alexander Pushkin 8582851588 Phelipe 3 4.37 1833 EvguiĂȘni OniĂ©guin: Romance em versos
author: Alexander Pushkin
name: Phelipe
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1833
rating: 3
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]]> The Maltese Falcon 29999 213 Dashiell Hammett Phelipe 0 to-read 3.89 1930 The Maltese Falcon
author: Dashiell Hammett
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]]> <![CDATA[Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)]]> 192893 212 Dorothy L. Sayers 0061043575 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.87 1923 Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
author: Dorothy L. Sayers
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]]> <![CDATA[Personal Injuries (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #5)]]> 4683 Book #5 from the series: Kindle County📚
🎧Run Time = 16h 31min

“An exemplary novelâ€� (The New York Times) from a #1 New York Times bestselling author: When personal injury lawyer Robbie Feaver is caught bribing judges, the FBI convinces him to wear a wire as he continues his unscrupulous workâ€� “A subtle, densely textured legal thriller stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expectâ€� (Kirkus Reviews)!

To ambitious personal injury lawyer, Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar, less-than-ethical personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he’s forced to wear a wire in exchange for leniency from prosecution. Even as the besieged attorney is forced into an uneasy alliance to look after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies, his city, and a particular enigmatic female FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law. Now Robbie Feaver is making the play of his life in a story of greed, human weakness, love, and unexpected heroism.]]> 528 Scott Turow 0446608602 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.83 1999 Personal Injuries (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #5)
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]]> Raising Hare: A Memoir 214269337 A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end and gave birth to leverets in your study. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.

In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare—a leveret—that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how impossible it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton’s house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, stoats, feral cats, raptors, and even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death.

Raising Hare chronicles their journey together, while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness first-hand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them.]]> 285 Chloe Dalton 0593701844 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.42 2025 Raising Hare: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby]]> 522148 382 Genrikh Borovik 0316102849 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.71 1994 The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby
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]]> <![CDATA[A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal]]> 18773666
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.

But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow—and not just Elliott’s words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliott’s unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him—until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake.

Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyre’s best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.]]> 368 Ben Macintyre 0804136637 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.14 2014 A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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]]> <![CDATA[Spycatcher : the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer / Peter Wright]]> 123748909 Excellent Book 0 Peter Wright Phelipe 0 to-read 3.71 Spycatcher : the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer / Peter Wright
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]]> Case Study 57539677 “I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.â€�

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character.

In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents these notebooks interspersed with his own biographical research into Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling � and often wickedly humorous � meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.]]> 278 Graeme Macrae Burnet 1913393194 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.58 2021 Case Study
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]]> <![CDATA[Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation]]> 49397448 The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it.

Its code name was “Operation Gold,â€� a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . .

Betrayal in Berlin is Steve Vogel’s heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le CarrĂ© and Len Deighton.

Betrayal in Berlin includes 24 photos and two maps.]]> 560 Steve Vogel 0062449605 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.16 2019 Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
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]]> A Sonata a Kreutzer 13576416 °ŐŽÇ±ôČőłÙĂłŸ±. Ainda antes de ser publicada em 1891, cĂłpias de seu manuscrito provocaram escĂąndalo dentro e fora da RĂșssia, levando, mais tarde, Ă  sua proibição nos Estados Unidos. Sem dĂșvida, os sentimentos exaltados que esta novela evoca encontram paralelo na famosa peça de Beethoven conhecida como Sonata a Kreutzer, composta em 1803, que nĂŁo apenas inspirou o tĂ­tulo do livro como constitui um de seus motivos centrais.

°ŐŽÇ±ôČőłÙĂłŸ± era tĂŁo sensĂ­vel Ă  mĂșsica â€� considerava-a capaz de exercer uma influĂȘncia profunda sobre a conduta humana â€� que foi justamente ao ouvir uma apresentação dessa sonata em sua prĂłpria casa, na primavera de 1888, que ele retomou uma ideia que jĂĄ o ocupara antes: retratar, de forma aguda e radical, o desequilĂ­brio nas relaçÔes entre homens e mulheres, a questĂŁo da infidelidade no casamento e a hipocrisia social que cerca tudo o que diz respeito ao sexo.

Lançando mĂŁo de sua experiĂȘncia pessoal, de manuais de ginecologia, de conselhos mĂ©dicos para a higiene feminina, e do relato que ouvira das angĂșstias de um homem ante a traição de sua esposa, o autor de Guerra e paz criou uma narrativa de carĂĄter alucinatĂłrio, cujo enredo dialoga com as escalas vertiginosas do piano e do violino na sonata de Beethoven, e no qual o andamento inexorĂĄvel da tragĂ©dia se soma Ă  lucidez cristalina da linguagem.

EdiçÔes conhecidas

- Primeira edição: 2007
- Segunda edição: 2010

(fonte: editora)]]> 120 Leo Tolstoy 8573263903 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.97 1889 A Sonata a Kreutzer
author: Leo Tolstoy
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]]> <![CDATA[Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #36)]]> 16342 352 Agatha Christie 0425205967 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.86 1959 Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #36)
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]]> VINGANÇA VOYEUR 213017337 0 JULIA TERRON 6559275124 Phelipe 1 1.00 VINGANÇA VOYEUR
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]]> A Man's Head (Maigret #5) 22058231 176 Georges Simenon 0141393513 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.84 1931 A Man's Head (Maigret #5)
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]]> O Tribunal da Quinta-Feira 32811657
Texto retirado de ]]> 184 Michel Laub 8535928324 Phelipe 4 3.75 2016 O Tribunal da Quinta-Feira
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]]> <![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 11264999 Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN 0553573403/ 9780553573404

In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantansy fans everywhere.

In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes of the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 837 George R.R. Martin Phelipe 0 currently-reading 4.45 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom]]> 203578812 A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.

But there are rules:

He cannot look inside the box.
He cannot ask questions.
He cannot tell anyone.
They must leave immediately.
He must leave all trackable devices behind.

As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.

The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.]]> 400 Jason Pargin 125028595X Phelipe 3 3.97 2024 I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)]]> 206236
This novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s Kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hitman. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federaci. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.]]> 542 Don Winslow 1400096936 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.36 2005 The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)
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]]> Bleak House 31242
“Jarndyce and Jarndyceâ€� is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbours are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, blackmail and murder.

The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit—and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean.]]> 1017 Charles Dickens 0143037617 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.01 1853 Bleak House
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]]> Min kamp 3 (Min kamp, #3) 7457379 422 Karl Ove KnausgÄrd 8249507061 Phelipe 3 4.16 2009 Min kamp 3 (Min kamp, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Um Outro Amor (Minha Luta, #2)]]> 21401085 Logo depois de se separar da primeira mulher, Karl Ove deixa Oslo e se muda para Estocolmo, onde começa uma nova vida, experimentando a perspectiva do estrangeiro. Lå, ele cultiva uma amizade profunda e muitas vezes competitiva com Geir e persegue Linda, poeta que o conquistara anos antes durante um encontro de escritores.
Uma conversa com amigos durante o jantar pode se estender por cem pĂĄginas; saltos no tempo e flashbacks demonstram o pleno domĂ­nio do autor, capaz de conciliar a narrativa de episĂłdios pontuais com longas digressĂ”es que acompanham o tempo interno das personagens. Na construção narrativa de KnausgĂ„rd, as fronteiras entre memĂłria e invenção sĂŁo diluĂ­das a tal ponto que a sua prĂłpria vida Ă© recriada e ressignificada. Entre questĂ”es existenciais e reflexĂ”es acerca do fazer literĂĄrio, o que emerge ao fim desse romance honesto e profundo Ă© a conturbada e bela histĂłria de amor de um homem por sua mulher e seus filhos. KnausgĂ„rd parte de sua experiĂȘncia individual para criar uma obra arrebatadora e universal.

“De tirar o fĂŽlego, vocĂȘ nĂŁo vai conseguir largar esse livro, e nem vai querer... De uma beleza impressionanteâ€� - The New York Times Book Review

“Ă� notĂĄvel a habilidade de Karl Ove de estar presente em sua prĂłpria existĂȘncia, ao mesmo tempo que tem consciĂȘncia dela. É como se a escrita e a vida estivessem correndo juntas. Ficamos completamente imersos. Vivemos a vida dele com ele.â€� - Zadie Smith para The New York Review of Books

“ExtraordinĂĄrio... de uma honestidade implacĂĄvel. Cria espaço tanto para o lĂ­rico quanto para o prosaico, para o chocante e o banal.â€� - James Wood, New Statesman]]> 592 Karl Ove KnausgĂ„rd 8535923993 Phelipe 4 4.34 2009 Um Outro Amor (Minha Luta, #2)
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]]> The Company 418995 This impressive doorstopper of a book is like a family historical saga, except that the family is the American intelligence community. It has all the appropriate characters and tracks them over 40 years: a rogue uncle, the Sorcerer, a heavy-drinking chief of the Berlin office in the early Cold War days; a dashing hero, Jack McAuliffe, who ages gracefully and never loses his edge; a dastardly turncoat, who for the sake of the reader will not be identified here, but who dies nobly; a dark genius, the real-life James Jesus Angleton, who after the disclosure that an old buddy, British spy Kim Philby, had been a Russian agent all along, became a model of paranoia; a Russian exchange student who starts out with our heroes at Yale but then works for "the other side"; and endless assorted ladyfolk, wives, girlfriends and gutsy daughters who are not portrayed with anything like the gritty relish of the men.

Littell, an old hand at the genre (he wrote the classic 'The Defection of A.J. Lewinter') keeps it all moving well, and there are convincing set pieces: the fall of Budapest, the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and an eerily prescient episode in Afghanistan, in which a character obviously modeled on Osama bin Laden appears, accompanied by a sidekick whose duty is to slay him instantly if his capture by the West seems imminent.

It's gung-ho, hard-drinking, table-turning fun, even if a little old-fashioned now that we have so many other problems to worry about than the Russians but it brings back vividly a time when they seemed a real threat. There are some breathtaking real-life moments with the Kennedy brothers, and with a bumbling Reagan, and with Vladimir Putin, now the leader of Russia, who is here given a background that is extremely shady.

(Apr.)Forecast: The Afghanistan element will lend itself to handselling, but that will be only icing on the cake of Overlook's full-tilt publicity campaign, which will include national ad/promo, a TV/radio satellite tour and an author tour. Along with Littell's reputation among critics and spy-lit cognescenti, it should all add up to a breakout book with serious bestseller potential. And Overlook's planned reprinting in hardcover of all of Littell's work, beginning with 'The Defection of A.J. Lewinter,' should keep Littell's name in readers' minds for years to come.]]> 894 Robert Littell 0142002623 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.16 2002 The Company
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]]> <![CDATA[Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison]]> 33377448 Doing Time Like A Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto," Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.]]> 293 John Kiriakou 1945572418 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.68 2017 Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
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]]> Olga 56279075 A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.

Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men.

When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures.

Unfolding across decades—from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century—and across continents—from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west—Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman’s devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shines—revealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable.

 Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlink’s magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman and her world.

Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins ]]> 288 Bernhard Schlink 0063112922 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.75 2018 Olga
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]]> Three Burials 199598366
Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the Badlands of Southeast England. She's never felt more Thelma and Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead.

How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?

Thrilling, radical and darkly comedic, Anders Lustgarten's open-hearted storm of a book explores pressing political concerns with clear-sightedness and holds a mirror up to contemporary Britain.]]> 256 Anders Lustgarten 0241638798 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.01 Three Burials
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]]> Tote haben kein Zahnweh 28949665 Dr. Leocardia Kardiff, ZahnĂ€rztin mit Spritzenphobie, wird in den Mord an einer betuchten Witwe verwickelt. Von Neugier und Gerechtigkeitssinn getrieben, macht sie sich auf die Suche nach dem TĂ€ter â€� und gerĂ€t nicht nur mit Hauptkommissar Jakob Zimmer, Ermittler mit Zahnschmerzen, in Konflikt, sondern auch in Lebensgefahr. Denn der Mörder hat sie bereits im Visier.

]]> 336 Isabella Archan Phelipe 0 to-read 3.33 Tote haben kein Zahnweh
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]]> <![CDATA[Tote haben kein Zahnweh: Kriminalroman - Ein Fall fĂŒr Dr. Leocardia Kardiff 1 | Ein amĂŒsanter Krimi mit Biss (German Edition)]]> 105737417
Sie fĂŒhlt dem Bösen auf den Zahn â€� Dr. Leocardia Kardiff ist ZahnĂ€rztin mit Spritzenphobie â€� und zu ihrem Unmut macht die selbstverordnete Hypnosetherapie nur dĂŒrftige Fortschritte. Doch eigentlich hat sie ein viel dringlicheres Leo ist auf die Leiche einer Seniorin gestoßen, die augenscheinlich ermordet wurde! Eigentlich beginnt jetzt die Arbeit der Polizei â€� doch als sie mitbekommt, dass der Toten eine GoldbrĂŒcke im Gebiss entfernt wurde, muss sie als Frau vom Fach natĂŒrlich ermitteln â€� ganz zum Unmut des verflucht starrköpfigen und leider auch entwaffnend attraktiven Hauptkommissars Jakob Zimmer â€�!

»Ein ungewöhnlicher und sehr witziger Krimi. Die Hobbyermittlerin allein ist schon preisverdÀchtig«, urteilt der SaarlÀndische Rundfunk.

Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genieß Der humorvolle Köln-Krimi »Tote haben kein Zahnweh« von Isabella Archan ist der Auftakt ihrer Reihe humorvoller Krimis um Dr. Leocardia Kardiff â€� die ZahnĂ€rztin mit Spritzenphobie. Wer liest, hat mehr vom dotbooks â€� der eBook-Verlag.]]> 423 Isabella Archan 3986904727 Phelipe 0 to-read 0.0 Tote haben kein Zahnweh: Kriminalroman - Ein Fall fĂŒr Dr. Leocardia Kardiff 1 | Ein amĂŒsanter Krimi mit Biss (German Edition)
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]]> An Inspector Calls 900682 Excellent Book 117 J.B. Priestley 3150092183 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.82 1945 An Inspector Calls
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]]> The Signal 222282908
Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?

Caught between two mind-blowing possibilities, Dr. Veronica Chapel leaves her job as a high school science teacher to search for answers with her old friend Malcolm Feldman, a determined journalist, and Ada Park, a brilliant astronomer. Oh, and it also happens to be Dr. Chapel's one chance to redeem her destroyed scientific reputation, no pressure...

As the group digs deeper, they uncover layers of mystery that challenge their grasp of the universe and their place in it. With time running out and the world hanging in the balance, they must navigate a tangled web of corporate secrets, government interference, and ethical dilemmas on a high-stakes journey to uncover a truth that will upend our understanding of the cosmos—and ourselves.]]> Eric Buchman Phelipe 0 to-read 3.18 The Signal
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]]> Luminous 214151232 A highly anticipated, sweeping debut set in a unified Korea that tells the story of three estranged siblings—two human, one robot—as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood, perfect for fans of Klara and the Sun and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.

In a reunified Korea of the future, robots have been integrated into society as surrogates, servants, children, and even lovers. Though boundaries between bionic and organic frequently blur, these robots are decidedly second-class citizens. Jun and Morgan, two siblings estranged for many years, are haunted by the memory of their lost brother, Yoyo, who was warm, sensitive, and very nearly human.

Jun, a war veteran turned detective of the lowly Robot Crimes Unit in Seoul, becomes consumed by an investigation that reconnects him with his sister Morgan, now a prominent robot designer working for a top firm, who is, embarrassingly, dating one of her creations in secret.

On the other side of Seoul in a junkyard filled with abandoned robots, eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through scraps looking for robotic parts that might support her failing body. When she discovers a robot boy named Yoyo among the piles of trash, an unlikely bond is formed since Yoyo is so lifelike, he’s unlike anything she’s seen before.

While Morgan prepares to launch the most advanced robot-boy of her career, Jun’s investigation sparks a journey through the underbelly of Seoul, unearthing deeper mysteries about the history of their country and their family. The three siblings must find their way back to each other to reckon with their pasts and the future ahead of them in this poignant and remarkable exploration of what it really means to be human.]]> 391 Silvia Park 1668021668 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.88 2025 Luminous
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]]> <![CDATA[Te dei olhos e olhaste as trevas]]> 221084003
Narradora de atmosferas, Irene Solà nesta obra retoma seu estilo marcante, um deslumbre para o leitor, e continua seu projeto artístico lastreado no folclore, nas tradiçÔes e na história da Catalunha, especialmente do ponto de vista feminino.

Em Te dei olhos e olhaste as trevas, entre lobos, caçadores, fantasmas e bandoleiros, um pacto lendårio estende seu reflexo sombrio sobre geraçÔes de mulheres da mesma família.]]> 160 Irene Solà 6587955274 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.12 2023 Te dei olhos e olhaste as trevas
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]]> <![CDATA[Death at the Village Chess Club (Cotswold Curiosity Shop Mysteries, #2)]]> 220246879
Alice decides to host a tournament to showcase the boards, and her plan seems to be working. That is, until chess pieces begin to mysteriously disappear. And when a body is discovered outside the tournament, Alice realises that the victim was a pawn in another, far more dangerous game.

As the host of the event, Alice is eager to help the police investigate. She doesn’t know why anyone would be interested in stealing random chess pieces, let alone willing to kill for them, but she’s determined to find out. Can she solve the case before someone else gets hurt?

Or will this be one gambit too far for Alice?]]> 217 Debbie Young 1835185657 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.21 Death at the Village Chess Club (Cotswold Curiosity Shop Mysteries, #2)
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]]> The Less Unkind 222545239
As she fights to uncover the truth and witnesses the lengths one will go to protect the secrets of the past, Pico confronts the moral quandaries that emerge when the pursuit of art eclipses the bounds of right and wrong.]]> 279 Rosaria Giorgi 1836287267 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.00 The Less Unkind
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]]> The Family Next Door 218636247 ‘One of the best books I’ve ever read!â€� - Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐â­�

Perfect Neighbours, Perfect Lies�

When Viola's new neighbours move into Number 33, everything seems picture-perfect.

But behind the manicured lawn and polite smiles, dark secrets lurk in the shadows. As Viola, a quiet retiree, digs deeper into the strange behaviour of the family next door, she uncovers a disturbing web of lies.

The father, Rhys, is hostile. The mother, Wendy, seems to be losing her grip on reality. And their daughter, Mirabelle is an eerie eight-year-old.

When Viola sneaks into Number 33, she discovers a locked room and a secret hidden inside. Soon her curiosity turns into obsession. But as she pushes closer to the truth, the family turns the tables and suddenly, Viola is the one questioning her own sanity.

Will Viola uncover the sinister truth� or is she the next victim in this twisted game of cat and mouse?

The Family Next Door is a chilling psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.



‘This book sucks you inâ€� I read this book in a day and was so grippedâ€� - reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐â­�

]]> 270 Charlotte Stevenson Phelipe 0 to-read 3.93 2024 The Family Next Door
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]]> Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 58085301 Literary Hub � Most Anticipated Books of 2022

Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation. During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889â€�1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914, this historic, en-face edition presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his days as a philosophy student at Cambridge, who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow soldiers, the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality, and the formation of an explosive analytical philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death. Much like Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.]]> 240 Ludwig Wittgenstein 1324090804 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.78 Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)]]> 2429135
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.]]> 480 Stieg Larsson 0670069019 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.17 2005 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> 36303872 384 James Baldwin 0241342031 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.26 1968 Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone (Penguin Modern Classics)
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]]> Spring (Seasons Quartet, #3) 36723048 Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.

Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over.

Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for.

Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A day filled with everyday routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness.]]> 192 Karl Ove KnausgÄrd 0399563369 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.29 2016 Spring (Seasons Quartet, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Siege of Bitterns (Birder Murder Mystery, #1)]]> 17859371
2015 Arthur Ellis Award � Winner, Best First Novel � Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2014 � 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize � Shortlisted, Best Mystery

Inspector Domenic Jejeune’s success has made him a poster boy for the U.K. police service. The problem is Jejeune doesn’t really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds.

Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, located in the heart of Britain’s premier birding country, Jejeune’s two worlds collide when he investigates the grisly murder of a prominent ecological activist. His ambitious police superintendent foresees a blaze of welcome publicity, but she begins to have her doubts when Jejeune’s most promising theory involves a feud over birdwatching lists. A second murder only complicates matters.

To unravel this mystery, Jejeune must deal with unwelcome public acclaim, the mistrust of colleagues, and his own insecurities. In the case of the Saltmarsh birder murders, the victims may not be the only casualties.]]> 352 Steve Burrows 1459708431 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.57 2014 A Siege of Bitterns (Birder Murder Mystery, #1)
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]]> Contos de Kolimå 17167468 Os seus contos que descrevem a vida quotidiana nos campos de concentração, são belos, duros e lacónicos.
Em 1964, Soljenitsyne escreveu-lhe uma carta em que afirmava: "Acredito firmemente que viverei até ao dia em que serão publicados 'Os Contos de Kolimå'! Então as pessoas ficarão a saber quem é Varlam Shalamov".
Essa previsĂŁo cumpriu-se.
Mas Varlam Shalamov, esse morreu quando apenas haviam sido publicados alguns dos seus poemas.]]> 120 Varlam Shalamov 9727476597 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.06 1966 Contos de KolimĂĄ
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]]> The Man Who Saw Seconds 192631651 "10 for 2024" Year-End Best Books List
CIBA Mark Twain grand prize winner for best satire of 2024
2025 Locus Award Shortlist (award TBD)
Foreword Reviews "best thriller of 2024" finalist (award TBD)

Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future.

Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet--causing another man to die in his place. Government agencies become aware of Preble's gift, a manhunt ensues, and their ambitions shift from law enforcement to military R&D. Preble will do whatever it takes to protect his family, but as events spiral out of control, he must weigh the cost of his gift against the loss of his humanity.

A breathless thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page, The Man Who Saw Seconds explores the nature of time, the brain as a prediction machine, and the tension between the individual and the systems we create. Alexander Boldizar provides an adrenaline-pumping read that will leave you contemplating love, fear and the abyss.

“The Man Who Saw Seconds is one of the more audacious and emo­tionally brutal thrillers I’ve ever read
You wouldn’t think a few seconds of precognition would be that formidable a power, but the author makes a compelling case for how someone could pretty much take over and/or destroy the world if they leveraged the skill properly. The protagonist just wants to live in peace with his family, but that world won’t allow it. This one hit me hard in the dadfeels.â€�
—Tim Pratt, Hugo-award winning author, "10 for 2024"]]> 325 Alexander Boldizar 1960988077 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.83 2024 The Man Who Saw Seconds
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]]> <![CDATA[Presumed Guilty (Presumed Innocent #3)]]> 213890792 New from the author of Presumed Innocent, the #1 bestseller that redefined the legal thriller and is the basis for Apple TV+’s most-watched drama series ever.

Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that’s taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea’s young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn’t return soon, he will be sent back to jail.

Aaron eventually turns up with a vague story about a camping trip with his troubled girlfriend, Mae, that ended in a fight and a long hitchhike home. Days later, when she still hasn’t returned, suspicion falls on Aaron, and when Mae is subsequently discovered dead, Aaron is arrested and set for trial on charges of first degree murder.

Faced with few choices and even fewer hopes, Bea begs Rusty to return to court one last time, to defend her son and to save their last best hope for happiness. For Rusty, the question is not whether to defend Aaron, or whether the boy is in fact innocent—it’s whether the system to which he has devoted his life can ever provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.]]> 544 Scott Turow 1538706369 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.23 2025 Presumed Guilty (Presumed Innocent #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #8)]]> 8190864 Presumed Innocent, the men are once more pitted against one another in a riveting psychological match. When Sabich, now 60 years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, finds his wife Barbara dead under mysterious circumstances, Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, setting into motion a trial that is vintage Turow--the courtroom at its most taut and explosive. With his characteristic insight into both the dark truths of the human psyche and the dense intricacies of the criminal justice system, Scott Turow proves once again that some books simply compel us to read late into the night, desperate to know who did it.]]> 416 Scott Turow Phelipe 0 to-read 4.26 2010 Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #8)
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]]> The Trial 75482120
ONE MURDER. ONE IMPOSSIBLE CASE. WHO IS GUILTY?

When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old Bailey, it threatens to shake the country to its core.

The evidence points to one man. Jimmy Knight has been convicted of multiple offences before and defending him will be no easy task. Not least because this is trainee barrister Adam Green's first case.

But it will quickly become clear that Jimmy Knight is not the only person in Cliveden's past with an axe to grind.

The only thing that's certain is that this is a trial which will push Adam - and the justice system itself - to the limit . . .

'
']]> 358 Rob Rinder Phelipe 0 to-read 4.22 2023 The Trial
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]]> <![CDATA[Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb]]> 20508
Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called CIA-crack cocaine connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by the mainstream media. Author and investigative journalist Nick Schou published numerous articles on the controversy and was the only reporter to significantly advance Webb's stories.

Drawing on exhaustive research and highly personal interviews with Webb's family, colleagues, supporters and critics, this book argues convincingly that Webb's editors betrayed him, despite mounting evidence that his stories were correct. Kill the Messenger examines the "Dark Alliance" controversy, what it says about the current state of journalism in America, and how it led Webb to ultimately take his own life.

Webb's widow, Sue Bell Stokes, remains an ardent defender of her ex-husband. By combining her story with a probing examination of the one of the most important media scandals in recent memory, this book provides a gripping view of one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of investigative journalism.]]> 256 Nick Schou 1560259302 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.74 2006 Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
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]]> The Lonely Hearts Hotel 30201327 The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans in love with each other since they can remember whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future.

The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one's origins. It might also take true love.

Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen.

Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes after years of searching and desperate poverty the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same.

With her musical language and extravagantly realized world, Heather O'Neill enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell.]]> 391 Heather O'Neill 0735213739 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.78 2017 The Lonely Hearts Hotel
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]]> <![CDATA[Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History]]> 43494403 528 Frank Close 0241309832 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.11 2019 Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History
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]]> <![CDATA[Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)]]> 57366942
But during the soiree, there’s a crash from inside the house, and when the Marlow Murder Club rush to investigate, they are shocked to find the groom-to-be crushed to death in his study.

The study was locked from the inside, so the police don’t consider the death suspicious. But Judith disagrees. As far as she's concerned, Peter was murdered! And it’s up to the Marlow Murder Club to find the killer before he or she strikes again
]]> 366 Robert Thorogood 0008238316 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.88 2023 Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Calculation of Volume II (Book II)]]> 208511276 Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.

The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth.

Book II of Solvej Balle’s astounding seven-part series On the Calculation of Volume beautifully expands on the speculative premise of Book I, drawing us further into the maze of time, where space yawns open, as if suddenly gaining a new dimension, extending into ever more fined-grained textures. Within this new reality, our senses and the tactility of things grows heightened: sounds, smells, sights, objects come suddenly alive, as if the world had begun whispering to us in a new language.

And yet as the world announces itself anew, Tara’s own sense of self is eroding, making her wonder just which bits of her are really left intact? “It is the Tara Selter with hopes and dreams who has fallen out of the picture, been thrown off the world, run over the edge, been poured out, carried off down the stream of eighteenths of November, lost, evaporated, swept out to sea.â€� She begins to think of herself as a relic of the past, as something or someone leftover, similar to the little Roman coin she carries around in her pocket, without a purpose or a place.

Desperate to recover a sense of herself within time, Tara decides to head north by train in search of winter, but soon she turns south in pursuit of spring, as she tries to grasp on to durational time through seasonal variations. Amazingly, On the Calculation of Volume Book II is all movement and motion―taking us through the European countries of the North and the South, through seasons, and languages―a beautiful travelogue that is also a love letter to our vanishing world. To be continued.]]> 176 Solvej Balle 0811237273 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.16 2020 On the Calculation of Volume II (Book II)
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Calculation of Volume I]]> 208511270
Balle is hypnotic and masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time and foreshadowings: her flashbacks light up inside the text like old flash bulbs.

The first volume’s gravitational pull―a force inverse to its constriction―has the effect of a strong tranquilizer, but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper and more acute. Give in to the book's logic (its minute movements, its thrilling shifts, its slant wit, its slowing of time) and its spell is utterly intoxicating.

Solvej Balle’s seven-volume novel wrings enthralling and magical new dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal subjects. As one Danish reviewer beautifully put it, Balle’s fiction consists of writing that listens. “Reading her is like being caressed by language itself.”]]> 160 Solvej Balle 0811237257 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.89 2020 On the Calculation of Volume I
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]]> Stalingrad 42194293 Life and Fate has been hailed as a twentieth-century War and Peace. However, Life and Fate is only the second half of a two-part work, the first half of which was published in 1952. Grossman wanted to call this earlier work Stalingrad—as it will be in this first English translation—but it was published as For a Just Cause. The characters in both novels are largely the same and so is the story line; Life and Fate picks up where Stalingrad ends, in late September 1942. The first novel is in no way inferior to Life and Fate; the chapters about the Shaposhnikov family are both tender and witty, and the battle scenes are vivid and moving. One of the most memorable chapters of Life and Fate is the last letter written from a Jewish ghetto by Viktor Shtrum’s mother—a powerful lament for East European Jewry. The words of this letter do not appear in Stalingrad, yet the letter’s presence makes itself powerfully felt and it is mentioned many times. We learn who carries it across the front lines, who passes it on to whom, and how it eventually reaches Viktor. Grossman describes the difficulty Viktor experiences in reading it and his inability to talk about it even to his family. The absence of the letter itself is eloquent—as if its contents are too awful for anyone to take in.]]> 1088 Vasily Grossman 1681373270 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.32 1952 Stalingrad
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]]> The Second World War 25587
1. The Gathering Storm
2. Their Finest Hour
3. The Grand Alliance
4. The Hinge of Fate
5. Closing the Ring
6. Triumph and Tragedy]]> 4736 Winston S. Churchill 039541685X Phelipe 0 to-read 4.48 The Second World War
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]]> Murder as a Fine Art 223370848 244 Carol Carnac Phelipe 0 to-read 3.25 1953 Murder as a Fine Art
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]]> Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight 217302159
It appears that Pottermack is in fact a run away prisoner, convicted of fraud and Lewison is about to spill the beans unless he receives a large bribe in return for his silence.

But Pottermack protests his innocence, and resolves to shut Lewison up once and for all. Will he do it? And if he does, will he get away with it?]]> 302 R. Austin Freeman 0712355464 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.74 1930 Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight
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]]> Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) 57693457 After several deaths punctuating a series of all-too-brief life spans, a clone reassesses his purpose â€� and his humanity â€� in Edward Ashton’s Mickey7, “a unique blend of thought-provoking sci-fi concepts, farcical relationship drama, and exotic body horrorâ€� (New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin).

EXPENDABLE \ik’spen-dâ€�-b’l\ n. A human clone utilized for dangerous work on space exploration missions. An Expendable’s personality and memories may be transferred intact to a new body if and when the current host dies.

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable, now on his seventh iteration, living â€� and dying â€� among his fellow colonists on the near-uninhabitable ice world of Niflheim. Some consider him immortal. Others believe he’s a soulless monstrosity. For the past nine years, he has been deployed for hazardous assignments and subjected to experiments that test the limits of human endurance, his humanity sacrificed for the greater good.

While on reconnaissance, Mickey7 is injured and left for dead, only to be saved by Niflheim’s native species, thought to be insentient by the colonists. Returning to base, Mickey7 meets his next generation, Mickey8. Neither clone is willing to recycle himself, but if anyone discovers multiple Mickeys exist, they’ll both be executed â€� and there won’t ever be a Mickey9.

But Mickey7’s premature twin isn’t his only secret. He hasn’t uploaded his memories in a month, leaving his clone in the dark about his near death and close encounter with the planet’s inhabitants. Mickey7 also doesn’t know how all of his previous selves died, and those he remembers have left him traumatized and mistrustful of the colony’s mission. A mission that has Mickey Barnes questioning his moral and mortal existence...again...and again....]]> 296 Edward Ashton 1250275032 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.74 2022 Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
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]]> Fear Stalks the Village 204804124 304 Ethel Lina White 0712355308 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.68 1932 Fear Stalks the Village
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]]> On the Marble Cliffs 501415 128 Ernst JĂŒnger 0140029850 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.85 1939 On the Marble Cliffs
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]]> War and Peace 19208702
Tolstoy's magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur

War and Peace begins at a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, where conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself.

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Anthony Briggs with an Afterword by Orlando Figes.]]> 1403 Leo Tolstoy Phelipe 0 to-read 4.44 1869 War and Peace
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]]> It Can't Happen Here 11371 Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dictator to "save the nation." Now finally back in print, It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news.]]> 400 Sinclair Lewis 045121658X Phelipe 0 to-read 3.77 1935 It Can't Happen Here
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]]> <![CDATA[Three Card Murder (The Impossible Crimes Series, Book 1)]]> 137711361 352 J.L. Blackhurst Phelipe 0 to-read 3.52 2023 Three Card Murder (The Impossible Crimes Series, Book 1)
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]]> O Amor a Solidão 43177605 0 André Comte-Sponville 8580632617 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.50 O Amor a Solidão
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]]> <![CDATA[Delegado Rodrigo (Portuguese Edition)]]> 58359761 232 André Norcia 6556251437 Phelipe 5 4.62 Delegado Rodrigo (Portuguese Edition)
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Amazing book written by a judge that was once a police chief in Brazil. This book is about corruption in the police system in Brazil. I was quite shocked while reading this book. I recommend this to everyone interested in the field.
]]> Bombshell (FBI Thriller, #17) 16158496
While on his way to D.C., Hammersmith plans to visit his sister, Delsey, a student at Stanislaus School of Music in Maestro, Virginia. Before he arrives, he gets a phone call that Delsey was found naked, unconscious, and covered with blood after a wild party. The blood isn't hers—so who does it belong to?

Meanwhile, back in D.C., Savich and Sherlock have their hands full when the grandson of former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank is found murdered, every bone in his body broken, and frozen at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. 

Was Savich right—is Griffin gifted with a unique ability to "see" how criminals think? And will he figure out who was behind the attempt on Delsey's life—before it's too late?]]> 400 Catherine Coulter 0399157336 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.99 2013 Bombshell (FBI Thriller, #17)
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]]> Lie With Me 40539136 The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.

We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him, that I’m holding on to him outside.

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.

Dazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love—and the heartbreaking passage of time.]]> 149 Philippe Besson 1501197878 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.25 2017 Lie With Me
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]]> The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7) 9572203 383 Jo NesbĂž 0307595862 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.02 2007 The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)]]> 32508 482 Michael Connelly 0446612731 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.11 1992 The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch Series) (Terry Mccaleb 2)]]> 24598330 432 Michael Connelly 1409156060 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.12 2000 A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch Series) (Terry Mccaleb 2)
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]]> Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1) 425164
ED MCBAIN'S FIRST 87th PRECINCT NOVEL]]> 160 Ed McBain 0451150791 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.81 1956 Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
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]]> Leaving the Sea: Stories 17797247
In the hilarious, lacerating “I Can Say Many Nice Things,â€� a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,â€� a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In “Watching Mysteries with My Mother,â€� a son meditates on his mother’s mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator’s marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide.

As the collection progresses, we move from more traditional narratives into the experimental work that has made Ben Marcus a groundbreaking master of the short form. In these otherworldly landscapes, characters resort to extreme survival strategies to navigate the terrors of adulthood, one opting to live in a lightless cave and another methodically setting out to recover total childhood innocence; an automaton discovers love and has to reinvent language to accommodate it; filial loyalty is seen as a dangerous weakness that must be drilled away; and the distance from a cubicle to the office coffee cart is refigured as an existential wasteland, requiring heroic effort.
In these piercing, brilliantly observed investigations into human vulnerability and failure, it is often the most absurd and alien predicaments that capture the deepest truths. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.

What have you done? --
I can say many nice things --
The dark arts --
Rollingwood --
On not growing up --
My views on the darkness --
Watching mysteries with my mother --
The loyalty protocol --
The father costume --
First love --
Fear the morning --
Origins of the family --
Against attachment --
Leaving the sea --
The moors]]> 288 Ben Marcus 0307379388 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.38 2014 Leaving the Sea: Stories
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]]> Latitudes of Longing 51964497
A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself.

A young writer awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in India for this novel, Shubhangi Swarup is a storyteller of extraordinary talent and insight. Richly imaginative and wryly perceptive, Latitudes of Longing offers a soaring view of humanity: our beauty and ugliness, our capacity to harm and love each other, and our mysterious and sacred relationship with nature.]]> 320 Shubhangi Swarup 0593132556 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.74 2018 Latitudes of Longing
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]]> <![CDATA[Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History]]> 60657645
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country’s socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague’s twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some “end of history,â€� whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times.

In a brilliant narrative, Sayer weaves a vivid montage of the lives of individual Praguers―poets and politicians, architects and athletes, journalists and filmmakers, artists, musicians, and comedians―caught up in the crosscurrents of the turbulent half century following the Nazi invasion. This is the territory of the ideologist, the collaborator, the informer, the apparatchik, the dissident, the outsider, the torturer, and the refugee―not to mention the innocent bystander who is always looking the other way and Václav Havel’s greengrocer whose knowing complicity allows the show to go on. Over and over, Prague exposes modernity’s dreamworlds of progress as confections of kitsch.

In a time when democracy is once again under global assault, Postcards from Absurdistan is an unforgettable portrait of a city that illuminates the predicaments of the modern world.]]> 752 Derek Sayer 069118545X Phelipe 0 to-read 4.43 Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
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]]> <![CDATA[Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives]]> 218651120
The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital’s finest jewellers.

Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard’s meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators, this new selection by Martin Edwards includes eighteen vintage mystery stories from a period between 1908 and 1963 to showcase the city’s most compelling classic cases.

With contributions by Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr and Dorothy L. Sayers along with rare finds by Raymond Postgate, J. Jefferson Farjeon and many more, this anthology invites you to join some of the greatest detectives ever written on their perilous trail through London’s darker underside.]]> 316 Martin Edwards 0712355510 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.97 Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives
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]]> <![CDATA[Smoke and Murders (Impossible Crimes #2)]]> 201117163
When the charred remains of Rupert Millington are found inside a burning effigy, no one knows how they got there, but there are plenty of rumours about whodunnit.

Detective Tess Fox and her con-artist sister Sarah Jacobs have a knack for solving impossible crimes. They’re confident they have the skills to unmask the true killer. But will this puzzling mystery prove beyond even their talents?]]> 320 J.L. Blackhurst 000856728X Phelipe 0 to-read 3.75 Smoke and Murders (Impossible Crimes #2)
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]]> The Tin Drum 35743 580 GĂŒnter Grass 0099483505 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.96 1959 The Tin Drum
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> The Big Green Tent 20575413 The Big Green Tent is the kind of book the  term “Russian novelâ€� was invented for. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boys—an orphaned poet; a gifted, fragile pianist; and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting secrets—struggle to reach adulthood in a society where their heroes have been censored and exiled.

Rich with love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, The Big Green Tent offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for integrity in a society defined by the KGB. Each of the central characters seeks to transcend an oppressive regime through art, a love of Russian literature, and activism. And each of them ends up face-to-face with a secret police that is highly skilled at fomenting paranoia, division, and self-betrayal. An artist is chased into the woods, where he remains in hiding for four years; a researcher is forced to deem a patient insane, damning him to torture in a psychiatric ward; a man and his wife each become collaborators, without the other knowing.

Ludmila Ulitskaya’s big yet intimate novel belongs to the tradition of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Pasternak: a work of politics, love, and belief that is a revelation of life in dark times.]]> 587 Lyudmila Ulitskaya 0374166676 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.90 2010 The Big Green Tent
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]]> Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) 209439446
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.]]> 527 Rebecca Yarros 1649374186 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.18 2025 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
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]]> The Goldfinch 17333223
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.]]> 771 Donna Tartt 0316055433 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.94 2013 The Goldfinch
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]]> Running Cold 206292454 In this heart-pounding story of deception, murder, and survival, a former Olympian retreats to the Canadian wilderness for a fresh start, only to find out that the past will always catch up to her.

Julie Adler’s perfect facade is shattered by grief when her husband commits suicide. His death reveals that their luxurious California life was a house of cards, and his secret business dealings have left Julie penniless.

As she strikes out on her own, Julie feels drawn to her old stomping grounds in Banff, a charming and isolated ski town where she once trained for the Olympics. She finds work as a housekeeper at a luxury resort, but just as she starts to piece together a new life, an eccentric guest turns up dead. And Julie, the last person seen in her hotel room, is the prime suspect.

The evidence is stacked against her, but even in the encroaching blizzard, Julie knows her way around these mountains. She just needs to evade the police long enough to find the truth behind the murder
and before the real killer finds her first.]]> 309 Susan Walter 1662515367 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.10 2024 Running Cold
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]]> The Sheltering Sky 243598 The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence—perhaps even the limits of human life—when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.]]> 342 Paul Bowles 0141023422 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.92 1949 The Sheltering Sky
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]]> <![CDATA[The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)]]> 203578881 The nineteenth mystery in the #1 New York Times bestselling Armand Gamache series

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.

That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin The Grey Wolf, the nineteenth novel in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "This might interest you," a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.

Armand Gamache; Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command; and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other, as old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends. Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across QuĂ©bec and across borders. Their hunt grows increasingly desperate, even frantic, as the enormity of the creature they’re chasing becomes clear. If they fail, the devastating consequences would reach into the largest of cities and the smallest of villages.]]> 421 Louise Penny 1250328136 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.95 2024 The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cornish Wedding Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #1)]]> 61148867 Jodie ‘Noseyâ€� Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home. Having quit the Met Police in search of something less dangerous, the change of pace means she can finally start her dream catering company and raise her daughter, Daisy, somewhere safer.

But there’s nothing quite like having your first job back at home be catering an ex-boyfriend’s wedding to remind you of just how small your village is. And when the bride vanishes, Jodie is drawn into the investigation, realising that life in the countryside might not be as quaint as she remembers.

With a missing bride on their hands, murder and mayhem lurks around every corner�

But surely saving the day will be a piece of cake for this not-so-amateur sleuth?

This title was previously published as Murder on the Menu.]]> 369 Fiona Leitch Phelipe 0 to-read 3.72 2021 The Cornish Wedding Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)]]> 527620 Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain...or get away from.

In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot -- and her instincts are soon proved correct when the 'pretend' murder victim is discovered playing the scene for real, a rope wrapped tightly around her neck.

But it's the great detective who first discovers that in murder hunts, whether mock or real, everyone is playing a part.

]]> 240 Agatha Christie 0425174735 Phelipe 0 to-read 3.66 1956 Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
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]]> Girls 181123944 GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their famous late mother, brilliant yet deeply troubled artist Ingrid Olsen.

As they embark on an all-or-nothing road trip across the US to preserve Ingrid's legacy, they start to unpick the scars of the past - and realise that the ties that bound them, might also break them.

Told partly in interview form, GIRLS is as devastating as it is hilarious, as tender and moving as it is shocking - this is a book that will stay with you long after you have turned the final pages.]]> 320 Kirsty Capes Phelipe 0 to-read 4.05 Girls
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]]> <![CDATA[Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)]]> 10073506 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.

It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.]]> 381 John Le Carré Phelipe 4 4.07 1974 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
author: John Le Carré
name: Phelipe
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1974
rating: 4
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]]> The Free People's Village 66094388
English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called “The Labâ€� in Houston’s Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins “Save the Eighth,â€� a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. At first, she’s only focused on keeping her band together and getting closer to Red, their reckless and enigmatic lead guitarist. But working with Save the Eighth forces Maddie to reckon with the harm she has already done to the neighborhood—both as a resident of the gentrifying Lab and as a white teacher in a predominantly Black school.

When police respond to Save the Eighth protests with violence, the Lab becomes the epicenter of “The Free People’s Village”—an occupation that promises to be the birthplace of an anti-capitalist revolution. As the movement spreads across the U.S., Maddie dreams of a queer, liberated future with Red. But the Village is beset on all sides—by infighting, police brutality, corporate-owned media, and rising ecofascism. Maddie’s found family is increasingly at risk from state violence, and she must decide if she’s willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of justice.
Ìę±Ő±Ő> 400 Sim Kern 1646142667 Phelipe 0 to-read 4.08 2023 The Free People's Village
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