Rebby's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:19:27 -0800 60 Rebby's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Confess 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 Rebby 0 to-read 4.14 2015 Confess
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Rebby 0 to-read 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
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]]> <![CDATA[L'Erede di Mezzanotte (Le cronache di Magnus Bane #4)]]> 18486396 45 Cassandra Clare 8852041648 Rebby 4 ebooks 3.88 2013 L'Erede di Mezzanotte (Le cronache di Magnus Bane #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Spades and Other Stories]]> 97381 The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.]]> 336 Alexander Pushkin 0192839543 Rebby 4 4.16 1841 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)]]> 17849112 Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world. When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans, where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?

]]> 320 Susan Ee 1477867287 Rebby 5 ebooks 4.09 2013 World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)
author: Susan Ee
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average rating: 4.09
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)]]> 12983100 Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.

When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?]]> 438 Susan Ee Rebby 0 to-read 4.24 2013 World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Patch & Nora: Il primo vero incontro tra Patch e Nora, visto con gli occhi di Patch!]]> 17970666 10 Becca Fitzpatrick Rebby 0 3.96 Patch & Nora: Il primo vero incontro tra Patch e Nora, visto con gli occhi di Patch!
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]]> <![CDATA[The Voicemail of Magnus Bane (The Bane Chronicles, #11)]]> 23568841 16 Cassandra Clare Rebby 0 to-read 4.08 2014 The Voicemail of Magnus Bane (The Bane Chronicles, #11)
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]]> <![CDATA[Il fantasma di Canterville (e altri racconti)]]> 13557922 160 Oscar Wilde 8807822458 Rebby 0 3.76 1887 Il fantasma di Canterville (e altri racconti)
author: Oscar Wilde
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book published: 1887
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]]> Cuore di cane 3045455 97 Mikhail Bulgakov 8879830902 Rebby 0 to-read 3.83 1925 Cuore di cane
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]]> La mite 55204830 144 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8804710713 Rebby 0 to-read 3.91 1876 La mite
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]]> I fratelli Karamazov 43546640 1402 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8858818180 Rebby 0 to-read 4.60 1880 I fratelli Karamazov
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average rating: 4.60
book published: 1880
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]]> Il giocatore 28627048 230 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8807901633 Rebby 0 to-read 3.80 Il giocatore
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]]> Noi 20698328 ALESSANDRO NIERO]]> 288 Yevgeny Zamyatin 8862431422 Rebby 5 3.80 1924 Noi
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]]> Il giocatore 55921790 The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.]]> 196 Fyodor Dostoevsky Rebby 0 to-read 0.0 1866 Il giocatore
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)]]> 44778083
Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose-to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach.

As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion-one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it.

With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom-and the power of love.]]> 803 Sarah J. Maas 1635574048 Rebby 0 currently-reading 4.43 2020 House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
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]]> Memorie del sottosuolo 53397885 133 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8862941145 Rebby 0 currently-reading 4.17 1864 Memorie del sottosuolo
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]]> <![CDATA[NetoÄka Nezvanova (Italian Edition)]]> 54280900 217 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8858838742 Rebby 0 to-read 3.92 1849 NetoÄka Nezvanova (Italian Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Di mondi diversi e anime affini]]> 58085507
Si può crescere nella stessa città, camminare per le stesse strade, incontrare le stesse persone, ma vivere storie così lontane da sentirsi abitanti di due mondi diversi. Quella di Mohamed è la storia di un bambino che impara troppo presto a conoscere sulla propria pelle l’ostilità dettata dall’ignoranza, la cattiveria del branco e l’ipocrisia degli adulti. Un bambino dagli occhi grandi, pieni di sogni, che desidera provare quel senso di appartenenza e calore che ci fa sentire “a casa� e costruire un futuro migliore per sé e per la sua famiglia. Quella di Raissa è la storia di una bambina circondata da una bolla di amore e protetta da tutto ciò che è “diverso�, che si apre al mondo piena di curiosità e domande e vuole imparare a camminare sulle proprie gambe. Una bambina con un universo interiore vorticoso, che cerca una lente per mettere a frutto il suo talento e a fuoco il suo futuro. Due strade parallele che curvano l’una verso l’altra, sfiorandosi, fino ad arrivare a intrecciarsi e diventare una. Due anime affini che si riconoscono. Due “io� che diventano un “noi�. Perché, anche se si proviene da mondi diversi, si possono vivere le stesse emozioni: le paure, l’insicurezza, la fatica nell’accettazione di sé, la voglia di farcela, la capacità di sorridere, il desiderio di amare. Quella di Mohamed e Raissa è la storia di due ragazzi che si innamorano e affrontano insieme tutte le esperienze di una giovane coppia, scoprendo passioni in comune e quelle piccole diversità che ci rendono unici. Ma che imparano anche cosa significa lottare quotidianamente contro l’odio e i pregiudizi, e scelgono di non restare in silenzio, ma di usare l’autoironia come unica arma, trasformando le difficoltà in un’occasione di crescita personale e la loro storia in un punto di riferimento per tanti ragazzi e ragazze come loro. Per aprire insieme il primo capitolo di una storia nuova.

«Mia figlia ha undici anni: io non ho bisogno di spiegarle i fondamenti dell’antirazzismo, perché segue su TikTok Raissa e Momo che mettono in scena tutti i pregiudizi sulle coppie miste. E lo fanno divertendosi: sono due ragazzi giovani, che evidentemente si amano, e si divertono insieme.» - Sandro Veronesi

«Raissa e Momo sono la coppia più bella del mondo: due fidanzati che fanno gioiosamente a pezzi gli stereotipi.» - Danilo De Biasio direttore del Festival dei Diritti umani di Milano]]> 164 8851194599 Rebby 0 to-read 4.04 Di mondi diversi e anime affini
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]]> I racconti del libraio 57822371 408 Martin Latham 8817155713 Rebby 0 to-read 3.78 2020 I racconti del libraio
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]]> <![CDATA[La città di ottone (Trilogia Daevabad, #1)]]> 53289782
Quando però la sua strada si incrocia accidentalmente con quella di Dara, un misterioso jinn guerriero, la ragazza deve rivedere le sue convinzioni. Costretta a fuggire dal Cairo, insieme a Dara attraversa sabbie calde e spazzate dal vento che pullulano di creature di fuoco, fiumi in cui dormono i mitici marid, rovine di città un tempo maestose e montagne popolate di uccelli rapaci che non sono ciò che sembrano. Oltre tutto ciò si trova Daevabad, la leggendaria città di ottone. Nahri non lo sa ancora, ma il suo destino è indissolubilmente legato a quello di Daevabad, una città in cui, all'interno di mura metalliche intrise di incantesimi, il sangue può essere pericoloso come la più potente magia. Dietro le Porte delle sei tribù di jinn, vecchi risentimenti ribollono in profondità e attendono solo di poter emergere. L'arrivo di Nahri in questo mondo rischia di scatenare una guerra che era stata tenuta a freno per molti secoli.]]> 528 S.A. Chakraborty 8835702267 Rebby 0 to-read 3.99 2017 La città di ottone (Trilogia Daevabad, #1)
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]]> Hamnet 53817428 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781472223821

Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, HAMNET is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.

Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet.

Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell's new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.]]> 372 Maggie O'Farrell Rebby 0 to-read 4.13 2020 Hamnet
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]]> Storia di due anime 55159119
L’educazione di un mostro. Dopo essere stato investito da una carrozza, Charles Baudelaire viene soccorso e portato in una villa subito fuori Bruxelles. Anche se lui non l’ha mai vista, la misteriosa padrona di casa dimostra di conoscere il suo passato fin troppo bene. E gli fa una proposta inquietante�

La città fantasma. A Parigi, davanti alla tomba di Baudelaire, un uomo e una donna s’incontrano per la prima volta. Lui è un rifugiato tedesco, lei � Madeleine �, un’enigmatica appassionata di poesia. Con l’esercito nazista ormai alle porte, la città viene evacuata, ma i due decidono di restare. E, in quei giorni di passione, Madeleine gli racconta una storia incredibile: la storia di due anime che si perdono e si ritrovano da quasi due secoli. E poi gli chiede di partecipare a un’asta, dove si venderà il manoscritto di un racconto inedito di Charles Baudelaire, L’educazione di un mostro. L’uomo la asseconda, rimanendo così invischiato in una serie di brutali omicidi che sembrano portare la firma dell’esclusiva � ed elusiva � Société Baudelaire�

I racconti dell'albatro. È la storia di Alula, colei che ricorda, e di Koahu, colui che dimentica. Una storia che comincia al tramonto del XVIII secolo, in una sperduta isola del Pacifico, e si dipana fino ad arrivare a Parigi, nel 1940, davanti alla tomba di Charles Baudelaire, dove il cerchio si chiude. O forse no�

Un romanzo nel romanzo, in cui le tre storie possono essere lette una dopo l’altra oppure seguendo una sequenza alternativa di capitoli. Due esperienze di lettura, un’unica, eccezionale avventura letteraria.]]> 400 Alex Landragin 8842932582 Rebby 0 to-read 3.87 2020 Storia di due anime
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]]> Trumpet 195733
The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. Besieged by the press, his widow Millie flees to a remote Scottish village, where she seeks solace in memories of their marriage. The reminiscences of those who knew Joss Moody render a moving portrait of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, one that preserved a rare, unconditional love.]]> 278 Jackie Kay 0375704639 Rebby 0 to-read 4.07 1998 Trumpet
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]]> Mr Loverman 17879710 Barry to his friends.
Trouble to his wife.

Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits.

He is a husband, father and grandfather.

And for the past sixty years, he has been in a relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris.

Wife Carmel knows Barry has been cheating on her, but little does she know what is really going on. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington has big choices to make.

Mr Loverman is a groundbreaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies, and shows how deep and far-reaching the consequences of prejudice and fear can be. It is also a warm-hearted, funny and life-affirming story about a character as mischievous, cheeky and downright lovable as any you'll ever meet.]]> 307 Bernardine Evaristo Rebby 0 to-read 4.19 2013 Mr Loverman
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> Il sosia 56136862 194 Fyodor Dostoevsky 880468996X Rebby 0 to-read 3.82 1846 Il sosia
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]]> La Morte di Ivan Il'ic 9646785 140 Leo Tolstoy 8811361192 Rebby 4 4.04 1886 La Morte di Ivan Il'ic
author: Leo Tolstoy
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1886
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Le notti bianche. La cronaca di Pietroburgo]]> 25684046 feuilletons che compongono la Cronaca di Pietroburgo, vero e proprio laboratorio per la scrittura dostoevskiana. Lo stretto legame tra pubblicistica e letteratura, che accompagnerà Dostoevskij negli anni della maturità, viene così a manifestarsi fin quasi dal suo esordio. Il racconto Le notti bianche ha ispirato il film omonimo di Luchino Visconti (1957), con Marcello Mastroianni e Maria Schell, e il film Quattro notti di un sognatore di Robert Bresson (1971).]]> 176 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8807901870 Rebby 0 currently-reading 3.97 1848 Le notti bianche. La cronaca di Pietroburgo
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]]> Le braci 3831736 172 Sándor Márai 884592257X Rebby 0 to-read 3.88 1942 Le braci
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]]> Umiliati e offesi 55588507 500 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8804724064 Rebby 0 to-read 4.38 1861 Umiliati e offesi
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]]> <![CDATA[La Verità sul Caso di Harry Quebert]]> 35382061 Quién mató a Nola Kellergan es la gran incógnita a desvelar en este thriller incomparable cuya experiencia de lectura escapa a cualquier tentativa de descripción. Intentémoslo: una gran novela policiaca a tres tiempos -1975, 1998 y 2008- acerca del asesinato de una joven de quince años en la pequeña ciudad de Aurora, en New Hampshire. En 2008, Marcus Goldman, un joven escritor, visita a su mentor -Harry Quebert, autor de una aclamada novela-, y descubre que éste tuvo una relación secreta con Nola Kellergan. Poco después, Harry es arrestado y acusado de asesinato al encontrarse el cadáver de Nola enterrado en su jardín. Marcus comienza a investigar y a escribir un libro sobre el caso. Mientras busca demostrar la inocencia de Harry, una trama de secretos sale a la luz. La verdad sólo llega al final de un largo, intrincado y apasionante recorrido.

]]> 775 Joël Dicker Rebby 0 to-read 4.45 2012 La Verità sul Caso di Harry Quebert
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]]> I Demoni 54003340 700 Fyodor Dostoevsky Rebby 0 to-read 4.38 1872 I Demoni
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]]> <![CDATA[Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)]]> 23437156 Alternate cover of ISBN 9781627792127

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone...

A convict with a thirst for revenge

A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager

A runaway with a privileged past

A spy known as the Wraith

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.]]> 480 Leigh Bardugo 1627792120 Rebby 0 to-read 4.47 2015 Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)]]> 40930289
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.

Shadow and Bone is the first installment in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy.]]> 369 Leigh Bardugo Rebby 0 to-read 4.01 2012 Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)
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]]> La Sonata a Kreutzer 56588558 122 Leo Tolstoy 880470909X Rebby 0 to-read 3.96 1889 La Sonata a Kreutzer
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]]> Normal People 41086877 Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation � awkward but electrifying � something life-changing begins.

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t.]]> 266 Sally Rooney Rebby 0 to-read 3.84 2018 Normal People
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]]> Conversations with Friends 32187419 A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple.

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment.

Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth."]]> 304 Sally Rooney 0451499077 Rebby 0 to-read 3.74 2017 Conversations with Friends
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]]> Dio di illusioni 8737825 622 Donna Tartt 8817106828 Rebby 0 to-read 4.13 1992 Dio di illusioni
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]]> Homegoing 27071490 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.

Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.]]> 305 Yaa Gyasi Rebby 5 4.48 2016 Homegoing
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]]> Wide Sargasso Sea 25622780 Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.

A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.]]> 176 Jean Rhys 0393352560 Rebby 3 3.63 1966 Wide Sargasso Sea
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]]> <![CDATA[Per tutto il resto dei miei sbagli]]> 57588860 300 Camilla Boniardi 8804719737 Rebby 0 to-read 3.11 Per tutto il resto dei miei sbagli
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]]> <![CDATA[Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)]]> 37781 Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.]]> 215 Chinua Achebe Rebby 4 3.73 1958 Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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]]> Exit West 30688435
Exit West follows these characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.]]> 231 Mohsin Hamid 0735212171 Rebby 0 currently-reading 3.74 2017 Exit West
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]]> Voyage in the Dark 487580 demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world, where all charity has its price. Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. It is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style.

Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris, where she began writing and was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford. Her novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time and only modestly successful. From 1939 (when Good Morning, Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre's Bertha Rochester, Wide Sargasso Sea, in 1966.

If you enjoyed Voyage in the Dark, you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, also available in Penguin Classics.

'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity'
Esther Freud, Express

'Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling, cynical, and surprisingly moving'
A.L. Kennedy]]> 176 Jean Rhys 0141183950 Rebby 3 3.80 1934 Voyage in the Dark
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 13079982 Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.� But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 194 Ray Bradbury Rebby 4 3.97 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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]]> <![CDATA[To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death]]> 30555486 Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body our senses, intelligence, and our lifespans

Once relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging.

In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement. He travels to the laboratories, conferences, and basements of today's foremost transhumanists, where he's presented with the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries of new technologies like mind uploading, artificial superintelligence, cryonics, and device implants.

A contributor to Slate, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, O'Connell serves as a sharp and lively guide to the outer limits of technology in the twenty first century. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising, singular meditation on what it means to be human."]]> 256 Mark O'Connell 0385540418 Rebby 0 currently-reading 3.76 2017 To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
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]]> Fangirl 16068905 A coming-of-age tale of fanfiction, family, and first love.

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan.... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she's really good at it. She and her twin, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.

Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend; a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world; a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... and she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?]]> 483 Rainbow Rowell Rebby 0 3.93 2013 Fangirl
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]]> <![CDATA[Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)]]> 3236307
She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po.

She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, debut author Kristin Cashore creates a mesmerizing world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that will consume you, hold you captive, and leave you wanting more.]]> 471 Kristin Cashore 015206396X Rebby 0 ebooks 4.07 2008 Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
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]]> A Hero of Our Time 226378 A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.]]> 185 Mikhail Lermontov 014044176X Rebby 3 4.12 1839 A Hero of Our Time
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]]> The Captain's Daughter 604578 124 Alexander Pushkin 184391154X Rebby 4 3.90 1836 The Captain's Daughter
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]]> Fathers and Sons 19117
Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world.

Introduction by Jane Costlow]]> 244 Ivan Turgenev 0451529693 Rebby 3 3.99 1862 Fathers and Sons
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]]> Bad Romeo (Starcrossed, #1) 21411058
Cast as romantic leads once again, they're forced to confront raw memories of the heartbreaking lows and pulse-pounding highs of their secret college affair. But they'll also discover that people who rub each other the wrong way often make the best sparks]]> 417 Leisa Rayven Rebby 4 ebooks 4.03 2014 Bad Romeo (Starcrossed, #1)
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]]> Sostiene Pereira 562212 ISBN 9788433966322 moved to this edition.
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere la literatura del pasado. Necesitado de un colaborador, contacta con el joven Monteiro Rossi. Y la intensa relación que se establece entre el viejo periodista, Monteiro y su novia Marta cristalizará en una crisis personal, una maduración interior y una dolorosa toma de conciencia que transformará profundamente la vida de Pereira.]]> 192 Antonio Tabucchi Rebby 0 ebooks 4.19 1994 Sostiene Pereira
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]]> Shirley 31168 Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention.

A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Brontë's literary talent. "Shirley is a revolutionary novel," wrote Brontë biographer Lyndall Gordon. "Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. Charlotte Brontë imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman [whose] extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself....Shirley [is] Brontë's most feminist novel."]]> 624 Charlotte Brontë 0141439866 Rebby 0 to-read 3.76 1849 Shirley
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]]> The Professor 31175 269 Charlotte Brontë 1582870950 Rebby 0 to-read 3.59 1857 The Professor
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]]> Agnes Grey 298230 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position.

Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family.

Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose. The cruelty with which the family treat her however, slowly but surely strips the heroine of all dignity and belief in humanity.

A tale of female bravery in the face of isolation and subjugation, Agnes Grey is a masterpiece claimed by Irish writer, George Moore, to be possessed of all the qualities and style of a Jane Austen title. Its simple prosaic style propels the narrative forward in a gentle yet rhythmic manner which continuously leaves the listener wanting to know more.

Anne Brontë, the somewhat lesser known sister, was in fact the first to finish and publish Agnes Grey under the pseudonym of Acton Bell. Charlotte and Emily followed shortly after with Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

As Anne passed away from what is now known to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of just 29, she only published one further title; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As feminist in nature as Agnes Grey, Anne's brave voice resonates and permeates during one of the most prejudiced and patriarchal times of English history.]]> 226 Anne Brontë 0140432108 Rebby 0 to-read 3.71 1847 Agnes Grey
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]]> Villette 31173 Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.]]> 573 Charlotte Brontë Rebby 0 to-read 3.78 1853 Villette
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]]> Jane Eyre 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]> 532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 Rebby 0 to-read 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
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]]> Lady Susan 91582 180 Jane Austen 0486444074 Rebby 0 to-read 3.64 1871 Lady Susan
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]]> Northanger Abbey 50398 Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.

The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.

Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.]]> 260 Jane Austen 1593082649 Rebby 0 to-read 3.85 1817 Northanger Abbey
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]]> Persuasion 2156 249 Jane Austen 0192802631 Rebby 0 to-read 4.15 1817 Persuasion
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]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 Rebby 0 to-read 4.05 1815 Emma
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]]> Sense and Sensibility 14935 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662

'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.]]> 409 Jane Austen 0141439661 Rebby 0 to-read 4.10 1811 Sense and Sensibility
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]]> The Seagull 79649
When it first opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first opening night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".
Michael Frayn's translation was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company.]]> 65 Anton Chekhov 0413771008 Rebby 0 to-read 3.93 1895 The Seagull
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]]> La morte di Ivan Il'ic 43076599
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]> 105 Leo Tolstoy 1291507787 Rebby 0 to-read 4.33 1886 La morte di Ivan Il'ic
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]]> Anna Karenina 28186263 Anna Karenina är Tolstojs klassiska roman om kärlek och äktenskapsbrott bland Moskvas och Sankt Petersburgs societet. Kärleksaffären mellan aristokraten Anna, en vacker gift kvinna, och greven Vronskij, en rik officer, ramar in och väver samman politik, religion och livet hos ett dussintal människor i det sena 1800-talets Ryssland. Det är med häpnadsväckande berättarkonst som Tolstoj målar in sin odödliga kärlekssaga i den intellektuella debatt som försiggick om Rysslands framtid och modernisering.

Än idag anser många att det är den bästa roman som någonsin skrivits.]]> 905 Leo Tolstoy 9198149237 Rebby 0 to-read 4.14 1878 Anna Karenina
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]]> Lettere 55921577
Per buona parte inedite in Italia, queste pagine testimoniano poi gli scatti e le evoluzioni del pensiero di Dostoevskij, permettendoci di osservarne da vicino i movimenti interiori, come quando nel 1839, a soli diciotto anni, dichiara con orgoglio al fratello di voler dedicare la propria vita a svelare il mistero dell’essere umano. Le Lettere qui raccolte � ora interamente ritradotte, a comporre l’epistolario di Dostoevskij più completo mai pubblicato in Italia � raccontano questa missione; tracciano le linee di un’autobiografia intima e coinvolgente e rivelano una personalità infuocata, dedita alla letteratura fino allo stremo delle forze; offrono un nuovo sguardo sul suo percorso intellettuale e sulla genesi di opere che hanno cambiato per sempre la letteratura, sollevando interrogativi che ancora reclamano risposte. Sono la lente d’ingrandimento sulla vita di uno scrittore che ha esplorato gli abissi della condizione umana e ne è uscito più vivo che mai.]]> 1372 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8842828491 Rebby 0 to-read 4.31 Lettere
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brothers Karamazov by F. M. Dostoevskij (Dutch Studies in Russian Literature)]]> 15064048 162 Jan van der Eng 3111869261 Rebby 0 to-read 4.76 1971 The Brothers Karamazov by F. M. Dostoevskij (Dutch Studies in Russian Literature)
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]]> <![CDATA[Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)]]> 15507958 Discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.

Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?]]> 369 Jojo Moyes Rebby 0 4.24 2012 Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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]]> To the Lighthouse 59716
As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.]]> 209 Virginia Woolf Rebby 0 currently-reading 3.81 1927 To the Lighthouse
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]]> <![CDATA[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)]]> 13214
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.� At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare�) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.

Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.]]> 289 Maya Angelou 0553279378 Rebby 4 4.30 1969 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)]]> 70947
The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a team of scientists is conducting experiments too horrible to be spoken about.

Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to find something yet more perilous waiting for her - something with consequences which may even reach beyond the Northern Lights...]]> 399 Philip Pullman 0590660543 Rebby 4 4.24 1995 Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> <![CDATA[The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)]]> 444374 256 E. Nesbit 0140367063 Rebby 0 3.94 1899 The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
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]]> Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 26135825
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.]]> 232 Alison Bechdel 0618871713 Rebby 4 4.07 2006 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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]]> <![CDATA[Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass]]> 24213
When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, accompanied by practical notes and Martina Pelouso's memorable full-colour illustrations.]]> 239 Lewis Carroll Rebby 3 4.07 1871 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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]]> Heart of Darkness 4900
A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.]]> 188 Joseph Conrad 1892295490 Rebby 0 3.43 1899 Heart of Darkness
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]]> Midnight’s Children 14836 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,� all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight� s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.]]> 647 Salman Rushdie 0099578514 Rebby 0 currently-reading 3.98 1981 Midnight’s Children
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]]> Orientalism 355190
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.]]> 424 Edward W. Said Rebby 0 currently-reading 4.13 1978 Orientalism
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]]> <![CDATA[Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> 29675406 A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015

On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget.

]]> 292 Svetlana Alexievich 0241270545 Rebby 0 currently-reading 4.52 1997 Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl (Penguin Modern Classics)
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]]> Great Expectations 2623
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.]]> 544 Charles Dickens 0192833596 Rebby 4 3.78 1861 Great Expectations
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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
]]> Delitto e castigo 50617572 798 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8842536733 Rebby 4 4.55 1866 Delitto e castigo
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]]> Antigone / Casa di bambola 12637361 128 Sophocles 8842454192 Rebby 4 3.87 Antigone / Casa di bambola
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]]> <![CDATA[Delitto e castigo (Italian Edition)]]> 44805713 582 Fyodor Dostoevsky 8868651696 Rebby 5 4.48 1866 Delitto e castigo (Italian Edition)
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]]> Storia di una capinera 1554294 177 Giovanni Verga 1873982461 Rebby 0 3.76 1871 Storia di una capinera
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]]> Hamlet 1420 289 William Shakespeare 0521618746 Rebby 4 4.02 1601 Hamlet
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]]> Macbeth 8852
This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.]]> 249 William Shakespeare 0743477103 Rebby 4 3.90 Macbeth
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings (Penguin Classics)]]> 97385 224 Alexander Pushkin 0140446753 Rebby 0 4.25 1836 Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings (Penguin Classics)
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Rebby 4 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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]]> Il maestro e Margherita 48671545 370 Mikhail Bulgakov 8818035053 Rebby 4 4.14 1967 Il maestro e Margherita
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]]> Wuthering Heights 6185 You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.

Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.]]> 464 Emily Brontë Rebby 4 3.89 1847 Wuthering Heights
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]]> Nemmeno in paradiso 25357986 275 Chelsey Philpot 8851131643 Rebby 0 to-read 3.25 2014 Nemmeno in paradiso
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]]> <![CDATA[Iron flowers: Solo el coraje de una mujer puede cambiar el mundo]]> 41182253 En un mundo de hombres en el que las mujeres no tienen ningún derecho, cada provincia del reino debe presentar a sus jóvenes más hermosas para que el príncipe heredero pueda elegir a su pareja. Así es como dos hermanas, Nomi y Serina, terminan confinadas en dos hábitats contrapuestos: la hermosa, frágil y débil en la inhóspita prisión de Mont Ruin y la chica resuelta, práctica y luchadora entre las sedas y fiestas de palacio. Dos historias de superación, supervivencia y amor entre hermanas... Porque, cuando la solución no llega, solo queda cambiar las reglas: ¡Que empiece la revolución!

]]> 332 Tracy Banghart 8408196766 Rebby 3 3.73 2018 Iron flowers: Solo el coraje de una mujer puede cambiar el mundo
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]]> We Were Liars 16143347 A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.

And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.]]> 242 E. Lockhart 0385741278 Rebby 0 to-read 3.66 2014 We Were Liars
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]]> <![CDATA[Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)]]> 29739361 Rebel by chance. Traitor by choice.

Gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she’s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne.

When Amani finds herself thrust into the epicenter of the regime—the Sultan’s palace—she’s determined to bring the tyrant down. Desperate to uncover the Sultan’s secrets by spying on his court, she tries to forget that Jin disappeared just as she was getting closest to him, and that she’s a prisoner of the enemy. But the longer she remains, the more she questions whether the Sultan is really the villain she’s been told he is, and who’s the real traitor to her sun-bleached, magic-filled homeland.

Forget everything you thought you knew about Miraji, about the rebellion, about Djinn and Jin and the Blue-Eyed Bandit. In Traitor to the Throne, the only certainty is that everything will change.]]> 518 Alwyn Hamilton 0451477855 Rebby 0 to-read 4.29 2017 Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine]]> 31434883 No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.

Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .

the only way to survive is to open your heart.]]> 336 Gail Honeyman 0735220689 Rebby 0 to-read 4.21 2017 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Afterlight (The Darkest Minds, #3)]]> 16150831
They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the "rehabilitation camps" housing thousands of other Psi kids.

Meanwhile, reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having tampered with his memories of her. She turns to Cole, his older brother, to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down Gray and the government. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.]]> 535 Alexandra Bracken 1423157524 Rebby 0 to-read 4.25 2014 In the Afterlight (The Darkest Minds, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2)]]> 16150830
When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children’s League behind. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of America’s children—and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared and hated outcasts—has survived every attempt to destroy it. But the truth is only saved in one place: a flashdrive in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future—and who now wouldn’t recognize her.

As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam—and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped both her life and America apart—she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?]]> 507 Alexandra Bracken 1423157516 Rebby 0 to-read 4.21 2013 Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)]]> 10576365
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.

When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.

When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.]]> 488 Alexandra Bracken 1423157370 Rebby 0 to-read 4.17 2012 The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)]]> 16096824
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.]]> 419 Sarah J. Maas 1619634449 Rebby 0 to-read 4.17 2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)]]> 30117284 In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.

Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power—something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows.

Akos is the son of a farmer and an oracle from the frozen nation-planet of Thuvhe. Protected by his unusual currentgift, Akos is generous in spirit, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. Once Akos and his brother are captured by enemy Shotet soldiers, Akos is desperate to get his brother out alive—no matter what the cost.

Then Akos is thrust into Cyra's world, and the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. Will they help each other to survive, or will they destroy one another?

Carve the Mark is Veronica Roth's stunning portrayal of the power of friendship—and love—in a galaxy filled with unexpected gifts.]]> 468 Veronica Roth 0062348639 Rebby 0 to-read 3.78 2017 Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)
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