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]]> 27213250 A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting story of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture, from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.

For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed such a heinous act. Kamal’s family is sure she did, and demands justice. Barely escaping a vengeful mob, Zeba is arrested and jailed.

Awaiting trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have led them to these bleak cells: eighteen-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from an “honor killing��; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, a teen runaway who stays because it is safe shelter; twenty-year-old Mezghan, pregnant and unmarried, waiting for a court order to force her lover’s hand. Is Zeba a cold-blooded killer, these young women wonder, or has she been imprisoned, like them, for breaking some social rule? For these women, the prison is both a haven and a punishment; removed from the harsh and unforgiving world outside, they form a lively and indelible sisterhood.

Into this closed world comes Yusuf, Zeba’s Afghan-born, American-raised lawyer whose commitment to human rights and desire to help his homeland have brought him back. With the fate this seemingly ordinary housewife in his hands, Yusuf discovers that, like the Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines.

A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, The House with No Windows is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant.]]> 415 Nadia Hashimi 0062449680 Sana 0 to-read 3.94 2016
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]]> 44286204 For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice—and legions of historical fiction lovers—an inspired debut novel set in Austen’s world.

Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford’s vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its quietness threatens to overwhelm her. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine��

In Mr. Travis�� company, Charlotte feels appreciated, heard, and seen. For the first time in her life, Charlotte begins to understand emotional intimacy and its effect on the heart—and how breakable that heart can be. With her sensible nature confronted, and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman’s life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman’s wife.]]> 280 Molly Greeley 0062942913 Sana 0 to-read 3.67 2019
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]]> 129636
”The Lunar Cycle forms the second part. I first heard of the lunar calendar in my childhood, when I asked why Passover falls on a different date every year and was answered that it falls on Nisan 14, the fourteenth day of the lunar month of Nisan. The next time I came across the moon-month was in reading Robert Graves in search of the old goddess religions. But the lunar calendar has really only been an intimate part of my life since I moved near the ocean and the bay and had to become conscious of the tides; for one thing, to get the sweet Wellfleet oysters.

For more precise understanding I owe a lot to Nancy F. W.Passmore of the Luna Press, who every year produces The Lunar Calendar with thirteen months, their old Celtic names, associations from around the world, time of moon rise and set and all the phases. It tells me at a glance when my period will come and when I can expect to ovulate, and it is the most beautiful calendar I have ever seen, with the months in the form of spirals rather than grids.
”Not being constrained by commerce to produce a calendar to sell by January first, Roman time, I begin when my year opens, in the spring; with Nisan, the first month of the Jewish religious year �� although I have used the Celtic names, as does The Lunar Calendar, in homage to that labor of love. Rediscovering the lunar calendar has been a part of rediscovering women’s past, but it has also meant for me a series of doorways to some of the non-rational aspects of being a living woman: Thus The Lunar Cycle, explorations of my last two years.”]]> 133 Marge Piercy 0394738594 Sana 0 to-read 4.22 1980
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]]> 788331 448 Marge Piercy 0449220605 Sana 0 to-read 3.98 1991
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]]> 772888
But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...]]> 376 Marge Piercy 0449210820 Sana 0 to-read 3.94 1976
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]]> 150252
This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice��29 “tangos�� of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.]]> 160 Anne Carson 0375707573 Sana 0 to-read 4.22 2001
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]]> 61049 Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.

"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." -- The New York Times Book Review

"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday."  -- The Village Voice

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

National book Critics Circle Award Finalist]]> 160 Anne Carson 037570129X Sana 0 to-read 4.28 1998
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]]> 347845 A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting

What is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands.

When Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends in the evening for dinner or to go on dates with their husbands. When she returned to the States, she was stunned by the cultural differences she found toward how people think about effective parenting--in particular, assumptions about motherhood. None of the mothers she met seemed happy; instead, they worried about the possibility of not having the perfect child, panicking as each developmental benchmark approached.

Combining close readings of mainstream magazines, TV shows, and pop culture with a thorough command of dominant ideas in recent psychological, social, and economic theory, Perfect Madness addresses our cultural assumptions, and examines the forces that have shaped them.

Working in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand parenting culture and the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives--actual concrete changes--that might better our lives.]]> 352 Judith Warner 1594481709 Sana 0 to-read 3.66 2005
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]]> 10824691 56 Longmeadow Press 0681416750 Sana 0 currently-reading 2.00 1992
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]]> 5934
pObra de gran envergadura literaria, el remanente de la herencia modernista fue aliado en ella por Neruda de modo admirable a los hallazgos expresivos de la nueva vanguardia en una serie de piezas de conmovida intensidad liacute;rica, cuyo acento de plenitud vital, exaltacieacute;n geneacute;sica y erotismo panteiacute;sta cede el paso, en la hora de los duelos y las separaciones, a un tono de melancoliacute;a que le hermana a la herencia romaacute;ntica.
pIntocables en su definitiva rotundidad de pieza maestra, estos iVeinte poemas de amor y una cancioacute;n desesperada/i constituyen sin duda una de las mayores cimas de la poesiacute;a amorosa en lengua castellana.]]> 160 Pablo Neruda 1400001447 Sana 0 currently-reading 4.22 1924
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]]> 16058165 This True Family Adventure and Travel story follows my young family's adventures after we abandoned our secure, comfortable and meaningless existence in suburbia to follow our dream. This often humorous account, relates how we unwittingly bought a jinxed yacht, watched it smash itself to pieces and with no prior experience, skills or training rebuilt it, sailed away, rediscovered paradise, punished betrayal, found ancient treasure and survived sharks, crazed lemurs, gossiping walruses, a lynch mob, a curse, explosive gas, flaming epoxy and oozing quicksand. It also relates how, in answer to my prayer, we lost everything we owned and experienced heart-breaking generosity that altered our lives and welded our family even closer together. The book explains why we celebrate June 6th every year as Pisces Day with a family meal of Prawns and Rice. The book also reveals why and how I tried to commit murder.
Despite encouragement from family, friends and total strangers to write this book I refused to do so for almost twenty years whilst I waited for someone that I tried to murder -to die. During that time it has remained trapped inside me like the key log holding its fellows prisoner within a logjam. I believe that once this book breaches the flood gates it will release my other novels from the dam.
After several short stories (based upon opening chapters of this book) reached the finals and were published in a daily newspaper's annual True Short Story competition, I was inundated by requests from readers for the rest of the tale, which I ignored at the time, for reasons which may become apparent.
I hope this book will appeal to readers of true adventure or travel, cruising sailors would-be sailors, dreamers, adventurers, and adventure travellers. Similarly it should appeal to anyone who dreams of escaping from their self-made prisons but perhaps lacks the courage or will to actually do it. Women in particular may identify with the multifaceted heroine, a strong female who is simultaneously my wife, lover, partner, best friend, a mother and our anchor.
Although 6692 Pisces and the Sailfish will perhaps resonate with those who experienced the final years of Apartheid in South Africa, it should also be of interest to readers who would like to learn a little about some of Africa's amazing people and exotic cultures. Similarly, although it is a “true-life-story�� this tale does not revolve upon the depressing issues that we read about in the news every day to which many of us have become desensitised. Likewise, unlike many of the “sailing accounts�� I have read, it does not dwell upon technical aspects of sailing that are meaningless to the average person and especially to me who is branded a heretic by most sailors when I tell them “Sailing is the price I reluctantly pay for the time I enjoy anchored safely in a new port.��
Finally although I vowed that I would never own another boat, I currently find myself building another one together with my now grown up family. Although we have yet to set sail again our journey has already begun anew. Our Journey, our adventures and those of the fascinating people we have met over the last two years are already well on their way to populating the sequel to this book ��2nd Time Lucky.]]> Don Darkes 130141185X Sana 0 to-read 4.67 2012
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]]> 18936229 A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.]]> 132 Will Durant Sana 0 to-read 4.21
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]]> 30119 Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.

Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound.

You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages.]]> 176 Shel Silverstein 0060513039 Sana 0 to-read 4.34 1974
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]]> 56294820
So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret—one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. What happens next is nothing less than another example of what Hilary Mantel has called Elizabeth Strout’s “perfect attunement to the human condition.�� There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together—even after we’ve grown apart.

At the heart of this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the very nature of existence. “This is the way of life,�� Lucy says: “the many things we do not know until it is too late.”]]> 240 Elizabeth Strout 0812989430 Sana 0 to-read 3.79 2021
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]]> 89821 In the Eye of the Sun, Ahdaf Soueif garnered comparisons to Tolstoy, Flaubert, and George Eliot.  In her latest novel, which was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, she combines the romantic skill of the nineteenth-century novelists with a very modern sense of culture and politics--both sexual and international.

At either end of the twentieth century, two women fall in love with men outside their familiar worlds. In 1901, Anna Winterbourne, recently widowed, leaves England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with nationalist sentiment. Far from the comfort of the British colony, she finds herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi. Nearly a hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist and descendant of Anna and Sharif has fallen in love with Omar al-Ghamrawi, a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor with his own passionate politics. In an attempt to understand her conflicting emotions and to discover the truth behind her heritage, Isabel, too, travels to Egypt, and enlists Omar's sister's help in unravelling the story of Anna and Sharif's love.

Joining the romance and intricate storytelling of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Ahdaf Soueif has once again created a mesmerizing tale of genuine eloquence and lasting importance.]]> 529 Ahdaf Soueif 0385720114 Sana 0 to-read 3.76 1999
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]]> 18774964
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.]]> 337 Fredrik Backman 1476738017 Sana 0 currently-reading 4.35 2012
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]]> 23602562
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife. His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son even farther away in Grand Junction, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in houses now empty of family, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with.

Their brave adventures - their pleasures and their difficulties - are hugely involving and truly resonant, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.]]> 179 Kent Haruf 1101875895 Sana 0 to-read 3.91 2015
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]]> 35583097 72 Michael Stutman Sana 0 to-read 3.83
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]]> 37490055 "Fully reveals the shocking truth!"
--Daily News

A landmark book completely revised and updated to reveal everything men really know about the opposite sex.

In a little more than 100 pages, Dr. Alan Francis and collaborator Cindy Cashman distill years of research and thousands of interviews to reveal the most comprehensive understanding of men's knowledge and understanding of the opposite sex in Everything Men Know About Women.

Fiercely frank and brilliantly insightful, this book spells out everything men know about such topics as:
Making friends with women
Romancing women
Achieving emotional intimacy with women
Making commitments to women
Satisfying women in bed
That's right, this book is completely BLANK!  A great gag gift for your boyfriend or husband, for a birthday or anniversary, or just to give to your girlfriends when you want a laugh!]]> 128 Alan Francis 1449494854 Sana 0 to-read 4.43 1980
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]]> 41081373
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.]]> 453 Bernardine Evaristo 0241364906 Sana 0 currently-reading 4.27 2019
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]]> 36047860
Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.]]> 352 Anna Burns 0571338763 Sana 0 to-read 3.51 2018
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]]> 27104897
"The great below clenched by the great above." - E. B. B.

"God made the country; man made the town," says William Cowper, and almost everyone will agree that it is the deprivation of the colour of the country that makes our towns so sadly depressing, for nearly all people appreciate colour, though perhaps in a general way. They realise that colour helps to beautify the world.

Other people, however, look upon colour as one of the greatest joys in life. The colour of the woods, the flowers, the sunrise, and the sunset are sources of the very deepest emotion, exalting them above mere interest in external things into the very highest realms of vision and beauty. The colours of an artist like Titian make them realise the joy of living.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.]]> 78 H. C. G. Brandt 1331869803 Sana 0 currently-reading 0.0 2015
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]]> 34122206 The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.]]> 320 Kassia St. Clair 0143131141 Sana 0 currently-reading 4.08 2016
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]]> 13728384 274 C.P. Biggam 0521899923 Sana 0 to-read 3.56 2012
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]]> 258529
Set in early twentieth century Kolkata, Parineeta (Espoused) is the unforgettable story of a child-woman s intense and bittersweet romance. Lalita, an orphaned girl who lives with her uncle, considers herself betrothed to Shekhar, her benefactor and guardian. After several failed attempts, Lalita finally gets the egotistical Shekhar to admit that he reciprocates her feelings. However, tensions erupt between Shekhar s prosperous father and Lalita s poor but principled uncle, and the situation is further complicated by the arrival on the scene of Girin, a mild-mannered and eligible bachelor, who is attracted to Lalita. The lovers world is turned upside down, and Shekhar and Lalita find themselves estranged. Years later, they meet again, and the story takes another unexpected turn...

Parineeta is a classic that has captured the imagination of generations of readers. This new translation, published to coincide with Vidhu Vinod Chopra s film, will delight Saratchandra s fans, as well as those who are not familiar with the writer s works.]]> 112 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay 0143033565 Sana 4 3.93 1914
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]]> 99297 ""I left London today and met Bingley at Netherfield Park. I had forgotten what good company he is; always ready to be pleased and always cheerful. After my difficult summer, it is good to be with him again. ...""

The only place Darcy could share his innermost feelings was in the private pages of his diary...

Torn between his sense of duty to his family name and his growing passion for Elizabeth Bennet, all he can do is struggle not to fall in love.

Mr. Darcy's Diary presents the story of the unlikely courtship of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy from Darcy's point of view. This graceful imagining and sequel to Pride and Prejudice explains Darcy's moodiness and the difficulties of his reluctant relationship as he struggles to avoid falling in love with Miss Bennet. Though seemingly stiff and stubborn at times, Darcy's words prove him also to be quite devoted and endearing - qualities that eventually win over Miss Bennet's heart. This continuation of a classic romantic novel is charming and elegant, much like Darcy himself.

Pride and Prejudice has inspired a large number of modern day sequels, the most successful of which focus on the rich, proud Mr. Darcy.]]> 329 Amanda Grange 1402208766 Sana 0 currently-reading 3.66 2005
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]]> 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 Sana 0 currently-reading 3.85 1817
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]]> 2156 249 Jane Austen 0192802631 Sana 5 4.15 1817
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]]> 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 Sana 5 4.10 1811
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]]> 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 Sana 5 4.28 1813
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Chokher Bali is a 1903 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that depicts the life of the central character, Binodini, and her relationships with three individuals. It explores the extramarital affair between Binodini, a young widow, and Mahendra, one of the three other main characters, the complicated friendship with Asha, his girl-wife, and her mutually conflicting feelings with Behari, Mahendra's adopted brother. The content also highlighted issues of women literacy, child marriage, patriarchy within the family and the fates of three widows.

The title of the book can be translated as "a grain of sand", a "constant irritant to the eye", or an "eyesore". "Eyesore" was used as the title for its first English translation by Surendranath Tagore published in 1914. Tagore had used a working title Binodini before its publication.]]> 308 Rabindranath Tagore 812910363X Sana 0 currently-reading 3.94 1903
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]]> 166396 249 Pratima Bowes 0856921440 Sana 0 currently-reading 4.33 1917
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]]> 21214190 198 Chris Horrocks Sana 0 currently-reading 0.0 2012
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]]> 5586604 131 Raja Rao 8170940508 Sana 3 3.45 1989
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]]> 3053652 235 C.P. Biggam 9027232393 Sana 0 to-read 0.0 2006
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]]> 16911391 237 Carole P. Biggam 1282155156 Sana 0 to-read 0.0 2006
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]]> 20004563 226 D. Dedrick 9401723826 Sana 0 to-read 0.0 1998
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]]> 6359237
Contributors include Rustom Bharucha, Thulani Davis, Harry Elam, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Velina Hasu Huston, Cherríe Moraga, David Román, Sekou Sundiata, Diana Taylor, Una Chaudhuri, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and lê thi diem thúy.]]> 464 Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns 0826478816 Sana 0 to-read 4.67 2002
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]]> 14722324 Contemporary colour naming research is radically interdisciplinary and Naming the Rainbow will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and cognitive scientists concerned biological constraints on cognition and categorization; problems inherent in cross-cultural and in interdisciplinary science; the nature and extent of cultural relativism.]]> 226 D. Dedrick 9048150949 Sana 0 to-read 0.0 1998
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]]> 17883329
Color wreaks havoc with western expectations of biological determinism, objectivity and eugenics. Beyond the cracks of such discursive practice, color becomes a sentient and nomadic retort to be pitted against a perceived colonial hegemony. Its alter materiality's and ideological reinvention as a resource for independence struggles, makes color fundamental to multivalent genealogies of artistic and political action and their relevance to the present.]]> 416 Natasha Eaton 1780765193 Sana 0 to-read 3.00 2013
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]]> 39949101 250 Bhikhu C. Parekh 1138576107 Sana 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 1085338 336 John Gage 0500278180 Sana 0 to-read 4.47 1993
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]]> 10400794 34 François Raoul-Duval 0001956418 Sana 0 to-read 0.0 1971
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]]> 15168765 208 Teg Bahadur Kapur 0706919696 Sana 0 to-read 5.00 1983
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]]> 4401837 Hardcover. 160 Tripti Pandey 8187330104 Sana 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 1150153 In Intimate Relations, The First Of The Well-Known Books In This Edition, He Explores The Nature Of Sexuality In India, Its Politics And Its Language Of Emotions. The Analyst And The Mystic Points Out The Similarities Between Psychoanalysis And Religious Healing, And The Colours Of Violence Is His Erudite Enquiry Into The Mixed Emotions Of Rage And Desire That Inflame Communalism.]]> 436 Kakar Sudhir 0143101862 Sana 0 to-read 3.82 2007
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]]> 41150907 _________________________________________
The definitive guide to using the power of colour to improve your happiness, wellbeing and confidence. What if I told you that all around you is something that can increase your motivation and positively influence how you feel? It's called colour. Building on over 20 years of experience, Applied Colour & Design Psychology Specialist Karen Haller puts this life-changing solution in your hands. With her unmatched expertise, she demonstrates the many practical ways in which you can use colour to transform your life. Whether you're decorating an interior or revamping your wardrobe, get ready to be inspired by the possibilities - Create a home that reflects your personality
- Grow your confidence in using colour
- Add colour to your workplace
- Choose clothes that express the true you
- Find your unique colour palette & design compatibility In the first book that mixes the science, psychology and emotional impact of colour, Karen Haller takes you on a journey through rediscovering the joy of colour.]]> 272 Karen Haller 0241352851 Sana 0 to-read 3.76 2019
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]]> 19632842 304 Christine Ladd-Franklin Sana 0 to-read 4.00 2011
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]]> 26725578
I should like to add that I enter the lists as a compara tive psychologist, not as a biological student. I do not pretend to discover facts of botany or zoology at first hand: I accept them as data from the lips of competent specialists. Yet I hope my work may prove valuable in its own peculiar sphere, which ought to be kept distinct from the objective biological sciences whose conclusions form its basis. Our great naturalists supply us with the facts upon which to build our comparative psychology and I hope there is no presumption in employing them sometimes to test the logical correctness of a few among the naturalists' own conclusions.]]> 304 Grant Allen 129687043X Sana 0 to-read 3.00 1879
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]]> 24444074 43 Keeley Fox Sana 0 to-read 4.00 2014
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]]> 6585797 192 Beth Alder 0443067872 Sana 0 to-read 4.00 1998
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]]> 14464511 100 Reena Begum 1434367010 Sana 0 to-read 0.0 2008
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]]> 25771139
The interface between colour and human response is a complex interface open to the influence of many different factors. While many theories about colour psychology and colour therapy exist in mainstream media, the domain is peppered with its share of fakes and fraudsters.

The diverse origins of colour psychology are examined and the links with traditional and New Age concepts are reviewed. The frequent intermingling of connotative colour meanings, colour symbolism and colour correspondences gives rise to ambiguity and this tends obscure evidence-based information.

A new model of colour psychology is provided that allows for the broad range of factors that can influence the interface between colour and human response. This model provides a framework for application in practice.

A key benefit of this eBook is that it can and is updated as new information comes to light. Research in this field is conducted on an ongoing basis and new findings add greater depth and a new perspective.]]> 383 Zena O'Connor Sana 0 to-read 4.00 2015
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]]> 31747899 296 June McLeod 1785353047 Sana 0 to-read 3.25 2016
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]]> 7333901 192 Angela Wright 1856262863 Sana 0 to-read 3.61 1995
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]]> 2096445 Practical Astrology the Easy Way; Tarot Mysteries; Isis: Queen of Egyptian Magic) analyzes the various uses and meanings of color, in western culture and beyond. Aided by bright and attractive photographs and evocative illustrations, he explains what red, blue, green, orange, pink, purple, gray, white, and black can represent and how they affect different personalities. His wide knowledge of what colors convey on both conscious and subconscious levels will help the reader make positive choices about décor, dress, and environment.]]> 112 Jonathan Dee 1856056392 Sana 0 to-read 3.50 2002
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]]> 20741108 The symbolism of colour. 52 Ellen Conroy Sana 0 to-read 4.00 2013
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]]> 22794714 22 Dorothea Wolschak 3656689644 Sana 0 to-read 0.0 2014
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]]> 2937692 320 GAGE JOHN 0500237670 Sana 0 to-read 3.86 1999
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]]> 30463869 188 Roy Osborne 1326639854 Sana 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 2383710 108 Terence Duquesne 187126622X Sana 0 to-read 3.00 1996
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]]> 25754317
This eBook provides a comprehensive exploration of the three levels of colour symbolism and explains why colour symbolism rarely occurs on a universal basis. Recent research as well as early colour-meaning studies are discussed and over 50 illustrations are provided throughout this eBook.

Colour and contrast plays key roles in visual perception and, as a result, colour is often used like a visual code; however, there are times when colour symbolism can be ambiguous and this is because colour symbolism is influenced by individual and cultural differences as well as contextual, perceptual and temporal factors. These are explained in-depth in this concise and highly practical resource.]]> 93 Zena O'Connor Sana 0 to-read 4.00 2015
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]]> 29619898 526 Andrew Lang Sana 0 to-read 0.0 1889
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]]> 13518284
Filled with a rich cast of characters and superb illustrations, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children is the defnitive book for all Ruskin Bond fans and truly a collector's Item.]]> 325 Ruskin Bond 0143331043 Sana 0 to-read 4.22 2001
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]]> 18335651 325 Jayant Swamy 9382473637 Sana 0 to-read 3.76 2013
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]]> 18225
Of his own theory, Goethe was supremely confident: "From the philosopher, we believe we merit thanks for having traced the phenomena of colours to their first sources, to the circumstances under which they appear and are, and beyond which no further explanation respecting them is possible."

Goethe's scientific conclusions have, of course, long since been thoroughly demolished, but the intelligent reader of today may enjoy this work on quite different grounds: for the beauty and sweep of his conjectures regarding the connection between color and philosophical ideas; for an insight into early nineteenth-century beliefs and modes of thought; and for the flavor of life in Europe just after the American and French Revolutions.

The work may also be read as an accurate guide to the study of color phenomena. Goethe's conclusions have been repudiated, but no one quarrels with his reporting of the facts to be observed. With simple objects -- vessels, prisms, lenses, and the like -- the reader will be led through a demonstration course not only in subjectively produced colors, but also in the observable physical phenomena of color. By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory -- Goethe never even mentions it -- that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or modern.]]> 423 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0262570211 Sana 0 4.07 1810
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]]> 26069558
Rich in historical detail, the audiobook transports us in old Lucknow, where decadence was nothing more than a part of day-to-day life.]]> 222 Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa 9690018833 Sana 0 to-read 4.00 1899
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]]> 13628022 Baano Razia Butt Novel Razia Butt Sana 5 4.04
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]]> 8630550 444 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay 1425721907 Sana 0 to-read 4.23 2006
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