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Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsThe seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy...Categorized as:
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![Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges]()
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsAlthough his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives...Categorized as:
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![The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges]()
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFull of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight, he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house...Categorized as:
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![Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, John Updike]()
Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, John Updike
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe only available collection that brings together all of Kafka's storiesthose published during his lifetime and those released after his death...Categorized as:
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![Hades by Mark Z. Danielewski]()
Hades by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a viral video puts twelve-year-old Xanther under a spotlight of scrutiny at school, her little white cat—still slumbering, still unnamed—offers the only escape, though it comes at a price. Not even Xanther’ parents can deny the strange currents now shuddering around their eldest, touching off inexplicable happenings. Entities troubling the dreams of the twins seem to have singled out Freya...Categorized as:
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![A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne]()
A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago... -
![Cursed by Elise Noble]()
Cursed by Elise Noble
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRania Algafari never asked to be different, and when she escaped the war in Syria and moved to the UK, her only goal was to live her life in peace. Get up, go to work, avoid talking to the dead—that sort of thing... -
![Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols]()
Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA collection of three previously published Koontz novels. This will be the first time The Key To Midnight will be available in hardcover... -
![The Pink House by Cindy Kirk]()
The Pink House by Cindy Kirk
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep in the forest, on a sun-drenched patch of lush green grass, surrounded by lily-of-the-valley, sits a pink house. With turrets towering like neighboring trees, and a wide welcoming front porch, the old Victorian is impossible to miss. Except that everyone in town has—everyone but Hannah Danbury... -
![The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño]()
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFirst published in Spanish in 1998, The Savage Detectives was immediately hailed as a critical success, wining the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. But with the 2007 English-language translation the book became more than a bestseller -- it began the global sensation of Bolanomania. New Year's Eve 1975, Mexico City...Categorized as:
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![Heima es hogar en islandés by Laia Soler]()
Heima es hogar en islandés by Laia Soler
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings¿Puede estar tu hogar a miles de kilómetros de casa?Ver la vida en blanco y negro no es divertido.Laura padece una extraña enfermedad que le impide apreciar los colores, pero si últimamente su vida es gris no es solo porque sufre acromatopsia. Acaba de romper con su novio y sus padres no dejan de pelearse tras el divorcio... -
![Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec]()
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLife: A User's Manual is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses... -
![Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar]()
Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim . .Categorized as:
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![Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett]()
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town... -
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![Death’s Door by April White]()
Death’s Door by April White
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA master of the macabre and an ageless crusader cross paths in the shadows of time. “Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows.” ~ Edgar Allan PoeThe first time Alexandra “Ren” Reynolds meets Edgar Allan Poe is the night he walks into her underground bar — over 170 years after his mysterious death...Categorized as:
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![The Root of all Trouble by Heather Webber]()
The Root of all Trouble by Heather Webber
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS...When a spring storm rolls through Freedom, Ohio, landscape designer Nina Quinn expects to get her hands dirty with the mess left behind.But after high winds uproot a tree, revealing the corpse of a man inside its rotted hollow, Nina quickly realizes that cleaning up after Mother Nature’s fury is the least of her worries... -
![Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov]()
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote...Categorized as:
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![Charleston Green by Stephanie Alexander]()
Charleston Green by Stephanie Alexander
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf Tipsy Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it's that everyone in Charleston is a little crazy--even if they're already dead.Tipsy, a gifted artist, cannot ignore her nutty friends or her vindictive ex-husband, but as a lifelong reluctant clairvoyant, she's always avoided dead people... -
![Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski]()
Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Familiar, Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . .The Familiar, Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry . . . From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes the second volume of The Familiar, a "novel [which] goes beyond the experimental into the visionary, creating a language and style that expands the horizon of meaning . . -
![Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel]()
Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA couple adopts a depressed hedgehog; a stranger shows up, claiming to be the father of a girl's imaginary friend; a woman kidnaps her ex-husband's turtle; a family is evicted from their home, but was it ever really theirs? Heartbreaking and hilarious, the eight stories of Einstein's Beach House examine how we deceive ourselves and others, all to arrive at something far more real... -
![Set Me Free by Daniela Sacerdoti]()
Set Me Free by Daniela Sacerdoti
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet Me Free is the new bestseller from Daniela Sacerdoti, following up the huge successes of her first two novels, Watch Over Me and Take Me Home. In London, Margherita’s marriage has slowly been falling apart since her little Lewis’ birth, a surprise baby much wanted by her but not by her husband... -
![In a Thousand Different Ways by Cecelia Ahern]()
In a Thousand Different Ways by Cecelia Ahern
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFinding your way is never a simple journey…Alice sees the best in people.She also sees the worst.She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling.Every. Single. Day.But it’s the dark thoughts.The sadness. The rage.These are the things she can’t get out of her head. The things that overwhelm her...Categorized as:
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!["Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" by Lemony Snicket]()
"Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" by Lemony Snicket
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTrain travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale!On all other nights, the train departs from Stain'd Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this night different from all other nights? But that's the wrong question...Categorized as:
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![Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş]()
Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHasan Ali Toptas exquisitely weaves an enigmatic, mystical tale of memory and identity, displacement and belonging 'I'm a barber,' he said. 'I come from afar. Across lands already forgotten…' In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year... -
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![Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer]()
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHeartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about sorrow, joy, friendship and love.When Isaac Addy walks into the woods on the worst day of his life and finds something extraordinary there, he already knows he's going to take it home.A grieving Isaac and his curious new friend are unlikely companions. They don't even speak the same language...Categorized as:
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![Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami]()
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table... -
![Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young]()
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA rural island community steeped in the mystical superstitions of its founders and haunted by an unsolved murder is upended by the return of the suspected killer in this deeply atmospheric novel.Emery Blackwood’s life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily...Categorized as:
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![Redwood by Mark Z. Danielewski]()
Redwood by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Season One finale of this riveting multisensory masterpiece from the visionary author of House of Leaves...Categorized as:
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![The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr]()
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño’s Savage Detectives , this coming-of-age novel unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based on Yambo Ouologuem.The first Sub-Saharan African winner of France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt.In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity... -
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1Q84 BOOK2〈7月‐9月〉後編 by Haruki Murakami, 村上 春樹
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 39 ratings1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, is a near-past story inspired by Orwells futuristic 1984. It is told through the bizarre experiences of two protagonists searching for each other: a woman who descends into an alternate universe in 1984, and a passive college entrance exam prep instructor who is also an unfulfilled novelist. However the world they exist in is more bizarre than they are... -
![Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma]()
Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirteen Short Stories from Bold New YA Voices & Writing Advice from YA IconsCreated by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, Foreshadow is so much more than a short story collection...Categorized as:
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![Honeysuckle Hollow by Jennifer Moorman]()
Honeysuckle Hollow by Jennifer Moorman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTessa Andrews believes she has her life all figured out, organized in carefully numbered lists to ensure she doesn’t make bad decisions. But her meticulous process is shaken when torrential rain hits Mystic Water for twenty-six hours, forty-four minutes, and two seconds, leaving parts of the town, and her condo, drowning in floodwater... -
![The Weight of Memory by Shawn Smucker]()
The Weight of Memory by Shawn Smucker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Paul Elias receives a terminal diagnosis, he leaves his physician's office in a fog. Only one thing is clear to him: if he is going to die, he must find someone to watch over his granddaughter, Pearl, who has been in his charge since her drug-addicted father disappeared... -
![The Lake: Short Story by Ray Bradbury]()
The Lake: Short Story by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Lake is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the May 1944 edition of Weird Tales, and later collected in Bradbury's collections Dark Carnival, The October Country, and The Stories of Ray Bradbury. Bradbury believed it was one of the finest stories he'd ever written... -
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![Gradle Bird by J.C. Sasser]()
Gradle Bird by J.C. Sasser
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWINNER OF THE 2018 SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SIVER AWARD FOR BEST NEW VOICE IN FICTIONWILLIE MORRIS AWARD FOR SOUTHERN FICTION FINALIST2018 SIBA TRIO SELECTION2017 SIBA SPRING OKRA PICKSixteen-year-old Gradle Bird has lived her entire life with her Grandpa, Leonard, at a seedy motel and truck stop off Georgia’s I-16...Categorized as:
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![Murphy’s Luck by Benjamin Laskin]()
Murphy’s Luck by Benjamin Laskin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes rotten luck is better than no luck at all.Jinxed from birth with mystifying bad luck, Murphy Drummer hasn’t ventured beyond the safety of his backyard since he was a little boy. To remedy his loneliness, he became the master of a thousand hobbies and as amazing as his crazy luck... -
![L'assassinio del Commendatore. Libro primo: Idee che affiorano by Haruki Murakami]()
L'assassinio del Commendatore. Libro primo: Idee che affiorano by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsUna borsa con qualche vestito e le matite per disegnare. Quando la moglie gli dice che lo lascia, il protagonista di questa storia non prende altro: carica tutto in macchina e se ne va di casa... -
![Литературный призрак (Большой роман) by David Mitchell, Дэвид Митчелл]()
Литературный призрак (Большой роман) by David Mitchell, Дэвид Митчелл
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsOblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters - a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating "noncorpum" entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland,... -
![The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo]()
The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm... -
![Ключ из желтого металла by Max Frei, Макс Фрай]()
Ключ из желтого металла by Max Frei, Макс Фрай
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsРоман «Ключ из желтого металла» сочетает характерные для автора и так полюбившиеся читателю иронию и тонкий мистицизм с крайне популярным сейчас жанром криптологического романа.Главный герой нового романа Макса Фрая, Филипп, тратит свое время, сидя на пустующей даче приятеля, сжигая только что написанные книги в попытках найти новый смысл для собственной жизни... -
![Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems by Oscar Wilde]()
Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Introduction by Terry EagletonOscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile... -
![Сказки старого Вильнюса II by Max Frei]()
Сказки старого Вильнюса II by Max Frei
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsВ центре Вильнюса ровно сто восемь улиц. И если ходить по ним достаточно долго, то есть почти каждый день на протяжении нескольких лет, на некоторых улицах можно стать свидетелем удивительных историй. А на некоторых - даже их участником.В подобных случаях, я знаю, обычно говорят - дескать, такие истории могли, конечно же, произойти где угодно... -
![Evergreen Conservatory by Heather Schneider]()
Evergreen Conservatory by Heather Schneider
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome back to Evergreen Academy, the secret college for Magical Botanists.Ever since enrolling at Evergreen Academy last year, I have struggled to belong in the elite world of plant magic and affinity powers. And thanks to a curse tied to a decision I made on the spring equinox, I’m further from fitting in than ever... -
![1Q84 by Haruki Murakami]()
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project...Categorized as:
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![Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins]()
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThis is a gutsy, fun-loving, and provocative novel in which a bean can philosophises, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine...Categorized as:
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![Trouble in Bloom by Heather Webber]()
Trouble in Bloom by Heather Webber
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNina Quinn never goes looking for trouble, but for some reason, it always seems to come looking for her! This time, Nina and her boyfriend Bobby have gotten coerced into helping a sleazy lawyer acquaintance entrap a local TV producer. It seems that the producer is suspected of sexual harassment, and Nina and Bobby agree to appear on his reality show in order to catch him in the act... -
![Storm Warning by Elizabeth Goddard]()
Storm Warning by Elizabeth Goddard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Amnesia, a hero with dangerous ties, and a deadly storm all combine to create a thrilling ride, perfect for devouring in one sitting... -
![The Coven by Chrissy Lessey]()
The Coven by Chrissy Lessey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe who holds the amulet, holds the power.....Photographer Stevie Lewis is a newly single mom focused on raising her five-year-old autistic son Charlie, and running the business she shares with her best friend. She lives in beautiful Beaufort, North Carolina, within walking distance of her parents... -
![The Scholar of Moab by Steven L. Peck]()
The Scholar of Moab by Steven L. Peck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of AML best literary novel of 2011 and a finalist for the national Montaigne Medal. What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout, and a poet abducted by aliens come together in 1970’s Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab, a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries in the shadow of the hoary La Sal Mountains...Categorized as:
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![Idle Hands by Cassondra Windwalker]()
Idle Hands by Cassondra Windwalker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can call me Ella. You generally assign me a whole host of other preposterous monikers. I think the least imaginative name I’ve heard is “the devil”, but I’ll answer to it if I must. After making the courageous decision to leave her abusive husband, Perdie and her three young children start over and finally find the safety and love they deserve...
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