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The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse by Ayfer Tunç
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe novel opens in a provincial mental health hospital on the morning of the 14th February 2007 and comes to a cataclysmic end several hours later Lacklustre guest speaker (‘Love: Self-sacrifice? Or Self-preservation?’) Ülkü Birinci fails to impress the Medical Director, whose plans to write the history of the hospital are destined to remain stillborn... -
![The Essential Tales of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov]()
The Essential Tales of Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush!," and "Champagne...Categorized as:
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![The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg]()
The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsPowerful and haunting, The Positronic Man is an unforgettable novel that redefines Isaac Asimov's and Robert Silverberg's place among the greatest science fiction authors of all time.In the twenty-first century the creation of the positronic brain leads to the development of robot laborers and revolutionizes life on Earth... -
![The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir]()
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThree long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises... -
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![Disquiet: A Novel by Zülfü Livaneli]()
Disquiet: A Novel by Zülfü Livaneli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people. Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border... -
![Waking the Dead by Scott Spencer]()
Waking the Dead by Scott Spencer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat wakes the dead in Scott Spencer’s extraordinary new novel—a novel whose core is an explosive amalgam of political ambition, moral passion, and passionate love—is the banked force of its protagonist’s deeply buried desire to be a “good man... -
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![Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee]()
Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought... -
![Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz]()
Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying to recreate the cozy, enchanted world they so dearly miss. One night, however, art and reality collide--with unforeseen circumstances... -
![Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates]()
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHailed as “America’s finest realistic novelist” by the Boston Globe, Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, garnered rare critical acclaim for his bracing, unsentimental portraits of middle-class American life.Disturbing the Peace is no exception. Haunting, troubling, and mesmerizing, it shines a brilliant, unwavering light into the darkest recesses of a man’s psyche... -
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Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsProvocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald...Categorized as:
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![The Dictator's Last Night by Yasmina Khadra]()
The Dictator's Last Night by Yasmina Khadra
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘People say I am a megalomaniac. It is not true. I am an exceptional being, providence incarnate, envied by the gods, able to make a faith of his cause.’October 2011. In the dying days of the Libyan civil war, Muammar Gaddafi is hiding out in his home town of Sirte along with his closest advisors...Categorized as:
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Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible... -
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Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence... -
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![A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips]()
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible...Categorized as:
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![The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee, Peter Singer]()
The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee, Peter Singer
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world... -
![After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima]()
After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReissued along side The Sound of the Waves plus three classics works by Junichiro Tanizaki... -
![Die Welle - Der Roman zum Film by Kerstin Winter, Peter Thorwarth]()
Die Welle - Der Roman zum Film by Kerstin Winter, Peter Thorwarth
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Ihr meint also, eine Diktatur wäre bei uns heute nicht mehr möglich?" Als es im Geschichtsunterricht um Nationalsozialismus und Rechtsextremismus geht, beschließt der Lehrer Rainer Wenger, ein ungewöhnliches Experiment durchzuführen. Er will seinen Schülern das Gegenteil beweisen und sie zu willenlosen Befehlsempfängern machen. Das Experiment gerät außer Kontrolle ..Categorized as:
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Exotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSYNOPSIS Exotic Neurotic is a book of poetry which involves subject matter such as depression, imbalance within one's personal self, angst, frustration, youthfulness, antisocial behavior, and violence. In addition, many of Exotic Neurotic's thematic properties also pertain to love, illness, death, human anatomy, physical deformities, elimination, birth, and abortion... -
![The Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand]()
The Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTo the world, he was a startlingly successful international tycoon, head of a vast financial empire. To his beautiful secretary-mistress, he was a god-like hero to be served with her mind, soul and body. To his aristocratic young wife, he was an elemental force of nature to be tamed. To his millionaire father-in-law, he was a giant whose single error could be used to destroy him... -
![Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq]()
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMichel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a scathing, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, politically incorrect novel about the current state of Europe, Western civilization, and mankind in general. Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness... -
![Alabama Song by Gilles Leroy]()
Alabama Song by Gilles Leroy
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe latest recipient of the Prix Goncourt - France's most prestigious literary prize. The turbulent marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald from Zelda's perspective... -
![The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke]()
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPeter Handke tells the story of a woman determined to break with her husband and her past and to form a new life for herself. Marianne, a mother and hausfrau in her thirtieth year, begins to examine her life keeping house in the suburbs of a large industrial city in West Germany... -
![Story of a Sociopath by Julia Navarro]()
Story of a Sociopath by Julia Navarro
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI’m scum. Yes, I always have been. . . . I know what I did, and what I should have done. A spellbinding and provocative psychological thriller that shows just how far a man will go to win the most enduring and ruthless of games: the game of power. Raised in the upper echelons of elite New York society, Thomas Spencer has never wanted for much...Categorized as:
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![Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss, Крис Восс]()
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss, Крис Восс
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in any situation.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists... -
![Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries]()
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Annemie de Vries
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong... -
![The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene]()
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around youRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery...Categorized as:
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky’s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world’s leading intellectuals of the modern era. Now, for the first time, Peter R... -
![Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari]()
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOur ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes...Categorized as:
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![The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella]()
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking in the popular "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe" podcast's dryly humorous, accessible style.It's intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge...Categorized as:
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