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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl

2007

The sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, join your favorite characters on an intergalactic joyride! Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the gian...

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The 158-Pound Marriage

John Irving

1980

Herland (1915) Novel by

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2016

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result ...

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Man and His Symbols

Carl G. Jung

2012

The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred updated...

Love and Garbage

Ivan Klíma

1991

The narrator has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on lif...

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The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

Alka Joshi

2021

A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HENNA ARTIST, A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Good Morning America’s “27 Books for June" PopSugar’s Best Summer Reads of 2021 In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi’s intriguing new nov...

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The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

2014

Experience Cixin Liu's award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three Body Problem. A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens--and succeeds. Picking up their sign...

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The Moravian Night

Peter Handke

2016

An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe’s most provocative novelists, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River, a few friends, asso...

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Parallel Worlds

Michio Kaku

2005

Sheds new light on discoveries that have revolutionized the field of cosmology and transformed understanding of the universe, offering an explanation of the multiverse M-theory and its implications in terms of the fate o...

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'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays

John Ford

1998

Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, despair, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convinc...

Soliloquy shakespeare men monolouges

unknown author

year unknown

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The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays

Jean Cocteau

1964

Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.

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Twelfth night shakespeare

unknown author

year unknown

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Macbeth

William Shakespeare

2004

Critical and historical notes accompany Shakespeare's drama of murder, political ambition, and the persistence of guilt.

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A midsummer night's dream; opera in three acts, op. 64

unknown author

1961

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Shakespeare's King Lear

William Shakespeare

1929

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Johnny Panic

Sylvia Plath

1986

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Three Classic African-American Novels

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

1999

William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three ...

Racine: Phèdre

Jean Racine

1998

A critical edition of Racine's "Phèdre". The introduction examines the central facets of the play's enduring capacity to move and disturb its audience and readers, and includes a survey of 20th century productions. There...

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The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

2010

Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he...

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H.F. Cary's Translation of Dante

unknown author

year unknown

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Number One Chinese Restaurant

Lillian Li

2018

Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine "A joy to read—I couldn't get enough." —Buzz...

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These Ghosts Are Family

Maisy Card

2020

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist​ Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican famil...

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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013

WINNER 2013 – National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction FINALIST 2014 – Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction FINALIST 2014 – Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award...

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