Aquamarine

Carol Anshaw

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Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces three possible paths for Jesse, spinning exhilarat

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

评分 8.9分

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power,

Regulus

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupery's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless

Misreadings

Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco

评分 8.1分

Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde

Brainscapes

Rebecca Schwarzlose

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Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain’s surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Although scientists began

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Alexander Chee

评分 7.9分

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have

The Best American Short Stories 2016

Junot Díaz

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Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year’s The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

The Werewolf of Bamberg

Oliver Pötzsch

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Knuckler

Tim Wakefield

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At forty-four years old, Tim Wakefield is the longest-serving member of one of baseball’s most popular franchises. He is close to eclipsing the winning records of two of the greatest pitchers to ha

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

评分 8.2分

Lavinia

Ursula K Le Guin

评分 8.8分

Mistakes Were Made

Carol Tavris

评分 8.5分

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they make mistakes? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

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With more than five million copies sold, "Flowers for Algernon" is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extra

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

评分 9.1分

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraor

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

评分 8.4分

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the

The Seven Sins of Memory

Daniel L. Schacter

评分 7.8分

A groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost memory experts, THE SEVEN SINS OF MEMORY offers the first framework that explains common memory vices -- and their surprising virtues. In this i

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

评分 9.1分

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 1

Punished by Rewards

Alfie Kohn

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The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales comm

Health Against Wealth

George Anders

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The HMO system is supposed to stop greedy doctors and hospitals from viewing patients as sources of profit. But Health Against Wealth reveals that when you are confronting a medical emergency, the

Money Mischief

Milton Friedman

评分 9.0分

Friedman makes clear once and for all that no one is immune from monetary economics-that is, from the effects of its theory and its practices. He demonstrates through historical events the mischief

Free to Choose

Milton Friedman

评分 8.9分

Free to Choose (1980) is a book and a ten-part television series broadcast on public television by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman that advocates free market principles. Free

The Old Patagonian Express

Paul Theroux

评分 7.7分

Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which

Flush

Virginia Woolf

评分 9.1分

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he al