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  • LOVERS OF FRANZ K.
    LOVERS OF FRANZ K.
    BURHAN SÖNMEZ / HÊZIL, SAMI
    An inventive literary obituary for Kafka, this thriller of love and revenge brings the Cold War to life, from Paris and Istanbul to West Berlin and Tel Aviv.Amid the student protests in 1960s Europe, Kafka’s best friend, Max Brod, becomes a target of their ire: Against the dying writer’s wishes, he had published texts that never should have been part of his legacy. After Brod i...
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    Q. 205

  • ANDROMEDA
    ANDROMEDA
    THERESE BOHMAN / MARLAINE DELARGY
    Working her way up at a storied Stockholm publisher, a young woman develops an ambiguous, shifting relationship with her boss, in this shrewd novel about the tension between tradition and modernity, and expectations and reality.The publishing house is anchored like a ship along Stockholm’s main street, a large, bright building with an impressive rooftop terrace. The facade is a...
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    Q. 180

  • NATURE, CULTURE, AND INEQUALITY
    NATURE, CULTURE, AND INEQUALITY
    THOMAS PIKETTY
    “The most important economics book of the year-and maybe of the decade.” —Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century A bestselling economist’s history of inequality and guide to a more just, sustainable world, distilled into an engaging and accessible pocket-sized text.In this unique work, Thomas Piketty presents a synthesis of his historical and compa...
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    Q. 250

  • DEMOISELLES OF NUMIDIA
    DEMOISELLES OF NUMIDIA
    LEFTAH, MOHAMED
    The acclaimed Moroccan author’s debut novel, this stunning portrait of the world of sex work describes its sordid reality with beautiful, poetic prose.Available now for the first time in English, Demoiselles of Numidia offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of young women working in a Casablanca brothel—their relationships with each other and with their pimps, their dramas, ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE SUN AND HER STARS
    THE SUN AND HER STARS
    DONNA RIFKIND
    National Jewish Book Award FinalistThe little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll.Hollywood was created by its "others"; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for f...
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    Q. 280

  • THE HEART
    THE HEART
    MARC PETITJEAN
    This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene. In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of a...
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    Q. 260

  • MACHIAVELLI: THE ART OF TEACHING PEOPLE WHAT TO FEAR
    MACHIAVELLI: THE ART OF TEACHING PEOPLE WHAT TO FEAR
    BOUCHERON, PATRICK / WOOD, WILLARD
    In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in...
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    Q. 180

  • A PERFECT DAY TO BE ALONE
    A PERFECT DAY TO BE ALONE
    AOYAMA, NANAE
    The English-language debut of a prize-winning Japanese author, this touching, subtly funny novel evokes the daily struggles and hopes of two women from different generations.When her mother emigrates to China for work, 20-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the ...
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    Q. 170

  • SPATRIATI
    SPATRIATI
    DESIATI, MARIO / MICHAEL F. MOORE
    Following two outcasts’ tumultuous friendship, this brilliant, Strega Prize–winning novel captures the probing, passionate nature of a generation of global citizens, exploring sexuality and identity.I never understood, of the two of us, which one was warm and which cold, but I consider myself lucky to have met my opposite front in Claudia Fanelli, the spatriata, the name people...
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    Q. 190

  • THE ARCHIVE OF FEELINGS
    THE ARCHIVE OF FEELINGS
    STAMM, PETER
    Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it’s not too late to live it.A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review).Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living i...
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    Q. 170

  • THE COST OF COURAGE
    THE COST OF COURAGE
    CHARLES KAISER
    This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle’s military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of Franc...
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    Q. 386

  • I WILL NEVER SEE THE WORLD AGAIN: THE MEMOIR OF AN IMPRISONED WRITER
    I WILL NEVER SEE THE WORLD AGAIN: THE MEMOIR OF AN IMPRISONED WRITER
    AHMET ALTAN / CONGAR, YASEMIN
    A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism.The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, w...
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    Q. 170