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Set in 19th-century Germany, the story follows the life of Effi Briest

A Polish pianist with an unpronounceable last name (let's call him W) comes

The novel revolves around Keiko Furukura, a socially awkward woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years.

A chilling novel based on a true story, which begins with hope and ends in tragedy.

New Yorker edition that the story appears in. “My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty” is a Murakami short story that first appeared in The New Yorker ( my-cheesecake-shaped-poverty.pdf ). This very short story is part of The New Yorker’s flash fiction series, so it’s unlikely it is more than 1000 words. The time is 1973. A young newlywed couple desires to move into their first home. They don’t have much money, so the estate agent looks them up and down and hesitantly...

The Bear follows a young boy named Isaac McCaslin, who goes on numerous hunting trips into the wilderness with his uncle and other men.

Vincent is a bartender at the Glass Hotel, or as it's first called, Hotel Caiette.

The Dispossessed is about a planet and its moon and the clashing cultures…

The novel begins with William Barton visiting his ex-wife in NYC as the COVID-19

A work tha explores the moral and ethical dimensions of animal suffering.

When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing…

The novel begins with the childhood incident that shapes Ramsay's life.

A collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair,

Never Let Me Go is a thought-provoking dystopian novel written…

An eerie and evocative masterpiece with a nameless protagonist.

An eventful Christmas in a small Irish town.

Hemingway's _To Have and Have Not_ is a commentary on the time of The Great

Emma is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. So, it's fun.

Set in the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, the story spans several decades and explores the complex relationship between two Black-American women, Sula Peace and Nel Wright.

Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career.

His scrambled visions of history yield unexpected insights. And his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, was for him a guiding light. Delight in his frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring like a well-marbled ribeye.

Explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party.

…on a shelf somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality ()…

_Bad Monkey_ is a wacky romp of a satirical detective story.

On every page of this novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold

… a comprehensive exploration of the orange farming and processing business. The book offers a detailed and informative look at the history, science, and economics behind the cultivation, harvesting, and distribution of oranges.

Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before

Apart from the essay on Roger Federer, the rest are Wallace hitting serves

…dramatizes the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a\_beekeeper and his frenemy in what seems to be in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.

Before going their separate ways, narrator Jesse and his pal Lee Mellon converge, drink, and then go their separate ways.