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Rainer Maria Rilke

Extracts from Rainer Maria Rilke's letters and readings from his poems illustrate the life of the influential poet.

Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges by Donald Leslie Shaw (Guías Laia de literatura ;)

Before Lunch by Angela Mackail Thirkell

Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain

A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans …

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …

To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bird stump at last by Connie Willis (A Bantam spectra book)

Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's [Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)][1].

The crocodile bird by Ruth Rendell

Few people under the age of seventeen have read the whole of Virgil in Latin and witnessed two murders. But …

Dark-Adapted Eye, the Chimney Sweeper's Boy, and the Brimstone Wedding by Ruth Rendell

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan

"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered …

German Genius by Peter Watson

Daughters of the Winter Queen by Nancy Goldstone

The din in the head by Cynthia Ozick

Scout, Atticus, and Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy

"In celebration of the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird (June 8, 2010), an American classic that sells almost …

The Lost Tudor Princess by Alison Weir

Buddenbrooks, the decline of a family by Thomas Mann