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Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore’s defense of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein’s reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

Irene, fed up with her boyfriend, her friends and her mother, arrives in Madrid and runs into Manuel, a young professor who is playing with some friends at the college bar. They don't speak that very first time, but each has noticed the other....

In this brilliant novel there are three losses and three searches. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is confronted with the disappearance of his culture and his language while an anthropologist fights to...

What if a void suddenly opened up in your life? This is the question Laura Freudenthaler pursues in her second novel Ghost Story, In her gap year, that she meant to spend playing piano and writing textbooks, Anne is thrown off track, One by...

William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless… Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet,...

***Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Time, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Parade, Goodreads, Fortune, and BBC*** Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel...

The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the...

When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as...

When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative...

Missy Carmichael's life has become small. Grieving for a family she has lost or lost touch with, she's haunted by the echoes of her footsteps in her empty home; the sound of the radio in the dark; the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. Spiky...

They took a screenshot. They received some. They sent others. They all agreed on one thing: these messages were completely personal. Almost immediately they began to circulate on the network, converted into screenshots. Their privacy was very fragile, and they did not want to...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is undoubtedly one of the masters of the short story, a genre of which he pioneered. Famous for his horror and mystery stories, Poe knew how to give life and expression to the darkest and most turbulent regions of the...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is undoubtedly one of the masters of the short story, a genre of which he pioneered. Famous for his horror and mystery stories, Poe knew how to give life and expression to the darkest and most turbulent regions of the...

Maimonides (1135-1204) was a renowned physician, philosopher, and rabbi, The people's imagination has attributed facts and events to him that in most cases don’t correspond to his real biography, This book is an anthology of one hundred and five traditional Hebrew stories about Maimonides,...

The three novels that make up this Passion Trilogy openly ally against labels and market trends and, since we are talking about painting, we quote Degas with Harwicz when he warns that "the artist must begin his work with the same spirit as a...

Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, who she hasn’t spoken to in many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lies...

In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy...

In her late teens, Virginia travels north with her father to join the Kopps. When the meeting with their English friends promises a peaceful vacation, the stellar appearance of an unexpected guest will truncate all their plans: Bertrand is a sculptor and performer, in...

Four women, four cats, four intertwined stories. On a rainy spring day, Miyu, a girl who lives alone in the big city, finds a cat curled up in a cardboard box and takes it home. She is bad at expressing what she feels. He...

Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under her dress he will find the notebooks that contain Rose’s harrowing story, At fourteen years old, Rose is sold to a...