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A girl spends a summer away from home in Claire Keegan's «Τα τρία φώτα», and what changes her is steady, unshowy care. In Little Women, four sisters stretch a thin purse through a long war and still make room for quarrels, writing and love. What these books share is attention to ordinary people holding one another up; you read them for that close, human company.

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What it costs to keep believing in a piece of land you'll never own.

They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.
Excerpt from Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, Vicens Vives 1937. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

  14. The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak, 2005

    A girl steals books in Nazi Germany while Death, tired and curious, narrates her story. A voice-driven novel about words, courage, and ordinary people.

  15. Middlemarch

    George Eliot, 1872

    A provincial town, a clever woman married to the wrong scholar, an ambitious doctor, and the slow, comic, devastating work of learning that other people are real.

  16. Ugly Love

    Colleen Hoover, 2014

    A nurse restarting her life falls for a man who offers only sex and no past—and discovers how much pain can hide behind a closed door.

  19. Mrs. Dalloway

    Virginia Woolf, 1925

    One June day in London, a society wife prepares a party while a shell-shocked veteran sits in the park. A novel written the way a mind actually moves.

  20. Συλλογές

    Κωστής Παλαμάς, 1886

    The great popular poet of modern Greece: ballads, island legends and small elegies, in the language people actually spoke. Look for the human gesture inside the folk song. At his best there is no one warmer and more exact about the things he loved. Still, some verse is more pastiche than lived experience, but the ambition is real. But the book has real ballads and real feeling, and a warm, generous voice, and Palamaς is a key figure in Greek letters. Read him as a poet who came from the folk tradition. Read him for the ballads and the small elegies. In the end, you get a sense of the poet's world and a few lines to underline. That is the honest case for this book,

  21. Insurgent

    Veronica Roth, 2012

    In a city divided into five virtues, a young woman hunted for being all five must decide what she will sacrifice to stop a war.

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  1. Sometimes a welcome is felt before it can be understood.

    Το έχω συνηθίσει αυτό, τον τρόπο που έχουν οι άντρες να μη μιλάνε: τους αρέσει να κλοτσάνε σβόλους χώμα στο γρασίδι με το τακούνι της μπότας τους, να κοπανάνε την οροφή ενός αυτοκινήτου πριν πάρει μπρος, να φτύνουν, να κάθονται με τα πόδια τους ορθάνοιχτα, λες και δεν τους καίγεται καρφί. Όταν βγαίνει έξω η κυρία Κινσέλα, δεν τους δίνει σημασία. Είναι ψηλότερη κι από τη μητέρα μου, κι έχει τα ίδια μαύρα μαλλιά, αλλά τα δικά της είναι κοντοκουρεμένα σαν κράνος. Φοράει μια εμπριμέ μπλούζα και ένα καφέ παντελόνι καμπάνα. Η πόρτα του αυτοκινήτου ανοίγει και είμαι έξω, μου δίνει ένα φιλί. Το πρόσωπό μου, όταν το φιλάει, γίνεται καυτό πάνω στο δικό της.

    Τα τρία φώτα · Claire Keegan

  2. A mother’s suspicion that love may be a superstition we haven’t outgrown.

    I think I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That what he claims is true. That science has now proved beyond doubt there’s nothing so unique about my daughter, nothing there our modern tools can’t excavate, copy, transfer. That people have been living with one another all this time, centuries, loving and hating each other, and all on a mistaken premise. A kind of superstition we kept going while we didn’t know better.

    Klara and the Sun · Kazuo Ishiguro

  3. What does the limitless geography of a child's mind look like?

    Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood. She had been reading, but her book had slipped to the floor, and now she was dreaming, with a smile on her parted lips. Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.

    Anne of Green Gables · L. M. Montgomery

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