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Girls Like You cover
Rating 4.0
Girls Like You Kang Pei CITIC Press · 2014 Girls Like You is a collection of women's stories by Kang Pei, a former journalist and Douban author known online as "Bixiong Zeizei." Comprising more…
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Rating 1.3
A Great Grief Hans Christian Andersen · 1853 A Great Grief (Danish original title Hjertesorg, often translated into English as A Great Grief) is a short fairy tale by the Danish writer Hans Chris…
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The Observer's Selection Series 迈克尔·霍华德 / Mary Evans / 蒂莫西·布莱宁 / Mark Mazower / Michael Stürmer / Gordon S. Wood / Felipe Fernández-Armesto CITIC Press · 2018 The Observer's Selection is a small-format history series under CITIC Press Group's New Thought Library, gathering seven concise works by leading West…
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Sing Loudly When Walking Alone at Night Li Juan New Star Press · 2024 Sing Loudly When Walking Alone at Night is a private collection of personal essays by Li Juan, gathering thirty-six pieces written between her mid-twe…
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Everyone's Bookshelf · Translation Library Series Beijing Publishing House Beijing Publishing House · 2017 "Master’s Little Books · Translation Library" is the foreign culture segment of the humanities classics series "Master’s Little Books" published by Be…
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Rating 4.0
She Would Buy the Flowers Herself Virginia Woolf China Chang'an Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. · 2025 She Would Buy the Flowers Herself is a selected collection of feminist essays by the British writer Virginia Woolf, published in June 2025 by Zito Boo…
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The Art of Speaking by Kevin Tsai Kevin Tsai Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 The Art of Speaking by Kevin Tsai is a collection of essays on speaking and communication by the host Kevin Tsai. In 2020, Hunan Literature and Art Pu…
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A Whisper to the Reader Frank R. Stockton A Whisper to the Reader is a short essay-like piece of about two thousand words by the late nineteenth-century American writer and humorist Frank R. S…
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Towards the Light 刘同 CITIC Press · 2016 Towards the Light is the third installment in young writer Liu Tong's "Who's Youth Is Not Confused" series, centered on the theme of "light" and publi…
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Different Times, Different Ways Yi Shu Oriental Press · 2014 Different Times, Different Ways is a collection of essays by Yi Shu, published by Oriental Press in 2014. Together with her earlier collections As One…
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Rating 3.8
A Pig in Provence Georgette Brennan Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 This is a food essay collection by the American food writer Georgeanne Brennan about country life in Provence. The author settled in southern France e…
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Classics That Passed Through the Heart: The Republican Masters Classic Series Hu Shi / Lu Xun / Zhou Zuoren / Xu Zhimo / Yu Dafu / Zhu Ziqing / Liang Shiqiu / Shen Congwen / Zhang Henshui Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2013 Classics That Passed Through the Heart: The Republican Masters Classic Series is a nine-volume anthology of selected works by major authors, published…
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Hearts of Controversy Alice Meynell Burns & Oates · 1917 Hearts of Controversy is a collection of literary criticism and essays by the English poet, essayist, and critic Alice Meynell (1847–1922), published …
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From London to Land's End Daniel Defoe From London to Land's End is a travelogue written late in the life of the English author Daniel Defoe and first published in 1724. Later generations h…
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Rating 4.2
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Alice Calaprice Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2019 Edited by Alice Calaprice, a senior editor at Princeton University Press and a core member of the Einstein Papers Project, this is the fourth edition …
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100 Kinds of Thinking: The Source of Power 布莱兹·帕斯卡尔 China Water & Power Press · 2020 This book is an anthology of classic texts by the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), compiled and translated …
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Rating 4.5
Every Moment, Eternity James Herriot CHINA CITY PRESS · 2011 Every Moment, Eternity is the fourth book in British veterinary writer James Herriot's All Creatures series (original title: The Lord God Made Them Al…
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Rating 4.0
Hello, Sir: Selected Writings of Comrade Tangseng on Zhihu Tang Seng Tongzhi / Zhihu Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2014 Hello, Sir: Selected Writings of Comrade Tangseng on Zhihu is one of the e-books in Zhihu's "Salt" series. The author, Comrade Tangseng, is a senior H…
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Rating 4.0
Lost Pearls of the Elegant Studio Liang Shiqiu Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2015 Lost Pearls of the Elegant Studio is a collection of scattered and previously uncollected essays by Liang Shiqiu. Over his lifetime, Liang wrote exten…
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Zhihu Salt Series Volume 12: In the Haven Ding Gou / Zhihu Zhihu · 2014 In the Haven: Ding Gou's Zhihu Self-Selected Essays is the twelfth volume in Zhihu's "Salt" series of e-books. The author, Ding Gou, calls himself a "…