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The Story Orchestra: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Press the note to hear Joby Talbot's music

Jessica Courtney-Tickle (Illustrator)

Sep 1 - Oct 2
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Merülj el Lewis Carroll varázslatos történetének zenés feldolgozásában! Légy Alice kísérője kalandos útján, és látni fogod, hogyan zsugorodik törpévé, majd nő hirtelen óriássá, vesz részt egy különös versenyen, és tanúskodik a bíróságon a Szív Királynő előtt. De vajon Csodaország valóban létezik, vagy az egész csak egy álom?

Nyomd meg a hangjegyet minden oldalon, hogy az Alice Csodaországban története Joby Talbot zenekíséretével életre keljen, majd hallgasd meg újra a dallamokat a könyv végén!

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Vastlands - The Crossing

João Guimarães Rosa

Aug 10 - Sep 718 hours left
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“A veritable linguistic tour de force.” —Mario Vargas Llosa

One of Latin America’s greatest works of literature and an epic story of honor and revenge set in Brazil’s high inland plateaus—now in a mesmerizing new translation by Alison Entrekin, featuring an introduction by Colm Tóibín.

First published in Brazil in 1956 and long hailed as one of the greatest works of world literature, Vastlands: The Crossing is João Guimarães Rosa’s monumental novel of the sertão—the vast backlands where bandits, mercenaries, and mystics shape their own codes of honor and survival. In this sweeping saga, Riobaldo, a reformed jagunço—bodyguard or hired gun—and retired rancher, recounts his life of violence, loyalty, and longing, from his early initiation into the lawless jagunço bands to his rise as a leader and his obsessive devotion to the enigmatic Diadorim, the comrade-in-arms who will forever change the course of his life.

At once an epic of battle on the plateaus and a profoundly tender love story, Vastlands follows Riobaldo across a landscape both physical and metaphysical, where questions of fate, morality, and the existence of evil are inseparable from the terrain itself. His narration—restless, searching, and full of dazzling wordplay—circles the central mysteries of his life: his bond with Diadorim, the ever-looming specter of the devil, and the cost of power and vengeance.

Both a cornerstone of Brazilian literature and a rediscovered masterpiece for English-language readers, Vastlands: The Crossing stands alongside Ulysses and The Sound and the Fury as a daring reinvention of the novel and a singular, audacious journey into language, landscape, and the depths of human experience. In this new English language translation, the first to fully capture both the story and the linguistic brilliance of the original, Alison Entrekin recreates Guimarães Rosa’s achievement—preserving the novel’s music, strangeness, and vitality.

Classics
Literary fiction

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Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

Aug 29 - Sep 22
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The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.

Literary fiction
Classics

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Salt Is Leaving: A Novel

J.B. Priestley

Aug 15 - Sep 15
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In the grim, industrializing city of Birkden, a disillusioned doctor investigates the disappearance of one of his patients—a young woman caught up in an explosive local scandal—in this classic cozy mystery by one of the twentieth century's great, underappreciated masters.

Dr. Salt has sold his medical practice and is eager to finally leave Birkden, a small, gray, rainy city in the English Midlands that has only grown more depressing since the opening of the United Fabrics plant on the outskirts of town. Industry may be lining the pockets of Sir Arnold Donnington, the local bigwig, but otherwise it seems to be sucking the life out of the place.

But something is nagging at Salt, a loose end that he needs to tie up before he departs. A patient of his, a young woman named Noreen Wilks, has gone missing. The local police won't take the case seriously—she's one of those modern girls, after all, flighty and unreliable—but Salt has a feeling that she's landed in real trouble. When a strange letter connects Salt with another young woman, Maggie Culworth, whose father has also disappeared, they decide to team up. Untangling a web of deception and corruption, they uncover a crime so shocking that the city of Birkden may never be the same again.

First published in 1966, Salt Is Leaving is J. B. Priestley's only proper mystery novel—a classic of the cozy crime genre that probes the perils of an industrializing world, and the exploitation of young women, with Priestley's signature warmth and wit.

Literary fiction
Classics

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Angel Pavement: A Novel

J.B. Priestley

Aug 15 - Sep 15
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The struggling firm of Twigg & Dersingham is brought to riches—and ruin—by a mysterious, charismatic businessman and his glamorous daughter, in this kaleidoscopic portrait of late 1920s London from one of the twentieth century's great, underappreciated masters.

On a grim sidestreet of the City of London called Angel Pavement, the office of Twigg & Dersingham carries out its day to day operations far from the decadence of the Roaring Twenties. The firm is now run, less than competently, by the nephew of the original Dersingham; to cut costs, he knows he must fire one of his few employees to have any hope of keeping the business afloat. Longtime head clerk Mr. Smeeth is desperate to not lose his job, but Mr. Dersingham really has his eye on junior clerk Mr. Turgis—awkward, unfashionable, and convinced that he's about to stumble upon the love of his life—or typist Ms. Matfield, who left her home in the suburbs to live as a modern woman in the city, and who now wonders whether there's more to modern life than this.

Enter the Golspies. When Mr. Golspie appears at the office on Angel Pavement from whereabouts unknown, his beautiful daughtor Lena at his side, he presents a business proposition that Mr. Dersingham feels sure will save them. But of course, offers that seem too good to be true often are—and this one will set the firm and each of its employees on a course for disaster.

First published in 1930, Angel Pavement is a sweeping London novel in the vein of Dickens, Thackeray, Wolfe, and Amis, populated by a cast of richly developed characters and gilded by J. B. Priestley's deft wit, that feels startlingly fresh in our own rapidly changing world.

Literary fiction
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