New Poems

10 best books like New Poems (Rainer Maria Rilke): Beautiful Darkness, A Personal Matter, The Nose, Foxmask, Mother Courage and Her Children, Faith, Volume 1: Hollywood & Vine, Rituals, Dream Work, De ridder is gestorven, Philip and the Others

Beautiful Darkness
AuthorFabien Vehlmann
ISBN1770461299
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
A Personal Matter
AuthorKenzaburō Ōe
ISBN0802150616
Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped...
The Nose
AuthorNikolai Gogol
ISBN0688104649

Gogol’s “The Nose” (1835), is an early triumph of surrealism, daring and delightful in the way it jars and disjoins one realitiy from another, but it is also a vivid realistic depiction of the sights and sounds of early 19th century St. Petersburg (including the essential bridges, buildings...
AuthorJuliet Marillier
ISBN0765345919
The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create...
Mother Courage and Her Children
AuthorBertolt Brecht
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...
Faith, Volume 1: Hollywood & Vine
AuthorJody Houser
ISBN1682151212
Valiant's most demanded hero steps out of Harbinger and into an all-new miniseries adventure!
Orphaned at a young age, Faith Herbert - a psionically gifted "psiot" discovered by the Harbinger Foundation - has always aspired to greatness. But now this once ordinary teenager is taking control...
Rituals
AuthorCees Nooteboom
ISBN0140157905
A man of independent means oddly suited to survival amid the chaos of modern life, Inni Wintrop is a committed dabbler, content to casually wander the streets of Amsterdam, follow the dips and rises of the stock exchange and commodities market, speculate in art and love, and write a newspaper horoscope...
Dream Work
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0871130696
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant...
De ridder is gestorven
AuthorCees Nooteboom
Een schrijver bezoekt het Spaanse eiland waar zijn vriend Andre Steenkamp, die ook schrijver was, zijn laatste maanden heeft doorgebracht. Het doel van zijn bezoek aan het eiland is om het boek waar Steenkamp aan bezig was af te maken en tegelijk die laatste periode van zijn leven opnieuw te creeren...
Philip and the Others
AuthorCees Nooteboom
En El Paraíso está aquí al lado se prefiguran ya algunos de los pilares fundamentales sobre los que se sostienen los trabajos posteriores de Cees Nooteboom: la imposibilidad de eludir el destino, la tendencia a la propia destrucción o el juego que se establece entre los personajes y su creador....
Marcher, Méditer
AuthorMichel Jourdan
ISBN2226100350
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The Italian Girl
AuthorIris Murdoch
ISBN0099285231
A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea.

The funeral of Edward’s mother brings him home for the first time in years. Though his return rekindles his affection for his childhood...
The Bunker Diary
AuthorKevin Brooks
ISBN0141326123
I can't believe I fell for it.
It was still dark when I woke up this morning.
As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was.
A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete.
There are six little rooms along the main corridor.
There are no windows. No doors....
Fake Love
AuthorClaire Contreras
In the twenty-five years I’ve known Cory York, the only thing I didn’t fake with him were my orgasms.

In seventh grade, I faked a stomach flu to stay home and keep him company while he was sick. I ended up with a virus that kept me out of school for an entire week.

In twelfth grade I faked...
Big Hard Sex Criminals: Volume One
AuthorMatt Fraction
ISBN1632152436

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This charming comic series has one high-concept central idea, but no real plan about what to do with it. It focuses on the confusing lives of Suzie and Jon, two twentysomethings in a nameless American city who share an unusual condition: every time they reach orgasm,...
Heavy Equipment
AuthorSkye Warren
I was giving the opportunity to beta read this story early.
This novella is spin off from the Trust Fund Duet and it does not fall short. Skye Warren sure knows how to pack a full sexy, panty dropping, story in this novella. Heavy Equipment hits heavy straight outta the gate, leaving nothing left to...
Leven en laten leven
AuthorHendrik Groen
ISBN9029091010
Arthur Ophof had zich het leven toch anders voorgesteld. In plaats van spectaculaire reizen te maken naar verre landen, staat hij vier keer in de week in de file van Purmerend naar Breukelen én in de file van Breukelen naar Purmerend. Groots en meeslepend kun je zijn uitgebluste, kinderloze huwelijk...
Renaissance Man
AuthorTessa Bailey
THIS BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE IN AUDIOBOOK ON THE READ ME ROMANCE PODCAST DURING THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 12.

The last place ex-Special forces soldier, Kyle Musgrave, expected to find himself was in a joust at a renaissance fair. There’s a prize for winning, however—her name is Cameron and she’s...
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