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        August 2014

        The First Year of the Love Calendar

        by Wang Yuewen

        Sun Li, the protagonist of the novel, is a bestseller writer and his wife Xizi is the head of a university library. Their son Sun Yichi has been rebellious and unruly since childhood, remaining distant from his mother. Afraid of the exhaustion of his creativity, the middle-aged Sun Li begins to question the meaning of his writings. He thus suffers from serious insomnia and anxiety. Just at this time, his wife Xizi begins to have her own amorous secrets. Sun Li also finds himself unable to leave Li Qiao, director of New Evening Paper. These affairs have pushed their seemingly peaceful family life to the verge of collapse. The love calendar refers to the calendar that belongs only to Sun Li and his wife Xizi for their love. But such turbulent life experience has caused them to temporarily betray their love calendar … They eventually begin again the first year of their love calendar. Through the depiction of the love, marriage, and family life of Sun Li and Xizi, the novel becomes a retrospection of the spiritual tendency, emotional development and love pattern of the Chinese over the past 20 to 30 years. It also vividly outlines the changes of social mores in China over the past years in a figurative way. Even amorous entanglements are not devoid of elements of the officialdom, with honest and corrupt officials still on the scene. According to Wang Yuewen, this is an element of reality rather than of officialdom – “after all nobody can live in a vacuum space”.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2023

        Love and revolution

        A politics for the deep commons

        by Matt York

        Based on award-winning research, Love and revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists - discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary struggles. Such a (r)evolutionary love is discovered to be a common embodied experience among the activists contributing to this collective vision, manifested as a radical solidarity, as political direct action, as long-term processes of struggle, and as a deeply relational more-than-human ethics. This book provides an essential resource for all those interested in building a free society grounded in solidarity and care, and offers a timely contribution to contemporary movement discourse.

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        Fiction
        April 2024

        I love you...

        by Julien Tănase

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        Fiction
        April 2024

        I love you…

        by Julien Tănase

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        July 2016

        The Last Love

        by Can Xue

        This novel by Can Xue presents a whole range of characters with strong personality, such as Joe, Maria, Vincent, Lisa, Reagan and Ida. They are full of vitality and are accordingly unsatisfied with their present status. They actively explore unknown field of life and firmly embark on the journey of spiritual exploration. The novel focuses the complicated and intertwining relationship between husbands, wives and lovers to uncover the hidden inner desire of each character. Boiling wild nature and advanced civilization collide with each other before they finally become one unity. For the readers, entering the world of these characters is like entering their own inner world.

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        September 2020

        It was always love

        by Hotel, Nikola

        She’s had enough of men, but he can’t get enough of her...   Away. Just get out of here. That's all Aubree thinks about when she gets kicked out of college after a party. She buys an incredibly old car, throws the few things she owns into the trunk and flees to her best friend Ivy in New Hampshire.    There, all she wants is to pull the blanket over her head and think of nothing else. Not about that night. Not about the party. And most of all, not that picture that's been circulating on the Internet ever since. But it doesn't work. Because instead of her friend, she meets Noah, Ivy's stepbrother. With his impulsive but surprisingly sensitive nature, Noah evokes feelings in her that she doesn't need right now. And which, nevertheless, sweep her away like a storm...     Second volume of a romantic and exciting dilogy with 20 lavishly illustrated hand-lettered pages by Carolin Magunia. Including a playlist that can be found on Spotify and contains songs which match perfectly with the story! It was always you (Vol. 1) entered the Spiegel bestseller list immediately after its publication. Both titles can be read separately. For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Kelly Moran! 30.000 copies of vol. 1 + 2 were sold since June 2020!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        How to be multiple

        The philosophy of twins

        by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres

        In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another? Deftly weaving together literary and cultural history, philosophical enquiry and personal experience, de Bres examines such thorny issues as binary thinking, objectification, romantic love and friendship, revealing the limits of our individualistic perspectives. In this illuminating, entertaining book, wittily illustrated by her twin sister, de Bres ultimately suggests that to consider twinhood is to imagine the possibility of a more interconnected, capacious human future.

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        Health & Personal Development

        Kizere Wets The Bed

        by Safari Jean Marie Vianney

        Many children wet the bed.  This comic storybook takes us on the journey of Kizere trying to overcome it. Gladly, with the help from parents and friends, she overcame it.

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        Health & Personal Development
        September 2018

        Me: Experience and Transcendence of Life

        by Wang Qingbing

        This book aims at helping people know and acquire self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-cultivation. Starting with the discussion on "individual", the book focuses on analyzing "I", "me", "myself", the unique entity in the world. The author shares personal understanding, thinking, reflection, and experience to communicate with readers about how to recognize self, life, society, and world, as well as how to get along with yourself, the society, and to change the world around you.

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        The Arts
        May 2023

        Modern European cinema and love

        by Richard Rushton

        Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective, applying the ideas of authors such as Stanley Cavell, Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray and Alain Badiou, while also tracing key concepts from Freudian psychoanalysis. Each of the filmmakers engages deeply with notions of modern love and marriage, often in positive ways, but also in ways that question the institutions of love, marriage and the 'couple'.

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        Children's & YA

        If you love studying

        by Qian Haiyun/Wang Xiaoxiao

        Children who love exploring and study are mostly dreaming of becoming chemist, translator, software engineer, medical expert, astronomer and botanists. The book scientifically introduces the six professions.

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        Children's & YA

        If you love studing

        by Qian Haiyun/Wang Xiaoxiao

        Children who love exploring and study are mostly dreaming of becoming chemist, translator, software engineer, medical expert, astronomer and botanists. The book scientifically introduces the six professions.

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        January 2013

        Let the Death Live long

        by Chen Ximi

        The book is written by Chen Ximi, the wife of Chinese famous writer Shi Tiesheng. It is a heart-touching memorial essay collection. The death of Shi left Chen in endless loneliness, which made her start to make a effort to write this book. She tried to converse with the great philosopher in human history by reading, meditation, walking and writing, searching the meaning of void. By this way, she deepened her thinking, became a broad-minded woman, learnt to explore the meaning of life. The stylish writing skill and touching heart whisper is on the page .In her true and beautiful word, readers can find the meaning of life and death, love, honesty, solitary, time and life, feel the light of wisdom.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2018

        I Can't Live without Love in My Life

        by Chen Mingming

        "I can't live without love in my life" is a collection of poems by the female poet Chen Mingming. Chen Mingming is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a writer, a poet, and a soldier. As Editor-in-Chief of Oriental Poetry, Oriental Culture Weekly, editor-in-chief of the first issue of Taiwan and mainland, " Oriental tide", she dedicated to the practice, research and exploration of Chinese poetry. She is actively promoting Chinese poetry.

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        Children's & YA
        May 2019

        May Fourth Movement tells You How to Love the Country

        by Cheng Meidong; Shen Chengfei; Zhao Nuo ; Sun Pei .

        Reviewing the May Fourth Movement, clarifying that patriotism is an eternal theme, be responsible is the historical mission in the new era.

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        Fiction
        October 2008

        The Passion Collection

        by Natalka Sniadanko

        You are about to see the passion collection of a girl "from a decent Galician family" during her coming-of-age years. It contains not only common passions in Ukrainian and Russian but also more exotic ones, in Italian and German and a few aristocratic passions as well. Every time the girl tries to understand whether it is passion or love? And whether you can distinguish passion from love is up to you.

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