Love is not the answer. Not as we know it.

Title: A working theory of love
Author: Scott Hutchins
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Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2012
Pages: 328

Maybe one of the most comprehensive contemporary books when it comes to raising existential questions and subtle critiques of daily life through a mix of banal and futuristic situations, all through the lens of love as a `working theory`.

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A new detective on the rise

Title: Colin Fischer
Author: Ashley Edward Miller și Zack Stentz
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2012
Pages: 256
ISBN: 978-0-141-34399-0

Colin Fischer is the new detective in town. Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Monk or Colombo are merely his predecessors. Beside the detective side, these characters have another thing in common: the inability (or a low developed ability, at least) to interact normally with the people around them. Like them, Colin Fischer has his own way of dealing with the surrounding world: he retracts, he observes, he calculates in mathematical manner everything, and then he draws conclusions.

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In coma suite number 5 a broken life is pieced together

Title: Oh dear Silvia
Author: Dawn French
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Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd.
Year: 2012
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780718156077

”You have no idea what you did to us. You broke us, Silv. We splitered off in so many ways. It’s still bad now. Sometimes.”

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Out of love

Title: And All our Wounds Forgiven
Author: Julius Lester
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Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Year: 1994
Pages: 228
ISBN: 1-55970-258-3

I do not know where the story begins. Though I am integral to it, I am not sure I know even what the story is as neither my life nor my death constitutes the story. Nor is the story always the one we recall. Rarely is it the one we tell. [Citeste tot Articolul]

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What about after ?

Title: Britannia Road 22
Author: Amanda Hodgkinson
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2012
Pages: 390
ISBN: 978-014-139-967-6

„Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold."

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At the beginning

Title: My Face to the Wind. The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher
Author: Jim Murphy
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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Year: 2001
Pages: 182
ISBN: 0-590-43810-7

"Once, in Pennsylvania, he and I were alone before the first day of classes began. „Every year a new beginning,” he said. „Children will walk in here today can’t read or even count. By the end of the session they’ll have more in their heads than they ever dreamed of. That’s one of the rewards of teaching, Sarah Jane. Passing on these skills."
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