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Matthew M. Conroy

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Donald A. Norman: The design of everyday things (2002, Basic Books)

No cover — J. California Cooper: Overcoming Hypertension (Large Print) (1990, Bantam)

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Sir Charles Vernon Boys: Soap bubbles, their colours and the forces which mold them (Paperback, 1959, Dover Publications)

Pema Chödrön: Comfortable with uncertainty (2004, Shambhala)

Clint Sprott: Chaos and time-series analysis

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Cathy Lane, Angus Carlyle: In the field (2013, Uniformbooks)

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Matthew M. Conroy rated Cold Comfort Farm: 4 stars

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in …

Matthew M. Conroy rated Austerlitz: 4 stars

Winfried G. Sebald: Austerlitz (Paperback, italiano language, 2006, Adelphi)

Austerlitz by Winfried G. Sebald

Jacques Austerlitz è un professore di storia dell'architettura, studioso di quei luoghi che, soprattutto nell'Ottocento, tendevano ad assumere forme involontariamente …

Matthew M. Conroy rated The Rings of Saturn: 4 stars

Winfried Georg Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (1999)

The Rings of Saturn by Winfried Georg Sebald

The Rings of Saturn (German: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt - An English Pilgrimage) is a 1995 novel …

Matthew M. Conroy rated The seventh seal: 5 stars

Ingmar Bergman: The seventh seal (1968, Lorrimer Publishing)

The seventh seal by Ingmar Bergman (Modern film scripts -- 9)

Matthew M. Conroy rated Traveling Incognito: 5 stars

Traveling Incognito by Clemens Starck

Matthew M. Conroy rated U.S. Dept. of the Interior: 4 stars

U.S. Dept. of the Interior by Paul C. Metcalf

Matthew M. Conroy rated Rough day: 5 stars

Rough day by Ed Skoog

Matthew M. Conroy rated The Blood About the Heart: 5 stars

Sarah Menefee: The Blood About the Heart (Paperback, 1993, Curbstone Press)

The Blood About the Heart by Sarah Menefee

Matthew M. Conroy rated On Beauty and Being Just.: 2 stars

Elaine Scarry: On Beauty and Being Just. (Paperback, 2001, Princeton University Press)

On Beauty and Being Just. by Elaine Scarry

Matthew M. Conroy rated Of Street Piemen: 4 stars

Of Street Piemen by Henry Mayhew

Matthew M. Conroy rated Berlin Alexanderplatz: 4 stars

Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz (German language, 1988, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft)

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Berlin Alexanderplatz (German: [bɛʁˈliːn ʔalɛkˈsandɐˌplats]) is a 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin. It is considered one of the most important …

Matthew M. Conroy rated A Controversy of Poets: 5 stars

A Controversy of Poets by Paris Leary

Matthew M. Conroy rated The middle of the world: 5 stars

Kathleen Norris: The middle of the world (1981, University of Pittsburgh Press)

The middle of the world by Kathleen Norris (Pitt poetry series)

Matthew M. Conroy rated Let the Right One in: 3 stars

John Ajvide Lindqvist: Let the Right One in (Hardcover, 2007, Quercus Publishing Plc)

Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy …

Matthew M. Conroy rated The Hills Reply: 4 stars

Elizabeth Rokkan, Tarjei Vesaas: The Hills Reply (Paperback, 2019, Archipelago Press)

The Hills Reply by Elizabeth Rokkan, Tarjei Vesaas

An intensely graceful novel recounting scenes of the Norwegian countryside from one of Norway's most beloved 20th-century writers.

Tarjei Vesaas's …