<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Lloyd-Jones, Antonia,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Lloyd-Jones, Antonia,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chipublib/rss/search?query=Lloyd-Jones%2C%20Antonia%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:38:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2163886</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2163886</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2163886126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525541332/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA["In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2239358</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2239358</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2239358126</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432872755/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Day, House of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA["Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into the area, she ... discovers everyone--and everything--has its own story. With the help of Marta, her enigmatic neighbor, the narrator accumulates these stories, tracing the history of Nowa Ruda from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, from the caller who wins the radio quiz every day to the tale of the man who causes international tension when he dies on the border, one leg on the Polish side, the other on the Czech side. Each of the stories represents a brick and they interlock to reveal the immense monument that is the town. What emerges is the message that the history of any place--no matter how humble--is limitless, that by describing or digging at the roots of a life, a house, or a neighborhood, one can see all the connections, not only with one's self and one's dreams but also with all of the universe"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2667010</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2667010</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2667010126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593716380/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Empusium]]></title><description><![CDATA["Set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, [this novel] probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2595129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2595129</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2595129126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Health Resort Horror Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593712948/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Primeval and Other Times]]></title><description><![CDATA["Set in the mythical village of Primeval--a microcosm of the world populated by eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels--the novel chronicles the lives of the village's inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century and the episodic violence visited on them."--P. [3] of cover.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1356581</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1356581</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1356581126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788086264356/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Day, House of Night]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C946682</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C946682</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/946682126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780810118690/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Possessed]]></title><description><![CDATA["From "a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translation. Witold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland's greatest modernist, and in The Possessed, he demonstrates his playful brilliance and astonishing range by using the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and lively subversion of the form. With dreams of escaping his small-town existence and the limitations of his class, a young tennis coach travels to the heart of the Polish countryside to train Maja Ochołowska, a beautiful and promising player whose bourgeois family has fallen upon difficult circumstances. Yet as Maja and the young man are alternately drawn to and repulsed by the other, they find themselves embroiled in the fantastic happenings taking place at the dilapidated castle nearby, where a mad prince haunts the halls, and bewitched towels, conniving secretaries, famous clairvoyants, and uncanny doubles conspire to determine the fate of the lovers. Serialized first in Poland in the days preceding the Nazi invasion, and now translated directly into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, The Possessed is a comic jewel, a hair-raising thriller, and a provocative early masterpiece from the acclaimed author of classics like Pornografia and Cosmos"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2566362</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2566362</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gombrowicz, Witold]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2566362126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802162526/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Truth and Other Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA["Thirteen stories by Polish science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, most of which have not appeared in English before"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2356465</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2356465</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lem, Stanisław]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2356465126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780262046084/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inhuman Land]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of Poles--men, women, and children who were starving, sickly, and impoverished--were released from Soviet prison camps and allowed to join the Polish army being formed in the south of Russia. One of the survivors who made the difficult winter journey was the painter and reserve officer Józef Czapski. General Anders, the army's commander in chief, assigned Czapski the task of receiving the Poles arriving for military training; gathering accounts of what their fates had been; organizing education, culture, and news for the soldiers; and, most important, investigating the disappearance of thousands of missing Polish officers. Blocked at every level by the Soviet authorities, Czapski was unaware that in April 1940 the officers had been shot dead in Katyn forest, a crime for which Soviet Russia never accepted responsibility. Czapski's account of the years following his release from the camp, the formation of the Polish army, and its arduous trek through Central Asia and the Middle East to fight on the Italian front is rich in anecdotes about the suffering of the Poles in the USSR, quotations from the Polish poetry that sustained him and his companions, encounters with literary figures (including Anna Akhmatova), and philosophical thoughts about the relationships between nationalities"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2262989</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2262989</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Czapski, Józef]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2262989126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia,  1941-1942</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781681372563/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Secret Life of A Tiger]]></title><description><![CDATA["Tiger says he is a cat with simple pleasures. He likes to spend his days wandering about, chatting with friends and having a little snack. And despite the gossip concerning his ferocious appetite, he's a modest creature. It's only at night that his surprising - and heart-warming - hobbies come to light."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1904023</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1904023</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wechterowicz, Przemysław]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1904023126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781682971543/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Legends of Cracow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Each story starts by explaining where it is set, making it easy to find each site on a city map. Each legend is preceded by a short introduction, and each one ends with a mention of other related places that are also worth visiting.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1205196</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1205196</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Iwański, Zbigniew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1205196126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788373185289/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's Cooking in the Kremlin]]></title><description><![CDATA["A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power and propaganda through food"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2545377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2545377</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Szabłowski, Witold]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2545377126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built An Empire With A Knife and Fork</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143137184/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Lightbulb]]></title><description><![CDATA["In this electrifying graphic novel debut, Polish animator and cartoonist Wojtek Wawszczyk uses magical realism to tell a moving tale of finding light in a life full of darkness."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2422327</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2422327</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wawszczyk, Wojtek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2422327126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781683965244/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Soul]]></title><description><![CDATA[""Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " --from The Lost Soul The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return. The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old. "You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2303456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2303456</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2303456126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644210345/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Feed A Dictator]]></title><description><![CDATA["Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szabłowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens: Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Uganda's Idi Amin, Albania's Enver Hoxha, Cuba's Fidel Castro, and Cambodia's Pol Pot-and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat pilaf, bottles of rum, and games of gin rummy. Dishy, deliciously readable, and dead serious, How to Feed a Dictator provides a knife's-edge view of what it was like to be behind the scenes at some of the turning points of the last century"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2236250</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2236250</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Szabłowski, Witold]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2236250126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143129752/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Seeks A Friend]]></title><description><![CDATA["A skeleton and a girl meet over a missing tooth and discover a friendship."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2174508</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2174508</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pawlak, Pawel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2174508126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781911373797/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House With the Stained-glass Window]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2423189</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2423189</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Słoniowska, Żanna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2423189126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780857057143/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing Bears]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1947195</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1947195</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Szabłowski, Witold]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1947195126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143129745/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Night Wanderers]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1472820</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1472820</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jagielski, Wojciech]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1472820126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>Uganda&apos;s Children and the Lord&apos;s Resistance Army</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781609803506/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scent of Man]]></title><description><![CDATA["Tadeusz Dabrowski's poetry is as beguiling, reflective and precise as a thousand fragments from a shattered hall of mirrors. Whether observing laundry or the military, our cravings for bread or literature, the poems blend the low and the high with a startling grace. They demonstrate that the messiness of human experience, its visceral realities, the carnal truths of the body, our small joys and inevitable decay, are all part of the same fragile narrative. This poetry moves intimately through spaces, sacred and profane, and suggests we are never fully in one world or the other but constantly drifting between them."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2671392</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2671392</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dąbrowski, Tadeusz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2671392126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798991525459/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Day, House of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[<b>“Bewitching … Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller.” —<i>The New York Times</i><br>A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Books of Jacob </i>and <i>Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead</i></b><br>A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death – with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech—was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.<br>Another brilliant “constellation novel” in the mode of Tokarczuk’s International Booker Prize-winning <i>Flights</i>, <i>House of Day, House of Night</i> reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11859179</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11859179</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11859179980</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217164684/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Day, House of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[<b>“Bewitching … Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller.” —<i>The New York Times</i><br>A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Books of Jacob </i>and <i>Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead</i></b><br>A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death – with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech—was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.<br>Another brilliant “constellation novel” in the mode of Tokarczuk’s International Booker Prize-winning <i>Flights</i>, <i>House of Day, House of Night</i> reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11688254</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11688254</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11688254980</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593716403/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Distinctive]]></title><description><![CDATA["Mr. Distinctive has a memorable, attractive face. He only has to walk down the street, and everyone turns to smile at him. Once he starred in a TV commercial and was praised and congratulated for having a face that sold the product well. Mr. Distinctive is very pleased with himself and loves to take selfies with his cellphone. He posts countless images of himself that are shared all over the internet. One day Mr.  Distinctive looks in the mirror and sees that his features have begun to fade, his face has changed into a blur. With every new photo he posts, his distinctiveness dwindles. Determined to regain his flawlessly beautiful face and the adoration it brought him, Mr. Distinctive seeks out an extreme solution. But are the lengths he goes in order to restore his sense of being unique and exceptional worth it? In their new story, the creators of The Lost Soul-Nobel prize in literature winner Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo-show us a world of obsession with personal appearance and self-promotion, where happiness is an imperative, and the cult of youth rules"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2637143</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2637143</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2637143126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644214473/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Josef's Little Beauty]]></title><description><![CDATA["Two sisters, Leokadia and Helena, nearing the end of their lives, live together in a retirement home not far from Warsaw. With summer in the air, they share memories of their youth, together with their fellow residents. Theirs are no ordinary stories but those of Auschwitz and its aftermath. Helena, at the age of twelve, was a darling of the notorious doctor Josef Mengele, the real-life Nazi officer and physician who was known as the "angel of death" for the experiments he conducted on prisoners, including twins and siblings"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2587409</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2587409</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudzka, Zyta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2587409126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644213759/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Empusium]]></title><description><![CDATA[<b><b>AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!<br>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR<br>“A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br>The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas</b><br></b><br> September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. <br>  <br> A century after the publication of <i>The Magic Mountain</i>, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10356141</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10356141</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tokarczuk, Olga]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10356141980</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Health Resort Horror Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593914243/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>