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39 produkter
Seal Wife
E-bok, 2014
121 kr
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From the author of the bestselling THE BINDING CHAIR comes an extraordinary tale of desire set in the snowfields of 1917 Alaska.Bigelow is a scientist, meticulous and obsessive, a man of tightly coiled passion. Stationed in the tiny frontier town of Anchorage, Alaska in 1915, he builds a weather …
Seeking Rapture
A Memoir
E-bok, 2014
70 kr
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From the bestselling author of `The Binding Chair’, this dazzling follow-up to her memoir `the Kiss’ explores the bonds of motherhood between four generations.When Kathryn Harrison was a little girl, her young mother left her in the care of her British grandmother who was raised in Shanghai. To …
Binding Chair, Or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
A Novel
Häftad, 2001
190 kr
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The author of The Kiss tells the story of two women - a Chinese girl named May and her Western niece, Alice - whose lives intersect in turn-of-the-century Shanghai.
Seal Wife
Häftad, 2009
177 kr
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From the author of the bestselling THE BINDING CHAIR comes an extraordinary tale of desire set in the snowfields of 1917 Alaska.Bigelow is a scientist, meticulous and obsessive, a man of tightly coiled passion. Stationed in the tiny frontier town of Anchorage, Alaska in 1915, he builds a weather …
Enchantments
E-bok, 2012
68 kr
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From one of the most admired literary voices of our time, a magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's last Tsar.St. Petersburg, 1917: as the New Year dawns, a diver pulls the murdered body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River. Hours later, his …
Global Commons, Domestic Decisions
The Comparative Politics of Climate Change
Av Kathryn Harrison, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
Häftad, 2010
580 kr
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Envy
A Novel
E-bok, 2007
76 kr
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Will has a good sex life–with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that, were they to break out of his imagination and into the real world, have the power to destroy not only his family but his career? He’s about to lose his grip when he attends a …
Mother Knot
A Memoir
E-bok, 2009
185 kr
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In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss , a complex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through depression to greater understanding, acceptance, freedom, and love,. Spare and unflinching, The Mother Knot is Kathryn Harrison’s courageous exploration of her painful …
Exposure
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
115 kr
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“Luminous and affecting . . . [Exposure] examines the often fine line between art and abuse. . . . Taut in plot, beautifully realistic, and intelligently disturbing.” –Harper’s Bazaar Ann Rogers appears to be a happily married, successful young woman. A talented photographer, she creates happy …
Seeking Rapture
Scenes from a Woman''s Life
E-bok, 2011
96 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman’s life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be …
Kiss
A Memoir
E-bok, 2011
211 kr
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In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman''s life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn Harrison, twenty years old, was reunited with a parent …
Poison
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same day--in an age when …
Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
131 kr
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In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, …
Joan of Arc
A Life Transfigured
E-bok, 2014
229 kr
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George …
On Sunset
A Memoir
E-bok, 2018
229 kr
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In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family , a memoir of the author''s upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic …
Enchantments
A novel of Rasputin''s daughter and the Romanovs
E-bok, 2012
144 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force [told] in language that soars and sears.”— More St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the …
Risk, Science, and Politics
Regulating Toxic Substances in Canada and the United States
Av George Hoberg, Kathryn Harrison
E-bok, 1994
1019 kr
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Paying particular attention to how politicians and bureaucrats in the two countries deal with the scientific uncertainty that pervades environmental decision making, Harrison and Hoberg analyse case studies of seven controversial substances suspected of causing cancer in humans: the pesticides Alar …
Passing the Buck
Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy
Inbunden, 1996
1057 kr
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Within Canada the renewed importance of environmental issues in recent years has given rise to legislative and regulatory initiatives by both the federal and provincial governments which, in turn, has led to increased intergovernmental conflict. Recent jurisdictional disputes over the Quebec …
True Crimes
A Family Album
E-bok, 2016
196 kr
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From acclaimed literary talent and New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Harrison comes a collection of provocative and illuminating essays. In True Crimes, conventional ideas of love, loss, forgiveness, and memory are transformed—complicated, upended, and reimagined by one of the foremost …
Weeds in Nana's Garden
A heartfelt story of love that helps explain Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.
Häftad, 2016
143 kr
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Des mauvaises herbes dans le jardin de Mamie
Une touchante histoire d'amour qui t'expliquera la maladie d'Alzheimer et les autres démences dégénératives
Häftad, 2017
151 kr
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Unkraut in Omi's Garten
Eine einfühlsame Geschichte einer besonderen Liebe, die hilft, die Alzheimer Krankheit und andere Demenzerkrankungen kindgerecht zu erklären.
Häftad, 2017
151 kr
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Family Frames: curated by Kathryn Harrison
Av Kathryn Harrison, Melissa Grace Kreider
Häftad, 2020
255 kr
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Saint Therese of Lisieux
A Penguin Life
E-bok, 2003
245 kr
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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world''s most influential religious figures. In Saint Thérèse of Lisieux , bestselling novelist and memoirist Kathryn …
Tina Fey
E-bok, 2015
560 kr
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The multitalented Tina Fey has many credits to her name, including writer, actress, and producer. Even before breathing life into 30 Rock or earning critical acclaim for her impersonation of Sarah Palin, Fey was making waves as the first woman to serve as Saturday Night Live’s head writer. This …
