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Reading Jesus
A Writer''s Encounter with the Gospels
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2009
180 kr
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Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the …
Love of My Youth
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2011
91 kr
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From the acclaimed author of Pearl and Final Payments comes a beautifully choreographed novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years and reimmersing themselves in their shared past. Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the …
Circling My Mother
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2008
178 kr
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Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. A hard-working single mother – Mary Gordon''s father died when she was still a girl – she managed to hold down a job, dress smartly, raise her daughter …
Stories of Mary Gordon
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2008
76 kr
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The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer''s craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as …
There Your Heart Lies
A Novel
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2017
106 kr
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From the award-winning, much loved writer: a deeply moving novel about an American woman’s place during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she took from it, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path. Marian cut herself off from her conservative, wealthy Irish Catholic family when she …
Liar's Wife
Four Novellas
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2014
82 kr
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The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final …
Pearl
A Novel
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2005
180 kr
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On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving …
Payback
A Novel
Av Mary Gordon
Häftad, 2021
84 kr
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Quin Archer is the revenge-loving queen of the reality TV show Payback , and has dedicated her life to confronting and outing the guilty. But long before she was a star, Quin was an angry teenage student at a private New England girls’ school, whose closest confidant was her art teacher, Agnes. But …
Spending
A Utopian Divertimento
Av Mary Gordon
Häftad, 1999
329 kr
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Monica Szabo, a middle-aged, moderately successful painter, encounters B, a wealthy commodities broker who collects her work. B volunteers to be her muse, offering her everything that male artists have always had to produce great art: time, space, money, and sex. Passionate, provocative, and highly …
Seeing Through Places
Reflections on Geography and Identity
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2002
186 kr
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Mary Gordon, bestselling author of Spending and The Shadow Man, investigates the role that place plays in the formation of identity -- the connections between how we experience place and how we become ourselves. From her grandmother''s house, which stood at the center of her childhood life, to a …
Final Payments
Av Mary Gordon
Häftad, 1995
232 kr
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This novel tells the story of Isabel Moore who must, as her father is dead, finally face the world at thirty. No longer safe, she discovers that she is beautiful, that men desire her and that she desires them. She turns from a 'good Catholic girl' into a warm, vital woman, hungry for life.
On Thomas Merton
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2019
228 kr
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From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings. “If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would …
Roots of Empathy
Changing the World, Child by Child
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2012
68 kr
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Roots of Empathy - an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon - has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Now, as The New York Times reports that "e;empathy lessons …
Salsa
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2017
16 kr
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection Brave, intelligent, fierce—eighteen-year-old Silvia knows how to handle men. When she discovered that her Salsa-dancing father’s been hiding an affair, she threw him out of the apartment she shared with her mother and changed the locks. But, …
Joan of Arc
A Life
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2008
245 kr
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? A master of the story form? (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed …
Modern Dairy Goats -Goat Keeping
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2011
139 kr
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This vintage book contains a complete guide to keeping dairy goats, with information on selection, breeding, housing, necessary equipment, and many other related aspects. Written in simple, plain language and profusely illustrated, this detailed handbook is highly recommended for prospective …
Good Boys and Dead Girls
And Other Essays
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2013
31 kr
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A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary Gordon Much acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, Good Boys and Dead Girls provides a richly autobiographical …
Men and Angels
A Novel
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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With her husband abroad, an art historian employs a devout but difficult nanny, unsettling her domestic life as well as her view of motherhood—and of herselfWhen Anne Foster''s husband accepts a yearlong teaching job in France, she decides to resume her own career in art history, which includes …
Rest of Life
Three Novellas
Av Mary Gordon
E-bok, 2013
25 kr
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Three masterful tales of women in the grips of complicated and dangerous lovesThe Rest of Life is comprised of three spellbinding novellas about women in love. In Immaculate Man, an agnostic New York divorcée finds herself in thrall to an unexpected passion for a Catholic priest—who is also desired …
