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12 produkter
Philosophy Made Simple
Häftad, 2007
244 kr
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An unforgettable novel about a man's search for meaning.
Italian Lover
Häftad, 2009
244 kr
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Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica - and the misguided love aff air it inspired - is now, 25 years later, being made into a film. Margot, with the help of her lover, Woody, writes a script that she thinks will validate her …
Blues Lessons
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
320 kr
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In the lush countryside of 1950s Michigan, young Martin Dijksterhuis has everything he could ever want, living among his extended family and working in his family's orchard fields. Despite his mother's plans for him to attend college in Chicago, he has no desire to leave home. One autumn, in a camp …
Blues Lessons
A Novel
E-bok, 2002
213 kr
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Growing up on his family''s orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Although his mother wants him to get out of Appleton, …
Sixteen Pleasures
Ljudbok, 2013
369 kr
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I was twenty-nine years old when the Arno flooded its banks on Friday, 4 November 1966. On Tuesday I decided to go to Italy, to offer my services as a humble book conservator, to save whatever could be saved, including myself. The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to …
Snakewoman of Little Egypt
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
183 kr
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Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend''s niece, who has just been sprung …
Sixteen Pleasures
Häftad, 2015
187 kr
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Margot Harrington is a mud angel' - what Italians call the foreigners who come to Florence in 1966 to salvage the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded riverbanks. An American expert in book conservancy, she is on a mission to save a waterlogged convent library when she stumbles upon a rare, …
Confessions of Frances Godwin
E-bok, 2014
145 kr
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The Confessions of Frances Godwin is the fictional memoir of a retired high school Latin teacher looking back on a life of trying to do her best amidst transgressions-starting with her affair with Paul, whom she later marries. Now that Paul is dead and she''s retired, Frances Godwin thinks her …
Truth About Death
And Other Stories
E-bok, 2016
213 kr
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The Truth About Death," the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his own father and faces his own death. Louisa, Simon''s mother, makes peace with her husband over …
Love, Death & Rare Books
Inbunden, 2020
269 kr
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Chas. Johnson & Sons, a venerated rare bookstore in urban Chicago, has been a family operation for three generations―grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the Internet and inner …
