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Language of Houses
How Buildings Speak to Us
Av Alison Lurie
Inbunden, 2014
320 kr
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In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. …
Language of Houses
How Buildings Speak to Us
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2015
223 kr
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In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. …
Words and Worlds
From Autobiography to Zippers
Av Alison Lurie
Häftad, 2020
236 kr
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In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories …
Surrender
Inbunden, 2026
269 kr
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"Splendid and provides what I crave from all stories: vividly drawn characters worth spending time with, a richly rendered place for them to inhabit”—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath “Fool” novels A woman retreats from academic life in New York City to manage a family goat …
While We Were Waiting
Inbunden, 2026
262 kr
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A vibrant novel that portrays the lives of an American woman fleeing the trauma of childhood abuse and an Iraqi refugee fleeing the trauma of war, each in the midst of childbirth, that Joyce Carol Oates praises as “breathtaking, heartrending, and finally uplifting” and Richard Ford declares …
We're So Lucky to Live Here
Inbunden, 2026
367 kr
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From the award-winning author of In the Field, an inquiry into grief, love, housing affordability, and the transformative power of art, in the story of a young theater director who, after her mother’s death, stages Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in her childhood home.Gwen Rivlin moves back home to …
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS
Av Marian Thurm
Häftad, 2026
191 kr
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A complex family drama with a Manhattan family court judge at its center.I Don’t Know How to Tell You This focuses on Judge Rachel Sugarman and her life both inside and outside the courtroom. Rachel is part of a close Jewish family whose lives are marked by significant emotional challenges, …
My New Orleans, Gone Away
A Memoir of Loss and Renewal
Av Peter Wolf
Inbunden, 2013
225 kr
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Written with humor and telling detail, My New Orleans contains rare insight about the social structure of New Orleans; student life at Exeter, Tulane and Yale; the thrill of original scholarship; around the world travel before jets; medical school trauma; ingrained southern racism, and …
My New Orleans, Gone Away
A Memoir of Loss and Renewal
Av Peter Wolf
Häftad, 2015
158 kr
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Written with humor and telling detail, My New Orleans contains rare insight about the social structure of New Orleans; student life at Exeter, Tulane and Yale; the thrill of original scholarship; around the world travel before jets; medical school trauma; ingrained southern racism, and …
Whistleblower's Dilemma
Snowden, Silkwood And Their Quest For the Truth
Häftad, 2016
149 kr
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In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA employee, thrust himself into the spotlight when he leaked thousands of top secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents to the journalist, Glen Greenwald. Immediately branded as a whistleblower, Snowden reignited an international debate …
American Stranger
Av David Plante
Inbunden, 2018
249 kr
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Brought up in a secularized Jewish household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows little about her parents’ past. She knows they were World War II Jewish refugees who were able to escape Germany with precious family heirlooms that are constant reminders of a lost life and a world about …
Queen for a Day
A Novel in Stories
Inbunden, 2018
249 kr
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We know by page one of Queen for a Day that Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son is autistic, but if we told her, she wouldn’t listen, because she doesn’t want to know—until at last Danny’s behavior becomes so strange even she can’t ignore it. After her son’s diagnosis Mimi finds herself in a world …
Words and Worlds
From Autobiography to Zippers
Av Alison Lurie
Inbunden, 2019
230 kr
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In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories …
Gretchen Question
Inbunden, 2020
262 kr
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The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with the son who’s punishing her for withholding his father’s true identity. A single mother torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves …
Without Her A Novel
Häftad, 2020
172 kr
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In this probing, Ferrante-esque novel, a disappearance of a life long friend becomes urgent and bewildering. When her old friend Hannah doesn’t show up at her family house in the south of France, everyone assumes that Claudia, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school and …
Professor of Immortality A Novel
Häftad, 2020
172 kr
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Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so …
You Would Have Told Me Not To
Stories
Inbunden, 2020
168 kr
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These stories (and one novella) arrive in the midst of the #Metoo movement. They examine the fallout from failed relationships between men and women, relationships that have crumbled under the weight of betrayal, misplaced hopes, illness―and in particular, from masculinity at its most toxic and …
Unknown Woman of the Seine A Novel
Häftad, 2022
168 kr
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In the late autumn of 1889, the body of an unknown woman appeared on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It was taken to the city morgue behind Notre Dame and put on display for a month, according to protocol. The eerie beauty of the young woman’s expression attracted crowds but no claimant, and …
Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel
Av Matthew Daub
Inbunden, 2022
275 kr
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Fans of Demon Copperhead will root for Zev Altshul on his cross-country journey across the United States. Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever in the life of Zev Altshul.He is first placed into the care of …
My Life at the Wheel
Toward a Memoir
Inbunden, 2024
262 kr
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In this collection of impeccably written essays, Schwartz tells us early on that she never thought of her life as a “continuous line” but rather a series of intertwined interrupted experiences.Hers is a life that has been bumped, tumbled, and smoothed by an endless stream of travel, fascinating …
