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27 produkter
Isabel's Bed
Häftad, 1998
363 kr
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Having fled to Cape Cod after being jilted, Harriet Mahoney learns the story of the woman behind the fleece-covered bed in her room, and while ghostwriting the woman's biography, Harriet learns a life lesson from her subject. Reprint.
I Pass Like Night
Häftad, 1999
295 kr
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When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant -- and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and …
As Good as I Could Be
Av CHEEVER
Häftad, 2002
265 kr
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Having children transforms us -- through the amazing power of our love for them and theirs for us, through the anger they can provoke, and because being good parents means we must accept that we are no longer children. In As Good as I Could Be, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles with …
The Man Who Owned Vermont
Av Bret Lott
Häftad, 1999
287 kr
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When Rick Wheeler's wife walks out on him, he nearly drowns in despair. So the RC Cola salesman throws himself into work -- setting sales records, winning a promotion, burying himself in the lonely present while he scours the past for hope. Then at last on a cold Vermont morning, a hunter and his …
A Dream of Old Leaves
Av Bret Lott
Häftad, 1999
266 kr
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Bret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy's first bad dream brings his father back to his own childhood nights when danger lurked …
Children in the Holocaust and World War II
Children in the Holocaust and World War II
Häftad, 1996
386 kr
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Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through. As powerful as The …
The Mercy of Thin Air
A Novel
Häftad, 2006
329 kr
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Dying in a tragic accident while in the throes of a wonderful love affair with Andrew, Razi Nolan of 1920s New Orleans chooses to become a ghost and haunts the house of a young couple, to whom she reveals the mystery of her life and love. A first novel. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
Bone House
Av Tobin
Häftad, 2002
273 kr
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In this stunning debut, Betsy Tobin spins a classic tale of gothic suspense. Immersing readers in Elizabethan England, she masterfully evokes a heady place where science and superstition walk hand-in-hand and sensuality and violence are masked by the merest veneer of gentility. ...some people are …
Scheherazade Goes West
Av MERNISSI
Häftad, 2002
253 kr
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Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as "enchanting" (The New York Times Book Review), "exuberant" (Elle), and "remarkable" (The Washington Post Book World). Now, in Scheherazade Goes West, …
All The Trouble You Need
Häftad, 2003
295 kr
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Jordan is a young black professor in search of a world not defined by his race or class. He finds it by having an affair with Daphne, a wealthy white woman - also one of his students. Meanwhile Sophia, a young beautiful black woman, is in love with him, but hides her love to marry a man with …
Loving Pedro Infante
Av Chavez
Häftad, 2002
351 kr
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In the soothing darkness of her local theater, thirty-something teacher's aide and divorcée Teresina "Tere" Ávila looks straight into the smoldering eyes of Pedro Infante and wonders where her life has gone. The impossibly handsome Mexican singer and movie icon died in 1957, but to Tere -- …
The School of Beauty and Charm
Av SUMNER
Häftad, 2002
309 kr
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In a daring novel that deftly fuses wild, satiric humor and deeply felt pain, Melanie Sumner tells the story of the Pepperses of Counterpoint, Georgia -- a family that never raises their voices or honks a horn and "avoids discussing sex, politics, and religion, favoring the topic of the weather, …
Pagan Babies
And Other Catholic Memories
Av Gina Cascone
Häftad, 2003
273 kr
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As a child, Gina Cascone would hide under her bed, in the closet, and run away from her parents, hoping somehow to escape her worst fear. But she couldn't hide from the awful truth... She had to go to Catholic school. Do nuns have legs? Is Original Sin the "starter sin" for novices? Can the rosary …
Love Is the Drug
Häftad, 2005
295 kr
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Wonderfully empathic, smartly comic, and wickedly insightful, this captivating debut novel maps the progress of an unforgettable young woman endeavoring to mend a broken heart and find salvation. "Hello, my name is Tyler Tracer and I am falling apart. I am twenty-four years old, and I have no …
Tales from the Bed
A Memoir
Häftad, 2005
265 kr
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Jenifer Estess is a beautiful, successful, thirtysomething New Yorker with dreams of starting her own family when she is diagnosed with ALS, a fatal disease. Doctors tell her to max out her credit cards and prepare to die. That is precisely when Jenifer starts to live -- dreaming deeper, working …
Once upon a Day
A Novel
Av Lisa Tucker
Häftad, 2007
341 kr
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Nineteen years ago, a famous filmmaker disappeared from Los Angeles, taking his two children, Dorothea and Jimmy, to a desolate corner of New Mexico. There he raised them in complete isolation without television, computer, radio -- not even a newspaper. Now, at twenty-three, Dorothea leaves in …
In the Name of Honor
A Memoir
Av Mukhtar Mai
Häftad, 2007
273 kr
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In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi -- punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in …
Based on the Movie
A Novel
Av Billy Taylor
Häftad, 2009
318 kr
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Now in paperback, High Fidelity meets The Player in this hilarious and insightful first novel that takes place behind the scenes of a movie set, where a depressive dolly grip tries to turn his life around, hoping for his own happy Hollywood ending. Informed by his years on the set of dozens of …
The Tempest Tales
A Novel-in-Stories
Häftad, 2009
295 kr
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From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed “one of America’s best mystery writers” ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell—he’d rather have his old life in Harlem. Tempest Landry is neither a good …
Stardust
A Novel
Av Joseph Kanon
Häftad, 2010
434 kr
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The acclaimed, bestselling author of The Good German and Los Alamos returns with his most absorbing and accomplished novel yet—a mesmerizing tale of Hollywood, postwar political intrigue, and one man's determination to learn the truth about his brother's death. Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just …
Between You and Me
A Novel
Av Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
Häftad, 2013
318 kr
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The authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries take “an unflinching look at the price of fame” ( Booklist ) in this story of a young woman trying to escape her ambitious family. Growing up in small-town Oklahoma, cousins Logan and Kelsey Wade were raised like sisters. Rarely …
The Mountain of Light
A Novel
Häftad, 2013
331 kr
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Twentieth Wife , a novel based on the tumultuous history of a legendary 186-carat diamond—originating in India—and the men and women who possessed it. As empires rose and fell and mighty kings jostled for power, its glittering radiance never …
Death in a Desert Land
A Novel
Häftad, 2019
341 kr
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“Fizzy with charm yet edged with menace, Andrew Wilson’s Christie novels do Dame Agatha proud. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Jacqueline Winspear.” —A.J. Finn, internationally bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Queen of Crime Agatha Christie returns to star in another stylish mystery, …
Suit or a Suitcase
Poems
Av Maggie Smith
Inbunden, 2026
142 kr
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Instant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space.The title of Maggie Smith’s new collection comes from the eponymous poem: You …
