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42) Hotel du Lac
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
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English
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Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.00The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer...
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English
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Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel's widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play, and other honors. Known for its dark subject matter, the play examines the effects of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma.
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English
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Deep Roots, Dark Forests explores the unseen, the unnoticed, and the uncared for in our lives. It's the simple everyday things that are the most fascinating-the flowers, the forest, the decaying architecture in an old southern town. It's the silent, quick blooms of an azalea, the big, pure magnolia blossoms, and the wide roots of a live oak that capture the attention here. And there's also the fictitious melodies that whisper while amongst the trees...
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English
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If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold's language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world's fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a...
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English
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A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet
In those days I began to see light under every
bushel basket, light nearly splitting
the sides of the bushel basket. Light came
through the rafters of the dairy where the grackles
congregated like well-taxed citizens
untransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the one
underneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say.
When I grew restless in the interior,
the...
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English
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A moving, innovative play based on one of the greatest correspondences in literary history.
From 1947 to 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four-hundred letters. Describing the writing of their poems, their travel and daily illnesses, the pyrotechnics of their romantic relationships, and the profound affection they had for each other, these missives are the most intimate record available of both poets and one of the greatest...
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English
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"Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death when Alex is 14, she is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Political wife Denise Burke, author of true-crime books, becomes a woman with a big-time problem when two deaths, both very close to home, make her realize that someone is dead serious about convincing her to drop her investigation of an old murder.
Author
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Text and a few photographs examine the many facets of Wharton's life, and her relationships with publishers. Also explores her charitable work during World War I, and the financial distress that contributed to her death.
53) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
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English
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In this representative collection of Christina Rossetti's poems we find a vast array of narrative tales, love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, ballads, and sprightly verses for children. Ranked among the finest English poets of the nineteenth century, Christina Rossetti is a widely read, though not widely imitated poet, recognized for her devotional poetry, influenced by the religious conservatism and asceticism of the Church of England. This collection of...
55) Ligia
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Español
Description
Rosabetty Muñoz ha incursionado desde una decena de libros en temas centrales de la existencia humana, como los estragos de la modernidad, el poder, la muerte, la destrucción de la vida pueblerina, el Sur real y simbólico, la precariedad de la pobreza, las tragedias de la vida cotidiana, sin dejar de lado el oficio de escribir y los desafíos de la escritura. Ligia es una nueva vuelta de tuerca que enhebra varias de las problemáticas anteriores:...
57) Buoyancy Control
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English
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Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, explores themes of sexuality, sexual identity, and queerness, while confronting the feelings of loss and longing found in relationships, and the chance glimpse into a new life, while still recovering from a painfully failed connection.
Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water, as well as the creatures that inhabit those spaces, swim and swirl their way...
59) Last First Kiss
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English
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Her daughters want a daddy. She wants her old life back. All he wants is the three of them.
After Giselle Granger's husband dies in a tragic accident, she's left with their two young daughters, and struggling for the strength to live in a world without him.
When Jackson Broussard loses his wife in the same accident, he finds himself free of the woman whose lies and manipulations have made his marriage and life a living hell. He feels bound to the...
60) Poems For Hope
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English
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This is a first book, a collection of thirty original poems by Sydney based poet Jasmine Langdon dealing with often very challenging material.
Raised in New Zealand and half Australian.
I have fallen down and gotten back up many times, struggled a lot but am well trained in seeing the bright side even whilst, living with an incurable rare disease called Multiple Myeloma, a bone cancer also affecting the immune system.
The poems contained in this...
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