Reducere. Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikley candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother, her serv...
Reducere. An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkersInhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biogr...
Reducere. Settling into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was--a...
Reducere. The chilling and tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creature he brings to life, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, remains one of the m...
Reducere. DescriptionEncounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness...
Reducere. Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman...
Reducere. In 1908, with world war a dark prophecy on the horizon, an English traveler, Auberon Harwell, enters a far valley in Montenegro -- a spy sent to as...
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Reducere. Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Reducere. Award NameTriangle AwardsAward categoryLgbt Fiction"Thestories in Rahul Mehta's Quarantineamplify a surprising new voice: gentle, even tender, but ...
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Reducere. With characteristic wit, self-effacing charm and sheer, exuberant love of a good cat story, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda and his...
Reducere. Hundreds of people slam through its doors every day: gun-shot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides, destitute drunks, homeless people, A...
Reducere. "Gipson again has given us a purely wonderful trunk of Americana, and one of those rare books to be enjoyed on many latitudes of brow elevation."--...
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Reducere. From Mary Karr, the prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Liars' Club and Cherry, comes the paperback edition of Sinners Welco...
Reducere. The actress and playwright Tina Alexis Allen tells the remarkable story of her upbringing in which behind a front of devout Catholicism she and her...
Reducere. An investigation into incarnation, transience, and our intimate connection with all existence, by one of the preeminent poets of her generation
Reducere. DescriptionBeing sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill entir...
Reducere. DescriptionWith wit, wisdom and uncommon sense, Dr. Harriet Lerner gives readers the tools to solve problems and create joy, meaning and integrity ...
Reducere. "Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'thelost] presence beyond appearance.' The long...
Reducere. Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscove...
Reducere. The Millions Most Anticipated Books in February "An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. A riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. In Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore explored the importance of nurturing the soul and struck a chord nationwide the book became a long-term bestselle...
Reducere. A palaeontologist by choice--and perhaps due to the accidental discovery of a fossil fragment on the north coast of England when he was six years o...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. Will Butterfield can't believe it. His 75-year-old mother, Holly, is drunk and threatening to jump off the roof. Again. Holly and Fiona, another el...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. The last of Thornton Wilder's works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wi...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. "Hystericaland often touching. . . . Domestic Violets is a fast, fun, hilariousread." --Jessica Anya Blau, critically-acclaimed author of The Summe...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. From Alaa Al Aswany, the author of the highly-acclaimed The Yacoubian Building, comes a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...
Reducere. So rich and so evocative and so authentic. --Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation John Crowley is a virtuoso of metaphor, a peerless recre...
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Reducere. From the bestselling author of 'The Queen's Conjuror', comes the story of Nicholas Culpeper - legendary rebel, radical, Puritan, and author of the ...
Reducere. Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. One of the most beloved novels from the critically acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving explores a woman's attempts to reconci...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of...
Reducere. Wuthering Heights The horizons ring me like fag-gots, Tilted and disparate, and always unstable. Touched by a match, they might warm me, And their ...
Reducere. In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, in...
Reducere. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now avai...
Reducere. The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examin...
Reducere. At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenag...
Reducere. A cutting-edge science book in the style of 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and 'Chaos' from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writin...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, technology
Reducere. "Miller depicts her characters] with grace and elegance, enriching their perceptions with strands of connecting images and intertwined history.... ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. New York Times Bestseller"This powerful novel proves as subtle as it is dramatic, as durable--in its emotional afterlife--as it is instantly readab...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award-winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die...
Reducere. From Anne Roiphe, the critically acclaimed author of Fruitful, comes the New York Times bestselling Epilogue, a beautiful memoir about death, life,...
Reducere. Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction - A Lambda Literary Award Finalist - A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist - An Indie Next Pic...
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Reducere. A young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father searches for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter yearns for a l...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "G...
Reducere. At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher, Daniel Carr, and becomes entangled in an illega...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. Award-winning travel writer and illustrator, David Yeadon embarks with his wife, Anne on an exploration of the "lost word" of Basilicata, in the ar...
Reducere. Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he show...
Reducere. "A treat to be savored." --Houston ChronicleA classic from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons, Nora, Nora tells the story of fre...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of t...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020B...
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