Reducere. The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative... Short is excellent at coining pithy summations of poli...
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Reducere. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas d...
Reducere. His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns...
Reducere. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul is Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sy...
Reducere. "My real mission will begin after my death." These words of Padre Pio (1887-1968) proved prophetic in the years after his death. Today, he is one o...
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Reducere. DescriptionAn intimate account of Edward Sa d's life and thought Edward Said is a personal, literary portrait of one of the twentieth century's mos...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lori JakielaIn the Harmony Memoir Series, Lori Jakiela's fourth book. A Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work a...
Reducere. 'Our time together is limited and exceedingly precious. We write to make sense of our existence, even as it sweeps us into the darkest zones of phy...
Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...
Reducere. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck'sintensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, whoset...
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Reducere. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck's intensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, who s...
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Reducere. The paperback edition of this bestselling biography is published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the death of Freddie Mercury. "The myth o...
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Reducere. Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the ...
Reducere. Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome, in the words of translator Michael Hofmann, "is a comprehensive and brilliant provocation of an entire nation." F...
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Reducere. Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He...
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Reducere. Imagine America with only one political party! Death of the Elephant paints such a portrait of where we are headed if we stay on our present course...
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Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas--and what it tells us about crime and p...
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Reducere. Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her fina...
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Reducere. In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family me...
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Reducere. In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertiv...
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Reducere. Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and brac...
Reducere. Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may h...
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Reducere. Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes...
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Reducere. A collection of the contemporary texts about Thomas Gainsborough, a leading British portraitist and landscape painter in the eighteenth century. Th...
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Reducere. Thirty-five years after his death in Paris at age twenty-seven, Jim Morrison's iconic legend remains as powerful as ever, swathed in the mists of m...
Reducere. John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Fam...
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Reducere. From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln. In The Black Tower, Louis Bayard deftly interweaves political intrigue, epic treachery, cover-ups, and con...
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Reducere. Freya Lyell is struggling to move on from her sister Stella's death five years ago. Visiting the bewitching Byrne Hall, only a few miles from the s...
Reducere. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century. He spent a lifetime striving to un...
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Reducere. DescriptionAn extraordinary book that combines travel- and history-writing with brilliant storytelling to give us a portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, in wh...
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Reducere. Jarred by the 9/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 -in hopes of making a few 'sketches' of America in order to gain some clarity...
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Reducere. Set amongst the reggae scene of late 70s Jamaica, the film Rockers achieved instant cult status among music and cinema fans. Rockers' director, Ted...
Reducere. The Serial Killer Coloring Book: Creepy Last Words Of Famous Murderers. For Adults Only You have never seen Jeffrey Dahmer, Robert Berdella or Ted ...
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Reducere. Description"I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North." Roughly for the North is a ten...
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Reducere. A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy ...
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Reducere. In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean...
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Reducere. Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden War he provided the world its f...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elisabeth Wilkins LombardoAs he stumbles through an afterlife he never believed in, scientist Kenzaboro Tsuruda must make s...
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Reducere. Miss Aluminum is Susanna Moore's revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s In 1963 after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-ol...
Reducere. Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was Jos Saramago's first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is...
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Reducere. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper...
Reducere. Art writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of "painting as a poetic act"This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of ar...
Reducere. In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he w...
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Reducere. She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simon Bolivar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael HaineyThis haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death is "searing and unforget...
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Reducere. Some sought his death. Others left everything to follow him. Who was this Jesus, this son of a carpenter turned wandering teacher? Why did he provo...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sean DietrichSmall towns have a way of burying things, and small-town people have a way of keeping things that way. With re...
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