Portrait in Death

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, Paperback - Jos Saramago

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

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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Arlington Park, Paperback - Rachel Cusk

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. A Sunday Times (London) Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century"No one has written better about what, I suppose, is generally known as female exp...

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Paperback - Emily Dickinson

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis complete compendium of Emily Dickenson's poetry offers the reader a vivid portrait of one of Massachusetts' most famous and enigmat...

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Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel, Hardcover - Dominique Edde

88,99 RON 123,99 RON

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...

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Roughly for the North, Paperback - Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

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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Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge, Paperback - Sheila Weller

88,99 RON

A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid--and brilliant--Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller--with hear...

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The Lost Diary of Venice, Paperback - Margaux Deroux

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance...

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The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition, Paperback - Dylan Thomas

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas d...

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The Secret Heart of the Clock, Paperback - Elias Canetti

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "no...

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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost, Paperback - Peter Manseau

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographe...

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Miss Aluminum: A Memoir, Paperback - Susanna Moore

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

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...

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Funeral Rites, Paperback - Jean Genet

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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 ...

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Child from the Sea, Paperback - Elizabeth Goudge

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth-century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and be...

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Boots and Saddles: Or Life in Dakota with General Custer (Expanded, Annotated), Paperback - Elizabeth Bacon Custer

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFor nearly 58 years, Elizabeth Bacon Custer was probably the most famous widow in the world. In this lively, fascinating, loving portrai...

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Writers & Lovers, Paperback - Lily King

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and in...

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The Foreigner's Confession, Paperback - Lya Badgley

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. An unexpected, mysterious discovery in Cambodia leads Emily Mclean on a journey through the country's painful history and toward personal redemptio...

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Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance, Paperback - Wendy Leigh

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. A heartwarming, in-depth portrait of the beloved star whose sensational performances in Dirty Dancing and Ghost seduced a generation, and whose cou...

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Paperback - Peter Hedges

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1, 091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of ...

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, Paperback - Gilbert King

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law. It brings t...

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The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda, Paperback - Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

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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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, Paperback - Craig Brown

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. Description"Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix's The Crown, this book will be manna from heave...

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Boy Still Missing, Paperback - John Searles

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. It is June 1971. Dominick Pindle, a tenderhearted but aimless Massachusetts teenager, spends his nights driving around with his mother and dragging...

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Nezahualcóyotl: El Despertar del Coyote, Paperback - Sofia Guadarrama Collado

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. After the death of Tezozomoc, the rivalry between the manors of the Anahuac Valley increased, and no one escaped the violence, betrayal or the stru...

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Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews, Paperback - Stephen G. Michaud

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn a series of death row interviews done shortly before his execution, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy gave a third-person "confession"...

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A Light of Her Own, Paperback - Carrie Callaghan

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn Holland 1633, a woman's ambition has no place. Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to try to become the first...

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The Book of Anna, Paperback - Carmen Boullosa

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of hi...

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The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas - Dylan Thomas

94,58 RON 105,09 RON

Reducere. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas d...

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Hildegard of Bingen, Paperback - Fiona Maddocks

94,99 RON

Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, natur...

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Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, Hardcover - Peter Bagge

94,99 RON

The alternative-comics master offers an indelible and idiosyncratic take on the protofeminist" Woman Rebel] is fine work from an excellent cartooni...

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Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans, Paperback - Dan Baum

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and brac...

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The Death of Bunny Munro, Paperback - Nick Cave

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in t...

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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, Paperback - Robert Kanigel

94,99 RON

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day. Jane ...

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This Side of Paradise, Hardcover - F. Scott Fitzgerald

94,99 RON

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studd...

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Lee, Myself and I - Wyndham Wallace

94,99 RON

Written by his friend, confidante and de-facto manager, this is a portrait of the final years of legendary performer, songwriter and producer Lee H...

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Only Spring: On Mourning the Death of My Son, Paperback - Gordon Livingston

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. The loss of a child is every parent's most unspeakable fear. Gordon Livingston survived that tragedy not once but twice in a 13-month period, losin...

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His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined, Hardcover - Dahlia Adler

94,99 RON

DescriptionThirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.E...

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Stephen Hero, Paperback - James Joyce

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion against church, country and family, this early version is beautiful...

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Risking the Rapids: How My Wilderness Adventure Healed My Childhood, Paperback - Irene O'Garden

94,99 RON

#1 Amazon New Release ─ Memoir and Portrait of a Family at Its Worst and BestSome memoirs shock. Some entertain. Some take us places we're afraid t...

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Chernobyl: The Final Warning, Paperback - Robert Gale

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. Chernobyl: The Final Warning is a moving eyewitness portrait that takes readers from the inner sanctums of Soviet hospitals to the devastated react...

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The Whispering House, Paperback - Elizabeth Brooks

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

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...

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The Beautiful and Damned, Hardcover - F. Scott Fitzgerald

94,99 RON

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel--written at a pivotal moment in his career--is now available in a beautifully designed special collector's editi...

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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, Paperback - Maurice Chammah

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

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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Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, Paperback - Daniel Klaidman

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Description" An] important book." -- Steve Coll, The New Yorker "Klaidman . . . was] clearly given extraordinary access to key players in the admin...

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America, Paperback - Fernando Valverde

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, a...

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Padre Pio: A Personal Portrait, Paperback - Francesco Napolitano

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

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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The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship, Paperback - David Halberstam

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American lif...

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Their Dogs Came with Them, Paperback - Helena Maria Viramontes

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Helena Maria ViramontesAward-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mar a Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty ...

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The Heretic's Daughter, Paperback - Kathleen Kent

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier ...

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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, Paperback - Alina Bronsky

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Finalist for the German Book Award Favorite Read of the Year in the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Jou...

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Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, Paperback - David Beresford

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

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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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina, Paperback - Danielle Steel

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. "This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to l...

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Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush: A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan, Paperback - Chris Woolf

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. What happens when a regular person accidentally finds themselves lost in the middle of a war?In 1991, BBC journalist Chris Woolf travelled to Afgha...

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Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home, Paperback - Matthew Pinsker

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matthew PinskerAfter the heartbreaking death of his son Willie, Abraham Lincoln and his family fled the gloom that hung ove...

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The Black Tower, Paperback - Louis Bayard

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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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The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and Celebration, Paperback - Shawn Hitchins

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. A Publishers Weekly Notable Book49th Shelf Recommended Read A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long ...

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The Duchess of Angus, Paperback - Margaret Brown Kilik

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Written in the 1950s and discovered by family members years after her death, Margaret Brown Kilik's shocking coming-of-age novel of the emotional a...

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Freddie Mercury, Paperback - Peter Freestone

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

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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Graveyards and Cemeteries of Edinburgh, Paperback - Charlotte Golledge

100,99 RON

The history of burial in Edinburgh and the city's graveyards and cemeteries. This fascinating portrait of life and death in Edinburgh over the cent...

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The Borgias: The Hidden History, Paperback - G. J. Meyer

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The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tu...

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Grace and Grit: A Love Story, Paperback - Ken Wilber

100,99 RON

DescriptionComing soon as a Major Motion Picture Heartfelt, deeply moving, and incredibly real, this narrative shares the five-year journey of phil...

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Politics and Conscience: Dag Hammarskjold on the Art of Ethical Leadership, Hardcover - Roger Lipsey

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An accessible guide to the principles and vision of Dag Hammarskj ld, a man John F. Kennedy called "the greatest statesman of our century." Dag Ham...

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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death, Paperback - Anthony Everitt

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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the l...

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Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Paperback - Charles R. Cross

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller and the definitive portrait of Kurt Cobain--as relevant as ever, as we remember the impact of Cobain on our culture t...

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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, Paperback - William T. Hagan

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Reducere. The son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and hi...

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Black & White, Paperback - Lewis Shiner

102,99 RON

When Michael follows his dying father to North Carolina, a lifetime of lies begins to unravel. His pursuit of his father's past-haunted by voodoo, ...

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Private Lessons, Hardcover - Cynthia Salaysay

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. In a standout debut for the #MeToo era, a young pianist devotes herself to her art -- and to the demanding, charismatic teacher she idolizes. After...

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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons, Paperback - Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff a...

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Brothers in Valor: Battlefield Stories of the 89 African Americans Awarded the Medal of Honor, Paperback - Robert F. Jefferson Jr

102,99 RON

During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney picked up the fallen flag from his lifeless comrade. He waved the flag for all...

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Lean Against This Late Hour, Paperback - Garous Abdolmalekian

103,99 RON

A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian The first selection of poems by ren...

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Goshen Road, Paperback - Bonnie Proudfoot

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Goshen Road is an elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic portrait of one working-class family over two decades in rural West Virginia, with sisters D...

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