Reducere. Married in 1764, Abigail and John Adams worked side by side for a decade, raising a family while John became one of the most prosperous, respected ...
Reducere. In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.A long-term ...
Reducere. Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-tr...
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Reducere. A wise and loving portrait of a marriage. . . . Susanna Daniel writes beautifully of matters of the heart. -- Jennifer Haigh, author of The Conditi...
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Reducere. The story of Dostoevsky s extraordinary second marriage during which he wrote his greatest novels is a novel in itself . . . It is a plain, straigh...
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Reducere. DescriptionMoving backward in time from the '50s to the '20s, "The Long View" presents a revealing portrait of a marriage -- that of Antonia and Co...
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Reducere. From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal exp...
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Reducere. "The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world."-Rebecca West ...
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Reducere. "Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary."--Ne...
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Reducere. Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a...
Reducere. Comedy / 7m, 5f (performed on Broadway with 3m, 2f) / Scenery: InteriorHilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a ...
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Reducere. Shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize for Historical Fiction Award-winning author Sarah Moss's most recent work of historical fiction is a portrait of...
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Reducere. "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" (The Economist), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velazquez...
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Reducere. DescriptionNew York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the 1930s era of her acclaimed novel The Upper Room with a dazzling portrait of...
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Reducere. Well-known New Mexico author, John Nichols, recounts the four-year marriage of his French mother and American father during World War II. Married i...
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Reducere. Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. But no one could have predicted what would come next. Now with Mom dead and Dad in ja...
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Reducere. DescriptionWith Midwinter Break, a moving portrait of retired couple Gerry and Stella Gilmore's marriage in crisis, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us w...
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Reducere. A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall In an intimate record of his twen...
Reducere. Six heirlooms - a portrait, a table, a parure, a whiskey label, a set of books, and a building -- tell the stories of six branches of a family whos...
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Reducere. "this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you . . ." In this dramatic adaptation of her award-...
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Reducere. When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city's Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes a whirlwind of progre...
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Reducere. DescriptionTonight at Noon is a story of love between American opposites: she, a product of privilege, a Smith College graduate who worked as a jou...
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Reducere. DescriptionA compelling and haunting exploration of the secrets and shadows that can be hidden within a marriage from the New York Times bestsellin...
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Reducere. Kitchen Bitch is the story of Carol Frazzetta -- her life growing up in Brooklyn, her marriage, children, and move to Staten Island where she began...
Reducere. DescriptionA compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good MuslimsThis book pr...
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Reducere. A reversal of fortune befalls a young woman in the latest Westcott novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Someone to L...
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Reducere. How far would you be willing to go...for permission?Set in the crime-, riot-, and earthquake-racked Los Angeles of the 1990s, Permission tells the ...
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Reducere. One of the greatest novels ever written, "Anna Karenina" follows the self-destructive path of a beautiful, popular, and sensual Russian aristocrat....
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Reducere. *Soon to be an Apple TV limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen* The "haunting...tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior jo...
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Reducere. The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully liv...
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Reducere. The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his in...
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Reducere. DescriptionRembrandt is among the few outstanding artists of universal appeal. Yet he remains an elusive figure, too often the subject of romantic ...
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Reducere. The publication of The Beautiful and Damned confirmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's place in the pantheon of great American writers. The story chronicles t...
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Reducere. This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of e...
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Reducere. Rue Shaw has everything--a much loved child, a solid marriage, and a job she loves. Saying Grace takes place in Rue's mid-life, when her daughter i...
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Reducere. DescriptionWith unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as n...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carolyn Parkhurst- Acclaimed as a love story, an enthralling mystery, and a searing portrait of grief, THE DOGS OF BABEL ap...
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Reducere. "A literary landmark. Gellhorn's prose . . . is at its finest in the letter form."--Francine du Plessix Gray, The New York Times Book ReviewMartha ...
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Reducere. "Postcards from Here" is a capturing of a community, a harsh and beautiful place, a family, and the internal experience of its author in the form o...
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Reducere. China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better ac...
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