The Marriage Portrait

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In this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter sh...

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Irreverent and moving, Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee is an evocative story of friendship, marriage, betrayal, and the difficult choices...

An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Emp...

This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attenti...

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"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biogra...

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A detailed and highly personal account of the life and works of one of the most influential female Impressionist painters: Berthe Morisot. Berthe M...

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The first of Anthony Trollope's six "Palliser" novels focuses on the matrimonial prospects of three Victorian ladies. Alice Vavasor is torn between...

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It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a r...

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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#1 International Bestseller "An observant, compassionate, and romantic portrait." --Publishers Weekly From the critically lauded, internationally b...

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Reducere. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second ...

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"Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: ...

DescriptionA major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., Gonna Do Great Things is at once an intimate portrait and an ...

A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill's Weather, Deborah Levy's Hot Milk and Diana E...

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...

Reducere. "You see, even after all these years, I wonder if you really loved me." Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic...

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Reducere. The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She's Not There is the stor...

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"I have been unfaithful to my husband." Marta Oulie's opening line scandalized Norwegian readers in 1907. And yet, Sigrid Undset had a gift for dep...

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved c...

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Description"An unabashedly smart and affecting portrait of the strains of a marriage." --Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Meet I...

Reducere. CAROL EMSHWILLER sold her first story in 1954. In 2002 she won the Nebula Award and Philip K. Dick Award. Carol received a second Nebula and the Wo...