Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her relationship with Todd collapses and he moves out. Her leaky house needs total restoration; yet, as the owner of a struggling art gallery...
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Auteur: Steel, DanielleSommaire:Genre: Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Rubenstein, JoshuaSommaire:This book takes us back to 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. Rubenstein vividly describes Stalin's mysterious, sudden death and the unfolding of Soviet...
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Auteur: McCoy, Alfred W.Sommaire:In a new analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-...
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Auteur: Pearlman, JeffSommaire:Focusing on the players, American sports writer Jeff Pearlman presents a biography of the NFL dynasty that won the Super Bowl three times during the 1990s: the Dallas Cowboys.
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Auteur: Francis, PopeSommaire:"[A] beautiful book of hope and inspiration...'ope Francis speaks frankly about problems facing the young and the elderly, Catholic and non-Catholic."'Publishers Weekly (starred review) Pope...
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Auteur: Shteyngart, GarySommaire:"Stupendous...' novel that seems to have been created in real time, reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute."'...
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Auteur: Stone, IrvingSommaire:A novel of Michelangelo who was the creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, and architect of the dome of St. Peter's.
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Auteur: Geroux, WilliamSommaire:An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the...
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Auteur:Sommaire:This collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.
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This anthology presents forty narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer's and other dementias on patients as well as their...
Genre: Medicine, health and fitness -
Auteur: McBride, JamesSommaire:
The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and...
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Auteur: Bayles, DavidSommaire:
What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there?These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development-and they...
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Auteur: Taylor, FlintSommaire:
With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and...
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Auteur: Bohjalian, ChrisSommaire:
A Read It Forward Most Anticipated Book of 2021. A young Puritan woman - faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul?plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting...
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is a classic of science fiction. Though it began its life as a short story, it was later expanded into a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, served as a...
Genre: Essays, Literary arts