Drawing on newly discovered personal letters and diaries, Amy Gary reveals the eccentric and exceptional life of Margaret Wise Brown, author of the popular children's books Goodnight Moon and The...
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Auteur: Hoffman, AliceSommaire:The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a suicidal son and a defiant granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family and the grounds of their waterfront estate. But...
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Auteur: Manning, ChandraSommaire:
By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps." This book probes what the camps were like and how former...
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Auteur: Ware, SusanSommaire:An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
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Auteur: Andrews, DonnaSommaire:
A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her...
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Auteur: Andrews, DonnaSommaire:
** An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production. ** New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of...
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Auteur: Strayed, CherylSommaire:
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back...
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Auteur: Pinsker, SarahSommaire:
From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and...
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Auteur: Andrews, DonnaSommaire:
A Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery series in Murder Most Fowl , the next installment from Donna Andrews, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Falcon...
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Auteur: Andrews, DonnaSommaire:
The cast of Donna Andrews' New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series is back for an unforgettable holiday story in The Twelve Jays of Christmas . Meg's brother Rob and his...
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Auteur: Bobotis, AndreaSommaire:
Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had, including the murder that no one talks about. Then her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose the Kratts' skeletons.
Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Dean, MichelleSommaire:
Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the...
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Auteur: Reichl, RuthSommaire:
Ruth Reichl knows that to be a good restaurant critic you have to be anonymous, but when she signs up to be the most important restaurant critic in the country, her picture is posted in every four...
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Auteur: Pierce, TamoraSommaire:
When she became a knight, eighteen-year-old Kel hoped to be given a combat post, but instead she finds herself named commander of an outpost of refugees, where she must face the unnatural forces...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Pierce, TamoraSommaire:
Bestselling fantasy author Tamora Pierce continues to challenge Keladry of Mindelan in her quest to become a knight. Keladry of Mindelan, 14, is a squire. A squire serves and learns from a knight...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction