Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes Kristin Hannah's powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-...
Literature, Modern
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Author:Hannah, KristinSummary: - Author:Stavans, IlanSummary:
Distinguished man of letters Ilan Stavans believes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha "invented modern consciousness." In these lectures, Stavans explores the work's impact within Renaissance Spain and...
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Author:Bhabha, Homi K.Summary: - Author:Yarros, RebeccaSummary:
" The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story."- InTouch Weekly. Beckett, If you're reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn't. Get off the...
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In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human...
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The Odyssey of the West series addresses in chronological sequence the works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in its own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. Part four provides a close...
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This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. The lectures draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious...
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This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. The lectures draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious...
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This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars. The lectures address, in chronological order, a series of major works that have shaped the development of Western thought.
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Author:Scott, JoannaSummary:New writings-on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us-from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and...
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Author:Silko, LeslieSummary:Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of...
