Télécharger le livre :  The Christmas Letters
In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the shared experiences of women. Here, in a...

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Parution : 2002-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  A Parchment of Leaves
When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the...

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Parution : 2002-08-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Girls
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah,...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2002-08-12
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Télécharger le livre :  On Whale Island
After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married.But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt...

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Parution : 2002-05-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Lucky Us
"A love story of our time." —Ha Jin, author of The Boat Rocker Once upon a very recent time in New York City, there was a couple, two ordinary single people who met the way city people meet. Even though mismatched, they fell in love. And after some...

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Parution : 2001-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Phone Calls from the Dead
A bodybuilder is charged with superhuman energy and an ability to make lightbulbs explode. A grieving father tries to communicate with his dead son via a tape recorder. A high school girl claims to have her uncle's nipple in an envelope. A thirtysomething woman is...

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Parution : 2001-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Clay's Quilt
On a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2001-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Name of Salome
"Original and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2000-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Essential Klezmer
You can hear it in the hottest clubs in New York, the hippest rooms in New Orleans, Chicago, and San Francisco, and in top concert halls around the world. It's a joyous sound that echoes the past. It's Old World meets New World. It's secular and sacred. It's traditional...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2000-05-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Unexpected Salami
The Tall Poppies--a few days ago, they were just another Aussie band watching their fame ebb faster than a nitrous high. Then Stuart, the drummer, is gunned down by Australian drug lords, and the band is suddenly news in Australia, America, and even on CNN. Rachel, a...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1999-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Lamb in Love
Carrie Brown's triumphant first novel, Rose's Garden, garnered high praise from the critics for its "simple, beautiful language," and for "plumbing the emotional depths of ordinary human beings." Just a year later, she does it again. Lamb in Love is set in a rural...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1999-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Running North
What happens when a woman and her husband move their family from New Hampshire to Alaska to train a team of purebred Siberian Huskies for the world's toughest dogsled race, the Yukon Quest? They endure thousands of miles of lonely training in the Yukon trying to avoid...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1999-01-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Something to Declare
“Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what  it means to be a Latina in the United States,  bags full of literary wisdom.” —Los Angeles Times From the internationally acclaimed author...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1998-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Notorious Victoria
“A remarkable biography . . . Well written and researched, this book warrants a spot on every serious American history student’s bookshelf.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review   She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1998-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth
In four haunting family stories, Ellen Douglas seeks to track down the truth--about herself, about her white Mississippi forebears, about their relationships to black Mississippians, and ultimately about their guilt as murderers of helpless slaves. Progressively...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1998-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Final Vinyl Days
When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1998-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Tidewater Blood
Set in Virginia in the 1980s, Tidewater Blood opens at the annual LeBlanc family celebration. Rich, pretentious, and proud, the LeBlancs operate a prosperous plantation and celebrate their heritage each year in grand old Southern fashion on the mansion's portico....

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1998-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Rose's Garden
Conrad and Rose met as children, fell in love as teenagers, and married young. Conrad earned a living as a gilder, raised homing pigeons, and worshipped Rose. Rose gardened. They lived together for more than fifty years, and then Rose died. At seventy-five, Conrad...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1998-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  What We Do for Love
Looking for love isn't easy, and it's never what you expect. WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE is a reminder of how true that is. Unlucky in love herself, "Gingy" Beckerman shows us there is always reason to keep trying. "Recaptures in words and line drawings young love in all its...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1997-01-10
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Télécharger le livre :  My Life as a Boy
By turns provocative and startlingly revealing, MY LIFE AS A BOY is the story of a woman trying to figure out what love is, trying to understand what happens between desire and the determination to possess the object of that desire, and discovering what it's like to go...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1997-01-05
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