Télécharger le livre :  The Next Better Place
In 1959, at the age of eleven, Michael Keith left a relatively stable life with his mother and sisters in Albany, New York, and surreptitiously set off for California with his irresponsible alcoholic father. For the rest of Michael's childhood, the two crisscrossed...

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Télécharger le livre :  Dog on the Cross
A man miraculously survives a fall from the eighth floor of a drilling rig but is ever after plagued by an unwillingness to live. A preacher loses his ability to speak in tongues and begins to fake it. A young man is intent on suppressing his sinful love for his best...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Company of Three
When Robert, Patrick, and Irene met in New York, they were all determined to become actors, and it felt as if the city--indeed, the world--could be their oyster. Robert was the good-looking, ambitious one. Patrick was tall, ungainly, but naturally dramatic. And Irene,...

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Parution : 2003-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Lunch at the Piccadilly
In his eighth deliciously funny novel, Clyde Edgerton introduces us to the irrepressible Lil Olive, who's recently arrived at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall. Lil longs to be back in her own apartment, and since her driver's license...

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Parution : 2003-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Single Wife
Grace Brookman's husband is missing. He wasn't kidnapped or murdered (she's fairly certain); he just seems to have run away from home. He got up one morning, and with an offhand Gracie, I'll be back in a little while, he was gone. Laz had left before,...

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Parution : 2003-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Creatures of Habit
Jill McCorkle's new collection of twelve short stories is peopled with characters brilliantly like us-flawed, clueless, endearing. These stories are also animaled with all manner of mammal, bird, fish, reptile-also flawed and endearing. She asks, what don't humans...

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Parution : 2003-03-28
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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,...

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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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