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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Parution : 1997-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Yo!
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"Charming and funny . . . Mesmerizing . . . Wonderful.” —USA Today   Yolanda García--Yo, for short--is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which uses as characters practically everyone she...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1997-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  An Actual Life
Virginia and Buddy "had to get married." Their daughter, Madeline, was conceived the first time they "did it" in Buddy's room at college. Virginia's college asked her to leave. Her parents put on a wedding. And now? Well, as Virginia puts it, "now that we know each...

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Parution : 1996-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Emperor's Virtual Clothes
A skeptic by nature, a writer and teacher more at home with ballpoint pens than computer programs, Dinty W. Moore wanted to find out for himself if the much-touted Internet and the electronic culture it has spawned is really going to be the Next Big Thing, or whether...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1995-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Lying in Bed
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters. LYING IN BED begins with the voice of a strange, compelling speaker. The more we learn of his life and his most unusual marriage, the less we are sure of who he is and what he says. LYING IN BED first...

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Parution : 1995-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Good Bugs for Your Garden
Anyone who gardens knows how snails, aphids, scale insects, and caterpillars can damage vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees. But not many of us know that ground beetles eat caterpillars, not plants; that dragonflies feed on mosquitoes; that parasitic wasps prey on...

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Parution : 1995-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Party Receipts from the Charleston Junior League
The third Charleston Junior League cookbook reveals more secrets of the city's legendary hospitality.

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1993-01-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Passing Through
Special Algonquin 10th Anniversary Edition. Set in the farmland of Owen County, Kentucky, PASSING THROUGH achieves that remarkable intimacy all fiction strives for. We watch the family of Pearl Thirwell White--"Mama Pearl"--move from comedy through tragedy, from...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1993-01-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Queen of October
A New York Times Notable Book. When Sally Maulden is sent to her grandparents in Coldwater, Arkansas, she believes that she's too boring to be loved. But in this small town she finds love from unexpected sources. "Bursting with warmth. I didn't want it to...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1992-06-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Music of the Swamp
“This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —Southern LivingLewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1992-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  July 7th
An unsolved murder at the Quik Pik propels us into twenty-four hours of rich comedy and fast action in the North Carolina town of Marshboro. Two memorable presences are Granner Weeks, a white widow, and Fannie McNair, a black housekeeper. They know that people learn to...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1992-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Man Who Was Not With It
The Man Who Was Not With It is the story of young Bud Williams and his safari southward to Florida. On the way, he is abruptly confronted with the con men, addicts, and freaks, and the bruised innocence, of carnival and nightclub life. 

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 1987-10-01
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