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1001) Distant =: Uzak
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Türkçe
Description
After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Ondaatje, Every Day Is for the Thief is a wholly original work of fiction by Teju Cole, whose critically acclaimed debut, Open City, was the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by more than twenty publications. Fifteen years is a long time to be away from home. It feels longer still because I...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and she finds herself with an even bigger assignment: sent...
1004) People who knew me
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the life she always wanted. But when her mother-in-law becomes chronically ill, enormous stress threatens her marriage. Emily watches helplessly as the devotion Drew once showed her is transferred to his ailing mother. When she's thrust into an enforced caretaker role, it's too much to bear. Emily starts spending more...
1005) The good life
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
1006) The residence: a novel
Author
Publisher
Skybound Book/Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Skybound Books/Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce is traveling with his family to Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. In an instant, their train runs off the rails, violently flinging passengers about the cabin. But when the great iron machine finally comes to rest, the only casualty is the President-elect's beloved son, Bennie, which casts Franklin's presidency in a pall of sorrow and grief. As Franklin moves into the White House, he begins to...
1007) A little night magic
Author
Series
Nodaway Falls volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Kiskey, a small-town waitress discovers she has magical powers which put her on the front lines of a mystical war, forcing her to navigate her way between good and evil, day magic and night magic, love and waffles.
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you've gone the reputation you...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness. Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued...
1011) Always never
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After forty years of being madly in love, Ana and Zeno are finally retiring and giving their romance a chance to bloom while they both still have time left. A unique but relatable love story told in reverse, with each chapter stepping further back through the decades of touch and go courting, showing both the heartbreaking moments that kept the two lovers apart and the beautiful moments that kept their flame alive"--Provided by publisher.
1012) Tumbledown Manor
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the deceitful ex-husband she just left behind in New York...well,...
1013) The empire of the senses
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
482 pages ; 25cm
Language
English
Description
"The sweeping story of the Perlmutter family opens with the moment when Lev, the assimilated, cultured German Jewish father at the center of this saga, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his beautiful gentile wife Josephine and their children Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev's and Josephine's viewpoints, Part I focuses on Lev's life-changing experiences on the Eastern Front, where he becomes involved with a local Jewish woman in the...
1014) Sugarhouse: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"'You're married, you're getting older, and your parents are looking more and more like the grandparents they are pestering you to make them. It's getting embarrassing. Your pathetic renter's mailbox--the one with three former tenants' names crossed out--is stuffed with your friends' baby shower invitations. Just a few months ago, right after my grandmother died, five different people mentioned the word Ultrasound to me on the same day. It was both...
1015) One woman show: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Examining the life of a privileged 20th-century woman as an artifact—an object prized, collected and critiqued, this sly and stylish novel, told through museum wall labels, follows an eccentric heroine as she disrupts her porcelain life with both major force and minor transgressions"--
1016) The empty nesters
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache. But none of the women are prepared when their daughters decide to enlist in the army together. Facing an empty nest won't be easy ... With nothing to lose and no one at home, the girlfriends impulsively accept an unexpected offer from their elderly neighbor. The recently widowed Tootsie has an RV, a...
1017) A Cape Cod journal
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1990]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
1018) Battle hymn
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a WWII fighter pilot, Colonel Dean Hess accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must fight and face the past once again.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
236 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Henry Phipps is on a quest to realize his dying mother's last wish: to be buried at sea, surrounded by her family. Not an easy task considering Henry's ne'er-do-well father is in debtor's prison and his comically earnest older brother is busy fighting the red coats on the battlefields of Maryland. But Henry's stubborn determination knows no bounds. As he dodges the cannon fire of clashing armies and picks among the ruins of a burning capital...
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 8
Language
English
Description
The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin's Mary Ann in Autumn is a touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, as the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann Singleton,
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