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1203) The secrets of winter
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael's Mount--and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary--interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins"--
1204) The black swan: a memoir
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
1205) Billy Ray's farm: essays
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Filled with interviews that examine the relationships with fathers and mothers, a memoir about gender and parenting follows the author as she transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother.
1208) Paradise
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
159 pages : portraits, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his 1999 odyssey to Tahiti and the South Seas Islands, a journey he took in response to his dying mother's revelations about her marriage, relationship with his father, and life against the harsh, violent landscape of west Texas.
1209) Becoming Jane: Jane Eyre
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Blu-Ray double feature.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (120 + 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Becoming Jane: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to disinherit him if he marries her. Jane's...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 436 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A narrative account of the author's bohemian aristocrat grandparents' unconventional relationship with her grandfather's gay lover examines the period taboos, family secrets and cultural dynamics that shaped their shared lives, "--Novelist
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire. Jane decides to use some of the profits...
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