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An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details the critical illness of her daughter, Quintana Roo, followed by the fatal coronary of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, her daughter's second bout with a life-threatening ailment, and her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief.
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2002
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In A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson documented her brave decision to take a year of solitude away from her marriage. Her frank assessment of herself in midlife and openness in sharing her fears struck a chord with thousands. In this moving sequel, Anderson gives fresh hope for all women and men negotiating their own marital passages. Using the same very personal approach, she explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark...
5) Casablanca
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[2012]
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The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
7) Salvador
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1982.
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"Previously published in . . . The New York review of books in October 1982." Discusses the situation of anarchy and terrorism in El Salvador as of 1982.
8) Joan of Arc
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A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnesses the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
9) Joan of Arc
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A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
11) Blue nights
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2011.
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Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
12) Joan: a novel
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"It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time."--Hilary Mantel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall "This is not your grandmother's St. Joan. . . . If every generation gets the Joan it deserves, ours could do worse than an ass-kicking, avenging angel fighting simply for the right to fight."--The New York Times Book Review 1412. France is...
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"The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend. It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years' War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents' garden in Domr�my, a peasant girl sees a spangle of...
16) Dove and sword
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[1995]
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In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.
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[2007]
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Draws on newly discovered transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial to offer insight into the factors that contributed to her remarkable achievements, the plausibility of the role of divinity in her mission to serve her country, and the factors that contributedto her discrediting and execution.
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