Nancy: 4645 books
by Maurizio Cattelan, Nancy Spector
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art--most notoriously with The Ninth Hour,” his 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Cattelan's...
The Breast Cancer Companion
A Guide For The Newly Diagnosed
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Guidance, organization, and timely ìinsiderî tips to help your breast cancer treatment and recovery go as smoothly and successfully as possible.
Filled with the best-of-the-best advice from the available research, leading doctors, breast cancer survivors, and Nancy Sokolowskiís 30 years...
Double Jinx
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Double Jinx follows the multiple transformations - both figurative and literal - that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sexton’s Transformations, and the wild and...
by Nancy Zafris
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
John Bonner is sure that anytime now he will recover from the sting of his recent separation from his wife. And he’s begun to wonder if he truly wants to spend the rest of his days running the family scrap-metal business, an operation where his employees are likely to have made the very license plates...
by Nancy Zafris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
ust as she did in her New York Times Notable debut novel, The Metal Shredders, Nancy Zafris follows a colorful cast of characters into uncharted fictional territory, this time landing in the canyon country of the desert Southwest in 1954. For motivations as straightforward as striking it rich to reasons...
by Nancy Puglisi
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Honest musings draw readers into the vortex of reflection and renewal
A gentle heart and questioning mind ponder the verisimilitudes of life
The joys and peace derived from observing nature, the shared intimacy and bonds of lovers, friends and family, the rich experience and adventure...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
Rewriting Womanhood
Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903)...
Muddied Waters
Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants...
George and Lizzie
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.
George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no...
Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing
The American Example
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay,...
by Nancy Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Thoughts of Love and Life is a collection of poetry that asks and perhaps answers questions about who and what we are. Written on subjects ranging from faith to folly, as well as from life to death, author Nancy Brookfield exhibits a questioning, restless mind with but one conviction: that mankind...
by Nancy Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Daily encouragement for parents who realize the things they want most for their kids are things only God can do . . . so they pray.
As parents we want to protect our children; we want them to move forward in life; most importantly, we want them to take hold of and grow in Christ. And while the advice...
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America
From Malaria to AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
Challenging traditional approaches to medical history, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America advances understandings of disease as a social and cultural construction in Latin America. This innovative collection provides a vivid look at the latest research in the cultural history of medicine...