Sara: 3724 books

Roses, cupid’s arrows, chocolate—chocolate? Screw chocolate! Queer up Valentine’s Day instead with these hilarious, heartbreaking (sometimes deliciously filthy) valentines by a posse of queer authors who have a fresh, occasionally revolutionary (always, insightful) take on love.  This...

When awareness comes and words unfold the ultimate story of life is told perhaps not by words but might be found in a fleeting sliver of light. - Sara Drought Nebel

When we first meet Ruby Reese she’s a spunky kid in a cowgirl hat, tap dancing her way through a slightly off-kilter 1950s childhood. With an insomniac mother and a demolitions-expert father, her entire family is what the residents of her small town would call "a bunch of crackpots." Despite...

Sara Foster takes the expression "easy as pie" seriously. New and experienced bakers alike will thrill to Foster's encouraging approach to tossing together the most delicious made-from-scratch pies. A southern kitchen is unimaginable without pie, says Foster, who grew up on a farm in Tennessee, where...

Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of...

Sonia conoce a Knut en un foro literario de internet y, a pesar de los setecientos kilómetros que los separan, establece con él una particular relación marcada por la obsesión y la extrañeza. Entre la atracción y la repulsión, no puede evitar sentirse fascinada por este personaje insólito...

a protagonista de "Planeta equivocado" acaba de cumplir 34 años y de despedirse del trabajo. Lo que sigue es una enumeración de éxitos y, sobre todo, de fracasos anotados en un diario, meras consecuencias del absurdo de vivir en un planeta equivocado. Al igual que en sus novelas, Sara Mesa recrea a la perfección una atmósfera de desolación e impotencia.

«Nunca releo mis libros una vez publicados. Una mezcla de pudor, cansancio y desazón –por no poder ya modificarlos– me impide hacerlo. Esta vez, sin embargo, la experiencia de relectura me ha resultado grata y sorprendente. Sin yo ser consciente de ello, he comprobado que en esta novela anidaba...

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely...

In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle Ages The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel—the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbols for identifying...

Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is...

How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguistic upheavals that occurred in the wake of the Norman Conquest intensified later interest in the historicity of languages. An atmosphere of enquiry fostered...

A continuation from the first in the Master Darcy series, Trusting Mr. Darcy... Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth have faced their own demons, and that of the extended Darcy family, but now they must face the hard reality of having started their engagement the way they did. Would society accept them...

Beatrice vive in un paesino di centocinque abitanti, S’Archittu. Ha diciassette anni ed una valigia di cartone in cui sono racchiusi sogni e matite. I suoi occhi sono azzurri come il mare che scorge dalla sua finestra. L’Azzurro è un colore che le appartiene, da diciassette lunghissimi anni....