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This collection allows the reader to trace the roots--both literary and autobiographical--of one of America's most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful...
Bringing her exceptional talent for detail, character, and scene to bear on the life of her hard-working single mother, a bestselling author gives us ...
A Novel
At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War...
A Life
"A master of the story form" (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joa...
From the acclaimed author of Pearl and Final Payments comes a beautifully choreographed novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty ...
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection Brave, intelligent, fierce—eighteen-year-old Silvia knows how to handle men. When she di...
Changing the World Child by Child
Roots of Empathy—an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon—has already reached more tha...
DIVDIVMary Gordon’s extraordinary novel about a young Catholic woman who pursues father figures—only to wrestle to break free of them/divDIV Felic...
In dire need of a muse to record the everyday details of her artistic life, Monica Szabo hires a commodities broker who brings along an unexpected shi...
On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, ...
With her husband abroad, an art historian employs a devout but difficult nanny, unsettling her domestic life as well as her view of motherhood—and o...
From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings. ...
From the acclaimed author of "Final Payments" comes a gripping novel of filial devotion and complication between a mother and daughter who, together a...
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And Other Essays
DIVDIVA collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary Gordon/divDIV Much acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a...
Short Stories
DIVDIVA book of profound and candid stories by one of America’s best novelists/divDIV Temporary Shelter is a collection of twenty expertly crafted s...
A Daughter's Search for Her Father
In this searing memoir, the author of Final Payments and Men and Angels unearths startling truths about her father, a man who was both a devoted, imag...
Quin Archer is the revenge-loving queen of the reality TV show Payback, and has dedicated her life to confronting and outing the guilty. But long befo...
Reflections on Geography and Identity
Mary Gordon, bestselling author of Spending and The Shadow Man, investigates the role that place plays in the formation of identity -- the connections...
Four Novellas
The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and ex...
The Complete Guide
This beautifully illustrated guide gives horse owners a thorough understanding of the nature and needs of horses, and supplies all the necessary infor...
Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one's own room....
A memoir of John Wilson, late professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Compiled from family papers and other sources by [Mary] Gordon. With an introduction by R. Shelton Mackenzie. Complete in one volume
A saga of an Irish immigrant family that covers more than sixty years....
A Memoir of John Wilson, Compiled from Family Papers and Other Sources
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, an...
A Memoir of John Wilson, Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh
This vintage book contains a complete guide to keeping dairy goats, with information on selection, breeding, housing, necessary equipment, and many ot...
The Complete Course for Beginners
"Colloquial Zulu is an easy to use and up to date guide to the Zulu language. Specially written for self-study or class use, the course offers you a s...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Beacosystem
Proximity technology—in particular, Bluetooth beacons—is a major source of business opportunity, and this book provides everything you need to kno...
Een meisje groeit op temidden van een groepje vrouwen die een katholiek priester tot het middelpunt van hun leven hebben gemaakt. Als ze ouder wordt k...