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Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Un libro sobre la fantasia y los sueños, sobre la locura y la pasión, sobre los miedos y las dudas de los escritores, pero también de los lectores. Este libro es una novela, un ensayo, una autobiografia. "La loca de la casa" es la obra mas personal de Rosa Montero, un recorrido por los entresijos de la fantasía, de la creación artística y de los recuerdos mas secretos. Es un cofre de mago del que emergen objetos inesperados y asombrosos. La...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world. This book collects the best of these writings, capturing Roger's restless curiosity about the natural and human worlds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berenice
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Esta novela narra un caso real sin precedentes: la transformacion de un hombre con una vida sin sobresaltos en un personaje mediatico a quien, por el hecho de haber estado casado con la que iba a convertirse en Reina de Espana, la prensa del corazon persigue para arrancarle pedazos de su vida. Ahora es el quien decide narrarnos su historia.
This novel narrates an unprecedented real case: the transformation of a man with a life uneventfully in a media...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Audrey St. Vrain has grown up in the shadow of someone who doesn't actually exist. Before she was born, her mother, Camilla St. Vrain, wrote the bestselling book Letters to My Someday Daughter, a guide to self-love that advises treating yourself like you would your own hypothetical future daughter. The book made Audrey's mother a household name, and she built an empire around it. While the world considers Audrey lucky to have Camilla for a mother,...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"No one was less likely to take her own life. That's what her Oxford thesis advisor wrote. From the moment I stumbled across the obituary, late at night when I couldn't sleep, I was captivated, and it wasn't the terrible details of her death: That she leapt from the balcony of a high rise in Century City. That she was 27, and a newlywed." So begins Jessica Teich's quest to unravel a mystery: the suicide of someone she never met. Bright and accomplished,...
Author
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
The anguished, volatile intensity we associate with the artistic temperament, often described as "a fine madness," has been thought of as a defining aspect of much artistic genius. Now, Kay Jamison's brilliant work, based on years of studies as a clinical psychologist and prominent researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists who were subject to alternatingly exultant and then melancholic moods were, in fact, engaged in a lifelong struggle...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Collects the author's recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist.
Author
Language
English
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"'Jane Austen at Home' offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire. On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a...
Author
Publisher
Homebound Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twins to move to Stahekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned for the solitude of this community of eighty-five residents accessible only by boat, float plane, or hiking. "Hiking Naked" chronicles Graville's journey through questions about...
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