LIBROS DEL AUTOR: anne parrish

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  • The Banished and the Dead
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    Anne Leigh Parrish’s latest poetry collection delves into the depths of grief, exploring the nuances of loneliness and loss with an elevated, thoughtful voice. Yet within its pages, there is also joy-a celebration of the world’s beauty, where art and nature rise to meet sorrow, challenging despair. Here, those who have wronged us and those we have wounded do not seek forgivenes...
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    15,56 €

  • The Perennial Bachelor
    Anne Parrish
    'The Perennial Bachelor' is a poignant and incisive family saga that explores the intricate dynamics of sacrifice, social expectation, and the slow decline of the American landed gentry. Set against the backdrop of Delaware from the mid-Victorian era through the early twentieth century, the narrative follows the Campion family following the untimely death of its patriarch. At t...
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    25,98 €

  • All Kneeling
    Anne Parrish
    'All Kneeling' is a sharp and sophisticated social satire that explores the complexities of human vanity and the performance of virtue. The novel centers on Christabel Caine, a beautiful and seemingly ethereal young woman who possesses an uncanny ability to make everyone around her adore her. To the world, she is a selfless poet and a devoted daughter, yet beneath this carefull...
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    26,05 €

  • The Methodist Faun
    Anne Parrish
    'The Methodist Faun' is a compelling exploration of the clash between personal temperament and the rigid moral landscape of small-town American life. The narrative focuses on Clifford Hunter, a young man with a sensitive, artistic soul and a profound connection to the natural world, who finds himself trapped within the strictures of a pious Methodist community. His faun-like af...
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    27,13 €

  • Tomorrow Morning
    Anne Parrish
    'Tomorrow Morning' is a poignant and insightful novel that explores the delicate complexities of domestic life and the enduring bonds of family. Set against the backdrop of a shifting American landscape, the narrative follows Kate Green, a woman whose life is defined by her unwavering devotion to her son, Joe, and her quiet resilience in the face of life’s inevitable disappoint...
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    26,11 €

  • Floating Island
    Anne Parrish
    'Floating Island' is a charming and imaginative children’s classic that tells the story of the Doll family and their extraordinary journey. When their toy house is shipwrecked on a lush, tropical island, Mr. and Mrs. Doll, their children, and their nurse must learn to navigate a world far larger and more wild than any nursery they have ever known. From the perspective of these ...
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    25,08 €

  • A Broken Window
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    In A Broken Window, Anne Leigh Parrish gives us Sam Clark, a poet haunted by the shadows of her past. Sam channels her emotions into verse, hoping to find peace and strength, but when she falls into a new relationship with Steven-a professor, seemingly wise, and full of promises-she’s unsure if happiness is something she truly deserves. As the couple moves to Boston for Steven’...
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    18,39 €

  • The Dream Coach
    Anne Parrish / Dillwyn Parrish
    Journey into a world of boundless imagination with 'The Dream Coach,' a timeless tale from Anne Parrish and Dillwyn Parrish where dreams take flight. This enchanting children’s story explores the magic and wonder found within our nightly visions. A classic of juvenile fiction, this book invites readers of all ages to rediscover the power of fantasy and the allure of the dream w...
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    17,38 €

  • Diary of a False Assassin
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    In Diary of a False Assassin, Parrish’s third collection, eighty-four poems reveal the miracles of nature, the oppression of women, and the pain of family life. Political violence and human frailty abound. In landscapes real and imagined, the author reflects on life as we know it, and what we wish it to become. ...
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    13,78 €

  • The Hedgerow
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    In the long-awaited sequel to Anne Leigh Parrish’s An Open Door, Edith Sloan navigates life after leaving her dull, demanding husband, Walter, for Henry, a well-off British peer. The bookstore she owns on Harvard Square, The Turned Page, thrives under her management, and prospects for a publishing venture take shape. As 1949 comes to an end, and with her sights trained on a new...
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    17,85 €

  • A Summer Morning
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    As Timothy Dugan makes his way through life, he is beset by a growing list of problems.His girlfriend, a full-time college student, wants to have a baby, he hates his job, and his mother announces that she and his father, long divorced, plan to remarry.  He copes by drinking too much. When his mother suggests it’s time for another round of therapy, Timothy loudly resists. He kn...
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    20,96 €

  • If The Sky Won’t Have Me
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    The poems in If The Sky Won’t Have Me weave a brilliant tapestry of the human condition, focusing on nature, the female experience, family drama, aging, politics, and regret. Images of water feature strongly, as do rebirth and regeneration, both physical and spiritual. A perfect sequel to the author’s debut collection, the moon won’t be dared, these poems expand and deepen our ...
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    20,27 €

  • an open door
    anne leigh parrish
    Kirkus Reviews calls an open door, 'An adroit, dry-witted tale about a strong-willed woman trying to live her life.'It’s 1948 and the freedom granted women by the Second World War is gone. Edith Sloan, earning her doctorate, is told by her law student husband to cancel her academic plans. His bright future requires a certain kind of wife: one in the kitchen making dinner for im...
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    21,06 €

  • the moon won’t be dared
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    the moon won’t be dared is a poetry collection by award-winning author Anne Leigh Parrish that features artwork by Lydia Selk. In this momentous debut collection, the poet harnesses language to give readers a new vision of nature, the impossible plight of womanhood, love, aging, and beauty. Being a woman in a male-dominated society affords Anne Leigh Parrish the space to witnes...
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    20,32 €

  • A Winter Night
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    34-year-old Angie Dugan struggles with many things-anxiety, her career as a social worker in a retirement home, and her difficult family. Her biggest struggle, though, is finding love. When she meets Matt, she’s swept away by his attention. As issues from his past come up she wonders if she can trust him. Should she break it off, or give him another chance? In the end, all she ...
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    12,57 €

  • What Nell Dreams
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    In sixteen short stories and a novella, Anne Leigh Parrish explores the magic of life, love, and the soft boundary between fact and fantasy. The wife of an artist disappears under mysterious circumstances; a woman has the gift of taking away sorrow; another finds inner strength through writing poetry; and a great-grandmother spends the day sitting on a folding chair in a grocer...
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    12,92 €

  • maggie’s ruse
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    A 2020 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in General Fiction, Maggie’s Ruse is the story of identical twin sisters Maggie and Marta Dugan. According to an Eric Hoffer Awards judge, Anne Leigh Parrish delivers 'astute insight, big characters, a snappy pace...with subtle subtexts and zinger truths.'Maggie and Marta Dugan, twenty-seven-year-old identical twins, live the good life...
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    17,39 €

  • The Amendment
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    When Lavinia Starkhurst’s husband is killed in a freak accident, she takes to the open road and meets a number of strangers, all with struggles of their own. Through these unexpected and occasionally hilarious encounters, Lavinia reflects on her past deeds, both good and bad, explores her two marriages, her roles as caregiver and wife, hoping all the while for self-acceptance a...
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    19,45 €

  • Women Within
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    With themes of reproductive rights and feminism, this multi-generational novel presents three women whose paths cross at the Lindell Retirement Home. Constance Maynard, fierce, independent and proud, reflects on her long life promoting women’s rights through her career as a professor of history. Eunice Fitch, the perfect caregiver, is often unlucky in love, yet even in middle a...
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    21,30 €

  • What is Found, What is Lost
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    Freddie is a recent widow. She grieves alone. Though faith is in her blood, she’s reluctant to seek solace from the Almighty. Then her daughter comes home with a host of problems. Soon after, her sister has a crisis of her own. Freddie rises to the occasion, as she always does. In the process, her painful past, an unbalanced mother, and a grandmother she wanted to know better o...
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    14,60 €

  • Getting It Right
    Patricia Anne Duncan Parrish / Patricia Anne Parrish
    Getting it Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What’s Broken challenges citizens of this nation to right the wrongs in public education by elevating the graduation rate and by equipping every graduate with saleable skills for gainful employment in the marketplace and with foundation skills for postsecondary education success. ...
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    50,25 €

  • Our Love Could Light the World
    Anne Leigh Parrish
    The Dugans are a scrappy, dysfunctional family living in upstate New York that’s getting along okay until the mother walks out one day, leaving five undisciplined kids and an alcoholic, unemployed husband behind. In these twelve stories, we find out how the Dugan clan learns to get along without her. ...
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    13,55 €

  • Wake Up Call for Schools
    Patricia Anne Duncan Parrish / Patricia Parrish
    This book provides onsite observations, research-based premises, and quantitative recommendations for a step-by-step realignment of the focus of public education-education of each student for contributory productivity in the international marketplace of the twenty-first century ...
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    32,19 €