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Desert Dawn מאת Waris Dirie Fashion model, UN ambassador, and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman. Born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia, she told her story in the worldwide bestseller Desert Flower: enduring female circumcision at the age of 5; running away through the desert at 1...

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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Virago Modern Classics) מאת Elizabeth Taylor On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened, they f...

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Vanishing Cornwall (Virago Modern Classics) מאת Daphne du Maurier "There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone . ....

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A Lost Lady (Virago Modern Classics) מאת Willa Cather Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Her...

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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics) מאת Willa Cather In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows—gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes o...

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Scapegallows מאת Carol Birch As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, and she is sentenced to hang not once, but twice. But she escapes the gallows and is transported with other convicts to Australia. This wo...

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Loving and Giving (Virago Modern Classics) מאת Molly Keane In 1914, when Nicandra is eight, all is well in the grand Irish estate of Deer Forest. Maman is beautiful and adored. Dada, silent and small, mooches contendedly around the stables. Aunt Tossie, of the giant heart and bosom, is widowed but looks splendid in weeds. The butler, the groom, the la...

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Life After Birth מאת Kate Figes Few women are prepared for the radical shifts in identity, emotional intensity, and changes in relationships that can occur following the birth of a child. This fully revised and updated guide explores the actual physical, psychological, and emotional consequences of...