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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a mother who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure and reclaims her life. It's the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link's dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. But when she and her husband call it...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which shes lived. Elkin...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch. But a few of the local islanders take...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Looks at Blenheim Palace, one of the most magnificent homes in Europe, where Alva Vanderbilt's daughter Consuelo lived with her husband the Ninth Duke of Marlborough. Vanderbilt family members relate the tale of Consuelo's unhappy marriage.
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