Confessions of the other mother

Confessions of the Other Mother

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Confessions

The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. This autobiog

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Confessions of the Other Sister

Then fate intervenes, throwing these incompatible siblings together in this sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking novel of sisterhood, grown-ups wh

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Other Mother

A HEART-STOPPING, VISCERAL THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE KILLER TWIST. A child claims his mother is an imposter - but only one person believes him

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Other Mother

A HEART-STOPPING, VISCERAL THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE KILLER TWIST. A child claims his mother is an imposter - but only one person believes him

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Confessions of a Bad Mother: The Teenage Years

The original Bad Mother is back, with the inside track on how to survive your kids turning from sweet little cherubs to troublesome teenagers.

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Confessions of a Sinner

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. This title brings you the works

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Slip of a Fish

A single act unravels a mother-daughter relationship in this uncompromising debut. Winner of the 2018 Northern Book Prize

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published

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Confessions of a Funeral Director

“I tremble to say there’s good in death, because I’ve looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and I’ve seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow

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(M)Other Perspectives Taylor & Francis Ltd

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer-parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration....

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Remainder

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash, a deceased mother is lost in transit, and three children of ex-militants face a past they can neither rem

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Other Voices, Other Rooms

When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, ev

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Oxford World´s Classics The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater And Other Writings Oxford University Press

nové vydání klasické anglické četby ...

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At My Mother's Knee...And Other Low Joints

A story of the author's early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long and winding road from mischievous altar boy to national t

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The Other Side of Disappearing - Clayborn Kate

Anotace: `Poignant, observant, tender, and deeply romantic. This book is everything` CHRISTINA LAUREN From the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering, a pitch-perfect, radiantly transporting love story about an unexpected road trip, true crime obsessions, and hard won vulnerability . . . Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her yo...

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The Other Side of Disappearing - Kate Clayborn

<p>'Poignant, observant, tender, and deeply romantic. This book is everything' CHRISTINA LAUREN From the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering, a pitch-perfect, radiantly transporting love story about an unexpected road trip, true crime obsessions, and hard won vulnerability . . . Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her you...

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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist mini

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Confessions of an Airline Pilot - Why planes crash

Find out what really happened with the expert investigation into the only crash that Concorde had. This and other detective stories that puzzled inves

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Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul - kolektiv (EN)

The art of the great draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin, appears more current today than ever before: for it was violence, wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters, the manipulation of the masses and other abysses of human existence that pervaded his highly narrational works. The oeuvre of this fantastical creator confronts us with pessimistic visions...

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Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

Nell Stevens' life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiance with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she's been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rents force her to rent a room in a stranger's house and in a world of perfect Instagram ...

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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings - Austenová Jane

Anotace: Jane Austen`s brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense, in a beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition. Jane Austen`s earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals ...

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Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest (0241389356)

Kniha - autor Suzanne Simard, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. In her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees...

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Other Woman - neuveden

Anotace: The Other Woman by debut author Sandie Jones, is a gripping psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Michelle Frances`s The Girlfriend and B A Paris`s Behind Closed Doors. When Emily meets Adam she knows he is the One. That together they can deal with anything that is thrown at them. But lurking in the shadows is another woman, Pammie. Emily chose Adam, but s...

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Girl, Woman, Other (0241984998)

Kniha - autor Bernardine Evaristo, 464 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country a...

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Girl, Woman, Other

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane Gay____________________________This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first,...

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (0141198974)

Kniha - autor Edgar Allan Poe, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe '... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and t...

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Such a Good Mother - Monks Takhar Helen

Anotace: SOME THINGS ARE TOO PERFECT TO BE TRUE... `A sharp, compelling take on modern motherhood` HEAT `A nail-biting, dark thriller` PLATINUM `Fiendishly entertaining... A suspenseful and unsettling cautionary tale` PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *** An invite to die for. Rose will do anything to give her son the life ...

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Such a Good Mother - Takhar Helen Monks

<p>SOME THINGS ARE TOO PERFECT TO BE TRUE... 'A sharp, compelling take on modern motherhood' HEAT 'A nail-biting, dark thriller' PLATINUM 'Fiendishly entertaining... A suspenseful and unsettling cautionary tale' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *** An invite to die for. Rose will do anything to give her son the...

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Any Other Family - Eleanor Brown

A rare, funny and poignant novel celebrating the beauty of OPEN ADOPTION and NON-TRADITIONAL FAMILIES. <p>They look just like any other family... but between the four children there are THREE sets of parents who committed to an open adoption of biological siblings, keeping the children connected after the death of their grandmother.</p> <p>Tabitha the pl...

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Girl, Woman, Other : Winner of the Booker Prize 2019 - Bernardine Evaristo

<p>This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past...

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The First Mistake : A gripping psychological thriller about trust and lies from the author of The Other Woman - Sandie Jones

<p>The First Mistake is the stunning second novel from The Other Woman author Sandie Jones, who delivers twist after heart-stopping twist, in this addictively readable domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and her best friend. Perfect for fans of The Mother-in-Law and My Lovely Wife. For Alice, life has never been better. After the death of her first hus...

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A Doll's House and Other Plays

Depicting one woman's struggle to be treated as a rational human being, and not merely a wife, mother or fragile doll, this play changed the course of

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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (0099505576)

Kniha - autor Guy Deutscher, 310 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A provocative exploration of how the cultures we live in affect the languages we speak and how we think of the world around us. Asks the questions 'Does language reflect the culture of a society, is a mother-tongue a lens through which a world is perceived, and can different languages lead the...

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe

<p>This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales" by Edgar Allan Poe. '...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound ...

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Wayward Voyage

Anne is a headstrong young girl growing up in the frontier colony of Carolina in the early eighteenth century. With the death of her mother, and other

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Say You´ll Be My Jaan: The must read fake engagement romcom of the year - the perfect feel good pick me up! - Kumar Naina

Anotace: "Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm" Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting conversations with strangers. Everything except arranged marriage. Then Seth, her best friend and the-one-who-got-away, asks her to be his "best man" and suddenly her parent's tas...

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A Wild Swan : And Other Tales - Michael Cunningham

<p>Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the conve...

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End of the Wasp Season

When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson ...

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Dominoes Second Edition Level 3 - My Family and Other Animals + MultiRom Pack - Durrell Gerald

The weather in England that summer had been so awful that Gerald's mother sold the family house and took her children to live on the Mediterranean island of Corfu. Between lessons, the ten-year-old Ge

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Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance from a growing TikTok superstar - Fitzgerald Bea

Anotace: To hell with love, this goddess has other plans...Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of other gods. How Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his bride. How her mother, Demeter, was so distraught she caused the Earth to start dying.The real story is much more interesting.Persephone wasn`t taken to hell: she jumped. ...

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Hello Beautiful - Napolitano Ann

Anotace: From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decades Meet the Padvano girls. Best friends and sisters, they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is the "rocket" of the family - she alway...

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Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance from a growing TikTok superstar - Fitzgerald Bea

Anotace: The feminist myths of Madeline Miller meet the #spice of Sarah J. Maas (with a hefty slice of Bridgerton`s sexy, witty banter) in this fierce, fresh and enormously fun YA fantasy retelling from a growing TikTok superstarTo hell with love, this goddess has other plans...Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie- how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of othe...

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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, 1. vydání - Mona Awad

<p>'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY 'Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour' KATHERINE HEINY Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged val...

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The End of the Wasp Season - Mina Denise

Anotace: A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow`s most challenging case brings her work and home lives dangerously close... From the two-time winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be...

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The End of the Wasp Season, 1. vydání - Denise Mina

<p>A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case brings her work and home lives dangerously close... From the two-time winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be ...

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Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedtová

Anotace: From the internationally bestselling, Man Booker Prize-longlisted Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin ...

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Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedtová

<p>From the internationally bestselling, Man Booker Prize-longlisted Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls ...

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The Gravity of Us - Phil Stamper

<p>"I'm so starry-eyed for this wise, romantic gem of a book." - Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda </p> <p>Cal wants to be a journalist, and he's already well underway with almost half a million followers on his FlashFame app and an upcoming internship at Buzzfeed. But his plans are derailed when his pilo...

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The Gravity of Us - Stamper Phil

Anotace: Cal wants to be a journalist, and he`s already well underway with almost half a million followers on his FlashFame app and an upcoming internship at Buzzfeed. But his plans are derailed when his pilot father is selected for a highly-publicized NASA mission to Mars. Within days, Cal and his parents leave Brooklyn for hot and humid Houston.With the entire nation d...

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The Lying Life of Adults - Ferrante Elena

Anotace: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER. Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. "There's no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year."-ELL...

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The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante

<p>A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER. Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. "There's no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year.”-ELLE Maga...

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Survival of the Friendliest - Brian Hare

<p>A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness "Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring--and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time."--Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge For most of the approximately 300,00...

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The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

<p>A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with the...

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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings, 1. vydání - Jane Austenová

<p>Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense, in a beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition. Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals a...

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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings, 1. vydání - Jane Austenová

<p>Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth ...

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Power of Presence

For single parents, working parents, and caregivers desperate to instill good values, the mother of The Other Wes Moore shows how to use the power of

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Summer of Drowning

A young girl, Liv, lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. Then two boys drown within weeks of each other under mysterious circ

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The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ozeki Ruth

Anotace: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWhen a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . .After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow m...

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The Book of Form and Emptiness, 1. vydání - Ruth Ozeki

<p>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . . After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices gro...

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