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Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
We all feel that desire for a calmer, more spacious way of living, but we're often unsure exactly how to step off the crazy treadmill of day-to-day routines and responsibilities. Nadia and Katia have learned, through years of practice, that simple rituals can help you press the pause button on the pace of modern life. In Rituals for Every Day they share their easy-to-follow advice, step by step.
3) The gown
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Language
English
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"London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their nascent hopes for a brighter future, are...
4) Nine stories
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family. Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's...
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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"Trust is a delicate thing, and no one knows that better than Rosalind Thorne. Lady Melbourne has entrusted her with recovering a packet of highly sensitive private letters stolen from her desk. The contents of these letters hold great interest for the famous poet Lord Byron, who had carried on a notorious public affair with Lady Melbourne's daughter-in-law, the inconveniently unstable Lady Caroline Lamb. Rosalind is to take up residence in Melbourne...
Series
Criterion collection volume 665
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Danish
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
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Language
English
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Description
“Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!” Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels. A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victorias royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and The Victory Garden. Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final...
8) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An orphaned young girl, Jane Eyre, suffers humiliation and abuse at the hands of her aunt and is subsequently banished to a strict boarding school for several years. Upon her release, the adult Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, caring for the child of Mr. Rochester. She soon finds herself in a passionate romance with the handsome and mysterious Mr. Rochester. Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible,...
9) Becket
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Despite differences in rank and background, King Henry II and Thomas Becket are lifelong friends. The King is in constant conflict with the Church, which refuses to contribute financing to his wars in France, and jealously guards the tax-free status granted it by previous monarchs. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, Henry has a brilliant idea: rather than another pious cleric loyal to Rome, he will appoint his old friend, Thomas Becket--technically...
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