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Paperback. Etat : Good. The acclaimed debut novel of passion and subtlety that links three generations of eccentric, formidable women.   Through the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep reaches back from present day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to relate the emotional legacies of the Blom family. Karin is both playful and melancholy?a serial seductress who defines herself in contrast to the women in her life: her mother Anni, alluring, manipulative, and melodramatic; her sister Julie, a wife and mother nearly undone by suspicions of her husband?s infidelity; her aunt Selma, ?the world?s angriest old woman?; and her soldier grandmother June, who bets that Karin will be the best damn soldier of them all. Inventive and wise, funny and disquieting, Before You Sleep marks the arrival of a gifted new literary voice.   ?Ullmann creates such a powerful mood of intimacy here that the reader feels like a part of the family.? ?Los Angeles Times   ?Ullmann?s imagination . . . is formed by a love of the intricacies of family life, of the ties that bind.??The New Yorker.…

Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Jo Byatt (illustrateur).

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The acclaimed debut novel of passion and subtlety that links three generations of eccentric, formidable women.   Through the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep reaches back from present day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to relate the emotional legacies of the Blom family. Karin is both playful and melancholy?a serial seductress who defines herself in contrast to the women in her life: her mother Anni, alluring, manipulative, and melodramatic; her sister Julie, a wife and mother nearly undone by suspicions of her husband?s infidelity; her aunt Selma, ?the world?s angriest old woman?; and her soldier grandmother June, who bets that Karin will be the best damn soldier of them all. Inventive and wise, funny and disquieting, Before You Sleep marks the arrival of a gifted new literary voice.   ?Ullmann creates such a powerful mood of intimacy here that the reader feels like a part of the family.? ?Los Angeles Times   ?Ullmann?s imagination . . . is formed by a love of the intricacies of family life, of the ties that bind.??The New Yorker.…

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Yerrill, Gail (illustrateur).

Paperback. Etat : Good. When Kitty the cat finds herself lost and all alone in the big, noisy city, everything seems scary - the shadows, the city sounds, the traffic, the stray cats. Will Kitty learn to be brave and find her way home . the best, safest place in all the world.

Hardback. Etat : Good. A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost from the internationally acclaimed author of Grace and Stella Descending. Every summer Isak L venstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammars . Here Erika, Laura, and Molly find a sense of family and friendship, although nothing can match Erika's connection to the rebellious misfit Ragnar. But when an act of senseless cruelty separates them forever--and drives the sisters from the island in shame and regret--they must leave childhood and their growing relationships behind. Now, twenty-five years later, they return to visit their ailing father and confront the specter of that awful summer.…

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Includes copying vertical, horizontal and curved lines to make exciting scenes. Stanley, Mandy (illustrateur).

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Families are messy because relationships are. The Strange family of Castle Cove, North Carolina is no different. Three brothers grow up with the same parents who love them equally and provide for them generously because they can, yet each brother turns out different. Harrison, the oldest, takes over the family sawmill business. Sonny, the middle one, goes down the rabbit hole of alcoholism, while Sydney, the youngest, becomes an Episcopal priest who is determined to save his brother from himself, driving a wedge between them that finally forces him to confront his own humanity, including his unconscious white privilege endemic to small town southern life he has always taken for granted. Caught in the tension between the demands of truth and the resilience of hope, the Strange family saga will make you laugh and cry as you experience the power of storytelling at its best. Includes Readers Guide. …

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost from the internationally acclaimed author of Grace and Stella Descending. Every summer Isak L venstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammars . Here Erika, Laura, and Molly find a sense of family and friendship, although nothing can match Erika's connection to the rebellious misfit Ragnar. But when an act of senseless cruelty separates them forever--and drives the sisters from the island in shame and regret--they must leave childhood and their growing relationships behind. Now, twenty-five years later, they return to visit their ailing father and confront the specter of that awful summer.…

Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Etat : Good. When a little polar bear asks his mummy, 'When I grow up, what will I be?', she is full of loving advice. Follow Little Bear as he listens and tries out all the things Mummy Bear suggests he can be in life, from kind, strong and playful, to calm, brave and, of course, happy.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Families are messy because relationships are. The Strange family of Castle Cove, North Carolina is no different. Three brothers grow up with the same parents who love them equally and provide for them generously because they can, yet each brother turns out different. Harrison, the oldest, takes over the family sawmill business. Sonny, the middle one, goes down the rabbit hole of alcoholism, while Sydney, the youngest, becomes an Episcopal priest who is determined to save his brother from himself, driving a wedge between them that finally forces him to confront his own humanity, including his unconscious white privilege endemic to small town southern life he has always taken for granted. Caught in the tension between the demands of truth and the resilience of hope, the Strange family saga will make you laugh and cry as you experience the power of storytelling at its best. Includes Readers Guide. …

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Some places stay with you forever.

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Jo Byatt (illustrateur).

Paperback. Etat : Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Barbara Cantini (illustrateur).

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Hunt, Bradley (illustrateur).

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

board_book. Etat : Good. Hunt, Bradley (illustrateur).

paperback. Etat : Fair.

paperback. Etat : Very Good.

hardcover. Etat : Fair. Hunt, Bradley (illustrateur).

paperback. Etat : Fair.

board_book. Etat : Good.

Board book. Etat : Good. Barbara Cantini (illustrateur).

paperback. Etat : Fair.