Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat, Kartoniert (TB)

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In a deeply personal memoir, the best-selling author of Krik? Krak! describes her relationships with the two men closest to he - her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the... Mehr

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Brother, I'm Dying - Buch Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A National Book Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as... Mehr

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An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it... Mehr

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This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives.-Chicago Tribune Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Lesson Before Dying is a deep and compassionate novel... Mehr

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The next in the series of gripping historical crime novels from bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman, set in nineteenth-century Edinburgh Mehr

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From the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous Southern debutante who marries for money and ultimately suffers for love-a southern gothic as written by Dominick Dunne. It begins with a house and ends... Mehr

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Another thrilling and magical adventure from master storyteller Joseph Delaney, set in the multi-million copy bestselling world of The Spook's ApprenticeWe are entering a new age of darkness. Hell has grown in power and neither priest nor Spook can do... Mehr