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This novel casts Moore's view askance on a familiar subject and twists it into something wholly original. Famed painter Vincent van Gogh lies dead, an apparent suicide victim. Two of his painterly colleagues are not convinced that the artist truly offed himself, though, so they embark on a quest to find the truth.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing...
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This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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A family in California is brought together by death. For years sculptor Kate Flannigan refused to speak to her sister, Colleen, because she stole her husband, nor would she allow her ex-husband to visit their daughter. All that ends when Kate's brother, Luke, commits suicide. By the author of The Tracks of Angels.
94) Disordered minds
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Berkeley
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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In 1970, twenty-year-old Howard Stamp was convivted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he was innocent? When Dr Jonathan Hughes re-examines Stamp's case, his research leads him to believe that Stamp was wrongly convicted.
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex, eleven at the time, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. After their mother's suicide, the girls' father shut down emotionally, leaving Alex responsible for caring for Colleen, then eight, and little Riley, just four. Now the girls are grown and navigating different directions. Alex, a nurse, has been traveling in India and grieving her struggle to have a child;...
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