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The young man / by Ernaux, Annie,1940-author.; Strayer, Alison L.,translator.; translation of:Ernaux, Annie,1940-Jeune homme.English.;
"The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time--together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the "scandalous girl" she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Ernaux, Annie, 1940-; Authors, French; Authors, French;
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Getting lost / by Ernaux, Annie,1940-author.; Strayer, Alison L.,translator.; translation of:Ernaux, Annie,1940-Se perdre.English.;
"Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying "his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of." She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire"--
Subjects: Diaries.; Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Ernaux, Annie, 1940-; Ernaux, Annie, 1940-; Man-woman relationships; Middle-aged women;
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Alone : a love story / by Parise, Michelle,1974-author.;
"A memoir of heartbreak and hope. The church wedding, the new house, a beautiful baby ... Michelle was sold a dream and bought into it. But one day, nine years in, she wakes up in an empty bed, and "The Husband" isn't there. Then, he drops "The Bomb"-- he was having an affair with a woman at work. Adrift and on the edge of forty-- fuelled by grief, booze, and one-night stands-- Michelle battles the monster she calls Loneliness, juggling being a part-time parent and part-time partier. Though dangerously close to rock bottom, Michelle takes a chance on love again with a dashing but complicated man-- "The Man with the White Shirt." Michelle, an expert in "emotional forensics," dives into the wreckage with candour and humour, uncovering a story about falling in and out of love, divorce, single parenthood, and the messy world of dating. What she finds, beneath it all, is life and the courage to face it alone."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Parise, Michelle, 1974-; Parise, Michelle, 1974-; Dating (Social customs); Man-woman relationships.; Single mothers.; Parenthood.;
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William and Kate : a royal love story / by Andersen, Christopher P.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-312).LSC
Subjects: William, Prince, grandson of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1982-; William, Prince, grandson of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1982-; Middleton, Kate, 1982-; Royal couples; Princes;
© 2011., Gallery Books,
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Becoming Jane Austen : a life / by Spence, Jon;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279 ) and index.
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, 1776-1869; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; De Feuillide, Eliza.; Women and literature; Novelists, English;
© 2007., Hambledon Continuum,
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Diana [videorecording] / by Andrews, Naveen,1969-actor.; Ciancia, Keefus,1972-composer (expression); Hirschbiegel, Oliver,director.; Hodge, Douglas,actor.; Holmes, David,1969-composer (expression); Snell, Kate.Diana.Videorecording.; Watts, Naomi,1968-actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Cinematographer, Rainer Klausmann ; production designer, Kave Quinn ; editor, Hans Funck ; music, David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia.Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodge, Charles Edwards, Geraldine James.Tells the story of Princess Diana's secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan during the last two years of her life.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997; Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997; Khan, Hasnat; Snell, Kate.; Biographical films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Romance films.;
© c2014., Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Marcus of Umbria : what an Italian dog taught an American girl about love / by Van der Leun, Justine.;
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Subjects: Van der Leun, Justine.; Van der Leun, Justine; Americans; Dogs; Human-animal relationships; Man-woman relationships;
© c2010., Rodale,
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Shanghai Grand : forbidden love and international intrigue on the eve of the Second World War / by Grescoe, Taras,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, convinced she will never love again. After checking in to Sassoon's glamorous Cathay Hotel, Hahn is absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton, and a colourful gangster named Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen. But when she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet from an illustrious family, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees--places her innate curiosity will lead her to explore first hand. Danger lurks on the horizon, though, as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai, paving the way for Mao Tse-tung's Communists rise to power"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997; Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997; Sassoon, Elias Victor, 1881-1961; Cathay Hotel (Shanghai, China); Adventure and adventurers; Aliens; Americans; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945;
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All quiet on the western front : with related readings / by Remarque, Erich Maria,1898-1970.; Wheen, A. W.(Arthur Wesley),1897-;
A young German soldier of World War I tells of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.LSC
Subjects: Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970; World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers;
© c2003., EMC/Paradigm Pub.,
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Silver alert / by Smith, Lee,1944-author.;
"The story of an elderly man who, rather than give up his independence, heads off on a joyride with a new young friend"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Road fiction.; Novels.; Automobile travel; Cancer; Caregivers; Intergenerational relations; Older men;
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