165 títulos para "Workman Publishing"
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Ellen Foster
Gibbons, Kaye
978-1-61620-302-3Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and...
14.18€ (13.63€ sin IVA) -
Every Last Cuckoo
Maloy, Kate
978-1-56512-675-6Sarah Lucas imagined the rest of her days would be spent living peacefully in her rural Vermont home in the steadfast company of her husband. But now, with Charles's sudden passing, seventy-five-year-old Sarah is left inconsolably alone. As grief settles in, Sarah's mind lingers on her past: her imp...
11.72€ (11.27€ sin IVA) -
Flower Confidential
Stewart, Amy
978-1-56512-603-9Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and s...
17.12€ (16.46€ sin IVA) -
The Watery Part of the World
Parker, Michael
978-1-61620-143-2Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route to New...
11.74€ (11.29€ sin IVA) -
In Praise of Plants
Halle, Francis / Hallae, Francis
978-1-60469-262-4Francis Halle examines the human---and even scientific---bias toward animals at the expense of our understanding of plants. Readers will find their ideas about plants fundamentally altered and their appreciation immeasurably enhanced. This is a black-and-white edition.
21.47€ (20.64€ sin IVA) -
Kicking the Sky
De Sa, Anthony
978-1-56512-927-6It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood's dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends. As the media unravels the truth behind the Shoes...
12.47€ (11.99€ sin IVA) -
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
Smith, Lee
978-1-61620-049-7Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader's dream" (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely recognized for her...
10.46€ (10.06€ sin IVA) -
Guests on Earth
Smith, Lee
978-1-61620-380-1"Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work." -Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired GirlIt's 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital,...
13.27€ (12.76€ sin IVA) -
The Future for Curious People
Sherl, Gregory
978-1-61620-369-6“Comic and Exuberant . . . A fine and tender tale for anyone who has tried to let go of the past and envision the future while falling in love.” —Rhonda Riley, author of The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope What if you could know your romantic future? What if an envisionist could enter...
12.47€ (11.99€ sin IVA) -
Coal Black Horse
Olmstead, Robert
978-1-56512-601-5When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home. At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety—blue on one sid...
11.93€ (11.47€ sin IVA) -
Gap Creek
Morgan, Robert
978-1-61620-176-0A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and mo...
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The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
Joel ben Izzy
978-1-56512-512-4"Wonderful!” (Grace Paley). “Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written” (Detroit Free Press). “Provides edifying advice, intimately given, like the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie” (the Dallas Morning News). “Altogether original” (Dr. Laura Schl...
16.30€ (15.67€ sin IVA)