Enright: 61 books

Return to Gone-Away is a children's book written by Elizabeth Enright, which is the sequel to the book Gone-Away Lake and discusses how the Blake family buys a house in Gone-Away. The book was first published in 1961. Plot introduction When Portia learns of her parents buying Villa Caprice,...

Een gewaagde roman over de verlammende kracht van schuldgevoel. Winnaar van de Booker Prize 2007. De samenkomst is een prachtig geschreven epos waarin Anne Enright het portret schetst van drie opeenvolgende generaties van een Ierse familie. Het is ook het verhaal van de ingrijpende gevolgen...

Eine verhängnisvolle Affäre – leidenschaftlich und schockierend offen Es ist nicht Liebe auf den ersten Blick, als Gina den Familienvater Seán Vallely bei einem Gartenfest kennenlernt. Doch dann treffen sie sich zufällig wieder, trinken zu viel, landen im Bett – und verfallen einander....

A celebration of the boundless humor, intellect, and eloquence of one of the greatest Englishmen in history   "Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."   Winston Churchill...

From a Man Booker Prize–winning author, a “hauntingly eloquent” novel of love, loss, family, and what a woman finds while in search of herself (The Seattle Times).   Born in Dublin in 1965, Maria Delahunty was raised by her grieving father after her mother died during childbirth. Two decades...

She Said is a wonderful celebration of the wit and wisdom of women through the ages. In it you’ll find writers, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, fashionistas, from Sappho to Beyoncé and Dorothy Parker to Carrie Fisher, all of whom have two things in common: brilliant minds and barbed wits...

Fifty-five years after Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand is more in the news than ever. Ayn Rand Explained is an accurate and riveting account of Rand’s life, work, and influence, with the emphasis on her ideas. The book covers Rand’s career, from youth in Soviet Russia to Hollywood screenwriter and then...

One of the most important features of China’s economic emergence has been the role of foreign investment and foreign companies. The importance goes well beyond the USD 1.6 trillion in foreign direct investment that China has received since it started opening its economy. Using the tools of economic...

From a priest who was in the trenches comes the heart-wrenching story of two kids on the mean streets of Chicago's South Side South Chicago gives you lots of reasons to join a gang. Like, if you say no, they beat you up, follow your little sister home from school, and torch your house. Pretty...

An old house, a new lover, a fresh life for Dominick-or will the faith-driven doom it all? The past just won’t go away. Dominick likes to idle there in history’s comfortable remove, but when his mother dies and he meets the half sister he never knew he had, the past becomes more personal-and...

An absorbing collection of Jane Austen's sharpest, most profound, and most amusing observations   *"A lady without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world."  -*Persuasion   Featuring wry insights on human nature, money, marriage, life,...

The poems herein are breathtaking in their variety, ranging in form from traditional verse of every sort, to free and experimental; in scope from lament for extinct birds; to protest poems; to lyrical beauty; to deeply felt religious subjects; and most of all, to even more deeply felt family poems....

A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman,...

Any good attacker will tell you that expensive security monitoring and prevention tools aren’t enough to keep you secure. This practical book demonstrates a data-centric approach to distilling complex security monitoring, incident response, and threat analysis ideas into their most basic elements....