Janet: 3162 books

They were three beautiful, promising sisters, daughters of Jewish immigrants - Mary, Fannie and Regina, young women during the pre-war depression. In a tragic twist of fate, all three were to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Fannie died first, a young mother of three, then in the next decade, Mary,...

A personagem mais famosa de Janet Evanovich está de volta. Em Fogo alto, a caçadora de recompensas Stephanie Plum não só tem que lidar com um urso dançarino e um vampiro, como vê seu complicado triângulo amoroso se transformar em um quadrado amoroso de matar. Autora de mais de 30 livros, Janet...

My Children’s Children is a collection of Janet LaPlante’s personal stories that tell how we grow in our spirituality through our relationships and experiences, how other people reflect God’s love back to us, and how ultimately, we need to find the balance between the spiritual, emotional, and...

Soul Trap by Janet M. Woods   Following an almost fatal car crash, George, a sixty-nine-year-old psychiatrist, is convalescing at his son’s home in the English countryside. Being very much a ‘city boy’ at heart, George is dreading the boredom he foresees as inevitable...

Nel 1914 – esattamente un secolo fa – Pierre Janet pubblicò nel «Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique» lo scritto che costituisce il testo di questo libro, qui per la prima volta tradotto in italiano. Si tratta dell’intervento tenuto al Congresso di Medicina di Londra del 1913,...

«Una delle più grandi biografie del Novecento»: così il Times Literary Supplement ha definito questo libro. Un’opera che ha attratto nel tempo milioni di lettori e lettrici, tra le quali la regista Jane Campion che le ha dedicato uno dei suoi film più riusciti. Si potrebbero spiegare le ragioni...

Grace Cleave ha trent’anni, vive a Londra e, fatta eccezione per qualche mese di adulterio con un sedicente scrittore americano, non è mai stata sposata. I capelli, che un tempo le fiammeggiavano fulvi al sole dell’emisfero australe – Grace viene dalla Nuova Zelanda –, sono ora così sbiaditi...

'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster...

The combination of Mary Wollstonecraft works, with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life has no equal. In her richly detailed, all-encompassing biography of the first major feminist in England, Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd highlights her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, her...

A ben oltre un secolo dalla sua morte, le idee di Charles Darwin sono ancora in grado di ispirare scoperte scientifiche, ma di suscitare anche accesi e violenti dibattiti, quasi sempre di natura ideologica. Ma chi era veramente Darwin? E, soprattutto, in quale contesto storico- culturale nacque e...

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize • Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist • Books for a Better Life Award Finalist • Lambda Literary Award Finalist • Time Magazine “30 Most Influential People on the Internet” • American Library Association Stonewall...

In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his “big book on species” still...

Janet Boynes leads readers through her inspiring testimony, from her decision to try the homosexual lifestyle, to the trauma and pain she suffered during her 14-year walk as a lesbian, and finally, to her glorious homecoming back to God in 1998. Janet discusses with honorable candor many of the issues...

With a no-nonsense approach and easy to follow directions, Janet Evans shares his experience (and recipes) for creating soaps from scratch safely and easily . Janet takes the reader step by step through the process of making natural soaps for family, friends, and for profit. Easy to understand and...