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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Paula recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Roddy Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history. . . . But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom—and win the war for the Nazis. . . .
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zoe, una atractiva mujer, luego de casi 10 años de matrimonio descubre que su vida de casada carece de pasión y sorpresa, y se deja seducir por la posibilidad de hallar esas sensaciones ya olvidades en la figuera del hermano de su marido. Deste esta premisa se desencadena una serie de eventos que llevarán a estos tres personajes a un arriesgado juego de venganzas, secretos, y pasiones.
After ten years of marriage, the stunning Zoe realizes that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 252 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, whose affair leaves one emblazoned with her sin and the other distraught with hidden guilt; their daughter Pearl, born into ostracism; and Roger Chillingworth, driven to vengeance by hatred. Though these characters face a set of specifically troubling circumstances, their words andactions point to moral truths inherent in human affairs, independent of time and place.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015], c1970.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless steel sink is new, their Mercedes is parked at the curb. But when Sophie is bitten by a possibly rabies-infected stray cat, a series of disasters begin to plague the Brentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines in a marriage--and a society--wrenching itself apart.
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