Patricia: 6176 books

In Ghostly Landscapes, Patricia M. Keller analyses the aesthetics of haunting and the relationship between ideology and image production by revisiting twentieth-century Spanish history through the camera’s lens.  Through its vision she demonstrates how the traumatic losses of the Spanish Civil...

“Hours of reading delight.” RT Reviews Maya Alyssum’s impossible dream is to open a school where kids can find unconditional acceptance—acceptance she and her sister had never experienced while growing up in foster homes. But Axell Holm, the town council’s representative, holds...

Moral diversity is a fundamental reality of today’s world, but moral theorists have difficulty responding to it. Some take it as evidence for skepticism – the view that there are no moral truths. Others, associating moral reasoning with the search for overarching principles and unifying values, see...

A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian...

Quand la Tulipe Noire croise Masquerouge, Cartouche et Lady Oscar, vous obtenez La Rose Écarlate, une bande dessinée d'aventure, de cape et d'épée, élégante et au romantisme échevelé. Maud et Guilhem filent le parfait amour. Seule l'approche d'un grand bal met à mal cette certitude....

Quand la Tulipe Noire croise Masquerouge, Cartouche et Lady Oscar, vous obtenez La Rose Écarlate, une bande dessinée d'aventure, de cape et d'épée, élégante et au romantisme échevelé. Maud vit maintenant chez son grand-père qui essaye tant bien que mal de lui apprendre les bonnes manières...

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Mexico was the only country to offer open refuge to the thousands of Republican emigrés who fled from Spain in 1939–1940. Exiles and Citizens is a study of these political exiles, especially those with intellectual and professional backgrounds and ambitions. It...

**La première. La meilleure. L'experte. Le livre :** Le Dr Kay Scarpetta, experte en médecine légale, enquête sur un décès très suspect à Cambridge, Massachusetts, quand un message mystérieux apparaît sur son téléphone. Une vidéo s’affiche, impossible à interrompre, montrant...

When Ryan Fallon and his twin sister made a pact at the end of high school to never marry, neither of them knew that Josie Miller would walk into their lives. They certainly did not know that Ryan would fall for her, or that she would fall just as hard for him. Now, Josie is homeless and without a...

Patricia Linders newest book The Lady and the Tiger gives the reader and in-depth account of life in a foreign country during a politically uncertain time. The setting is Taiwan, Republic of China during the last days of the Mutual Defense Treaty in 1979. To the west is communist China, determined...

This Crumbling Pageant  Persephone Fury is the Dark daughter, the one they hide. England, 1811. Few are aware of a hidden magical England, a people not ruled by poor mad George, but the dying King Pellinore of the House of Pendragon. The Furys are known for their music, their magic,...

In this charming picture book by Newbery winner Patricia MacLachlan, Little Robot is lonely—until he has an inventive and creative solution. Little Robot’s life is peaceful—yet maybe it’s a little too peaceful. But wait! He has an idea. With a little hard work, perseverance, and resourceful thinking, can Little Robot build his way to the perfect cure for loneliness?

Sally's mean disposition got her into all kinds of trouble and no punishment scared her. The only thing that Sally was afraid of was the taste of soap. Carl never understood that. He was a man of faith and he wanted to save Sally. But some people just can't be saved or can they?

When love flies out the window, married life can be hell in this heartfelt love story that “captures the demands, rewards, and frustrations of matrimony” (Irish Sunday Independent). With an unplanned baby on the way, a newlywed daughter whose marriage is already in trouble, a teenager who...