Andrea Barrett
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father?s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former ... [... more]
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Peter Riegert
Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic, Andrea Barrett focuses on a particular expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes, we ... [... more]
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Lucid Stars
 Thoroughly enjoyable: Andrea Barrett tells the story of three females living during the late 50's, the 60's and the 70's - the time period of the modern women's movement. Using her considerable skills as a short story writer, Ms. Barrett weaves her three [... more]
$19.00
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Servants of the Map: Stories
Amazon.com Review: No one limns the opposing pull of inner and outer worlds more eloquently than Andrea Barrett. Her naturalists, explorers, scientists, and healers are driven to work and above all to know; they categorize, theorize, and collect the [... more]
$13.95
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The Middle Kingdom
Herstory in her History: Grace Hoffmeir starts telling her story in 1989, as she bicycles around Beijing with her Eurasian child in the aftermath of the massacre at Tiananmen Square. In a first, brief flashback we learn how she came to be there three [... more]
$19.95
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Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its [... more]
$13.95
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The Voyage of the Narwhal
Amazon.com Review: In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its [... more]
$24.95
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The Voyage of the Narwhal
Amazon.com Review: In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its [... more]
$25.95
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Secret Harmonies
a novel in the higher range: I was transported by this story of Reba, the musically gifted daughter of a musically gifted chicken farmer. Yes, the setting is rough; the towns are small, the people are poor, but there is huge beauty in this small setting. [... more]
$17.95
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The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary ...
An innovative resource and great fiction: An innovative resource and great fiction Ah, the writing life. We envision the author working compulsively, never satisfied, anxious to capture his ideas on paper before they disappear, a bottle of liquid [... more]
$17.95
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The Air We Breathe: A Novel
Whose voice is this anyway?: Refreshing to step out of the modern world and into a sanitorium for indigent TB patients in upstate New York at the start of World War I. Forced into inactivity by the prevailing wisdom on TB treatments --keep 'em 1) flat on [... more]
$24.95
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The Widow's Children
Amazon.com Review: First published in 1976, The Widow's Children, with its unpalatable family wistfully gnashing at one another, has long defied critical description. Now that it's been rereleased, with a fine new introduction by Andrea Barrett, it's [... more]
$13.00
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