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Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
Category: Fiction
Juan Diegoâe(tm)s little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret âe" Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know âe" or to think you know âe" your future, or worse, the future of someone ...Show more
Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich; John McKnight; Irving K. Zola; Jonathan Caplan; Harley Shaiken
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Open Forum Ser.
How the caring professions destabilise our lives: a radical analysis of the welfare power-base.
In One Person by John Irving
Category: Fiction
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
Category: Fiction
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a centu ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Category: Fiction
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toro ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Category: Romance
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toront ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Category: Fiction
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, ...Show more
Setting Free the Bears by John Irving
Category: Fiction
Written between 1965 and 1967, Setting Free the Bears is 'sensual, moving, truly remarkable' (Time), and concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
Still Life - Irving Penn Photographs 1938-2000 by Irving Penn; John Szarkowski
Category: Art and Design
Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. His elegant and innovative photographs are the subject of this volume. It includes some 200 images.
The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving
Category: Fiction
Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife. A bizarre menage a quatre is the result of these conv ...Show more