Faces in the Pool
Faces in the Pool

Author: Jonathan Gash

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2009-12-08

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1429983752

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In Jonathan Gash's 24th Lovejoy Mystery, Faces in the Pool, Lovejoy is released from jail on condition he join the elegant Laura Moon's speed-dating agency. A divorced millionairess, she proposes a temporary marriage of convenience to help her hunt down her former husband. Can Lovejoy do what is expected of him without getting killed? "A picaresque tour de farce. If you crave linear plotting, Gash will send you screaming for Tylenol, but nobody dissembles more brilliantly." - Kirkus Reviews

Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965)
Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965)

Author: Kamila Pawlikowska

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9004302263

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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism.

The Face of God
The Face of God

Author: Bill Myers

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0310227550

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Two devout men from different faiths are pitted against each other in a race to find the stones of the High Priest's Breastplate, a mysterious Old Testament artifact that some believe enable the owner to hear the audible voice of God. From America to Israel, from France to Africa, the men race as they come to a deepened understanding of their faith. (July)

The Face in the Window
The Face in the Window

Author: Linda Zisquit

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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Linda Stern Zisquit is an American emigrant to Israel, described by Tikkin as a poet who writes her American self into the culture while coaxing its Hebrew voices into English.

The Dragonfly Pool
The Dragonfly Pool

Author: Eva Ibbotson

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0230737919

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'Blending history and tragedy with an irresistible wit and verve.' – The Times The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson is an exciting story of friendship and determination during the Second World War, from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan. Illustrated with a gorgeous updated cover by Katie Hickey. Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton Hall is a far more interesting place than Tally ever imagined, and an exciting school trip to the beautiful and luscious kingdom of Bergania whisks Tally into an unexpected adventure . . . Will she be able to save her new friend, Prince Karil, from terrible danger before it's too late?

Swimming Pool Sunday
Swimming Pool Sunday

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1466879041

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From bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, writing as Madeleine Wickham, comes Swimming Pool Sunday "A fine entertainment."- The Times One shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys open their pool to the whole village for charity. Louise is there with her daughters, and while the children splash and shriek in the cool blue waters, she basks in the sunshine, attempting to ignore her estranged husband and dreaming of the new man in her life, a charismatic lawyer. The day seems perfect. Then a sudden and shocking accident changes everyone's lives forever. Recriminations start to fly. Whose fault was it? Louise's new lover insists that she sues the Delaneys. Her ex-husband isn't so sure. Opinion in the village is split. Old friendships start to crumble. New ones are formed. Will the repercussions from the accident ever end?