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An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details the critical illness of her daughter, Quintana Roo, followed by the fatal coronary of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, her daughter's second bout with a life-threatening ailment, and her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief.
4) Joan of Arc
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IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
6) Blue nights
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2011.
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Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
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"The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend. It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years' War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents' garden in Domr�my, a peasant girl sees a spangle of...
11) Dove and sword
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[1995]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.
12) Casablanca
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[2012]
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The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
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[2007]
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Draws on newly discovered transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial to offer insight into the factors that contributed to her remarkable achievements, the plausibility of the role of divinity in her mission to serve her country, and the factors that contributedto her discrediting and execution.
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Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks--of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.
"Notes on the South" traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory...
19) Pope Joan
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Born in 9th-century Frankland, Joan demonstrates her brilliance early but must hide her learning from her missionary father, who considers the education of women sacrilegious and dangerous. Tutored first by her older brother and then a Greek scholar, Joan eventually secures a place at the schola in Dorstadt. To protect herself after a Viking raid, Joan dons her dead brother's clothing and assumes a man's identity. Suddenly the intelligence that once...
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2017.
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"For best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley, theres never too much when it comes to online-dating rich, no-commitments lovers. Its a fantasy come true that makes their unhappy lives bearable. But theres no escape when Lolas vicious relatives cheat her out of everything thats hers, and Joans husband pulls a devastating betrayal. With nothing to lose, the two will do everything and anything to lock down Mr. Right and lifetime satisfaction......