Laura Lippman
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Laura Lippman has long been fascinated by the dangerous vulnerability of teenage girls. In "The Babysitter's Code" -- the inspiration for her critically acclaimed novel , To the Power of Three -- an adolescent girl decides to take a gun to school. In "Hardly Knew Her," Lippman's homage to Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding , a tomboy learns that growing up means learning how to lie and deceive. And in "Ice*" -- a prequel to The Most Dangerous...
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Everyone in small-town Bellville is talking about a series of mysterious fires disrupting the typically tranquil summer. The authorities attribute them to heat lightning, but some Belleville residents are not so sure…
High-school student Beth, like everyone else in Belleville, has been following the fires – she has plenty of time between her monotonous day job at the deli and solitary nights at home while her mom works late. The fires aren't...
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Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall in a conversation with David Chase.
A mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office.... No, it wasn't the start of a joke: it was the start of a program that changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television. TV critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series...
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Heaven to Betsy: Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High - with new and old friends all around her...not to mention boys! But most intriguing of all is the one she and her best friend, Tacy, dub "the Tall, Dark Stranger".--Cover.
Betsy in spite of herself: Betsy is at the center of every activity as a Deep Valley High sophomore - and suddenly, thanks to her old friend, Tib, she's offered a golden opportunity for glorious...
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The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never seen before; and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman.
Vivian Maier's story-the secretive nanny-photographer during her life who...
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2014.
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1.a edición.
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Español
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"Cuando Felix Brewer conoce a Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk en el baile de San Valentin en 1959, la llena de promesas, algunas de las cuales en realidad mantiene. Gracias a sus lucrativos negocios, ella y sus tres ninas viven en el lujo. Pero el cuatro de julio de 1976, el mundo comodo de Bambi implosiona cuando Felix, de cara a la carcel, desaparece misteriosamente,"--Amazon.com.
When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's...
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[2015]
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English
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In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an infant and sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. But when a toddler goes missing seven years later, Detective Nancy Porter begins to suspect recently released Ronnie and Alice. As the investigation deepens, Porter may discover that the truth can hide the most shocking secrets of all. Diane Lane and Common co-star in this grim,...
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