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Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her...
2) Blue nights
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness, about marriage and children and memory, about the shallowness of sanity, about...
5) Joan of Arc
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Born to a peasant family, young Joan hears the voices of saints telling her to unite her beseiged nation. At seventeen, she leads one of the greatest campaigns for freedom the world has ever witnessed.
6) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookwright Press
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the young French woman who, inspired by visions from God, led the French army against English invaders, was burned at the stake as a heretic, and eventually was declared a saint.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging...
10) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
195 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joan Rivers was known all over the world--from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities would call when she got a little out of hand. Her daughter and best friend, Melissa. Jo an and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated mother-daughter relationships...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moments of great intensity in the lives of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc, when each faced a decision that would shape her legacy. When Jane Austen's father deeded the family home to her brother, Jane was tossed to the winds, no money to her name, probably too old to be wed. At this bleak moment, she receives a proposal of marriage from a rich but boring man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision: between financial security and...
16) Joan
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed, and brilliant. This stunningly-researched novel...
Author
Series
Joan Spencer volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
19) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became France's shero by delivering the country from English domination." -- Back cover.
20) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books, A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
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