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  • Old Heart

    A Novel

    by Peter Ferry ...
    Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few events,” though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is to find the only woman he ever loved, a woman he met in the Netherlands where he was stationed during World War II.And ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beards and Masculinity in American Literature

    by Peter Ferry ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Beards and Masculinity in American Literature is a pioneering study of the symbolic power of the beard in the history of American writing. This book covers the entire breadth of American writing – from 18th century American newspapers and periodicals through the 19th and 20th centuries to recent contemporary engagements with the beard and masculinity. With chapters focused on the barber and the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Travel Writing

    by Peter Ferry ...
    Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction

    by Peter Ferry ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction. This study argues that New York authors do not simply depict masculinity as a social and historical construction but seek to challenge the archetypal ideals of masculinity by writing counter-hegemonic narratives.Gendering canonical New ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Travel Writing

    A Novel

    by Peter Ferry ...
    Narrated by Anthony Heald ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    Pete Ferry teaches high school English in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest outside of Chicago and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening, he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

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  • The Secrets of the Notebook

    A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret

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    “The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life – August your protector.” This one sentence was the key to a mystery involving some of the greatest and most infamous figures in European history, from Frederick the Great to Napoleon and Hitler—and solved by the author of this book.Eve Haas is the daughter of a German Jewish family that took refuge in London after Hitler came to power ... Read more

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  • The Bookshop of Yesterdays

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