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City of the Mind

City of the Mind

2003 ·
·3.61·357 Ratings ·240 Pages
“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Authors' Books
  • In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid

    2001·
    ·3.8·124 Ratings
    A glorious gift book from an award-winning storyteller and a much lauded illustrator, who evoke the high drama of mythical Greece and the prehistory of Rome in this retelling of "The Aeneid." Taking his old father on his back and his young son by the hand
  • The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

    2006·
    ·3.88·1,382 Ratings
    When James and his family move to an ancient cottage in Oxfordshire, odd things start happening. Doors crash open, and strange signs appear, written in an archaic hand. James finds that the ghost is the spirit of Thomas Kempe.
  • Treasures of Time

    2000·
    ·3.45·137 Ratings
    Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past. This edition features an introduction by Selina Hastings. Penguin Decades bring you the
  • According to Mark

    1989·
    ·3.58·269 Ratings
    Mark Lamming is happily married--until he falls for the lovely daughter of his latest biography subject. Nothing can prepare him for the ensuing circumstances in this witty novel of memory and expectations.
  • Spiderweb

    2000·
    ·3.41·358 Ratings
    At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time.
  • Judgment Day

    2003·
    ·3.73·197 Ratings
    Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "blessed with the gift of being able to render matters of great import with a breath, a barely audible sigh, a touch. The result is wonderful writi
  • Heat Wave

    1997·
    ·3.78·646 Ratings
    In her most accomplished and appealing novel since the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger, acclaimed author Penelope Lively tells an emotionally powerful, beautifully wrought story of love and marital infidelity through the eyes of a mother whose daughter's
  • Making it Up

    2006·
    ·3.47·501 Ratings
    Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" What if Lively hadn't escaped from Egypt, her birth
  • Consequences

    2007·
    ·3.57·1,728 Ratings
    The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel since The Photograph is a sweeping saga of three generations of women, their lives, and loves A chance meeting in St. James's Park begins young Lorna and Matt's intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leav
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