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1	The Kiss more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist One of today's best young American writers transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist In this mesmerizing book, bestselling writer Harrison brilliantly uncovers the true story behind a shocking and unforgettable crime, as she explores the impact of escalating violence and emotional abuse visited on the children of a deeply troubled family. see all copies from $2.73! new only from $3.85! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Kiss: A Memoir more books like this by Kathryn Harrison (Read by) add to wishlist Kathryn Harrison's memoir of her incestuous relationship with her father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Poison more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist Harrison's novel tells the tale of two women during the Inquisition--a silk harvester's daughter and a queen. When the daughter of a Castilian silk harvester begins a passionate love affair with a Catholic priest, she is accused of being a witch and ends up detained in an underground prison. Meanwhile, Maria Luisa, the French princess married to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Binding Chair: Or, a Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist Harrison's novel tells the story of two women: May, a Chinese girl whose feet are bound and who, as an adult, becomes a crippled opium addict with a fierce appetite for life; and her niece Alice, whose sexual awakening is a central part of the story, as are her conflicts with her feisty aunt. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Exposure more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist After her photographer-father's suicide, a young woman living in New York--diabetic, drug-addicted, and struggling to keep her marriage intact--finds she must cope with what she increasingly understands was her father's abuse of her when she was a child. When she sees photographs of herself at a retrospective of her father's work, a crisis is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The kiss : a secret life. more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist From the bestselling author of THE BINDING CHAIR, a searing memoir of a four-year affair between the author and her father. 'My father takes my face in his hands. He tips it up and kisses my closed eyes, my throat. I feel his fingers in the hair at the nape of my neck. I feel his hot breath on my eyelids.' Kathryn Harrison's parents married aged ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $12.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Seal Wife more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist During the World War I years, a man named Bigelow is stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, to observe weather phenomena for the government--air currents, barometric changes, etc. Isolated and lonely, he begins an affair with an Aleut woman who never speaks, and with whom he becomes obsessed. Suddenly, she disappears, devastating him--but Bigelow ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Road to Santiago more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist Kathryn Harrison takes a break from fiction-writing to walk the pilgrimage road from France to Spain and, along with her account of the journey's discomforts, she includes anecdotes about her companion (her 12-year-old daughter), her upbringing (a mix of Judaism, Catholicism, and Christian Science), and St. James the Apostle. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Saint Therese of Lisieux more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist Fiction writer Kathryn Harrison writes about Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, the "Little Flower," taking her from her privileged youth and the traumatizing death of her mother to her entrance into a convent at 15 and then to her life of sacrifice and prayer, and ending with her painful tubercular death.. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Thicker Than Water more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist In Kathryn Harrison's autobiographical novel--the plot is closely mirrored in her memoir, THE KISS--a young woman attempts to come to terms with the trauma of incest in her childhood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Envy more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist After attending his college reunion, William Moreland, a Manhattan psychoanalyst, becomes obsessed with the need to know if his old girlfriend was pregnant with his child when they broke up. Will's own son, Luke, has been dead for three years, killed in a boating accident, and the lives of Will and his wife, Carole, have been deeply troubled since ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Mother Knot: A Memoir more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist Kathryn Harrison's memoir, THE KISS, was about her relationship with her father. Now she writes about her equally tormenting mother. When the life of Harrison's young son is threatened by a serious bout of asthma--an event that coincides with the weaning of her last child from breast-feeding--Harrison has an extreme reaction: she reverts to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.11! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The binding chair : a novel more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist From the author of the best-selling memoir, The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison's passionate fourth novel takes us to Shanghai as the last century ends. Beautiful, charismatic and destructive, May escapes an arranged marriage in rural China for life in a Shanghai brothel, where, in 1899, she meets Arthur, an Australian. As a member of the Foot ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.70! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist In this collection of essays, Kathryn Harrison muses on her troubled childhood--partially chronicled in her notorious memoir, THE KISS (1997)--and on her need to provide her own children with something better. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Thousand orange trees more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist The story of two young women: Francisca, the daughter of a Castilian silk-grower and Maria Luisa, the young French princess destined to become the Queen of Spain. With the themes of love and lust, redemption and betrayal, carnality and spirituality, the story is set in 17th-century Spain. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.21! \| first editions
17 view cover	Seeking Rapture: a Memoir by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist When Kathryn Harrison was a little girl, her young mother left her in the care of her British grandmother. A remarkable woman and master storyteller, she had jilted an array of suitable men before concluding that she was not quite modern enough to have a baby without a husband. She finally married, at the age of 43, in 1942. The fruit of this ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
18 view cover	Seeking Rapture: a Memoir by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist From the author of "The Binding Chair", this follow-up to memoir "The Kiss" explores the bonds of motherhood between four generations. When Kathryn Harrison was a little girl, her young mother left her in the care of her British grandmother who was raised in Shanghai. To Kathryn, her mother's mother seemed an almost unimaginably powerful figure: ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Binding Chair more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist Harrison's novel tells the story of two women: May, a Chinese girl whose feet are bound and who, as an adult, becomes a crippled opium addict with a fierce appetite for life; and her niece Alice, whose sexual awakening is a central part of the story, as are her conflicts with her feisty aunt. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $100.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Managing the Environmental Union: Intergovernmental Relations and Environment Policy in Canada more books like this by Patrick C Fafard, Kathryn Harrison (Editor) add to wishlist Ottawa and the provinces share responsibility for environmental protection. As a result, environmental policy is an area that offers some insight into how the two orders of government interact. 'Managing the Environmental Union" brings together a diverse set of authors from law, political science, and policy studies to consider how we think about ... see all copies from $19.35! new only from $19.42! \| SVS
21	Easy-To-Make Costumes more books like this by Kathryn Harrison, Valerie Kohn add to wishlist This presents 50 children's costumes, all in colour, which can be worn at any party - eg Christmas, Hallowe'en or a fancy-dress birthday party. Designs range from an exotic Spanish dancer to a pizza pie, a BLT sandwich, a tea pot, a Jack-in-a-box and many others. No special skills are needed and each project uses inexpensive materials like ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22	Risk, Science, and Politics more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist Government regulation of toxic substances in Canada and the United States is examined and compared. Paying particular attention to how politicians and bureaucrats in the two countries deal with the scientific uncertainty that pervades environmental decision-making, the authors use case studies of seven controversial substances suspected of causing ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $20.00! \| first editions
23	Kiss: A Memoir #1 by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist see all copies from $11.34! new only from $99.00!
24	Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy more books like this by Kathryn Harrison add to wishlist see all copies from $2.94! new only from $9.99!
25 view cover	Racing to the Bottom?: Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation more books like this by Kathryn Harrison (Editor) add to wishlist The spectre of a "race to the bottom" is increasingly prominent in debates about globalization and also within federal systems, where the mobility of both capital and individuals prompts fears of inter-jurisdictional competition. This volume asks whether Canadian provinces are racing to the bottom and, if so, with what consequences? Contributors ... see all copies from $27.96! new only from $27.96!

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