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Listening for MadeleineMadeleine L'Engle is perhaps best recognized as the author of A Wrinkle in Time, the enduring milestone work of fantasy fiction that won the 1963 John Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature and has enthralled millions of readers for the past fifty years....
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Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011"[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It's a pleasure to be in their company." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available...
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Feh: A MemoirFrom the acclaimed author of Foreskin's Lament, a memoir of the author's attempt to escape the biblical story he'd been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a...
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DiaryA single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in...
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A Joyous Transformation: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966-1977A Joyous Transformation marks the end of Anaïs Nin's 35,000-page diary, the publication of which began in 1966 with the heavily edited Diary of Anaïs Nin. It chronicles Nin's final years, which were spent in the glow of newfound fame and at battle with...
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Returning: A Spiritual JourneyA grippingly honest account of how one man succeeded in filling the emptiness at the core of his soul. --RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People One of the most important memoirs of the spirit I've ever read....
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Consent: A MemoirFrom the acclaimed novelist ("A virtuoso"--Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today's moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular...
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Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent CareerHe was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the glamorous worlds of the arts, politics and society, a position best exemplified by his still legendary Black and White Ball. Truman truly knew...
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Ruben DarioGeorgina Lzaro presents the life of Rubn Daro, father of Modernism, in this new addition to the award-winning series Cuando los grandes eran pequeos.Author: Georgina Laazaro LeaonPublisher: Lectorum PublicationsPublished: 02/15/2017Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.10h x 8.70w x 0.40dISBN: 9781632456410Language: SpanishAudience: Ages 9-12This title is...
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Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and RiversA River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean's lifelong struggles to reconcile very different...
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Hugging My Father's GhostIn this memoir, Zack Rogow tries to solve the mystery of the father he never knew. Lee Rogow was a widely published fiction writer, drama critic for the Hollywood Reporter, glamorous man-about-town in Manhattan of the 1950s, captain of a submarine-chaser in World War...
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DustIn this Boomer memoir, Driving Miss Daisy meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. With lilting eloquence, Summer Brenner captures the tumultuous fifties and sixties of a genteel Jewish family in Atlanta, with the South's oppressive segregation and anti-Semitism. The family drama is fraught:...
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Diary of a DetourDiary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science....
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Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague YearCould the shlock-rock '70s band Kiss in any way affect the outcome of a death-dealing twenty-first-century virus? Is Bob Ross--that permed, inimitable painter of Edenic nostalgia on PBS--actually an emissary from the land of personal loss? Might the work of Edward Hopper reflect facets...
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Finding Mr. WongSusan Crean's memoir Finding Mr. Wong chronicles her effort to piece together the life of the man she knew as Mr. Wong, cook and housekeeper to her Irish Canadian family for two generations. Reminiscing, Crean writes, "I grew up in Mr. Wong's kitchen ..."...
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A Mind of Her Own: The Story of Mystery Writer Agatha ChristieUncover the fascinating, inspiring, and sometimes mysterious true story of world-renowned detective novelist Agatha Christie's journey to authorship in this picture book biography. Before Agatha Christie became the greatest mystery writer of all time, she was a girl who loved books, make-believe, and puzzling...
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Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard WrightRichard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers...
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton AngelsA whip-smart and "fast-paced mystery" (The Daily Telegraph, London) from the internationally bestselling author of The Twyford Code and The Appeal about a true crime journalist who revives a long-buried case about a cult--and finds herself too close to the story. Everyone knows the...
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Savarkar and the Making of HindutvaA monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority...
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Letters to a Spiritual SeekerThe writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature, Thoreau sought to "lead a fresh, simple life with God." In 1848 a seeker named Harrison...
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