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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha ChristieThe life of Agatha Christie was as mysterious and eventful as her fiction. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel traces the life of the Queen of Whodunnit from her childhood in Torquay, England, through a career filled with success, mischief, and adventure, to her later...
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Teffi: A Life of Letters and of LaughterTeffi was one of twentieth century Russia's most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people - from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin - and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were...
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Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences"You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, 'What'd you do with your life?' And me being like, 'Well, I sold a...
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Wang Kuo-Wei: An Intellectual BiographyIn this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang's intimate, thirty-year personal and...
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The Brontës of Haworth Moor: How the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the Most Revolutionary Novelists of Their TimeA fascinating look into the Brontë sisters' lives and how they achieved their childhood dreams of being published authors. In 1820, the Brontë family traveled to their new home on the edge of Haworth Moor. There, the Brontë sisters and their brother were given...
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Old Man and His GodAuthor: Sudha MurtyPublisher: India PenguinPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 52Binding Type: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.59dISBN: 9780144001019This title is only available via back order
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American WestThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey...
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My Life in Paper: Adventures in EphemeraPaper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates--we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart's memoiristic exploration of the paper legacies we forge and leave. Kephart's obsession with paper began in...
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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan PoeOver 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this gifted, complicated...
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The Man in the Empty BoatFrom the author of Iron & Silk comes a moving memoir of love and family, loss and spiritual yearning Anxiety has always been part of Mark Salzman's life: He was born into a family as nervous as rabbits, people with extra angst coded into...
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One Kiss AloneEthan Penn-Leith is the most renowned poet of his day-his likeness so widely recognized, he is regularly accosted by adoring admirers. Everyone wants something from him-his time, words, charm, torn bits of his kilt . . . Everyone, that is, but Lady Allegra Gilbert....
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Among Others: Friendships and EncountersA unique memoir of a lifetime'srelationships - from one of Britain's most beloved literary companions.It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a briefword, looking back on life from his ninetieth...
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The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African BoyThe Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded as Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-1980) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village...
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Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical ExodusGoodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus is Vic Sizemore's collection of personal essays chronicling two simultaneous transformations. One is the gathering of unconnected--and nonpolitical--evangelical congregations across the nation into the political juggernaut called the Religious Right; the other is the author's own coming to...
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Floor Sample: A Creative MemoirFloor Sample is a memoir from the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron... Julia Cameron has transformed the creative lives of millions, showing them that creativity is their uniquely human birthright. But long before the tools of The Artist's Way changed the conversation around creativity,...
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Self-Portrait in Green: 10th Anniversary EditionWho are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost). They are seductive (one marries her best friend's father). And they are unbearably personal (one is the author's own mother). They...
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Letters to a Young PoetBorn in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old student sent...
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The Love ScribeFrom the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays comes a charming novel about a woman with a special gift--her stories help people fall in love. When Alice's best friend, Gabby, is reeling from a breakup, Alice writes her a heartfelt story to cheer...
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A Year and a Day: An Experiment in EssaysA compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life--movies and art, friends and family--over the course of a single year....
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John BarleycornJack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century. But throughout his colorful life-from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations as a well-traveled seaman, Yukon gold prospector, waterfront brawler, unemployed vagrant, impassioned socialist,...
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