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Peeling the OnionIn this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps...
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Before Night Falls: A MemoirThe acclaimed memoir of homosexual Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of a Communist regime. A Penguin Vitae Edition The astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas...
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Private Novelist: FictionFrom the brilliant and incisive author of Mislaid--"a writer of extraordinary talent and range" (Jonathan Franzen) whose "capacity for inventions is immense" (BookForum)--comes a new collection of her earliest work: two wildly funny novellas (Sailing Towards the Sunset by Avner Shats and European Story...
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Between Gods: A MemoirIn this powerful memoir, bestselling author Alison Pick (nominated for the Man Booker Prize) channels Karen Armstrong and Anne Lamott as she explains the shocking family secret that eventually led to her mid-life conversion to Judaism--exploring powerful, provocative questions about family, faith, and the...
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Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa MoranteThe first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century.Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and an unshakable commitment to writing....
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With Seduction in MindThe Girl-Bachelors are back in With Seduction in Mind, a Victorian England version of 10 Things I Hate About You by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke. Guhrke, the author of Secret Desires of a Gentleman and The Wicked Ways of a...
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Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth von Arnim'When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who wrote about being happy.' Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the early twentieth century's most famous - and almost forgotten - authors. She was ahead of her time in...
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Grace in the Dirt: Poems, Songs, and Other Reflections on LifeFrom Cory Kruse, author of the critically acclaimed A Dream of Darkness, comes an incisive collection that will delight, inspire, devastate, and uplift you.Told in spare, accessible entries, Grace in the Dirt is a lyrical memoir that delves into life's ever-changing seasons, leveraging the...
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Childhood DaysAuthor: Satyajit RayPublisher: India PenguinPublished: 04/20/2020Pages: 216Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780140250794About the AuthorSatyajit Ray (1921-92) was one of the greatest film-makers of his time, known for iconic works like Pather Panchali, Charulata, Aranyer Din Ratri and Ghare Baire. He was awarded an Oscar for lifetime...
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Cold WindBeth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she's not ready to go back. But as October comes to a close, Benedict is feeling more and more like her...
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Instead of a LetterA riveting memoir about betrayed love, loss, and finding redemption and purpose in creative work. Diana Athill's childhood in the Norfolk countryside was idyllic. At the age of fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They became engaged and traveled to Oxford....
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Oh William!NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from--and what they've left behind. BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS...
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The Story I Am: Mad about the Writing LifeThis is a gorgeous book, one that will inspire anyone to make the next sentence.--Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020 Roger Rosenblatt has always been "mad about the writing life." In this new collection, he shares the stories and insights...
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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their LivesNEW & NOTEWORTHY THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and...
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Upendranath AshkAuthor: Daisy RockwellPublisher: KathaPublished: 08/01/2019Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55dISBN: 9788189020026This title is not returnable
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A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ToklasThe stories, paintings and early twentieth-century Paris of Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, come to life in this charming and innovative picture book biography, told in clever second-person free verse. Here's an insider's tour of the fascinating lives of Gertrude Stein...
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La Hermana MenorSilvina Ocampo is one of the most exquisite, talented figures of literature in Spanish. The meaning behind much of her work is a mystery; similarly, very little is known about her private life. In this book, Mariana Enriquez looks intensely at the life of...
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Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Native AmericansNo two persons in the United States have written with as much passion and power about the bond between human beings and the natural world as Thoreau of WALDEN and Muir of MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA. For both, Native Americans best exemplified the innate need...
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The Slow FarmIn this coming-of-age memoir, Tarn Wilson explores the gifts and burdens of a counterculture childhood. In the early 1970s, Wilson's hippie parents packed the family into a converted school bus with "Suck Nixon" painted on the side and aimed for the Canadian wilderness. They...
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Selected Correspondence of Kenneth PatchenSelected Correspondence of Kenneth PatchenAuthor: Kenneth PatchenPublisher: Bottom Dog PressPublished: 04/01/2012Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781933964553About the AuthorPatchen, Kenneth: - Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a rebel poet, playwright, fiction and fable writer, artist, and performer of poetry-jazz, working in...
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