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The Real Alice in Wonderland: A Role Model for the AgesAlice Pleasance Liddell inspired what is considered today to be the greatest children's story of all time - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland brought Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll together forever. The story behind this story is a dramatic saga of...
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceHenry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881)....
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Only ChildFrank O'Connor was a shy child from a Cork slum who somehow became aware that there was something grander beyond his life and the lives around him."Frank O'Connor's early life of Michael O'Donovan belongs with the best of its kind. It is that of...
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Nine Continents: A Memoir in and Out of ChinaWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyXiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir, Nine Continents is the story of a curious mind coming of age...
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A Whole New Life: An Illness and a HealingReynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us...
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Letters to a Young PoetIn 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an...
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The Stone ChildWhat if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real? Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. That's why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes a dream...
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Journal 1887-1910A wry, observant masterpiece--one of the singular treasures of the French fin de siècle Written between the age of twenty-three and his death at age forty-six, Jules Renard's Journal 1887-1910 is a triumph of introspection and wit. One of the most celebrated figures of...
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Something of Myself: For My Friends, Known and Unknown - The Complete Unfinished AutobiographyThis unfinished autobiography by Rudyard Kipling offers a glimpse into the author's early life, and some of the periods he spent working on his most famous books and poems.Little of this autobiography refers to the private life of the author, his purpose instead being...
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Who Was A. A. Milne?Find out how stories about his son's stuffed bear, famously known as Winnie the Pooh, made A. A. Milne one of the world's best-known children's authors in this informative biography from the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Series, Who Was?. Born in England in...
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El Último En Morir / The Last to Die«Todos pueden morirse, menos el narrador, o la historia tambi n acaba en el pante n. He aqu una retorcida historia de amor. Nuestro prospecto de h roe ha de ganarse su papel en ella con las reglas que impuso desde ni o. No...
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George Orwell: A LifeA sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950). Both of his classic novels have been...
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If You Knew Then What I Know NowNew York Magazine's The Year in Books pickThe Millions' A Year in Reading pickSalon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite Books The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter's coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played...
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Over the Hills and Far AwayInspired by the twenty-three "tales," Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a...
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Jane and the Waterloo MapJane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mystery November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is about to declare bankruptcy--dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys...
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Haunted Helena:: Montana's Queen City GhostsHelena was born of the gold rush, nurtured by the wealth of its financiers and raised on its political struggles. The lawless gold camp and its vigilante hangings left an indelible imprint on the modern community. Restless spirits from Helena's turbulent past still linger...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain - 100th Anniversary Edition"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain Within your hands is a glimpse into the life, mind, soul, and "truth" of cherished American icon, Mark Twain. This uncensored autobiography is not only a legacy...
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Pathologies: A Life in EssaysIn these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the complex heart of being human. Each essay dissects an aspect of Olding's life experience?from her vexed relationship with her father to her tricky dealings with...
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Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and UpdatedConversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937-2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. Harrison labeled himself and...
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Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine AdventuresA dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance In Chinese, the closest expression to "oh my god" is "wo de ma ya." It's an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you're out...
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