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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, AbolitionistWith a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level...
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions is a substantial selection of these wide-ranging works, most of which have been unavailable since...
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I Tell You Now (Second Edition): Autobiographical Essays by Native American WritersI Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and updated biographical sketches for each writer. Brian Swann is a professor of...
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Laura Ingalls WilderOne of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into...
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the...
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The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated InterviewsA Picador Paperback Original The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century--and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.--Margaret Atwood How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that writing a...
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The Book of Margery Kempe"Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!" The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Known as the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe's Book describes the...
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Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale HurstonThis nonfiction middle grade biography explores the life and work of one of the greatest African American woman writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance whose stories, plays, essays, and articles recorded black folklore and portrayed...
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Donde No Hago Pie / Where There Is No StandingCrónica del duro proceso que sigue a la denuncia de un abuso familiar y que implica enfrentar los prejuicios de la sociedad y los obstáculos de la justicia. «Contemporáneo en su estilo breve y fragmentario -donde se cruzan diario, imágenes, géneros y lenguajes diversos-,...
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Prophet for Our TimesPeter Deunov (Beinsa Dounov), who lived in Bulgaria from 1864 to 1944, was a great and inspired teacher of the Perennial Wisdom - the essential thread of truth running through all the major world religions. He was an extraordinary man who at once embodied...
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Writing a WrongWriter for Hire Veronica Blackstone's latest client is found dead and police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but Veronica isn't convinced in this intriguingly plotted mystery. As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing...
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The Art of Eric CarleCarle is one of the most beloved illustrators of children's books. This retrospective is more than just an appreciation of his art, however. The book also contains an insightful autobiography illustrated with personal photographs, an anecdotal essay by his longtime editor, a photographic essay...
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My Fairy-Tale LifeHans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 14, made his own way there...
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Tolkien: TreasuresThis beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien's childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World War to his studies at school and university, from his exquisite illustrations...
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Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister CrowleyA rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more The name "Aleister Crowley" instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences--and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the...
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Who Was Lewis Carroll?Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works,...
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Oscar WildeWinner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research...
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Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's LifePaulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life is the definitive, authorized biography of one of the world's most popular and widely read authors--and the story of how his enormously popular novel The Alchemist came to be. Fernando Morais, the preeminent biographer in Brazil and a groundbreaking...
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Saramago. Sus Nombres: Un Álbum Biográfico / Saramago. His Names2022: AÑO SARAMAGOTras la publicación de su novela inédita, La viuda, Saramago en sus palabras y fotografías: el mejor reconocimiento al premio Nobel en su centenario. «A veces digo que yo no invento nada, que lo que hago es enseñar, como quien va por...
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Finding Querencia: Essays from In-BetweenWinner, 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award (Autobiography/Memoir category) With its roots in the Spanish verb querer--"to want, to love"--the term querencia has been called untranslatable but has come to mean a place of safety and belonging, that which we yearn for when we yearn...
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