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To My Children's ChildrenThis powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance...
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BrontëCharlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront --faced with an ailing father and an alcoholic brother--pursue independence through art in this graphic vision of the lives of three legendary writers. Despite their family's stormy fortunes, the Bront sisters resolved to write. To thwart the nineteenth century's...
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For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and MoreWhich famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What was Truman Capote superstitious about? Here is a light-hearted book about books and the...
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Feed Your Mind: A Story of August WilsonA celebration of August Wilson's journey from a child in Pittsburgh to one of America's greatest playwrights August Wilson (1945-2005) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who had a particular talent for capturing the authentic, everyday voice of Black Americans. As a child, he...
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Living on LuckLiving on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/30/2002Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.04h x 5.99w...
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Rudyard Kipling: A LifeThis absorbing, widely praised biography brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular Jungle Books and collections of poems like Barracks Room Ballads as well as the masterly novel Kim propelled him to the pinnacle of literary...
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Matters of the HeartIn this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman's journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall. . . . Top photographer...
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Good-Bye to All That: An AutobiographyIn this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to...
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Panther in the Basement"Countries need writers as their voices of conscience; few have them. Israel has Oz." -- Washington Post The year is 1947: the last days of the British mandate in Palestine. Twelve-year-old Proffy, indoctrinated by his patriotic father and a zealous Bible teacher, dreams of...
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Bard of Avon: The Story of William ShakespeareCelebrate 400 years of Shakespeare's legacy with this repackage of award-winning author Diane Stanley's tribute to the world-famous playwright William Shakespeare. Nobody knows exactly when or why William Shakespeare left his boyhood home of Stratford-on-Avon for the great city of London, but it didn't...
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Tolstoy in ContextLikened to a second Tsar in Russia and attaining prophet-like status around the globe, Tolstoy made an impact on literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, and politics. His novels and stories both responded to and helped to reshape the European and Russian literary traditions....
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No WordsMeg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a children's book author with a case of writer's block and an arrogant novelist who have to set aside their differences as...
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The Twisted Road Of One Writer (#13 in The Bregdan Chronicles Historical Fiction Series): The Birth of The Bregdan ChroniclesThis book is not an actual continuation of The Bregdan Chronicles. It is an answer to the constant request to know how The Bregdan Chronicles started. If you're not interested, you can move ahead to more Bregdan adventures in Book # 14 - Misty...
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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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