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Capirotada: A Nogales MemoirCapirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--"all this," writes Alberto Rios, "and things people will not tell you."Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich melange,...
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The Journals of Louisa May AlcottFrom her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty-five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable. Alcott grew up in a genteel but...
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My WorldWith a Foreword by Wade Hall A personalized travelogue, My World chronicles the inspiring story of a poor Kentucky boy who learned how to turn the rough grist of his life into the fine art of literature. Jesse Stuart's life centered on W-Hollow, Greenup...
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Body GeographicA memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate...
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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938Mary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American Communist Party, and was married to activist actor/playwright Harold...
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Diaries of a Young PoetIn April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet twenty-three, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. The project quickly...
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Hemingway: A BiographyDistinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the...
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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in WonderlandIn The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. Reveling in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life, Carroll always--at least in part--seemed...
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Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister CrowleyAleister Crowley was a blustery coward, an arrogant, misogynistic racist with fascist leanings, and a callous user, as often threatened by his sexuality as he claimed to be liberated by it. But he was also a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary...
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My Own Two FeetTold in her own words, My Own Two Feet is Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary's second heartfelt and relatable memoir.The New Yorker called Beverly Cleary's first volume of memoirs, A Girl From Yamhill, "a warm, honest book, as interesting as any novel."Now the creator...
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper LeeNew York Times Bestseller "A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we'll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life." --USA Today There are many reasons to be grateful for The Mockingbird Next Door....A zesty account of two women...
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Lettres à l'AmazoneLettres à l'AmazoneCes lettres sont des lettres et non des traits. Il y est parl de tout et mme de rien. Les sujets sy entremlent comme les brins dherbe dune prairie. Il ne faut se fier que fort peu aux titres qui les dcorent...
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The pretender: A story of the Latin QuarterThe pretender: A story of the Latin QuarterWith this reflexion I let myself collapse into a padded chair of transcendent comfort, lit a cigarette and inspected once more the amazing bank-book. Since I had seen it last several credit entries had been madeover twenty...
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American literary mastersAmerican literary mastersThe nineteen men of letters whose work is reviewed in this volume represent an important half-century of our national literary life. The starting-point is the year 1809, the date of A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker. No author is included...
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Michael FieldMichael FieldSOME years ago the writer of this book discovered to herself the work of Michael Field, with fresh delight at every step of her adventure through the lyrics, the tragedies, and later devotional poems. But she was amazed to find that no one...
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A happy half-century, and other essaysA happy half-century, and other essaysThe half-century, whose more familiar aspects this little book is designed to illustrate, has spread its boundary lines. Nothing is so hard to deal with as a period. Nothing is so unmanageable as a date. People will be born...
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Carlyle's laugh, and other surprisesCarlyle's laugh, and other surprisesThe two papers in this volume which bear the titles A Keats Manuscript and A Shelley Manuscript are reprinted by permission from a work called Book and Heart, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, copyright, 1897, by Harper and Brothers, with whose...
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The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and IIThe Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and IIALEXANDER HERZEN was born in Moscow on March 25,[1] 1812, six months before Napoleon arrived at the gates of the city with what was left of his Grand Army. He died in Paris on January 9,...
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RecollectionsRecollections - The Reminiscences of the Busy Life of One Who Has Played the Varied Parts of Sailor, Author & LecturerIt may very well be that I am doing something now which is totally unnecessary, indeed that is a foregone conclusion as far as...
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Hadrian the 7thHadrian the SeventhIn Obedience to the Decree of Urban P.M. VIII, I declare that I have no Intention of attributing any other than a purely human Authority to the Miracles, Revelations, Favours, & particular Cases, recorded in this Book; & the same as regards...
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