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A Mind of Her Own: The Story of Mystery Writer Agatha ChristieUncover the fascinating, inspiring, and sometimes mysterious true story of world-renowned detective novelist Agatha Christie's journey to authorship in this picture book biography. Before Agatha Christie became the greatest mystery writer of all time, she was a girl who loved books, make-believe, and puzzling...
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Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard WrightRichard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers...
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton AngelsA whip-smart and "fast-paced mystery" (The Daily Telegraph, London) from the internationally bestselling author of The Twyford Code and The Appeal about a true crime journalist who revives a long-buried case about a cult--and finds herself too close to the story. Everyone knows the...
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Savarkar and the Making of HindutvaA monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority...
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Letters to a Spiritual SeekerThe writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature, Thoreau sought to "lead a fresh, simple life with God." In 1848 a seeker named Harrison...
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James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, NovelistBiographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island, and received eighty letters from him. Meyers's knowledge of Salter's life provides many new insights about the personal, literary, and...
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The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who LunchKonrad Bercovici was a celebrated author and journalist and friend of many leading 20th century figures, including John Reed, Charlie Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway, and Paul Robeson. Mirana Comstock is a screenwriter, poet, and musician who has recorded and performed in New York and the...
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Ayn Rand and the World She MadeA New York Times Notable Book A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Ayn Rand's books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the Libertarian movement, influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan...
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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in WritingTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. "Ink is a...
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Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006Winner of the 2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated Book Design category. Sometime after Andy Warhol's heyday but before Soho became a tourist trap, a group of poets, punk rockers, guerilla...
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The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and FoundSylvia Brownrigg's "wise, intimate, and deliciously entertaining memoir" (Carol Edgarian) reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost and found When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him...
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Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky LifeA rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies--those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams--were justified by their...
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Letters to Friends, Family, and EditorsCollected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here are more than two decades' worth of Franz Kafka's letters to the men and women with whom he maintained his closest personal relationships, from his years as a student in Prague...
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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick TrainaAt once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel's tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all. "This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind,...
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Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of GriefIn October 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching a class. "When will you be home?" Steve asked. "I have news." So began the Hollars family's year of plenty--a year of cancer; COVID; and falling short as parents, partners, and...
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Summertime"Not since Disgrace, has he written with such urgency and feeling." -The New Yorker J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee's new book follows...
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A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian LifeWinner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and...
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A Chance Meeting: American EncountersWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture--from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp--now includes a new introduction by the author."They met in ordinary...
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of InterviewsShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a...
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One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael FieldThe first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer "Michael Field"--the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partners Michael Field was known to late-Victorian readers as a superb poet and playwright--until Robert Browning let slip Field's secret identity:...
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