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Wallace Stegner's Salt Lake CityWallace Stegner (1909 1993) was born near Lake Mills, Iowa, and grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada; Great Falls, Montana; and Salt Lake City. He spent nearly twenty years in Salt Lake, from 1921 to 1937, and attended East High School and the University of...
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Ken Saro-WiwaHanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation. Though he is rightly known for his...
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Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of FriendsJeanne Foster challenged the accepted role for women at the turn of the twentieth century. Born on a hardscrabble farm in the Adirondack Mountains in 1879, she was hailed as an important voice in American poetry by 1916 when her first books of verse,...
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An Olaf Stapledon ReaderOlaf Stapledon (1886-1950), philosopher, novelist, educator, and social activist had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. Along with H.G. Wells he is remembered as one of the most original and influential pioneers of twentieth-century science fiction. This first broadly...
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Russell Kirk: American ConservativeEmerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr.,...
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The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba KovnerThe Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918-1987). An unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, Kovner was born in Vilna, the Jerusalem...
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Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and GoddessesWhether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston's Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the legacies of those she has crossed...
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Lou Von Salome: A Biography of the Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche and RilkeThe daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, a groundbreaking essayist, and a well-known...
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A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England- GEOFFREY CHAUCER - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - JANE AUSTEN - ROBERT BROWNING & ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING - EDGAR ALLAN POE - CHARLES DICKENS - CHARLOTTE & EMILY BRONTË - EMILY DICKINSON - MARK TWAIN - GEORGE ELIOT - THOMAS HARDY - OSCAR WILDE -...
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Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961Almost 600 letters written by Ernest Hemingway between 1917 and 1961 that provide an intimate portrait of one of the most original and influential American writers. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life,...
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Island of Last ResortsPrivate investigator Kate Weller knows her co-workers are in serious trouble when she is unable to reach them in the third enthralling Marked for Retribution mystery. Kate Weller's boss, Nate Price, has some exciting news: Julian Frazier, a friend of one of the agency's...
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The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie EncyclopediaWhich poison was used most frequently in Agatha Christie's novels? How many of her novels featured a butler? Exactly where on the train were the suspects located in Murder on the Orient Express? How many actors have portrayed Hercule Poirot? Get a clue...or a...
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Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them. Now young readers will see just how similar Laura's true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867...
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My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian ChildhoodHow does a daughter tell the story of her father? Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze...
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Caught by the Sea: My Life on BoatsAnother such wave could easily be the end of us. I had to do something, fix something, save the boat, save myself. But what? Gary Paulsen takes readers along on his maiden voyage, proving that ignorance can be bliss. Also really stupid and incredibly...
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Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical WritingsFrom one of modern literature's most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style....
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides; Introduction by Allan Massie [With Ribbon Marker]When in 1773 James Boswell persuaded the great Samuel Johnson--then aged sixty-three--to embark with him on a tour of Boswell's native Scotland, the adventure resulted in two magnificent books, Johnson's JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND and Boswell's JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO...
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James Joyce: A New BiographyA revealing biography of one of the twentieth century's towering literary figuresJames Joyce is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, foundational in the history of literary modernism. Yet Joyce's genius was not immediately recognized, nor was his success easily won. At...
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Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais NinAnais Nin was the ultimate femme fatale, a passionate and mysterious woman, world famous for her extravagant sexual exploits, most notably her simultaneous affairs with Henry and June Miller and her bicoastal bigamous marriages. In the mid-1920s, eager to break the confines of American...
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Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic AdventureIn 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the "first real outstanding adventure" of his life, taking a berth as ship's surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and...
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