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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side--the Communist side--of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter S s shows what life was like for a child who loved...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the story of his own life from childhood to the present, and chronicles the journey that made him the writer he is today. Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has...

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in...

This book of essays by Norman Mailer's biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon's remembrances track the influence not only of his literary...

Just in time for Roahl Dahl Month Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was . . . ? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force,...

This is the remarkable true story of a family during one of the bleakest periods in history, a story that "radiates optimism and the resilience of the human spirit" (Washington Post). In June 1941, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are...

Finalist for the best biography of the year with Christian Book Awards.The life, thought, and legacy of C. S. Lewis--a Prophet for our TimesOne of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century, C. S. Lewis bridged literature, philosophy, and religion. He taught at...

A crime novel unlike any you've ever read--based on true eventsWhere does the line blur between fact and fiction?Acclaimed author Randall Silvis is looking for a story--any story to follow up the series of gripping mystery novels that catapulted him to success. And then,...

Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an...

Dos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta.Todo puede suceder durante el veranoJanuary Andrews es escritora de novelas románticas y una soñadora empedernida.Augustus Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es solo un cuento chino.Pero January y Gus tienen mucho más en...

How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonz les-Torres's artworks--piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles--as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation,...

An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.Author: Michael OndaatjePublisher: VintagePublished: 11/30/1993Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.56dISBN: 9780679746690Accelerated Reader:Reading Level:...

The hilarious adventures of the acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie as a child--a curious little girl who treats the everyday world as one big crime scene! As an unusual child with a penchant for puzzles, Young Agatha imagines thrilling twists on the classic fairytales...

Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college, his comic strip Igdoof was so popular that it spread to other universities Still, Jeff faced challenges. His cartoons were rejected by syndicates that...

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...

Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass.Author: Isak DinesenPublisher: VintagePublished: 10/23/1989Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9780679724759About the AuthorIsak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in...

Author: Maxine Hong KingstonPublisher: VintagePublished: 04/23/1989Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90dISBN: 9780679723288Award: National Book Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 11/01/1992 pg. 503Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1301About the AuthorMaxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house...

Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin editionAt the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and...

Anyone who has dealt with, or will soon deal with, the death of a parent will find some solace, understanding, and companionship in this perceptive book, which is, in the end, more about living than about dying.--The Washington Post.Author: Madeleine L'EnglePublisher: HarperOnePublished: 01/01/1984Pages: 256Binding...

In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy.Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have...