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Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914-1944by Bertrand Russell RussellISBN 0049210092 (0-04-921009-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats: Consisting of Reveries over Chilhood and Youth, the Trembling of the Veil, and Dramatis Personaeby W. B. YeatsISBN 0026327104 (0-02-632710-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Barbara Bush: A Memoirby Barbara BushISBN 0312956649 (0-312-95664-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Before I Say Goodbyeby Matt Seaton, Ruth Picardie, Justine PicardieISBN 0140276300 (0-14-027630-0)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memoriesby Nichelle NicholsISBN 1572970111 (1-57297-011-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Born Againby Charles ColsonISBN 0310606403 (0-310-60640-3)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born Again'Book summary:Born Again is the autobiography of one of the most influential men of our time. It is not only a remarkable story of one man's redemption in Christ, but a fascinating look inside the events of one of our generation's most riveting sagas.
In 1974 Charles W. Colson pleaded guilty to Watergate-related offenses and, after a tumultuous investigation, served seven months in prison. In his search for meaning and purpose in the face of the Watergate scandal, Colson penned Born Again. This unforgettable memoir shows a man who, seeking fulfillment in success and power, found it, paradoxically, in national disgrace and prison. In the decades since its initial publication, Born Again has brought hope and encouragement to millions. This remarkable story of new life continues to influence lives around the world through a dozen foreign editions.
HENDRICKSON CLASSIC BIOGRAPHIES feature enduring stories about real people whose lives have been touched and transformed by God, and who in turn have touched others with God's love. Each story has been carefully selected, gently edited if necessary, and freshly typeset, making every account be it ancient or contemporary a compelling read. Great lives reaching across the ages to touch lives today, encouraging, challenging, and inspiring.
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Born On The Fourth Of Julyby Ron KovicISBN 1888451785 (1-888451-78-5)
Softcover, Akashic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born On The Fourth Of July'Book summary:[via]A great, courageous fellow, a man of deep moral convictions and an uncompromising disposition. John Kerry on Ron Kovic
As relevant as ever, this book is an education. Ron is a true American, and his great heart and hard-won wisdom shine through these pages. Oliver Stone, filmmaker
Born on the Fourth of July brings back the era of the Vietnam War at a time when the Establishment is trying to make the nation forget what they call the Vietnam syndrome. Ron Kovics memoir is written with poetic passion and grips your attention from the very first page to the last. It is a classic of antiwar literature and I hope it will be read by large numbers of young people, who will be both sobered and inspired by his story. Howard Zinn
If you want to understand the everlasting reverberations of our war in Vietnam and how it impacts our current events, you must read this book. LARRY HEINEMANN
There is no book more relevant in the 21st century to healing the wound of Vietnam, which continues to bring so much pain to our country, as reflected in the last presidential election . . . It remains to Kovic to remind us that history matters, and that the cost of our high follies persists. ROBERT SCHEER, Los Angeles Times columnist
This New York Times bestseller (more than one million copies sold) details the author's life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film version)--from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
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Burning the Daysby James SalterISBN 1860463428 (1-86046-342-8)
Hardcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning the Days'Book summary:This memoir tells the story of James Salter's life to date, one that consists of two very different careers: Air Force fighter pilot and distinguished writer. A West Point graduate, Salter flew more than 100 combat missions during the Korean War. This book features descriptions of these and other flying adventures. In addition to his stories and novels, James Salter is the author of numerous screenplays (including "Downhill Racer"), and spent more than ten years in the movie industry. He has known some of the most talented men and women of his time, and their portraits appear in the book. James Salter is the author of "The Hunters", "The Arm of Flesh", "A Sport and a Pastime", "Light Years", "Solo Faces" and "'Dusk' and Other Stories". He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction in 1989. [via]
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeysby Michael CollinsISBN 1885283148 (1-885283-14-8)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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Childhood, Boyhood and Youthby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140441395 (0-14-044139-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood, Boyhood and Youth'Book summary:The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work, "Childhood", which was written when he was only twenty-three. A semi-autobiographical work, it recounts two days in the childhood of ten-year-old Nikolai Irtenev, recreating vivid impressions of people, place and events with the exuberant perspective of a child enriched by the ironic retrospective understanding of an adult. "Boyhood and Youth" soon followed, and Tolstoy was launched on the literary career that would bring him immortality. [via]
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Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Lifeby John MortimerISBN 0140068600 (0-14-006860-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Come, Tell Me How You Liveby Agatha Christie MallowanISBN 0002161354 (0-00-216135-4)
Hardcover, Collins
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Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbeyby David Petersen, Edward Abbey, Roger DonaldISBN 0316004154 (0-316-00415-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbeyby Edward AbbeyISBN 0316004162 (0-316-00416-2)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Mealby Anthony BourdainISBN 1582341400 (1-58234-140-0)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal'Book summary:A Cook's Tour is the written record of Anthony Bourdain's travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year-old knees after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of Kitchen Confidential as collateral, Mr. Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.
The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere, and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia, and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep's testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California's Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined kaiseki rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarymen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don't-try-this-at-home shots of the author in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.
You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Goghby Vincent Van Gogh, Theo Van Gogh, Irving Stone, Jean StoneISBN 0304292931 (0-304-29293-1)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Delta of Venusby Anais NinISBN 0156029030 (0-15-602903-0)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delta of Venus'Book summary:Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a stunning collection of sexual encounters from the queen of literary erotica. From Mathilde's lust-filled Peruvian opium den to the Hungarian baron driven insane by his insatiable desire, the passions and obsessions of this dazzling cast of characters are vivid and unforgettable. Delta of Venus is a deep and sensual world that evokes the very essence of sexuality. [via]
Diary of a Geniusby Salvador DaliISBN 0132099411 (0-13-209941-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1660by Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William A. Armstrong, William MatthewsISBN 0004990218 (0-00-499021-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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El Puente Hacia El Infinito / The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestoryby Richard BachISBN 8466621261 (84-666-2126-1)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Puente Hacia El Infinito / The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory'Book summary:Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soulmates in this modern-day fairy tale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. This unconventional novel is about a riveting love affair between two fully human people who are willing to explore time travel and other dimensions togethereven as they grapple with the earthly struggles of intimacy, commitment, smothering, and whose turn it is to cook.[via]More editions of El Puente Hacia El Infinito / The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory:
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Eroticaby Anais NinISBN 0156074702 (0-15-607470-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Erotica'Book summary:Steamy, seductive poetry! [via]
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhoodby Elspeth Joscelin Grant HuxleyISBN 0141183780 (0-14-118378-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood'Book summary:[via]In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discoveredthe hard waythe world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.
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Forgotten Soldierby Guy SajerISBN 1574882864 (1-57488-286-4)
Softcover, Potomac Books Inc
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Germs: A Memoir of Childhoodby Richard WollheimISBN 1904130143 (1-904130-14-3)
Softcover, Waywiser Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germs: A Memoir of Childhood'Book summary:Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a Gaiety Girl mother; together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar) to the grand houses and hotels that punctuated the landscape of Wollheim's early years. Germs is his account of that time, of the years he spent adoring his charming but distant father; of his regret for loathing his beautiful, mindless mother. Told in prose that with hypnotic ease moves from deadpan comedy to poignant loneliness, Germs is already a classic work of memoir.[via]More editions of Germs: A Memoir of Childhood:
Groucho and Meby Groucho MarxISBN 0306806665 (0-306-80666-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Ham on Ryeby Charles BukowskiISBN 006117758X (0-06-117758-X)
Softcover, Ecco Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ham on Rye'Book summary:Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beaten by his father, Chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence (struck with the worst case of acne his doctors have ever seen) through to the first jobs he can't and won't hold down. In this moving story of growing up Bukowski disciplines his muscular, concentrated writing and creates a novel that distils his poetry into the finest full-length piece of prose that he ever wrote. Bukowski is often good but in Ham on Rye he's great.
Sadly, best known as the alcoholic inspiration for the film Barfly (an experience he reflected on in his book Hollywood), it is as a poet, rather than a drunk, that Bukowski should be best remembered. His bitter, caustic, direct, humane, damaged poetry reflects a life dominated by poverty and booze. His poetry stretches over many, many volumes but Bukowski also wrote great novels: all of them have many faults but the first four books he wrote shine for similar reasons. Post Office and Factotum both dissect, quite brilliantly, the life of an angry, poor man forced to do mindless jobs, pushed around and considered mindless by the fools who force him to do them. Women, as Roddy Doyle points out in his short introduction, continues the themes but focuses on the numerous women who share his hero's bed and bottle. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Highcastle: A Remembranceby Stanisaw Lem, Michael KandelISBN 0156004720 (0-15-600472-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Highcastle: A Remembrance'Book summary:The author describes his innocent childhood as the son of a doctor in Lvov between the two world wars, during which his most vivid memories include episodes with his gossipy French tutor, the view from a confectionary store, and halvah stands. [via]
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Hole in My Lifeby Jack GantosISBN 0374430896 (0-374-43089-6)
Softcover, Sunburst
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Homesickby Jean Fritz, Margot TomesISBN 0142407615 (0-14-240761-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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I Need Moreby Iggy PopISBN 1880985438 (1-880985-43-8)
Softcover, 2 13 61
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Incest: From a Journal of Love The Unexpurgated Diary of Anias Nin, 1932-1934by Anais NinISBN 0156443007 (0-15-644300-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incest: From "a Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934'Book summary:This previously unpublished portion of the author's diary includes details of her relationships with Henry Miller and his wife, June; writer and actor Antonin Artaud; and her father. By the author of Little Birds. 15,000 first printing. [via]
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Is That It?by Bob Geldof, Paul VallelyISBN 0345351975 (0-345-35197-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinskiby Klaus Kinski, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0140255362 (0-14-025536-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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L'Enfant Noir: Prix Charles Veillon 1954, Romanby Camara LayeISBN 2266023128 (2-266-02312-8)
Softcover, Presse Pocket
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Enfant Noir: Prix Charles Veillon 1954, Roman'Book summary:221pages. 10,9cm x 17,8cm x 1,3cm. broché. Je ne pensais qu'à moi-même et puis, à mesure que j'écrivais, je me suis aperçu que je traçais un portrait de ma Haute-Guinée natale. Au-delà du récit autobiographique d'une jeune écrivain de 25 ans, L'enfant noir nous restitue, dans toute sa vérité, la vie quotidienne, les traditions et les coutumes de tout un peuple. [via]
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Letters and Papers from Prisonby Dietrich BonhoefferISBN 0020839200 (0-02-083920-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters and Papers from Prison'Book summary:Letters and Papers from Prison is a collection of notes and correspondence covering the period from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's arrest in 1943 to his execution by the Gestapo in 1945. The book is probably most famous, and most important, for its idea of "religionless Christianity"--an idea Bonhoeffer did not live long enough fully to develop, but whose timeliness only increases as the lines between secular and ecclesial life blur. Bonhoeffer's first mention of "religionless Christianity" came in a letter in 1944:
What is bothering me incessantly is the question what Christianity really is, or indeed who Christ really is, for us today. The time when people could be told everything by means of words, whether theological or pious, is over, and so is the time of inwardness and conscience--and that means the time of religion in general. We are moving towards a completely religionless time; people as they are now simply cannot be religious any more. Even those who honestly describe themselves as "religious" do not in the least act up to it, and so they presumably mean something quite different by "religious."
The pleasures of Letters and Papers from Prison, however are not all so profound. Occasionally, Bonhoeffer's letters burst into song--sometimes with actual musical notations, other times with unforgettable phrases. Looking forward to seeing his best friend, Bonhoeffer writes, "To meet again is a God." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of Letters and Papers from Prison:
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The Life of Henry Brulardby Stendhal, John SturrockISBN 0140446117 (0-14-044611-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Henry Brulard'Book summary:"The Life of Henry Brulard" is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers. In this book, written with such frankness that it remained unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, the author of "The Charterhouse of Parma" and "The Red and the Black" tells the story of his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and uncovers the roots of his rebellious and skeptical temperament. Stendhal conjures up the elusive presence of his beloved mother, who died when he was only seven, while castigating the smug complacency and social climbing of his father, and the cruelty of the aunt whose care blighted his early years. At the same time he recalls the sights, sounds, places, and people of his youth, its pleasures and sorrows, with an almost preternatural clarity and immediacy. A book of brilliant images and burning emotions, "The Life of Henry Brulard", like Nabokov's "Speak, Memory", is not only a vivid literary memoir but an extraordinary work of the imagination. [via]
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Living My Lifeby Emma Goldman, Miriam BrodyISBN 0142437859 (0-14-243785-9)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living My Life'Book summary:[via]Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famousand notoriouswoman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattans Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenins Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment and ideological turbulence.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Condensed to half the length of Goldman's original work, this edition is accessible to those interested in the activist and her extraordinary era
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town Americaby Bill BrysonISBN 0060920084 (0-06-092008-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America'Book summary:A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self-inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked."
Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think? [via]
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Man in Blackby Johnny CashISBN 0310223210 (0-310-22321-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officerby Siegfried SassoonISBN 1931313814 (1-931313-81-4)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
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Moments of Reprieveby Primo LeviISBN 0140188959 (0-14-018895-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Lifeby John MortimerISBN 0140248005 (0-14-024800-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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My Father and Myselfby J. R. AckerleyISBN 0156623250 (0-15-662325-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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My Forbidden Face: Growing up under the Taliban a Young Woman's Storyby Latifa, Chekeba HachemiISBN 1860499619 (1-86049-961-9)
Softcover, Virago
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Forbidden Face: Growing up under the Taliban a Young Woman's Story'Book summary:Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day becoming a journalist: she was interested in fashion, movies, and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedomswalking down the street, looking out a windowwere no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. Earlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group.[via]More editions of My Forbidden Face: Growing up under the Taliban a Young Woman's Story:
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My Lifeby Lyn HejinianISBN 1931243336 (1-931243-33-6)
Softcover, Green Integer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Life'Book summary:[via]Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a womans fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience. Upon its first publication by Sun & Moon Press (the edition reprinted here) the publication Library Journal described the book as one that "is an intriguing journey that both illuminates and perplexes, teases and challenges, as it reveals an innovative artist at work."
Lyn Hejinian is the author of The Cell, The Cold of Poetry, Writing Is an Aid to Memory and A Border Comedy. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at the University of California.
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Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faithby William F. BuckleyISBN 0156006189 (0-15-600618-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith'Book summary:In Nearer, My God, William F. Buckley Jr. turns away from the political concerns that form the crux of his reputation and offers a series of thoughtful meditations upon his Roman Catholic faith. Although the book is subtitled An Autobiography of Faith, only portions of it are strictly autobiographical. Other sections include ruminations on the controversies of the modern Church--such as the continued ban on birth control and the ordination of female priests--and an exegesis of Difficulties, a remarkable 1934 collaborative debate between a Catholic priest and an amateur theologian. ("The volume has slipped from regular use," Buckley writes, "and even from the memory of younger people, but it is not anachronized, though it takes on some questions that no longer vex the religiously curious.")
Buckley writes with consistent intelligence and precision; how, indeed, could it be otherwise? Even those who do not agree with him politically will be struck by the sensitivity of his spiritual inquiry, particularly in his elaboration of the distinction between contemporary Catholic practice and the enduring Catholic heritage. Nearer, My God serves as a splendid testimony to the maintenance of faith. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Orton Diariesby Joe OrtonISBN 006091498X (0-06-091498-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Othersby John Lahr, Joe OrtonISBN 0306807335 (0-306-80733-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others'Book summary:To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature. When Joe Orton (19331967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot, and was completing What the Butler Saw; but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Ortons skull with a hammer before killing himself. The Orton Diaries, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles; his sexual escapadesat his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers; and the breakdown of his sixteen-year "marriage" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.[via]More editions of The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others:
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collageby Kurt VonnegutISBN 038528747X (0-385-28747-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage'Book summary:In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonneguts singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.
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Quicksands: A Memoirby Sybille BedfordISBN 1582433518 (1-58243-351-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksands: A Memoir'Book summary:Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).[via]
Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation. None other than notoriously hard-to-satisfy Bruce Chatwin asserted that "when the history of modern prose in English comes to be written, Mrs. Bedford will have to appear in any list of its most dazzling practitioners."
Comparisons. While not yet as big a name in the U.S. as her talent would suggest, Bedford ranks with the elder states(wo)men of contemporary literature. Think of her in the same breath as Shirley Hazzard, Penelope Fitzgerald, Joan Didion, Anita Brookner, and Cynthia Ozick.
Another chance to rediscover a long-lost great. The past few years the literary world has witnessed a number of spectacular career rebirths. Paula Fox, e.g., emerged after a long silence with the NBCC finalist Borrowed Finery and stacks of rave reviews. In some cases, this reassessment has even worked posthumously--as seen in the attention lavished on Rebecca West's Survivors in Mexico. Expect Bedford's Quicksands to be the next to get this royal treatment.
The Counterpoint reissues. This book, very likely to be Bedford's last (she's 92), will also form the culmination of the Counterpoint reissues of the Bedford backlist. Look forward to the same crisp, classic packaging for this latest outing.More editions of Quicksands: A Memoir:
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Road to Wigan Pierby George OrwellISBN 0156767503 (0-15-676750-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Road to Wigan Pier'Book summary:Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does not lessen the book's interest. [via]
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Running in the Familyby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0140069666 (0-14-006966-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running in the Family'Book summary:Picture The Great Gatsby with heat, tea plantations, and even more gin and you've got part of Michael Ondaatje's 1982 Running in the Family. Set in Ondaatje's native Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Running begins with the champagne shenanigans of competitively romantic upper-class youths swept up in that first global trend, the Jazz Age: "They all went swimming again with just the modesty of the night. An arm touched a face. A foot touched a stomach. They could have almost drowned or fallen in love." The main characters to emerge from this frolicking set of dancers and drinkers are Ondaatje's parents, and it is upon them that the book turns from moonlit serenades to financial and emotional ruin.
Part travelogue, part family memoir (complete with photographs), part collection of poems, Running is also a poignant autobiography/biography that reimagines the alcoholism of Ondaatje's father Mervyn and the eventual (inevitable?) divorce of his parents. In telling these tall tales, Ondaatje is affectionate and insightful toward a father who was clearly difficult to accommodate in life. Driving intoxicated over a rickety wooden bridge no one else would trust in any condition, Mervyn turns to young Michael to wink and claim, "God loves a drunk."
Running marks the commencement of Ondaatje's growing interest in migration (does running run in the family?). The expatriate characters of Ondaatje's later novels are here presaged by a generation of Ceylonese steaming off to England for education and an enduring love of cricket. Salman Rushdie knows that "the past is a country from which we are all migrants." In Running in the Family, Ondaatje reaches back, inwards, and abroad to map that most treasured and troubled of places, the human heart. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Scoundrel Timeby Lillian Hellman, Garry Wills, Kathy BatesISBN 0316352942 (0-316-35294-2)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scoundrel Time'Book summary:In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial. Nonetheless the experience brought devastating controversy and loss. First published in 1972, her retelling of the time features a remarkable cast of characters, including her lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett, a slew of famous friends and colleagues, and a pack of "scoundrels" -- ruthless, ambitious politicians and the people who complied with their demands. [via]
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Star Trek Movie Memoriesby William ShatnerISBN 0061093297 (0-06-109329-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Trek Movie Memories'Book summary:The sequel to the bestselling Star Trek Memories, documenting in deliciously lurid and candid detail all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans in the making of the six Star Trek movies, with on-the-scene reporting from the set of the seventh in which...Kirk dies!
Star Trek Movie Memories recounts all the chaos, creative turmoil, backstage politics, power plays and production nightmares that permeated every one of the six Star Trek movies, including the accumulated grudges that haven't yet mellowed with the passage of time. And the stories... Nicholas Meyer writing the script for Star Trek II in twelve days... Kirstie Alley doing her Leonard Nimoy imitation in an audition... How Kirk's love interest in Star Trek IV began as a role for Eddie Murphy, and you can imagine the rest (or maybe not).
With stories and quotes from the principles that have never before been uttered in public, this will deliver a truly unprecedented behind-the-scenes view of the Trek films that will amaze even the most avid Trekker. And on top of it all, the hardcover will be published in time for the seventh film, which will present the perfect opportunity to tie the old crew and stars including Robert Wise, Ricardo Montalban, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Plummer, Christian Slater to Patrick Stewart and the cast of The Next Generation. The torch will be passed, and William Shatner will tell us all about how it feels as his character is killed off in the film's finale. [via]
Strange Places, Questionable People : Updated with a New Chapter on Kosovoby John SimpsonISBN 033035566X (0-330-35566-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Sun in the Morningby M. M. KayeISBN 0312049994 (0-312-04999-4)
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Swimming To Cambodiaby Spalding GrayISBN 1559362545 (1-55936-254-5)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swimming To Cambodia'Book summary:[via]It took courage to do what Spalding didcourage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our heartsmy heartbecause he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life. Eric Bogosian
Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous. The New York Times
In 2004, we mourned the loss of one of Americas true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Grays legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Grays singular artistry.
Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; Its a Slippery Slope; Grays Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme.
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A Tale of Love and Darknessby Amos Oz, Nicholas De LangeISBN 015603252X (0-15-603252-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale Of Love And Darkness'Book summary:Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.[via]
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide, a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen and joins a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel.
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendshipby Ann PatchettISBN 0060572159 (0-06-057215-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth & Beauty: A Friendship'Book summary:What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together. Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long, cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this book shows us what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined. This is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest. [via]
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Under Fire: An American Storyby Oliver L. NorthISBN 0061090565 (0-06-109056-5)
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The Way the Future Wasby Frederik PohlISBN 0345260597 (0-345-26059-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Whispering Landby Gerald DurrellISBN 0143037080 (0-14-303708-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whispering Land'Book summary:Through windswept Patagonian shores and tropical forests in the Argentine, Durrell searches for additions to his private zoo. [via]
Without Stopping: An Autobiographyby Paul BowlesISBN 0061137413 (0-06-113741-3)
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Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excessby Danny SugermanISBN 0349101752 (0-349-10175-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonderland Avenue : Tales of Glamour and Excess'Book summary:[via]This is the autobiography of Danny Sugerman, Jim Morrison's protege and one-time manager of The Doors and then Iggy Pop. It is also an account of heroin addiction and the madness of life in the LA rock 'n' roll scene.More editions of Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess:
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Broderiesby Marjane SatrapiISBN 2844140955 (2-84414-095-5)
Hardcover, Association
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L'enfant Noirby M. RochesterISBN 1585101532 (1-58510-153-2)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'enfant Noir'Book summary:Table des matières Introduction Poème: A ma mère Texte, accompagné de notes linguistiques et culturelles Activités Mise en train Questions à choix multiple Réflexions Essais Termes littéraires Bibliographie [via]
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Lettres Des Deux Amants: Attribuees a Heloise Et Abelardby Ewald Konsgen, Heloise, Peter Abelard, Sylvain PironISBN 207077371X (2-07-077371-X)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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UN Granjero De Diez Anosby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Josefina Guerrero, Garth WilliamsISBN 8427932243 (84-279-3224-3)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'UN Granjero De Diez Anos'Book summary:El sueno de Almanzo, el mas joven de la familia, seria poder cuidar de los caballos, y sobre todo, poder domar un potro y poderlo montar a su antojo. Para su padre esa es una tarea que necesita madurez, ya que los caballos son unos animales muy fragiles y nerviosos. Almanzo se esfuerza cada dia en obtener la confianza de su padre, hasta que este, cuando se acerca el aniversario de Almanzo, le estimula a tomar una decision por si mismo, una decision que sera fundamental para su futuro, ir a la ciudad o quedarse en el campo. [via]
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