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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821by Robert V. ReminiISBN 0801859115 (0-8018-5911-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesusby David LewisISBN 0895556030 (0-89555-603-0)
Softcover, Tan Books & Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus'Book summary:Written at the command of her confessors, the books of this 16th century Spanish saint and mystic (a beloved friend to another great Spanish mystic, John of the Cross), St. Teresa's writings remain classics of Christian mysticism. Less abstract and theoretical than her friend, Teresa's works are no less noteworthy for the brilliance of their ability to convey with both warmth and rigor some flavor of this most extraordinary experience: union with God. Her autobiography may well be the best entry point into her work and into the great mystical literature of the Christian church. Here she describes her early life and education, the conflicts and crisis she underwent, culminating in her determination to enter fully into the path of prayer. Following a description of the contemplative life, which she explores in four stages, she returns to her own life in order to describe (in erotic language reminiscent of the Song of Songs) the ecstatic experiences given to her by God.
If the idea of mysticism seems hopelessly otherworldly to you, try a taste of St. Teresa, who can be as down to earth as Oprah--and sometimes just as amusing. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Birds, Beasts And Relativesby Gerald DurrellISBN 0844672661 (0-8446-7266-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped Americaby Brian LambISBN 0812933397 (0-8129-3339-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America'Book summary:It wouldn't be entirely unfair--or necessarily a criticism--to call this anthology "Biography Lite." Not that the authors or protagonists of the 85 books it covers are by any stretch of the imagination lightweights. Such distinguished scholars as David Herbert Donald and Nell Irwin Painter share space with respected popular historians like David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin; those profiled include no fewer than 23 American presidents (from George Washington to Bill Clinton), such intellectual heavyweights as Albert Einstein, and capitalist titans on the order of John D. Rockefeller. Since the material is drawn from interviews the writers gave on the popular C-SPAN series Booknotes, however, it unsurprisingly tends to be "brief and anecdotal," as Lamb (the show's host) puts it in his introduction. Still, the anecdotes are often hilarious. Readers learn that Rockefeller chewed each bite of food 10 times and that British prime minister Margaret Thatcher saved the leftovers from state dinners and served them at home, and the interviewees do a commendable job of summing up their subjects' significance in very few words. Like the television program, Booknotes: Life Stories cheerfully promotes in a pleasantly populist manner worthy books you might actually get around to reading someday. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Borgias : The Rise and Fall of the Most Infamous Family in Historyby Michael MallettISBN 0897332385 (0-89733-238-5)
Hardcover, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
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Born to WinISBN 0860018075 (0-86001-807-5)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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C. S. Lewis: Images of His Worldby Clyde S. Kilby, Douglas GilbertISBN 0802828000 (0-8028-2800-0)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'C. S. Lewis: Images of His World'Book summary:This reissue of a treasured classic offers a beautiful window into the people and places that shaped the life of beloved author, scholar, and apologist C. S. Lewis. In photographs and text (much of it in Lewis's own words), Douglas Gilbert and Clyde S. Kilby introduce us to such memorable friends as J. R. R. Tolkien and transport us to such magical places as the deer park outside Lewis's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford. We also meet Lewis as a talented and brilliant child in Belfast, captivated by the myths and legends of the North, already writing and illustrating imaginative stories and poems at a young age. While the book includes an essay tracing Lewis's struggle to find faith and a chronology of his life, it is not a biography per se but rather a personal introduction, a composite portrait of a fascinating individual and the world in which he lived. Attractively laid out in a fresh new format, this volume will be prized both by longtime fans of Lewis and by those encountering him for the first time. [via]
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C. S. Lewis:Images of His World: Images of His Worldby Clyde S. Kilby, J. RinzemaISBN 0802815456 (0-8028-1545-6)
Hardcover, W. B. Eerdmans Pub Co
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Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marleyby Timothy WhiteISBN 0805080864 (0-8050-8086-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley'Book summary:Bob Marley, reggae superstar and pop culture icon, left an indelible mark on modern music. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley delves deep into the life of the lionized leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that still reverberates more than a decade after his death. Almost nothing pertaining to the life of Bob Marley is left out; the origins of Rastafarianism (the Ethiopian religion that was the keystone of his life), the roots of the reggae sound, the Jamaican political and social debacle that informed his lyrics--this is a comprehensive account of the life of the artist and the times that produced him.
Catch a Fire is assiduously researched; the details writer Timothy White presents of the King of Reggae's life are cinematic in scope and, at times, cumbersome. White includes much of his primary source material, ranging from full interviews with band members to unearthed CIA documents, and devotes a whole section to describing his exhaustive research process. The final product is rich with elements of spiritual tome, rock biography, and history text; it is a hagiographic epic--the story of a man and his legend. --Brendan J. LaSalle [via]
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Charles Dickensby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0860120147 (0-86012-014-7)
Hardcover, Burns and Oates
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Clinging to the Wreckageby John MortimerISBN 0899191339 (0-89919-133-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clinging to the Wreckage'Book summary:"Clinging to the Wreckage" - the first part of John Mortimer's hilarious and moving autobiography. "A true masterpiece of the genre". ("The Times"). Here John Mortimer recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations. Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain's best-loved writers. It will delight readers of P.G. Wodehouse, Roald Dahl and fans of Rumpole. "Enchantingly witty ...should be held as the model for all autobiographies of our times". (Auberon Waugh). Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional trilogy about the inexorable rise of an ambitious Tory MP in the Thatcher years ("Paradise Postponed", "Titmuss Regained" and "The Sound of Trumpets") has recently been republished in "Penguin Classics", together with "Clinging to the Wreckage" and his play "A Voyage round My Father". His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include: "The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole"; "The Collected Stories of Rumpole"; "The First Rumpole Omnibus"; "Rumpole and the Angel of Death"; "Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders"; "Rumpole and the Primrose Path"; "Rumpole and the Reign of Terror"; "Rumpole and the Younger Generation"; "Rumpole at Christmas"; "Rumpole Rests His Case"; "The Second Rumpole Omnibus"; "Forever Rumpole"; "In Other Words"; "Quite Honestly" and "Summer's Lease". [via]
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The Crime of Galileoby Giorgio De SantillanaISBN 0809436272 (0-8094-3627-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Damon Runyon: A Lifeby Jimmy BreslinISBN 0899199844 (0-89919-984-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Duchamp : A Biographyby Calvin TomkinsISBN 0805057897 (0-8050-5789-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duchamp : A Biography'Book summary:Marcel Duchamp, born into an artistic middle-class French family in 1887, first gained recognition as an artist in 1913 when he submitted his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 to the Armory Show in New York. The newspapers latched onto it after discovering that there was no trace of a nude, or even a real figure, in the painting, which came to symbolize the movement of modern art toward absurdity, humor, and avant-garde disregard for expectations. As an artist, Duchamp never matched the success and recognition of his most well-known work; later in his career, his works of "art" consisted of signed ceramic urinals. Calvin Tomkins, a writer for The New Yorker who befriended Duchamp in New York in the 1960s, has written the first full-length biography of the enigmatic Dadaist. [via]
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Egg and Iby Betty Bard MacDonaldISBN 0891909591 (0-89190-959-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egg and I'Book summary:When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall through chaos and catastrophe this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor.
A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier. [via]More editions of Egg and I:
Elizabeth: Grand Duchess of Russiaby Hugo MagerISBN 0786706783 (0-7867-0678-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Enduranceby Alfred LansingISBN 078670621X (0-7867-0621-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endurance'Book summary:Outline In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year [via]
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyageby Alfred LansingISBN 0786708425 (0-7867-0842-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage'Book summary:In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally able to set sail again in one of the ship's lifeboats. Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage is a white-knuckle account of this astounding odyssey.
Through the diaries of team members and interviews with survivors, Lansing reconstructs the months of terror and hardship the Endurance crew suffered. In October of 1915, there "were no helicopters, no Weasels, no Sno-Cats, no suitable planes. Thus their plight was naked and terrifying in its simplicity. If they were to get out--they had to get themselves out." How Shackleton did indeed get them out without the loss of a single life is at the heart of Lansing's magnificent true-life adventure tale. [via]
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Ethical Writings: His Ethics or "Know Yourself" and His Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christianby Peter Abelard, Paul Vincent SpadeISBN 0872203220 (0-87220-322-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Faithfull: An Autobiographyby David Dalton, Marianne FaithfullISBN 0815410468 (0-8154-1046-8)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faithfull: An Autobiography'Book summary:From pop stardom through the depths of addiction to her punk-rock comeback, Marianne Faithfull's life captures rock 'n' roll at its most decadent and its most destructive. Faithfull's first hit, 1964's "As Tears Go By," opened doors to the hippest circles in London. There she frolicked with the most luminous of the young, rich, and reckless, including Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones.
Her legendary affair with Mick Jagger produced one hit single, "Sister Morphine," and countless headlines. Faithfull left the relationship a strung-out junkie. Struggling to kick drugs and revive her musical career, she recorded Broken English in 1979, an edgy, hard-hitting, critical triumph. As honest in her autobiography as in her music, Faithfull is a searing, intimate portrait of a woman who examines her adventures and misadventures without flinching, without apology. [via]More editions of Faithfull: An Autobiography:
Frederick the Greatby Robert B. AspreyISBN 0899198406 (0-89919-840-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigmaby Robert B. AspreyISBN 0899193528 (0-89919-352-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma'Book summary:A cradle-to-the-grave of one of the most intriguing rulers in history, King Frederick the Great who raised the small kingdom of Prussia to major power status in the turbulent military and political struggles of the 18th century. A cruel childhood forced him to lie, deceive and cheat in order to enjoy, if only for brief periods, the life of an intellectual. Once on the throne he spent many years of often brilliant field command of his army in seemingly endless campaigns. He remained an intellectual, however, an essayist, historian, poet, flautist, consorting when possible with the French writer Voltaire.
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Gandhi the Manby Eknath EaswaranISBN 0915132966 (0-915132-96-6)
Softcover, Nilgiri Pr
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Garboby Barry ParisISBN 081664182X (0-8166-4182-X)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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George Eliotby Kathryn HughesISBN 0815411219 (0-8154-1121-9)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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Gifted Handsby Benjamin S. CarsonISBN 0828006695 (0-8280-0669-5)
Softcover, Review & Herald Pub Assn
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Hello, I Must Be Going : Groucho and His Friendsby Charlotte Chandler, Bill CosbyISBN 0806513462 (0-8065-1346-2)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim of Crisisby Ralph FreedmanISBN 088064172X (0-88064-172-X)
Softcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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Hiding Placeby John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten BoomISBN 0800792475 (0-8007-9247-5)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiding Place'Book summary:During the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their pains, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. Listeners will experience all the fear and tension associated with hiding from the Nazis during World War II. [via]
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jeffersonby Noble E. CunninghamISBN 0807113751 (0-8071-1375-1)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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James Madison: A Biographyby Ralph Louis KetchamISBN 0813912652 (0-8139-1265-2)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebridesby John G. PatonISBN 085151667X (0-85151-667-X)
Hardcover, Banner of Truth
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John G. Paton, MissionaryISBN 0851511317 (0-85151-131-7)
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Jonathan Edwards: A Guided Tour to His Life and Thoughtby Stephen J. NicholsISBN 0875521940 (0-87552-194-0)
Softcover, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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Joseph Campbell : A Fire in the Mind: the Authorized Biographyby Stephen Larsen, Robin LarsenISBN 0892818735 (0-89281-873-5)
Hardcover, Inner Traditions International, Limited
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Kon-Tiki Man: An Illustrated Biography of Thor Heyerdahlby Thor Heyerdahl, Christopher RallingISBN 0811800695 (0-8118-0069-5)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Leif, the Luckyby Edgar P. Daulaire, Ingri D'AiulaireISBN 0964380307 (0-9643803-0-7)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leif, the Lucky'Book summary:Considered by some children's book authorities to be the d'Aulaire's finest work, this biography of Leif Erickson, son of Eric the Red, best exemplifies the artist's skill in Norwegian folk art, style, and history. Their well-researched text is lavishly illustrated with Viking rune-like carvings, from the dragon prow of the ship that Leif must hurry to remove, lest it anger the spirits of the land, to the stave churches so unique to Norway. Landscapes depict emerald green fjords against floes of ice and mountains of snow. The grand halls of King Olav Trygvason are ornamented with carvings of Nordic mythical creatures while tame polar bear cubs romp and play. In this setting the young Leif grows to manhood and learns the skills of navigation, sailing his own ship when just a teen from Greenland to Norway. It is on his return journey that he discovers a new landwhat we now know to be Newfoundland. Later he sends settlers thereactually establishing a colony. His tale is aptly and authentically told in the d'Aulaires's inimitable style. [via]
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Lincoln: A Foreigner's Questby Jan MorrisISBN 0786226242 (0-7862-2624-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisiby Francis of AssisiISBN 0872432467 (0-87243-246-7)
Softcover, Templegate Pub
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The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisiby Louise Bachelder, Abby Langdon AlgerISBN 0802725260 (0-8027-2526-0)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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Louis Armstrongby Laurence BergreenISBN 0767901568 (0-7679-0156-8)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis Armstrong'Book summary:The author of a terrific Irving Berlin biography (As Thousands Cheer), Laurence Bergreen produces a similarly astute character analysis of the renowned trumpet player, too often viewed as a musical genius but an Uncle Tom in race relations. On the contrary, Bergreen shows, Louis Armstrong (1901-71) was that rarest of human beings, someone who could respond to injustice with a determination to overcome that never included bitterness. Slightly stronger on milieu than music, Bergreen conveys such zest for the material and such obvious fondness for Armstrong that his book is a delight to read. [via]
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Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moonby Leonard S. MarcusISBN 0807070491 (0-8070-7049-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Markingsby Dag HammarskjoldISBN 081616441X (0-8161-6441-X)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Villageby Samuel DelanyISBN 0816645248 (0-8166-4524-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village'Book summary:"A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age." William Gibson
"Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. . . . Delanys vision of the necessity for total social and political transformation is revolutionary." Hazel Carby
"The prose of The Motion of Light in Water often has the shimmering beauty of the title itself. . . . This book is invaluable gay history." Inches Magazine
Born in New York Citys black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the citys new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decades opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.
Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction [via]
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My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick Douglass, John StaufferISBN 0812970314 (0-8129-7031-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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My Sergeiby Ekaterina Gordeeva, E. M. SwiftISBN 0783819633 (0-7838-1963-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Orson Welles: A Biographyby Barbara LeamingISBN 0879101997 (0-87910-199-7)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grassby Isak DinesenISBN 0816141827 (0-8161-4182-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass'Book summary:Out of Africa is Karin Blixen's love letter to the country she called home for nearly 20 years. Arriving in British East Africa (now Kenya) from Denmark in 1914, Blixen--Isak Dinesen was her pen name--was immediately seduced by the landscape of the Ngong hill country, not to mention the animals and people who inhabited it. Her descriptions bring this wonderland alive for readers: out on safari, she recalls the movements of a group of giraffes, "in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long-stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing." Blixen laces into her reverie the account of her coffee plantation--which ultimately succumbed to high altitude, droughts, and tumbling international coffee prices--and tales of her friendships with other colonials in Nairobi. But one should read her memoir for the stories she tells of cooking with her Kikuyu chef (who almost never ate any of the European delicacies he so expertly created), adopting an abandoned infant antelope, flying over the countryside in her lover's plane--"the greatest, most transporting pleasure of my life on the farm"--and watching the children of her tenant farmers collect at her house each day at noon for the spectacle of her cuckoo clock.
Though some of her references to native Africans will likely make today's readers uncomfortable, Blixen can also be perceptive, particularly in her articulation of the differences between European and African culture and her excitement over what she learns from "her" Africans. It is not long before she is attuned to the rhythms of nature: she can foresee when the rains will come, can spot the new moon before anyone else on the farm, and knows exactly what the silence of night should sound like. Though her sorrow is almost unbearably palpable when at last--after the collapse of the farm, the loss of her lover, and the war looming--Blixen leaves Africa, the reader will close the book richer for her sojourn. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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Paris to the Moonby Adam GopnikISBN 0783893981 (0-7838-9398-1)
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Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Freeby Frederick Fyvie BruceISBN 0802847781 (0-8028-4778-1)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Paul, Apostle of the Free Spiritby F. F. BruceISBN 0853642095 (0-85364-209-5)
Hardcover, Paternoster Press
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The Perfect Princeby Ann WroeISBN 0812968115 (0-8129-6811-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nationby Catherine AllgorISBN 0805083006 (0-8050-8300-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation'Book summary:An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, groundbreaking portrait of the early days of the republic--and the birth of modern politics[via]
When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere, which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain in 1812, Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband, James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and by her death in 1849 was the most celebrated person in Washington. And yet, to most Americans, she's best known for saving a portrait from the burning White House, or as the namesake for a line of ice cream.
Why did her contemporaries give so much adulation to a lady so little known today? In A Perfect Union, Catherine Allgor reveals that while Dolley's gender prevented her from openly playing politics, those very constraints of womanhood allowed her to construct an American democratic ruling style, and to achieve her husband's political goals. And the way that she did so--by emphasizing cooperation over coercion, building bridges instead of bunkers--has left us with not only an important story about our past but a model for a modern form of politics.
Introducing a major new American historian, A Perfect Union is both an illuminating portrait of an unsung founder of our democracy, and a vivid account of a little-explored time in our history.More editions of A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation:
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Picasso: The Complete Writingsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0807066575 (0-8070-6657-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso: The Complete Writings'Book summary:Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments: Picasso as founder of Cubism, associate of Apollinaire, Braque, Derain, other notables; titanic, creative spirit. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.[via]More editions of Picasso: The Complete Writings:
A Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percyby Jay TolsonISBN 0807844470 (0-8078-4447-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Princess Sultana's Daughtersby Jean SassonISBN 0786202017 (0-7862-0201-7)
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Princess Sultana's Daughters: A Saudi Arabian Woman's Intimate Revelations About Sex, Love, Marriage-And the Fate of Her Beautiful Daughters-Behind the Veilby Jean P. SassonISBN 0967673755 (0-9676737-5-5)
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolutionby Caroline WeberISBN 0805079491 (0-8050-7949-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution'Book summary:In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France[via]Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her.
Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion--the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs--was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.More editions of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution:
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Richard Thompson : Strange Affair: The Biographyby Patrick HumphriesISBN 0863699936 (0-86369-993-6)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Thompson : Strange Affair: The Biography'Book summary:This work takes an in-depth look at Thompson's life and career, and is written with the full co-operation of Richard Thompson, as well as his family and friends. The book is published to coincide with the release of a new Thompson album in 1996. [via]
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Rommel the Desert Foxby Desmond YoungISBN 084880869X (0-8488-0869-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrixby Charles CrossISBN 0786888415 (0-7868-8841-5)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Run, Baby, Runby Nicky CruzISBN 0882706306 (0-88270-630-6)
Softcover, Bridge Logos Pub
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Scott Fitzgerald: A Biographyby Jeffrey MeyersISBN 0815410360 (0-8154-1036-0)
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Scoundrel Timeby Lillian HellmanISBN 0816164460 (0-8161-6446-0)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Stalin: Triumph and Tragedyby Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold ShukmanISBN 0802111653 (0-8021-1165-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Stand Facing the Stove : The Story of the Woman Who Gave America the Joy of Cookingby Anne MendelsonISBN 0805029044 (0-8050-2904-4)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Stephen Kingby Douglas E. WinterISBN 0916732436 (0-916732-43-6)
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophersby Will DurantISBN 0808577697 (0-8085-7769-7)
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Testament of Experienceby Vera BrittainISBN 0860681106 (0-86068-110-6)
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Through The Shadowlands: The Love Story Of C. S. Lewis And Joy Davidmanby Brian SibleyISBN 0800730704 (0-8007-3070-4)
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The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gablesby Mollie GillenISBN 0889020183 (0-88902-018-3)
Hardcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:Lucy Maud Montgomery is Canada's best-known writer of children's fiction. Anne of Green Gables-- in print, film, television, on stage--captures people's imaginations as easily now as it did when it burst upon the world in 1908.
Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in Prince Edward Island and she set her best-loved stories there. She worked briefly as a journalist, but family responsiblities shaped her life as a young single woman. At 36 she married a dour, often depressive Presbyterian minister and moved to Ontario. There she lived a life of contradictions--in private, the romantic, successful imaginative writer; in public the strict, dutiful minister's wife.
Using diaries and letters Lucy Maud never intended to be made public, The Wheel of Things is a pioneering biography of one of Canada's most successful and important writers. Since its publication, the release of Montgomery's diaries and other work by scholarly writers have confirmed the life story that Mollie Gillen tells so well in this important and path-breaking biography. [via]More editions of The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gables:
The Wheel of Things: Lucy Maud Montgomeryby Mollie GillenISBN 0887801099 (0-88780-109-9)
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Why Sinatra Mattersby Pete HamillISBN 0786217537 (0-7862-1753-7)
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The World of Edward Goreyby Clifford Ross, Karen WilkinISBN 0810990830 (0-8109-9083-0)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Written Livesby Javier Marias, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0811216896 (0-8112-1689-6)
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