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Alexandra: The Last Tsarinaby Carolly EricksonISBN 031230238X (0-312-30238-X)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexandra: The Last Tsarina'Book summary:Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true nature has eluded previous biographers. Using archival material unavailable before the fall of the Soviet Union, acclaimed historian Carolly Erickson's masterful study brings to life the full dimensions of the Empress's singular psychology: her childhood bereavement, her long struggle to marry Nicholas, the anguish of her pathological shyness, and her increasing dependence on a series of occult mentors, the most notorious of whom was Rasputin. With meticulous care, Erickson has crafted an intimate and richly detailed portrait of an enigmatic historical figure. Unfolding against the turbulent backdrop of Russian history in the last decades before the Revolution of 1917, this engrossing biography draws the reader in to Alexandra's isolated, increasingly troubled interior world. In these pages, the tsarina ceases to be a remote historical figure and becomes a character who lives and breathes.[via]
Intimate, rich in detail, carefully researched and informed by a generous imagination, Erickson's page-turning account of Alexandra and her times is a gem of biographical storytelling, as vivid and hard to put down as an enthralling novel.More editions of Alexandra: The Last Tsarina:
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Audrey: Her Real Storyby Alexander WalkerISBN 0312180462 (0-312-18046-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Audrey: Her Real Story'Book summary:Innocent, elegant, ethereal in her beauty, Audrey Hepburn stood alone among the actresses of her time. From her first moment of fame in Roman Holiday, through the triumphs of Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady, her screen presence was unique. Gregory Peck called her "a magical combination of high chic and high spirits." But Hepburn's story is also one of lifelong struggle--to escape the burden of family history, and to conquer the demons of her own life. In this newly expanded edition of his definitive biography, Alexander Walker reveals new details about her parents' Fascist sympathies, about Audrey's own wartime experiences, and about the tragic story of her attempts to make peace with her father before the end of his life. And he offers a moving portrait of a woman whose search for happiness was compromised all her life by insecurity, eating disorders, and an inability to find lasting love. From her troubled childhood through her heartfelt battle against world hunger on behalf of UNICEF, Alexander Walker has painted a candid and affectionate portrait of one of the world's most beloved actresses: This is Audrey's real story.[via]More editions of Audrey: Her Real Story:
Balzac: A Biographyby Graham RobbISBN 0330320157 (0-330-32015-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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The Borgias:the Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Dynastyby Michael Edward MallettISBN 0370004108 (0-370-00410-8)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Storyby Dave MarshISBN 0385154437 (0-385-15443-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Agesby Willie Donaldson, Williamson DonaldsonISBN 0304357286 (0-304-35728-6)
Hardcover, Cassell P L C
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Captain Scottby Ranulph FiennesISBN 0340826983 (0-340-82698-3)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Scott'Book summary:Having experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott endured, Sir Ranulph Fiennes is well qualified to write the biography of Captain Scott; he has endured all but the final tragedy of the much-maligned Scott and is determined to set the record straight. As well as providing a biographical account of Scott's life - written with the full and exclusive co-operation of the Scott Estate, this book traces the way that Scott's reputation has been attacked and his achievements distorted. [via]
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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrardby Sara WheelerISBN 0375754547 (0-375-75454-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard'Book summary:Sara Wheeler, author of the acclaimed Terra Incognita, became fascinated with Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard after reading The Worst Journey in the World, his classic account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, of which he was a survivor. "His book was not the disembodied account of an expedition: it was an intimate reflection of the man behind the authorial mask. I wanted a glimpse of that man," she writes. What she offers is much more than a glimpse; Cherry is a fascinating and detailed look at this complicated and often troubled hero.
A man of substantial means and a strong sense of duty, Cherry "recoiled from the sedate life of the country squire," throwing himself into strenuous adventures whenever he was not crippled by episodes of severe depression which haunted him his entire life. After returning from the pole, he traveled to eastern China as part of a zoological expedition and then served Britain in World War I before writing The Worst Journey in the World, which National Geographic has called the greatest adventure book of all time. Wheeler covers not only his many adventures, but the inner workings of the man, such as his bouts with mental illness, including delusional phases, hypochondria, and severe anxiety, all of which affected his physical health as well. She also covers his often complex relationships, including his close friendship with George Bernard Shaw, who certainly influenced Cherry's writing. Written with the cooperation of Cherry's widow and full access to his papers and notes, this is the first authorized biography of this extraordinary man. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Crime of Galileoby Giorgio SantillanoISBN 0226734811 (0-226-73481-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Dark Quartetby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0297771531 (0-297-77153-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Dear Meby Peter UstinovISBN 0316890510 (0-316-89051-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Enduranceby Alfred LansingISBN 0380006707 (0-380-00670-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endurance'Book summary:You can't really fail with a book about the Endurance. Although Ernest Shackleton's attempt to make the first Trans-Antarctic crossing barely made it out of base camp, his expedition has gone into the history books as one of the great epics of polar travel. Endurance left England in August 1914 and reached the pack-ice off Antarctica in January the following year. It sank in November, crushed by the weight of the ice, leaving Shackleton and his 27 men stranded in one of the most desolate areas of the world with no hope of rescue. Undaunted, Shackleton led his team to the edge of the ice, dragging three open life-boats that had been salvaged from the Endurance every step of the way. They then sailed to Elephant Island, a remote uninhabited outcrop of rock, where they lived off penguins and seagull. By April 1916, Shackleton realised there was no chance of them being spotted by a passing ship and he and five men set sail in the open-decked 20-foot boat, the James Caird, across 650 miles of the stormiest seas of the southern oceans for South Georgia. After narrowly surviving being shipwrecked on the reefs surrounding the western coast of South Georgia, Shackleton then proceeded to make the first-ever crossing of the mountainous island before reaching the sanctuary of the whaling station at Stromness. And it was Shackleton, in person, who led the rescue mission to Elephant Island to pick up the rest of his men. Miraculously, all 28 men survived.
Alfred Lansing's book, first published in 1957, tells it as it was. He draws heavily on the diaries and other first-person memoirs of those involved, and he writes with both style and pace. As such it is the classic tale of derring-do. What Lansing misses, though, is the social context. He provides little sense of history; in August 1914, when the Endurance left England, World War One was starting. By the time he returned home two years later, thousands of young men of his generation were lying dead on the battlefields of the Somme. The contrast is almost unbearable but Lansing makes nothing of it. Similarly he does not explain how someone like Scott, whose South Pole expedition several years earlier had been an unmitigated disaster of incompetence and bad planning, should go down in British history as one of our all-time heroes, while Shackleton, whose exploits were indeed truly heroic, has lived for so long in Scott's shadow. --John Crace [via]
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Evelyn Waugh: A Biographyby Christopher SykesISBN 0316826006 (0-316-82600-6)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Faithfull: An Autobiographyby David Dalton, Marianne FaithfullISBN 0316273244 (0-316-27324-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Garbo: A Biographyby Barry ParisISBN 0283999543 (0-283-99954-3)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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George Eliot: The Last Victorianby Kathryn HughesISBN 0374161380 (0-374-16138-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Gifted Handsby Benjamin S. CarsonISBN 0310214696 (0-310-21469-6)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gifted Hands'Book summary:Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33. Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts the seemingly impossible as he takes you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives. Filled with fascinating case histories, this is the dramatic and intimate story of Ben Carson's struggle to beat the odds -- and of the faith and genius that make him one of the greatest life-givers of the century. [via]
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Gifted Handsby Cecil Murphey, Benjamin S. CarsonISBN 0310546508 (0-310-54650-8)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gifted Hands'Book summary:In 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. The extremely complex and delicate operation, five months in the planning and twenty-two hours in the execution, involved a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Carson pioneered again in a rare procedure known as hemispherectomy, giving children without hope a second chance at life through a daring operation in which he literally removed one half of their brain. But such breakthroughs aren't unusual for Ben Carson. He's been beating the odds since he was a child. Raised in inner-city Detroit by a mother with a third grade education, Ben lacked motivation. He had terrible grades. And a pathological temper threatened to put him in jail. But Sonya Carson convinced her son that he could make something of his life, even though everything around him said otherwise. Trust in God, a relentless belief in his own capabilities, and sheer determination catapulted Ben from failing grades to the top of his class --- and beyond to a Yale scholarship . . . the University of Michigan Medical School . . . and finally, at age 33, the directorship of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Today, Dr. Ben Carson holds twenty honorary doctorates and is the possessor of a long string of honors and awards, including the Horatio Alger Award, induction into the 'Great Blacks in Wax' Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, and an invitation as Keynote Speaker at the 1997 President's National Prayer Breakfast. Gifted Hands is the riveting story of one man's secret for success, tested against daunting odds and driven by an incredible mindset that dares to take risks. This inspiring autobiography takes you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world --- and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. Through it all shines a humility, quick wit, and down-to-earth style that make this book one you won't easily forget. [via]
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Gifted Hands the Ben Carson Storyby Ben Carson, Cecil MurpheyISBN 0310546516 (0-310-54651-6)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Groucho and Meby Groucho MarxISBN 0306806665 (0-306-80666-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friendsby Charlotte ChandlerISBN 0385124449 (0-385-12444-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Howard Hughes: The Secret Lifeby Charles HighamISBN 0312329970 (0-312-32997-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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I Am Jackie Chan : My Life in Actionby Jackie ChanISBN 0345429133 (0-345-42913-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Actionby Jeff Yang, Jackie ChanISBN 0345415035 (0-345-41503-5)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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I'm the One That I Wantby Margaret ChoISBN 0345440145 (0-345-44014-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'm the One That I Want'Book summary:Don't come to this bitter, engrossing memoir for a quick and easy laugh. The material that Margaret Cho has turned to such riotous ends in her stand-up act has a very different flavor on the page. An unpopular child (okay, hated and reviled), Cho made friends with the drag queens who worked in her father's bookstore, soon becoming a fag hag, and finding this mutual attraction "both nurturing and powerful, sweet and sour, retail and wholesale." "Drag queens are strong because they have so much to fight against," writes Cho, "homophobia, sexism, pink eye." To support herself at the beginning of her comedy career, Cho worked at FAO Schwarz, sometimes moonlighting in phone sex. Occasionally the jobs would overlap, and she would find herself doing phone sex dressed as Raggedy Ann. There isn't much here about Cho's early success, but she does delve at length into her disastrous sitcom, and devotes many pages to her battles with her weight, with drugs, and with alcohol, and her hopeless relationships with men (none of the bisexual material from her stage act is included here). Cho's message is about self-esteem in the face of consistent opposition from her family, the network that aired a "Margaret Cho" sitcom but permitted her no creative control, and a society that rewards women for thinness, whiteness, meekness, and a shut mouth. --Regina Marler [via]
In Joy Still Feltby Isaac AsimovISBN 0380530252 (0-380-53025-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jeffersonby Noble E. CunninghamISBN 0345353803 (0-345-35380-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equianoby Olaudah Equiano, Robert J. AllisonISBN 0312442033 (0-312-44203-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'Book summary:Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces the original London printing, supervised by Equiano in 1789. Robert J. Allison's introduction, which places Equiano's narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, has been revised and updated to reflect the heated controversy surrounding Equiano's birthplace, as well as the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery. Improved pedagogical features include contemporary illustrations with expanded captions and a map showing Equiano's travels in greater detail. Helpful footnotes provide guidance throughout the eighteenth-century text, and a chronology and an up-to-date bibliography aid students in their study of this thought-provoking narrative. [via]
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equianoby Robert J. Allison, Olaudah EquianoISBN 0312111274 (0-312-11127-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Shelly Eversley, Robert Reid-PharrISBN 0375761152 (0-375-76115-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the African'Book summary:Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence, writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic.
The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the authors final changes to his masterwork. [via]More editions of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the African:
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Lifeby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 037542234X (0-375-42234-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life'Book summary:Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawms The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures. Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible short century which is the subject of Age of Extremes, his most widely read book, Hobsbawm has, for eighty-five years, been committed to understanding the interesting times through which he has lived.
Hitler came to power as Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He was a member of the Apostles at Kings College, Cambridge, took E.M. Forster to hear Lenny Bruce, and demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms in Trafalgar Square. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest and an evening at home with Mahalia Jackson in Chicago. He saw the body of Stalin, started the modern history of banditry and is probably the only Marxist asked to collaborate with the inventor of the Mars bar.
Hobsbawm takes us from Britain to the countries and cultures of Europe, to America (which he appreciated first through movies and jazz), to Latin America, Chile, India and the Far East. With Interesting Times, we see the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants, the incisiveness of whose views we cannot afford to ignore in a world in which history has come to be increasingly forgotten. [via]More editions of Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life:
J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potterby Marc ShapiroISBN 0312272243 (0-312-27224-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Jefferson Davis, Americanby William J. CooperISBN 0375725423 (0-375-72542-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1920, Hopes Betrayedby Robert Jacob SkidelskyISBN 0333115996 (0-333-11599-6)
Hardcover, Nelson Canada
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John Maynard Keynes Vol. 1 : Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920by Robert SkidelskyISBN 033357379X (0-333-57379-X)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Just Dessertsby Jerry OppenheimerISBN 0380731649 (0-380-73164-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Khrushchev Remembersby Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Edward Crankshaw, Strobe TalbottISBN 0233963383 (0-233-96338-3)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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King Johnby W. L. WarrenISBN 0300073747 (0-300-07374-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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L. Frank Baum: Creator of Ozby Katharine M. RogersISBN 0306812975 (0-306-81297-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Leif, the Luckyby Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, Ingri D'AiulaireISBN 0385076282 (0-385-07628-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earthby Kathryn Lasky, Kevin HawkesISBN 0316515264 (0-316-51526-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Life and Times of Cotton Matherby Kenneth SilvermanISBN 0231061250 (0-231-06125-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Life of Dylan Thomasby Constantine FitzgibbonISBN 0316284459 (0-316-28445-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Life Of Graham Greene, 1939-1955by Norman SherryISBN 0224027727 (0-224-02772-7)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The Life of Pythonby George PerryISBN 0316700150 (0-316-70015-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Life of Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of Teresa of Avilaby Teresa, E. Allison Peers, SilverioISBN 0385011091 (0-385-01109-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lincoln: A Foreigner's Questby Jan MorrisISBN 0306810328 (0-306-81032-8)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biographyby William Lee MillerISBN 0375701737 (0-375-70173-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Little Flowers Of St. Francisby Raphael BrownISBN 0385075448 (0-385-07544-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisiby Ugolino Di Monte Santa Maria, W. Heywood, UgolinoISBN 037570020X (0-375-70020-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Livingstoneby Tim JealISBN 0300091028 (0-300-09102-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Lost Prophet: The Life And Times Of Bayard Rustinby John D'EmilioISBN 0226142698 (0-226-14269-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pymby Hazel HoltISBN 0333406141 (0-333-40614-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Madonnaby Andrew MortonISBN 0312983107 (0-312-98310-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Markingsby Dag Hammarskjold, Jimmy Carter, W. H. Auden, Leif Sj-ObergISBN 0307277429 (0-307-27742-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Markings'Book summary:A book of meditations. A revealing spiritual self-portrait by one of the great peacmakers of our times.
Maturity: Among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his playmates.
Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. [via] 
Mary Wollstonecraftby Janet M. ToddISBN 0231121857 (0-231-12185-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Lifeby Janet ToddISBN 0231121849 (0-231-12184-9)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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May And Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, And the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, And Sir Edward Burne-Jonesby Josceline DimblebyISBN 0307335895 (0-307-33589-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick DouglassISBN 0252014103 (0-252-01410-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Orson Welles: Hello Americansby Simon CallowISBN 0224038532 (0-224-03853-2)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Paris to the Moonby Adam GopnikISBN 0375758232 (0-375-75823-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris to the Moon'Book summary:In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the New Yorker. He spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha, and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries. A self-described "comic-sentimental essayist," Gopnik chose the romance of Paris in its particulars as his subject. Gopnik falls in unabashed love with what he calls Paris's commonplace civilization--the cafés, the little shops, the ancient carousel in the park, and the small, intricate experiences that happen in such settings. But Paris can also be a difficult city to love, particularly its pompous and abstract official culture with its parallel paper universe. The tension between these two sides of Paris and the country's general brooding over the decline of French dominance in the face of globalization (haute couture, cooking, and sex, as well as the economy, are running deficits) form the subtexts for these finely wrought and witty essays. With his emphasis on the micro in the macro, Gopnik describes trying to get a Thanksgiving turkey delivered during a general strike and his struggle to find an apartment during a government scandal over favoritism in housing allocations. The essays alternate between reports of national and local events and accounts of expatriate family life, with an emphasis on "the trinity of late-century bourgeois obsessions: children and cooking and spectator sports, including the spectator sport of shopping." Gopnik describes some truly delicious moments, from the rites of Parisian haute couture, to the "occupation" of a local brasserie in protest of its purchase by a restaurant tycoon, to the birth of his daughter with the aid of a doctor in black jeans and a black silk shirt, open at the front. Gopnik makes terrific use of his status as an observer on the fringes of fashionable society to draw some deft comparisons between Paris and New York ("It is as if all American appliances dreamed of being cars while all French appliances dreamed of being telephones") and do some incisive philosophizing on the nature of both. This is masterful reportage with a winning infusion of intelligence, intimacy, and charm. --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Passions of Andrew Jacksonby Andrew BursteinISBN 0375714049 (0-375-71404-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passions of Andrew Jackson'Book summary:Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and a man of the people, but he was much morea man just as complex and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric.
The unabashedly aggressive Jackson came of age in the Carolinas during the American Revolution, migrating to Tennessee after he was orphaned at the age of fourteen. Little more than a poorly educated frontier bully when he first opened his public career, he was possessed of a controlling sense of honor that would lead him into more than one duel. As a lover, he fled to Spanish Mississippi with his wife-to-be before she was divorced. Yet when he was declared a national hero upon his stunning victory at the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson suddenly found the presidency within his grasp. How this brash frontiersman took Washington by storm makes a fascinating story, and Burstein tells it thoughtfully and expertly. In the process he reveals why Jackson was so fiercely loved (and fiercely hated) by the American people, and how his presidency came to shape the young countrys character. [via]More editions of The Passions of Andrew Jackson:
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Perkin: A Story of Deceptionby Ann WroeISBN 0224069705 (0-224-06970-5)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Philip of Spainby Henry Arthur Francis KamenISBN 0300078005 (0-300-07800-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinnedby Brian MoynahanISBN 0306809303 (0-306-80930-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Fatherby Jim WightISBN 0345434900 (0-345-43490-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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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]
Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom : Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriageby Kendall TaylorISBN 0345447166 (0-345-44716-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Sort of Lifeby Graham GreeneISBN 0370003276 (0-370-00327-6)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Culturesby Anne FadimanISBN 0374525641 (0-374-52564-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Stalin: Triumph and Tragedyby Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold ShukmanISBN 0297810804 (0-297-81080-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Summer of the Great-Grandmotherby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374271747 (0-374-27174-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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They Went That-A-Way: How the Famous, the Infamous, and the Great Diedby Malcolm ForbesISBN 0345362500 (0-345-36250-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cookby William Cook, Peter CookISBN 031231891X (0-312-31891-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Cook's reputation has continued to flourish since his death, and many consider him (along with Spike Milligan) one of the greatest comic writers this country has produced. Although his public face was always the quaffing, sardonic commentator, he was, in fact, a writer who simply never stopped creating new sketches and articles for both public consumption and his own satisfaction. Many of these pieces have not been published before, and many have only been broadcast once. This collection brings together many high spots of Cook's career: from his early success with Beyond the Fringe (and his initial meetings with Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore) to his time as an éminence grise behind the magazine Private Eye.
Needless to say, all the marvellous EL Whisty monologues are here, as well as classic Pete and Dud routines, and even the more scabrous collaborations between Cook and Moore as the foul-mouthed Derek and Clive. The fact that Cook's Milligan-like drawings complement the text makes this a truly cherishable volume. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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VN : The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokovby Andrew FieldISBN 0356142345 (0-356-14234-5)
Hardcover, MacDonald & Company (Publishers), Limited
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The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Author of Anne of Green Gablesby Mollie GillenISBN 0245529713 (0-245-52971-3)
Hardcover, Harrap
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The White House Yearsby Henry KissingerISBN 0316496618 (0-316-49661-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Why Sinatra Mattersby Pete HamillISBN 0316738867 (0-316-73886-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon Englandby David C. DouglasISBN 0300078846 (0-300-07884-6)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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