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20 Years at Hull Houseby Jane AddamsISBN 0899682596 (0-89968-259-6)
Hardcover, Lightyear Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '20 Years at Hull House'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Anastasia: The Lost Princessby James B. LovellISBN 0895265362 (0-89526-536-2)
Hardcover, Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
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Arnold Bennett: A Biographyby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0839829035 (0-8398-2903-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Rooseveltby Eleanor RooseveltISBN 0839828519 (0-8398-2851-9)
Softcover, Olympic Marketing Corp
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Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicalsby Timothy T. Larsen, David W. Bebbington, Mark A. NollISBN 0830829253 (0-8308-2925-3)
Hardcover, Intervarsity Pr
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Borstal Boyby Brendan BehanISBN 0879234156 (0-87923-415-6)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Brother to a Dragonflyby Will D. CampbellISBN 0826412688 (0-8264-1268-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brother to a Dragonfly'Book summary:Will Campbells award-winning book shares two interrelated stories. One is of his youth in rural Mississippi and his devotion to his brother whose life ended in seeming tragedy. The other tells of his ordination at age 17 and gradual realization that civil rightsfor blacks, for women, for gays was an essential part of a ministry that has not yet ended. [via]
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C. H. Spurgeon Autobiography: The Early Years, 1834-1859by Charles H. SpurgeonISBN 0851510760 (0-85151-076-0)
Hardcover, Banner of Truth
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C. T. Studdby Norman GrubbISBN 0875082025 (0-87508-202-5)
Softcover, Christian Literature Crusade
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Charles Laughton : A Difficult Actorby Simon CallowISBN 0880641800 (0-88064-180-0)
Softcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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Cocteau: A Biographyby Francis SteegmullerISBN 087923606X (0-87923-606-X)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummingsby Richard S. KennedyISBN 087140155X (0-87140-155-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Early Churchills, an English Familyby Alfred L. RowseISBN 0837164281 (0-8371-6428-1)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press
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Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsideredby Russell KirkISBN 089385039X (0-89385-039-X)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Elvis and Meby Sandra Harmon, Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyISBN 0896216926 (0-89621-692-6)
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Lifeby Gretchen Craft RubinISBN 0812971442 (0-8129-7144-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Franz Kafka: Representative Manby Frederick R. KarlISBN 0880641460 (0-88064-146-0)
Softcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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Gary Snyder: Dimensions of a Lifeby Jon HalperISBN 0871566168 (0-87156-616-8)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesmanby Ed CrayISBN 0815410425 (0-8154-1042-5)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleonby Stephen W. SearsISBN 0899199143 (0-89919-914-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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George Muller: Delighted in God!by Roger SteerISBN 0877883041 (0-87788-304-1)
Softcover, WaterBrook Press
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George Muller: Man of Faith & Miracles A Biography of One of the Greatest Prayer-Warriors of the Past Centuryby Basil MillerISBN 0871231824 (0-87123-182-4)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Granuaile: Ireland's Pirate Queen C. 1530-1603by Anne ChambersISBN 0863279139 (0-86327-913-9)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malleyby Anne ChanbersISBN 0863270077 (0-86327-007-7)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters And Reflectionsby Tom BrokawISBN 0812975308 (0-8129-7530-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters And Reflections'Book summary:The popularity and credibility of charismatic news anchor Tom Brokaw ensured bestseller status for The Greatest Generation, Brokaw's homage to the Americans who survived and overcame the depression and World War II. The Greatest Generation Speaks expands his thesis that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to those tough and courageous men and women for ensuring the freedoms and comforts that Americans enjoy today. Their stories, culled from letters, interviews, and personal histories of the Greatest Generation and their family members, are anecdotal but extremely powerful, showing how men and women were sustained by simple ideals of patriotism, family, and fair play. This individualistic portrait is exactly how Americans saw themselves: Brokaw's book is a valid reflection of the times.
During a period of economic hardship and in a country united by the war effort, choices were simple; few people questioned why America was fighting Germany and Japan. Adversity brought out the best, especially in an optimistic culture like America's. As the soldier who found Beethoven's pianos in a Weimar house says after his unit is shelled, "Nothing like a close call to make the morning more beautiful." The greatest impression that war veterans seem to carry back from war is a sense of comradeship that, in spite of pain and loss, render their war years the most rewarding of all their life experiences. Modern life doesn't necessarily have the same certainties. The Greatest Generation Speaks is a healthy reminder of the foundations on which American society is built. --John Stevenson [via]
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts, Thomas P. WhitneyISBN 0813332893 (0-8133-3289-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Gustav Mahlerby Kurt BlaukopfISBN 087910029X (0-87910-029-X)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Includes Register of Mahler's Works; Bibliography; Index; and seventeen black-and-white photographs [via]More editions of Gustav Mahler:
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empireby James Wallace, Jim EricksonISBN 0887306292 (0-88730-629-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hemingway Vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendshipby Scott DonaldsonISBN 0879517115 (0-87951-711-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Upby Bob ColacelloISBN 0815410085 (0-8154-1008-5)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez An Autobiographyby Richard RodriguezISBN 0879234180 (0-87923-418-0)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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Ivan the Terribleby Henri TroyatISBN 0880292075 (0-88029-207-5)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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J. Robert Oppenheimer : Shatterer of Worldsby Peter GoodchildISBN 0880640219 (0-88064-021-9)
Softcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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James Madison: The Founding Fatherby Robert Allen RutlandISBN 0826211410 (0-8262-1141-0)
Softcover, Univ of Missouri Pr
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John Adams: A Lifeby John E. FerlingISBN 0870497308 (0-87049-730-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometryby Siobhan RobertsISBN 0887842011 (0-88784-201-1)
Hardcover, Anansi
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Lake Wobegon Daysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0896216861 (0-89621-686-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Leeby Charles Brace FloodISBN 0844670138 (0-8446-7013-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Lee and Grant: A Dual Biographyby Gene SmithISBN 0883940736 (0-88394-073-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Lenin for Beginnersby R. Appignanesi, Oscar ZaranteISBN 0904613674 (0-904613-67-4)
Softcover, Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative
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Lennon Remembersby John Lennon, Jann WennerISBN 0879320095 (0-87932-009-5)
Hardcover, Straight Arrow Books
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Life Among the Savagesby Shirley JacksonISBN 089733342X (0-89733-342-X)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldmanby Candace Serena FalkISBN 0813515130 (0-8135-1513-0)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messengerby Philip MarchandISBN 089919947X (0-89919-947-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Cultureby David KushnerISBN 0812972155 (0-8129-7215-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture'Book summary:Doom, the video game in which you navigate a dungeon in the first person and messily lay waste to everything that crosses your path, represented a milestone in many areas. It was a technical landmark, in that its graphics engine delivered brilliant performance on ordinary PC hardware. It was a social phenomenon, with individuals and companies hooking up networks specifically for Doom tournaments and staying up for days to blast away on them (well before the Internet went big-time). The game's publisher, id Software, used an unusual shareware marketing strategy (give away the first levels, charge for the more advanced ones) that worked very well. On top of it all, the gore-filled game raised serious questions about decency in products meant for use by school-age kids. Masters of Doom explores the Doom phenomenon, as well as the lives and personalities of the two men behind it: John Carmack and John Romero.
This book manages, for the most part, to keep clear of the breathless techno-hagiography style that characterizes many books with similar subjects. He tells the story of Carmack, Romero, and id--which includes far more than Doom and its successors--in novel style, and he's done a good job of keeping the action flowing and the characters' motivations clear. Some of the quoted passages of dialog sound like idealized reconstructions that probably never came from the lips of real people, but this is an entertaining and informative book, of interest to anyone who's let rip with a nail gun. --David Wall
Topics covered: The biographies of John Carmack and John Romero, and of their company, id Software. The development and marketing of all major id games (including Wolfenstein, Doom, Doom II, and Quake) get lavish attention. [via]
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Memoirs of a Revolutionistby Peter KropotkinISBN 0921689187 (0-921689-18-7)
Softcover, Black Rose Books Ltd
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My Last Sighby Luis Bunuel, Abigail IsraelISBN 0816643873 (0-8166-4387-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Last Sigh'Book summary:Luis Buñuel lived many lives-surrealist, Spanish Civil War propagandist, hedonist, friend of artists and poets, and filmmaker. With surprising candor and wit, Buñuel offers his sometimes scathing opinions on the literati and avant-garde members of his sweeping social circle, including Pablo Picasso, Jorge Luis Borges, Salvador Dalí, and Federico García Lorca. These colorful stories of his nomadic life reveal a man of stunning imagination and influence.
Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was one of the twentieth century's greatest filmmakers. His many credits include Un Chien andalou (1924), which he conceived with Salvador Dalí, and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. [via]
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The Mystery of Georges Simenon: A Biographyby Fenton BreslerISBN 0825301459 (0-8253-0145-9)
Hardcover, Olympic Marketing Corp
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One Pair of Handsby Monica DickensISBN 0897333047 (0-89733-304-7)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0898705525 (0-89870-552-5)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
Oscar Wilde: A Certain Geniusby Barbara BelfordISBN 081299261X (0-8129-9261-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Paul: A Man of Grace and Gritby Charles R. SwindollISBN 0849917492 (0-8499-1749-2)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisherby Joan ReardonISBN 0865476217 (0-86547-621-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Pre-Raphaelites in Loveby Gay DalyISBN 0899194508 (0-89919-450-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Presidents Of The United States Of Americaby Frank FreidelISBN 0912308567 (0-912308-56-7)
Softcover, White House Historical Assn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Presidents Of The United States Of America'Book summary:Single-page biographies with portraits of the forty-six presidents of the United States. [via]
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Softcover, White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society - The Presidents Of The United States Of America: ISBN 0912308486 (0-912308-48-6)
Softcover, White House Historical Assn - The Presidents Of The United States Of America: ISBN 0912308338 (0-912308-33-8)
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keepsby Emmett GroganISBN 0862418933 (0-86241-893-3)
Softcover, Payback Pr
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River Phoenix : A Short Lifeby Brian J. RobbISBN 0859652149 (0-85965-214-9)
Softcover, Plexus Publishing, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River Phoenix : A Short Life'Book summary:River Phoenix: A Short Life is the definitive biography of this talented but tragic young star. Brian Robb looks at Phoenix's unusual childhood, his early days on TV and film, and the pressures of stardom that led to his lethal overdose in 1993. His short but incident-packed life is a tale of modern Hollywood. [via]
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Roughing Itby Mark TwainISBN 0870527088 (0-87052-708-8)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughing It'Book summary:There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer. [via] 
Spurgeon Vs Hyper Calvinism: The Battle for Gospel Preachingby Iain H. MurrayISBN 0851516920 (0-85151-692-0)
Softcover, Banner of Truth
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Stephen King Companionby George BeahmISBN 0836204557 (0-8362-0455-7)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Sylvia Plath: Methods and Madnessby Edward ButscherISBN 0816492530 (0-8164-9253-0)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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The Tapestry: The Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaefferby Edith SchaefferISBN 0849930162 (0-8499-3016-2)
Softcover, W Pub Group
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Taxi: The Harry Chapin Storyby Peter Morton CoanISBN 0818405139 (0-8184-0513-9)
Softcover, Lyle Stuart
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To Purge This Land With Bloodby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0870234587 (0-87023-458-7)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biographyby Marion MeadeISBN 0815411499 (0-8154-1149-9)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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The Walk West: A Walk across America 2by Peter Jenkins, Barbara JenkinsISBN 081613460X (0-8161-3460-X)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall
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Walker Percy: A Lifeby Patrick H. SamwayISBN 0829412689 (0-8294-1268-9)
Softcover, Loyola Pr
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Zami, a New Spelling of My Nameby Audre LordeISBN 0895941228 (0-89594-122-8)
Softcover, Crossing Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zami, a New Spelling of My Name'Book summary:ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the authors vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lordes work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page. Off Our Backs [via]
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