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Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Faithby G. Frederick OwenISBN 0842300007 (0-8423-0000-7)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works A Critical Biographyby Michael WalshISBN 0810912759 (0-8109-1275-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Ansel Adams: An Autobiographyby Ansel Adams, Mary Street AlinderISBN 0821222414 (0-8212-2241-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Ansel Adams : A Biographyby Mary Street AlinderISBN 0805058354 (0-8050-5835-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Anton Chekhov: A Lifeby Donald RayfieldISBN 0810117959 (0-8101-1795-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Apes, Angels and Victorians.by William IrvineISBN 0809436752 (0-8094-3675-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friendsby Dwight David EisenhowerISBN 0830640037 (0-8306-4003-7)
Hardcover, Tab Books
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Audrey Hepburn : An Intimate Portraitby Diana MaychickISBN 0806580003 (0-8065-8000-3)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang Von Goetheby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John OxenfordISBN 0818002034 (0-8180-0203-4)
Hardcover, Horizon Press
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Bam Bam Bamby Eve Merriam, Dan YaccarinoISBN 080505796X (0-8050-5796-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Baudelaireby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0811201899 (0-8112-0189-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilderby John E. MillerISBN 082621648X (0-8262-1648-X)
Softcover, Univ of Missouri Pr
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Born on the 4th of Julyby Ron KovicISBN 0808511327 (0-8085-1132-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928by Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0816161607 (0-8161-6160-7)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Buster Keaton Rememberedby Jeffrey Vance, Eleanor KeatonISBN 0810942275 (0-8109-4227-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Cavafy: A Critical Biographyby Robert LiddellISBN 0805236341 (0-8052-3634-1)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Character of John Adamsby Peter ShawISBN 0807812544 (0-8078-1254-4)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Densby Jackie Pullinger, Andrew QuickeISBN 0830734007 (0-8307-3400-7)
Softcover, Regal Books
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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Madeby Jonathon GreenISBN 0805034668 (0-8050-3466-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Doveby Robin Lee GrahamISBN 0808510452 (0-8085-1045-2)
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Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Lifeby Eleanor DwightISBN 0810939711 (0-8109-3971-1)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Education of Little Treeby Forrest Carter, Rennard StricklandISBN 0826308791 (0-8263-0879-1)
Softcover, University of New Mexico Press
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Edward Abbey: A Lifeby James M. CahalanISBN 0816522677 (0-8165-2267-7)
Softcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edward Abbey: A Life'Book summary:The best biography ever about Ed. Cahalans meticulous research and thoughtful interviews have made this book the authoritative source for Abbey scholars and fans alike. Doug Peacock, author, environmentalist activist and explorer, and the inspiration for Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang
He was a hero to environmentalists and the patron saint of monkeywrenchers, a man in love with desert solitude. A supposed misogynist, ornery and contentious, he nevertheless counted women among his closest friends and admirers. He attracted a cult following, but he was often uncomfortable with it. He was a writer who wandered far from Home without really starting out there. James Cahalan has written a definitive biography of a contemporary literary icon whose life was a web of contradictions. Edward Abbey: A Life sets the record straight on "Cactus Ed," giving readers a fuller, more human Abbey than most have ever known. It separates fact from fiction, showing that much of the myth surrounding Abbeysuch as his birth in Home, Pennsylvania, and later residence in Oracle, Arizonawas self-created and self-perpetuated. It also shows that Abbey cultivated a persona both in his books and as a public speaker that contradicted his true nature: publicly racy and sardonic, he was privately reserved and somber. Cahalan studied all of Abbey's works and private papers and interviewed many people who knew himincluding the models for characters in The Brave Cowboy and The Monkey Wrench Gangto create the most complete picture to date of the writer's life. He examines Abbey's childhood roots in the East and his love affair with the West, his personal relationships and tempestuous marriages, and his myriad jobs in continually shifting locationsincluding sixteen national parks and forests. He also explores Abbey's writing process, his broad intellectual interests, and the philosophical roots of his politics. For Abbey fans who assume that his "honest novel," The Fool's Progress, was factual or that his public statements were entirely off the cuff, Cahalan's evenhanded treatment will be an eye-opener. More than a biography, Edward Abbey: A Life is a corrective that shows that he was neither simply a countercultural cowboy hero nor an unprincipled troublemaker, but instead a complex and multifaceted person whose legacy has only begun to be appreciated. The book contains 30 photographs, capturing scenes ranging from Abbey's childhood to his burial site. [via]-
Etty Hillesum: An Interupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerborkby Etty Hillesum, Eva HoffmanISBN 0805050876 (0-8050-5087-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magicby Martha BeckISBN 0812929802 (0-8129-2980-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Four Dublinersby Richard EllmannISBN 0807612081 (0-8076-1208-1)
Softcover, George Braziller
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Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckettby Richard EllmannISBN 0807611859 (0-8076-1185-9)
Hardcover, George Braziller
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From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yiby W.J.F. Jenner, PuyiISBN 0835111598 (0-8351-1159-8)
Hardcover, Foreign Languages Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi'Book summary:From Emperor to Citizen is the autobiography of Pu Yi, the man who was the last emperor of China. A unique memoir of the first half of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of one born to be an absolute monarch, the book begins with the author's vivid account of the last, decadent days of the Ching Dynasty, and closes with an introspective self-portrait of the last Ching emperor transformed into a retiring scholar and citizen of the People's Republic of China.
In detailing the events of the fifty years between his ascension to the throne and the final period of his life as a quiet-living resident of Beijing. Pu Yi reveals himself to be first and foremost a survivor, caught up in the torrent of global power struggles and world conflict that played itself out on the Asian continent through many decades of violence and upheaval.
This firsthand description of the dramatic events of Pu Yi's life was the basis for the internationally acclaimed 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor which was named Best Picture of the Year by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From Emperor to Citizen readily lends itself to cinematic adaptation as a personal narrative of continuously significant and revealing episodes.
Becoming emperor and then forced to abdicate with the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911, all before he is seven continues to live in Forbidden City for another decade still treated as the Son of Heaven by the moribund Ching court, but in reality a virtual prisoner, with little genuine human contact apart from his beloved nurse Mrs. Wang, his teacher Chen Pao-shen and his English tutor Reginald Johnston.
When at the age of nineteen Pu Yi is finally forced to vacate his isolated existence within the Forbidden City, he begins his long odyssey as the dependent of the occupying imperial Japanese regime, first in Tientsin, and eventually installed as "emperor" of the Japanese puppet state styled Manchukuo in China's northeast provinces. With the defeat of Japan and the end of the Second World War, Pu Yi faces a very uncertain future as he is shunted off to Russia for five years before returning to a new China transformed by revolution, where he is confined in the Fushun War Criminal Prison. Here he undergoes several years of rehabilitation, "learning how to become a human being," as he calls it, before receiving an official pardon and being allowed to finally live as an ordinary citizen of Beijing.
This autobiography is the culmination of a unique and remarkable life, told simply, directly and frankly by a man whose circumstances and experiences were like no other. [via]
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The Genius of Alexander the Greatby N. HammondISBN 0807847445 (0-8078-4744-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genius of Alexander the Great'Book summary:By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his sudden death, Alexander had achieved mythical status throughout his kingdom, and in the centuries that followed his life became the subject of countless chronicles and biographies.
N. G. L. Hammond, the foremost expert on ancient Macedonian history, here presents a new account of Alexander's fabled career. Based on a thorough analysis of the ancient sources and enriched by a lifetime of research, Hammond's narrative pronounces the Macedonian conqueror a man truly deserving of the title Alexander the Great.
According to Hammond, Alexander was a visionary statesman and general, the force behind a kingdom which rose above racism and nationalism to enjoy peace and prosperity. His intellect and charismatic personality, which earned him the respect, admiration, and devotion of his subjects, also help explain Alexander's endurance as a source of fascination into the present day. [via]
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Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of the Natural History of Selborneby Richard MabeyISBN 0813926491 (0-8139-2649-1)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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The Good Timesby Russell BakerISBN 0816149194 (0-8161-4919-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraftby Diane JacobsISBN 0806524464 (0-8065-2446-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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In Search of Draculaby Radu Florescu, Raymond McNallyISBN 0821204858 (0-8212-0485-8)
Hardcover, New York Graphic Society
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Dracula'Book summary:Little did the coauthors realize at the time they embarked upon this project over a glass of plum brandy in Bucharest more than twenty-five years ago, that their work would result in the discovery of the authentic, bloodthirsty prototype for Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula." This pioneering study, first published in 1972, became a collector's item, so this fully updated edition is welcome indeed. The authors' pursuit of the notion that Vlad the Impaler (1431-76) was the original Dracula--through treks both antiquarian (in old libraries and museums) and geographic (in areas of Romania that were once Transylvania and Walachia)--has the thrill of an adventure story. In Search of Dracula is also an entertaining introduction to vampire lore and to people's obsession with Dracula. It has a delightful cover by Edward Gorey and numerous illustrations, including antique woodcuts of Vlad's impaled victims and photos from the authors' trips to Romania. [via]
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In the Days of McKinleyby Margaret LeechISBN 0837182433 (0-8371-8243-3)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press
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The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimistby Andrew BursteinISBN 0813917204 (0-8139-1720-4)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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The Innocents Abroadby Mark Twain, Jane JacobsISBN 0812967054 (0-8129-6705-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Instant Livesby Howard MossISBN 0841502862 (0-8415-0286-2)
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John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spiritby David L. EdwardsISBN 0826451551 (0-8264-5155-1)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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John Jay: Founding Fatherby WALTER STAHRISBN 0826418791 (0-8264-1879-1)
Softcover, Hambledon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Jay: Founding Father'Book summary:John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In the first full-length biography in almost seventy years, Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution.[via]Drawing on substantial new material, Walter Stahr has written a full and highly readable portrait of both the public and private man. It is the story not only of John Jay himself, the most prominent native-born New Yorker of the eighteenth century, but also of his engaging and intelligent wife, Sarah, who accompanied her husband on his wartime diplomatic missions. This lively and compelling biography presents Jay in the light he deserves: as a major Founding Father, a true national hero, and a leading architect of America's future.
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John Stott: The Making of a Leader A Biography The Early Yearsby Timothy Dudley-SmithISBN 0830822070 (0-8308-2207-0)
Hardcover, Intervarsity Pr
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Jonathan Edwardsby Perry MillerISBN 0837165512 (0-8371-6551-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Edwards'Book summary:Jonathan Edwards (170358) was preeminent as a theologian in the eighteenth century American colonies, deeply involved in the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. He was also the first American Puritan, or Calvinist, to recognize the challenges to traditional views of the world posed by figures like John Locke and Isaac Newton. Thus he is a pivotal figure as American thought evolved from heavily religious beginnings toward populism and a new rationalism in the young nation. His many books include Freedom of the Will, Religious Affections, and Original Sin, although he is probably best known for a legendary sermon he titled Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.Perry Millers study of Jonathan Edwards as a writer and an artist is regarded as one of the great studies of the life of a mind. He challenges readers to understand Edwards as an intellectual who, living in his own time and place, wrestled with issues relevant to the modern world. This Bison Books edition, with an introduction by John F. Wilson, will help to introduce Jonathan Edwards to a new generation of readers.[via]More editions of Jonathan Edwards:
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburnby William J. MannISBN 0805076255 (0-8050-7625-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930by Billy Kluver, Julie MartinISBN 0810925915 (0-8109-2591-5)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?by Bent Corydon, L. Ron HubbardISBN 0818404442 (0-8184-0444-2)
Hardcover, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Sonby William Alexander Percy, Walker PercyISBN 0807100722 (0-8071-0072-2)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Let Sleeping Vets Lieby James HerriotISBN 0816152187 (0-8161-5218-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Lewis Carroll in Wonderland: The Life and Times of Alice and Her Creatorby Stephanie Lovett StoffelISBN 0810928388 (0-8109-2838-8)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Living Faithby Jimmy CarterISBN 0812930347 (0-8129-3034-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Louisa May Alcottby Madeleine SternISBN 0806109386 (0-8061-0938-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglassby Maria DiedrichISBN 0809066866 (0-8090-6686-6)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial and HopeISBN 0831773197 (0-8317-7319-7)
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The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by Himselfby William Tecumseh ShermanISBN 083716253X (0-8371-6253-X)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Miss Tallulah Bankheadby Lee IsraelISBN 081616049X (0-8161-6049-X)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Once in a House on Fireby Andrea AshworthISBN 0805057633 (0-8050-5763-3)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Once in a House on Fire'Book summary:In her engrossing memoir, Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth recalls growing up poor in a violent English household during the 1970s and 1980s. Ashworth's father drowned when she was just 5. Her mother then married a man who beat her frequently and made life miserable for the whole family. When Ashworth's mother finally got rid of him, she married a small-time criminal who also soon became violent. Throughout her childhood, the author struggled to protect her little sisters from their stepfathers and kept the family going when their mother could not function because of her injuries, depressions, and blinding headaches. Ashworth and her family moved around quite a bit, often living in other people's houses, sleeping in cots or on floors. They all suffered from the emotional and economic instability of their situation. Ashworth recalls the sunglasses her mother wore through cloudy dark English winters to conceal her bruised eyes. She also remembers sneaking out of the house one day to run through a rich neighborhood, where she paused occasionally to open the mailboxes of the wealthy and smell their comfort and safety.
Although Ashworth's story is all about loneliness and love gone wrong, the surprising thing is that this book is not always terribly sad-- there are interludes when the children have fun and in those sunny moments it seems probable that all of them, especially Andrea, will survive more or less intact. Ashworth recalls the details of her childhood vividly, in brief scenes. In one of those scenes, two sisters race down a cobbled street at breakneck speed. Each of them has one roller skate on--they are sharing. Ashworth's writing is crisp, her dialogue right to the point. This book is reminiscent of Frank Conroy's Stop-Time and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, both classic memoirs of adolescence. --Jill Marquis [via]
Pasteur's Fight Against Microbesby Beverley Birch, Christian BirminghamISBN 0812097939 (0-8120-9793-9)
Softcover, Barrons Juveniles
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Paul Revereby Augusta StevensonISBN 0808513397 (0-8085-1339-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Peter the Greatby Vasili KlyuchevskyISBN 0807056472 (0-8070-5647-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Philip IIby Geoffrey ParkerISBN 0812692799 (0-8126-9279-9)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Recollections of Virginia Woolf/by Her Contemporariesby Joan Russell NobleISBN 0821411055 (0-8214-1105-5)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Rosaby Nikki Giovanni, Bryan CollierISBN 0805071067 (0-8050-7106-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Amazon.com's Significant Seven
Nikki Giovanni graciously agreed to answer the questions we like to ask every author: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.
Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
A: No single book. The poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks was an impact, however.
Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
A: Sula by Toni Morrison, Great American Spirituals, and The Godfather.
Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: "You're the best."
Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: A cup of coffee, my rocking chair, the sun just rising through my left window.
Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
A: "I tried."
Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
A: Lorraine Hansberry
Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: I would fly.
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Ruined by Readingby Lynne Sharon SchwartzISBN 0807070823 (0-8070-7082-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruined by Reading'Book summary:From the author of the acclaimed novels Disturbances in the Field and The Fatigue Artist, this wonderfully written and enchanting meditation explores what the act of reading means--an act that is in danger of being lost today. Lynne Sharon Schwartz of course isn't "ruined" by reading anymore than Tarzan was by apes; it's her life. She was a child prodigy who, beginning at age 3, was summoned to read for guests and has been immersed in the written word ever since, developing into a writer and novelist. In this essay she defends the magic of reading and its place in the development of the mind and ideas. "There is good reason for the addictive cravings of readers. The only thing new under the sun is the sound of another voice," she writes. [via]
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Ruined by Reading : A Life in Booksby Lynne Sharon SchwartzISBN 0807070831 (0-8070-7083-1)
Softcover, Beacon Press
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Shakespeareby Rob GrahamISBN 0823009874 (0-8230-0987-4)
Hardcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare'Book summary:Thanks to this delightful, reader-friendly gem, at long last, the Bard is made accessible to all-even to he or she who hath never dug a line of Shakespeare before.
Starting with the controversy over whether the genius who wrote the plays was Shakespeare or one of his rivals, the author puts the Bard in the context of Elizabethan life and theater. His personas as actor, businessman, playwright, and poet are touched upon, followed by selections from his greatest plays and sonnets. A roundup of miscellaneous Bardean tidbits, Elizabethan insults, and other Shakespearean lore completes the irreverent, entertaining, yet informative text. [via]
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Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstoreby Suzanne Strempek SheaISBN 0807072591 (0-8070-7259-1)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstore'Book summary:Suzanne Shea has always loved a good book-and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit of touring, including readings and drop-ins at literally hundreds of bookstores. She never visited one that wasn't memorable.
Two years ago, while recovering from radiation therapy, Shea heard from a friend who was looking for help at her bookstore. Shea volunteered, seeing it as nothing more than a way to get out of her pajamas and back into the world. But over next twelve months, from St. Patrick's Day through Poetry Month, graduation/Father's Day/summer reading/Christmas and back again to those shamrock displays, Shea lived and breathed books in a place she says sells'ideas, stories, encouragement, answers, solace, validation, the basic ammunition for daily life.' Her work was briefly interrupted by an author tour that took her to other great bookstores. Descriptions of these and her memories of book-lined rooms reaching all the way back to childhood visits to the Bookmobile are scattered throughout this charming, humorous, and engrossing account of reading and rejuvenation.
For anyone who loves books, and especially for anyone who has fallen under the spell of a special bookstore, Shelf Life will be required reading. [via]More editions of Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstore:
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Siddharthaby Hermann HesseISBN 081120068X (0-8112-0068-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]
Silent Starsby Jeanine BasingerISBN 0819564516 (0-8195-6451-6)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Simone Weil: A Lifeby Simone PetrementISBN 0805208623 (0-8052-0862-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Thomas Jeffersonby Joyce Appleby, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0805069240 (0-8050-6924-0)
Hardcover, Times Books
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Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical Historyby Bertram David WolfeISBN 0815411774 (0-8154-1177-4)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History'Book summary:The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possibleLenin, Trotsky, and Stalinare the focus of this biographical account of the rise of socialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bertram Wolfe, a political scientist and historian of Russia, knew Trotsky and Stalin personally, and here brings his profound insider's knowledge to bear on his subjects. Three Who Made a Revolution recounts the early lives and influences of the three leaders, and shows the development of their diverging ideologies as decades gave strength to their cause and brought Russia closer to its turning point, a revolution that would alter the course of the twentieth century. [via]
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To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judsonby Courtney AndersonISBN 0817011218 (0-8170-1121-8)
Softcover, Judson Pr
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To the Is-Land: An Autobiographyby Janet FrameISBN 0807610429 (0-8076-1042-9)
Hardcover, Firefly Books, Limited
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Ulysses S. Grantby Bunting, Josiah, III, Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0805069496 (0-8050-6949-6)
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Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhoodby Bruce CattonISBN 0814318843 (0-8143-1884-3)
Hardcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood'Book summary:One of America's great Civil War historians recounts his days growing up in Benzonia, a small town in Michigan's lower peninsula. During the first years of the 20th century (Catton was born in 1899), Catton listened to the tales of old Civil War veterans and gained an interest in the War Between the States that would never leave him. But this book, unlike Catton's other works, isn't primarily about the Civil War. It's about growing up in a particular time and a place. Written with grace, warmth, and wit, it describes an era of trains and timber. People who know and love the forests of northern Michigan will appreciate this book immensely, as will anybody who has enjoyed Catton's other books and wants to learn a little bit more about the historian who is one of America's great storytellers. [via]
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Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Timeby A. S. ByattISBN 0844800406 (0-8448-0040-6)
Hardcover, Crane, Russak
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World of Leonardoby Robert WallaceISBN 0809402637 (0-8094-0263-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Wright Brothersby Quentin ReynoldsISBN 0808511513 (0-8085-1151-3)
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