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1 Dead in Atticby Chris RoseISBN 0977771504 (0-9777715-0-4)
Softcover, Chris Rose
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20 Lines a Dayby Harry MathewsISBN 0916583414 (0-916583-41-4)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Alhambraby Washington IrvingISBN 0912882484 (0-912882-48-4)
Hardcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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Ambidextrousby Felice PicanoISBN 0914017063 (0-914017-06-3)
Hardcover, Gay Pr of New York
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American Journalsby Albert CamusISBN 091372968X (0-913729-68-X)
Hardcover, Paragon House
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Michael Palin, Jan MorrisISBN 0912333391 (0-912333-39-1)
Softcover, Bay Soma Publishing
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As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoirby Fay I. JacobsISBN 0964664860 (0-9646648-6-0)
Softcover, A & M Books
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Betting on Myself: Adventures of a Horseplayer and Publisherby Steven CristISBN 097264010X (0-9726401-0-X)
Hardcover, Daily Racing Form
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Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-Ssby Johann VossISBN 0966638980 (0-9666389-8-0)
Softcover, Aegis Consulting Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-Ss'Book summary:Originally written while the author was a prisoner of the US Army in 194546, Black Edelweiss is a boon to serious historians and WWII buffs alike. In a day in which most memoirs are written at half a centurys distance, the former will be gratified by the authors precise recall facilitated by the chronologically short-range (a matter of one to seven years) at which the events were captured in writing. Both will appreciate and enjoy the abundantly detailed, exceptionally accurate combat episodes.
Even more than the strictly military narrative, however, the author has crafted a searingly candid view into his own mind and soul. As such, Black Edelweiss is much more than a "ripping yarn" or a low-level military history. Black Edelweiss joins not only the growing body of German military memoirs, but the more select, more narrowly-focused group of personal memoirs by other Waffen-SS enlisted men. Beyond the microcosmic view of combat these books relateto the extent that they are honest and candidsuch books are important for what they can reveal about their authors motivations and reflections on those impulses and their consequences. To date, these works differ significantly.
As it joins the ranks of the books in this genre, Black Edelweiss makes a unique and very important contribution. It is a true, personal account of the authors war years, first at school and then with the Waffen-SS, which he joined early in 1943 at the age of seventeen. For a year and a half, the author fought as a machine gunner in SS-Mountain Infantry Regiment 11 "Reinhard Heydrich," mainly in the arctic and sub-arctic reaches of Soviet Karelia and Finland, and later at the Western frontier of the Third Reich. The characters in the story are real, and the conversations and actions are recounted to the best of his ability from the short distance at which he wrote the manuscript in 194546.
Apart from the piercing insights into the question of why the German soldier fought as he did, what makes this book truly unique is the authors anguished, yet resolute examination of the dialectic between the honorable and valorous comportment of his comrades and the fundamentally reprehensible conduct of about 35,000 men behind the front lines who nevertheless wore the same uniform.
During his captivity, the author was assigned for a time as a clerk to a US Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps officer, and in the performance of his administrative duties, the author had access to the mounting reams of documentation of the Holocaust. His growing recognition of the involvement of Waffen-SS personnel in the monstrous crimes of that process caused him to dig deeply into his soul, to examine his most intimate and private motivations and thoughts, and to reevaluate the most basic assumptions of his life to that point. The author captured this process and the result in the notes which became this book.
Honestly, forthrightly, and courageously told, Black Edelweiss is a precious gift to historians and other students of World War II. It not only provides a glimpse into the attributes that made the German armed forces a formidable and tenacious foe, but squarely confronts the most painful issue facing German World War II veterans in general, and Waffen-SS veterans in particular.
Supported by 22 photos, 8 maps, and notes. [via]
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Blown Awayby Herb PaysonISBN 0924486953 (0-924486-95-3)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Boomer: Railroad Memoirsby Linda G. NiemannISBN 0939416557 (0-939416-55-7)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Cabin at Singing River: Building a Home in the Wildernessby Chris CzajkowskiISBN 0921820313 (0-921820-31-3)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastikaby Alfons HeckISBN 0939650444 (0-939650-44-4)
Softcover, Jende-Hagan Co Booksellers
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Clumsyby Jeffrey BrownISBN 0971359768 (0-9713597-6-8)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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The Colditz Storyby Patrick R. ReidISBN 0931933366 (0-931933-36-6)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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Coming Home Crazy/an Alphabet of China Essaysby Bill HolmISBN 0915943425 (0-915943-42-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminatiby Robert A. WilsonISBN 0915904292 (0-915904-29-2)
Hardcover, And/Or Press
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Daughter of Earthby Agnes SmedleyISBN 0935312684 (0-935312-68-4)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training With a Sufi Masterby Irina TweedieISBN 0963457454 (0-9634574-5-4)
Softcover, Golden Sufi Center, The
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Diary of a Pigeon Watcherby Doris SchwerinISBN 0913729639 (0-913729-63-9)
Softcover, Paragon House
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Down in My Heart: Peace Witness in War Timeby William StaffordISBN 0930769007 (0-930769-00-7)
Softcover, Bench Pr
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EvasionISBN 0970910118 (0-9709101-1-8)
Softcover, Crimethinc.Workers Collective
Find This BookBook summary:The eagerly awaited second offering from the CrimethInc. collective offers up a collection of stories, anecdotes from in and around the margins of drop-out culture. "We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were to be lived. Life serves the risk taker..." Guaranteed to be a best-seller. Snap em up while you can. [via]
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The First and the Lastby Adolf GallandISBN 0912173106 (0-912173-10-6)
Hardcover, Champlin Fighter Museum Pr
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First Half of My Lifeby Paul M. NesterISBN 0913695017 (0-913695-01-7)
Softcover, Willamette Press
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Flights of Passageby Samuel HynesISBN 0913720682 (0-913720-68-2)
Hardcover, F.C. Beil
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Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals 1962-1966by Thich Nhat HanhISBN 0938077678 (0-938077-67-8)
Hardcover, Parallax Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals 1962-1966'Book summary:To many of his readers, Thich Nhat Hanh is a great inspiration, a model of both spiritual maturity and social responsibility. But his personal life has been a closed book--until now. Fragrant Palm Leaves is the first publication of Thich Nhat Hanh's journals, in this case, those centering around the most decisive period in his life. A young monk in a Zen Buddhist lineage, Nhat Hanh had aspirations of developing a Buddhism that was meaningful in the lives of everyday Vietnamese. The chaos of the Vietnam War ironically offered him the chance to move beyond the strictures of the conservative Buddhist establishment and initiate experimental villages as well as a university, but the same war also forced him from his homeland. In entries written in both Vietnam and America, we see an already seasoned Nhat Hanh thinking through the politics of his tradition, his close friendships and alliances, the future of Buddhism, and the way to bring peace to a war-ravaged time. We also witness his glimmerings of enlightenment and are treated to lyrical passages on the interbeing of all things. Fragrant Palm Leaves is a rare glimpse at a great human being in the making. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave/My Bondage and My Freedom/Life and Times of Frby Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0940450798 (0-940450-79-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frontier Lawmenby Lee PaulISBN 0965792951 (0-9657929-5-1)
Softcover, Jona Books
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Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibwayby Drew TaylorISBN 0919441084 (0-919441-08-4)
Softcover, Theytus Books
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George Sand and Frederick Chopin in Majorcaby George Sand, Robert Graves, Maurice Sand, G. TrajaniISBN 0915864681 (0-915864-68-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
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Goodbye to a Riverby John GravesISBN 0932012752 (0-932012-75-2)
Softcover, Taylor Wilson Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye to a River'Book summary:In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the streams regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth.
Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the rivers people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.
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The Graywolf Annual Three: Essays, Memoirs & Reflectionsby Scott WalkerISBN 0915308886 (0-915308-88-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The third Graywolf Annual celebrates the personal essay in its many forms: intimate family memoir, personal political reportage, literary memoir, and writing on science, nature, religion, and art. Many contemporary writers have turned to the personal essay or memoir as a fitting way to tell a more directly personal sort of truth than is possible for them in their fiction or poetry. The Graywolf Annual Three celebrates this renaissance of interest in the personal essay by presenting new work by fourteen outstanding contemporary writers.
John Berger
Annie Dillard
Terrence Des Pres
Phillip Moffitt
Brenda Peterson
Barry Lopez
Richard Ford
Gretel Ehrlich
Suzannah Lessard
James Fenton
David Quammen
John Haines
Patricia Hampl
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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queenby LiliuokalaniISBN 0935180850 (0-935180-85-0)
Softcover, Booklines Hawaii Ltd
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Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0940450275 (0-940450-27-5)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry David Thoreau'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden," one of America's great books, is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay. [via]
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Hospital Sketchesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0918222788 (0-918222-78-8)
Softcover, Applewood Books
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The House of Ashesby Oscar PinkusISBN 0912756233 (0-912756-23-3)
Hardcover, Union College
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I Dared to Call Him Fatherby Bilquis Sheikh, Dick SchneiderISBN 0912376228 (0-912376-22-8)
Hardcover, Chosen Books
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I Never Liked Youby Chester BrownISBN 0969670168 (0-9696701-6-8)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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I Was a White Slave in Harlemby Margo Howard-Howard, Abbe MichaelsISBN 0941423689 (0-941423-68-9)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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I Was Seven in '75by Ellen ForneyISBN 0966025881 (0-9660258-8-1)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literatureby Christopher WoodwardISBN 1400030862 (1-4000-3086-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Incredible Voyageby Tristan JonesISBN 0924486902 (0-924486-90-2)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Initiationby HaichISBN 0943358507 (0-943358-50-7)
Softcover, Aurora Pr
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Innocence Under the Elmsby Louise Dickinson RichISBN 0940160226 (0-940160-22-6)
Softcover, Parnassus Imprints
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Jean Genet in Tangierby Muhammad ShukriISBN 0912946083 (0-912946-08-3)
Hardcover, Ecco Press
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Jew Boy: A Memoirby Alan KaufmanISBN 0964374099 (0-9643740-9-9)
Softcover, Foxrock
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Katharine Graham's Washingtonby Katharine GrahamISBN 1400030595 (1-4000-3059-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Katharine Graham's Washington'Book summary:As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the nations capital.
To Russell Banks, it is a place where no one is in charge and no one, therefore, can be held responsible for the mess. To John Dos Passos, it is essentially a town of lonely people. Whatever your impressions of Washington, D.C., you will likely find them challenged here. Experience Christmas with the Roosevelts, as seen through the eyes of a White House housekeeper. Learn why David McCullough is happy to declare I love Washington, while The Washington Posts Sally Quinn wonders, Why Do They Hate Washington? Glimpse David Brinkleys depiction of the capital during World War II, then experience Henry Kissingers thoughts on Peace at Last, post-Vietnam. Written by a whos who of journalists, historians, First Ladies, politicians, and more, these varied works offer a wonderful overview of Katharine Grahams beloved city. [via]More editions of Katharine Graham's Washington:
Last Stands: Notes from Memoryby Hillary MastersISBN 0941038041 (0-941038-04-1)
Hardcover, Coyne & Chenoweth
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Living In Hell: A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forcesby Ghaz Omid, Ghazal OmidISBN 0975968300 (0-9759683-0-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Living With the Queenby Malcolm J. Barker, T.C. SobeyISBN 0942637755 (0-942637-75-5)
Hardcover, Barricade Books
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Meby Brenda UelandISBN 0912373016 (0-912373-01-6)
Softcover, Talman Co
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Memoirs of a Book Snakeby David MeyerISBN 0916638545 (0-916638-54-5)
Hardcover, Meyerbooks
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Memoirs of a Revolutionistby Peter KropotkinISBN 0921689187 (0-921689-18-7)
Softcover, Black Rose Books Ltd
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Memories of the Old Plantation Home: A Creole Family Albumby Laura Locoul Gore, Norman Marmillion, Sand MarmillionISBN 0970559100 (0-9705591-0-0)
Softcover, Zoe Co
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Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigadeby James YatesISBN 0940880202 (0-940880-20-2)
Softcover, Open Hand Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade'Book summary:From his birth to a share cropper family in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the unrest in Chicago and New York during the depression, James Yates's experience with labor protest and union organizing shaped his vision of freedom and led to his decision to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
Approximately 100 Blacks were among the 3,200 volunteers from the US that formed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the first non-Jim Crow military organization in US history. Yates describes Oliver Law, the first Black commander of a US military unit; Paul Robeson; Langston Hughes, who Yates drove to the front; and nurse Salaria Key O'Reilly. Yates makes cogent connections between fascism and racism.
James Yates returned to the US after having been wounded in the Spanish Civil War. He will be remembered for his active role in the struggle for freedom. James Yates died in January, 1994. The Jimmy Yates Award is presented annually to a short story writer by the Molasses Pond Writers Workshop in Franklin, Maine. [via]
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My Cat Saved My Lifeby Phillip SchreibmanISBN 0968327303 (0-9683273-0-3)
Softcover, Dogs Bark Pub
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My Own Cape Codby Gladys TaberISBN 0940160102 (0-940160-10-2)
Softcover, Parnassus Imprints
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Myself and Strangers : A Memoir of Apprenticeshipby John GravesISBN 1400042224 (1-4000-4222-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The New American Splendor Anthologyby Harvey PekarISBN 0941423646 (0-941423-64-6)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Notes from Undergroundby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 1400041910 (1-4000-4191-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevskys most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of mans essentially irrational nature.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. [via]
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On the Trail of the Assassinsby Jim GarrisonISBN 094178102X (0-941781-02-X)
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People Who Led to My Playsby Adrienne KennedyISBN 0930452909 (0-930452-90-9)
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Perfect Exampleby John PorcellinoISBN 0966536355 (0-9665363-5-5)
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Pharmacist's Mateby Amy FusselmanISBN 0970335539 (0-9703355-3-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Potentialby Ariel SchragISBN 094315104X (0-943151-04-X)
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PROVIDENCE OF A SPARROW: LESSONS FROM A LIFE GONE TO THE BIRDSby Chris ChesterISBN 1400033853 (1-4000-3385-3)
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Reading & Writing: A Personal Accountby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0940322382 (0-940322-38-2)
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Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Researchby John Steinbeck, Edward Flanders RickettsISBN 0911858083 (0-911858-08-3)
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Searching for Hassan: An American Family's Journey Home to Iranby Terence WardISBN 1400032237 (1-4000-3223-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth Hardwick, Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 0940322722 (0-940322-72-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleepless Nights'Book summary:In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her lifethe parade of people, the shifting background of placeand assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years. [via]
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So You Want to Writeby Ira Wood, Marge PiercyISBN 097289845X (0-9728984-5-X)
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Stillmeadow Daybookby Gladys TaperISBN 0940160420 (0-940160-42-0)
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The Sun at Midday: Tales of a Mediterranean Familyby Gini AlhadeffISBN 1400034604 (1-4000-3460-4)
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novelby Jane SmileyISBN 1400033187 (1-4000-3318-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel'Book summary:Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto unflagging impulse to write and decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read one hundred of them, from classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to recent fiction by Zadie Smith, Nicholson Baker, and Alice Munro.
Smiley exploresas no novelist has before herthe unparalleled intimacy of reading, why a novel succeeds (or doesnt), and how the novel has changed over time. She describes a novelist as right on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing, yet whose job and ambition is to develop a theory of how it feels to be alive.
In her inimitable styleexuberant, candid, opinionatedSmiley invites us behind the scenes of novel-writing, sharing her own habits and spilling the secrets of her craft. She walks us step-by-step through the publication of her most recent novel, Good Faith, and, in two vital chapters on how to write a novel of your own, offers priceless advice to aspiring authors.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel may amount to a peculiar form of autobiography. We see Smiley reading in bed with a chocolate bar; mulling over plot twists while cooking dinner for her family; even, at the age of twelve, devouring Sherlock Holmes mysteries, which she later realized were among her earliest literary models for plot and character.
And in an exhilarating conclusion, Smiley considers individually the one hundred books she read, from Don Quixote to Lolita to Atonement, presenting her own insights and often controversial opinions. In its scope and gleeful eclecticism, her reading list is one of the most compellingand surprisingever assembled.
Engaging, wise, sometimes irreverent, Thirteen Ways is essential reading for anyone who has ever escaped into the pages of a novel or, for that matter, wanted to write one. In Smileys own words, ones she found herself turning to over the course of her journey: Read this. I bet youll like it. [via]More editions of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel:
This Is How I Speak: The Diary of a Young Womanby Sandi SonnenfeldISBN 0971158312 (0-9711583-1-2)
Softcover, Impassio Pr
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Thomas Jefferson Writings Autobiography a Summary View of the Rights of British Columbia Notes on the State of Virginia Public Papers Addresses Messaby Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. PetersonISBN 094045016X (0-940450-16-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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A Time of Terrorby James CameronISBN 093312144X (0-933121-44-X)
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To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Familyby Joan D. CriddleISBN 0963220519 (0-9632205-1-9)
Softcover, East/West Bridge Pub House
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Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War 2by Miriam WinterISBN 0966016203 (0-9660162-0-3)
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Trashby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0932379516 (0-932379-51-6)
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W.E.B. Dubois: Writings, the Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, the Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, Essays and Articlesby W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathan Irvin HugginsISBN 094045033X (0-940450-33-X)
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaningby Chris HedgesISBN 1400034639 (1-4000-3463-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'Book summary:As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary. [via]More editions of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning:
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0940160366 (0-940160-36-6)
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When You and I Were Young, Whitefishby Dorothy M. Johnson, Vivian A. PaladinISBN 0917298438 (0-917298-43-8)
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Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaskaby Rockwell KentISBN 0918172128 (0-918172-12-8)
Softcover, Leete's Island Books
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Winter in Majorcaby Robert Graves, George Sand, Jose Maria QuadradoISBN 0915864703 (0-915864-70-3)
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