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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbookby Alice B. ToklasISBN 0060913274 (0-06-091327-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendshipby Bob GreeneISBN 0060881933 (0-06-088193-3)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship'Book summary:"New York Times" bestselling author Bob Greene recounts his friendship with four men he's known since kindergarten showing how it progressed over the years through their experience of learning that one of them is dying. This is a memoir of great beauty and mystery. Growing up in small-town Bexley, Ohio, Bob Greene and his four best friends, Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack- known as ABCD&J were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, from the moment he'd befriended Bob on their first day of kindergarten. They grew up together, got in trouble together, and learned about life while they also went their separate ways, as we all do. But through the five friends kept in close touch and marked the milestones of each other' lives the good ones and the bad. Then the call came: Jack was dying. And so the friends came together as friends do to see Jack through to the end of the journey. "And You Know You Should be Glad" is tremendously moving, funny, wistful, and honest. More than anything, it is an uplifting book about the power of friendship, and about the people who knew you when. It is bestselling author Bob Greene's finest book so far. [via]
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girlby John ColapintoISBN 0061120561 (0-06-112056-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl'Book summary:Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a mesmerizing story of a medical tragedy and its traumatic results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following a botched circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant son, Bruce, as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next 14 years trying to transform him into a her. Brenda's childhood reads as one filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are present on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain is caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man attempting to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant treatments.
Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor, it's difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more than willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts of his parents, twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily female are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do "right" while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda makes the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name David and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments. David's ultimately successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close family relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public--bring an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest segment of the longtime nature/nurture controversy, and the interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the gender he was meant to be. --Jill Lightner [via]
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A Bar'l of Apples: A Gregory Clark Omnibusby Gregory ClarkISBN 0070929521 (0-07-092952-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Ryerson
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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Storyby Paul MonetteISBN 0062507249 (0-06-250724-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story'Book summary:Paul Monette first made a name for himself in 1978 with his debut novel, Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, a comic romp with serious overtones. He established himself as a writer of popular fiction with three more novels before he and his lover were both diagnosed with HIV. In 1988 he wrote On Borrowed Time, a memoir of living with AIDS and of his lover's death. The passion and anger that fueled On Borrowed Time surfaces again in 1992's Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, his National Book Award-winning autobiography. Although it follows the traditional structure of the autobiography and bildungsroman--early family life, education, reflections on how art influenced the subject's view of life--Becoming a Man also filters Monette's story through two central facts: the closet and AIDS. Monette writes of the pain of being closeted, the effect it had on his writing, and how it shaped (and often destroyed) his relationships. Monette's fear and fury at AIDS and homophobia heighten the same skill and imagination he put into his fiction. This vision--poetic yet highly political, angry yet infused with the love of life--is what transforms Becoming a Man from simple autobiography into an intense record of struggle and salvation. Paul Monette did not lead a life different from many gay men--he struggled courageously with his family, his sexuality, his AIDS diagnosis--but in bearing witness to his and others' pain, he creates a personal testimony that illuminates the darkest corners of our culture even as it finds unexpected reserves of hope. [via]
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Before Night Fallsby Reinaldo Arenas, Dolores M. KochISBN 0140157654 (0-14-015765-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Birds, Beasts and Relativesby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0140043853 (0-14-004385-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives'Book summary:[via]Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrells dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives is filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder.
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A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diariesby Thomas MallonISBN 014008665X (0-14-008665-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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By the Shores of Silver Lakeby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885416 (0-06-088541-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Callgirlby Jeannette L. AngellISBN 0060736054 (0-06-073605-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callgirl'Book summary:Professor by day, callgirl by night a true storyJenny is left penniless by an ex-boyfriend and, in order to make ends meet, she finds herself juggling two lives - respected college-lecturer by day and $200-an-hour high class callgirl 'Tia' by night.Tia's clients range from the pitiful to the downright disturbing: there's the man obsessed with wearing her underwear, the client who wants her to pretend to be his mother and the punter who gets his kicks from inflicting pain. Tia is paid to fulfil all kinds of desires.Despite her madam's protection, Tia is drawn into a world of increasing danger, trying to dodge undercover cops, resist the temptation of drugs and, most of all, avoid falling in love with the wrong man.As Jenny juggles the twin roles of professor and prostitute, the eventual strain of keeping her life secret from friends and family forces her to re-examine everything - before her two worlds inevitably collide& [via]
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A Circle of Quietby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0062545035 (0-06-254503-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in Indiaby Madhur JaffreyISBN 009189929X (0-09-189929-X)
Hardcover, Ebury
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Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey through Hell and Backby Claire Fontaine, Mia FontaineISBN 0060859717 (0-06-085971-7)
Softcover, Regan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey through Hell and Back'Book summary:How does an honor student at one of Los Angeles's finest prep schoolsa nice girl from a happy, loving hometrade school uniforms and afternoons at the mall for speedballs in the back of a truck in rural Indiana? How does her devoted mother emerge from the shock of finding that her daughter has not only disappeared but had been living a secret life for more than a year?
Mother and daughter tell their parallel stories in mesmerizing firstperson accounts. Claire Fontaine's story is a parent's worst nightmare, a cautionary tale chronicling her daughter Mia's drugfueled manipulation of everyone around her as she sought refuge in the seedy underworld of felons and heroin addicts, the painful childhood secrets that led up to it, and the healing that followed. Her search for Mia was brutal for both mother and daughter, a dizzying series of dead ends, incredible coincidences and, at times, miracles. Ultimately, Mia was forced into harshbutloving boot camp schools on two continents while Claire entered a painful but lifechanging program of her own. Mia's story includes the jarring culture shock of the extreme and controversial behavior modification school she was in for nearly two years, which helped her overcome depression and selfhatred to emerge a powerful young woman with selfesteem and courage.
Come Back is an unforgettable story of love and transformation that will resonate with mothers and daughters everywhere.
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Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouseby Michael KordaISBN 0060957484 (0-06-095748-4)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse'Book summary:Despite the fact that Michael Korda was city born and bred (and, as editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and a bestselling author, part of Manhattan's elite), when he decided it was time to put down roots, he wanted land, trees, and a place in a community with history. The house he bought with his wife, Margaret, in Pleasant Valley, two hours north of New York City, was built when George Washington was president. It came with two barns, 20 acres, a backhoe, a bush hog, a York rake, a dozer blade, a bluff, and a slightly deaf old man named Harold Roe. Since Korda couldn't handle a hammer (plumbing and heating problems in his past merely involved calling the building super and keeping a 20-dollar bill handy), Harold became a permanent fixture, wielding large equipment, destroying the flowers, and showing the couple everything they needed to know about the real country.
Pleasant Valley, it turned out, was on the "wrong" side of the Taconic Parkway. It was "red and black plaid hats with earflaps and insulated bib-front overalls country," as opposed to Ralph Lauren estates country. Despite the blue-collar atmosphere (or rather because of it), the Kordas have been there for two decades. Becoming locals hasn't been easy, however. Korda relishes the moments that mark him as an insider--hanging out at the local diner, buying a Harley-Davidson, and most importantly, buying pigs. Pig watching in a place like Pleasant Valley is a truly bonding experience, which Korda describes with his characteristic dry wit:
Pig watching is not something anybody does in a hurry, as we came to learn. You have to shift your trousers down a bit, loosen up your belt a notch or so, give your belly a little breathing room, light a cigarette if you're a smoker, and look at the pigs for a good long time. Then you sigh, nod your head, and say, "Them's nice pigs, them pigs." Then you look at them some more.
You get the idea. A natural raconteur, Korda makes the quirks of living in an old house and the quest for local status in an insular community highly entertaining, and he proves once again that, while he may not be handy with tools, he certainly knows his way around the written word. --Lesley Reed [via]More editions of Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse:
Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmondby William Stadiem, Essie Mae Washington-WilliamsISBN 0060761423 (0-06-076142-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Death Be Not Proudby John GuntherISBN 0060929898 (0-06-092989-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Be Not Proud'Book summary:Johnny Gunther was 17 when he died of a brain tumor. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy in his fight to overcome a dreadful disease that doctors had then only begun to understand. "A story of great unselfishness and great heroism."--The New York Times. [via]
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Depression and How to Survive Itby Spike MilliganISBN 0099858304 (0-09-985830-4)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survivalby Anderson CooperISBN 0061136689 (0-06-113668-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival'Book summary:In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper's ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother's penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper's description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It's the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of Dispatches, Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper's memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there's frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him. --Erica C. Barnett [via]
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Eastern Approachesby MacLeanISBN 0140132716 (0-14-013271-6)
Softcover, Penguin Global
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Essays of E.B. Whiteby E. B. WhiteISBN 0060932236 (0-06-093223-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journeyby Faith Evans, Rebecca WestISBN 0140094954 (0-14-009495-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Farmer Boyby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885386 (0-06-088538-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farmer Boy'Book summary:While laura ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, almanzo wilder is living on a big farm in new york state. Here almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town. This is laura ingalls wilder's beloved story of how her husband almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where laura lived [via]
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The First Four Yearsby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885459 (0-06-088545-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Four Years'Book summary:Laura and Almonzo Wilder begin married life on their small prairie homestead with high hopes. The beautiful prairie world seems like a paradise. There are wildflowers in the spring, wild geese in autumn, pony rides, and warm and happy times together. But each year brings unexpected disasters as well - storms destroy the crops; there is sickness, fire, and always, always, unpaid debts. The first four years often prove heartbreaking for the Wilders. Still, they have each other, and their little daughter Rose, and a fierce determination to succeed. [via]
Forgotten Voices of the Great Warby Max Arthur, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)ISBN 0091888875 (0-09-188887-5)
Hardcover, Ebury
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Goshawkby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 0140019316 (0-14-001931-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goshawk'Book summary:What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T. H. White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Mashams Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence the bird reverted to a feral state seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, A longing came to my mind that I should be able to do this myself. The word feral has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ferocious and free. Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love.
White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gosat once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literatures most memorable and surprising encounters with the wildernessas it exists both within us and without. [via]More editions of Goshawk:
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060921021 (0-06-092102-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1by Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060803320 (0-06-080332-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1'Book summary:The Soviet Union had the largest secret political prison system of its time, scattered into the most remote corners of Eastern Europe and Asia. When Solzhenitsyn came out, he told the stories of shattered lives in a shattered nation. [via]
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Holy the Firmby Annie DillardISBN 0060915439 (0-06-091543-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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How I Became Hettie Jonesby Hettie JonesISBN 0140153888 (0-14-015388-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoirby Jessica Hendra, Blake R. MorrisonISBN 0060820993 (0-06-082099-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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I Dreamed of Africaby Kuki GallmannISBN 0140144595 (0-14-014459-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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In Patagoniaby Bruce ChatwinISBN 014011291X (0-14-011291-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faithby Barbara Brown TaylorISBN 0060872632 (0-06-087263-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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This is an astonishing book. . . . Taylor is a better writer than LaMott and a better theologian than Norris. In a word, she is the best there is. Living Church
Barbara Brown Taylor, once hailed as one of Americas most effective and beloved preachers, eloquently tells the moving and delightful story of her search to find an authentic way of being Christianeven when it meant giving up her pulpit.
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Life with Fatherby Clarence DayISBN 0091885655 (0-09-188565-5)
Softcover, Random House
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Little Houseby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400409 (0-06-440040-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0060797509 (0-06-079750-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House In The Big Woods'Book summary:Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest. Every chapter divulges fascinatingly intricate, yet easy-to-read, details about pioneer life in the Midwest in the late 1800s, from bear-meat curing to maple-tree sapping to homemade bullet making.
Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Little House on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 006075835X (0-06-075835-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House on the Prairie'Book summary:Laura Ingalls is heading west! The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and sets off for the big skies of the Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Just when they begin to feel settled,they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict.
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Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0061070068 (0-06-107006-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0064400026 (0-06-440002-6)
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- Little House on the Prairie: ISBN 0060885394 (0-06-088539-4)
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Little Town on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885432 (0-06-088543-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Long Winterby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885424 (0-06-088542-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Languageby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140127739 (0-14-012773-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language'Book summary:The condition of exile is an exaggeration of the process of change and loss that many people experience as they grow and mature, leaving behind the innocence of childhood. Eva Hoffman spent her early years in Cracow, among family friends who, like her parents, had escaped the Holocaust and were skeptical of the newly imposed Communist state. Hoffman's parents managed to immigrate to Canada in the 1950s, where Eva was old enough to feel like a stranger--bland food, a quieter life, and schoolmates who hardly knew where Poland was. Still, there were neighbors who knew something of Old World ways, and a piano teacher who was classically Middle European in his neurotic enthusiasm for music. Her true exile came in college in Texas, where she found herself among people who were frightened by and hostile to her foreignness. Later, at Harvard, Hoffman found herself initially alienated by her burgeoning intellectualism; her parents found it difficult to comprehend. Her sense of perpetual otherness was extended by encounters with childhood friends who had escaped Cracow to grow up in Israel, rather than Canada or the United States, and were preoccupied with soldiers, not scholars. Lost in Translation is a moving memoir that takes the specific experience of the exile and humanizes it to such a degree that it becomes relevant to the lives of a wider group of readers. [via]
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A Match to the Heart/One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightningby Gretel EhrlichISBN 0140179372 (0-14-017937-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Memoirsby Pablo NerudaISBN 014018628X (0-14-018628-X)
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Memoirs, 1925-1950by George Frost KennanISBN 009085800X (0-09-085800-X)
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Most Beautiful House in the Worldby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0140105662 (0-14-010566-2)
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On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885408 (0-06-088540-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Banks of Plum Creek'Book summary:The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042598 (0-14-004259-8)
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One Lby Scott TurowISBN 0140049134 (0-14-004913-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One L'Book summary:One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Turow's multidimensional delving into his protagonists' psyches and his marvelous gift for suspense prefigure the achievements of his celebrated first novel, Presumed Innocent, one of the best-selling and most talked about books of 1987.[via]
Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year of introduction to the law. Turow's group of One Ls are fresh, bright, ambitious, and more than a little daunting. Even more impressive are the faculty: Perini, the dazzling, combative professor of contracts, who presents himself as the students' antagonist in their struggle to master his subject; Zechman, the reserved professor of torts who seems so indecisive the students fear he cannot teach; and Nicky Morris, a young, appealing man who stressed the humanistic aspects of law.
Will the One Ls survive? Will they excel? Will they make the Law Review, the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra-conservative microcosm? With remarkable insight into both his fellows and himself, Turow leads us through the ups and downs, the small triumphs and tragedies of the year, in an absorbing and throught-provoking narrative that teaches the reader not only about law school and the law but about the human beings who make them what they are.
In the new afterword for this edition of One L, the author looks back on law school from the perspective of ten years' work as a lawyer and offers some suggestions for reforming legal education.More editions of One L:
The Path to Romeby Hilaire BellocISBN 0140095306 (0-14-009530-6)
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The Portable Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0140150935 (0-14-015093-5)
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Includes the following works: NovelsThe Portrait of Dorian Gray; PlaysSalome and The Importance of Being Earnest; WritingsDe Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtzeby Peter HesslerISBN 0060855029 (0-06-085502-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze'Book summary:In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, cultural, and personal implications of being thrust into a such radically different society. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Hessler tells of his experience with the citizens of Fuling, the political and historical climate, and the feel of the city itself.
"Few passengers disembark at Fuling ... and so Fuling appears like a break in a dream--the quiet river, the cabins full of travelers drifting off to sleep, the lights of the city rising from the blackness of the Yangtze," says Hessler. A poor city by Chinese standards, the students at the college are mainly from small villages and are considered very lucky to be continuing their education. As an English teacher, Hessler is delighted with his students' fresh reactions to classic literature. One student says of Hamlet, "I don't admire him and I dislike him. I think he is too sensitive and conservative and selfish." Hessler marvels,
You couldn't have said something like that at Oxford. You couldn't simply say: I don't like Hamlet because I think he's a lousy person. Everything had to be more clever than that ... you had to dismantle it ... not just the play itself but everything that had ever been written about it.
Over the course of two years, Hessler and Meier learn more they ever guessed about the lives, dreams, and expectations of the Fuling people.Hessler's writing is lovely. His observations are evocative, insightful, and often poignant--and just as often, funny. It's a pleasure to read of his (mis)adventures. Hessler returned to the U.S. with a new perspective on modern China and its people. After reading River Town, you'll have one, too. --Dana Van Nest [via]
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The Russian Albumby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0140088083 (0-14-008808-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Russian Album'Book summary:Winner of the Heineman Prize and the Governor General's Award for nonfiction, Michael Ignatieff's The Russian Album is a sumptuous exploration of four generations of the aristocratic Ignatieff family. In particular, Ignatieff focuses on the lives of his paternal grandparents, Princess Natasha Mestchersky and Count Paul Ignatieff, minister of education under Nicholas II, who resigned his post on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution and was saved from the ensuing bloodshed by his students.
The Russian Album is at once a rich and loving personal history of an extraordinary family and a chronicle of that family's connection with the history of imperial Russia. It details the life of the Ignatieffs in Czarist Russia as well as their escape after the Russian Revolution in 1917, their sojourn in London and Paris and their eventual journey to Canada. Ignatieff uses family photographs and excerpts from diaries and letters to give readers a taste of the life that his ancestors lived, but The Russian Album isn't a celebration of Czarist Russia as much as an exploration of the strength of family ties, and one of the most touching moments of the book focuses on Ignatieff's conversation with his grandfather's remaining sons about their father and their memories of him. In the final reckoning, it is Ignatieff's attention to the Ignatieff past, rather than his own present, that makes the book such a powerful reading experience. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoirby Thomas D. JonesISBN 0060884363 (0-06-088436-3)
Softcover, Collins
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Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijingby Da ChenISBN 0060958723 (0-06-095872-3)
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South from Granadaby Gerald BrenanISBN 0140167005 (0-14-016700-5)
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Star Trek Memoriesby William ShatnerISBN 0061092355 (0-06-109235-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Stepping Westward: The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwestby Sallie TisdaleISBN 0060975105 (0-06-097510-5)
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Testimonyby Solomon VolkovISBN 0060908122 (0-06-090812-2)
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These Happy Golden Yearsby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885440 (0-06-088544-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Things Fall Apartby Chinua AchebeISBN 0072435186 (0-07-243518-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Vanished Splendors: A Memoirby Balthus, Alain VircondeletISBN 006621260X (0-06-621260-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanished Splendors: A Memoir'Book summary:The painter Balthus, whose tenacity and cultivated taste for secrecy have enveloped him in an aura of forbidding mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life.A man who for decades opted to "give expression to the world" rather than to "express" himself speaks for the first and only time about his life, family, work, his theory of art and how it intersects with history, literature, and spirituality.
Balthus was born Balthasar Klossowski in 1908 to Polish art historian Erich Klossowski and his wife, the painter Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro. The family lived in Germany, France, and Switzerland. In this memoir Balthus describes his childhood with his mother and her lover -- the poet Rainer Maria Rilke -- who became Balthus's own spiritual mentor. He evokes la vie de boheme in Paris during the 1920s, his friendships with Picasso, Derain, Artaud, Giacometti, Saint-Exupéry, René Char, Pierre Jean Jouve, and Albert Camus. He discusses his paintings, offers glimpses into his marriage, and expresses his passion for Chinese art and the Swiss chalets and Italian villas that he helped to restore. He recalls touching moments with his beloved daughter Harumi and the inspiration he drew from his cats. Also, in a kind of final lesson, Balthus shares his thoughts about painting and creation, denounces contemporary art as being illusory and deceitful, and talks candidly about his Catholic faith and how it inspired his work.
"We are most charmed by the memoir's ease of expression, as if Balthus were confiding in us, as individuals," writes Joyce Carol Oates in her introduction to Vanished Splendors. "We are brought into a startling intimacy with genius."
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0060955724 (0-06-095572-4)
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Whispering Landby Gerald DurrellISBN 0140020837 (0-14-002083-7)
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Why I'm Like Thisby Cynthia KaplanISBN 0061283967 (0-06-128396-7)
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Why We Run: A Natural Historyby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0060958707 (0-06-095870-7)
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Zoo in My Luggageby Gerald Durrell, Ralph ThompsonISBN 0140020845 (0-14-002084-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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