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1933by Phillip MetcalfeISBN 093296687X (0-932966-87-X)
Hardcover, Permanent Pr Pub Co
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American Journalsby Albert CamusISBN 091372968X (0-913729-68-X)
Hardcover, Paragon House
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At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friendsby Dwight David EisenhowerISBN 0915992043 (0-915992-04-3)
Softcover, Amer Anthropological Assn
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Baa Baa Black Sheepby Gregory BoyingtonISBN 0933458002 (0-933458-00-2)
Hardcover, Jb Wilson Pr
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Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Riesby Franz Wegeler, Ferdinand RiesISBN 0915556154 (0-915556-15-4)
Hardcover, Great River Books
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Beyond Everestby P MorrowISBN 0920656463 (0-920656-46-3)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Big Dead Place: Inside The Strange And Menacing World Of Antarcticaby Nicholas JohnsonISBN 0922915997 (0-922915-99-7)
Softcover, Feral House
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Birthdayby Dorothea TanningISBN 0932499163 (0-932499-16-3)
Softcover, Texas Bookman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birthday'Book summary:1986: copyright by Lapis Press- 185 pages- Author- Dorothy Tanning - Birthday is the long-awaited memoir of international Artist Dorothea Tanning, whose life with the famed surrealist Max Ernest spanned Continents and decades. [via]
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Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Fronteraby Gloria AnzalduaISBN 0933216254 (0-933216-25-4)
Softcover, Spinsters/Aunt Lute
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera'Book summary:Experimental, inventive, provocative and above all visionary, Gloria Anzaldúa's work is widely recognized among scholars of Chicano/Latino, Gay and Lesbian, Women's, Postcolonial, Ethnic and Cultural Studies as a foundational elaboration of the politics and poetics of cultural hybridity. Both Borderlands/La Frontera and Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras are all about understanding the complex and competing social, political and cultural forces that shape-sometimes quite brutally-the experiences of women of color in the U.S., and they are all about taking that understanding and mobilizing it toward creative and revisionary efforts for making social change.
"One of the 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century"-Hungry Mind Review (Spring 1999)
"Anzaldúa's voyage of discovery, focused on the border and the new mestiza, is a preparation for the future. The border is a bundle of contradictions and ambiguities... This hybrid crossroads is just the right kind of training ground. It is fertile area for mutations and transformations. In Borderlands/ La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa is our guide with an all-encompassing vision to charge the border with meaning."-The Americas Review
"[She] explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence of those living on the frontier between cultures and languages. . . .she meditates on the conditions of Chicanos in Anglo culture, women in Hispanic culture, and lesbians in the straight world. ...a powerful document."-Library Journal
A "Best of 1987" Library Journal selection.
"Anzaldúa's vision encompasses spiritual and experiential aspects of female power, as well as the day-to-day courage and struggle that has characterized Chicano survival."-The San Francisco Chronicle [via]More editions of Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera:
The Breach in the Wall: A Memoir of the Old Chinaby Enid Saunders CandlinISBN 0913729957 (0-913729-95-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Pastby MeierISBN 0932272061 (0-932272-06-1)
Softcover, Neighbors Pub
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The Broken Face of Summer: Poemsby Michael HoganISBN 0916918165 (0-916918-16-5)
Softcover, Duck Down
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Bugles and a Tiger: A Volume of Autobiographyby John MastersISBN 0933852789 (0-933852-78-9)
Hardcover, Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
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The Burgess Book of Liesby Adrian BurgessISBN 0938567381 (0-938567-38-1)
Hardcover, Mountaineers Books
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Campaigning With GrantISBN 0914427709 (0-914427-70-9)
Hardcover, William s Konecky Assoc
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Computing Across America: The Bicycle Odyssey of a High-Tech Nomadby Steven K RobertsISBN 0938734180 (0-938734-18-0)
Softcover, Information Today Inc
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Crabs Hole: A Family Story of Tangler IslandISBN 0937692115 (0-937692-11-5)
Softcover, Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub
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The Danger Tree: Memory, War, and the Search for a Family's Pastby David MacFarlaneISBN 0921912048 (0-921912-04-8)
Hardcover, Macfarlane Walter & Ross
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Do Not Go Gentleby M. HoganISBN 0933188048 (0-933188-04-8)
Softcover, Confluence Pr
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Double Lifeby Miklos RozsaISBN 0922066175 (0-922066-17-5)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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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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Everest, the West Ridgeby Thomas F. HornbeinISBN 0916890902 (0-916890-90-2)
Hardcover, Mountaineers Books
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Finding Familyby OustonISBN 0921586310 (0-921586-31-0)
Softcover, New Star Books
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Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articlesby Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. WallISBN 0940450844 (0-940450-84-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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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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Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iranby Terence O'Donnell, Dick DavisISBN 0934211809 (0-934211-80-9)
Softcover, Mage Pub
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Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basieby Albert MurrayISBN 0917657896 (0-917657-89-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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The Great Fire of London: (A Story with interpolations and bifurcations)by Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di BernardiISBN 0916583899 (0-916583-89-9)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Great Fire of London consists of a main text ("story") and two sets of digressions ("interpolations" and "bifurcations"). Although best to read the insertions as they appear (indicated in the main text with cross-reference markers), this is an "interactive" text in which readers can decide for themselves how they wish to proceed. Roubaud's novel stands as a lyrical counterpart of those great postmodern masterpieces by fellow Oulipians Georges Perec (Life: A User's Manual) and Italo Calvino (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler). [via]More editions of The Great Fire of London: (A Story with interpolations and bifurcations):
The Gurdjieff Workby Kathleen Riordan SpeethISBN 0915904195 (0-915904-19-5)
Hardcover, And/Or Press
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Handbook to Higher Consciousness: The Workbook A Daily Practice Book to Help You Increase Your Heart-To-Heart Loving and Happinessby Penny Keyes, Ken KeyesISBN 0915972166 (0-915972-16-6)
Softcover, Love Line Books
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Heavenly Breakfast, an Essay on the Winter of Loveby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0917453336 (0-917453-33-6)
Softcover, Bamberger Books
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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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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journalby Ackerley, Eliot WeinbergerISBN 0940322250 (0-940322-25-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-1921by P. ArshinovISBN 0934868034 (0-934868-03-4)
Softcover, Black & Red
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House of Exileby Nora Waln, C. Leroy BaldridgeISBN 0939149788 (0-939149-78-8)
Softcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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I Come from Behind Kaf Mountainby Murat YaganISBN 0939660083 (0-939660-08-3)
Softcover, Threshold Books
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I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journeyby Langston HughesISBN 0938410369 (0-938410-36-9)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Press
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The Intimate Journalby George Sand, Marie Jenney HoweISBN 0915864509 (0-915864-50-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Invention of Solitudeby Paul AusterISBN 0915342375 (0-915342-37-5)
Softcover, Sun
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Jack London and His Daughtersby Joan LondonISBN 0930588436 (0-930588-43-6)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfictionby Jim HarrisonISBN 0944439306 (0-944439-30-6)
Hardcover, Clark City Pr
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Knitting Around: Or Knitting Without a Licenseby Elizabeth ZimmermanISBN 0942018036 (0-942018-03-6)
Hardcover, Schoolhouse Pr
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Letters from Occupied Japanby Henry ZylstraISBN 0931940052 (0-931940-05-2)
Softcover, Middleburg Pr
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Letters from Russiaby Anka Muhlstein, Astolphe Custine, Astolphe De CustineISBN 0940322811 (0-940322-81-1)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from Russia'Book summary:The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court and on the street, and of the impoverished Russian countryside. But together with a wealth of sharply delineated incident and detail, Custine's great work also presents an indelible picture--roundly denounced by both Czarist and Communist regimes--of a country crushed by despotism and "intoxicated with slavery."
Letters from Russia, here published in a new edition prepared by Anka Muhlstein, the author of the Goncourt Prize-winning biography of Custine, stands with Tocqueville's Democracy in America as a profound and passionate encounter with historical forces that are still very much at work in the world today. [via]More editions of Letters from Russia:
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0931432944 (0-931432-94-4)
Hardcover, Pub Group West
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The Life of Henry Brulardby Stendhal, John SturrockISBN 0940322897 (0-940322-89-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lost Boyby Dave PelzerISBN 0929099036 (0-929099-03-6)
Softcover, Maun Lemke
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The Making of a Teacher : Conversations with Eknath Easwaranby Timothy Hinds Flinders, Carol Lee Flinders, Nilgiri Press StaffISBN 0915132540 (0-915132-54-0)
Softcover, Nilgiri Press
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Marc-Antoine Charpentierby Catherine Cessac, E. Thomas GlasowISBN 0931340802 (0-931340-80-2)
Hardcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Marcel Proust's Combrayby Marcel Proust, Gabriel SeymourISBN 0915998041 (0-915998-04-1)
Hardcover, Lime Rock Press
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Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bardsby Frank R. ShiversISBN 0940776219 (0-940776-21-9)
Hardcover, Maclay & Assoc
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Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponteby Lorenzo Da Ponte, Elisabeth Abbott, Charles RosenISBN 0940322358 (0-940322-35-8)
Softcover, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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Memoirs of My Nervous Illnessby Daniel Schreber, Anne Barton, Ida MacAlpine, Richard A. HunterISBN 094032220X (0-940322-20-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0934048118 (0-934048-11-8)
Softcover, Swan Books
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My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuriesby Rictor NortonISBN 0943595711 (0-943595-71-1)
Softcover, Leyland Pubns
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My Yellowstone Years: The Life of a Park Rangerby Donald C. StewartISBN 0923568018 (0-923568-01-8)
Softcover, Wilderness Adventure Books
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Nakahama Manjiro's Hyosen Kiryaku: A Companion Book Produced for the Exhibition Drifting, Nakahama Manjiros Tale of Discovery an Illustrated Manuscript Recounting Ten Years of Adventure at Seaby Rosenbach Museum & LibraryISBN 0939084325 (0-939084-32-5)
Softcover, Rosenbach Museum & Library
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Obituariesby William SaroyanISBN 0916870170 (0-916870-17-0)
Hardcover, Creative Arts Book Co
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One Generation Afterby Elie WieselISBN 0935613005 (0-935613-00-5)
Hardcover, The Bibliophile Library
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The Other Side of the Storyby Richard SheltonISBN 0917652614 (0-917652-61-4)
Hardcover, Confluence Pr
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Oxford Days: An Inclinationby Paul WestISBN 0945167520 (0-945167-52-0)
Hardcover, British Amer Pub Ltd
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Panzer Leaderby Heinz GuderianISBN 0939482061 (0-939482-06-1)
Hardcover, Noontide Pr
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Penguin Islandby Anatole France, A. W. EvansISBN 0918172098 (0-918172-09-8)
Softcover, Leete's Island Books
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The Physiology of Tasteby Jean-Anthelme Brillat-SavarinISBN 091817211X (0-918172-11-X)
Softcover, Leete's Island Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Physiology of Taste'Book summary:You can't properly call yourself a gourmand (or even a minor foodie) until you've digested Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's delectable 1825 treatise, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. Brilliantly and lovingly translated in 1949 by M.F.K. Fisher (herself the doyenne of 20th-century food writing), the book offers the Professor's meditations not just on matters of cooking and eating, but extends to sleep, dreams, exhaustion, and even death (which he defines as the "complete interruption of sensual relations"). Brillat-Savarin, whose genius is in the examination and discussion of food, cooking, and eating, proclaims that "the discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star."
Chocoholics will be satisfied to know that "carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant ... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work...." He examines the erotic properties of the truffle ("the truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac; but it can, in certain situations, make women tenderer and men more agreeable"), the financial influence of the turkey (apparently quite a prize in 19th-century Paris), and the level of gourmandise among the various professions (bankers, doctors, writers, and men of faith are all predestined to love food). Just as engrossing as the text itself are M.F.K. Fisher's lively, personal glosses at the end of every chapter, which make up almost a quarter of the book. These two are soulmates separated by centuries, and Fisher's fondness for the Professor comes through on every page. As she notes at the end, "I have yet to be bored or offended, which is more than most women can say of any relationship, either ghostly or corporeal." --Rebecca A. Staffel [via]
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A Pilgrim Father of 1940: A Life of Hope and Love in the Shadow of Fear and Hateby Albert SchrekingerISBN 0939644487 (0-939644-48-7)
Hardcover, Midgard Press
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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchistby Alexander BerkmanISBN 094032234X (0-940322-34-X)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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The Ribbon: A Celebration of Lifeby Lark Books, Marianne PhilbinISBN 0937274240 (0-937274-24-0)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Samed: Journal of a West Bank Palestinianby Raja ShehadehISBN 0915361027 (0-915361-02-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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A Sand County Almanac Illustratedby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0915024152 (0-915024-15-2)
Hardcover, Trails Media Group Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac Illustrated'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industryby Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla AlexanderISBN 0939416115 (0-939416-11-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Silent Terrorby James EllroyISBN 0940941007 (0-940941-00-7)
Hardcover, Blood & Guts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent Terror'Book summary:1953-1983: 30 years of American society, from the hope of Eisenhower's presidency, to the kinky flower generation, through the death of the dream, Charles Manson, the beginning of the twisted nightmare and the moral backlash of the 80s. One Man's crimes span these years and the length and breadth of America. Martin Michael Plunkett - of genius level intelligence, articulate, ruthless, yet deranged sex killer. And beneath his calm veneer, rage voices implanted in his mind in one of the defing and deeply buried moment of his life, a moment so shocking that it takes him thirty years to bring it back into his consciousness. Sentenced to life in Sing Sing prison, Plunkett begins his autobio-graphical memoir, an account of more than fifty killing that made him America's most wanted serial killer and its greatest enigma. His account will drive even those who brought him to justice to despair. [via]
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Sincerely Ronald Reaganby Ronald Reagan, Von DammISBN 0916054055 (0-916054-05-5)
Hardcover, Green Hill Publishers
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The Sold Out Dream: Memoirs of a Polish Freedom Fighterby Julius F. PrzesmyckiISBN 0938335154 (0-938335-15-4)
Hardcover, J.F. Przesmycki
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Soon It Will Be Morningby Michael HoganISBN 0915496038 (0-915496-03-8)
Hardcover, Cold Mountain
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The South Fork: The Land and the People of Eastern Long Islandby Everett RattrayISBN 0916366413 (0-916366-41-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Stillmeadow Samplerby Gladys TaberISBN 0940160110 (0-940160-11-0)
Softcover, Parnassus Imprints
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0915864231 (0-915864-23-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Subscribe Now: Building Arts Audiences Through Dynamic Subscription Promotionby Danny NewmanISBN 0930452011 (0-930452-01-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Swimming To Cambodiaby Spalding GrayISBN 093045250X (0-930452-50-X)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swimming To Cambodia'Book summary:[via]It took courage to do what Spalding didcourage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our heartsmy heartbecause he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life. Eric Bogosian
Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous. The New York Times
In 2004, we mourned the loss of one of Americas true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Grays legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Grays singular artistry.
Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; Its a Slippery Slope; Grays Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme.
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Talmadge: A Political Legacy, a Politician's Life A Memoirby Herman E. Talmadge, Mark Royden WinchellISBN 0934601232 (0-934601-23-2)
Hardcover, Peachtree Pub Ltd
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They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640by Michael CooperISBN 0939512734 (0-939512-73-4)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Center for
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Thunder & Mud: A Pioneer Childhood on the Prairieby Julia Brown Tobias, B. J. Durr, Sue Kepros HartmanISBN 0931271290 (0-931271-29-0)
Softcover, High Plains Pr
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Tight Spacesby Cherry Muhanji, Kesho Scott, Egyirba HighISBN 0933216270 (0-933216-27-0)
Softcover, Spinsters/Aunt Lute
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Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diaryby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0916782212 (0-916782-21-2)
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Trashby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0932379516 (0-932379-51-6)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Veeck As in Wreckby B. VeeckISBN 094137209X (0-941372-09-X)
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Victorian Sisters: The Remarkable Macdonald Women and the Great Men They Inspiredby Ina TaylorISBN 0917561341 (0-917561-34-1)
Hardcover, Woodbine House
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Village Creekby Gordon BaxterISBN 0940672030 (0-940672-03-0)
Softcover, Shearer Pub
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White Lies: For My Motherby Liza PotvinISBN 0920897134 (0-920897-13-4)
Softcover, NeWest Publishers, Limited
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You Can't Winby Jack BlackISBN 0941693074 (0-941693-07-4)
Softcover, Amok Pr
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Zviby Elwood McQuaidISBN 0915540665 (0-915540-66-5)
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