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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfallby Spike MilliganISBN 0718108663 (0-7181-0866-3)
Hardcover, Joseph
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter Naturalistby Theodore RooseveltISBN 0722242972 (0-7222-4297-2)
Hardcover, Best Books
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Akenfield:Portrait of an English Village: Portrait of an English Villageby Ronald BlytheISBN 0713901004 (0-7139-0100-4)
Hardcover, Allen Lane The Penguin P.
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Alexander's Pathby Freya StarkISBN 0719513324 (0-7195-1332-4)
Hardcover, Transatlantic Arts
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All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writingsby George BushISBN 0743200411 (0-7432-0041-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Another World, 1897-1917by Anthony EdenISBN 0713910038 (0-7139-1003-8)
Hardcover, A. Lane
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The Apologia Pro Vita Sua of John Henry Cardinal Newman ; with an Introd by Maisie Wardby John Henry NewmanISBN 0722073089 (0-7220-7308-9)
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 071560709X (0-7156-0709-X)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s; his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland The Middle Danube to the Iron Gatesby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0719542642 (0-7195-4264-2)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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Chazyby Christina M. TromblyISBN 0738534749 (0-7385-3474-9)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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Christmas in IrelandISBN 0716608782 (0-7166-0878-2)
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Combat Reportby Bill LambertISBN 071830442X (0-7183-0442-X)
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Come Hell or High Waterby Clare FrancisISBN 0720709857 (0-7207-0985-7)
Hardcover, Pelham
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Confessions of a Slacker Momby Muffy Mead-FerroISBN 0738209945 (0-7382-0994-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiographyby Aleister Crowley, John Symonds, Kenneth GrantISBN 0710001754 (0-7100-0175-4)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography, by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), is a book written in six parts, the first two parts published in 1929. It is subtitled "An Autohagiography" which refers to the autobiography of a Saint, a title which Crowley would also have associated with the Plymouth Brethren, who use it to refer to themselves. Crowley was brought up as one of their members. [via]More editions of The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography:
D-Day Dodgerby J. M. Lee HarveyISBN 0718302869 (0-7183-0286-9)
Hardcover, Kimber
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Domestic Manners of the Americansby Frances Milton TrollopeISBN 0712609342 (0-7126-0934-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945by J. C. MastermanISBN 0708104592 (0-7081-0459-2)
Hardcover, Australian National University Press
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Enchanted Cornwall: Her Pictorial Memoirby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0718134788 (0-7181-3478-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0721406327 (0-7214-0632-7)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd
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The Gatekeeper: A Memoirby Terry EagletonISBN 0713995904 (0-7139-9590-4)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Glimpse of Nothingnessby Janwillem Van De WeteringISBN 0710080786 (0-7100-8078-6)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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The Green Paradise: 1900-1916by Julien GreenISBN 0714529559 (0-7145-2955-9)
Hardcover, Marion Boyars
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Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984by James Lees-Milne, Michael BlochISBN 0719562120 (0-7195-6212-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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A House With Four Roomsby Rumer GoddenISBN 0708925170 (0-7089-2517-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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How to Become a Virginby Quentin CrispISBN 0715615777 (0-7156-1577-7)
Hardcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diaryby Robert Latham, D.H. TarlingISBN 0713517506 (0-7135-1750-6)
Hardcover, Bell & Hyman
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The Illustrated Still Glides the Streamby Flora ThompsonISBN 0712609148 (0-7126-0914-8)
Hardcover, Century Pub Co
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The Illustrated Summoned by Bellsby John Betjeman, Hugh CassonISBN 0719552842 (0-7195-5284-2)
Softcover, Murray, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Summoned by Bells'Book summary:John Betjeman's verse autobiography has sold more copies than any other English poem of its length this century. The touching story of a boy's growth to early manhood and the mixed joys and guilt of youth, it is also supremely a poem about places, buildings and surroundings - Highgate and Pooterland, t Cornish seaside and Chelsea, Marlborough among its Downs, the quads of Oxford, parish churches and tin advertisements on railway platforms. Who better to illustrate this autobiography than Hugh Casson, architect and former President of the Royal Academy, who has already delighted us with illustrated books on London, Cambridge and Oxford which show him to be as much in love with those places as Betjeman himself. Casson is Beqemz very near contemporary and was a close friend, matching him in passion for all matters architectural and like him a keen observer of the splendid and ridiculous. He has delighted in Summoned by Bells since it first appeared and his illustrations in line and water-colour are a perfect complement to the verse- [via]
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In Ethiopia with a Muleby Dervla MurphyISBN 0719565111 (0-7195-6511-1)
Softcover, Murray, John
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In Pursuit of British Interests: Reflections on Foreign Policy Under Margaret Thatcher and John Majorby Percy CradockISBN 0719554640 (0-7195-5464-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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In the Life of a Romany Gypsyby Manfri Frederick WoodISBN 0710075952 (0-7100-7595-2)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Inside the Company: CIA Diaryby Philip AgeeISBN 0713909854 (0-7139-0985-4)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Iran: A Child's Story, a Man's Experienceby Gholam-Reza, Sabri-TabriziISBN 0717806820 (0-7178-0682-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Jack's War: Lower-Deck Recollections from World War IIby G. G. ConnellISBN 0718305655 (0-7183-0565-5)
Hardcover, W. Kimber
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Jacques Offenbachby James HardingISBN 0714538418 (0-7145-3841-8)
Softcover, Calder Publications Limited
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Laughter in the Next Roomby Osbert SitwellISBN 0704331624 (0-7043-3162-4)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Life of Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avilaby St. Teresa of AvilaISBN 072207901X (0-7220-7901-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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A Lighter Shade of Blue: The Lighthearted Memoirs of an Air Marshalby Christopher Foxley-NorrisISBN 0711008582 (0-7110-0858-2)
Hardcover, I. Allan
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Love in America: Autobiographyby Euan Cameron, Julian GreenISBN 0714529877 (0-7145-2987-7)
Hardcover, Marion Boyars
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Memoirs from the Women's Prisonby Nawal Sa'AdadwISBN 070434002X (0-7043-4002-X)
Softcover, Womens Pr Ltd
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Memoirs of an Eighteenth-Century Footman, 1745-79by John MacDonaldISBN 071260992X (0-7126-0992-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselringby Albert KesselringISBN 0718302931 (0-7183-0293-1)
Hardcover, W. Kimber
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Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Edith Grossman, Gabriel García MárquezISBN 0739325604 (0-7393-2560-4)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores'Book summary:"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slightly talented Colombian journalist and teacher, never married, never in love, living in the crumbling family manse. He calls Rosa Cabarcas, madame of the city's most successful brothel, to seek her assistance. Rosa tells him his wish is impossible--and then calls right back to say that she has found the perfect girl.
The protagonist says of himself: "I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay ... by the time I was fifty there were 514 women with whom I had been at least once ... My public life, on the other hand, was lacking in interest: both parents dead, a bachelor without a future, a mediocre journalist ... and a favorite of caricaturists because of my exemplary ugliness."
The girl is 14 and works all day in a factory attaching buttons in order to provide for her family. Rosa gives her a combination of bromide and valerian to drink to calm her nerves, and when the prospective lover arrives, she is sound asleep. Now the story really begins. The nonagenarian is not a sex-starved adventurer; he is a tender voyeur. Throughout his 90th year, he continues to meet the girl and watch her sleep. He says, "This was something new for me. I was ignorant of the arts of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark, so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were ... That night I discovered the improbably pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty."
Márquez's style never falters throughout this recounting of his life and his exploration of love, found at an unexpected time and place. The erstwhile lover is still capable of being surprised--and fulfilled. After an absence of ten years, it is a treat to have another parable from the master. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Milk of Paradise: Diaries, 1993-1997by James Lees-Milne, Michael BlochISBN 0719565812 (0-7195-6581-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Munros in Winter: 227 Summits in 83 Daysby Martin MoranISBN 0715388363 (0-7153-8836-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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My Happy Life: An Autobiographyby George Hall, Donald Evans, Darius MilhaudISBN 0714529575 (0-7145-2957-5)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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My Mother and I.by Margaret PowellISBN 0718110439 (0-7181-1043-9)
Hardcover, Joseph
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The Naked Civil Servantby Quentin CrispISBN 0715611879 (0-7156-1187-9)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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News from Nowhereby William MorrisISBN 0710067569 (0-7100-6756-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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No Badgers in My Woodby Phil DrabbleISBN 0718118537 (0-7181-1853-7)
Hardcover, Joseph
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Date of Publication: 1979
Binding: hard back
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Description: 0718118537 Ex Library slightly cocked, ffp missing
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One Foot in Heavenby Hartzell SpenceISBN 0727800434 (0-7278-0043-4)
Hardcover, Severn House
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Opiumby Jean CocteauISBN 0720608007 (0-7206-0800-7)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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Oughtobiography: Leaves from the Diary of a Hyphenated Jewby David MarcusISBN 0717132501 (0-7171-3250-1)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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People and Places : Country House Donors and the National Trustby James Lees-MilneISBN 0719562023 (0-7195-6202-3)
Softcover, Murray, John
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Personal Impressionsby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 071266601X (0-7126-6601-X)
Softcover, Century
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Ptownby Peter MansoISBN 0743200942 (0-7432-0094-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Reach for the Ground: Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernardby Jeffrey BernardISBN 0715631500 (0-7156-3150-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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Rocket to the Top: On the Road With Pat Rafterby Patrick Rafter, Leo SchlinkISBN 0732264596 (0-7322-6459-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Australia
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Patrick Rafter lives in Bermuda and Leo Schlink lives in Australia. [via]More editions of Rocket to the Top: On the Road With Pat Rafter:
Rough Road to Rome: A Foot-Soldier in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44by David ColeISBN 0718303091 (0-7183-0309-1)
Hardcover, W. Kimber
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Sailing Alone Around the Worldby Captain Joshua Slocum, George Varian, Thomas Fogarty, Walter Magnes TellerISBN 0713679352 (0-7136-7935-2)
Softcover, Adlard Coles Nautical
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sailing Alone Around the World'Book summary:[via]Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. It remains one of the major feats of singlehanded voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in small boats.
Starting from Boston in 1895, by the time he dropped anchor in Newport, Rhode Island over three years after his journey began, he had cruised some 46,000 miles entirely by sail and entirely alone.
Slocum's account of his epic voyage is a classic of sailing literature, acclaimed as an unequalled masterpiece of vital yet disciplined prose. It will be welcomed by admirers of his legendary achievement.
'It is a timeless work that can be read again and again, and a story that totally absorbs the reader with it's enormity and honest endeavour' RNSA Journal
'Slocum's prose is a model of its kind: honest, vivid, salty, and at times, lyrical' Traditional Boats and Tall Ships
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Sailing Alone Around the Worldby Joshua Slocum, George Varian, Thomas Fogarty, Walter Magnes TellerISBN 071366777X (0-7136-6777-X)
Softcover, Adlard Coles Nautical
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Schoenbergby Charles RosenISBN 0714525669 (0-7145-2566-9)
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0721456111 (0-7214-5611-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Selections from the Prison Notebooksby A. GramsciISBN 071780397X (0-7178-0397-X)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsciby Antonio Gramsci, Quintin Hoare, Geoffrey Nowell-SmithISBN 0717802701 (0-7178-0270-1)
Hardcover, International Publishers
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Six Months in Hawaiiby Isabella BirdISBN 0710302320 (0-7103-0232-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Soldier's Tale : Bearing Witness to Modern Warby Samuel HynesISBN 0713991909 (0-7139-9190-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917by Edwin Campion VaughanISBN 072322773X (0-7232-2773-X)
Hardcover, F. Warne
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooperby John RichardsonISBN 0712667083 (0-7126-6708-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Summoned by Bellsby John BetjemanISBN 0719560314 (0-7195-6031-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Placesby Bridget HarrisonISBN 0738210919 (0-7382-1091-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Through the Badger Gate: The Story of Badgers, Their Persecution and Protection, and of a Cub Reared and Returned to the Wildby Edna Jane RatcliffeISBN 0713518804 (0-7135-1880-4)
Hardcover, Bell
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A Time to Keep Silenceby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0719539633 (0-7195-3963-3)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701209968 (0-7012-0996-8)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Lighthouse'Book summary:Woolf's best known novel records the daily life of a large English family and their guests on holiday in the Hebrides. The surface action is minimal, but Woolf uses the stream of consciousness technique, a progression of internal impressions and thoughts, to capture the characters' moment - by - moment reactions to the passing of time. The underlying tensions between the nurturing Mrs. Ramsay and the coldly rational Mr. Ramsay speak volumes about the conflicts of female and male relationships. But perhaps Woolf's most dazzling accomplishment in To the Lighthouse is her depiction of the painter Lily Briscoe's triumphant creative moment as she struggles to complete a painting and ultimately experiences the transcendence of art. [via]
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Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf Worldby Leah Hager CohenISBN 0735101426 (0-7351-0142-6)
Hardcover, Replica Books
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Travels with a Tangerineby Tim MacKintosh-SmithISBN 0719558492 (0-7195-5849-2)
Hardcover, John Murray
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The Turkish Loverby Esmeralda SantiagoISBN 0738208205 (0-7382-0820-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turkish Lover'Book summary:Along with Sandra Cisneros and Julia Alvarez, Esmeralda Santiago has emerged as one of today's preeminent Latina authors. Legions of fans have waited five long years for the next chapter of the story begun in her memoirs When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman. And now the wait is over. In The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother-only to come under the thrall of "the Turk" and discover that romantic passion, too, can become a prison. Esmeralda's journey of self-liberation and self-discovery is a daring one, candidly and zestfully recounted, and leads, most surprisingly, to her graduation from Harvard. (Her view of that venerable institution is an eye opener, told as only a brilliant writer totally outside the mold can tell it.) The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in The Turkish Lover, which will both reward the author's faithful readership and extend it. Hers is a fresh, exciting, and necessary voice. A Merloyd Lawrence Book[via]More editions of The Turkish Lover:
Up And Down In The Dalesby Gervase PhinnISBN 0718145844 (0-7181-4584-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Vet in a Spinby James HerriotISBN 0708902421 (0-7089-0242-1)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The War at Sixteen: Autobiography, 1916-1919by Julien GreenISBN 0714529699 (0-7145-2969-9)
Hardcover, Marion Boyars
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Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh An Autobiographyby Auberon WaughISBN 0712637338 (0-7126-3733-8)
Hardcover, Century
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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Wrong Face in the Mirror: An Autobiography of Race and Identityby Lolo HoubeinISBN 0702222488 (0-7022-2248-8)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitterby Stephanie Pearl-McPheeISBN 0740750372 (0-7407-5037-2)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Over 50 million people in America knit. The average knitter spends between $500 and $1,700 a year on yarn, patterns, needles, and books. No longer just a fad or a hobby, knitting has advanced to a lifestyle.
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humor in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her "yarn harlot" title with her love of any new yarn--she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn.
Since the upsurge in knitting began in the early '90s, the number of women under 45 who knit has doubled. Knitting is no longer a hobby for just grandmothers--women and men of all ages are embracing this art. Describing its allure is best left to Stephanie who explains: "It is a well-known fact that knitting is a sparkling form of entertainment, as spiritual as yoga, as relaxing as a massage, and as funny as Erma Bombeck trapped in a PTA meeting." [via]
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Travellerby Frances MayesISBN 0739325922 (0-7393-2592-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Yet Being Someone Otherby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 0701219009 (0-7012-1900-9)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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