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20th Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times The Start, 1904-1930by William L. ShirerISBN 0316787124 (0-316-78712-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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44by Peter SheridanISBN 0333750322 (0-333-75032-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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45by Bill DrummondISBN 0316853852 (0-316-85385-2)
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. WheenISBN 0316739928 (0-316-73992-8)
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An American Family in Moscowby Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona SchecterISBN 0316773018 (0-316-77301-8)
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Andy Kaufman Revealed: Best Friend Tells Allby Bob Zmuda, Matthew Scott HansenISBN 0316610984 (0-316-61098-4)
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Andy Kaufman Revealed: Best Friend Tells Allby Jim Carrey, Bob Zmuda, Matthew Scott HansenISBN 0316681237 (0-316-68123-7)
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At the End of the Day, 1961-1963by Harold MacMillanISBN 0333124138 (0-333-12413-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Yearsby Margaret MeadISBN 0317600656 (0-317-60065-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Born Free the complete 3 part textby Joy AdamsonISBN 0330391909 (0-330-39190-9)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born Free the complete 3 part text'Book summary:Back in print in a single volume, " Born Free, the Full Story" , includes the first book " Born Free" and the subsequent " Living Free" and " Forever Free" . All three books had an impact on wildlife conservation and attitudes to the environment.
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926345 (0-316-92634-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. [via]
Calendar Girl: In Which A Lady Of Rylstone Reveals Allby Tricia StewartISBN 0330427385 (0-330-42738-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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City Lights: A Street Lifeby Keith WaterhouseISBN 0340624639 (0-340-62463-9)
Softcover, Sceptre
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Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969by Roger RosenblattISBN 0316757268 (0-316-75726-8)
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With his trademark mix of quizzicality and reason, Rosenblatt strives to understand "the folklore of the moment," the politics that led to the student takeover and the rift it left behind. He is strong on the individual response though less secure when it comes to the general: "I do not know why, but there was an impulse running under the events of that spring to let things go to hell, and it was acted upon by young and old alike." Sterner commentators have before now critiqued Rosenblatt's supercivilized examinations of the American psyche, and Coming Apart can only provide more ammunition. The wars of his subtitle may seem too tame for some, but Roger Rosenblatt convinces that the wounds (particularly his own) are permanent. [via]
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A Cultivated Life: A Year in a California Vineyardby Joy Sterling, Terry SterlingISBN 0316812986 (0-316-81298-6)
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Customs and Characters: Contemporary Portraitsby Peter QuennellISBN 0316728799 (0-316-72879-9)
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Dale Loves Sophie to Deathby Robb Forman DewISBN 0316890669 (0-316-89066-9)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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The Diary of Ellen RimbauerISBN 034082560X (0-340-82560-X)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Down Denmark Straitby Edgar Newbold SmithISBN 0316799580 (0-316-79958-0)
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Downtown: My Manhattanby Pete HamillISBN 0316734519 (0-316-73451-9)
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Manhattan, the keystone of New York City, is a place of ghosts and buried memory. One can still see remnants of the British colony, the mansions of the robber barons, and the speakeasies of the 1920s. These are the places that have captivated the imaginations of writers for centuries. Now Pete Hamill brings his unique knowledge and deep love of the city to a New York chronicle like no other.
During his 40 years as a newspaperman, Pete Hamill has been getting to know Manhattans neighborhoods and inhabitants intimately, bearing witness to their greatest triumphs and tragedies. From the winding, bohemian streets of Greenwich Village to the seedy alleyways of the meatpacking district and to the weathered cobblestones of South Street Seaport, Hamill peels back the layers of history to reveal the citys past, present, and future.
More than just history or reporting, this is an elegy by a native son who has lived through some of New Yorks most historic moments, and who continues to call this magnificent, haunted city his home. [via]
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Early Stagesby John GielgudISBN 0340410906 (0-340-41090-6)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Everest the Hard Wayby Chris BoningtonISBN 0340208333 (0-340-20833-3)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brainby H. G. WellsISBN 0316930318 (0-316-93031-8)
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Field Of Bloodby Denise MinaISBN 0316735930 (0-316-73593-0)
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Fowler: My Autobiographyby Robbie Fowler, David MaddockISBN 0330437631 (0-330-43763-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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Franny and Zooeyby J. D. SalingerISBN 0316769029 (0-316-76902-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franny and Zooey'Book summary:The author writes: franny came out in the new yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by zooey. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series i'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century new york, the glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, i suppose that sooner or later i'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, i'm very hopeful. I love working on these glass stories, i've been waiting for them most of my life, and i think i have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill [via]
The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955by John Rupert ColvilleISBN 0340382961 (0-340-38296-1)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Ghost Girlby Torey L. HaydenISBN 0316351679 (0-316-35167-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Girl'Book summary:Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled worlduntil one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told hera story too horrendous for Torey's professional colleagues to acknowledge. Yet a little girl was living in a nightmare, and Torey Hayden responded in the only way she knew howwith courage, compassion, and dedicationdemonstrating once again the tremendous power of love and the relilience of the human spirit.
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Give Me Ten Secondsby John SergeantISBN 0333904494 (0-333-90449-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Give Me Ten Seconds'Book summary:A deliciously funny insider account of British politics and of the BBC from one of our most highly regarded and well-liked broadcasters. John Sergeant is ITN's Political Editor and before that spent 30 years at the BBC coalface, latterly as the Corporation's political correspondent. He is widely respected both by the denizens of the Houses of Parliament and fellow journalists. More importantly, his appearances on shows like Radio 4's News Quiz, Have I Got News for You and Room 101 have proved him to be an inspired comic turn. This memoir will take us from his rather curious childhood, the son of decidedly eccentric parents to his flirtation with show business as part of the sixties satire boom - he starred in revue with Alan Bennett, and from his early years in journalism on the Liverpool Post to his thirty years at the BBC. Memorably handbagged by Margaret Thatcher on the steps of the Paris Embassy as she lost the leadership contest, and the man to whom Ron Davis confessed his midnight perambulations on Clapham Common, Sergeant has been the man on the spot in most of the major news stories of the last twenty years. His mordant wit, keen sense of the absurd and acute powers of analysis pervade the book. He has a wealth of killingly funny anecdotes featuring the dottier members of both Houses of Parliament and his understanding of the labyrinthine workings of Westminister - and of the corridors of Broadcasting House - is second to none. [via]
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H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiographyby H. G. WellsISBN 0316930342 (0-316-93034-2)
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The Hacienda: A Memoirby Lisa St Aubin De TeranISBN 0316816884 (0-316-81688-4)
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The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islandsby Isabella BirdISBN 0330350439 (0-330-35043-9)
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The Iliad of Homer, Books I-XIIby Homer, Malcolm M. WillcockISBN 0333157389 (0-333-15738-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Education
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The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaedaby Greg Miller, Chris MackeyISBN 0316871125 (0-316-87112-5)
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The Journals of Louisa May Alcottby Louisa May Alcott, Joel Myerson, Daniel ShealyISBN 0316593621 (0-316-59362-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Louisa May Alcott'Book summary:A companion volume to "The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott", the journals are here published in their original, unabridged version for the first time. Entries which have previously been censored or altered are reinstated and corrected, providing a wealth of new material. Alcott began her journal at a very young age and continued to write it nearly to the time of her death. It reveals her most personal, emotional reactions to her family, her work and the world in which she lived. [via]
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940by William Raymond ManchesterISBN 0316545120 (0-316-54512-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940'Book summary:Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal war to come. During this period, Churchill was tested as few men are: relentlessly pursued by creditors, disowned by his own party, vociferously dismissed by the press as a warmonger, and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Yet despite his personal and political troubles, Churchill managed to assemble a vast, underground intelligence network-both within the British government and on the continent-which provided him with more complete and accurate information on Germany than the British government. Recognizing the horrifying truth, Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression and the sordid British and French policy of appeasement.
Manchester's luminous portrait never loses sight of Churchill the man-a man with limitations, especially his callousness toward others (including his supporters) and his recklessness, which could border on the foolhardy; but also a man whose vision was global and whose courage was boundless. Here is Churchill as a light in the approaching darkness, readying himself for the terrible stand to come. [via]More editions of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940:
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The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932by William ManchesterISBN 0316545031 (0-316-54503-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932'Book summary:William Manchester met Winston Churchill on January 24, 1953. Their encounter on the Queen Mary sparked an intense curiosity in Manchester that would eventually result in his classic three-volume magnum opus The Last Lion.
In this, the first volume, we follow Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the remilitarization of Germany. Born of a lovely, wanton American mother and a gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi's quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain.
Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930's began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen. [via]More editions of The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932:
Lectures and Addressesby Rabindranath TagoreISBN 0333903498 (0-333-90349-8)
Softcover, Asia Book Corp of Amer
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Let Me Tell You A Story: A Lifetime In The Gameby Red Auerbach, John FeinsteinISBN 0316738239 (0-316-73823-9)
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Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses-A Memoirby Paula McLainISBN 0316909092 (0-316-90909-2)
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A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiographyby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926450 (0-316-92645-0)
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Liveby Tom Shales, James Andrew MillerISBN 0316735655 (0-316-73565-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live'Book summary:WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But Saturday Night Live, launched in 1975 and still thriving today, would change the face of television. It introduced brash new stars with names like Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Murray; trashed taboos that had inhibited TV for decades; and had such an impact on American life, laughter, and politics that even presidents of the United States had to take notice. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Shales and bestselling author James Andrew Miller bring together stars, writers, guest hosts, contributors, and craftsmen for the first-ever oral history of Saturday Night Live, from 1974, when it was just an idea, through 2002, when it has long since become an institution. In their own words, dozens of personalities recall the backstage stories, behind-the-scenes gossip, feuds, foibles, drugs, sex, struggles, and calamities, including personal details never before revealed. Shales and Miller have interviewed a galaxy of stars, including Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Chevy Chase, Will Ferrell, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Jon Lovitz, Jane Curtin, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Dana Carvey, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Garrett Morris, Molly Shannon, Damon Wayans, Chris Elliott, Julia Sweeney, Norm Macdonald, and Paul Simon-plus writers like Al Franken, Conan O'Brien, Larry David, Rosie Shuster, Jack Handey, Robert Smigel, Don Novello, and others who got their big breaks as part of the SNL team. The Coneheads, the Blues Brothers, Buck-wheat, Wayne and Garth, Hans and Franz, the Cheerleaders, Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Loopner, "Cheeseburger cheeseburger," Mango, the Church Lady, Ed Grimley-they're all here. And for every fabulous character on-screen there was an outrageous maverick, misfit, or rebel behind the scenes. Live from New York does what no other book about the show has ever done: It lets the people who were there tell the story in their own words, blunt and loving and uncensored. [via]
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Loitering with Intent Vol. 2 : The Apprenticeby Peter O'TooleISBN 0330352083 (0-330-35208-3)
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Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the Worldby Ewan McGregor, Charley BoormanISBN 0316731706 (0-316-73170-6)
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Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitfordby Nancy Mitford, Charlotte MosleyISBN 0340537841 (0-340-53784-1)
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Love Lessons: A Wartime Diaryby Joan WyndhamISBN 0316962511 (0-316-96251-1)
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 0316666343 (0-316-66634-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the edge of the living, always attached to her lost world, following her family's dramas over the years as if watching an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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Marianne in Chains : In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45by Robert GildeaISBN 0333782305 (0-333-78230-5)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Maybe: A Storyby Lillian HellmanISBN 0316355097 (0-316-35509-7)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Norman SandersISBN 0333026721 (0-333-02672-1)
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Minding the Store: A Memoirby Theonie Mark, Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0316546232 (0-316-54623-2)
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Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spyby Louis KaufmanISBN 0316483486 (0-316-48348-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Monk Swimmingby Malachy McCourtISBN 0330361120 (0-330-36112-0)
Hardcover, Picador USA
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Moonheartby Charles De LintISBN 0317633112 (0-317-63311-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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A Musing Morleyby Robert MorleyISBN 0340199970 (0-340-19997-0)
Hardcover, Coronet
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My Trade: A Short History of British Journalismby Andrew MarrISBN 0330411926 (0-330-41192-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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A Native's Return, 1945-1988by William L. ShirerISBN 0316787132 (0-316-78713-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaustby Edith Hahn Beer, Susan DworkinISBN 0316848476 (0-316-84847-6)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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News from No Man's Land: Reporting the Worldby John SimpsonISBN 0333905741 (0-333-90574-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Nobody's Childby Kate AdieISBN 0340838019 (0-340-83801-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945-6by Airey NeaveISBN 0340181281 (0-340-18128-1)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Orthodoxy: 20th Centuryby ChestertonISBN 0340656441 (0-340-65644-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Philip Yancey Recommends: Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0340746386 (0-340-74638-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philip Yancey Recommends: Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in Japanby John David MorleyISBN 0316583723 (0-316-58372-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Pointing the Way, 1959-1961by Harold MacMillanISBN 0333124111 (0-333-12411-1)
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Riding the Storm, 1956-1959by Harold MacMillanISBN 0333103106 (0-333-10310-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Right Place at the Right Timeby Robert MacNeilISBN 0316542903 (0-316-54290-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Saint: My Autobiographyby St JohnISBN 0340841141 (0-340-84114-1)
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The San Francisco Poetsby David MeltzerISBN 034502219X (0-345-02219-X)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Scoundrel Timeby Lillian Hellman, Garry Wills, Kathy BatesISBN 0316352942 (0-316-35294-2)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scoundrel Time'Book summary:In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial. Nonetheless the experience brought devastating controversy and loss. First published in 1972, her retelling of the time features a remarkable cast of characters, including her lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett, a slew of famous friends and colleagues, and a pack of "scoundrels" -- ruthless, ambitious politicians and the people who complied with their demands. [via]
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sextonby Linda Gray SextonISBN 0316782084 (0-316-78208-4)
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The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcottby Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B. Stern, Joel Myerson, Daniel ShealyISBN 0316593613 (0-316-59361-3)
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Strange Places, Questionable People : Updated with a New Chapter on Kosovoby John SimpsonISBN 033035566X (0-330-35566-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Streets Aheadby WaterhouseISBN 0340649097 (0-340-64909-7)
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There Shall Be Wings: The RAF, 1918 to the Presentby Max ArthurISBN 034058761X (0-340-58761-X)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Tiananmen Diary: 13 Days in Juneby Harrison SalisburyISBN 0316809047 (0-316-80904-7)
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Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrorsby Evan HandlerISBN 0316344095 (0-316-34409-5)
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The Travels of Ibn Battutahby Ibn Battutah, Tim Mackintosh-SmithISBN 0330418793 (0-330-41879-3)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Travels of Ibn Battutahby Tim MacKintosh-SmithISBN 033049113X (0-330-49113-X)
Hardcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crewby Bernard HareISBN 0340837349 (0-340-83734-9)
Hardcover, Sceptre
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Vet in a Spinby James HerriotISBN 0330443577 (0-330-44357-7)
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A Whale for the Killingby Farley MowatISBN 0316586919 (0-316-58691-9)
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When the Going Was Goodby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926477 (0-316-92647-7)
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The White House Yearsby Henry KissingerISBN 0316496618 (0-316-49661-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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