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Camera Girl

A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintegration of her family through alcoholism, she began a

A book of secrets

The author shares the stories of unknown women who played significant roles in the lives of prominent figures, including a mistress shared by the second

Mistress and Maid (Jiaohong ji)by Meng Chengshun

In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have

Aaronsohn's Maps

Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at

Nothing Else to Fear

David Ellis and his family were missionaries in Indonesia, where they were frequently the target of anti-Western violence. In the many terrifying - and sometimes

Invisible

'She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white

Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert

Serving as a perfect introduction to this well-known French writer, Flaubert scholar Meryl Tyers’ work covers the remarkable life of the renowned author of Madame

Touch and Go

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian author of The Good War recounts his hard-working early childhood in Chicago, his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War

Raoul Wallenberg

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection is the best record of the literary background of Eleonora Duse, one of the foremost Italian aesthetes. It proves that

Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common

Architect William Wurster envisioned Greenwood Common as a development that combined an idealistic sense of community with a modernist aesthetic and an awareness of regi...

Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton

The first modern biography of this notable politician 'Mach's detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressiv...

Running the Voodoo Down

RUNNING THE VOODOO DOWN

Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments

Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses

The late child and other animals

Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the

Why I Left America And Other Essays

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

My Friend, Julia Lathrop

As one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lathrop played an instrumental role in the field of social reform for

Langston Hughes

A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

The Rat That Got Away : A Bronx Memoir

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional

Lenin's Laureate Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Drawing on extensive archival research and the author's own discussions with Alferov, Lenin's Laureate offers a unique account of Soviet science, presented against the ba...

The Poet and the King

The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as 'the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of

The Kremlin's Geordie Spy

Born a 'geordie,” a native of Britain’s Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Willie Fisher became one of the KGB’s most celebrated agents. Sent to spy in New York, where

Alger Hiss

Documents the story of a State Department official charged with spying for the Soviets, arguing the case was shaped by missed chances and poor judgments,

Labyrinths

Emma Jung era inteligentă, ambițioasă și extrem de bogată, una dintre cele mai bogate moștenitoare din Elveția când, la vârsta de șaptesprezece ani, l-a cunoscut

The Brother

'The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003?including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet

The Hidden Life of Otto Frank

În această nouă biografie definitivă, Carol Ann Lee oferă răspunsul la una dintre cele mai sfâșietoare întrebări ale timpurilor moderne: cine a trădat-o pe Anne

The Poisoner

Taking a fresh look at the infamous doctor's life and disputed crimes, and drawing on previously undiscovered letters and new forensic evidence, this first major

Life

From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nation s treasure, sage of The Voice and

O the clear moment

The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with

Forget About Today

Forget About Today shows a side of Bob Dylan that most people - from fans to skeptics - have never seen. Rather than another gossipy

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the sequel to Garland's autobiography A Son of the Middle Border.

Edward Albee

In 1960, Edward Albee electrified the theater world with the American premiere of The Zoo Story, and followed it two years later with his extraordinary

Wildflower

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences she’s had throughout her life.

Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy

A striking feature of ancient Greek literature is its preoccupation with old age. Yet scholars have been slow to explore the subject, a possible reflection

Dickens and Thackeray

Attitudes toward punishment and forgiveness in English society of the nineteenth century came, for the most part, out of Christianity. In actual experience the ideal

The Sixth Man

**The Instant National Bestseller** The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors. Andre Iguodala is one

Looking for Chengdu

Memoir of the author's trips to the Sichuan Province of China during the late 1980s. Her intention was to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese

A Numerate Life

Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky 'meta-memoir' raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What

Whiskey breakfast

Whiskey Breakfast is Lindberg’s captivating tale of life as a first-generation baby-boomer Swedish American, caught between the customs of a land he had never been

All Man!

Hemingway as viewed through the lens of men's pulp magazines During the 1950s, Hemingway was in two plane crashes, won a Nobel Prize, published a

Bear Island

'Weaving together strands of myth, memory, legend, and history, Bear Island lyrically conveys a historical event that has been forgotten not only by the majority

Fortune's Spear

Gerard Lee Bevan was the model of an Edwardian swell arrogant, smooth, wellconnected and highly cultured. He married money and influence his wife Sophie Kenrick

Jacob Adler

(Applause Books). Jacob Adler, with his performances in the Yiddish King Lear , Uriel Acosta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , became first

Pearl

Pearl describes a bereft father mourning the loss of his precious 'Perle.' Returning to the garden where she first disappeared, he observes the verdant shades

Heart Songs and Other Stories

Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country.

Midnight's gate =

Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square.'Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate.'Bei Dao Bei Dao

Rose Kennedy

'An insightful portrait of this paradoxical woman.' —People In this definitive biography—the first to draw on an invaluable cache of newly released diaries and letters—pr...

Translation and the Transmission of Culture Between 1300 and 1600

Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600 is a companion volume to Medieval Translators and their Craft (1989) and, like Medieval Translators,

Queen of bebop

'Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and

Molly's Game

Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world – an insider’s story of excess and

Max Perkins

A thirtieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning biography traces the life of the influential book editor who nurtured the literary talents of such

Nazi Thug To British Mayor Brunos Story

This powerful account of one man's transformation from fanatical Hitler Youth member to respected British mayor provides a fascinating portrayal of German civil and milit...

Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West

Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth century literary scene. A passionate suffragist, socialist, fiercely intelligent, Rebecca West began her career as a

America's Reluctant Prince

Through the lens of their decades-long friendship, the noted historian and New York Times-bestselling author examines John F. Kennedy Jr.'s life and legacy from before

Arm the Spirit

In June 1985, Diana Block, her two-week-old son and five fellow revolutionaries fled LA after finding a surveillance device in their car. So began a

Me and Bobby D.

(Book). Me and Bobby D. is the exciting coming-of-age story of two teenage boys from the Bronx Steve Karmen and Walden Robert Cassotto who meet

My organic life

'A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded Restaurant Nora, America's first certified organic restaurant--the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyon...

The night Casey was born

Presents the story behind the legendary baseball ballad, offering a portrait of the poet, the performer who brought it to the stage, 1880s New York,

Copper, Iron, and Clay

'A gorgeously photographed love letter to copper pots, cast-iron skillets, and classic stoneware and the hard-won artistry that goes into them, by perhaps the only

Jack Toffey's War

An account of one man's journey to know a father who went to war in 1942 and never came back weaves together memory, history, and