Reducere. "Balzac was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society, " wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared ever...
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Reducere. Some sought his death. Others left everything to follow him. Who was this Jesus, this son of a carpenter turned wandering teacher? Why did he provo...
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Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean St...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carolyn NiethammerI'll Go and Do More is the story of Annie Dodge Wauneka (1918-97), one of the best-known Navajos of all t...
Reducere. In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertiv...
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Reducere. With daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous...
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Reducere. DescriptionAn extraordinary book that combines travel- and history-writing with brilliant storytelling to give us a portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, in wh...
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Reducere. An intimate portrait of one of America's most beloved writers is revealed in this 1889 work from editor Ednah Dow Cheney. Originally published just...
Reducere. A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of...
Reducere. Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He...
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Reducere. Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930)E. M. Delafield (1890-1943)THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THIS RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN COUNTRIES WHERE COPYRIGH...
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Reducere. Saint Augustine -- the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from 396 C.E. until his death in 430 C.E. -- is widely regarded as one o...
Reducere. "A fascinating book. In clear and forceful prose, Becoming Justice Blackmun tells a judicial Horatio Alger story and a tale of a remarkable transfo...
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Reducere. "To tourists Hawaii is an air-conditioned tanning booth with shopping, booze, bikinis, and lots of smiling low-paid help. The real Hawaii is someth...
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Reducere. Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each yea...
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Reducere. Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome, in the words of translator Michael Hofmann, "is a comprehensive and brilliant provocation of an entire nation." F...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kathy Mydlach BeroE.A.T. An Unconventional Decade In The Life Of A Cancer Patient was written in journal format, and is bas...
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Reducere. The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the ...
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Reducere. While Paramahansa Yogananda may have been better known, Anandamurti was arguably the twentieth century's most interesting and controversial spiritu...
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Reducere. "They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down." --Publishers We...
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Reducere. The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a ...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael HaineyThis haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death is "searing and unforget...
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Reducere. Linda Ashcroft offers an intimate memoir of Jim Morrison at the height of his career. This vivid portrait is based on her diaries from the four-yea...
Reducere. The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his in...
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Reducere. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper...
Reducere. In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.A long-term ...
Reducere. In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders ...
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Reducere. Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West, " and in this book, Mark Arax spends four ye...
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Reducere. Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Reducere. Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, it is the self-portrait of one of this century's...
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Reducere. An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century...
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Reducere. John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Fam...
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Reducere. Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, s...
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Reducere. Description"The first noteworthy treatment of its subject--and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate" (The New York ...
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Reducere. When Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. Using...
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Reducere. In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist ...
Reducere. Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating...
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Reducere. DescriptionHer name is synonymous with the West. Her celebrity has spread to the East Coast and California, traveling down the new-laid railroads a...
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Reducere. The first book in the acclaimed Cornish Trilogy. "[A] darkly funny scuttle through academe's more covert passageway . . . saucy stuff indeed."--Kir...
Reducere. From leading political figure and bestselling Hebrew author Yair Lapid comes a mesmerizing portrait of the author's father, one of modern Israel's ...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lori JakielaIn the Harmony Memoir Series, Lori Jakiela's fourth book. A Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work a...
Reducere. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentimen...
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Reducere. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecede...
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Reducere. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul is Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sy...
Reducere. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck's intensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, who s...
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Reducere. Through a series of quickly changing perspectives, in The Family Clause Jonas Hassen Khemiri evokes an intimate portrait of a chaotic and perfectly...
Reducere. A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy ...
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Reducere. Lovers of historical mysteries will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. The first in a series of ...
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Reducere. Lots of people wish they were related to a famous person. Bill Betenson is Butch Cassidy is his great-uncle. Bill's interest in Butch Cassidy was s...
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Reducere. Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may h...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tina AndrewsCharlotte Sophia was queen of England. Wife of "mad" King George III. But neither her king, her country, nor he...
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Reducere. DescriptionDuring the 1970s Claudia Jennings was one ofPlayboy's top models, as well as the undisputedQueen of Cult cinema. This is the complete st...
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Reducere. DescriptionCertainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique her...
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Reducere. Du Fu (712-770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry--still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now Dav...
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