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The autobiography of a super-tramp
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W. H. Davies |
“A young poet tramped across America, crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic as a cattleman, begged and peddled in England, developing meanwhile in the power to write with rare perception and beauty.”
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Moonlight on linoleum
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Terry Helwig |
"Forced by her mother's instability to care for her five siblings, Helwig crafts a moving story of a mother she loved and struggled to understand"-- |
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Autobiographical writings
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Mark Twain |
"An intimate look at Mark Twain that only he himself could offerA must-have for all lovers of Mark Twain, this selection of his autobiographical writings opens a rare window onto the writer's life, p… |
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Sugarhouse
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Matthew C. Batt |
"'You're married, you're getting older, and your parents are looking more and more like the grandparents they are pestering you to make them. It's getting embarrassing. Your pathetic renter's mailbox… |
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The White Road
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Edmund De Waal |
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"-- |
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The shadow in the garden
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James Atlas |
"The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz. The biographer--so often in the shadow… |
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Logical family
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Armistead Maupin |
Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Maupin reflects on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, sharing his candid search f… |
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Out with it
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Katherine Preston |
"A fresh, engaging account of a young woman's journey, first to find a cure for a lifelong struggle with stuttering, and ultimately to embrace the voice that has defined her character. Imagine this: … |
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Dashiell Hammett
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Sally Cline |
"Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the fig… |
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The Mockingbird next door
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Marja Mills |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author has said almost nothing on the record. Journa… |
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Rebel Souls
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Justin Martin |
"In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever writ… |
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Limonov
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Emmanuel Carrère |
"This deft, timely translation of French writer and filmmaker Carrere's sparkling 2011 biography of Edward Limonov is an enthralling portrait of a man and his times. The subtitle is no exaggeration: … |
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Publishing
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Gail Godwin |
"A personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A st… |
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Follies of God
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James Grissom |
"An extraordinary book that masterfully illuminates the dream-like writing world of Tennessee Williams; the actresses he worked with and those who inspired him to create his Amanda Wingfield, his Bla… |
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Ostende
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Volker Weidermann |
In 1936 brengt een groep Duitse schrijvers onder wie Stefan Zweig en Joseph Roth, die op de vlucht zijn voor nazi-Duitsland, de zomer door in Oostende. |
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The Brothers Vonnegut
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Ginger Gail Strand,Ginger Strand |
"Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schen… |
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The whole harmonium
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Paul L. Mariani |
"A perceptive, insightful biography of perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens, by an accomplished biographer and poet who traces Stevens's lifelong artisti… |
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I'll tell you in person
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Chloe Caldwell |
"Praise for Chloe Caldwell: "I read it a couple of months ago in one can't-put-it-down-even-though-it's-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It's as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they come… |
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Arthur and Sherlock
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Michael Sims |
"As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, home… |
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Les confessions
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Je forme une entreprise qui n'eut jamais d'exemple, et dont l'execution n'aura point d'imitateur. Je veux montrer a mes semblables un homme dans toute la verite de la nature; et cet homme, ce sera mo… |
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