1547 books (78 pages) in this category
One Woman, Two Suitcases, Three Years
by Lisa Condie
<p>When Lisa Condie’s marriage and a subsequent relationship disintegrated, she traveled to Italy to lick her wounds and implored her angels to help her discover what her next chapter of life might hold. As Lisa explored the streets of Florence,
ISBN: 1230001479614
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eBookAn Autobiography
by George Burns & Cynthia Hobart Lindsay
<p>She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she’s right. She shortens the electric cords in the house to save electricity. That’s the character Gracie Allen has played for years. And for
ISBN: 9781787207080
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eBookThe Letters of Arthur Rimbaud
by Arthur Rimbaud
<p>One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud’s life ...
ISBN: 9780307431257
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eBookI was born with the smell of methanol flowing through my veins
My life-long passion for motor sport
by craig lock
<p><em>"I was born with the smell of methanol flowing through my veins."</em></p> <p>My life-long passion for motor sport</p> <p>A true "labour of love" by “petrolhead” craig lock</p> <p><strong>Imagine</strong> by John ...
ISBN: 1230003027578
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eBookMy Story: Diary of "a Rolling Stone"
by craig lock
<p>MY STORY</p> <p>DIARY OF A ROLLING STONE</p> <p>and how I have just "thrown a double-six" to start a new chapter of a stable new life."</p> <p>I don't know why "the hell" I am writing this story of my life; because
ISBN: 1230003023198
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eBookby Paul Kincaid
<p>The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's <em>Consider Phlebas</em> helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an ...
ISBN: 9780252099564
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eBookA literary memoir
by Seth Kupchick
<p>Casey was a writer looking for his big break, and I was a young editor wanting to ride his coattails, but neither of us knew what to expect when we went to Hal's farm in Paso Robles, California, on the idyllic central coast. Hal Chase was one
ISBN: 1230001135398
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eBookIf the child is not like you...
No mother, no father, and a traveling young man
by Leonid Shishkin
<p> The pages of the book describe the issues of vague family affiliation, the establishment of kinship - paternity or motherhood. Questions that worried people at all times are of concern even now, in our time. The mother-in-law, for example, ...
ISBN: 1230002189024
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eBookA Memoir
by Jon Magidsohn
<p>Just three months after his wife’s death to breast cancer, Jon packs up his infant son, Myles, and they set off on a six-week “Healing Tour” through Canada and the United States. Their journey, set to the soundtrack of the music Jon loves, ...
ISBN: 9781771801430
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eBookby Anatol Kagan
<p>With a passport stamped 'never to return', St Petersburg intellectual and publisher Abram Kagan was expelled by Lenin in 1922, ending up in Berlin, where his young son Anatol would read the proofs of Leon Trotsky’s <i>History of the Russian ...
ISBN: 9780648176404
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The Hidden Gifts of Dyslexia, Difference, And Death
by Timothy G. Spokes
<p>Can your difficulties become stepping stones to a successful future? Can a young boy overcome a serious reading difficulty and achieve beyond all expectations? For a few gruelling years in a Catholic boys' school, where the Brothers carry a ...
ISBN: 9781925681727
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eBookIn Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
by Eric Walrond
<p>"Set in the Caribbean, Panama, the U.S., and England, [Walrond’s] fiction captures the experiences of working-class peoples, often migrants, as they confront the depredations of colonialism, racial prejudice, and economic exploitation. .
ISBN: 9780813063287
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eBookIn Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
by Fiona Sampson
<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2018</p> <p>'If we get another literary biography in 2018 as astute and feelingful as this one, we shall be lucky.' - John Carey, <em>Sunday Times</em></p> <p>Mary Shelley was ...
ISBN: 9781782831952
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eBookJ.M. Coetzee in South Africa
by Jonathan Crewe
<p>Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee's formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life and writing career began in South ...
ISBN: 9780761866947
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eBookby Karl Ove Knausgaard
<p><strong>The second book in the <em>Why I Write</em> series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard</strong></p> <p>“Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult ...
ISBN: 9780300240559
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eBookINITIATION IN THE VALLEY OF KINGS
Based on true events
by GABRIELLE de la FAIR
<p>In this <strong>soul-searching memoir</strong> of life in the present Egypt, <em>Gabrielle de la Fair </em>shares the lessons she had learned on her journey when she took a <em>"leap of faith"</em> and married an Egyptian man, left behind her
ISBN: 1230000438315
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eBookThe troubled life of Aileen Palmer
by Sylvia Martin
Aileen Palmer – poet, translator, political activist, adventurer – was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance and Nettie Palmer were well known as novelists, poets, ...
ISBN: 9781742588421
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eBookInk in Her Veins: The troubled life of Aileen Palmer
by Martin, Sylvia
Aileen Palmer - poet, translator, political activist, adventurer - was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance and Nettie Palmer were well known as novelists, poets, ...
ISBN: 9781742588445
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eBookOn the Writing of Gerald Stern
by Mihaela Moscaliuc
<div>Gerald Stern has been a significant presence and an impassioned and idiosyncratic voice in twentieth and twenty-first-century American poetry. <I>Insane Devotion</I> is a retrospective of his career and features fourteen writers, critics, ...
ISBN: 9781595347695
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