1547 books (78 pages) in this category
by Kirby Wright
<p>Father takes off for Colorado to help get his 17-year-old son situated at CU in Boulder. The experience is agony for the son because he must deal with his father's stewing hatred of him. The interior world of father and son are explored along
ISBN: 1230001498202
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eBookThe Biography
by Piers Dudgeon
<p>Maeve Binchy's heart-warming tales of love, life and loss made her one of Ireland's most celebrated writers. Seared with a truth and honesty that leapt from the page, her books captured the imagination and loyalty of millions of readers, for ...
ISBN: 9781849546386
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eBookThe Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
by Lance Parkin
<p><strong>"In <em>Magic Words</em> Lance Parkin has crafted a biography that is insightful, scrupulously fair-minded and often very funny, a considerable achievement given its unrelentingly grim, unreasonable and annoying subject. ...
ISBN: 9781781311462
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eBookConversations with Tomas Venclova
by Tomas Venclova & Ellen Hinsey
<p>Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet ...
ISBN: 9781787441231
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eBookLiterature and the Politics of Palestinian Identity
by Muna Abu Eid
<p>Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle. His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead ...
ISBN: 9781786720139
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eBookby Georges Simenon
Maigret sets the record straight and tells the story of his own life, giving a rare glimpse into the mind of the great inspector - and the writer who would immortalise him.<BR><i>I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, ...
ISBN: 9780241240175
Binding: Paperback
The Stories in My Early Life
by Barry Sheinkopf
<p>"I remember looking up at my grandmother's back-lit face from my baby carriage on a late-summer day in the minute front garden of our four-family home on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn," says novelist and poet Barry Sheinkopf. "I
ISBN: 9781946989093
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eBookby Michèle Mendelssohn
<p>Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. ...
ISBN: 9780192523303
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eBookby Michèle Mendelssohn
Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. ...
ISBN: 9780198802365
Binding: Hardback
A Writer's Dream(s) and My Beach Dream(s)
by craig lock
<p>Photos and videos by my friend, Jenny Palmer</p> <p><em>“I make art through photography and my camera is my paint brush.”</em></p> <p>Following on from<br /> MY PLACE, OUR PARADISE: OUR SMALL CITY BY THE SEA<br /> Available at ...
ISBN: 1230003034422
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eBookby Tan Kok Seng
<p>In this revealing sequel to his bestselling autobiography Son of Singapore, Tan Kok Seng finds himself in Malaysia as a British diplomat’s chauffeur. While driving luminaries like author Han Suyin around, Tan falls in love with Heung, a ...
ISBN: 9789810768348
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eBookMan on Mission: Life of St. Francis Xavier
by Dr. C. Drago SJ
<p>Francis Xavier is man on mission. He is complex individual with sharply contrasting traits of character. He could spend hours together on the beach praying alone in the stillness of the night and he also moved restlessly from place to ...
ISBN: 9781310443930
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eBookby Tatiana de Rosnay
<p>Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A portrait of one writer by another, <em>Manderley Forever</em> meticulously ...
ISBN: 9781760639969
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eBookMaori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood
by Witi Ihimaera
"<b><b>This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling memoir, packed with stories from the formative years of this much-loved writer.</b></b> b></b> iti Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller one critic calling him one of our finest ...
ISBN: 9781869797263
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by Adam Watt
<p>Marcel Proust (1871–1922) spent fourteen years creating <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>, his seven-volume magnum opus. He died when it was only half in print, unable to see it become one of the most important literary works of the twentieth ...
ISBN: 9781780231327
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eBookMargaret Forster: A Life in Books
by Kathleen Jones
<p>Margaret Forster is one of the UK's most prolific and respected authors. Born in Cumbria to working class parents in 1938, she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty two. Since then she has published 24 novels (and has another on the
ISBN: 9780957433212
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eBookAn American Romantic Life
by Charles Capper
<p>Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written, and one of the great biographies in ...
ISBN: 9780199889631
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eBookMargaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim
by Murray, Meg
Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller’s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim and first full-fledged woman intellectual as she wanders from New ...
ISBN: 9780820336596
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eBookby Helen Zimmern
<p>Helen Zimmern was a British writer and translator. Zimmern wrote detailed biographies on other writers including the great Irish author Maria Edgeworth. A table of contents is included. </p> ...
ISBN: 9781531263904
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eBookA Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Malcolm Guite
ISBN: 9781473611078
Binding: Paperback