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Around the House and in the Garden

A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing and Home Improvement.

Author: Dominique Browning

My story," writes Dominique Browning, the editor in chief of "House & Garden, " "is about the way a house can express loss, and then bereavement, and then, finally, the rebuilding of a life." Around the House and in the ...
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The Freetown Bond

A Life Under Two Flags

Author: Marjorie Jones & Eldred Durosimi Jones

Eldred Durosimi Jones is known internationally as being central to the establishment of the study of African writing in the new universities of Africa, Britain and North America. The annual African Literature Today of wh ...
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War within and without

The Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh: 1939-1944

Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

An account of the Lindberghs' wartime years, but most significantly the story of a bond between two extraordinary people. Introduction by the Author; Index; photographs. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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My Friend, My Friend

The Story of Thoreau's Relationship with Emerson

Author: Harmon L. Smith

An account of the intense, shifting friendship between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harmon Smith emphasizes their personal bond, but also shows how the relationship affected their thought and writing, and ...
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Faithfully Yours

The Letters of Byron Herbert Reece

Author: Raymond Cook

Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958). Renowned Appalachian poet, novelist, and farmer, Byron Herbert Reece lived most of his life on a farm. There he composed, to critical acclaim, four volumes of poetry and two novels. Reece ...
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Drawn from the Heart

Drawn from the Heart

A Memoir

Author: Ron Brooks

Ron Brooks grew up in East Gippsland, a country boy with a yen for drawing and observation of the life around him. He became an acknowledged master of the picture-book form, winning acclaim both nationally and internatio ...
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The Little Book of the Great Enchantment

Author: Steve Blamires

William Sharp (1855-1905) was the pen behind the writings of the mysterious Fiona Macleod. He kept her true identity a closely guarded secret. Many famous peopleae-aeW.B. Yeats, "AE", MacGregor Mathers, Dante Gabriel Ros ...
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The World of Charles Dickens

The World of Charles Dickens

The Life, Times and Works of the Great Victorian Novelist

Author: Martin Fido

"Oliver Twist", "A Tale of Two Cities", "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield", "Bleak House" and "Nicholas Nickleby" - just some of the novels that have made Charles Dickens an internationally celebrated author. A li ...
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Tea with Jane Austen

Tea with Jane Austen

Author: Kim Wilson

Who would not want to sit down with Jane Austen and join her in a cup of tea? Here for the first time is a book that shares the secrets of one of her favorite rituals. Tea figures prominently in Jane Austen's life and wo ...
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Ogden Nash

A Life

Author: Dana Gioia & Douglas M. Parker

Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. These inimitable lines could only have been written by Ogden Nash, the American nonpareil of light verse and one of the most remarkable figures in American letters. His keen grasp of ...
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Rex Stout - A Majesty's Life

Author: John McAleer

The acclaimed Edgar winning biography of the creator of detective Nero Wolfe, is now published with the title McAleer always wanted. Includes new photos and Introduction by Professor McAlee.
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Heartaches and Blessings While Parenting My Mom

Author: Letty P. Oveson

Letty's mother was intelligent, down-to-earth, outspoken and clear-headed-a loving mother to her five children and a hardworking, successful schoolteacher. However, after her mother suffered several small, debilitating s ...
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Savage Art: Jim Thompson

Savage Art: Jim Thompson

A Biography

Author: R. Politio

Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting ...
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Charles W. Gordon/Ralph Connor

From "Black Rock" to Regina Trench

Author: Kirk H. Layton

A look at the life of Charles W. Gordon and the novels he wrote as Ralph Connor, from his first novel, Black Rock, to the events of 1916 in the World War I battle for Regina Trench.
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History in the Making

Author: J. H. Elliott

From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a histor ...
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The Brontes of Haworth: Yorkshire Literary Giants

Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations

Author: David W. Harrison

This English literary text on the Brontes will be of value to teachers, students and Bronte enthusiasts.
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In Pursuit of C. S. Lewis

Adventures in Collecting His Works

Author: M D Edwin W Brown

Behind the Edwin W. Brown Collection at Taylor University -- one of the world's finest holdings of C. S. Lewis first editions, letters, and manuscripts -- are tales of thirty years of warm and humorous adventures, tales ...
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The Writing Life

The Writing Life

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Author: Annie Dillard

With color, irony and sensitivity, Pulitzer prize-winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers ...
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The Other Side of the Tiber

The Other Side of the Tiber

A Memoir

Author: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises - and delivers. The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely ...
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In the House of the Interpreter

A Memoir

Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

With black-and-white illustrations throughout
World-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ng-ug-y wa Thiong'o gives us the second volume of his memoirs in the wake of his critically acclaime ...
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