Knopf, April 2004. Hardcover. Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes-as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag-has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth.....
Touchstone, April 2016. Trade Paperback. The instant New York Times bestseller from "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is a "relentlessly funny and surprisingly inspirational" (Forbes) memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to internet stardom, and embracing her weirdness to find her.....
Penguin Books, May 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . " --The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir.....
Wings Press, September 2017. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Durations gathers a memoir and seven personal essays that explore the life of the author, from her World War II-era childhood in Tennessee to her adolescence as a small town cheerleader to life as an author, traveler and.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 332 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to a previous owner on the title page. This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto.....
Penguin Books, October 2017. Trade Paperback. A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok--a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history In 1932.....
Scribner, September 2019. Trade Paperback. *Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of.....
Arte Publico Press, 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 201 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to the previous owner on the title page. "On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone," Sergio.....
Harper, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 257 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you.....
Readers Union Edition. George Allen and Unwin, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 232 pages. 'This volume must not be sold to the general public. It is one of the special editions for sale to its members only, by Readers Union at Aldine House..' - from the front flyleaf. First edition.....
Ballantine Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 357 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Refreshingly candid, unflinchingly honest, and full of hilarious Did she really say that? moments, Official Book Club Selection dishes about what.....
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a......
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964. Hardcover. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990`. First Edition. Hardcover. 338 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. This elegantly written study concentrates on the complex interaction between Jarrell's life and work, describing and commenting on his most important poems and prose, but also focusing on.....
Random House, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Trade Paperback. 680 pages. Near fine copy in brown paper over boards and darker brown cloth covers. No dust jacket.
Anchor, July 2005. Trade Paperback. This "richly textured biography" (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to air on public television. Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World.....
Yale Univ Pr, July 2003. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever.....
The Dial Press, March 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Over two million copies sold! "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker.....
Simon & Schuster, October 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a......
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Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Trade Paperback. 258 pages. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). From the publisher: 'A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall. In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the.....
Beech Tree Books, May 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light edge wear. Lorenz Hart singlehandedly changed the craft of lyric writing. When Larry Hart first met Dick Rodgers in 1919, the commercial song lyric consisted of tired cliches and cloying.....
St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Hailed as important, entertaining, and revealing, Copland: 1900 Through 1942 is the memoir of one of America's most respected and loved musical pioneers. This is the story of a self-described "brash young.....