In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion's grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, duri...
In a collection of concise autobiographical essays, the renowned novelist offers his views on his own life, from growing up during the Great Depression to his fame as a writer, as well as his reflections on art, politics, and everyday...
The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated...
Mark TwainA facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known ...
The Best of Doreen Virtue 4-CD
Doreen VirtueThis 4-CD set includes: Manifesting with the Angels, Past-Life Regression with the Angels, Karma Releasing, and Healing with the Angels Manifesting with the Angels: Doreen guides you through a powerful manifestation session called...
Life Stories: Profiles from The New Y...
David RemnickOne of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as th...
James Herriot illuminated the rich and rewarding day-to-day life of a small-town veterinarian, taking hundreds of thousands of listeners on a journey with him across the dales. He introduces a cast of truly unforgettable characters: h...
In his fourth collection of essays and stories, Augusten Burroughs continues to mine the pain and awkwardness of his life for laughs. With a wild sense of humor and devastating powers of observation, Burroughs lays bare not only his o...
When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absent-minded Army clerk left him of...
Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Ca...
Michael LargoWhat is the price of brilliance? Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on a...
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Isla...
Brigitte GabrielIn this memoir and polemic, Brigitte Gabriel provides a first-person account of the terrible suffering caused by terrorism. She recalls how, beginning in 11975 when she was seven, she and her family had to hide, for seven years, in an...
A memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The Boston Globe offers an evocative portrait of growing up in the Texas Panhandle during the 1950s and the rebellious 1960s, describing her introspective childhood, voracious love of ...
Fall of Che Guevara: Guerrilla in The...
Henry Butterfield RyanThe Fall of Che Guevara tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America. For the first time, this book shows in detail the strat...
My Father's Life: Dad, I Want to Know...
Editors of Chartwell BooksRecord your father's life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take him back through each stage of his life and its accompanying adventures. Fathers are our steady and protective hero...
My Grandfather's Life: Grandpa, I wan...
Editors of Chartwell BooksRecord your grandfather's life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take him back through each stage of his life and its accompanying adventures. Whether called Papa, Grampie, Grandpa...
My Life Story: My Memories of the Pas...
Editors of Chartwell BooksRecord your life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take you back through each stage of your life and its accompanying adventures. Writing your autobiography is no easy task. As any wri...
My Mother's Life: Mom, I Want to Know...
Editors of Chartwell BooksRecord your mother's life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take her back through each stage of her life and its accompanying adventures. A mother’s love is like none other a...
Reach: Black Men on Living, Learning,...
Benjamin JealousIn this timely and important collection of personal essays, black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and ultimately how each, in his own way, became a source of hope for his community and country.Reach includes f...
Victory: Stories From the Winners' Ci...
Jenae NoonanVictory: An empowering collaboration with women who share their intimate and life altering stories. The remarkable contributing authors: Andrea Leal, Amy Pond Cirelli, Deborah Moore, Christine Sanchez, Saundra Ganem, Ashley Casello, ...
Space Between the Stars: My Journey t...
Deborah SantanaDeborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–...
The Picture Gallery Explored, Or, An ...
UnknownThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this boo...