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The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

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...

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Published: Feb 2007

A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut

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...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2007

The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated...

Mark Twain

A 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 ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 1999

The Best of Doreen Virtue 4-CD

Doreen Virtue

This 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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2006

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Y...

David Remnick

One 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...

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Published: May 2001

The James Herriot Collection

James Herriot

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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs

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...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2006

Seldom Disappointed

Tony Hillerman

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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2005

Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Ca...

Michael Largo

What 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...

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Published: Oct 2008

Because They Hate: A Survivor of Isla...

Brigitte Gabriel

In 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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2007

A Strong West Wind: A Memoir

Gail Caldwell

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 ...

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Published: Jan 2007

Fall of Che Guevara: Guerrilla in The...

Henry Butterfield Ryan

The 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...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2004

My Father's Life: Dad, I Want to Know...

Editors of Chartwell Books

Record 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...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2020

My Grandfather's Life: Grandpa, I wan...

Editors of Chartwell Books

Record 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...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2020

My Life Story: My Memories of the Pas...

Editors of Chartwell Books

Record 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...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2020

My Mother's Life: Mom, I Want to Know...

Editors of Chartwell Books

Record 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...

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Published: Dec 2020

Reach: Black Men on Living, Learning,...

Benjamin Jealous

In 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...

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Published: Feb 2015

Victory: Stories From the Winners' Ci...

Jenae Noonan

Victory: 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, ...

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Published: Sep 2015

Space Between the Stars: My Journey t...

Deborah Santana

Deborah 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–...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2006

The Picture Gallery Explored, Or, An ...

Unknown

This 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...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2021
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