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Hardcover : $32.50 Buy	The Twinkling of an Eye My Life as an Englishman Brian W. Aldiss St. Martin's Press "All my past is accepted." Science fiction's most eloquent creator of visions of tomorrow, Brian Aldiss, spins out his most fascinating story yet: his...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	New York in the 50's Dan Wakefield St. Martin's Griffin New York in the 50s is Dan Wakefield's story of a unique time and place in cultural history, when New York City was a hotbed of free love, hot jazz, radical...

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Jack London A Life written by Alex Kershaw St. Martin's Griffin Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a...

Trade Paperback : $28.99 Buy	Shakespeare: The Evidence Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His Work Ian Wilson St. Martin's Griffin A first-time-in-paperback reissue, this full-fledged biography takes on all of the famous Shakespearean debates, from whether or not Shakespeare actually wrote...

Hardcover : $25.95 Buy	Edmund White The Burning World Stephen Barber St. Martin's Press

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	James Dickey The World as a Lie Henry Hart Picador A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century. The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never...

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At Home in the World

A Memoir

Joyce Maynard; With a New Afterword by the Author Picador

When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning...

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Subterranean Kerouac The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac Ellis Amburn St. Martin's Griffin Drawing upon original interviews and his own relationship with Kerouac, Ellis Amburn reveals an inner man who has not appeared in any previous biography-a man...

Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	The Lives of Danielle Steel The Unauthorized Biography of America's #1 Best-Selling Author Vickie L. Bane and Lorenzo Benet St. Martin's Paperbacks Dressed to the nines and draped with diamonds, Danielle Steel is America's favorite author. She has enchanted readers with each of her 44 bestselling novels--...

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The Red Hot Typewriter

The Life and Times of John D. MacDonald

Hugh Merrill Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books

Although John D. MacDonald published seventy novels and more than five hundred short stories in his lifetime, he is remembered best for his Travis McGee...

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Edgar Allen Poe Award Nominee - Critical/Biographical

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Women of Mystery

The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists

Martha Hailey Dubose Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books

In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. ...

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The Doctor and the Detective

A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Martin Booth Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books

This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be...

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Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	Dreams and Destinies Marguerite Yourcenar, Translated by Donald Flanell Friedman Palgrave Macmillan The final untranslated work of Marguerite Yourcenar available for the first time in English.

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Elegy for Iris John Bayley Picador With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of...

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Auden and Isherwood

The Berlin Years

Norman Page Palgrave Macmillan

A unique biography of two literary giants and the city that was to change their lives.

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The Real James Herriot

The Authorized Biography

James Wight; Read by Christopher Timothy Macmillan Audio

Jim Wight paints an endearing portrait of the "vit'nery" who turned a modest practice in rural Scotland into a worldwide phenomenon.

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Land of Ulro Czeslaw Milosz; Translated by Louis Iribarne Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Robert Frost A Life Jay Parini Picador This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini...

Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde Edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis Henry Holt and Co. Here is Oscar Wilde revealed in his own words--including more than 200 previously unpublished letters--available to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary...

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"G" is for Grafton

The World of Kinsey Millhone... Revised and Updated through "O" IS FOR OUTLAW

Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay Holt Paperbacks

Finally in paperback and now fully revised and updated through "O" Is for Outlaw, the reader's companion to the world of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone With...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Memoirs Pablo Neruda; Translated by Hardie St. Martin Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was a...

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Living in Hope and History

Notes from Our Century

Nadine Gordimer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New...

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Hardcover : $22.95 Buy	James Joyce A Passionate Exile John McCourt Thomas Dunne Books James Joyce: A Passionate Exile is a revealing new account of the life, times and writings of the twentieth century's most distinguished novelist. Combining...

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String of Pearls

On the News Beat in New York and Paris

Priscilla L. Buckley; With an Afterword by William F. Buckley Jr. Thomas Dunne Books

Priscilla Buckley is probably known for her long and admired tenure as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded in the...

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