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Some of My Lives
A Scrapbook Memoir

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Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life—remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience—and she has known many (one is tempted to say all)...
  
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Positively 4th Street
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina

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The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and...
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Letters to a Young Novelist

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Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of...
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Conversations with Myself

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Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record...
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Cooking Dirty
A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen

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THE GRIT AND GLORY OF RESTAURANT LIFE, AS TOLD BY A SURVIVOR OF KITCHENS ACROSS AMERICA Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life “on the line” in the...
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Role Models

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Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify readers...
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A Great Unrecorded History
A New Life of E. M. Forster

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A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE GREAT AUTHOR—AND HOW IT SHAPED HIS MOST BE LOVED WORKS With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed...
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Young Romantics
The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation

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Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth...
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Convictions
A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves

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Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States...
  
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Intern
A Doctor's Initiation

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Intern is Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption...
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Florence Nightingale
The Making of an Icon

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The common soldier’s savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of...
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The Headmaster
Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

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Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with...
  
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Siegfried Sassoon
A Life

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Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent, and began writing verses as a boy. While a brave young officer, he confronted the terrible realities of the First...
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A Wild Perfection
The Selected Letters of James Wright

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The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words. "There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it...
  
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Nature's Engraver
A Life of Thomas Bewick

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At the end of the eighteenth century, Britain, and much of the Western world, fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick’s History of British Birds marked the...
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Plausible Portraits of James Lord
With Commentary by the Model

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Incisive reflections on more than twenty portraits of the author by some of the greatest artists of the last century Over the course of his life as a friend...