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Clear Springs

A Memoir

by Bobbie Ann Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013

In this superb memoir, the bestselling author of In Country and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Like Russell Baker's Growing Up, Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain, and other classic literary memoirs, Clear Springs...
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by Gail Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty,...
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This I Believe

An A to Z of a Life

by Carlos Fuentes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In this masterly, deeply personal, and provocative book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whose work has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” (Newsweek), steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped...
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by Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013

A memoir of the Nazi occupation—and the Allied liberation—of France, from the iconic author of Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas   Intimate friends of Gertrude Stein, aware of her indomitable courage and resourcefulness, were not at all surprised when she emerged unscathed...
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The Making of a Writer

Journals, 1961-1963

by Gail Godwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: “I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created.” It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy...
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The Making of a Writer, Volume 2

Journals, 1963-1969

by Gail Godwin
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

**“True, time is the villain and we are trapped in him. True, love is sometimes not returned. True, friends are sometimes false. But to be aware of this—all of it—and still want to go on living, that is the triumph. It is the reward.”   **                 As a young woman...
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Estambul

Ciudad y recuerdos

by Orhan Pamuk
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 10, 2011

El hermoso retrato de una ciudad y de una vida -la ciudad de Estambul y vida del Premio Nobel de Literatura Orhan Pamuk-, ambas fascinantes por igual. Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira...
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books

The Life of Emily Dickinson

by Alfred Habegger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001

Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
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War Torn

Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam

by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002

For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories span a decade of America’s involvement in Vietnam, from the earliest days of the conflict...
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by David Rockefeller
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011

Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with world...
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by Maya Angelou
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011

**In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. ** This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya...
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Conan Doyle for the Defense

How Sherlock Holmes's Creator Turned Real-Life Detective and Freed a Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder

by Margalit Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the...
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The Reason I Jump

The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

by Naoki Higashida
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

“One of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read. It’s truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Wall Street Journal • Bloomberg Business • Bookish FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003

“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views . . . Kidder opens a window into Farmer’s soul, letting the reader peek in and see what truly makes the good doctor tick.”—Nicholas Thomas, USA Today In medical school, Paul...
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