Far Out Isn't Far Enough: Life in the Back of Beyond by Tomi Ungerer
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Tiring of the hectic pace of seventies New York, acclaimed graphic designer Tomi Ungerer and his wife Yvonne hit the road in search of a new, simpler life on an isolated peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris--a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residenc ...Show more
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
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Secondhand. The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon ...Show more
Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores by Anne Boston
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Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller. Her first book, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller and is still in print. Emotions, she insisted, can be transposed to places or countries and in this sh ...Show more
The Last Empress by Hannah Pakula
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THE LAST EMPRESS revolves around a fascinating, manipulative woman and her family who were largely responsible for dragging China into the modern world. Soong May-ling, or Madame Chiang as she was known, is uniquely positioned at the heart of this story. As her husband came to represent the hopes of the ...Show more
Concerning E.M. Forster: EM Forster and His Contemporaries by Frank Kermode
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CONCERNING E.M FORSTER is a rich, varied and original portrait of a literary great. When Sir Frank Kermode delivered the Clark Lectures at Cambridge University, he chose E.M Forster as his subject; these lectures form the core of this book. Kermode reappraises the influence and meaning of Forster's oeuv ...Show more
Redeeming Features by Nicky Haslam
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Nicky Haslam has always been at the centre of things wherever he is - at parties, opening nights, royal weddings - and has stories to tell of crossing paths, and more, with the cultural icons of our time: Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon, Diana Cooper, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Jack Kennedy a ...Show more
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition: v. 1 by Mark Twain
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Category: General | Series: Mark Twain Papers S.
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography". Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan ...Show more
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
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If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations Nora Ephron describes, from the impossibility of trying to remember people's names at parties,to struggling with the new technology. You will find yourself rolling off th ...Show more
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
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While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion -- or something else entirely?In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealing book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychia ...Show more
The Brontes by Juliet Barker
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The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imagin ...Show more
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol. 1 : I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister
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Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves. Th ...Show more