Category: Biography

In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rendered here in the unique style for which James Salter is widely admired. Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evoc...
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By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop

By: Maybank, Alexis,Wilkis Wilson, Alexandra

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Portfolio : April 2012

Seller ID: 434605

ISBN-13: 9781591844631

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

light wear on dust jacket
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By the Grace of God: 'A 9/11 Survivor's Story of Love, Hope, and Healing'

By: Potter, Jean,Kaplan, Rob

Price: $12.95

Publisher: AuthorHouse : May 2011

Seller ID: 228777

ISBN-13: 9781456766061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Personalized inscription inside front cover from author otherwise pages unmarked, DJ intact.
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Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life

By: O'Brien, Edna

Price: $8.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : June 2009

Seller ID: 459020

ISBN-13: 9780393070118

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce Edna O Brien has written an intimate biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four on the publication of Childe Harold. With her prismatic eye and novelistic style, O Brien eerily captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait of Byron that explodes the Romantic myth. From his escapades with John Edleston, the fourteen-year-old Cambridg...
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C.S. Lewis For Beginners

By: Markos, Louis

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners : June 2022

Seller ID: 457761

ISBN-13: 9781939994806

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

By: Israel, Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : September 2018

Seller ID: 208897

ISBN-13: 9781982100339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy--Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others. Before turning to her life of crime--running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI--Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, ...
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

By: Israel, Lee

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : September 2018

Seller ID: 382845

ISBN-13: 9781982100339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy--Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others. Before turning to her life of crime--running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI--Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, ...
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West

By: Rice, Edward

Price: $8.98

Publisher: HarperCollins : January 1991

Seller ID: 462501

ISBN-13: 9780060973940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

By: Jensen, Toni

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books : September 2021

Seller ID: 446947

ISBN-13: 9781984821201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Cat and I

By: Schwerin, Doris

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Harpercollins : May 1990

Seller ID: 347752

ISBN-13: 9780060162740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The author of Diary of a Pigeon Watcher shares the story of her own eventful life while telling the intertwined autobiography of her extraordinary cat. The memorable details of daily living unfold as well as themes of lost love, rape, creativity, illness, infidelity, family, and ever-constant change.
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

By: Pham, Andrew X.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Picador : September 2000

Seller ID: 478139

ISBN-13: 9780312267179

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Whiting Writers' AwardA Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the YearCatfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey--a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam--made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Intertwined with an often humorous travelogue spanning a year of discovery is a memoir of war, escape, and ultimately, family secrets. Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His fathe...
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Cervantes

By: Predmore, Richard Lionel

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dodd, Mead : January 1973

Seller ID: 171528

ISBN-13: 9780396067979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Charles Demuth; Behind a Laughing Mask.

By: Farnham, Emily

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr : January 1971

Seller ID: 458116

ISBN-13: 9780806109138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World

By: Beecher, Jonathan

Price: $29.98

Publisher: University of California Press : July 1990

Seller ID: 467603

ISBN-13: 9780520071797

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

By: Bernstein, Carl

Price: $29.99

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : January 2022

Seller ID: 388409

ISBN-13: 9781627791502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of All the President's Men--the chronicle of the investigative report about the Watergate break-in and resultant political scandal which led to President Richard Nixon's resignation--recalls his formative years as a teenage newspaper reporter in JFK's Washington--a tale of adventures, scrapes, clever escapes, and the opportunity of a lifetime. "Carl Bernstein, Washington Star." With these words, the sixteen-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School set himself apart from the high school crowd and set himself on a track that would define his life. Carl...
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

By: De Jesus, Carolina Maria

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Amer Library (Mm) : August 1983

Seller ID: 393535

ISBN-13: 9780451627315

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Child of War, Woman of Peace

By: Hayslip, Le Ly

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Anchor : December 1993

Seller ID: 271941

ISBN-13: 9780385471473

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The inspiring story of an immigrant's struggles to heal old wounds in the United States, this is the sequel to When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip's extraordinary, award-winning memoir of life in wartime Vietnam.
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Chosen Forever

By: Richards, Susan

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : May 2009

Seller ID: 209987

ISBN-13: 9780156033022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By: Ricks, Thomas E.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Penguin Press : June 2017

Seller ID: 409305

ISBN-13: 9781594206139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A New York Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly ...
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Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary

By: Tillyard, Stella

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux : January 1998

Seller ID: 465213

ISBN-13: 9780374123833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Citizen Lord is the enthralling story -- as Stella Tillyard has recreated it from personal letters and other sources -- of a headstrong young aristocrat who died a martyred rebel for the cause of Irish independence.Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward Fitzgerald joined the British army as a teenager, but radical sentiments soon prevailed over loyalty to the Crown -- beliefs in the goodness of man and the importance of liberty and equality. In North America in 1787, Lord Edward spent time with the Iroquois: back in Europe he became a disciple of Thomas Paine, visited revolu...
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By: Fuller, Alexandra

Price: $25.95

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The : August 2011

Seller ID: 19054

ISBN-13: 9781594202995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and to her unforgettable family, whom readers first met in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. At the heart of this family, and central to the lifeblood of her latest story, is Fuller's iconically courageous mother, Nicola (or, Nicola Fuller of Central Africa, as she sometimes prefers to be known). Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye to a warlike clan of highlanders and raised in Kenya's perfect equatorial light, Nicola holds dear the values...
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Colonel Barker's monstrous regiment: a tale of female husbandry

By: COLLIS, Rose

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Virago : January 2001

Seller ID: 476949

ISBN-13: 9781860498435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, DJ worn - stained and tattered along the edges.
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COLOR ME FLO ~ My Hard Life and Good Times

By: Kennedy, Flo

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Prentice-Hall : January 1976

Seller ID: 358291

ISBN-13: 9780131523630

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Signed copy on title page, light wear.
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Colors of the Mountain

By: Chen, Da

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Random House : January 2000

Seller ID: 474631

ISBN-13: 9780375502880

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation." In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards enforced a brutal regime of communism, a boy was born to a poor family in southern China. This family--the Chens--had once been respected landlords in the village of Yellow Stone, but now they were among the least fortunate families in the country, despised for their "capitalist" past. Grandpa Chen couldn't leave the house for fear of being beaten to death; the children...
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Committed: A Love Story

By: Gilbert, Elizabeth

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Riverhead Books : February 2011

Seller ID: 457514

ISBN-13: 9780143118701

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love--an intimate and erudite celebration of love--from the author of Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert's trademark humor and intelligence, this fascinating meditation on comp...
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Comte after Positivism (Modern European Philosophy)

By: Scharff, Robert C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : June 2002

Seller ID: 388002

ISBN-13: 9780521893039

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book provides the only detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte currently available. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the book argues that Comte's positivism has never had greater contemporary relevance than now. Providing a lucid exposition of Comte and informed by considerable new scholarship on his work, this book will be valuable to philosophers, especially philosophers of science, a wide range of intellectual historians, and to historians of science and psychology.
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Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Tomasulo, Daniel

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Graywolf Press : April 2008

Seller ID: 73835

ISBN-13: 9781555974992

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A hilarious and perceptive examination of the mysteries of childhood and the perils of parenthoodFrom August 1956 through April 1961 I controlled the traffic and streetlights in New York City and northern New Jersey. It was a daunting task for a five-year-old, but by the summer of '56 I realized I had a responsibility I could not ignore. My identity and my mission were top secret. With the exception of terse, encrypted communications to the National Security Council and the CIA, I couldn't breathe a word.In Confessions of a Former Child, Daniel J. Tomasulo chronicles and confesses his childhoo...
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Confessions of a Recovering Racist

By: Young, Emma,O'Hare, George

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing : July 2018

Seller ID: 472281

ISBN-13: 9781683507765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, light shelf wear.
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Connecticut Yankee;: An autobiography

By: Cross, Wilbur L

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : January 1943

Seller ID: 325099

ISBN: B0007DMXTQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

By: Jefferson, Margo

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Pantheon : April 2022

Seller ID: 450581

ISBN-13: 9781524748173

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Conversations with Andre Gide

By: Claude Mauriac

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Goerge Braziller : 1965

Seller ID: 462146

ISBN: 281CAO1008475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

DJ in poor condition, tears along top and bottom. first american edition
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Conversations with Rudolfo Anaya (Literary Conversations Series)

By: Anaya, Rudolfo

Price: $17.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : November 1998

Seller ID: 9063

ISBN-13: 9781578060788

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this collection of interviews, Anaya talks about his life, his work, and the influences that direct him, including the importance myths and spiritual matters play in his writings.
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir

By: Harjo, Joy

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 2013

Seller ID: 282959

ISBN-13: 9780393345438

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.

Crazy Horse: A Penguin Lives Biography

By: McMurtry, Larry

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Viking Adult : January 1999

Seller ID: 375786

ISBN-13: 9780670882342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure of American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. Yet his story remains an encapsulation of the Native American tragedy and the death of the untamed West. Crazy Horse strips away the tall taro reveal the essence of this brilliant, ascetic warrior-hero.
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