Category: Biography

Enrique's Journey

By: Nazario, Sonia

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : January 2007

Seller ID: 448977

ISBN-13: 9780812971781

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more--the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about this ...
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Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence (Erasmus Studies)

By: Augustijn, Cornelis

Price: $12.98

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : December 1995

Seller ID: 477568

ISBN-13: 9780802071774

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts. It integrates the best scholarship of the past twenty years and will appeal to undergraduates in all areas of cultural history as well as Erasmus specialists.

Ernest Hemingway in Idaho: A Guide (Famous Footsteps)

By: Bellavance-Johnson, Marsha

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Computer Lab : June 1997

Seller ID: 389655

ISBN-13: 9780929709130

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road

By: Miller, Dan B.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf : January 1995

Seller ID: 205960

ISBN-13: 9780679429319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Theodore de Mayerne

By: Trevor-Roper, Hugh

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Yale University Press : November 2006

Seller ID: 204853

ISBN-13: 9780300112634

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A brilliant, unknown work by the great historian Hugh Trevor-Roper Among the papers of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was a manuscript to which he had repeatedly turned for more than thirty years, but never published. Attracted by the diverse life and vivid personality of Sir Theodore de Mayerne (1573-1655), the most famous physician in Europe of his time, Trevor-Roper pursued him across national and intellectual frontiers to uncover the details of his extraordinary life. Exploring an array of English and European sources, Trevor-Roper reveals the story of the pioneering Swiss Huguenot...
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Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here

By: Schubert

Price: $10.98

Seller ID: 458236

ISBN-13: 9781950272174

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Every Day I Fight: Making a Difference, Kicking Cancer's Ass

By: Scott, Stuart,Platt, Larry

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Blue Rider Press : March 2015

Seller ID: 382051

ISBN-13: 9780399174063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live." - Stuart Scott The fearless, intimate, and inspiring story behind ESPN anchor Stuart Scott's unrelenting fight against cancer, with a foreword by Robin Roberts. Shortly before he passed away, on January 4, 2015, Stuart Scott completed work on this memoir. It was both a labor of love and a love letter to life itself. Not only did Stuart relate his personal story--his childhood in North Carolina, his supportive family, his athletic escapades, his on-the-job...
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Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

By: Alderton, Dolly

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial : February 2021

Seller ID: 479213

ISBN-13: 9780062968791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." --Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women"Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It's a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it." --Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, P...
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Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour

By: Shukert, Rachel

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Harper Perennial : July 2010

Seller ID: 355589

ISBN-13: 9780061782350

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts.-- Los Angeles TimesFrom performer, playwright, comedian, author and writer and producer of Glow and Superirl Rachel Shukert, Everything Is Going to Be Great, is a hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. Rachel chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany "adulthood." Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going to love Shulkert's story, and her sharp, smart humor....
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Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron

By: Barnes, John

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Grove Press : October 1996

Seller ID: 81048

ISBN-13: 9780802134790

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Evonne!: On the move

By: Goolagong, Evonne

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Dutton : January 1975

Seller ID: 479227

ISBN-13: 9780525101154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Experience: A Memoir

By: Amis, Martin

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Vintage : June 2001

Seller ID: 364066

ISBN-13: 9780375726835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman...
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Experience: A Memoir

By: Amis, Martin

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Vintage : June 2001

Seller ID: 476568

ISBN-13: 9780375726835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman...
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Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

By: Rosenbaum, Ron

Price: $9.98

Publisher: HarperCollins : February 1999

Seller ID: 453008

ISBN-13: 9780679431510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

By: Rosenbaum, Ron

Price: $9.98

Publisher: HarperCollins : February 1999

Seller ID: 467859

ISBN-13: 9780679431510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (English and French Edition)

By: Le Vot, Andre

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Doubleday : March 1983

Seller ID: 433568

ISBN-13: 9780385171755

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Fairest: A Memoir

By: Talusan, Meredith

Price: $18.98

Publisher: Viking : May 2020

Seller ID: 273694

ISBN-13: 9780525561309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs. --The New York Times Book Review A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival. --Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a sun child from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in...
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Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir

By: Trussoni, Danielle

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Picador : February 2007

Seller ID: 230636

ISBN-13: 9780312426569

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year A daughter's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended. From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from a fight. Spending hour upon hour trailing him around the bars and honky-tonks of La Crosse, Wisconsin, young Danielle grew up fascinated by stories of her dad's adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, where he'd risked his life crawling head first into narrow passageways to search for American POWs. A vivid and ...
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Falling Up: A Memoir of Renewal

By: Stanger, Louise

Price: $6.95

Publisher: WZY PRESS : January 2016

Seller ID: 167592

ISBN-13: 9780996761406

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Farewell Sweet Monsoon

By: M.D., DATTA, MOITRI

Price: $1.85

Publisher: UPADHYA PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL : September 1998

Seller ID: 23915

ISBN-13: 9780965423809

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Fault Lines: A Memoir (2nd Edition) (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)

By: Alexander, Meena

Price: $6.98

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY : October 2003

Seller ID: 440150

ISBN-13: 9781558614543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander's memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Fault Lines, this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world. With poetic insight and an honesty that will galvanize readers--both familiar and new--Alexander reveals her difficult recovery from a long-buried childhood trauma that revolutionizes the entire landscape of her memory:...
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Fellowship, The: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

By: Friedland, Roger, Zellman, Harold

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial : October 2007

Seller ID: 10137

ISBN-13: 9780060988661

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces--Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Mu...
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Ferlinghetti, a biography

By: Cherkovski, Neeli

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Doubleday, 1979 : January 1979

Seller ID: 448949

ISBN-13: 9780385123129

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Fiction Ruined My Family

By: Darst, Jeanne

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Riverhead Books : November 2012

Seller ID: 460243

ISBN-13: 9781594486173

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious.--USA Today Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir. The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family-- of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other-- Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: While things might be a bit tight for us right now, it's only temporary. Soon her father would sell the Great American Novel and reclaim the family's former glo...
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Fighting Parkinson's...and Winning: A memoir of my recovery from Parkinson's Disease

By: Shifke, Howard

Price: $14.00

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform : November 2017

Seller ID: 465498

ISBN-13: 9781979354028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"After reading this book and following Howard's recipe for some time now, I can only say this book is worth each and every word. It is highly valuable and, by the way, I feel much better now and my symptoms have almost disappear so far. I recommend to anyone who is seeking some alternative path to his treatment on Parkinson's." - Amazon Kunde, Amazon Verified Purchaser. "Howard's Recipe For Recovery is a breath of fresh air; If you do the recipe you will be on the road to recovery, the same road the cured walked before us, six of them so far in the past seven years. How full of hope is that? ...
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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave

By: Prentiss, Sean

Price: $14.98

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press : May 2015

Seller ID: 472532

ISBN-13: 9780826355911

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey.Sean Prentiss takes readers across the country as he gathers clues from his research, travel, and interviews with some of Abbey's closest friends--including Jack Loeffler, Ken Seldom Seen Sleight...
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Finding Balance: A Mother's Journey to Inner Peace

By: Swierski-Loiodice, Kelly

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Kelly Swierski-Loiodice : December 2019

Seller ID: 333620

ISBN-13: 9781734216301

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Personalized inscriptions inside front cover in ink otherwise pages unmarked.
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Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: French, Erin

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Celadon Books : April 2021

Seller ID: 457491

ISBN-13: 9781250312341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

As new, no signs of wear or blemishes.
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Finding Grace: Regaining My Vision and Soul

By: Davidson, Anne R

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Telling My Truth Publishing : July 2022

Seller ID: 428993

ISBN-13: 9798218007027

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Finding the Raga

Price: $13.49

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Seller ID: 471241

ISBN-13: 9780571219100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Force of Circumstance Volume 2

By: Beauvoir, Simone De

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Harper Row : January 1977

Seller ID: 449127

ISBN-13: 9780060905590

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China

By: DeWoskin, Rachel

Price: $6.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 2006

Seller ID: 268345

ISBN-13: 9780393328592

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a fiery life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues th...
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Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

By: Vanderbilt II, Arthur T

Price: $9.98

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : January 2001

Seller ID: 393025

ISBN-13: 9780062224064

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Wall Street Journal BestsellerFor fans of Downton Abbey, a real-life American version of the Crawley family--Fortune's Children is an enthralling true story that recreates the drama, splendor, and wealth of the legendary Vanderbilts.Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family patriarch, the Commodore," built a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after his death, no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Written by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly ...
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

By: Raven, Catherine

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau : June 2022

Seller ID: 445024

ISBN-13: 9781954118119

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii (Memoir Series)

By: Neal, TW

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Toby Neal : January 2019

Seller ID: 455410

ISBN-13: 9781732771253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light reading wear to edges.
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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

By: Ypi, Lea

Price: $17.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 2023

Seller ID: 457772

ISBN-13: 9781324050292

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From strength to strength: An autobiography

By: Henderson, Sara

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Pan MacMillan Publishers Australia : January 1993

Seller ID: 235363

ISBN-13: 9780725107253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the Course of My Life: Autogiographical Fragments

By: Steiner, Rudolf

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Rudolph Steiner Pr : June 2013

Seller ID: 92841

ISBN-13: 9781855843769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Your favorite occupation? Pondering and musing.Your idea of happiness? Pondering and musing.Your most extreme aversion? Pedantry and a sense of order.Of what are you afraid? Punctuality. These quotations are from a questionnaire filled in by a young man in his late twenties. That person, Rudolf Steiner, would later initiate the path of Anthroposophy. Toward the end of his lie, Steiner wrote his Autobiography, though its completion was interrupted by his untimely death. This book is an essential complement to Steiner's unfinished Autobiography. It gathers a wealth of personal testimonies--inclu...
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