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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

By: Sobel, Dava

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) : November 2000

Seller ID: 300630

ISBN-13: 9780140280555

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

-- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists-- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award-- Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and the American Library Association-- Longitude sold more than 300,000 copies in paperback and spent 25 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list-- The Penguin edition features a stunning package with a beautiful step-back cover...
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Genet: A Biography

By: White, Edmund

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Knopf : November 1993

Seller ID: 193239

ISBN-13: 9780394571713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

By: Rosenberg, John D.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul : August 1980

Seller ID: 205266

ISBN-13: 9780710003959

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ink marks on title page otherwise pages unmarked, reading wear to cover.
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Geography Of The Heart

By: Johnson, Fenton

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Scribner : June 1997

Seller ID: 321716

ISBN-13: 9780671009830

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Light shelf wear, pages unmarked
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George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

By: Karl, Frederick R.

Price: $22.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : October 1996

Seller ID: 458221

ISBN-13: 9780393315219

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Karl shows how Eliot's break from respectable womanhood by running off with the married George Henry Lewes allowed her to begin her career as the major British novelist of the nineteenth century. Often, she drew upon her own life to create her plots and characters. She set several of her masterworks - Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, and Middlemarch - in the England of the past and her youth to show a complex portrait of society and character - one that captures us today with its moral dilemmas and psychological shrewdness.
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George Kelly (Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series)

By: Fransella, Fay

Price: $45.00

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd : January 1996

Seller ID: 391382

ISBN-13: 9780803984943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Gertrude and Alice

By: Diana Souhami

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harpercollins : March 1993

Seller ID: 348673

ISBN-13: 9780062509154

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in paperback: The acclaimed biography of the remarkable relationship between two legendary women--Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas--that was nominated for a Lambda literary award and praised as gossipy fun by Publishers Weekly. 45 photographs.
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Gertrude Stein (Women Writers Series)

By: Bowers, Jane Palatini

Price: $7.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : July 1993

Seller ID: 362184

ISBN-13: 9780312095338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light wear.
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Gevurah: My Life, Our World, and the Adventure of Reaching 80

By: Twerski, Abraham J.

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Shaar Press : October 2010

Seller ID: 251770

ISBN-13: 9781422610688

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

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Gift from the Sea

By: LINDBERGH, ANNE MORROW

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Random House Inc : February 1991

Seller ID: 174561

ISBN-13: 9780679732419

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment during a brief vacation by the sea, here is Anne Morrow Lindbergh's inimitable classic. Drawing inspiration from the the shells on the shore, Lindbergh's musings on the shape of a woman's life will bring new understanding to readers, male and family, at any stage of life. A mother of five and professional writer, she casts an unsentimental eye at the trappings of modern life that threaten to overwhelm us -- the timesaving gadgets that complicate our lives, the overcommitments that take us from our families...
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Girl Intrepid: A New York Story of Privilege and Perseverance

By: Armstrong, Leslie

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Epigraph Publishing : October 2020

Seller ID: 475883

ISBN-13: 9781951937249

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"I didn't want to be subject to anyone's idea of who I was or who I was to become, and what I could or should be doing to enhance anyone else's life "So much is surprising and captivating about this coming-of-age story of a culture-rich, pre-and-proto-'60s upper class girl with rebellion and independence wired in. Lale's early decades were a complex mixture of innocence, sophistication, doubt, passion, adventure, and brutal self-criticism. She grows up mainly with her mother, who had to fight for her career in law because she was a woman. They live in a small East Side walk up, but her mother ...
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

By: Rehak, Melanie

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : September 2006

Seller ID: 475452

ISBN-13: 9780156030564

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pul...
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Gladstone: A Progress in Politics

By: Stansky, Peter

Price: $8.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : June 1981

Seller ID: 391392

ISBN-13: 9780393000375

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

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Glamour, Interrupted: How I Became the Best-Dressed Patient in Hollywood

By: Cojocaru, Steven

Price: $7.99

Publisher: HarperCollins : January 2008

Seller ID: 460819

ISBN-13: 9780060791360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Before Steven Cojocaru was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, he could never have imagined himself living anything other than a high-glam Hollywood lifestyle. A bon vivant on two coasts, he held jobs as both the red carpet guru for Entertainment Tonight and the fashion correspondent for the Today show, hauling his suitcase full of flat irons and designer boots from New York to Los Angeles and back again, every week. He was Cojo, professional glamour boy with a barbed tongue who went shopping with J.Lo and traded fashion tips with Gwyneth. But a painful and ironically unglamorous reality...
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

By: Seymour, Corey,Wenner, Jann S.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : October 2007

Seller ID: 462500

ISBN-13: 9780316005272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - "and his singular and provocative style challenged and revolutionized writing.Now, for the first time ever, Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour have interviewed the Good Doctor's friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues and woven their memories into a brilliant oral biography. From Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger to Ralph Steadman to Jack Ni...
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Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin (A Penguin handbook)

By: Doder, Dusko, Branson, Louise

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) : June 1991

Seller ID: 6658

ISBN-13: 9780140115352

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

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Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing : May 2022

Seller ID: 434767

ISBN-13: 9784805316863

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A self-portrait devastating in its honesty...written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions.--Donald Keene Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in Tenth-century Japan--the same period as Murasaki Shikibu's celebrated Tale of Genji. In her diary, the author describes her tempestuous and unhappy marriage and growing indignation at the many rival wives and mistresses taken by her husband, as was commonplace at the time. Too impetuous to play the role of a subsidiary wife, the author protests the marriage system in one of Ja...
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Grace: A Memoir

By: Coddington, Grace

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Random House : November 2012

Seller ID: 476380

ISBN-13: 9780812993356

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington's extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion's best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace's palpable engagement with her work brought a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the magazine's most memorable shoots. With the witty, forthr...
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Grant Takes Command.[Vol.3:Military Biography of U.S.Grant].

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Little,Brown & Co. : January 1969

Seller ID: 370271

ISBN: B006JPGARW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Granuaile: Grace O'Malley - Ireland's Pirate Queen

By: Chambers, Anne

Price: $15.98

Publisher: Gill & MacMillan, Limited : March 2009

Seller ID: 410052

ISBN-13: 9780717145829

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

'There came to me also a most famous feminine sea called Granny Imallye ... with three galleys and two hundred fighting men ... She brought with her her husband for she was as well by sea as by land well more than Mrs Mate with him. This was a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland ...' Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1576 Fearless leader by land and by sea, political pragmatist and tactician, rebel, pirate and matriarch, the 'most notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland' Grace O'Malley challenges and manipulates the turbulent politics of the 16th century -- a period of i...
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Great Society: A New History

By: Shlaes, Amity

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Harper : November 2019

Seller ID: 462080

ISBN-13: 9780061706424

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges.Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high hopes and catastrophic missteps of our well-meaning leaders. --Alan GreenspanToday, a battle rages in our country. Many Americans are attracted to socialism and economic redistribution while opponents of those ideas argue for purer capitalism. In the 1960s, Americans sought the same goals many seek now: an end to pover...
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Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day

By: Heyerdahl, Thor

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Random House : March 1996

Seller ID: 427317

ISBN-13: 9780679440932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Growing: An Autobiography Of The Years 1904 To 1911

By: Woolf, Leonard

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1989

Seller ID: 450999

ISBN-13: 9780156372152

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs.

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Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling

By: Frankel, Martha

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Tarcher : February 2008

Seller ID: 9090

ISBN-13: 9781585425587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A gloriously written memoir of growing up in a family of hard- core gamblers-Martha Frankel thought the gambling gene had passed her by, until she found herself addicted to online poker and knee-deep in debt. Most weekends when Martha Frankel was a kid, her mother had a mah-jongg game going in the kitchen with her girlfriends while their husbands were in the living room playing poker. Once Frankel reached adulthood, however, while her cousins were making their way in the world as bookies and drug dealers, gambling didn't much factor into her life. In the tradition of "Five-Finger Discount" by ...
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Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling

By: Frankel, Martha

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Tarcher : February 2008

Seller ID: 387719

ISBN-13: 9781585425587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Autographed copy
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Hats & Eyeglasses: A Memoir

By: Frankel, Martha

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Tarcher : February 2009

Seller ID: 234739

ISBN-13: 9781585426973

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Martha Frankel grew up in a warm, loving family of diehard gamblers, where her father's poker games and her mother's mah-jongg blended happily with big pots of delicious food and endless gossip. As kids, she and her cousins bet on everything?from which of their Weight Watching mothers would lose the most to who could hold their breath longest underwater or eat the most matzo. But once Frankel left for college and later became a successful entertainment journalist, gambling didn't factor much into her life. She thought her family legacy had passed her by. In this ?fast-paced and amazingly funn...
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Have a Little Faith: A True Story

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Hyperion : September 2009

Seller ID: 368377

ISBN-13: 9780786868728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds -- two men, two faiths, two communities -- that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left y...
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Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

By: Magliato M.D., Kathy

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Crown Archetype : January 2010

Seller ID: 468523

ISBN-13: 9780767930260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looks as new, no noticeable markings of blemishes.
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Heartbeat of Struggle (Critical American Studies)

By: Fujino, Diane C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press : May 2005

Seller ID: 333533

ISBN-13: 9780816645930

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist began much earlier than this pivotal public moment. Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this courageous woman, the most prominent Asian American activist to emerge during the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with Kochiyama's family, friends, and the subject herself, Diane C. Fujino traces Kochiyama's life from an all-American childhood to her achievements as a tireless defender of - and fighter for - human ri...
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Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

By: Doty, Mark

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : April 1996

Seller ID: 325791

ISBN-13: 9780060928056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growing, he enjoys his work as a college professor and, perhaps most importantly, he is deeply in love with his partner of many years, Wally Roberts. The harmonious existence these two men share is shattered, however, when they learn that Wally has tested positive for the HIV virus. From diagnosis to the initial signs of deterioration to the heartbreaking hour when Wally is released from his body's ruined vessel, Heaven's Coastis an intimate chronicle of love, its...
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Heels in the Arena: Living Purple in a Red/Blue Town

By: Hantman, Jamie Brown

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Federal Hall Publishing : September 2019

Seller ID: 381578

ISBN-13: 9781544505114

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Jamie Brown Hantman was a high-level White House aide, where she spearheaded work with the U.S. Senate to get two U. S. Supreme Court Justices confirmed. She ran Legislative Affairs for the Department of Justice shortly after 9/11, working with people like Bob Mueller and Ted Olson. And earlier in her career, she spent time on Capitol Hill and on the fabled "K Street." Heels In The Arena takes readers on a sometimes-humorous journey through all of it, including how Jamie made it to that first rung on the ladder, with advice on how to succeed in politics illustrated with pull-back-the-curtain s...
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Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography (Princeton Legacy Library, 583)

By: Sammons, Jeffrey L.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : January 1980

Seller ID: 437381

ISBN-13: 9780691100814

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as well as of older scholarship. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availab...
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Helen and teacher: The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (Radcliffe biography series) by Joseph P Lash (1980-05-03)

By: Lash, Joseph P

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Delacorte Press : December 1841

Seller ID: 130993

ISBN: B01F9QADUQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

By: Hotchner, A. E.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : October 2015

Seller ID: 449711

ISBN-13: 9781250077486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited a close friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke - three weeks later, Ernest Hemingway returned home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a saga that Hemingway had unraveled for Hotchner over years of world travel.Ernest always kept a few of his special experiences off the page, storing them as insurance against a dry-up of ideas. But after a near miss with death, he entrusted his most meaningful tale to Hotchner, so that if he never got to write it hims...
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Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

By: Nin, Anais

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Harcourt : January 1986

Seller ID: 451009

ISBN-13: 9780151400034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Drawn from the original, uncensored diaries of Anais Nin, Henry and June chronicles one year in Paris in the early 30's when Anais Nin met Henry Miller and his wife June, and the affair that ensued with HENRY WHEN JUNE LEFT FOR NEW YORK."
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Henry Miller: The Paris Years

By: Brassai,

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Arcade Publishing : October 1995

Seller ID: 467906

ISBN-13: 9781559702874

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It

By: Cordell, LaDoris Hazzard

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Celadon Books : October 2021

Seller ID: 454149

ISBN-13: 9781250269607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Hermann Hesse Biographer of the Soul

By: Gert Bruhn

Price: $7.98

Seller ID: 409955

ISBN: 281CAO1007428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

By: Forster, Margaret

Price: $10.99

Publisher: Penguin Uk : August 1995

Seller ID: 435343

ISBN-13: 9780670857074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Hideyoshi (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

By: Berry, Mary Elizabeth

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University : January 1989

Seller ID: 464601

ISBN-13: 9780674390263

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, light shelf wear.
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