Category: Biography

A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure

By: Gethard, Chris

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Da Capo Press : January 2012

Seller ID: 476574

ISBN-13: 9780306820304

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance.

A Bad Idea I'm About to Do invites readers to join Chris as he navigates an adolescence and adulthood mired in hilariously ill-fated nerdom, and to take comfort in the fact that - as his experiences often prove - things could always be much, much worse.
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

By: Crews, Harry

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : March 2022

Seller ID: 404738

ISBN-13: 9780143135333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

For the first time in Penguin Classics, Harry Crews's highly acclaimed, evocative literary memoir of his Depression-era childhood in the rural South. A Penguin Classic Considered by Mary Karr as the "most overlooked" of the best memoirs ever written, A Childhood by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand, his bout with polio, his mother and stepfather's failing marriage, his near-fatal scalding at a hog killi...
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama

By: D'Antonio, Michael

Price: $6.98

Publisher: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin : January 2018

Seller ID: 316250

ISBN-13: 9781250160485

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Consequential President by Michael D'Antonio is a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.Had he only saved the U.S. economy with his economic recovery act and his program to restore the auto industry, President Obama would have been considered a successful president. He achieved so much more, however, that he can be counted as one of our most consequential presidents. With The Affordable Care Act, he ended the long-running crisis of escalating costs and inadequate access of treatment that had long-threatened the well-being of 50 million Americans. ...
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A Dangerous Liaison: One Woman's Journey into a World of Aristocracy, Depravity, and Obsession

By: Borchgrave, Sheri De

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult : September 1993

Seller ID: 164813

ISBN-13: 9780525936374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Daughter of the Samurai: A Memoir (Modern Library Torchbearers)

By: Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Modern Library : July 2021

Seller ID: 444410

ISBN-13: 9780593242667

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she's ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio in a delightful and charming memoir about learning your own strengths and finding your way between two cultures. Born into a high-ranking samurai family at the onset of the Meiji period, Etsu Sugimoto is originally destined to be a Buddhist priestess. She grows up as a curly-haired tomboy in Echigo, a beloved daughter of a traditional family, certain of her future role in her community. But her life changes when, as a young teenager, she is instead engaged to a Japanese merchant in Cincinna...
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A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell

By: Larsen, Stephen,Larsen, Robin

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Doubleday : November 1991

Seller ID: 462506

ISBN-13: 9780385266352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

By: Crawford, Stanley

Price: $19.95

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press : April 1998

Seller ID: 437161

ISBN-13: 9780826319609

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.--Stan Crawford

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage : February 2001

Seller ID: 276512

ISBN-13: 9780375725784

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. --San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A ...
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A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969

By: Reiss, Johanna

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Melville House : January 2009

Seller ID: 477860

ISBN-13: 9781933633558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For years, Johanna Reiss' American husband, Jim, encouraged her to return to Holland to chronicle the two years, seven months, and one day she had spent hiding from the Nazis in rural Usselo, Holland. In 1969, she finally made the trip. Accompanied by Jim and their two young children, Reiss intended to spend seven weeks researching the book that would eventually become The Upstairs Room, her Newbery Honorwinning account of her time hiding in the attic of a farmhouse in which a contingent of Nazi soldiers was billeted. But unknown to the millions of people who went on to read her beloved classi...
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A Letter

By: Elizabeth Cooke

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The Troy Book Makers : 2022

Seller ID: 471424

ISBN-13: 9781614687597

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Life In Our Times - Memoirs

By: Galbraith, John Kenneth

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company : January 1981

Seller ID: 222682

ISBN-13: 9780233973838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

clean copy, dj included, some wear from use
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A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles

By: Dillon, Millicent

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston : January 1981

Seller ID: 387152

ISBN-13: 9780030583179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Beah, Ishmael

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : August 2008

Seller ID: 287496

ISBN-13: 9780374531263

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.Why did you leave Sierra Leone?Because there is a war.You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?Yes, all the time.Cool.I smile a little.You should tell us about it sometime.Yes, sometime. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like thr...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Beah, Ishmael

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books : February 2007

Seller ID: 441029

ISBN-13: 9780374105235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.Why did you leave Sierra Leone?Because there is a war.You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?Yes, all the time.Cool.I smile a little.You should tell us about it sometime.Yes, sometime. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like thr...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Beah, Ishmael

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books : February 2007

Seller ID: 476248

ISBN-13: 9780374105235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.Why did you leave Sierra Leone?Because there is a war.You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?Yes, all the time.Cool.I smile a little.You should tell us about it sometime.Yes, sometime. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like thr...
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A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna

By: Kumar, Amitava

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Duke University Press Books : April 2014

Seller ID: 446154

ISBN-13: 9780822357049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him through many Patnas, the myriad cities locked within the city--the shabby reality of the present-day capital of Bihar; Pataliputra, the storied city of emperors; the dreamlike embodiment of the city in the minds and hearts of those who have escaped contemporary Patna's confines. Full of fascinating observations and impressions, A Matter of Rats reveals a challenging and enduri...
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A More Perfect Union: How I Survived the Happiest Day of My Life

By: Schank, Hana

Price: $7.89

Publisher: Atria : February 2006

Seller ID: 369022

ISBN-13: 9780743277365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From a year in wedding land comes this humorous yet poignant memoir--from choosing the perfect gown to balancing advice, from well-intentioned loved ones to avoiding the dreaded label bridezilla.
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A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

Price: $14.00

Seller ID: 284397

ISBN-13: 9781501160615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest, Hemingway

Price: $6.98

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK : September 2012

Seller ID: 419135

ISBN-13: 9780099285045

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looking back not only at author's own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.
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A Precious Autobiography

By: Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Price: $3.00

Publisher: E. P. Dutton : January 1964

Seller ID: 434786

ISBN: B0016EOHBW

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Promised Land

By: Obama, Barack

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Crown : November 2020

Seller ID: 474482

ISBN-13: 9781524763169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times - NPR - The Guardian - Marie Claire In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the ...
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A Promised Land

By: Obama, Barack

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Crown : November 2020

Seller ID: 457588

ISBN-13: 9781524763169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times - NPR - The Guardian - Marie Claire In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the ...
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A Promised Land

By: Obama, Barack

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Crown : November 2020

Seller ID: 464651

ISBN-13: 9781524763169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times - NPR - The Guardian - Marie Claire In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the ...
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A Promised Land

By: Obama, Barack

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Crown : November 2020

Seller ID: 467817

ISBN-13: 9781524763169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times - NPR - The Guardian - Marie Claire In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the ...
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A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

By: Waldman, Ayelet

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Anchor : January 2018

Seller ID: 474008

ISBN-13: 9781101973721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"Relentlessly honest and surprisingly funny." - The Washington Post "Genuinely brave and human." --The New York Times "Wildly brilliant." --Elle The true story of how a renowned writer's struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her fascinating journey provides a window into one family and the complex world of a once-infamous drug seen through new eyes. When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from Lewis Carroll, Ayelet Waldman is ready to try anything. Her depression has become intolerable, severe and unmanageable; medication has faile...
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother

By: Scott, Janny

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover : April 2011

Seller ID: 198974

ISBN-13: 9781594487972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Watch a video A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story. Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, le...
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A Small Place

By: Kincaid, Jamaica

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : April 2000

Seller ID: 387935

ISBN-13: 9780374527075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not...
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A Son of the Middle Border

By: Garland, Hamlin

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Borealis Books : January 2007

Seller ID: 276444

ISBN-13: 9780873515658

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who--informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie--would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful ye...
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade

By: Benfey, Christopher

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : March 2009

Seller ID: 374067

ISBN-13: 9780143115083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade intersected in an intricate map of friendship, family, and romance that marked a milestone in the development of American art and literature. Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Chri...
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A Three Dog Life

By: Thomas, Abigail

Price: $7.95

Publisher: N/A : September 2007

Seller ID: 169253

ISBN-13: 9780156033237

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institution. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in...
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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir

By: Mailer, Norris Church

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Random House : April 2010

Seller ID: 10397

ISBN-13: 9781400067947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer's greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband's--and every bit as engaging. Growing up a strict Free Will Baptist in the South of the 1950s, Norris Church, christened Barbara Jean Davis, was crowned "Little Miss Little Rock" at the age of three and always knew that life had more to offer her than the comforts of small-town Arkansas. But she could never have guessed that i...
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AAMA in America

By: Coburn, Broughton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Doubleday : April 1995

Seller ID: 204247

ISBN-13: 9780385474177

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

About My Sisters

By: Ginsberg, Debra

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Harper : March 2004

Seller ID: 456051

ISBN-13: 9780060522025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

writing from previous owner inside front cover, clean copy, dust jacket intact, text inside unmarred
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Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey

By: Loeffler, Jack

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press : March 2003

Seller ID: 369512

ISBN-13: 9780826323880

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-89), author of twenty-one books of fiction and nonfiction. This long-awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year friendship Ed Abbey and Jack Loeffler shared hundreds of campfires, hiked thousands of miles, and talked endlessly about the meaning of li...
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Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey

By: Loeffler, Jack

Price: $9.98

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press : March 2003

Seller ID: 430636

ISBN-13: 9780826323880

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-89), author of twenty-one books of fiction and nonfiction. This long-awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year friendship Ed Abbey and Jack Loeffler shared hundreds of campfires, hiked thousands of miles, and talked endlessly about the meaning of li...
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Advertisements for Myself

By: Mailer, Norman

Price: $7.98

Publisher: London: Flamingo, 1968 : January 1994

Seller ID: 319488

ISBN-13: 9780586091692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Afternoon of a Sadhu: A Memoir of India

By: Snow, Ms. Violet

Price: $6.00

Publisher: CreateSpace : March 2012

Seller ID: 9781

ISBN-13: 9781469949994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Afternoon of a Sadhu: A Memoir of India

By: Snow, Ms. Violet

Price: $4.98

Publisher: CreateSpace : March 2012

Seller ID: 371877

ISBN-13: 9781469949994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Aftershocks: A Memoir

By: Owusu, Nadia

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 2021

Seller ID: 340791

ISBN-13: 9781982111229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

may contain writing/underlining in black ink
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Pegasus Crime : August 2021

Seller ID: 476350

ISBN-13: 9781643137360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world's most successful and popular crime writer. Agatha Christie was not only the most successful author of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews--declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure--and a mystery, too, in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success. Distinguished crime novelist (and acclaimed critic) H. R. F. Keating brings together a do...
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