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'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character

By: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

Price: $12.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: February 2018

Seller ID: 180394

ISBN: 0393355640

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman " this book's many stories--some funny, others intensely moving--display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life.

Here we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked on the atomic bomb at nearby Los Alamos. We listen to the fascinating narrative of the investigation into the space shuttle Challenger's expl...
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84, Charing Cross Road

By: Hanff, Helene

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Avon Books: February 1987

Seller ID: 311051

ISBN: 0380001225

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994

By: Nasar, Sylvia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 1999

Seller ID: 269884

ISBN: 0684853701

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. "A Beautiful Mind" traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians.

But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowin...
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

By: Nasar, Sylvia

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: December 2001

Seller ID: 136443

ISBN: 0743224574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In a masterful blend of biography and science writing, Nasar traces John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s rise to the heights of intellectual achievement and his harrowing descent from eccentricity to insanity. Released as a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe and Ed Harris.
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A Bubbe Meise, a Grandmother's True Story

By: Hinda Miller

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Hinda MIller: August 2014

Seller ID: 131638

ISBN: 0578142171

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Bubbe Meise tells the story of Hinda Miller, the youngest daughter of immigrant parents, who develops from a joyous childhood through adolescent upheaval to college, marriage, motherhood, grand-parenthood and career. The book highlights the lessons she has learned along the way.
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A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

By: Kerr, Joan Patterson

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Random House: October 1995

Seller ID: 296587

ISBN: 067943948X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Circle of Quiet

By: Madeleine L'Engle

Price: $7.50

Publisher: HarperOne: November 1986

Seller ID: 266910

ISBN: 0062545035

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The author describes life at her family's old country farmhouse and shares her observations on nature, writing, and the human community.
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A Dangerous Liaison: One Woman's Journey into a World of Aristocracy, Depravity, and Obsession

By: Sheri De Borchgrave

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult: September 1993

Seller ID: 164813

ISBN: 0525936378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By: Solnit, Rebecca

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: June 2006

Seller ID: 315018

ISBN: 0143037242

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Men Explain Things To Me

Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. While deeply personal, her own stories link up t...
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A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Ruth Ellis Story

By: Lee, Carol Ann

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing: September 2013

Seller ID: 304024

ISBN: 1780576234

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In 1955, Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. After a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death, becoming the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Despite her infamy, Ruth's story has never been fully told. Here, Carol Ann Lee examines the facts without agenda or sensation.
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A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell

By: Larsen, Stephen,Larsen, Robin

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Doubleday: November 1991

Seller ID: 301429

ISBN: 0385266359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Vintage: February 2001

Seller ID: 254592

ISBN: 0375725784

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 ...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage: February 2001

Seller ID: 276512

ISBN: 0375725784

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 Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: February 2001

Seller ID: 298243

ISBN: 0375725784

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 Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

By: Adam Makos, Larry Alexander

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Berkley Trade: May 2014

Seller ID: 47743

ISBN: 0425255735

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies"* emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times and international bestseller by the author of Spearhead.

December, 1943 A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber's tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler--and he can destroy the young American crew with t...
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A Life In Our Times - Memoirs

By: John Kenneth Galbraith

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: January 1981

Seller ID: 222682

ISBN: 0233973834

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

clean copy, dj included, some wear from use
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A Life Well Lived: Maxwell Jones - A Memoir (Community, Culture and Change)

By: Dennie Briggs

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers: November 2002

Seller ID: 127515

ISBN: 1843107406

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established practices that exist today. As a close friend and frequent collaborator, Briggs is able to recount in detail Jones' revolutionary work in mental hospitals, prisons, communities and schools, and offers a rare and engaging insight into the mind of one of the most important pioneers in the therapeutic communi...
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A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story

By: Mironenko, Sergei,Maylunas, Andrei

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1997

Seller ID: 305628

ISBN: 0385486731

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: 0374531269

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 ...
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A Matter of Opinion

By: Victor S. Navasky

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: May 2005

Seller ID: 157020

ISBN: 0374299978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Victor S. Navasky is the renowned editor, writer, and teacher who has been at the helm of "The Nation" for almost thirty years. "A Matter of Opinion," a scintillating reflection on his journalistic experiences, is also an extraordinary political document-a spirited, provocative argument for independent journals of opinion as vital to the health of democracy.
Whether at the satirical magazine "Monocle" (which he founded when he was in law school), or at "The New York Times," or finally at "The Nation," Navasky's commitment to political engagement and to the social and intellectual values of...
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A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Anchor: September 2005

Seller ID: 267602

ISBN: 0307276902

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery.

By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. He had so thoroughly ravaged his body that the facility s doctors were shocked he was still alive. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withd...
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A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney (Radcliffe Biography Series)

By: Susan Quinn

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Perseus Books: January 1989

Seller ID: 20369

ISBN: 0201155737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Moveable Feast

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Scribner: April 1996

Seller ID: 121438

ISBN: 068482499X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Ernest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.

Featuring a personal Foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's...
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A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

Price: $14.00

Seller ID: 284631

ISBN: 1501160613

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A new life of Anton Chekhov

By: Ronald Hingley

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Knopf: December 1975

Seller ID: 110372

ISBN: 0394490584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty

By: Edmund Wilson

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: December 1999

Seller ID: 259611

ISBN: 0374526710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the author of To the Finland Station comes a deeply personal and incisive memoir,
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother

By: Janny Scott

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover: April 2011

Seller ID: 198974

ISBN: 1594487979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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 pa...
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A Small Place

By: Kincaid, Jamaica

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: April 2000

Seller ID: 270160

ISBN: 0374527075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very 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, ...
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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: 087351565X

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 Song Flung Up to Heaven

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bantam: April 2003

Seller ID: 297963

ISBN: 0553382039

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated.
Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local thea...
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A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families

By: Holroyd, Michael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: March 2009

Seller ID: 299470

ISBN: 0374270805

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

x Library book - minimal markings.
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A Three Dog Life

By: Abigail Thomas

Price: $7.95

Publisher: N/A: September 2007

Seller ID: 169253

ISBN: 0156033232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

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 institu-tion. 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 the...
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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir

By: Norris Church Mailer

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Random House: April 2010

Seller ID: 10397

ISBN: 1400067944

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - 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 th...
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AAMA in America

By: Broughton Coburn

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Doubleday: April 1995

Seller ID: 204247

ISBN: 0385474172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Penguin Lives)

By: Thomas Keneally

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: December 2008

Seller ID: 223004

ISBN: 0143114751

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth
The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows Lincoln from his impoverished birth through his education and presidency. From the development of his political philosophy to his troubled family life and his actions during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln...
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Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

By: Simone De Beauvoir

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Pantheon: February 1985

Seller ID: 81729

ISBN: 039472898X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Simone de Beauvoir's account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre's life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre's last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of astonishing frankness that illuminates one of the most famous and complex relationships of the twentieth century.
Translated by Patrick O'Brian

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Adolescence Interrupted

By: Blair Patrick Schuyler

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Xlibris: March 2015

Seller ID: 249873

ISBN: 150353751X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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A memoir blurring the lines of autobiography, survival story, and self-help, Adolescence Interrupted explores the journey of a thirteen-year-old boy facing the unthinkable.
Told one morning that a neurogical condition will entirely transform the trajectory of his happy, healthy existence, he is set on a path requiring courage, resilience, and an unflappable fighting spirit.
The affliction follows him into his twenties, limiting his options and mobility, and becomes a serious impediment to the attainment of his goals. After a series of a physically and psychologically painful surgical...
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Afternoon of a Sadhu: A Memoir of India

By: Ms. Violet Snow

Price: $6.00

Publisher: CreateSpace: March 2012

Seller ID: 9781

ISBN: 1469949997

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

By: Erica Fischer

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Alyson Books: October 1998

Seller ID: 234009

ISBN: 1555834507

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Unique, moving, and true--this radiant love story is set against the horrific backdrop of World War II Nazi Germany. When Lilly Aimee Wust, a gentile mother of four and wife of a Nazi officer, met Felice Jaguar Schragenheim, a Jew living underground in Berlin, neither could have guessed that their brief initial encounter would develop into a blazing, devoted love. As the Nazi stranglehold closed in on them, Lilly and Felice found themselves fighting insurmountable odds to stay together. Extraordinarily passionate and heartrending, this is a rare and personal look at the love and strength of tw...
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend

By: Deirdre Bair

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Nan A. Talese: October 2016

Seller ID: 239231

ISBN: 0385537158

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents.
From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone--Public Enemy Number One--has gripped popular imagination. Rising from humble Brooklyn roots, Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. At the height of Prohibition, his multimillion-dollar Chicago bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling operation dominated the o...
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