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By: Hunter, Rodello
Price: $13.80
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1966
Seller ID: 003410
This is a family chronicle of the Woodrows who lived a semi-rural village life around the turn of the century. The Woodrows, a Mormon family, were a lusty bunch, had a host of children, some "owned" and some "borrowed" when nieces, nephews, and grandchildren were taken into the brood. Papa rules the roost with a firm hand, and Kate - Mama - is simply a great woman. The Woodrows are people who have fire, character, charm, and for whom both duty and rebelli... View more info
By: McCourt, Malachy
Price: $6.44
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Hyperion Books: 1998
Edition: Eighth Printing
Seller ID: 001358
Malachy McCourt, brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis) has written this memoir telling his own story of leaving his childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, and heading for the promise of America. Armed with a wild humor and gift for storytelling, he ran from memories of a drunken, vanished father and the humiliations of Angela, his mother. He carved a place for himself in New York as the first celebrity bartender; on stage, performing works of James Joyce, a... View more info
By: McCourt, Malachy
Price: $6.44
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Hyperion Books: 1998
Edition: Eighth Printing
Seller ID: 001359
Malachy McCourt, brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis) has written this memoir telling his own story of leaving his childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, and heading for the promise of America. Armed with a wild humor and gift for storytelling, he ran from memories of a drunken, vanished father and the humiliations of Angela, his mother. He carved a place for himself in New York as the first celebrity bartender; on stage, performing works of James Joyce, a... View more info
By: Wentworth, Ali
Price: $11.50
Publisher: New York, Harper: 2013
Edition: Unknown
Seller ID: 004389
1" black remainder mark on the bottom. ; Ali, who rebelled against her blue-blood upbringing, takes us through the looking glass from her childhood among Washington's elite and a stint in a New England prep school to her days doing L. A. Sketch comedy alongside Will Farrell and Lisa Kudrow. Throughout is her mother, Muffie, a flawlessly elegant, no-nonsense force of nation with pure WASP convictions. Married to George Stephanopoulos, this memoir is a delightful look ... View more info
By: Arana, Marie
Price: $9.20
Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing: 2002
Edition: First Softcover Edition
Seller ID: 004370
This book was a National Book Award Finalist. In her father's Peruvian family, Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother's American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken's neck for dinner. She shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. It was wen she immigrated with her family to the United States that she came to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming... View more info
By: Ronne, Hartfield
Price: $13.80
Publisher: Chicago, IL, The University Of Chicago Press: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004272
Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of mixed race with ease and harmony for generations. Her moving family history is filled with such stories, , told in her beautifully crafted and unsentimental prose. She celebrates the special occasion of being born and reared in a household where being a woman of mixed race could be a fundamental source of strength, vitality, and courage. Throughout her book, Hartfield portrays mix... View more info
By: Cheever, Susan
Price: $8.28
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002922
Having children transforms us - by the amazing power of our love for them and theirs for us, by the anger they are able to provoke in us, and because in order to be good parents to our children, we must admit we are no longer children ourselves. Susan Cheever, bestselling author, describes that transformation in passionate, compelling, moving prose. Raising a daughter, 18, and a son, 11, they have all survived divorce, blending families, issues at school, eating disorder... View more info
By: Lever, Maurice; Emanuel, Susan (translated by)
Price: $11.04
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2009
Seller ID: 004343
This is a compelling portrait of a man whose activities as politician, publisher, entrepeneur, spy, rebel, but most notable a playwright, brought him fame. He was a political visionary who supported American revolutionaries on the eve of his country's own upheavel, a reckless entrepeneur, and an early champion of the rights of artists and intellectual property. Most of all we meet a writer whose wit and brilliance were matched only by his determination to publish on his ... View more info
By: Watkins, Mel
Price: $9.20
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001565
Arresting prose and a provocative conclusion - challenging the idea that our destinies are fundamentally linked to race - distinguish this remarkable memoir of growing up black in the American Midwest in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. Set in an Ohio steel town and an exclusive, upstate New York private university, Dancing with Strangers is an evocative remembrance of an American's coming of age during the decade preceding the sixties' revolutionary transformation of Amer... View more info
By: Coupérie-Eiffel, Philippe; Bouvard, Dominique; Laredo, Joseph (translated by)
Price: $23.00
Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland, Edition Olms Zurich: 2014
Edition: First English Edition
Seller ID: 004357
NEW - Gustave Eiffel was the creator of the supreme symbol of Paris, which was quite revolutionary at the time. From the age of 25 the young engineer was entrusted with the construction of a railway bridge in Bordeaux which fired his ambition and earned him the respect of colleagues. He made a mark on every corner of the globe with his striking and distinctive designs for over 300 buildings, which included the framework for the Statue of Liberty. In 1892 he withdrew from... View more info
By: Sandburg, Carl
Price: $12.88
Publisher: Chicago, IL, University Of Illinois Press: 1983
Seller ID: 004240
With an introduction by Margaret Sandburg (daughter) and George Hendrick, this is a fascinating memoir summoning the past of joy and pain with extraordinary vividness and particularity. This is a sequel to Always the Young Strangers (1953) , and was left unfinished at Sandburg's death. It chronicles his college years and early adulthood, a restless decade - but also includes life between school years and after college, working briefly as a fireman, salesman, copywriter, ... View more info
By: Field, Norma
Price: $8.28
Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University Of California Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000075
The author of this memoir lived in Japan during her childhood, and her adult years in the United States. She went back to Japan in the 1990's to tend to her gravely ill grandmother; modern postwar Japan made a great impression on her, which she discusses in juxtaposition with her life in the United States. Many subjects are important to both countries including facets of how the war affected individuals, biracial/bicultural families, last farewells of kamikaze pilots, an... View more info
By: Reichl, Ruth
Price: $12.88
Publisher: New York, Penguin Press: 2005
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 004444
The jacket has a small chip at the top and bottom front corner. ; This is a delicious and compulsively readable account of the author's experience as an undercover food critic for the New York Times. She throws back the curtain on the sumptuously appointed stages of the epicurean world to reveal the comic absurdity, artifice and excellence there, giving us her remarkable reflections on role playing and identity. She also includes some of her favorite recipes and reviews.... View more info
Price: $33.12
Publisher: Yale University Press: 2010
Edition: Unknown
Seller ID: 004441
The book is still in publishers shrinkwrap. This well-illustrated volume is a biography of Harry Houdini's life and work. Compiled in conjunction with the Jewish Museum, essays about Houdini are accompanied by interviews with novelist E. L. Doctorow, Teller, Kenneth Silverman, and more. One of Houdini's passions, aside from performing, was outing fake spiritualists. All is in this book with much more. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 280 pages View more info
By: Hart, Carey and Palmer, Chris
Price: $11.04
Publisher: New York, Artisan: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004286
Freestyle motocross champ Carey Hart is a heavily tattooed celebrity whose tattoo studio in Las Vegas was featured on A&E; s in hit reality series Inked. The shop caters to celebrities, locals and tourists. There they find original and irreverent tattoos, which are now brought to you in a unique mix of attitude and beauty. This book shows 70 evocative portraits that confound our expectations. Photos of seemingly ordinary people - businessmen, receptionists, and mothers -... View more info
Price: $9.20
Publisher: New York, Attria: 2010
Seller ID: 004249
This is an impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen. One summer night in 1978, the author returned to his New York City apartment to find two men robbing him. In a violent struggle, one of the assailants threw paint thinner in Hugues' face. Within a few hours, he was completely blind. This book moves beyond those horrific events to his solo travels around the world... View more info
Price: $11.50
Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Da Capo Press: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001993
A strong and sympathetic portrait. " - New York Times Book Review. Born in 1856 in upstate New York, Baum was a classic "late bloomer" who tried acting, selling and editing. Finally, in his late 30s, he took the advice of his mother-in-law, suffragist leader Matilda Gage, and turned his attention to selling the stories he'd been tellin to his sons and their friends. After a few books were published with varying success, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (originally ... View more info
Price: $14.72
Publisher: Great Britain, Hodder & Soughton: 2014
Edition: First Softcover Edition; First Softcover Printing
Seller ID: 004532
This book looks at the lives of a beautiful American heiress, and a young Lord at an English castle. Catherine Wendell was only twenty years old when she married Lord Porchester and became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle, the setting for Jullian Fellowes' Downton Abbey. Charming and charismatic, Catherine caught the eye of Lord Porchester at a ball in 1922. They fell deeply in love and less than a year later Catherine found herself suddenly in charge of a small army o... View more info
By: Auerbach, Red; Feinstein, John
Price: $8.28
Publisher: New York, Little Brown: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004274
As a living legend amongst sports fans, Red Auerbach - the fiery coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships, eight of them consecutive - has long been renowned for his formidable personality: brash, opinionated , and unfailingly accurate. In this book, Auerbach's unique experiences in sports and Feinstein's unparalleled skills as a storyteller combine to produce one of the mostly richly entertaining books ever written about the game of baseball. The jacke... View more info
By: Emily Ellison & Chuck Perry; Geeorge Lindsey (Foreword by)
Price: $10.12
Publisher: Nashville, TN, Rutledge Hill Press: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004297
Turner South network reaches over seven million people across six states in the southeast, and its TV show Liars & Legends exposes what's most unique, most interesting and most downright bizarre about the region. If you venture into these pages you will learn about the beast that resides in the swamps near Bishopville, South Carolina, the town that kept a secret for thirty years, and the dog-rabbit creature that became the bane of the Bell family. Whether you are superst... View more info
By: Sessums, Kevin
Price: $10.12
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 004454
Very light wear is noted at the corners and spine ends. ; The American South of the 1960s was no place to be different, much less a freak. Back then, boys grew up to become football heroes and marry perfect Southern belles. As for music, you never sang anything in public other than a hymn. But Kevin Sessums knew he was different. His hero was Arlene Francis. He knew the lyrics to Broadway shows tunes as well as he knew the Baptist hymnal. His parents died by the time he ... View more info
By: Sotomayor, Sonia
Price: $15.18
Publisher: New York, NY, Alfred A Knopf: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004196
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. With candor and intimacy, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. ; Octavo (standard book size); 319 pages View more info
Price: $7.82
Publisher: Westminster, Maryland, U. S. A., Random House Inc: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002542
Second Printing. Christopher Reeve mastered the art of turning the impossible into the inevitable. He shows that we are all capable of overcoming seemingly insurmountable hardships. He interweaves anecdotes from hiw own life with excerpts from speeches and interviews he's given and with evocative photos taken by his son Matthew. Published on the eve of both his fiftieth birthday and the seventh anniversary of his spinal cord injury, this volume reminds us that life is no... View more info
By: Jasen, David A.
Price: $9.23
Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Schirmertrade Books: 2002
Seller ID: 001398
The definitive and authorized biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time, first published in 1974, is now printed in a revised, updated edition. Lavishly illustrated, this biography is the first book to trace Wodehouse's career from his first magazine contribution in 1901 through the show-business years to his one hundred books that have given so much pleasure to readers for so many years. The author is a professor of Fine Arts at C. W. Post College ... View more info
By: Jordan, Teresa
Price: $6.44
Publisher: New York, Ny, U. S. A., Knopf Publishing Group: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000942
This is Teresa Jordan's story of four generations of her family's devotion to the land, a devotion that required both physical courage and psychic endurance. She celebrates the strength and character of the women of her family, the men, the hay crew, cooks, and cowboys. With reverence and grace, she uses the history of her family to mirror the demise of a quintessential American way of life. This is not only Jordan's family history, it is every Western family's story: It... View more info
