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American Chica Two Worlds, One Childhood

By: Arana, Marie

Price: $9.20

Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 004370

ISBN: 0385319630

Condition: Near Fine

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 to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who was "a north-sou...
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Let Me Tell You a Story

By: Auerbach, Red; Feinstein, John

Price: $8.28

Publisher: New York, Little Brown: 2004

Seller ID: 004274

ISBN: 0316738239

Condition: New in New dust jacket

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 jacket's back flap has a 1" vertical tear at the fold. Includes 8 pages of photos and an index. ; Octavo (standard book size);...
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My American Dream: a Life of Love, Family, and Food

By: Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio

Price: $14.72

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2018

Seller ID: 004565

ISBN: 1524731617

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Lidia Bastianich - on her award-winning Public Television shows and in the pages of her best-selling cookbooks - has been in the homes of millions for the past 20 years. In this memoir, Lidia reveals the trauma and heartbreak, the excitement and adventure, the love and joy, that have defined her life. Her experiences in overcoming early struggles is a fascinating and inspiring story, but so is the path she takes in building a food and restaurant empire. This absorbing book includes 59 photographs of family, friends, and restaurants. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages
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T. R. the Last Romantic

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $18.40

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Basic Books: 1997

Seller ID: 004350

ISBN: 0465069592

Condition: New

Brand's narrative is lucid, fast-moving and unblinded by hero-worship. In a single volume he has packed Roosevelt's 60 years of ambition, adventure, expediency, achievement, and finally, frustration at having peaked too soon. (Publishers Weekly). A biography of Theodore Roosevelt's amazing life, including his belief in heroes, his presidential years, and his charge up San Juan Hill. The prologue reveals injuries the man suffered with that are not widely known in this era. His wife and children are included, as that was his life: husband, father, president, hero. Much more exciting than this so...
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Sex Carnival

By: Brownstein, Bill

Price: $13.80

Publisher: Toronto, On, Canada, Ecw Press: 2000

Seller ID: 004360

ISBN: 1550224158

Condition: As New

This book is the author's whimsical record of discovering what the world of sex is all about these days. The tour begins backstage at the Porno Oscars in Las Vegas, where endurance is everything. Then a trek through the Playboy mansion in L. A with Hef himself. Take in Amsterdam's red light district and hit the world's biggest sex museums to lap up culture from the mildly titillating to the downright raunchy. Montreal is where he turns up the heat - where swingers, fetishists, porn stars, lap-dancers and naked coiffeurs burn up the sex carnival turf. This book is as entertaining as it is eye-o...
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As Good As I Could Be: a Memoir about Raising Wonderful Children in Difficult Times

By: Cheever, Susan

Price: $8.28

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2001

Seller ID: 002922

ISBN: 0684863413

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

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 disorders, and alcoholism. Provocative, perceptive, wise and unflinchingly honest, this book is the touchstone for all parents who ar...
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Without a Doubt

By: Clark, Marcia with Carpenter, Teresa

Price: $13.80

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1997

Seller ID: 004330

ISBN: 0670870897

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

This book is extremely intense, very interesting, never a slow moment. Judge Ito was clearly a weak link instead of a strong leader as he refused to admit numerous, potentially harmful (to the defendant) pieces of evidence. This is the whole story, not the media story. Index included. ; Octavo (standard book size); 502 pages
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Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By: Countess Of Carnarvon

Price: $14.72

Publisher: Great Britain, Hodder & Soughton: 2014

Seller ID: 004532

ISBN: 1444762125

Condition: Very Good

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 of staff, hosting lavish banquets and weekend house parties at Highclere Castle. But as the 1920s drew to a close, Catherine b...
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Eiffel by Eiffel

By: Coupérie-Eiffel, Philippe; Bouvard, Dominique; Laredo, Joseph (translated by)

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Zurich, Switzerland, Edition Olms Zurich: 2014

Seller ID: 004357

ISBN: 3283012393

Condition: New in New dust jacket

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 the public eye after being implicated in a scandal, but his creativity blossomed, researching aerodynamics and developing of...
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Woolf

By: Dally, Peter

Price: $16.56

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Griffin: 2001

Seller ID: 003942

ISBN: 0312272731

Condition: New

Combining his knowledge as a doctor and a lifelong fascination with Virginia Woolf's life and work, eminent psychiatrist Peter Dally offers a haunting and compelling look at the depression that tormented Virginia Woolf through her adult years. He discusses the three occasions when Virginia went mad, which terrified Virginia, and through the experiences offered extraordinary insight into her craft, Woolf lived in constant fear of her dreadful affliction. Compassionate and disturbing, this study is the first to look at Virginia Woolf's life from the perspective of her illness. Black & white phot...
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Invisible a Memoir

By: De Montalembert, Hugues

Price: $9.20

Publisher: New York, Attria: 2010

Seller ID: 004249

ISBN: 1416593667

Condition: New in New dust jacket

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, and the remarkable way he learned to "see" without the use of his eyes. His status changed in the eyes of other peo...
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We Won't Budge: an African Exile in the World

By: Diawara, Manthia

Price: $8.74

Publisher: Basic Civitas Books: 2003

Seller ID: 003475

ISBN: 0465017096

Condition: Very Good in Fine dust jacket

In this searing and bittersweet memoir, Diawara revisits his early years as an African emigrant in love with Swedish girls and American rock and roll. Taking us from the nightclubs of his hometown Bamako to the cafes of Boulevard Montparnasse, to the black neighborhoods of 1970s Washington D. C. , Diawara brings to life the generations of Africans who were drawn to the promise of Western equality and prosperity in the heady days of the international student movement. Now able to look at the assimilation process from a more nuanced perspective, he confronts the prejudices of those who assume he...
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Liars & Legends

By: Emily Ellison & Chuck Perry; Geeorge Lindsey (Foreword by)

Price: $10.12

Publisher: Nashville, TN, Rutledge Hill Press: 2005

Seller ID: 004297

ISBN: 1401602037

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

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 superstitious or not, these stories will stir your imagination, provide plenty of intrigue, and always entertain. ; Octavo (standard...
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From My Grandmother's Bedside

By: Field, Norma

Price: $8.28

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University Of California Press: 1997

Seller ID: 000075

ISBN: 0520208447

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

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, and the dehumanizing effect of Japan's postwar economic boom. A strong, intimate look at happenings mostly not familiar to Amer...
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Many Masks A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Gill, Brendan

Price: $13.80

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1987

Seller ID: 004553

ISBN: 0399132325

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Frank Lloyd Wright is often described as the greatest of American architects - an opinion he agreed with, objecting ony to the word "American." He was proud to be an American, but felt he should be judged by universal standards. His works - including Teliesin North, Talesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings and the Guggenheim Museum - have earned him a just fame; a secondary fame came to him through his flamboyant personal life in which his wives, mistresses, and his many children were continuously implicated. The author, having been a friend of Wright and of his formidable...
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Inked

By: Hart, Carey and Palmer, Chris

Price: $11.04

Publisher: New York, Artisan: 2008

Seller ID: 004286

ISBN: 1579653413

Condition: New

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 - in their everyday dress are juxtaposed with images that reveal their elaborate skin art. There are also hip and sultry photo...
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Today I Am a Boy: the Bar Mitzvah Journey of a Grown Man

By: Hays, David

Price: $6.44

Publisher: New York, Touchstone Books: 2001

Seller ID: 001639

ISBN: 0743201272

Condition: New with no dust jacket

Morley Safer said of this book "David Hays proves once again his talents as a writer and chronicler of the human condition. " When David Hays was sixty-six and joined a synagogue for the first time in over fifty years, he decided to study Hebrew and become a bar mitzvah. And so this father of two grown children borrowed his grandson's Hebrew primer and joined a class of twelve-year-olds. Thus was launched a wondrous journey of faith and community. In Today I Am a Boy, Hays' new world begins to intersect with his own history as he grapples with his mother's death and watches his grandch...
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A House of Many Rooms

By: Hunter, Rodello

Price: $13.80

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1966

Seller ID: 003410

Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket

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 rebelliousness are virtues. They are a family full of grace. Papa didn't practice polygamy, but Grandfather did. He had two loved an...
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P. G. Wodehouse: a Portrait of a Master

By: Jasen, David A.

Price: $9.23

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Schirmertrade Books: 2002

Seller ID: 001398

ISBN: 0825672759

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

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 in Long Island, New York. 298 pages, included is a Bibliography of Published Volumes, Bibliography of Published Short Stories...
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Riding the White Horse Home : a Western Family Album

By: Jordan, Teresa

Price: $11.04

Publisher: New York, Ny, U. S. A., Knopf Publishing Group: 1993

Seller ID: 000942

ISBN: 0679412190

Binding: Hardcover, Cloth

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

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 is the story of the American West. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Has a tiny red remainder mark on the bottom.
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