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Grove Press, August 2019. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961, Sarah.....
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Flatiron Books, March 2025. Hardcover. #1 New York Times Bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE! "Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only.....
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Ecco Press, January 2022. Hardcover. Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK) From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity--and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny.....
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Scribner, January 2013. Hardcover. From the bestselling "immensely gifted" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) author of Her Last Death comes a stunningly candid, compulsively readable, intensely provocative book about female friendships. The New York Times called Susanna Sonnenberg "immensely gifted," and Vogue, "scrupulously unsentimental." Entertainment Weekly described Sonnenberg's Her.....
1927. Hardcover. First Edition. No jacket cover. Broken spine. First Edition. No jacket cover. Broken spine.
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Virgin Books, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A major new biography on an increasingly important American literary icon. Having spoken with people close to Bukowski, and with a full examination of Bukowski's extensive writings, Barry Miles has written the definitive story of the man dubbed the 'laureate of American low-life'.
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Simon & Schuster, April 1993. Hardcover. This book, in the grand tradition of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, looks at the extraordinary world of ideas known as Bohemia. It takes the reader to a party on the Rive Gauche of 1950s Paris to meet William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, to sit.....
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Knopf, October 2006. Hardcover. Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940.....
Hill and Wang, 1964. Paperback. Very worn, with creases and tears to wraps. A multiple-inch tear from the bottom of the back wrap has been repaired with document-repair tape. Tape is also visible across the bottom of the spine, where the front hinge had torn. Very worn, with creases and.....
William Morrow & Co, May 1987. Hardcover.
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Atria Books, August 2005. Trade Paperback. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 127 HOURS One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told--Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired.....
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Gallery Books, October 2024. Hardcover. An expansive, illuminating, and "welcome addition to understand" (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood--from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows.....
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Viking Adult, September 2006. Hardcover. From rock bottom to recovery?the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house.....
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, June 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Clean and tight, very slightly cocked. Dust jacket is rubbed with a few small tears. Stated First Edition. Clean and tight, very slightly cocked. Dust jacket is rubbed with a few small tears.
Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Boards are scuffed/faded. Clean, tight and square. Stated First Edition. Boards are scuffed/faded. Clean, tight and square.
Simon & Schuster (Trade Division), August 1999. Trade Paperback. Water stain on outer page-edges. Water stain on outer page-edges.
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Grove Press, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Water-damaged but readable. Water-damaged but readable. A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary.....
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Authorhouse, September 2014. Trade Paperback. When your beautiful son comes to you and says he has had feelings of suicide, your heart skips a beat. You do whatever it takes to get him help. When your beautiful son comes to you and says he wants to become a woman, your.....
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Penguin Books, April 2020. Trade Paperback. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2020 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK -- BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY NOW OPTIONED FOR DEVELOPMENT AS A TV SERIES BY PARAMOUNT TELEVISION STUDIOS AND ANONYMOUS CONTENT "The millennial Becoming . . . Inspiring and empowering." --Entertainment Weekly.....
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Dial Press, March 2025. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An astonishing memoir that explores how far we will go to protect ourselves, and the healing made possible when we face our secrets and begin to share.....
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Grand Central Publishing, April 2014. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist.....
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St. Martin's Griffin, November 2023. Trade Paperback. In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of.....
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Vintage, November 1993. Trade Paperback. In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An.....
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Penguin Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. Front cover has been cut along long edge. Stamped not for resale. Front cover has been cut along long edge. Stamped not for resale. "Going Solo," the second part of Roald Dahl's compelling and colourful autobiography, creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as.....
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Knopf, February 2022. Hardcover. A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land--this is a "winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of.....
