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An Exclusive Love
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-307-39954-0 (0-307-39954-0)
February 14, 2012 | $19.95
Two people who have grown old together decide to take their own lives. He is terminally ill; she doesn't want to be without him. One Sunday in autumn 1991, they carry out their plan. Vera and István go to their deaths holding hands. It is the logical end of a love...
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-307-39954-0 (0-307-39954-0)
February 14, 2012 | $19.95
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Two people who have grown old together decide to take their own lives. He is terminally ill; she doesn't want to be without him. One Sunday in autumn 1991, they carry out their plan. Vera and István go to their deaths holding hands. It is the logical end of a love...
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House of Prayer No. 2
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-1-4000-7777-9 (1-4000-7777-X)
February 14, 2012 | $18.00
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-1-4000-7777-9 (1-4000-7777-X)
February 14, 2012 | $18.00
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Crippled by deformed hips as a child, Mark Richard was told he would spend his adult life in a wheelchair. The son of an unpredictable, violent father and a mother who sought inner peace through scripture, Richard spent his bedridden childhood in the company of books. As a young man, he...
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Poetry - American - Asian American
978-0-307-45459-1 (0-307-45459-2)
February 14, 2012 | $18.00
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Poetry - American - Asian American
978-0-307-45459-1 (0-307-45459-2)
February 14, 2012 | $18.00
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In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral...
Once Upon a Secret
Hardcover | 208 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - United States - 20th Century; Family & Relationships - Marriage
978-1-4000-6910-1 (1-4000-6910-6)
February 8, 2012 | $29.95
Hardcover | 208 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History - United States - 20th Century; Family & Relationships - Marriage
978-1-4000-6910-1 (1-4000-6910-6)
February 8, 2012 | $29.95
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In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country—and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job...
Ever By My Side
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Medical - Veterinary Medicine; Pets - Essays
978-0-7679-3201-1 (0-7679-3201-3)
February 7, 2012 | $18.00
“The lessons that these animals taught me have been subtle, startling, and inspirational, playing a small but vital part in helping to shape the person you see with the stethoscope around his neck.” —Dr. Nick Trout
New York Times bestselling author Nick Trout has captivated readers by taking them behind the scenes...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Medical - Veterinary Medicine; Pets - Essays
978-0-7679-3201-1 (0-7679-3201-3)
February 7, 2012 | $18.00
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“The lessons that these animals taught me have been subtle, startling, and inspirational, playing a small but vital part in helping to shape the person you see with the stethoscope around his neck.” —Dr. Nick Trout
New York Times bestselling author Nick Trout has captivated readers by taking them behind the scenes...
Life As I Blow It
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Villard | Humor; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-345-52837-7 (0-345-52837-9)
February 7, 2012 | $18.00
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Villard | Humor; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-345-52837-7 (0-345-52837-9)
February 7, 2012 | $18.00
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In this wickedly funny and irreverent memoir, Chelsea Lately writer and comedian Sarah Colonna opens up about love, life, and pursuing her dreams . . . and then screwing it all up.
Sarah believes we all struggle to grow up. Sometimes we want to have fun, not take things...
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On Gold Mountain
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - United States - 19th Century; History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-307-95039-0 (0-307-95039-5)
February 7, 2012 | $18.95
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - United States - 19th Century; History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-307-95039-0 (0-307-95039-5)
February 7, 2012 | $18.95
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In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Lisa herself grew up playing in her...
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Wish You Were Here
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Image | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-71638-5 (0-307-71638-4)
February 7, 2012 | $17.00
Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn’s trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband’s sudden death from a heart attack. Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors of...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Image | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-71638-5 (0-307-71638-4)
February 7, 2012 | $17.00
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Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn’s trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband’s sudden death from a heart attack. Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors of...
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Coltrane
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Jonathan Cape | Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-224-09410-8 (0-224-09410-6)
February 6, 2012 | $22.00
A graphic biography of one of the most celebrated, enduring and enigmatic figures in America's musical history: John Coltrane.
'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...'
John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest...
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Jonathan Cape | Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-224-09410-8 (0-224-09410-6)
February 6, 2012 | $22.00
A graphic biography of one of the most celebrated, enduring and enigmatic figures in America's musical history: John Coltrane.
'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...'
John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest...
I & I: The Natural Mystics
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Books | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-09-952672-8 (0-09-952672-7)
February 6, 2012 | $22.00
The history of the original Wailers -- Tosh, Livingstone and Marley -- as never before told.
Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers --...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Books | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-09-952672-8 (0-09-952672-7)
February 6, 2012 | $22.00
The history of the original Wailers -- Tosh, Livingstone and Marley -- as never before told.
Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers --...
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hardcover.
Leonardo DaVinci: The Renaissance Man
Trade Paperback | 72 pages | Campfire | Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer
978-93-80741-20-8 (93-80741-20-0)
January 31, 2012 | $10.99
Painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, Leonardo da Vinci was a genius who was well ahead of his time and the best example of the Renaissance man. This is the story of one of the greatest painters of all time, and perhaps the...
Trade Paperback | 72 pages | Campfire | Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer
978-93-80741-20-8 (93-80741-20-0)
January 31, 2012 | $10.99
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Painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, Leonardo da Vinci was a genius who was well ahead of his time and the best example of the Renaissance man. This is the story of one of the greatest painters of all time, and perhaps the...
Muhammad Ali: The King of the Ring
Trade Paperback | 92 pages | Campfire | Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-93-80741-23-9 (93-80741-23-5)
January 31, 2012 | $14.99
Trade Paperback | 92 pages | Campfire | Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-93-80741-23-9 (93-80741-23-5)
January 31, 2012 | $14.99
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Sister Queens
Hardcover | 480 pages | Ballantine Books | History - Europe; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Renaissance
978-0-345-51604-6 (0-345-51604-4)
January 31, 2012 | $35.00
The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and mother of the...
Hardcover | 480 pages | Ballantine Books | History - Europe; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Renaissance
978-0-345-51604-6 (0-345-51604-4)
January 31, 2012 | $35.00
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The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and mother of the...
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unabridged audiobook download and an
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Solar Dance
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Art - History - Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945); Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-307-39859-8 (0-307-39859-5)
January 31, 2012 | $35.00
In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.
The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work...
Hardcover | 368 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Art - History - Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945); Social Science - Popular Culture
978-0-307-39859-8 (0-307-39859-5)
January 31, 2012 | $35.00
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In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.
The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic
Hardcover | 476 pages | North Atlantic Books | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Body, Mind & Spirit - Spirituality - Shamanism; Biography & Autobiography - Native Americans
978-1-58394-360-1 (1-58394-360-9)
January 31, 2012 | $28.95
Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an...
Hardcover | 476 pages | North Atlantic Books | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Body, Mind & Spirit - Spirituality - Shamanism; Biography & Autobiography - Native Americans
978-1-58394-360-1 (1-58394-360-9)
January 31, 2012 | $28.95
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Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an...
Also available as an
eBook.
