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In this young adult autobiography, Tony Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero. Hawk speaks of being a su...

Praise for Augusten Burroughs "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining." - The New York Times Book Review on D...

This Book Publishes, For The First Time In Full, The Two Most Revealing Of Mark Twain's Private Writings. Here He Turns His Mind To The Daily Life He Shared...

Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and...

El libro comienza con su viaje a Estados Unidos en 1949. Apenas tiene diecinueve años y su única compañía es un sacerdote al que acaba de conocer en el ...

The author of The Shell Seekers, September, and Coming Home recounts her life growing up in Cornwall with its cottages and gardens, and her eventual settlem...

A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poet Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man's life in 2016. Alon...

Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Belove...

africa Was An Obsession For Hemingway Throughout His Life. Long Before He Wrote The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber, Green Hills Of Africa, Or His Pos...

in This Master Class On The Craft Of Writing, Stephen King Reveals The Origins Of His Vocation And Shares Essential Habits And Rules That Every Writer Can ...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

Here, Celebrated Drama Critic John Lahr Gives Intimate Access To The Mind Of One Of The Most Brilliant Dramatists Of His Century, Whose Plays Reshaped The A...

Nigel Nicolson. Pts. 1 And 3 By V. Sackville-west. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 219) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & L...

From the opening paragraphs of Double Double: “We were sitting in a coffee shop talking, looking at the view of downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. This...

in April 1992 A Young Man From A Well-to-do Family Hitchhiked To Alaska And Walked Alone Into The Wilderness North Of Mt. Mckinley. His Name Was Christophe...

Kevin Mccabe, Editor. Includes Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalCanadian

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In This Intimate, Candid, And Sometimes Surprising Community Biography Of The Celebrated Author And Christian Apologist, Twenty-four Men And Women Who Knew ...

From one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful no...

With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "th...

A Memoir Of Novelist Martin Amis And His Life, Son Of Novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Explores His Relationship With His Father. Reflects On The Disappearanc...

371 pages of excellent text, filled with great photos. a touching biography of James Herriot, a British veterinary surgeon and author. Herriot was his pen n...

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian A...

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Roman...

After Writing A Monologue On The Subject Of Israel And Palestine, David Hare Forced Himself To Make His Debut On The Professional Stage At The Age Of Fifty-...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and the Financial TimesA completely fresh view of one of the most gifted―and fascinating...

Celebrated in His Prime, Forgotten in His Final Years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed rea...

A Mesmerizing And Essential Biography Of The Modernist Poet Marianne Moore The Marianne Moore That Survives In The Popular Imagination Is Dignified, White-h...

"Will reveal Donne to a new generation...[and] propel John Stubbs into the first rank of biographers."—Peter Ackroyd The New York Times - Thomas Mallon Don...