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Paul Bern: The Life and Famous Death of the Mgm Director and Husband of Harlow

Paul Bern: The Life and Famous Death of the Mgm Director and Husband of Harlow


E. J. Fleming



About the Author E.J. Fleming is the author of numerous books about the performing arts and Hollywood pop culture, includ...
Living Life with Diabetes

Living Life with Diabetes


John Keeler



Review “…honest and heart-warming…” (Diabetes Federation of Ireland Magazine, March 2004) &#x...
The Romanian: Story of an Obsession

The Romanian: Story of an Obsession


Bruce Benderson



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Benderson was wandering Budapest researching sex clubs for Nerve. com when he fel...
Memoirs: A twentieth-century journey in science and politics

Memoirs: A twentieth-century journey in science and politics


Teller E.



Amazon.com Review One of the great scientists of the 20th century recounts a brilliant life spanning 10 decades in his si...
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy

Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy


Airy G.B., Airy W.



Book Description George Biddell Airy served as Astronomer Royal from 1835 until 1881. He carried out important scientific...
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter

Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter


Phoebe Damrosch



From Publishers Weekly A charming debut by a former waiter at the New York City restaurant Per Se slips in some high-end ...
Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante

Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante


Lucy Ferriss



About the Author   Lucy Ferriss is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and the author of ...
Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness (BK Currents (Hardcover))

Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness (BK Currents (Hardcover))


Bernard Lown



About the Author Dr. Bernard Lown is Professor of Cardiology (Emeritus) at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the...
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa


Michael Finkel



Amazon.com Review In True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, disgraced New York Times writer Michael Finkel recounts the s...
Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells

Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells


Michael Anesko



Review "Since the volume includes 75 previously unpublished letters, it is one of the most substantial and important coll...
Waking Nanabijou: Uncovering a Secret Past

Waking Nanabijou: Uncovering a Secret Past


Jim Poling Sr.



Review "...a wrenchingly honest memoir..." - Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay) Oct. 21, 2007 From the Inside Flap ...
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey


Jill Bolte Taylor



Amazon.com Review A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploratio...
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work


Edwidge Danticat



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In order to shield our shattered collective psyche from a long history of setback...
The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422)

The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422)


James G. Clark



Review Essential. Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award --Choice A rollicking, passionate, fluent work that...
John Bell: The Time of My Life

John Bell: The Time of My Life


John Bell



About the Author John Bell has done work for the Old Tote Theatre Company, spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Co...
Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home

Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home


Laura Ling, Lisa Ling



From *Starred Review* In 2009, Laura Ling, a reporter with Current TV, traveled with a film crew to the region of China ...
The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood

The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood


Ursula Mahlendorf



From Publishers Weekly A former German and women's studies professor at UC–Santa Barbara, Mahlendorf grew up in a ...
Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street

Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street


Paul S. Powers



From Publishers Weekly Powers (1905-71) was the consummate pulp writer: from 1928 to '43, he wrote hundreds of stories un...
Orpheus Emerged

Orpheus Emerged


Jack Kerouac



From Library Journal The celebrated Mister K wrote this slim and unimpressive volume in 1945 at the tender age of 23 happ...
Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence

Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence


Anne D. Leclaire



From Publishers Weekly Against the cacophony that pervades our lives, novelist LeClaire (The Lavender Hour) offers a pers...
Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir (Deaf Lives Series, Vol. 4)

Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir (Deaf Lives Series, Vol. 4)


Madan Vasishta



From School Library Journal Adult/High School–A bout with mumps and typhoid left 11-year-old Vasishta deaf. In an ...
Break Point! The Secret Diary of a Pro Tennis Player

Break Point! The Secret Diary of a Pro Tennis Player


Dan Markowitz, Vince Spadea



Review "[I] could hardly put it down."  —Sports Illustrated Online (SI.com) About the Author Vince Spad...
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940

Fleeing Hitler: France 1940


Hanna Diamond



From Publishers Weekly In France, it is called l'exode, or "exodus": the flight from their homes of up to seven million r...
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse


Paul Carter



From Paul Carter has led an amazing and intriguing life working on oil rigs throughout the world. His experiences reinfo...
The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance

The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance


Adam Zachary Newton



Review "If for Kafka writing was a form of prayer, literary criticism is similarly for Adam Zachary Newton a quest for th...
Ever Is A Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir

Ever Is A Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir


W. Ralph Eubanks



From Publishers Weekly Eubanks, the Library of Congress's publishing director, opens this capable memoir with an innocent...
Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given

Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given


Duane Dog Chapman



From the Author Duane "Dog" Chapman is the famed bounty hunter featured on A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter. He is considered ...
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man


Jerry Weintraub



From Publishers Weekly Hollywood power player Weintraub, now 72, is always in control and goes to great lengths to prove ...
Dastgah: Diary of a headtrip

Dastgah: Diary of a headtrip


Mark Mordue



Review I JUST TOOK A TRIP around the world in one go, first zigzagging my way through this incredible book, and finally, ...
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's


John Elder Robison



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Robison's thoughtful and thoroughly memorable account of living with Asperger's s...