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From acclaimed foreign correspondent John Simpson, a riveting account of more than twenty years spent covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq. A major work of serious reportage, The Wars Against Saddam explo……続きを見る

Author: John Burdett, Mike Lawson, John Lantigua, Gary Phillips, Ernesto Mallo, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Matt Rees, Christopher G. Moore, Colin Cotterill, Barbara Nadel, Quentin Bates, George Fetherlin……続きを見る

Collection of biographical essays, including CHARLOTTE BRONTE, WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS SCHOOL, THE OPTIMISM OF BYRON, POPE AND THE ART OF SATIRE, FRANCIS, ROSTAND, CHARLES II, STEVENSON, THOMAS CARLY……続きを見る

“Because I myself write books about the Mississippi River, because I used to be a pilot on the Mississippi River . . . the critics for twenty-three years have been calling me ‘a modern Mark Twain.’ ……続きを見る

“[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just abo……続きを見る

The Story Behind THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE If you've read his books THE WAR OF ART and TURNING PRO, you know that for thirty years Steven Pressfield (GATES OF FIRE, THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN etc.) wrote ……続きを見る

Margaret Forster is one of the UK's most prolific and respected authors. Born in Cumbria to working class parents in 1938, she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty two. Since then she has publ……続きを見る

Paul de Man's work is key to the American deconstruction movement and to the so-called political turn in critical theory. Seventeen years after his death, his works continue to arouse violent reacti……続きを見る

East of Home by Santha Rama Rau (108,000 words) In 1947, Santha Rama Rau went to Japan with her father, India’s ambassador to Tokyo. A year later, she went to China with friends, hitchhiked to remot……続きを見る

How can a lone female of “a certain age” take her last stand on a stony wedge of land in the mountains of Northern New Mexico? Will she find a job, learn to chop wood, be eaten by a bear or give it ……続きを見る

Trevor Herriot’s memoir and history of the Qu’Appelle River Valley has won the CBA Libris Award for First-Time Author, the Writers’ Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Saskatchewan Book of the……続きを見る

“Sex in your seventies," is an internet search, which sets in motion this human interest story about relationships in the golden years. Given the idea that without a partner she is at a disadvantage……続きを見る

Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and c……続きを見る

The compelling, intimate, and often controversial, story of Katherine Mansfield -- one of the world's greatest short story writers – the only writer Virginia Woolf confessed to being afraid of. Kath……続きを見る

A The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives an……続きを見る

The five interviews in this book were conducted by students in “The Art of Poetry,” a course that Harry Thomas taught for several years. The students’ depth of knowledge and keenness of insight into……続きを見る

Where ordinary lives kindle extraordinary reckonings. In 1986, after years of publishing stories in literary magazines and periodicals, Mary Ward Brown published her first book, the story collection……続きを見る

The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author'……続きを見る

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on t……続きを見る

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both V……続きを見る

“You’ll call this sentimental–perhaps–but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. And it is this private, playful side, the rich……続きを見る

Lietuvių literatūros klasika. Šatrijos Raganos (Marijos Pečkauskaitės) apysaka „Sename dvare“ (išsp. 1922 m.) yra autobiografinio pobūdžio pasakojimas apie XIX a. antrosios pusės Lietuvos dvarą (apr……続きを見る

Christened with Crosses is the unforgettable story of a young boy’s dangerous, adventure-filled westbound journey along the railways of postwar Russia. Based on a true story of Kochergin’s amazing l……続きを見る

In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled Erinerungen fun mayn leben. In thi……続きを見る

From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished foreve……続きを見る

The late Teens and early Twenties take a toll on a women's soul. Societal pressure pushes a girl to become a woman - fast. The acceptable and expected means follow finding a man who fulfills her chi……続きを見る

“A warm, loving portrait of a city and the surrounding areaーsmoothly and sincerely written.” ー Ohioana QuarterlyIn this memoir, novelist Les Roberts tells how he discovered the heart and soul of a……続きを見る

The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life……続きを見る

Ben and Jeff Gill are doing menial labor at their father's construction site on east end Molokai when Ben reports to the father that the heavy equipment operators are goofing off. One of the opera……続きを見る

David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics. In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream med……続きを見る