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Across the Savage Sea
The First Woman to Row across the North Atlantic
Maud Fontenoy
2005 Edition
Over 1,000 men have climbed Mount Everest, 12 have walked on the moon, and only six have rowed the North Atlantic from west to east. No woman had yet accomplished this feat—until now.
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Madame Figaro
Fontenoy’s daily, arduous adventures make her story a gripping tale.
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Alistair Cooke
A Biography
Nick Clarke
2000 Edition
A major biography of revered journalist Alistair Cooke that offers a revealing look at the man behind the celebrity known here to millions as the host of Masterpiece Theatre,and to the world as the author of the weekly Letter from America.
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Robert Moore - Library Journal
Alistair Cooke is one of the most recognizable broadcast personalities in America, a man whose career in journalism spanned the 20th century. The depth and breadth of his associates, from Charlie Chaplin to Leonard Bernstein--not to mention presidents and leaders of industry--made him better informed on America than most Americans. Although Letters from America,his observations on American life for the BBC, was his life's work, he is best known as the host of Masterpiece Theatre. BBC... cont'd
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American Character
The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest
Mark Thompson
2001 Edition
The extraordinary story of an American Renaissance Man--fire-breathing reporter, pioneering photographer, crusading editor, poet, anthropologist, librarian, archaeologist, and Indian rights advocate--who spent a lifetime battling injustice in the West.
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Publishers Weekly
Thompson . . . paints an honest, vivid portrait of a man whose life was nothing short of cinematic. . . [American Character] is a compulsively engaging and spirited biography detailing the rise and fall of a man as colorful as he was influential.
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Ann the Word
The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers
Richard Francis
2001 Edition
The first serious popular biography of the woman who made God female—Ann Lee, the fearless, feisty, charismatic founding leader of the Shakers.
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Kirkus ReviewsStarred Review
An elegantly written life of the enigmatic and powerfully charismatic Shaker prophet. . . . Francis provides a full (the first full biography ever written, in fact), faithful and immensely enjoyable account of the vicissitudes of Mother Ann and her disciples. . . A splendid account, highly recommended to all readers interested in early American history, women’s studies, or the history of religion.
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Beckett Remembering / Remembering Beckett
A Centenary Celebration
Samuel Beckett
2006 Edition
This revealing collection offers fresh insights into one of the 20th century’s greatest, most enigmatic writers.
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Paul Auster
Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.
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Bin Laden
Behind the Mask of the Terrorist
Adam Robinson
2002 Edition
This authoritative new biography of Osama bin Laden lifts his mask of righteousness as it recounts his transformation from dissolute rich kid into terrorist mastermind.
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Books@Bat
This is the best book on “the Evil One” to date, and there are quite a few on the shelves right now. Robinson does a superb job of illuminating the contradictions inherent in his subject--a man who believes (believed?) he is fighting a moral battle in the name of religion, while cashing in on the destructive forces of the opium trade. A fascinating and chilling biography.
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Bookless in Baghdad
Reflections on Writing and Writers
Shashi Tharoor
2005 Edition
Supremely personal, yet always probing and analytical, this brilliant collection of essays is part memoir, part literary criticism.
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Hindustan Times
Tharoor celebrates the other side of Baghdad, not the bombed out Iraqi capital of newspapers, but the city of storytellers and passionate readers not many know about. . . . Refreshing. . . . The book marks the maturation of Tharoor as a gifted essayist.
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The Candy Men
The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
Nile Southern
2004 Edition
An account of the creation, painful evolution, and publication of Candy,one of the most notorious—and successful—novels of the twentieth century.
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New York Times Book Review
A highly successful example of an underexploited genre, the biography of a book. The adventures of Candy have been related before, but never as fully and sympathetic as here. ... Southern is uniquely placed to do justice to the story. ... Thoroughly enjoyable.
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Chaplin
A Life
Stephen M. Weissman, M.D.
2008 Edition
An authoritative new biography of the life and times of the greatest comedian of all time.
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Geraldine Chaplin
Always provocative and at times heart-wrenching . . . An enlightening read, an important addition to an understanding of my father's genius and art.
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Chewing Gum in Holy Water
A Childhood in Italy's Abruzzo Mountains
Mario Valentini, Cheryl Hardacre
2007 Edition
In the tradition of Cinema Paradiso, comes a warm, tender, and richly nostalgic look at growing up in a remote village in a postwar Italy on the brink of modernity.
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Kirkus Reviews
Picaresque antics in mid-1950s Italy, related with gentle irony . . . Lively, sweetly humorous coming-of-age stories affectionately evoke a lost time and place––wonderfully suitable for YA readers as well.
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