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The Long Goodbye

By: Davis, Patti

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf: November 2004

Seller ID: 94993

ISBN: 0679450920

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ronald Reagan's daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.
In "The Long Goodbye," Patti Davis describes losing her father to Alzheimer's disease, saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious-a person's memory. "Alzheimer's," she writes, "snips away at the threads, a slow unraveling, a steady re...
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The Price of My Soul

By: Devlin, Bernadette

Price: $200.01

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: January 1969

Seller ID: 104578

ISBN: 0233961968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

Stated First Edition, 1969. Some tanning to back cover, pages are in good shape no writing, highlighting or underlining. The corners of book have some shelf wear.
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Flyover Lives: A Memoir

By: Diane Johnson

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Plume: November 2014

Seller ID: 61136

ISBN: 0142181242

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.
The New York Times Book Review
Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans indifference to history. Could it be true? The j accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her family s past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs...
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Letters from Africa, 1914-1931

By: Dinesen, Isak

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: April 1984

Seller ID: 92390

ISBN: 0226153118

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir "Out of Africa" (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world." Bruce Allen, "Christian Science Monitor"
""Letters from Africa" is literary gold, 24 karat." Alden Whitman, "Boston Globe""
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life

By: Donald Spoto

Price: $2.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks: October 2000

Seller ID: 29929

ISBN: 0312977077

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

She was America's sweetheart; the embodiment of grace, elegance, style, charm, and-as the world discovered in late 1963-bravery. And though much has been written about the most famous woman of the 20th century, no biography has revealed the true Jackie; none has successfully separated the truth from the lies, or portrayed the Queen of Camelot in all her complexity-until now. With access to Jackie's own writings, the archives of the John F. Kennedy Library, and those who knew her best, bestselling celebrity biographer Donald Spoto illuminates Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and the sixty-fiv...
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James Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia

By: Edgar E. MacDonald

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt): April 1993

Seller ID: 39999

ISBN: 087805622X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer

By: Edward Jay Epstein

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: October 1996

Seller ID: 38049

ISBN: 0679448020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Examines the late entrepreneur's dealings with the Soviet Union and his role in the BCCI scandal.
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Just Jackie: Her Private Years

By: Edward Klein

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: October 1998

Seller ID: 40751

ISBN: 0345421027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Very Good

The author draws on exclusive sources to illuminate the late First Lady's second marriage and her life in New York.
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Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell

By: Edwards, Anne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields: April 1983

Seller ID: 94137

ISBN: 089919169X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

plastic cover over dust jacket
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Chopin's Funeral

By: Eisler, Benita

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf: March 2003

Seller ID: 89413

ISBN: 0375409459

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (The Black Sox & the 1919 World Series)

By: Eliot Asinof

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company: April 1988

Seller ID: 28436

ISBN: 0805003460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Recounts the fixing of the 1919 World Series, covering events from the first meetings between White Sox players and gamblers to the 1921 trial and its aftermath.
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Island Sojourn: A Memoir (Graywolf Memoir Series)

By: Elizabeth Arthur

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Graywolf Pr: June 1991

Seller ID: 45867

ISBN: 1555971490

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Diary of 'Helena Morley'

By: Elizabeth Bishop

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: May 1995

Seller ID: 28194

ISBN: 0374524351

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1952, soon after her arrival in Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop asked her new Brazilian friends which of their country's books she should read. They recommended Minha Vida de Menina - a diary kept by a young girl who lived in a mining town at the end of the nineteenth century. As a labor of love, Elizabeth Bishop devoted three years to translating the diary, a delightful account of a young girl's life in Brazil.

The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen

By: Enright (Complier), Dominique

Price: $4.50

Publisher: B & N: January 2002

Seller ID: 99899

ISBN: 0760770166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Jules Verne and His Work

By: Evans, Idrisyn Oliver

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Amereon Ltd: July 1982

Seller ID: 42614

ISBN: 0884119068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Eyeing the Flash: The Education of a Carnival Con Artist

By: Fenton, Peter

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: December 2004

Seller ID: 103682

ISBN: 0743258541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The year is 1963, the setting is small-town Michigan. At age fifteen, Peter Fenton is a gawky math whiz schoolboy with a dissatisfied mother, a father who drinks himself to foolishness, and no chance whatsoever with girls. That's when he meets Jackie Barron.

Jackie is the unlikely progeny of Double-O and Vera, professional grifters running a third-rate traveling carnival, and he's been part of the family business since he started earning his keep as the World's Youngest Elephant Trainer. Jackie is a smooth-talking teenage carnie with his own Thunderbird, and with wisdom beyond his years.

J...
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Finding Fish: A Memoir

By: Fisher, Antwone Q.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: December 2001

Seller ID: 96189

ISBN: 0060007788

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself.

Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born -- first as the child who painted the feelings his words dared not speak, then as a poet and storyteller who would eventually become one of Hollywood's...
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Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good: Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine

By: Ford, John

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Islandport Press: April 2012

Seller ID: 86265

ISBN: 1934031941

Condition: Used - Good

Spine in excellent shape. Appears never to have been read.
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All Flags Flying; Reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes

By: Frances Parkinson Keyes

Price: $7.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: January 1972

Seller ID: 38398

ISBN: 0070344566

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ghost Light: A Memoir

By: Frank Rich

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: October 2000

Seller ID: 52757

ISBN: 0679452990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The New York Times drama critic describes growing up in Washington, D.C., during the 1950s and 1960s and explains how he found refuge from the turmoil of childhood and his own parents' divorce in the great Broadway musicals.
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