Category: Biography

What is more complicated than the relations between brother and sister? To discover a brother she hardly knew, Marie Brenner, bestselling author and renowned reporter, leaves behind her life in New York City to reconnect with her ailing sibling. Reconnect is not really the right word, however, because the two have never been compatible. Marie's brother Carl--yin to her yang, red state to her blue state--lives in Texas and the apple country of Washington State, spending his time cultivating his apple orchards, attending church, and paying NRA dues. Meanwhile, Marie has had a successful career a...
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Richard Jewell: And Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades

By: Brenner, Marie

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : December 2019

Seller ID: 148477

ISBN-13: 9781982148720

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now a major film from Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood--starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser This collection of captivating profiles from Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner spans her award-winning career and features larger-than-life figures such as Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, Malala Yousafzai, and Richard Jewell--the security guard whose dramatic heroism at the bombing of the 1996 Olympics made him the FBI's prime suspect. Previously published as A Private War, Marie Brenner's Richard Jewell tells a gripping true story of heroism an...
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Not Exactly What I Had in Mind: An Incurable Love Story

By: Breslin, Rosemary

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Villard : February 1997

Seller ID: 139618

ISBN-13: 9780679452171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

stated first edition
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Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World

By: Brightman, Carol

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harvest Books : May 1994

Seller ID: 133527

ISBN-13: 9780156000673

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cover has some shelf wear.
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Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World

By: Brightman, Carol

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harvest Books : May 1994

Seller ID: 179335

ISBN-13: 9780156000673

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This richly detailed biography of America's feisty, free-thinking "first lady of letters" was pronounced by New York Newsday "the best literary biography" in years, "compounded in equal parts of investigative reporting, cultural history, textual criticism, political savvy and delicious gossip." Winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award. Index; photographs.

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Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time

By: Brinkley, David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf : November 2003

Seller ID: 184194

ISBN-13: 9780375406447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Former library copy with identifying labels.
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David Brinkley

By: Brinkley, David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. : October 1995

Seller ID: 206288

ISBN-13: 9780679406938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

By: Brock, David

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Crown : March 2002

Seller ID: 189283

ISBN-13: 9780812930993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

First edition by number code.
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Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

By: Brodie, Fawn McKay

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : March 1974

Seller ID: 181079

ISBN-13: 9780393074802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dust jacket has mild shelf wear on edges.
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland

By: Brokaw, Tom

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Random House : November 2002

Seller ID: 138147

ISBN-13: 9780375507632

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

Stated first trade edition.
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland

By: Brokaw, Tom

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House : November 2002

Seller ID: 159688

ISBN-13: 9780375507632

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years From his parents' life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, th...
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Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait

By: Brooks, Van Wyck

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dutton : January 1956

Seller ID: 179940

ISBN: B0006AU9PK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

tear in dust jacket on spine and back.
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Tchaikovsky Remembered

By: Brown, David

Price: $4.25

Publisher: N/A : April 1994

Seller ID: 38424

ISBN-13: 9780931340666

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Former library copy with identifying stamps.
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Empty Hand Revolution: The Unfinished Life of Cosmo Zimik

By: Brown, David Mark

Price: $4.50

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform : February 2014

Seller ID: 117339

ISBN-13: 9781495990366

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The war defines the warrior. Born into a tribal war with India, trained as a black belt and street fighter from the age of nine, tortured and left for dead at the age of seventeen, Cosmo Zimik has an intimate, working knowledge of violence. During his long weeks of recovery, nursed to health by a total stranger deep in the jungle, the seed of the Empty Hand Revolution germinated in Cosmo's mind. Four years of underground fight clubs, multiple contracts on his life and another near death experience forced Cosmo's Empty Hand Revolution into full fruition. In a world hungry for power and drunk on...
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SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL

By: BROWN, HELEN GURLEY

Price: $6.00

Publisher: BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS : January 2004

Seller ID: 156266

ISBN-13: 9780760757987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Hand of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan

By: Brown, Mary Beth

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc : February 2004

Seller ID: 179930

ISBN-13: 9780785260530

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

According to recent opinion polls, Ronald Reagan is the most popular of modern presidents, and yet to most biographers the man is still an enigma. This is because, as Brown explains, no one has ever focused on this great man's faith. This book explores the life and personality of Ronald Reagan by focusing on his deep-felt Christian beliefs and showing how faith guided him along his distinguished career and led him to his unprecedented success. With the support of Ronald Reagan's own words and writings and first-hand interviews of Ronald Reagan's family, friends, and co-workers, Brown weaves a ...
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Marilyn: The Last Take

By: Brown, Peter Harry,Barham, Patte B.

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Signet : August 1993

Seller ID: 132085

ISBN-13: 9780451404206

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Biography