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I, Michelangelo, Sculptor, An Autobiography Through Letters

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Doubleday, 1962: January 1962

Seller ID: 7131

ISBN: B000GLYZUE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Aged but in good shape Name of previous owner on inside. Jacket in very worn condition
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Affectt Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp (English and French Edition)

By: N/A

Price: $20.01

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: October 2000

Seller ID: 40556

ISBN: 0500019584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Comes in original plastic wrap.
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True Confessions

By: N/A

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Dutton: July 1992

Seller ID: 70868

ISBN: 0525934669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the House of My Fear: A Memoir

By: Agee, Joel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Counterpoint: October 2004

Seller ID: 94701

ISBN: 1593760450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the spring of 1964, Joel Agee, not quite at home in his native New York (having spent much of his boyhood and youth behind the Iron Curtain), accidentally ingests a sizeable dose of LSD. All at once he is thrown from the precincts of bohemian normalcy into a whirl of bizarre synchronicities, symbols and omens. Nothing is ever the same again. His brilliant, mentally ill younger brother is descending into a psychic netherworld without chemical inducement, and the culture at large, not to be outdone for surreal extremeness, is undergoing a mutation of its own: apocalypse and utopia appear to b...
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Dolly

By: Alanna Nash

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Reed Books: January 1978

Seller ID: 80783

ISBN: 0891695230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

By: Alford, Mimi

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: February 2012

Seller ID: 98330

ISBN: 1400069106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

My Affair with President John F Kennedy and Its Aftermath.
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Jim Bridger

By: Alter, J. Cecil

Price: $8.00

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: January 1962

Seller ID: 11789

ISBN: B000OMLHIS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Aged but in good shape Name of previous owner on inside.
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Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder

By: Amy Butcher

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Blue Rider Press: April 2016

Seller ID: 34873

ISBN: 0399183396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A gripping and poignant memoir."-Kirkus

In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways with Amy, he fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Emily Silverstein. While he was awaiting trial, psychiatrists concluded that he had suffered an acute psychotic break. Although severely a...
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Out Here

By: Andrew Ward

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: March 1991

Seller ID: 31450

ISBN: 0670831581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Katharine Hepburn: A Biography (Coronet Books)

By: Anne Edwards

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Coronet Books: March 1987

Seller ID: 44498

ISBN: 0340404132

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hallucinations, being an account of the life and adventures of Friar Servando Teresa de Mier;

By: Arenas, Reinaldo

Price: $55.01

Publisher: Cape: January 1971

Seller ID: 90025

ISBN: 0224005081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Cover shows some spotting and slight shelf wear; pages have tanned due to age and have some foxing along the outer margains.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Broadway Books: August 2004

Seller ID: 81677

ISBN: 1400082773

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, a...
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Barlett, Donald L., B., James Steele

Price: $6.01

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2004

Seller ID: 105979

ISBN: 0393326020

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes.
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Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story

By: Batura, Paul J.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Regnery Publishing: May 2009

Seller ID: 101652

ISBN: 1596981016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Hello Americans, I'm Paul Harvey."
He was the voice of an era. Millions grew up listening to Paul Harvey News and Comment and The Rest of the Story, and trusted the great man who spoke for the little guy.

Good Day by Paul J. Batura follows the remarkable life of one of the founding fathers of the news media. Paul Harvey started his career during the Great Depression and narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, consumer booms and eventual busts. In Good Day , you'll follow,
* How he became "Paul H...
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Violet: The Story of the Irrepressible Violet Hunt and Her Circle of Lovers and Friends--Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Somerset Maugham, and Henry Jam

By: Belford, Barbara

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1990

Seller ID: 86774

ISBN: 0671643517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lindbergh

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Berkley: September 1999

Seller ID: 103677

ISBN: 0425170411

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Cover has wear.
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

By: Bill Bryson

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Broadway Books: July 2000

Seller ID: 28273

ISBN: 076790382X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.

Delivering the brilliant comi...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)

By: Bill Bryson

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Broadway Books: June 1999

Seller ID: 44635

ISBN: 0767902521

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.

For a start there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a...
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The True Intrepid

By: Bill MacDonald

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Raincoast Books: May 2002

Seller ID: 49474

ISBN: 1551924188

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life

By: Bill Minutaglio, W. Michael Smith

Price: $4.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs: November 2010

Seller ID: 44713

ISBN: 1586489054

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

She was a wealthy debutante groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins reinvented herself as one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Based on intimate knowledge of Molly, interviews with her family, friends, and colleagues, and access to a treasure trove of her personal papers, Molly Ivins it is at once the saga of a powerful, pugnacious woman muscling her way to the top in a world dominated by men; a fascinating look behind the scenes of national media and politics; and a sobering account of the toll of addiction...
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