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I, Michelangelo, Sculptor, An Autobiography Through Letters

By: N/A

Price: $16.00

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

True Confessions

By: N/A

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Dutton: July 1992

Seller ID: 70868

ISBN: 0525934669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dolly

By: Alanna Nash

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Reed Books: January 1978

Seller ID: 80783

ISBN: 0891695230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

La Mortola: In the Footsteps of Thomas Hanbury

By: Alasdair Moore

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Cadogan Guides: May 2004

Seller ID: 27724

ISBN: 1860111408

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Overlooking the sea on the Franco Italian Riviera, La Mortola remains one of the most beautiful and foremost gardens in the world, visited by thousands of garden enthusiasts every year. Behind these gardens lies the fascinating story of Sir Thomas Hanbury, an English cloth merchant in China for nearly 20 years before returning to Europe to settle with his wife and fortune. A Quaker philanthropist and great lover of plants, whose honorable dealings with the Chinese during the Taipeng Rebellion made him notable, Thomas Hanbury donated not only Wisley to the Royal Horticultural Society, the preem...
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Betrayal of Liliuokalani : Last Queen of Hawaii 1838-1917

By: ALLEN, HELENA G.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: N/A: June 1991

Seller ID: 36268

ISBN: 0935180893

Condition: Used - Good

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

Out Here

By: Andrew Ward

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: March 1991

Seller ID: 31450

ISBN: 0670831581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp

By: Ann Kirschner

Price: $5.25

Publisher: Harper Perennial: March 2014

Seller ID: 51120

ISBN: 006186451X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp.For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of the Old West. Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. In this fascinating biography, Ann Kirschner, author of the acclaimed Sala's Gift, brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her tale: a spirited and colorful tale of ambition, adventure, self-invent...
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Chennault and the Flying Tigers

By: Anna Chennault

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paul S. Eriksson Inc: January 1966

Seller ID: 10924

ISBN: B0028QWRW8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Aged but in good shape . Slight shelve wear on corners,Spine in good shape. Small stain on back pages.
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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

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

By: Azar Nafisi

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: December 2003

Seller ID: 28187

ISBN: 081297106X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become ...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

By: Azar Nafisi

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: December 2003

Seller ID: 45699

ISBN: 081297106X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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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The Ordeal: My Ten Years in a Malaysian Prison

By: Beatrice Saubin

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: September 2012

Seller ID: 44712

ISBN: 1611457262

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Abandoned by her parents, brought up by her strict maternal grandmother in a small backwater town, young Beatrice Saubin always dreamed of visiting warm climates and exotic places. As a teenager she hitchhiked to India and later to Afghanistan and Thailand. In Malaysia, at age nineteen, she fell in love with Eddy Tan Kim Soo, a handsome, wealthy Chinese man. They planned to meet in Europe and marry. But at the airport on her way home, her spanking new Samsonite suitcase a gift from Eddy was ripped apart by custom officials. Beatrice was horrified to see that it contained several kilos of heroi...
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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

If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

By: Betty White

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Putnam Adult: May 2011

Seller ID: 26434

ISBN: 0399157530

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between. Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity. "If You Ask Me" mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and new fans alike will relish Betty's candid take on everything from her rumored crush on Robert Redfo...
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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 comic musings that are a Bry...
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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 buddy from Iowa along f...
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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

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