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The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner

By: Barbara Victor

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Faber & Faber: November 2002

Seller ID: 335394

ISBN: 0571211771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in paperback, the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's role in the struggle against Burma's military junta. Included is a new afterword by the author, which covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998 to Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in May 2002.
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Neverland

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Pegasus Books: October 2009

Seller ID: 341711

ISBN: 1605980633

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

In his revelatory Neverland, Piers Dudgeon tells the tragic story of J. M. Barrie and the Du Maurier family. Driven by a need to fill the vacuum left by sexual impotence, Barrie sought out George du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier s grandfather (author of the famed Trilby), who specialized in hypnosis. Barrie s fascination and obsession with the Du Maurier family is a shocking study of greed and psychological abuse, as we observe Barrie as he applies these lessons in mind control to captivate George s daughter Sylvia, his son Gerald, as well as their children who became the inspiration for the Darl...
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The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

By: Baum

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Gotham: August 2010

Seller ID: 349315

ISBN: 1592405584

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the first major literary biography of L. Frank Baum, Rebecca Loncraine tells the story of Oz as you've never heard it, with a look behind the curtain at the vivid life and eccentric imagination of its creator. L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1899 and it was first published in 1900. A runaway hit, it was soon recognized as America's first modern fairy tale. Baum's life story, like the fictional world he created, is uniquely American, rooted in the transforming historical changes of his times. Baum was a complex and eccentric man who could never stay put for long; his r...
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The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams

By: Ben Bradlee Jr.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: December 2013

Seller ID: 293640

ISBN: 0316614351

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

At long last, the epic biography Ted Williams deserves--and that his fans have been waiting for. Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea. He hit home runs farther than any player before him--and traveled a long way himself, as Ben Bradlee, Jr.'s grand biography revea...
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

By: Benvenuto Cellini, Salvador Dali

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1946

Seller ID: 295225

ISBN: B001JT7SL0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By: Bhikhu Parekh

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 2001

Seller ID: 336155

ISBN: 0192854577

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest. In Gandhi, a short introduction to Gandhi's life and thought, Bhikhu Parekh outlines both Gandhi's major philosophical insights and the limitations of his thought....
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Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

By: Billy Graham

Price: $6.95

Publisher: HarperOne: May 1997

Seller ID: 253386

ISBN: 0060633875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi

By: Bob Woodward

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Pocket: February 1985

Seller ID: 151932

ISBN: 0671547224

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity

By: Bohr, Niels

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 1991

Seller ID: 348407

ISBN: 0198520492

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Abraham Pais's life of Albert Einstein was one of the finest scientific biographies ever written. When it first appeared in 1982, Christian Science Monitor called it "an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary man," and Timothy Ferris, in The New York Times Book Review, said it was "the biography of Einstein he himself would have liked best," adding that "it is a work against which future scientific biographies will be measured." As a respected physicist himself, Pais was the first biographer to give Einstein's thinking its full due, yet despite the occasional high level of science needed ...
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Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

By: Booker T. Washington

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Infinity: February 2015

Seller ID: 332204

ISBN: 1940177685

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me

By: Brooke Shields

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dutton: November 2014

Seller ID: 267372

ISBN: 0525954848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Spoken from the Heart

By: Bush, Laura

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Scribner: May 2010

Seller ID: 261861

ISBN: 1439155208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story. Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car accident that left her friend Mike...
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Spoken from the Heart

By: Bush, Laura

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Scribner: April 2011

Seller ID: 342610

ISBN: 1439155216

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton

By: Byron Farwell

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: July 1990

Seller ID: 243117

ISBN: 0140120688

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower

By: C Northcote Parkinson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: January 1998

Seller ID: 311718

ISBN: 0760709440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

ELEPHANT TO HOLLYWOOD

By: CAINE, MICHAEL

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Griffin: November 2011

Seller ID: 344841

ISBN: 0312604343

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second actWhen he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don't want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give...
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Last Words: A Memoir

By: Carlin, George

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press: January 2009

Seller ID: 342062

ISBN: 1439172951

Condition: Used - Good

As one of America's preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. "Last Words" is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acer-bic humor with never-before-told stories from his own life. In 1993 George Carlin asked his friend and bestselling author Tony Hendra to help him write his autobiography. For almost fifteen years, in scores of conversations, many of them recorded, the two discussed Carlin's life, times, and evolution as a major artist...
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Patton: A Genius for War

By: Carlo D'Este

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: November 1995

Seller ID: 243237

ISBN: 0060164557

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World

By: Carol Brightman

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harvest Books: May 1994

Seller ID: 258101

ISBN: 0156000679

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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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

By: Carson, Ben, Murphey, Cecil

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Zondervan: June 1996

Seller ID: 338816

ISBN: 0310214696

Condition: Used - Very Good

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