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William Goyen: Selected Letters from a Writerâ€™s Life

By: Goyen, William

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of Texas Press: March 1995

Seller ID: 251862

ISBN: 0292727739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Proclaimed one of the great American writers of short fiction by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu in which to create. These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America. A prolific correspondent, Goyen wrote regularly to friends, family, editors, and other writers. Among the letters selected here are those to such major lit...
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Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

By: Graham, Billy

Price: $6.95

Publisher: HarperOne: May 1997

Seller ID: 253386

ISBN: 0060633875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Commemorative edition

Hailed as "the world's preacher," Billy Graham enjoyed a career that spanned six decades and his ministry of faith touched the hearts and souls of millions.

In Just As I Am, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, Graham reveals his life story in what the Chicago Tribune calls "a disarmingly honest autobiography." With down-to-earth warmth and candor, Graham tells the stories of the events and encounters that helped shape his life. He recounts meetings with presidents, celebrities, and world leaders, including Harry S. T...
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Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

By: Graham, Don

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Wiley: December 2002

Seller ID: 338519

ISBN: 0471394513

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS
""Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience.""
-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove
""This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the ...
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Katharine Graham's Washington

By: Graham, Katharine

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: October 2002

Seller ID: 268960

ISBN: 0375414711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A final legacy from Katharine Graham: an all-embracing, highly personal collection of writings (more than 100 articles, essays, and excerpts) about Washington, D.C. -- covering the period from 1917, the year of her birth, to early 2001, just before she died.

Here are the president-watchers (including Will Rogers on Calvin Coolidge)...high points from insider memoirs (among them Dog Days at the White House by the presidential kennel keeper)...Washington moments vividly recalled -- by Kissinger (on the end of the Nixon presidency), by FDR's secretary (on Mrs. FDR), by Joseph Alsop, Ben Bradlee...
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Personal History

By: Graham, Katharine

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage: March 1998

Seller ID: 344257

ISBN: 0375701044

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The captivating, inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story--one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling.

Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material we...
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Ways of Escape

By: Greene, Graham

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: January 1980

Seller ID: 317456

ISBN: 0671412191

Binding: Hardcover

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Ways of Escape

By: Greene, Graham

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: January 1980

Seller ID: 333552

ISBN: 0671412191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nigger : An Autobiography by Dick Gregory with Robert Lipsyte

By: Gregory, Dick

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Pocket: January 1966

Seller ID: 360628

ISBN: B001Q1JTE0

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Diary of Che Guevara: Bolivia: November 7, 1966-October 7, 1967

By: Guevara, Che

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam Books: January 1968

Seller ID: 278485

ISBN: B000BD037G

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Bolivian Diary

By: Guevara, Ernesto Che

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Collins Promotion:

Seller ID: 328073

ISBN: 0007846592

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolution

By: Guevara, Ernsto Che

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Collins Promotion:

Seller ID: 328378

ISBN: 0007846584

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Same Kind of Different As Me Movie Edition: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

By: Hall, Ron, Moore, Denver

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: September 2017

Seller ID: 361506

ISBN: 0718077296

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Read the critically acclaimed #1 New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies in print. Same Kind of Different as Me was a major motion picture release by Paramount in fall 2017.

Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, this true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love.

Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the "Man" - in the 1960's - by hopping a train. Non-trusting, uneducated, and violent, he spent another 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fo...
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In Search of J D Salinger

By: Hamilton, Ian

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Trafalgar Square: September 1988

Seller ID: 343038

ISBN: 0434313319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Dark Side of Power: The Real Armand Hammer

By: Hammer

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1992

Seller ID: 355516

ISBN: 0671700537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A look at the multimillionaire capitalist, philanthropist, and art collector discusses Hammer's ties with the Kremlin, his self-serving deals, and maneuvers for political favors.
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The Remarkable Life of Dr. Armand Hammer (A Cass Canfield Book)

By: Hammer

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: July 1975

Seller ID: 355517

ISBN: 0060108363

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero

By: Hardesty, Von

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: November 2002

Seller ID: 305080

ISBN: 0151009732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Charles A. Lindbergh astounded the world on May 21, 1927, with his successful solo flight from New York to Paris in "The Spirit of St. Louis." Upon his return to the United States, he received an unprecedented welcome and was regarded as a hero to a generation of Americans who looked to the skies as a field of promise and progress. Lindbergh has been the subject of scrutiny and controversy ever since.
Reflecting America's faith in technological advancement, Lindbergh saw "The Spirit of St. Louis" as "a lens focused on the future, a forerunner of mechanisms that would conquer time and space....
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Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President

By: Harding

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: September 1998

Seller ID: 355514

ISBN: 0688077943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Saint Therese of Lisieux (Penguin Lives)

By: Harrison, Kathryn

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Viking/Penguin: August 2003

Seller ID: 350287

ISBN: 0670031488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Saint Th?r?se of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world's most influential religious figures. In "Saint Th?r?se of Lisieux," bestselling novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison, whose depictions of women have been called "powerful" ("The New York Times Book Review") and "luminously intelligent" ("The Boston Sunday Globe"), brings to the saint's life her storytelling gift and deep insight as she reveals the hopes and fears of the young girl behind the religious icon.
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Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything

By: Hawking, Jane

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Alma Books: November 2014

Seller ID: 297563

ISBN: 1846883474

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age and the author of the scientific bestseller A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 25 million copies. In this compelling memoir, his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen's academic renown soared, his body was collapsing under the assaults of a motor neuron disease. Jane's candid account of trying to balance his 24-hour care with the needs of their growing family reveals the inner strength of the author, while the self-evident chara...
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A Lotus Grows in the Mud

By: Hawn, Goldie

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Putnam Adult: May 2005

Seller ID: 289823

ISBN: 0399152857

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An inspiring and unconventional memoir from one of the world's most beloved actresses.
Goldie Hawn's life is an ongoing tableau of stories, and she has a born knack for telling them. In this candid and insightful book, Goldie invites us to join her in a look back at the people, places, and events that have touched her. It is the spiritual journey of a heart in search of enlightenment.
With her trademark effervescent humor, Goldie tells us about the lessons she's learned and the wisdom she feels she's been given in the hope of giving something back. Not a Hollywood "tell-all," "A Lotu...
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