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  • Garrison Keillor
    Judith Yaross Lee
    A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon’s favorite son and contemporary America’s favorite humorist. ...
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    50,11 €

  • A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy
    A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy: The Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondsonedited by William and Loretta GalbraithExciting letters and diaries of a Southern woman who secretly conveyed intelligence for the ConfederacyIn an era that glorified Southern womanhood, especially the women who contributed significantly to the Confederate cause, the subject of this fascinating book, u...
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    49,98 €

  • Lloyd Alexander Bio Biblio
    James S. Jacobs / James SJacobs / Michael O. Tunnell / Michael OTunnell
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    55,43 €

  • William Jennings Bryan
    Donald K. Springen / Donald KSpringen
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    89,26 €

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Frank Freidel
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    44,50 €

  • Marc Bloch
    Carole Fink
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    32,85 €

  • Life on the Great Lakes
    Fred Dutton
    Fred Dutton's story tells of the time before the gyro when ships were steered by magnetic compass and men had to estimate the degree of error in navigational calculations. Dutton recounts the terror of ships meeting and passing in the fog and the subtleties of handling ships at the docks. Serving under many captains on a dozen and a half vessels, he spices his account with ...
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    31,99 €

  • Son and Lover
    Philip Callow
    A skillful biography focusing on D. H. Lawrence’s developing consciousness during his childhood and youth in the English Midlands, his university days, his elopement with Frieda, and his departure from England in 1919. 'A surprising tale of metamorphosis which Mr. Callow recreates better than any previous Lawrence biographer.' -Julian Moynihan. ...
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    19,43 €

  • The Life of Margaret Fuller
    Madelein Stern
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    120,74 €

  • Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
    Germaine Greer
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    17,71 €

  • Happy The Land
    LOUISE RI DICKINSON / Louise Rich Dickinson
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    13,52 €

  • Women Artists in the Modern Era
    Susan Waller
    Now available in paper! This anthology brings together selections from sixty-one primary source documents-artist’s letters, journals, and memoirs; critics’ reviews; and minutes and reports of artists’ societies and schools-that illuminate the experience of women artists from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the United States and Europe. ...
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    112,94 €

  • William Desmond Taylor
    Bruce Long
    By reprinting over 400 items from contemporary newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, this book reveals Taylor’s life in Hollywood-from his arrival as a minor actor in 1912 until his death in 1922 as one of Hollywood’s top directors. ...
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    107,39 €

  • The Life of Beatrice of Nazareth
    Roger De Ganck / John Baptist Hasbrouck
    Beatrice of Nazareth and the amazing group of nuns and beguines who lived and wrote, or were written about, in the Low Countries during the thirteenth century have recently begun to receive attention from English-speaking Flemish scholars of the past half century. Roger DeGanck brings these women and their spirituality vividly to life, drawing on his long experience in Cisterc...
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    47,51 €

  • A Difficult Saint
    Brian Patrick McGuire
    Born in 1090, Bernard of Clairvaux died sixty-three years later, and was canonized in 1174. His friends and brothers began writing his official life even before he died, so convinced were they of his personal holiness and his importance to the Church of his day. Not everyone who knew him, however, liked him, no matter how much they may have admired his holiness. For nine cen...
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    44,18 €

  • Gertrud the Great of Helfta
    Gertrude / Alexandra Barratt
    Placed in the monastery of Helfa, in Upper Saxony, at the age of five, Gertrud began having visions and writing at twenty-five. Book 1, written by a nun of Helfta, reveals the personality and virtues of Gertrud. Avoiding hagiographical commonplaces, the writer reveals both the strenghts and the shortcomings of her very human and very committed heroine.Book 2, contains Gertrud’s...
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    36,09 €

  • The Tricks of the Trade
    Dario Fo
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    29,13 €

  • Heart Diamond
    Kathy L. Greenwood / Kathy LGreenwood
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    18,58 €

  • Anna Howard Shaw
    Martha Solomon / Wil A. Linkugel / Wil ALinkugel
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    89,11 €

  • Donna Reed
    Brenda Scott Royce
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    55,50 €

  • A Quest for Security
    Larry Dale Gragg
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    121,85 €

  • A Biographical Dictionary of Scenographers
    Robin Thurlow Lacy
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    103,41 €

  • Good News to the Poor
    Theodore W. Jr. Jennings / Theodore WJrJennings
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    21,85 €

  • Joan of Arc
    Regine Pernoud
    Using historical documents and translated by Régine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan's contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life and exploits? ...
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    14,19 €

  • The American Songbag
    CARL SANDBURG
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    30,73 €

  • Disney’s World
    Leonard Mosely / Leonard Mosley
    Documents the stunning accomplishments of Disney’s imaginative genius. It is not a flattering portrait. Library Journal ...
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    14,93 €

  • Henry and June
    Anaïs Nin
    Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, 'Henry and June' is an intimate account of a woman’s sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June’s beauty and Henry’s writing and, soon after June’s departure for New York, b...
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    14,58 €

  • Sob Sister Journalism
    Phyllis L. Abramson / Phyllis LAbramson
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    96,04 €

  • Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography
    Wayne Wiegand
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    105,19 €

  • Freedom Summer
    Sally Belfrage
    Freedom Summer is a richly detailed account of a young white woman who participated in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's summer project in Mississippi in 1964. The text covers one intense summer from the basic training session in June to the Democratic Convention in August. 3 ...
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    32,85 €