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  • Lands of Lost Content
    John Wilson
    "…a highly readable and interesting book…Through personal stories and anecdotes, all giving vivid pictures of social history, the writer guides us through historical events that changed the world. Some of it is sad, but much of it is amusing, all full of colour…I would highly recommend it." Anna GraysonOnce upon a time, a shy kid from Skye almost drowned in nostalgia as he sat ...
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    15,94 €

  • My Neighbour
    Andrzej Potocki
    A unique view of the master storyteller through the eyes of a much younger neighbour. Andrzej Potocki lived near Roald Dahl in Great Missenden, regularly meeting him over a period of 20 years. This book offers an unprecedented look at the characters of Dahl’s books and how they interweave with the places and people they both knew. ...
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    12,53 €

  • At Sea with Patrick Dennis
    Robert Karr
    Prepare to Feast on LIfe!Robert (Raub) Karr and his best friend, Walter, planned a relaxing cruise from Seattle to Mexico. Little did they know that their vacation would be upended when they met the author and creator of Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis, on board the ship. Dennis was traveling under an assumed name. And much like his character Mame, Patrick Dennis brought a whirlwin...
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    16,82 €

  • Community Across Time
    Rebecca Godwin
    One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan. One of the first book-length studies of Robert Morgan, Community across Time considers the Appalachian writer’s explorations of memory, family history, and landscape. It provides a study of all of Morgan’s fiction to date, as well as a chapter on his poetry and some reference, where appropriat...
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    30,21 €

  • The Myopic’s Vision
    Virginia Lowe
    ’Virginia Lowe’s poems evoke life experiences such as parenting, marriage, and growing up and meditate on them in moving and unexpected ways. This latest collection displays her hallmark wry humour and tenderness, linking intense personal moments to wider human concerns. And her love of language and reading shines throughout her poetry.’ - Christopher Ringrose’A poem a year, tr...
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    23,42 €

  • Laura and Her Family Tree
    Carol A. Wirth
    Readers, young and old, for generations have fallen in love with Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books.  Readers become that little girl or boy experiencing what Laura wrote on the pages.  It doesn’t matter if it is the first time the story is read or the tenth.  The writing style grabs readers of all ages and won’t let us go. Laura and her Family Tree can educate and give re...
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    23,23 €

  • AT THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE
    Barbara de Boinville
    This first-ever biography of Harriet de Boinville explores her close relationships with Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other leading writers of the Romantic era, but also tells the gripping story of Harriet’s early years as the wife of an aristocratic military officer during the French-English Wars, when she experienced a naval attack in the Caribbean, a shipwreck off ...
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    28,50 €

  • The Radical Isaac
    Adi Mahalel
    Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz’s alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics. ...
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    121,46 €

  • Macbeth King of Scotland and The Clan Finley
    Jacqueli Finley
     Per the New World Encyclopedia, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh),(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King of Alba) from 1040 until his death. He is best known as the subject of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth and the many works it has inspired, although the play is historically inaccurate. Shakespeare’ Macbeth ...
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    22,43 €

  • A Long Way From Home
    Claude McKay
    First published in 1937 in the US by Lee Furman, Inc. This edition based on original cover and text.A Jamaican-born writer describes his experiences traveling throughout the world following World War I, and recalls his friendships with celebrities of the Twenties and Thirties. ...
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    10,69 €

  • Dorian Unbound
    Sean O’Toole
    A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.Building upon a large body of archival and critical work on Oscar Wilde’s only novel, Dorian Unbound offers a new account of the importance of transnational contexts in the forging of Wilde’s imagination and ...
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    44,93 €

  • Understanding Your Father
    Joseph M. Flora
    Memoir of Joseph M. Flora. In Joe’s own words: This memoir takes the reader to the Great Depression years in Toledo, Ohio, where I was born; to my elementary, junior high, and high school days in Saginaw, Michigan. School I loved from the start, and early I declared that I would go to college. A teenager, I knew that summers were when I earned money for college. I graduated fro...
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    27,09 €

  • Conversations with Beth Henley
    Jackson R Bryer
    With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd...
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    20,95 €

  • Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.
    John Zheng
    Jerry W. Ward Jr. (b. 1943) has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. Ward is also a highly respected scholar with a specialty in African American literature and has been recognized internationally as one of the leading experts on Richard Wright. Ward was Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College, served as a member ...
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    21,00 €

  • Ayesha
    Er. Haider
    ''Ayesha’s Journey: From Innocence to Resilience'' is a moving and uplifting memoir that tells the story of a young woman’s struggles and triumphs. Growing up in the beautiful countryside of Kashmir, Ayesha’s childhood was filled with joy and adventure. However, her world was shattered by the loss of her father, and Ayesha was forced to navigate betrayal, violence, and heartbre...
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    9,81 €

  • Hollywood or Bust!
    June Wilkinson
    Stage and screen actress June Wilkinson, born in England in 1940, pulls back the curtain on her long career and tells it like it was. She began as a teenager performing at the famed London Windmill Theater, her American debut in Playboy Magazine, and her successful American film and stage career. With exceptional candor, June relates the unvarnished story behind her appearances...
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    26,66 €

  • Hollywood or Bust!
    June Wilkinson
    Stage and screen actress June Wilkinson, born in England in 1940, pulls back the curtain on her long career and tells it like it was. She began as a teenager performing at the famed London Windmill Theater, her American debut in Playboy Magazine, and her successful American film and stage career. With exceptional candor, June relates the unvarnished story behind her appearances...
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    33,76 €

  • Quantico
    Antônio Sérgio Carréra De Albuquerque Melo
    This exciting story tells the participation of Antônio Sérgio Carréra, a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Brazilian Federal District Police, in the Management Course for Police Executives held at the FBI National Academy, in Quantico, USA. When he was invited by the US Department of Justice, Sérgio didn t think twice to engage on this fantastic adventure of close interaction with FBI ...
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    14,01 €

  • Schiffy - The Life and Times of Somebody You Probably Don’t Know, But Should
    David 'Schiffy' Schiff
    Schiffy - The Life and Times of Somebody You Probably Don’t Know, But Should is the story of David 'Schiffy' Schiff, an internationally recognized as the go-to Orals Coach for some of the world’s largest companies and has helped them win billions of dollars by securing highly lucrative government and defense contracts.Schiffy has successfully leveraged his four Emmy Awards for ...
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    13,64 €

  • Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère
    Sharon Larson
    Examines the life of French writer Jane de La Vaudère (1857–1908), exploring how she adapted her persona to shifting literary trends and readership demands, which captured public curiosity and advanced her sales. ...
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    143,80 €

  • The Occult Diary
    August Strindberg
    August Strindberg (1849-1912) kept a diary from February 1896 in Paris until the summer of 1908 in Stockholm. He referred to his diary from this period as his Occult Diary and used it to help him decipher the world as he experienced it. He read and reread his own notations, adding new interpretations, and deleting others. He also drew on the diary as material for creative expre...
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    106,90 €

  • Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
    Isiah Lavender
    A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a 'Grand Master' of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine--project complex futures and co...
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    20,84 €

  • We Danced On Our Desks
    Philip Norman
     'Absolutely fabulous!'  - Sir Ray Davies.The Kinks'We Danced On Our Desks offers a window on another lost world, a silver age of journalism when a magazine could please itself and celebrities would wait to be invited into its charmed circle. It’s also an unbeatable portrait of a writer finding his voice amid the distractions of a dementedly sybaritic decade.' - The Observer'It...
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    25,32 €

  • Malabar Farm
    E. B. White / Louis Bromfield
    'A rare book of abundant variety . . . breathes the satisfaction of a busy rewarding life. This is a book for thoughtful people who love America. It will be read with gratitude far and wide. It is beautifully written.' -Chicago TribuneWhen Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and his young family returned to America from France on the eve of World War II, they settled ...
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    33,49 €

  • Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
    Andrew J Rausch
    Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to follow him into any genre he chooses to write in, including horror, western, crime, adventure, and fantasy. Within thes...
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    21,05 €

  • Poet of Revolution
    Nicholas McDowell
    A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. ...
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    36,63 €

  • Becoming a Warrior
    Catherine Hand
    Becoming a Warrior is the triumphant memoir of about a shy, 10-year-old girl who has a dream and perseveres for fifty years to make that dream come true--to make a movie based on Madeleine L’Engle’s, A Wrinkle in Time. Working in the worlds of politics and entertainment, Catherine Hand learned lessons that gave her the courage and strength to navigate through personal tragedies...
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    16,39 €

  • Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings
    Leo Tolstoy
    This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive, intellectually powerful, challenging, and absorbing thinker. ...
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    214,25 €

  • Malabar Farm
    E. B. White / Louis Bromfield
    'A rare book of abundant variety . . . breathes the satisfaction of a busy rewarding life. This is a book for thoughtful people who love America. It will be read with gratitude far and wide. It is beautifully written.' -Chicago TribuneWhen Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and his young family returned to America from France on the eve of World War II, they settled ...
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    42,59 €

  • Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings
    Leo Tolstoy
    This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive, intellectually powerful, challenging, and absorbing thinker. ...
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    38,39 €


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