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Backing Into Forward
Hardcover | 464 pages | Nan A. Talese | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-53158-0 (0-385-53158-3)
March 16, 2010 | $37.00
The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.
A gifted storyteller who has delighted readers and theater audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now turns his talents to the tale...
Hardcover | 464 pages | Nan A. Talese | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-53158-0 (0-385-53158-3)
March 16, 2010 | $37.00
The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.
A gifted storyteller who has delighted readers and theater audiences for decades, Jules Feiffer now turns his talents to the tale...
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French Kissing
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66433-2 (0-385-66433-8)
March 16, 2010 | $22.95
Name: Sally Marshall
Status: Single mother
Age: 32
Nationality: Ten years in France, yet still English through and through. I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four-years-old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread . . .
So reads Sally's ad, posted on a French online dating site called...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66433-2 (0-385-66433-8)
March 16, 2010 | $22.95
Name: Sally Marshall
Status: Single mother
Age: 32
Nationality: Ten years in France, yet still English through and through. I like: Living in Paris, playing with my daughter Lila (four-years-old), the company of good friends, the smell of baking bread . . .
So reads Sally's ad, posted on a French online dating site called...
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Mark Twain's Other Woman
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-27344-4 (0-307-27344-X)
March 16, 2010 | $33.00
An enduring mystery in Mark Twain’s life concerns the events of his last decade, from 1900 to 1910.
Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during those final years after the death of Twain’s wife of thirty-four years and how those experiences affected him, personally...
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-27344-4 (0-307-27344-X)
March 16, 2010 | $33.00
An enduring mystery in Mark Twain’s life concerns the events of his last decade, from 1900 to 1910.
Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during those final years after the death of Twain’s wife of thirty-four years and how those experiences affected him, personally...
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Arafat
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-7535-0888-6 (0-7535-0888-5)
March 9, 2010 | $42.50
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-7535-0888-6 (0-7535-0888-5)
March 9, 2010 | $42.50
Armenian Golgotha
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-1-4000-9677-0 (1-4000-9677-4)
March 9, 2010 | $24.95
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next...
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-1-4000-9677-0 (1-4000-9677-4)
March 9, 2010 | $24.95
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next...
Blade Runner
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-0-7535-1939-4 (0-7535-1939-9)
March 9, 2010 | $34.95
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-0-7535-1939-4 (0-7535-1939-9)
March 9, 2010 | $34.95
The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography; Health & Fitness - Sexuality
978-0-7535-1101-5 (0-7535-1101-0)
March 9, 2010 | $21.95
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography; Health & Fitness - Sexuality
978-0-7535-1101-5 (0-7535-1101-0)
March 9, 2010 | $21.95
Called Out of Darkness
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Religion - Christian Life - Personal Growth; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39760-7 (0-307-39760-2)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
An intimate memoir of Anne Rice’s Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church – what she calls a decision of the heart.
Moving from her New Orleans childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, with all its religious devotions, through how she slowly lost her belief...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Religion - Christian Life - Personal Growth; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39760-7 (0-307-39760-2)
March 9, 2010 | $19.95
An intimate memoir of Anne Rice’s Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church – what she calls a decision of the heart.
Moving from her New Orleans childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, with all its religious devotions, through how she slowly lost her belief...
Charles Bukowski
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7535-1818-2 (0-7535-1818-X)
March 9, 2010 | $25.95
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7535-1818-2 (0-7535-1818-X)
March 9, 2010 | $25.95
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Charles Bukowski
Hardcover | 324 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-85227-271-5 (1-85227-271-6)
March 9, 2010 | $48.50
Hardcover | 324 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-85227-271-5 (1-85227-271-6)
March 9, 2010 | $48.50
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Chasing the Wind
Hardcover | 288 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation
978-1-85227-234-0 (1-85227-234-1)
March 9, 2010 | $48.50
Hardcover | 288 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation
978-1-85227-234-0 (1-85227-234-1)
March 9, 2010 | $48.50
Cheever
Trade Paperback | 816 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-1-4000-7968-1 (1-4000-7968-3)
March 9, 2010 | $21.00
John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s...
Trade Paperback | 816 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-1-4000-7968-1 (1-4000-7968-3)
March 9, 2010 | $21.00
John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s...
Claiming Ground
Hardcover | 256 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-27288-1 (0-307-27288-5)
March 9, 2010 | $28.95
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the...
Hardcover | 256 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-27288-1 (0-307-27288-5)
March 9, 2010 | $28.95
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the...
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Cream
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Music
978-0-7535-1132-9 (0-7535-1132-0)
March 9, 2010 | $25.95
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Virgin Books | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Music
978-0-7535-1132-9 (0-7535-1132-0)
March 9, 2010 | $25.95
Curtains
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Current Affairs; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-35568-3 (0-307-35568-3)
March 9, 2010 | $32.00
If Bill Bryson were to join a Winnipeg funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains - enlightening, full of life in the midst of death, and very funny.
"There's a time, from when someone dies...
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Current Affairs; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-35568-3 (0-307-35568-3)
March 9, 2010 | $32.00
If Bill Bryson were to join a Winnipeg funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains - enlightening, full of life in the midst of death, and very funny.
"There's a time, from when someone dies...
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