Category: Biographies

A Woman Speaks: Lectures, Seminars, Interviews Anais Nin

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Swallow Press : January 1975

Seller ID: 74433

ISBN-13: 9780804006934

In this book Anais Nin speaks with warmth and urgency on those themes which have always been closest to her: relationships, creativity, the struggle for wholeness, the unveiling of woman, the artist as magician, women reconstructing the world, moving from the dream outward, and experiencing our lives to the fullest possible extent."
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Alek The Extraordinary Life of a Sudanese Refugee by Wek, Alek ( Author ) ON Nov-08-2007, Paperback

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group : November 2007

Seller ID: 75887

ISBN-13: 9781844084425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New York.
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Iyengar, His Life and Work

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Timeless Books : January 1987

Seller ID: 73010

ISBN-13: 9780931454141

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Mandela: The Authorized Portrait

Price: $24.50

Publisher: Andrews McMeel : October 2006

Seller ID: 73713

ISBN-13: 9780740755729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

'What makes Mandela so special is that he's a real human being. . . . He's got a real life. And the fact that he is so flesh-and-blood real makes his greatness and his sacrifice and his wisdom and his courage in the face of all that has happened to him even more remarkable."-From the foreword by President Bill Clinton Named one of "Time" magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela has dedicated his life to fighting racism, segregation, oppression, and exploitation-and championing democracy, equality, and education. "Mandela: The Authorized Portrait" cele...
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One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 2014

Seller ID: 75791

ISBN-13: 9780198703112

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of rich diversity; a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity; a character that relished the comedie humaine, and the absurdities, crotchets, and vanities of his contemporaries. The playful irony of Trevor-Roper's correspondence places him in a literary tradition stretching back to such great letter-writer...
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Stendhal: Memoirs of an Egotist (English and French Edition)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Horizon House Pubs : May 1975

Seller ID: 92387

ISBN-13: 9780818002243

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Abdelmahmoud, Elamin

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books : May 2022

Seller ID: 151287

ISBN-13: 9780593496855

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Panhandle Pilot: Twenty Years of Flying in Southeast Alaska

By: Adkins, Bob

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Todd Communications : January 2012

Seller ID: 141699

ISBN-13: 9781578335749

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

By: Aguirre, Carmen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre : July 2012

Seller ID: 71198

ISBN-13: 9781771000369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

By: Ahmed, Qanta

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Sourcebooks : September 2008

Seller ID: 133988

ISBN-13: 9781402210877

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A strikingly honest look into Islamic culture?--in particular women and Islam?--and what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong.What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a world apart, a land of unparalle...
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Call Me Mistress: Memiors of a Phone Sex Performer

By: Ainslee, Karen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Miwok Press : December 2015

Seller ID: 74823

ISBN-13: 9780963767202

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mild-mannered computer systems analyst by day, uninhibited phone sex performer by night, Ms. Ainslee is a woman of contradictions and complexities. Her entertaining anecdotes and perceptive reflections on the world of phone sex give us a rare look into this intriguing form of erotica. Written with compassion and insight as well as humor, Call Me Mistress promise to entertain and inform.
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

By: Ali, Nujood,Minoui, Delphine

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Broadway Books : March 2010

Seller ID: 149812

ISBN-13: 9780307589675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no." Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands and of her daring escape. With the help of local advocates and the press, Nujood obtained her freedom--an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where almost half of all girls are married under the legal age. Nujood's courage...
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The Sisters Antipodes

By: Alison, Jane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : March 2009

Seller ID: 4654

ISBN-13: 9780151012800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A gorgeous and deeply intimate memoir about families breaking apart When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful mother, and two little girls, the younger two (one of them Jane) sharing a birthday. The families became inseparable almost instantly. Within months, however, affairs ignited between the adults, and before long the parents exchanged partners, then divorced, remarried, and moved on. Two pairs of girls were left in shock, a "silent, numb shock, like a crack inside stone, not enough to split it but inside...
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My Invented Country: A Memoir

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: HarperVia : September 2020

Seller ID: 149406

ISBN-13: 9780063021723

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language."--Entertainment WeeklyThe revered New York Times bestselling author of House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea ponders the elements that led to her becoming a writer, including the homeland she lost and the one she found, and the family spirits, both living and dead, who haunt her life and work.In this wondrous and intimate book, Isabel Allende explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her pl...
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Perfect Union

By: Allgor, Catherine

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Griffin : February 2007

Seller ID: 73822

ISBN-13: 9780805083002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."--The New York TimesWhen the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's capital. Into that unsteady atmosphere--which would soon enough erupt into another conflict with Britain--Dolley Madison arrived, alongside her husband, James. Within a few years, she had mastered both the social and political intricacies of the city, and by her death in 1849 was the most celebrated perso...
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South Mountain Road: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery

By: Anderson, Hesper

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : March 2000

Seller ID: 71246

ISBN-13: 9780684859019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"My mother killed herself on the first day of spring." So begins "South Mountain Road," Hesper Anderson's elegant, wrenching memoir of death and deception, family secrets and memories, and of a young girl's trauma of self-discovery. When Hesper Anderson, the daughter of famed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson "(What Price Glory?, Winterset, Key Largo, The Bad Seed)," got the phone call informing her that her mother, the beautiful, enigmatic Mab, had committed suicide, she knew that her world would be forever changed. A woman of baffling remoteness and alienating beauty, Mab A...
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A Year By The Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

By: Anderson, Joan

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Broadway Books : August 2000

Seller ID: 143291

ISBN-13: 9780767905930

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The basis for the major motion picture of the same name. An entrancing memoir of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life. Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive mother, she had slowly and unconsciously replaced her own dreams with the needs of her family. With her sons grown, however, she realized that the family no longer centered on the home she provided, and her relationship with her husband had become stagnant. Like many wom...
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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

By: Andrews, Julie

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Hachette Books : October 2019

Seller ID: 148291

ISBN-13: 9780316349253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage.With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and Th...
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Random House : April 2002

Seller ID: 149717

ISBN-13: 9780375507472

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a ...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Bantam : April 1983

Seller ID: 138719

ISBN-13: 9780553256154

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Biographies