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UC BEATRIX POTTER: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman (Penguin Audiobooks) This biography looks at the whole of Beatrix Potter's life from her birth in 1866, her years...	Dorothy Parker : Selected Stories (Big Blonde, Too Bad, Song of Shirt, Mr. Durant, Diary of a New York Lady, Standard of Living, The Garter) Best Price: $37.43 Dorothy Rothschild Parker's malicious wit, mordant humor, and cynicism are brilliantly...	John Donne Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $30.00 Without a good grounding in the life of his times, Donne can be a bit of a puzzle to the casual...	Confessions of a Window Dresser Best Price: $48.97 Simon Doonan gives us a gift in this delectable bon-bon of a book! The self-professed...	Girl from the Fiction Department Best Price: $5.84 'Should be compulsory reading' - "The Times". George Orwell's second wife...



Living To Tell The Tale hardcover	The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II's Papacy. John Cornwell Best Price: $0.99 'The Pope In Winter' seemed to be a fairly balanced look at the life and policy of Pope...	The Great Wall of China (Pocket Penguins 70's)	Minus Nine to One	A POSITIVELY FINAL APPEARANCE: A JOURNAL 1996-98 Best Price: $2.95



Look up for Yes I thought that the book was exelent and that Julia could have talked more about her family and...	The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings Best Price: $3.25 Wei Jingsheng is well known as China's leading dissident, but this book also establishes him...	Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman Best Price: $3.94 I enjoyed the book. I thought that Ms Nelson identified ideas, motivations and feelings that I...	My Name Escapes Me Best Price: $15.42 Where BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE and A POSITIVELY FINAL APPEARANCE are more organized as memoirs,...	Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter Best Price: $8.95 This is an amazing true story of one woman's searh for her past. Not only does she find it,...

Out of Africa (Essential Penguin 2) Best Price: $20.00 Karen Blixen's African adventure (now Kenya) as a colonial Master and a coffee planter...	Lloyd George Best Price: $320.42 By December 1916, the British Empire found itself in its most dire situation yet; the war, which...	Circle of Sisters Best Price: $10.28 The Macdonald sisters - Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa - started life among the ranks of the...	Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia Best Price: $8.40 Widely acknowledged as one of the best books on the war in Bosnia, Sudetic's book offers a...	UC BEATRIX POTTER: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman (Penguin Audiobooks) This biography looks at the whole of Beatrix Potter's life from her birth in 1866, her years...

Dorothy Parker : Selected Stories (Big Blonde, Too Bad, Song of Shirt, Mr. Durant, Diary of a New York Lady, Standard of Living, The Garter) Best Price: $37.43 Dorothy Rothschild Parker's malicious wit, mordant humor, and cynicism are brilliantly...	John Donne Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $30.00 Without a good grounding in the life of his times, Donne can be a bit of a puzzle to the casual...	Confessions of a Window Dresser Best Price: $48.97 Simon Doonan gives us a gift in this delectable bon-bon of a book! The self-professed...	Girl from the Fiction Department Best Price: $5.84 'Should be compulsory reading' - "The Times". George Orwell's second wife...	Living To Tell The Tale hardcover

The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II's Papacy. John Cornwell Best Price: $0.99 'The Pope In Winter' seemed to be a fairly balanced look at the life and policy of Pope...	The Great Wall of China (Pocket Penguins 70's)	Minus Nine to One	Yeats the Poet Yeats' desire for "Unity of Being" was driven by the sense of difference and...	James Dean Revisited Best Price: $70.00

The Mystery of Agatha Christie Gwen Robyns probably feels, as I do, that Agatha Christie was a genius mind and a sensitive,...	Bernard Shaw the Search for Love (v. 1) Best Price: $19.33 The first volume of Holroyd's biography of Bernard Shaw recounts his Dublin childhood, a...	Nicholas II : The Last of the Tsars	Obscure Kingdoms What do Oman, Nigeria and Tonga have in common? They all have monarchies. No matter where,...	The Day Gone By

Torregreca: Life, Death, Miracles This and Women of the shadows are wonderful books.The year's it was written and lived...	Time to Declare This autobiography looks at the life and work of the politician David Owen as well as the major...	Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians	Take It From Me : Life's a Struggle But You Can Win Best Price: $42.94 The real-life story of Erin Brockovich told by Erin herself. I purchased this book (used)...	Prometheans in the Lab Best Price: $25.00 This accessible but rewarding history of applied chemistry ranks among the best books I have...

The last explorer: The autobiography of Michael Terry, FRGS, FRGSA	Establishing the Anglo-American Alliance: The Second World War Diaries of Brigadier Vivian Dykes Best Price: $179.36	Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War (Ausa Institute of Land Warfare) Best Price: $7.50 Here is Bussey's story, the first personal account of the African-American experience in the...	Nehru	Thomas More: A Short Biography

G.F.Watts: The Hall of Fame - Portraits of His Famous Contemporaries	Benjamin Franklin: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views)	Great Leaps Forward: Modernizers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America Best Price: $16.92 Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, this book presents students...	Gomulka: His Poland and His Communism (Pelican)	MY LIFE: AN ATTEMPT AT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (PELICAN S.)

Disraeli: a Biography Offering new perspectives on the Victorian era's political and literary giant, this...	Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality Best Price: $6.94 I was moved to tears and laughter. Two extremes which both brought comfort on this journey...	Being an Actor	Selected Journals and Other Writings (Penguin Nature Classics) Best Price: $25.38	Fanny Trollope: the Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman Pb Best Price: $97.20 Fanny Trollope was born in Bristol in 1779 and at 29 married Thomas and over the years bore him...

Pillars of Hercules Best Price: $11.03 I instantly became intrigued the minute I opened up this book. It is a wonderful chronicle of...	The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (Nature Library, Penguin) Best Price: $19.00 This appears to be a reprint of the original text published by Ross & Haines in 1956. ...	Shelley and His World Best Price: $102.21 "Shelley and His World" was universally acclaimed on publication as an ideal...	Red Sky at Sunrise Best Price: $16.75 I am currently meandering through "as I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" and honestly...	Great Meadow: An Evocation

Stranger to the Game: The Autobiography of Bob Gibson Best Price: $194.25 Yep, that's what I said as a Cubs fan in my youth. Whenever St. Louis was in town and I...	The Letters and Journals: A Selection (Twentieth Century Classics)	Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $40.95 I enjoyed this detailed book about Queen Victoria's life. It had a lot of detail, but the...	Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown (Penguin Twentieth-Century Clas) Best Price: $19.99 Pretty good book with the best facts on Kipling's life I can find so far. Has quite a bit...	In My Father's Court (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail (Travel Library, Penguin) Best Price: $2.56 Morris present an unforgettable account of her 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern...	The Portable Karl Marx (Portable Library) Best Price: $12.97 If you've ever wondered what all the fuss is about with regard to Socialism, this is the...	Shakespeare of London Best Price: $101.73 For some reason I have been obtaining and reading biographies of William Shakespeare lately....	Secrets: Salvador Dali	Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey Best Price: $3.93 Having just seen -- and very much enjoyed -- the film Genghis Blues, I decided to try and find a...

Before Night Falls: A Memoir Best Price: $6.99 Despite coming from a poor rural background, Reinaldo Arenas [1943-1990] was successful in...	Shot in the Heart	Writers at Work 09: The Paris Review Interviews Ninth Series Best Price: $24.00	Jim Morrison: Dark Star Best Price: $15.99 This book is gorgeous. If you love the young, pouty lion-god, you will love the photos in this...	Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World Best Price: $16.89 Understandably defensive about his unfocused and rambling writing style, the late Ralph Wiley...

The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter Best Price: $1.25 I don't know why this book isn't better known, or why we haven't heard much more...	Faithfull This is a memoir by Marianne Faithfull, recounting her days in the swinging '60s. She...	River at the Centre of the World Best Price: $6.36 I have a great interest in the history of China Simon Winchester puts a broad expanse of China...	Martin Meredith	All Things Wild and Wonderful Best Price: $241.86 I recently read this delightful book after finding it at my book club. I live in South Africa...

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings Best Price: $21.99 Wei Jingsheng is a fearless fighter for individual rights in China, and has spent nearly all of...	Charles James Fox (Penguin Popular Classics) Best Price: $551.10 After finishing this book, it is hard to imagine there can be anything left to say about Charles...	MEL - The Inside Story	Real James Herriot Best Price: $12.37 I've been a fan of James Herriot for as long as I can remember, and his books have been so...	A POSITIVELY FINAL APPEARANCE: A JOURNAL 1996-98 Best Price: $2.95

Look up for Yes I thought that the book was exelent and that Julia could have talked more about her family and...	The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings Best Price: $3.25 Wei Jingsheng is well known as China's leading dissident, but this book also establishes him...	Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman Best Price: $3.94 I enjoyed the book. I thought that Ms Nelson identified ideas, motivations and feelings that I...	My Name Escapes Me Best Price: $15.42 Where BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE and A POSITIVELY FINAL APPEARANCE are more organized as memoirs,...	Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter Best Price: $8.95 This is an amazing true story of one woman's searh for her past. Not only does she find it,...

Out of Africa (Essential Penguin 2) Best Price: $20.00 Karen Blixen's African adventure (now Kenya) as a colonial Master and a coffee planter...	Lloyd George Best Price: $320.42 By December 1916, the British Empire found itself in its most dire situation yet; the war, which...	Circle of Sisters Best Price: $10.28 The Macdonald sisters - Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa - started life among the ranks of the...	Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia Best Price: $8.40 Widely acknowledged as one of the best books on the war in Bosnia, Sudetic's book offers a...

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