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James Tiptree, Jr, burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stories. He redefined the genre with such classics as Houston, Houston,...

The book titled Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance by the author Mary-Lou Kohfeldt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This anthology of quotations is a selection of reflections about each year of life by a wide range of authors, including American and Continental writers, though without trying to do...

'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. ' Do...

From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines...

Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable process by which experience became art. Michael Barber focuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material....

The book titled The Moscow Art Theatre Letters by the author Jean Benedetti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A unique exploration of acclaimed writer D.H. Lawrence's intimate relationships with women and men and how those relationships affected his work and his provocative theories of love. Feinstein's research and...

The product of the author's lifetime, this powerful narrative, insterrsperses the author's analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals, art, et al, from the Reformation to the present...

Backed up by previously unpublished papers and interviews with Brecht's colleagues and many lovers, this biography argues that Brecht was not in fact the author of the plays which have...

Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy becomes angry, monstrous and out of control. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. Until it cycles around again, of course. When a doctor...

The extraordinarily powerful and unforgettable memoir by the woman who stood up and spoke out about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Daughter. Prisoner. Survivor. Warrior. Nobody's Girl... This is Virginia...

The book titled Remembrance by the author Faith Richmond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his...

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we're in is no longer a room where...

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