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Nancy Mitford
[Paperback 2001]
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First published in 1954, this is an evocation of Louis XV's court at Versailles. The political and religious complications of the time are explained and put into context, while the complex characters are brought vividly to life. When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected... more
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Jennifer Worth
[Paperback 2012]
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The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered... more
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Betty Mahmoody ,
William Hoffer
[Paperback 2004]
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The true story of Betty Mahmoody's escape from Iran with her daughter after her Iranian husband attempted to turn a two-week vacation into a permanent relocation and a life of subservience for Betty and her daughter. In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran... more
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Ashley Judd ,
Maryanne Vollers
[Hardcover 2011]
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Helen Keller
[Paperback 2011]
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Helen Keller's triumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller's own story--complex, poignant, and filled with love. Revised reissue. Recounting her triumph over deafness and blindness and... more
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Anne Frank ,
Otto H Frank ,
Mirjam Pressler
[Paperback 2003]
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This edition reprints the version authorized by the Frank estate, and includes a new Introduction, a Bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's life and times. This edition reprints the version authorized by the Frank estate, and includes a new Introduction, a Bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's life... more
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[Paperback 2000]
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Though I am nothing to look at, it is women who have sought my company more than I have sought theirs. Khushwant Singh In Khushwant Singhs Book of Unforgettable Women, Indias most widely-read and irreverent author and columnist profiles some of many women in his life. From Ghayoorunnisa Hafeez, the... more
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Stacy Schiff
[Paperback 2011]
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still... more
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Janny Scott
[Hardcover 2011]
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The New York Times bestseller-an unprecedented look into the life and character of the woman who raised a president. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father but credited his mother for "what is best in me." Still, little is known about this fiercely independent, spirited woman who raised the... more
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Jeannette Walls
[Paperback 2006]
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family. Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse... more
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Portia De Rossi
[Paperback 2011]
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""I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . ." " Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed... more
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[Hardcover 2008, 1st Edition]
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About the Book : In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have... more
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Sadia Shepard
[Paperback 2008]
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Sadia Shepard grew up just outside of Boston, in a home where cultures intertwined?her father a white American Protestant and her mother, a Muslim from Pakistan. One day, when she was thirteen, she learned that Nana, her beloved maternal grandmother, was not a Muslim like the rest of her Pakistani... more
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Meg Greene
[Paperback 2012, 1st Edition]
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About the Book : Mother Teresa transcended her ordinariness with a belief that she was called to her lifes work. And she used the unsought fame it brought her, to further her causes.In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity... more
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Patti Smith
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Smith's evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part elegy, "Just Kids" is about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist's calling. Smith's evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part... more
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Harriet Jacobs
[Paperback 2005]
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Reader be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true. I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery; on the contrary, my descriptions fall far short of the facts. I have concealed the names... more
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Diana Athill
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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As a young woman, Athill was engaged to an air force pilot. "Instead of a Letter" tells how he broke off the engagement, married someone else, and, worst of all, died overseas before she could confront or forgive him. Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside.... more
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C Tomalin
[Paperback 1999]
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From her study of the Austen family papers, Claire Tomalin paints a rich, tragi-comic picture of the Austen clan and their neighbours, reaching the conclusion that the facts of Jane Austen's life were even more extravagant and romantic than her fiction. From her study of the Austen family papers, Claire... more
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Ayn Rand ,
Leonard Peikoff ,
David Harriman
[Paperback 1999]
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Beginning in 1927, when she was writing scenarios for the silent screen, and extending through the 1960s, this collection of the never-before published journals of Ayn Rand--author of such masterpieces as "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead"--offers a groundbreaking view of her work to develop and refine her intellectual principles, the... more
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William J Mann
[Paperback 2011]
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Was Elizabeth Taylor the greatest product of the Hollywood star machine or its greatest victim? Mann's smart, engaging, clear-eyed case study . . . locates the real person somewhere between her private life and her public image.--Mark Harris, author of "Pictures at a Revolution." Was Elizabeth Taylor the greatest product... more
