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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Kara Cooney · Crown; First Edition edition
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An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal... |
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whiteheads hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.  On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime... |
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A Portrait of Jane Austen
David Cecil · Hill and Wang; 1st US edition
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover |
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Not much about Jane Austen's personality can be gleaned from her works.It is from her letters, from the evidence of the friends and relations, and above all from a knowledge of the kind of life led and ideas held by the society she was born into, that we are to know her.
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Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer , · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
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A genuine literary event - an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific... |
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Sea Trials: A Lone Sailor's Race Toward Home
Peter Bourke · International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In all beautifully written and wonderfully inspiring--The Wall Street Journal Crossing the Atlantic under sail alone is a nexus of sorts for all sailors a dream and an adventure that seems obtainable within the framework of life and work and its in this context that Sea Trials provides... |
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Watch Me: A Memoir
Anjelica Huston · Scribner
Format: Hardcover |
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Following her extraordinary Vanity Fair, evocative The New York Times, magically beautiful The Boston Globe, gorgeously written O, The Oprah Magazine coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom,... |
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My Usual Table: A Life in Restaurants
Colman Andrews · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 322
Format: Print book |
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My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat - from Trader Vic's to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli - and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews.For reviewer,... |
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