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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...	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 This book is a ride for sure, an artistic roller-coaster with a nice beginning, no ending and a...	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	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 This book is a ride for sure, an artistic roller-coaster with a nice beginning, no ending and a...	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...	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...

The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (Nature Library, Penguin) Best Price: $19.00 Tanner tells with no embelishment to himself or others what life in the mid-north was really...	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 Lee is most famous for three autobiographical books: "Cider with Rosie," which deals...	Great Meadow: An Evocation	Stranger to the Game: The Autobiography of Bob Gibson Best Price: $194.25 During elementary school, 1972-1976, baseball was myth to me. The players were larger than life....

The Letters and Journals: A Selection (Twentieth Century Classics)	Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $40.95 strachey became famous for his 'eminent victorians' which has the reputation for being a...	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...

UC Island in Chains: Ten Years on Robben Island On a recent visit to Cape Town, I had the opportunity to see an island right at the entry of...	The Shorter Plays	Three American Poets (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.59 If you're toting up American poets of the 19th century, Dickinson gets one finger, Whitman...	A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.52 At the age of 28, when he wrote his memoir, Charles Siringo had already been a cowboy for 15...	Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History, with Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva & Trajan Best Price: $12.00 The German scholar H. Dessau unmasked the six authors of the Historia Augusta (HA) as the...

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.98 Somewhere in France, Michel Montaigne was working on his immortal "Essays." Gibbon...	Penguin Price Guide Record & CD 5th (Penguin Reference Books) Providing 114,000 valuations of LPs, EPs, CDs, singles and picture discs, this guide not only...	HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS 1930 - 1964	The Letters of Rachel Henning	A POSITIVELY FINAL APPEARANCE: A JOURNAL 1996-98 Best Price: $2.95

Look up for Yes As a nurse who works in long term care, I found this book impossible to put down. This book...	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 Freedom's Child is an excellent read but I would not call it an academic read in any sense...

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...	The Portable Karl Marx (Portable Library) Best Price: $12.97 In addition to Marx's writings, this book consists of introductions to various sections of...

Shakespeare of London Best Price: $101.73 We know very little about William Shakespeare. He wrote in a time after the invention of the...	Secrets: Salvador Dali	Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey Best Price: $3.93 A peculiar book: Ralph Leighton's TUVA OR BUST isn't really about Richard Feynman, who,...	Before Night Falls: A Memoir Best Price: $6.99 Anyone can put the their life on paper, but few such endeavors are worth reading. A fine memoir...	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 a strange book for me indeed. I loved the photos, especially those of The Doors performing,...	Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World Best Price: $16.90 Understandably defensive about his unfocused and rambling writing style, the late Ralph Wiley...

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