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Something About the Author
Something About the Author is a long series of biographical dictionaries of authors and illustrators of children's books. The reference volumes are routinely found in libraries and most articles are very good with photos of the subjects and their works, lists of titles, other sources, and more detailed information than many similar resources.
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Children's Literature Review
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Reading autobiography
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Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After…
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Autobiography
Autobiography
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The Library of American Biography
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A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity
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Two Sisters
Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.”
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Missing Persons
Missing Persons
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Mr. Nice
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography
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Butcher's Crossing
In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an…
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Kinderleben, oder, Das Märchen ohne Ende.
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War Boy
An English artist writes and illustrates a memoir of his own wartime childhood.
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Talent
Talent
An English grad student struggling with her dissertation about the intellectual history of inspiration desperately searches for a perfect case study to anchor her thesis, only to find it in the unlikeliest of places.
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After the war was over
Memoirs of Foreman as a boy during the rebuilding of Britain after World War II. Foreman recalls victory bonfires, the ongoing rationing, prefab houses, baths in tin tubs, beaches first cleared of barbed wire and mines, and describes his development as an artist. Includes watercolor illustrations and period documents and photographs.
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S.J. Perelman
S.J. Perelman
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We Danced all Night
The popular romance author recounts her experiences back in the 1920s, when life was carefree.
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