Elegy for Iris
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Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung...
| Author | Peter Benchley |
| ISBN | 0330250442 |
”In sea water more than a few feet deep, blood is green. Water filters the light from above, seeming to consume the colors of the spectrum shade by shade. Red is the first to succumb, to disappear. Green lasts longer. But then, below 100 feet, green, too, fades away, leaving blue. In the twilight depths--180,...
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0809023091 |
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book Review
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| Author | Alexandra Styron |
| ISBN | 1416591796 |
PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE.
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Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir
| Author | Kaylie Jones |
| ISBN | 0061778702 |
In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her...
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0307961842 |
Translated by Marion Wiesel
A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his...
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
| ISBN | 0297859714 |
Memoir of a marriage between two people at the top of the literary game who had spouses, six children between them when they met, but cared more for each other than them. After their first meeting Pinter said to the author, "Must you go?" and the lust became an affair became marriage. 33 years of being in...
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0374521409 |
The first three works by Elie Wiesel are here brought together in one volume, where the terrifying truth of their vision, the stunning simplicity of their art, and the power of their unity achieve epic dimensions.
Night, first published in 1960, is Wiesel's true account of spiritual and national...
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
| Author | Joshua M. Greene |
| ISBN | 0684865262 |
Witness comes from the interviews of many Holocaust survivors and what they went through during this horrific time in history. Most of the interviews were given in the 1980s. Each person talks of their experiences,before the Holocaust, when it was starting, during the War, and afterwards. The chapter...
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| ISBN | 0307398226 |
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| ISBN | 0141186976 |
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These...
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| ISBN | 1416586121 |
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| Author | Kathleen Peddicord |
| ISBN | 1101186046 |
The definitive guide for anyone dreaming of a move to paradise.
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The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
| Author | Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1406531537 |
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was an American author, poet, editor and anthologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College and Harvard University. He was noted for compiling and editing an annual collection of The Best Short Stories by American authors...
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| ISBN | 0618446583 |
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| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 1405204028 |
It's so hard to believe that this book (and the rest of the series) was written over 60 years ago and yet is still being read by children around the world. This was the book that compelled me to launch a quest to track down and obtain all the other books in the series. I read this book when I was around 11 and I enjoyed...
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| Author | Joseph Epstein |
| ISBN | 0393036545 |
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