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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

10 best books like The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (Gore Vidal): Sacred Time, My Life in Orange, The Little Locksmith, The Song of Names, Monsieur Proust, Extravagance, A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister, Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad, Brigadoon (Vocal Score), Fat Land

Sacred Time
AuthorUrsula Hegi
ISBN0743255992
The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise...
My Life in Orange
AuthorTim Guest
ISBN1862077207
At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a dentist's...
The Little Locksmith
AuthorKatharine Butler Hathaway
ISBN1558612394
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps...
The Song of Names
AuthorNorman Lebrecht
ISBN1400034892
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the...
Monsieur Proust
AuthorCéleste Albaret
ISBN1590170598
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
Extravagance
AuthorGary Krist
ISBN0767913310
William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies.

The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it is...
A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister
AuthorJulie Mars
ISBN0974207454
After witnessing her older sister's losing battle with pancreatic cancer, "her journey though the dark landscape of religious doubt toward her God," Mars was overtaken with a compulsion: she wanted to go to church. So, she dedicated herself to visiting 31 houses of worship over a period of as many weeks....
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
AuthorVirginia Holman
ISBN0743255496
A startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind and a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way.

"1974 was a bad year to go crazy," Virginia Holman writes in this astonishing,...
Brigadoon (Vocal Score)
AuthorAlan Jay Lerner
ISBN0769202225
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Fat Land
AuthorGreg Critser
ISBN0141015403
In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly alarming book. Critser investigates the...
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
AuthorRon Suskind
ISBN0743255461
Updated with a new afterword and including a selection of key documents, this is the explosive account of how the Bush administration makes policy on war, taxes, and politics -- its true agenda exposed by a member of the Bush cabinet.

This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that...
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0807844160
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
Just a Couple of Days
AuthorTony Vigorito
ISBN0156031221
"Just a Couple of Days may be the most unusual, the most original novel I have ever read." —TOM ROBBINS

"A lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it!"
—CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Join cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his award-winning underground hit chronicling the party...
How the Light Gets In
AuthorM.J. Hyland
ISBN1841956112
A powerful debut from a young Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled....
The Song Reader
AuthorLisa Tucker
ISBN0743497007
Sure, we were a small family, but it wasn't lonely. We had the endless stream of my sister's customers and, of course, the music. Every day, all day, our stereo would play and Mary Beth would talk about the lyrics, what they really meant.
Leeann lives with her beautiful older sister -- the world's first...
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