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Memoir of Twain's career as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River in his youth before the Civil War. Twenty-one…
years later he returns for a trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, reminiscing about the changes and the cities he encounters. Includes a history of the river. Originally published in 1883. 1994.
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Elizabeth Gilbert, in her thirties, settles into a large a house with a husband who wants to start a family.…
But she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and determined to find what she's missing. So she begins her quest. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally in Bali, a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to love again. 2007.
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Produits dérivés de films ou d’émission de télévisionBiographies, Littérature (biographies), Guerre
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For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of…
the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2010.
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An "oral biography" consisting of interviews with people who recall Capote's work and personality, beginning with his childhood in Monroeville,…
Alabama. Discussions of his nonfiction "novel" "In cold blood," the social event dubbed the "black-and-white ball," and his whirl on the celebrity circuit. Some strong language. 1997.
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The "Oxford English Dictionary" took seventy years to complete and drew upon the minds of thousands of scholars for its…
content. One of its most prolific contributors was Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon who had served in the civil war. The fact that Dr. Minor was insane, and a murderer, was not known to the editor of the dictionary for almost twenty years. 1998.
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From 1857 until his death in 1870, Charles Dickens had a close relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan. The author…
looks at this and other aspects of the affair and her book aims to show that Ellen was a fascinating person in her own right. 1991.
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A memoir in three parts: the author's childhood in Yorkshire, his four years of front-line service in World War I, and his forty years as a writer and critic. 1962.
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An account of the author's life on a Kenyan coffee plantation, of the natives and their festivals, of big game,…
and of Lulu, the gazelle who came to live on the farm. 1952.
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This autobiography by a novelist and short story writer follows him from a working class childhood in Washington State to his fraudulent admission to an Eastern prep school. c1989.