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Book DescriptionIn 1868, Peter M. Gideon gained fame and wide acclaim for...growing an apple. It was named the Wealthy, and it was the first apple ever to survive North America"s cold winters, and his contribution brought millions of dollars to the farmers of the Northern states. Yet, Gideon...

Book Description1927. Katherine Beauchamp was born in New Zealand and at the age of 13 was sent to England to school at Queen"s College. It was here she truly began her writing career. It is difficult to compile a critical evaluation of Katherine Mansfield"s work. Her work seems to be of...

Book DescriptionWhen Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes...

Book DescriptionCelebrated author Ellen Gilchrist has played many roles---writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she never tackled the role of teacher. Offered the opportunity to teach creative writing at the University of Arkansas, she took up the challenge and ventured...

Book Description“The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman CapoteKaty Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where...

Book DescriptionUsing Edvard Munch"s own letters and diaries, those of his contemporaries and friends, and newspapers and journals of the time, this literary biography presents a picture of the artist as unsparing and true as any of his self-portraits. Damaged in childhood by appalling family...

Book DescriptionGeorge Sand was the most famous—and most scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific—she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as...

Book Description "My first meal in France, in a hushed and formerly elegant dining car, was a revelation. The menu was absurdly simple; there was a choice of an omelette aux fines herbes or a sandwich jambon beurre. I chose the omelette and was delighted by the flavors of chives, tarragon and...

Book DescriptionA humorous and provocative account of being a female undergraduate at Dartmouth College in its turbulent first years of co-education.

Book DescriptionA PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K.President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebears–good looks...