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Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 2002
Seller ID: RWARE0000017061
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: ¥650.00
Publisher: Vintage: 1996
Seller ID: RWARE0000040563
16 pages of black-and-white and 24 pages of full-color illustrations, plus 73 illustrations in text. View more info
Price: ¥550.00
Publisher: Vintage: 1989
Seller ID: RWARE0000040352
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-l ife model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited cand... View more info
By: Akhund, Iqbal
Price: ¥60,000.00
Publisher: OUP Pakistan: 1998
Seller ID: RWARE0000041829
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The skirmish in the Rann of Kutch and the 1965 war with India, the Tashkent Conference, Bhutto's walk-out from the Security Council, Bhutto's rise and fall, and the nuclear deal with France - the author writes of these as a witness, and tells the inside story in this book. Blending description, analysis and anecdote, Iqbal Akhun... View more info
By: Albanese, Laurie
Price: ¥600.00
Publisher: Harper Perennial: 2004
Seller ID: RWARE0000015513
Blue Suburbia is a searing memoir so fresh, original, and honest that it wi ll break your heart and renew your faith in the human spirit. With each spare stroke of her pen, Laurie Lico Albanese paints a vivid port rait of the blue-collar landscape of her childhood -- rusted swing sets, au to body shops, greasy hands, home improvements -- taking readers along for the wild, treacherous ride that leads to her escape. Her mother may stand s ilently at the sink year after ye... View more info
By: Albom, Mitch
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated: 2005
Seller ID: RWARE0000043458
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more p rofound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. Fo r Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to se... View more info
By: Allen, Jonathan
Price: ¥650.00
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group: 2015
Seller ID: RWARE0000040315
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyew itness accounts from deep inside her inner circle and featuring a new intro duction from the authors Hillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger oppo ... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Harper Perennial: 2004
Seller ID: RWARE0000017283
Allende was inspired to write this glimmering and audacious memoir of her l ife as a traveler, exile, and immigrant by an eerie overlaying of dates. Sh e lost a country, she writes, on Tuesday, September 11, 1973, when a milita ry coup brought down Chile's democratic government, then headed by Salvador Allende, a cousin of her father's. And she gained a country on Tuesday, Se ptember 11, 2001, when the terrorist attacks induced her to recognize her d eep allegiance to th... View more info
By: Allison, Dorothy
Price: ¥1,500.00
Publisher: Dutton Adult: 1995
Edition: First
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: RWARE0000007952
A highly collectible first edition/printing, a tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions or markings, not price clipped an ex-library or a book of the month club edition; (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR) Allison's much-praised novel Bastard Out of Carolina was inspired by her childhood in Greenville, S.C., but in this memoir, adapted from a performance piece, she cuts even closer to the bone. "We don't have a family Bible?" the author's fourth-g... View more info
By: Alpers, Anthony
Price: ¥900.00
Publisher: Viking: 1980
Seller ID: RWARE0000027959
Life Of Katherine Mansfield, The, by Alpers, Antony. View more info
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Publisher: Warner Books: 2000
Seller ID: RWARE0000041911
They are, by any definition, one of history's most remarkable couples: he t he irrepressible country-boy populist oozing ambition and Southern charm, s he the brilliant lawyer with a taste for power and, in the end, an unshakab le allegiance to the man in her life. Together, Bill and Hillary Clinton sc aled the heights of power and prestige, only to have his wantonly reckless behavior bring them to the brink of personal and political ruin. Despite th e billions of words ... View more info
Price: ¥750.00
Publisher: Gallery Books: 2013
Seller ID: RWARE0000042215
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie by Christopher Andersen The New York Times bestselling author presents the most famous couple in the world in their last year together, answering lingering questions about this still-mesmerizing marriage. View more info
Price: ¥550.00
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: 2005
Seller ID: RWARE0000042148
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An engrossing and revealing look at the world's oldest profession describes how the author, left destitute and unable to pay the rent after a breakup with a long-term boyfriend, took at job with an escort service, embarking on a three-year stint in the heart of Boston's prostitution subculture. Reprint.35,000 first printing. View more info
By: Angelou, Maya
Price: ¥600.00
Publisher: Bantam: 1998
Seller ID: RWARE0000015536
Angelou examines the mixed blessings of success in one of the 20 brief, ane cdotal, and spicily provocative essays in this potent sister volume to her earlier collection, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993). During the 1950s, she tells us, she supported herself and her son as a nightclub singer. Expecting to be the center of attention at a party in her honor, sh e was peeved to find herself upstaged by a revered sports figure. Rememberi ng her hubris, Angelou... View more info
By: Arenas, Reinaldo
Price: ¥600.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1994
Seller ID: RWARE0000043918
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his... View more info
By: Armstrong, Lance
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Three Rivers Press: 2004
Seller ID: RWARE0000018655
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In It's Not about the Bike (Putnam, 2000), Armstrong related his battle with cancer and his incredible Tour de France victory. In this book, he gives a gripping account of his second through (record-tying) fifth victories at the Tour. (His latest triumph might be missed by less-than-thorough readers-it's at the very end, following the afterword.) One sees that Armstrong has grown up quite a bit since his first book. Howeve... View more info
By: Ashbrook, Tom
Price: ¥600.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2000
Seller ID: RWARE0000036279
In 1996, Tom Ashbrook was an international reporter who, in a crisis of the soul, resolved to join an old college classmate on the Internet rocket rid e. THE LEAP tells the story of how he walked away from an enviable career t o launch a risky new business venture, and it could serve as a template for anyone with e-commerce fantasies. As a deeply felt tale of a man who risks and rediscovers his family and purpose, it also has all the hallmarks of a classic. Ashbrook unde... View more info
By: Ashworth, Andrea
Price: ¥300.00
Publisher: Young Picador: 2004
Seller ID: RWARE0000017365
In her engrossing memoir, Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth recalls growing up poor in a violent English household during the 1970s and 1980s. Ashworth's father drowned when she was just 5. Her mother then married a ma n who beat her frequently and made life miserable for the whole family. Whe n Ashworth's mother finally got rid of him, she married a small-time crimin al who also soon became violent. Throughout her childhood, the author strug gled to protect her l... View more info
By: Auster, Paul
Price: ¥500.00
Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1992
Seller ID: RWARE0000030732
'One day there is life...and then, suddenly, it happens there is death'. So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The fir st section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and f eelings after the death of his father. In "The Book of Memory" the perspect ive shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates hi s separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and ... View more info
By: BAKER, NICHOLSON
Price: ¥650.00
Publisher: Vintage: 1992
Seller ID: RWARE0000003779
Nicholson Baker is most famous for Vox, the phone-sex novel Monica Lewinsky gave President Clinton, but the vastly superior U and I contains Baker's o wn dirty little secret: an obsession with John Updike. Not since Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus has one man's genius so publicly tormented another . Baker's ambition is a naked thing shivering with sensitivity, like a snai l bereft of its shell. Yet his book about himself thinking about Updike is as hilariously self-kn... View more info