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TURNER: BRIEF LIVES 2

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: 2006

Seller ID: RWARE0000052310

ISBN: 0099287285

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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. Ackroyd's short biography of perhaps the greatest and most original of all English painters, J.M.W. Turner. James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of Londo n butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane. He was short and pugnacious a nd, as Peter Ackroyd writes: "His speech was recognizably that of a Cockney , and his language was the language of the ...
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MEMOIRS OF A BYSTANDER: A LIFE IN DIPLOMACY (OXFORD PAKISTAN PAPERBACKS)

By: Akhund, Iqbal

Price: ¥3,000.00

Publisher: OUP Pakistan: 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000041829

ISBN: 0195779975

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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 Akhund's account casts a fresh light on these critical and still controversial events in Pakistan's history. There are perspective...
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BLUE SUBURBIA: ALMOST A MEMOIR

By: Albanese, Laurie

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: 2004

Seller ID: RWARE0000015513

ISBN: 0060565632

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

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 year, or lie in the basement weeping, but Al banese is determined to flee the deadening certainty of her parents' lives. Her st...
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TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE

By: Allison, Dorothy

Price: ¥1,500.00

Publisher: Dutton Adult: 1995

Seller ID: RWARE0000007952

ISBN: 0525939210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

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-grade self asks her aunt. "Child, some days we don't even have a family," comes the response. If Allison suffered horrors, notably rap...
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THE LIFE OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD

By: Alpers, Anthony

Price: ¥900.00

Publisher: Viking: 1980

Seller ID: RWARE0000027959

ISBN: 0670428051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

Life Of Katherine Mansfield, The, by Alpers, Antony.
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BILL AND HILLARY THE MARRIAGE

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Warner Books: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000041911

ISBN: 0751530352

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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 that have been written about Bill and Hillary, the true nature of their relationship remains a jealously guarded secret. Unt...
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CALLGIRL: CONFESSIONS OF AN IVY LEAGUE LADY OF PLEASURE

By: Angell, Jeannette

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: 2005

Seller ID: RWARE0000042148

ISBN: 0060736054

Binding: Mass Market Pa

Condition: Very Good

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.
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I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: 1980

Seller ID: RWARE0000052120

ISBN: 0553237799

Binding: Mass Market Pa

Condition: Very Good

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.
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IF AT BIRTH YOU DON'T SUCCEED: MY ADVENTURES WITH DISASTER AND DESTINY

By: Anner, Zach

Price: ¥3,500.00

Publisher: Macmillan Audio: 2016

Seller ID: RWARE0000051991

ISBN: 1427268037

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: As New

"Zach Anner is way more than an inspirational figure for anyone who has eve r felt impossibly different: he's also a great f**king writer. Wise and fun ny, with unfailing insight into the booby trap known as the human mind, you will hang on every word as you watch him turn his considerable intellectua l gifts into a life worth envying. I like that this book has no genre, and neither does this special man."--Lena Dunham Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and und...
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EVERY SECOND COUNTS

By: Armstrong, Lance

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: 2004

Seller ID: RWARE0000018655

ISBN: 0767914481

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

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. However, he still has a reckless streak, as witnessed by his fondness for diving into a place called Dead Man's Hole. There are gli...
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THE LEAP: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND MADNESS IN THE INTERNET GOLD RUSH

By: Ashbrook, Tom

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000036279

ISBN: 0395839343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

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 undertakes his white-knuckle journey in pursuit of the d ream of an Internet startup without business experience, a technical bac...
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ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE - CHILDREN'S EDITION

By: Ashworth, Andrea

Price: ¥300.00

Publisher: Young Picador: 2004

Seller ID: RWARE0000017365

ISBN: 0330436597

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

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 little sisters from their stepfathers and kept the fami ly going when their mother could not function because of her injuries,...
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MY ANIMALS AND OTHER FAMILY

By: Balding, Clare

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: 2013

Seller ID: RWARE0000030600

ISBN: 0241959756

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

"My Animals and Other Family" by Clare Balding is a funny, brave, tender st ory of self-discovery. 'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a d og, and suspect I had aged in dog years.' Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happil y ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen. She and h er younger brother came very low down the pecking order. Left to their ...
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SLAVES IN THE FAMILY

By: Ball, Edward

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: LibraryThing Review: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000051719

ISBN: 0345431057

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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DR. LAURA : THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY

By: Bane, Vickie L.

Price: ¥900.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000008857

ISBN: 0312205309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

The word unauthorized pretty much guarantees that a biography isn't going t o be flattering, and, no surprise, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, radio's finger-w agging "shrink" (her doctorate is in physiology), gets a pretty good drubbi ng here. In this case, though, the author didn't have to work all that hard to dig up the dirt; Schlessinger's well-publicized antics over the years g ive Bane plenty of fodder. Those who have read the unflattering piece about Dr. Laura in a 1998 issue of Vanity Fair will find much of this material f amiliar: Schlessinger hasn't spoken to her mother and sister for years...
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ANYONE CAN DO IT: MY STORY

By: Bannatyne, Duncan

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Orion: 2007

Seller ID: RWARE0000048785

ISBN: 0752881892

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches o f Jersey. He saw a story of someone who had made himself a millionaire, and decided to do the same. Five years later he had done it, and now he is wor th 168 million. In this remarkable book, Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches, fr om ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire, explaining how anyone could tak e the same route as he did - if they really want to. Hugely articulate, and with numerous fascinating and revealing stories to tell, this is an autobiography and a business book unlike any other - but th...
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RUNNING WITH THE FIRM

By: Bannon, James

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Ebury Press: 2013

Seller ID: RWARE0000048900

ISBN: 0091951518

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

"Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm a hooligan. And, do you know why? Because that's my f**king j ob." In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was s ent undercover to track down the "generals" of a football hooligan gang, ac hieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game.The film was so shocking it was hard to believe the mindless events that took place could e ver happen in the real world. Well, believe it now... Almost twenty yea...
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ANEDUCATION BY BARBER, LYNN ( AUTHOR ) ON OCT-15-2009, PAPERBACK

By: Barber, Lynn

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: 2009

Seller ID: RWARE0000039955

ISBN: 0141044144

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lynn Barber's true story, now a major film of the same name scripted by Nic k Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive olde r man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life . Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, reveali ng how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husband-to- be. An Education tells how she went on to work for seven years at dari...
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THE INNOCENT ANTHROPOLOGIST: NOTES FROM A MUD HUT

By: Barley, Nigel

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co: 1992

Seller ID: RWARE0000044557

ISBN: 0805019677

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Describes the misadventures of a novice anthropologist trying to study the culture of the Dowayo people of the Cameroons.
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ELEGY FOR IRIS

By: Bayley, John

Price: ¥2,200.00

Publisher: St Martins Pr: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000007933

ISBN: 0312198647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

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; In one of literary history's ghastlier ironies, Iris Murdoch, the author of such highly intellectual and philosophical novels as A Severed Head and Under the Net, was diagnosed in 1994 with Alzheimer's disease, which slowly destroys reasoning powers, memory, even the ability to speak coherently. Her husband, English literary critic John Bayley, unsparingly depicts his wife's affliction in prose as...
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