sir john gielgud a life in letters sir john gielgud introduced and edited by richard mangan now in paperback a remarkable self-portrait by one of the greatest actors of the 20th century through his frank mesmerizing and intimate letters which are at once gloriously appallingly [and hilariously truthful new york times sir john gielgud was born in april 1904 and died in may 2000 at the age of 96 richard mangan is the curator of one of england s major theater collections he lives in london sir john gielgud best known to audiences for his academy awardwinning turn in the hit comedy arthur as well as starring roles in gandhi and other major movies was an incomparable actor whose career on stage and screen spanned eight decades from his 1921 london stage debut to recent smash films like shine and elizabeth gielgud wrote letters almost every day of his adult life whether at home in england or abroad from thousands of letters beginning with those to his mother when gielgud was an aspiring
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poems for life famous people select their favorite poem and say why it inspires them edited by the nightingale-bamford school introduction by anna quindlen gift book book of inspiration celebrity book poems for life is an unforgettable collection of poems recommended by famous people and handed down from one generation to the next the nightingale-bamford school is a private girls school in new york city this project was undertaken by the fifth-grade classes of 19923 and 19934 guided by two of their teachers anna quindlen is a syndicated columnist and bestselling author what do allen ginsberg and angela lansbury have in common isabella rossellini and e l doctorow wendy wasserstein and yo-yo ma they each have a favorite poem what s your favorite poem and why that was the question students from two fifth-grade classes at a new york school asked famous people to whom they had written their idea the students explained was to put together a book that would benefit the women s commission f
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the pastures of beyond an old cowboy looks back at the old west dayton o hyde no one is better suited to convey the flavor of the old west than this authentic american original whose colorful tales of cowboys indians and the horses they rode have the grace of poetry and the power of myth dayton o hyde is a rancher photographer self-taught naturalist and essayist the author of 15 books including the classic don coyote he has won awards for his writing and conservation work he founded the black hills wild horse sanctuary in south dakota where he now lives he still breaks horses at age 13 dayton o hyde a spirited beanpole of a boy ran away from home in marquette michigan to his uncle s ranch in eastern oregon this was in the 1930s and yamsi was one of the last great cattle ranches of the west soon the boy nicknamed hawk was riding a horse soaking up all facets of ranch life from the hired hands and winning the cowboys respect a natural at bronco busting he eventually became a rodeo rid
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poisons from hemlock to botox and the killer bean of calabar peter macinnis in the tradition of salt and stiff a wide-ranging and provocative look teeming with little-known facts and engaging stories at a subject of the direst interest peter macinnis a science writer has also been a teacher and museum animator the author of 20 books for adults and children including bittersweet the story of sugar he has appeared on radio and television in his native australia he now works for an online encyclopedia and lives in sydney poisons permeate our world they are in the environment the workplace the home they are in food our favorite whiskey medicine well water they have been used to cure disease as well as to incapacitate and kill they smooth wrinkles block pain stimulate and enhance athletic ability in this entertaining and fact-filled book science writer peter macinnis considers poisons in all their aspects he recounts stories of the celebrated poisoners in history and literature from nero to
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the half brother a novel lars saabye christensen translated from the norwegian by kenneth steven the masterpiece that publishers weekly in a starred review hailed as one of the literary must-reads of the summer and that the independent in london likened to paul auster s the book of illusions meeting jonathan franzen s the corrections is now available in paperback lars saabye christensen is the prizewinning author of 10 novels as well as short stories and poetry he lives in norway tine harden the half brother is a truly gripping epic novel hugely ambitious in scope and utterly compelling a wonderful mixture of surreal comedy and touching intimacy in stunning detail and elegant prose it relates the lives of four generations of a far from ordinary family it opens on may 8 1945 when 20-year-old vera hoping to celebrate the end of world war ii with her mother and grandmother is brutally raped by an unknown assailant from that crime is born a boy named fred a misfit who later becomes a b
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ivy league stripper heidi mattson the true story of a small-town girl who mixed a prestigious ivy-league education with the down and dirty world of stripping heidi mattson was born in alaska and raised in maine she graduated from brown university with a b.a in english and american literature she lives in california alan w bean heidi mattson successfully united sex and scholarship to realize a 90s version of the american dream by becoming a smart sassy self-confident stripper while attending brown university in providence rhode island intelligent and ambitious she grew up in small-town maine and her whole town applauded when brown accepted her but school and living expenses carried a high price tag one she couldn t meet by waiting tables and cleaning houses a chance ad brought her to the foxy lady a strip club in providence not far from campus swearing she would stay only as long as she didn t feel compromised she soon became one of the club s top attractions in this engrossing story m
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young turk a novel moris farhi from a writer whose international acclaim can now spread to us shores comes a wise craftily spun and spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love courage and the forging of conscience a novel of startling integrity and beauty independent on sunday moris farhi was born in turkey in 1935 a vice president of international pen he has been an active campaigner for freedom of expression in his native land he is the author of several novels and is at work on a new one he lives in london in the beginning there is death says one narrator in this enthralling treasure of a novel alan silletoe but after that there is life robust riotous naïve sensual tragic and profound through a series of 13 linked stories connected by a circle of young friends moris farhi writes of the trials and joys of children coming of age in an increasingly dangerous and politicized world turkey just before during and after world war ii the death at the beginning is that of a girl endowed with se
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the candy men the rollicking life and times of the notorious novel candy nile southern now in paperback a thoroughly entertaining account of the creation evolution and publication of candy one of the most notorious and successful novels of the 20th century nile southern is the son of terry southern and the literary executor of his estate he is the coeditor of now dig this the unspeakable writings of terry southern 19501995 and the author of the anarchivists of eco-dub he lives with his wife and two daughters in boulder colorado 70 ean once upon a time in the 1950s a writer named terry southern met fellow expat mason hoffenberg in paris and decided to write a sexual satire based on voltaire s candide for rogue french publisher maurice girodias they called it candy the book drew the attention of the french censors was banned renamed reissued rebanned and reissued again it became one of the most talked-about novels of the tumultuous 1960s selling millions of copies in america alone in t
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crossing the lines a novel melvyn bragg with this novel written like the soldier s return and a son of war in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs washington post book world melvyn bragg brings to a stunning conclusion one of the finest sagas of postwar britain london sunday telegraph melvyn bragg is the author of a dozen novels and six works of nonfiction in 1998 he was made a life peer lord bragg divides his time between london and cumbria set in the 1950s this absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives a teenager joe richardson falls in love with rachel whose life threatens to be wrenched from its roots his parents sam and ellen are facing the frontiers of middle age while joe finds himself steered to new exhilarations and dislocations as the world outside home beckons increasingly intoxicated with rachel joe is swept into situations that seem beyond his control alive with a wide cast of characters crossing the lines vivid
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spymistress the secret life of vera atkins william stevenson from the bestselling author of a man called intrepid comes the first and only biography of vera atkins of whom james bond creator ian fleming said in the real world of spies vera atkins was the boss william stevenson was trained in aerial espionage as a british naval fighter pilot during world war ii a respected historian and expert on covert warfare he is the author of 16 books including intrepid s last case kiss the boys goodbye and ninety minutes at entebbe he lives in toronto vera atkins was an attractive young woman with smoky eyes and lustrous black hair she belonged to a wealthy family and dined with ambassadors and kings she could have been a socialite but in the cataclysmic days of world war ii vera atkins became great britain s spymistress recruited at the age of 25 by legendary spymaster sir william stephenson who came to be known as the man called intrepid vera ran countless perilous missions on her own in the
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