Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the Brontes
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The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled...
Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to find
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other...
Between Here and Knitwear
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Beginning in Lancashire in the '60s and '70s, they follow a young girl as she becomes aware of what...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
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After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his...
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: v. 6: 1966-1976
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The sixth and final volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten, edited by Philip...
Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map
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Maps of physical spaces locate us in the world and help us navigate unfamiliar routes. Maps of...
A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.
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Immigration and the growing Latino population of the United States have become such contentious...
Soccer: Watch: We are the Champions: No. 1
Giorgio Martignoni and Roberto Ronchi
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Great sports figures are the modern equivalent of heroes. An history of sport is necessarily a story...
The Adventures of Form and Content: Essays
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An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, "a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart"...
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
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Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from rising comedy...