
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Pamela Smith Hill
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Long hidden in archives, Laura Ingalls Wilder's original handwritten autobiography is a tribute to...

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
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POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in...

Princess More Tears to Cry
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When Jean Sasson's book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an...

Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is one of France's most important writers and theorists of the second...

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER. "A gripping account of the...

Saving the Army: The Life of Sir John Pringle
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Sir John Pringle was born in 1707 in the Scottish Borders, where his ancestors had held land since...

Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile
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Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered...

Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry
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The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing -- "fracking" -- as...

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
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For over half a century Roy Strong has amused, enraged and inspired the British public, firstly in...

The Astronaut Wives Club
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As American astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the...