Biografia

Enduring Grace: living portraits of seven women mystics.

Flinders, Carol Lee, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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San Francisco, Harper, (1993). 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. Brings to life a chorus of wisdom from the past that speaks with relevance to contemporary spiritual quests. Owner notes &. underlining.

Seeing the Crab: a memoir of dying.

Middlebrook, Christina, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Basic Books, (1996). VG in VG DJ. Christina was not quite 50 when she was told a lump in her breast was not only malignant but had metastasized & she had. only a 50% chance of surviving 2 more years. Remainder mark.

Highlights of Margaret Chase Smith's Life.

Woolwich Central School, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Brunswick, ME, Biddle Pub Co, (1994). G ex-library lg sz PB. A 4th grade class go to the Smith library to learn about her life & write essays about what they've learned. Library markings. They then meet with Smith and present her with the book they have written. Spots on back ...

The Log of the Skipper's Wife.

Balano, James W., · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Camden, ME, Down East, (1979). VG PB. For most of her married life, Dorothea Moulton lived aboard her husband's various sailing ships visiting mysterious ports. Partial price sticker ft endpaper.

James Joyce: his way of interpreting the modern world.

Tindall, W. Y., · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Grove, (1960). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Artist's uncompromising struggle to find within himself common denominators of mankind, while preserving his individuality &. artistic integrity. Formal structure of Ulysses, Joyce's use of myth, his debt to Freud & Jung & influence on other ...

Hitler's Generals.

Barnett, Correlli, edited by, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Grove Weidenfeld, (19889). 1st Am ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Probes relationship between Hitler & his generals from point of view of his staff. Creases on back DJ flap.

Carl Sandburg.

Hacker, Jeffrey H., · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Watts, (1984). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. The essence of Sandburg's spirit, restlessness that led him to a hobo's life as a young man, the devotion to social justice. that guided his work as a journalist, the affinity for the language of a growing nation that distiguis...

Memories and Hallucinations: a memoir.

Thomas, D. M., · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Penguin, (1988). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Pattern of memories, poems, ideas, reflections & dreams through which Thomas explores his past, emotions, erotic imagination &. sources of his artistic inspiration. Within framework of reconstructed psychoanalytic sessions, moves from...

Harvard Memorial Biographies: vol. II only.

Harvard University, · 1866 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Cambridge, Sever & Francis, 1866. VG. Biographies of Harvard men who died in Civil War. Deep green binding, gilt decoration & lettering, top edge gilt. Edge wear. esp at top of spine.

More than Money: true stories of people who learned life's ultimate lesson.

Cavuto, Neil, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Regan, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Personal & profession tragedies & triumphs, and people who make the most of their difficult & painful lives.

No Mountain High Enough: secrets of successful African American women.

Ehrhart-Morrison, Dorothy, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Berkeley, CA, Conari, (1997). 1st ptg. VG PB. Revealing look at 32 high-achieving black women who became successful against tremendous odds.

1920 Diary.

translated by H. T. Willetts, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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New Haven, Yale Univ Press, (1990). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ.

Misfit: the strange life of Frederick Exley.

Yardley, Jonathan, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1997). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. One of most tormented, distinctive & talented writers of the post-war years who is raunchy, vulgar, self-centered & even. infantile, yet also loyal, self-deprecating & unfailingly humorous. A man who sacrificed everything in order to wr...

Brown: the last discovery of America.

Rodriguez, Richard, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Penguin, (2002). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Rodriguez reflects on the color brown & meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Profound & poetic. Sl edge wear,. top corner creased.

Life in a Day: uncorrected proofs.

Grumbach, Doris, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Beacon, (1996). 1st ptg. VG PB. An exploration of 24 hours of ordinariness. The common day is more representative of the contents of most of our lives;. disastrous ones are rare. I am beginning the 7th years of residence at the end of a peninsula in down east Maine, lo...

E. E. Cummings: a biography.

Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Napeville, IL, Sourcebooks, (2004). VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by author. Cummings celebrated the ordinary, reviled pretentiousness, scourged conformity, experimented boldly with. words, syntax & punctuation & wrote some of the most erotic & tender love poetry in the English langu...

My Little Journey.

Strong, June, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Washington, D.C., Review & Herald Pub Assn, (1984). VG PB. Why would a middle-aged mother of 6 leave home & walk up a coastal highway all alone? Determined to unpeel accumulated. layers of conventional religion to see if there was anything underneath. Ft cover creased at botto...

Helen Steiner Rice: ambassador of sunshine.

Pollitt, Ronald & Virginia Wiltse, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Carmel, NY, Guideposts, (1994). VG in G DJ. Using the poet's voluminous corerspondence & recollections of those who knew her, tells of a popular teenager & young. suffragette who planned to go to law school but her plans changed abruptly when her father died and she provided f...

Voice of the River: an autobiography.

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman with John Rothchild, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Sarasota, FL, Pineapple Press, (1990). 3rd ptg. VG lg sz PB. First lady of conservation because of her lifelong commitment to saving the Everglades. Rothchild edited 200 hours of taped. memoirs to prodcue this account of a full & inspiring life.

Sarah Orne Jewett: her world and her work: Radcliffe biography series.

Blanchard, Paula, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, (1995). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Best known for her masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs Jewett (1849-1909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our. time. Place, traditional values & our yearning for a rural utopia all find fulfillment in Jewe...