Unfinished Journey
Letters from a World War II Soldier
Author: Kerry Redmann
The story of Unfinished Journey centres around the letters of Morris B Redmann Jr, written home to his parents and family from October 20, 1943, through January 11, 1945. He was killed in action on January 14, 1945, duri ... |
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Foreigners
Three English Lives
Author: Caryl Phillips
Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first ... |
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Translating Lives
Living with Two Languages and Cultures
Author: Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka
Although Australia prides itself on being multicultural, many Australians have little awareness of what it means to live in two cultures at once, and of how much there is to learn about other cultural perspectives. |
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Rameau's Nephew: AND d'Alembert's Dream
Author: Denis Diderot
One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling exa ... |
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Authors Take Sides
Iraq and the Gulf War
Author: Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Cecil Woolf
This book is about two wars, separated by twelve years but united by the figures of Saddam Hussein and George Bush father and son. Based on writers' responses to a questionnaire, it is an attempt to record contemporary o ... |
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The Art of Dreaming
The Art of Dreaming
Author: Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this stunning new jacket edition of his bestselling book, he takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teaching ... |
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The Bardo of Waking Life
Author: Richard Grossinger
An avant-garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger's The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state ... |
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Conversations with the Heart-mind
Author: David Mitchell
This title presents an inspirational collection of quotations. Conversations With the Heart-Mind is a book of beautiful quotations covering all aspects of our lives. Written by a well-known Adelaide doctor, these quotati ... |
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The Compulsive Spike Milligan
Author: Spike Milligan
This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, 'The Essential Spike Milligan'. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and v ... |
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Disavowals
Author: Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun's activities as a ... |
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Dream Stuff
Author: David Malouf
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, this book presents stories that conjure up the memories ... |
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Great with Child
Letters to a Young Mother
Author: Beth Ann Fennelly
From serious to sisterly, these letters are from a toddler's mother to a pregnant friend about the transforming experience of motherhood. |
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My Dearest Friend
Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Author: Margaret A. Hogan & C.James Taylor
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to Miss Adorable, the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the ... |
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Life After Death
The Art of the Obituary
Author: Nigel Starck
In recent years, the obituary has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in literary prestige and popularity with readers. As David Bowman, a distinguished Australian editor and journalist, says: 'In the English-speaking world, ... |
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Liverpool Accents
Seven Poets and a City
Author: Peter Robinson
This anthology is not a historical survey of poetry about Liverpool, neither is it representative of Liverpool poets. Rather, it is an opportunity for seven poets - all with a biographical link to the city - of different ... |
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Miss Marple Omnibus: Body in the Library, Moving Finger, Murder is Announced, 4.50 from Paddington v. 1
Author: Agatha Christie
The first of three omnibuses which bring together all 12 Miss Marple novels. This volume contains "The Body in the Library", "The Moving Finger", "A Murder is Announced" and "The 4.50 from Paddington". |
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Miss Marple Omnibus: Caribbean Mystery, Pocket Full of Rye, Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, They Do it with Mirrors v. 2
Author: Agatha Christie
Another four of Agatha Christie's twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series. A Caribbean Mystery As Miss Marple dozes in the West Indian sun, an old soldier ... |
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The Meaning of Recognition
New Essays 2001-2005
Author: Clive James
Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man (and master) of many talents, and the essays collected here are testament to ... |
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Letters to Kate
Life After Life
Author: Carl H. Klaus
Sorrow is not a state, but a process that needs not a map but a history...There is something new to be chronicled every day, writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died sudden ... |
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Territories of History
Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
Author: Sarah H. Beckjord
Explores the unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and post-structuralist a ... |
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