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By: Dan Vittorio Segre
ISBN: 9781870015899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
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Migrant by necessity, cosmopolitan by choice, Dan Vittorio Segre has truly had an extraordinary life. The present volume continues the tale, tracing the development of Segre's unique personality, which attracts him to ever-more eccentric and paradoxical situations.
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By: Victor Serge
ISBN: 9781590174517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary describes a thrilling life on the frontlines of history and includes brilliant portraits of politicians from Trotsky and Lenin and Stalin and of major writers like Alexander Blok and Andrey Bely.
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By: Gregor Von Rezzori
ISBN: 9781590172469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2008
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Called "a rich, disquietingly good book" by The New York Times, the five interconnected stories in Memoirs of an Anti-Semite provide a panoramic yet intimate view of the deterioration of the European aristocracy in the years preceding World War II and the difficult decades that followed.
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By: John Glassco
ISBN: 9781590171844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2007
Publisher: New York Review Books
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1927. Finding college life "depressing...to a point where [he] could not go on" John "Buffy" Glassco decamped for Paris. Forty years later, he reconstructed this memoir a clef of his rollicking youth among the haute bohemians of the day, including Hemingway, Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Kay Boyle.
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By: Daniel Paul Schreber
ISBN: 9780940322202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2000
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In 1884, Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God.
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By: Teffi
ISBN: 9781782272991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A vividly idiosyncratic personal account of the disintegration of Tsarist Russia after the Revolution, as alive to the farcical and the ridiculous as it is to the tragic; a bit like what Chekhov might have written if he had lived to experience it.' - Michael Frayn
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By: Agathe von Trapp
ISBN: 9780061998812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A memoir that shares the true story behind "The Sound of Music".
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By: Cal Muzikar
ISBN: 9781098368524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Joseph Polchinski
ISBN: 9780262543446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Breakthrough Prize recipient Joseph Polchinksi (now deceased) reveals details of his upbringing, his collaborations with major figures in physics, and his significant contributions to string theory and cosmology"--
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By: Chantal Thomas
ISBN: 9781782275206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A memoir of childhood, the mother-daughter bond and the transformative power of swimming, by multi-award-winning French author Chantal Thomas.
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By: Jozef Czapski
ISBN: 9781681374864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Larry Toder
ISBN: 9781098393243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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Unusual events from a life of mishaps and triumphs.
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By: Paul Celan
ISBN: 9780374603236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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By: Abby Smith Rumsey
ISBN: 9780262048477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Anna Marie Tendler
ISBN: 9781785122385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
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By: Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781408898727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Daniel Gordis
ISBN: 9780805243123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Schocken Books
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(Paperback)
By: Anne Sexton
ISBN: 9780241460399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: William Fotheringham
ISBN: 9780224074513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, goes back to speak to those who were there at the time and those who knew Merckx best to find out what made Eddy Merckx so invincible.
'The full unvarnished of one mans heaven, and hell, on wheels' Independent
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By: Jim Hutton
ISBN: 9781526614506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Evie Christie
ISBN: 9781770415461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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A book of modern and contemporary poetry about love, death, and the end of the world.
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By: John Kercher
ISBN: 9781444742787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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John Kercher's moving account of the loss of his daughter Meredith, and their family's ongoing search for the truth.
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By: Melissa Eddy
ISBN: 9781982191030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Atria Books
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By: Melissa Eddy
ISBN: 9781982191047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th July 2025
Publisher: Atria Books
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For readers of Notorious RBG and The World According to Star Wars, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy's more than a decade covering German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the modern nation she helped shape.
