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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Told through his diaries--a twenty-five-year passion project--the beloved actor, political activist, and more grants us access to his thoughts and insights on theater performances, the craft of acting, politics, friendships, work projects, and his general musings on life.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For fourteen years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. In words and pictures, he writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in...
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Language
English
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"In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land 250 Camera, Smith started posting selfies with her phone, portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, her daily coffee, the books...
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Series
Virago modern classics volume 716
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Following from The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister (published by Virago) this volume continues her story. Anne Lister arrives in post-revolutionary Paris in 1824, attempting to recover from a doomed love affair with a married woman. There she becomes emotionally entangled with a young widow. Anne's efforts, firstly to extricate herself from this new 'scrape' and then to make a choice between the two women in her life, provides an absorbing sexual and...
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English
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"Peggi, you are done, and you will be okay."
These are the words I heard in my heart as I fell to my knees in my bedroom on July 12, 2019, committed to declaring for the last time "This is the first day of my alcohol-free life."
One day prior, a drinking incident following a family reunion was the final straw for my husband and daughter. My husband walked away from the mess that was our marriage due to my drinking. This was followed in rapid sequence...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
One of the most politically sensitive and highly charged events of the waning years of the 20th century was Britain's turnover of Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997. A fact-filled but always entertaining account of a year in the life of the new Hong Kong is now offered by the journalist who knows the metropolis best.
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Language
English
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"In July 2012 Thomas Harding's fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result. Beginning on the day of Kadian's death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, and beyond, Kadian Journal is a record of grief, and of a mind in shock and questioning a strange new reality. Interspersed within the journal are fragments of memory: jewel-bright everyday moments that slowly...
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30 and finally the German surrender on May 8.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"'The Motorcycle Diaries' is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures, arugably as much as any book ever written, the joy of one person's youthful belief in the possibilities of humankind tending toward justice, peace, and happiness. After the release in 2004 of the...
Author
Publisher
Sky Blue Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Anaïs Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the full details of Nin's fascinating life and the emotional and literary high-wire acts she committed both in documenting it and in defying the mores of 1950s America. Trapeze begins where the previous...
Author
Series
Dog diaries (James Patterson) volume 4
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"There's a mystery mischief-maker on the loose in Hills Village! Can Junior solve the mystery before disaster strikes?"--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Offers a selection of the author's private journal entries, complete with sketches and poems, made between 1960 and 2010, recording his extensive travels and experiences with such notable figures as Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
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