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The Woman I Was Born To Be

By: Susan Boyle

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Publisher: Atria: 2010

Seller ID: 0084736

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Kingfisher Days

By: Susan Coyne

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Publisher: Vintage Canada: 2001

Seller ID: 0099113

A magical tale of friendship and wonder -- the perfect gift for the imaginative child in all of us. One summer, in a hedge near her family's cottage in Kenora, five-year-old Susan Coyne discovered an overgrown stone fireplace. Her father said it was the home of Uncle Joe Spondoolak, an elf who'd moved in after the cottage had burned down long ago. Susan, a fanciful child, decided to become keeper of the hearth, tidying it up and leaving little gifts for the elves: ha... View more info

Family (Susan Hill)

By: Susan Hill

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Publisher: Viking: 1989

Seller ID: 0075126

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Roughing It in the Bush

By: Susanna Moodie

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Publisher: New Canadian Library: 1989

Seller ID: 0006323

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With Chatwin

By: Susannah Clapp

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Penguin: 1997

Seller ID: 0120186

The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a heartfelt nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment was made wholly evident by his writings. A great storyteller with a superbly original eye, Chatwin had achieved international literary stardom before his death from AIDS in 1989, at the age of forty-eight. In With Chatwin, Susannah Clapp also sheds light on some of the controversies surrounding the author's legend... View more info

After the Fall

By: Suzanne Somers

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Publisher: Crown Publishers: 1998

Seller ID: 0134323

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A Beautiful Mind (John Forbes Nash Jr.)

By: Sylvia Nasar

Price: $12.25

Publisher: Touchstone: 2001

Seller ID: 0043253

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and w... View more info

A Beautiful Mind (John Forbes Nash Jr.)

By: Sylvia Nasar

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Publisher: Faber and Faber: 1998

Seller ID: 0078986

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Custer's Trials: A Life On The Frontier Of A New America

By: T J Stiles

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Publisher: Knopf: 2015

Seller ID: 0138997

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Pope John Paul II

By: Tad Szulc

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Publisher: Scribner: 1995

Seller ID: 0070152

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Late Tea At The Deer Palace

By: Tamara Chalabi

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Publisher: Harper: 2011

Seller ID: 0132620

Just ten days after Baghdad's fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile--finally entering the homeland she'd known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family's history at the forefront of Iraqi society, Chalabi offers a rich portrait of Middle Eastern life and a provocative look at a lost Iraq. Unforgettable characters provide glimpses of the end of the Ottoman Empire, the birth of the... View more info