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Monstre Désacré

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

by Robert A. Caro


Guilt-Edged Insecurity

Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795

edited by Marlies K. Danziger, edited by Frank Brady

Boswell's London Journal, 1762–1763

by James Boswell

Boswell in Holland, 1763–1764

by James Boswell

Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764

by James Boswell

Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765–1766

by James Boswell

Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766–1769

by James Boswell

Boswell for the Defence, 1769–1774

by James Boswell

Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1773

by James Boswell

Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774–1776

by James Boswell

Boswell in Extremes, 1776–1778

by James Boswell

Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778–1782

by James Boswell

Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782–1785

by James Boswell

Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785–1789

by James Boswell

Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789–1795

by James Boswell

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Hanover Place

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A Tenured Professor

by John Kenneth Galbraith


In A Cruel Country

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic

by Bette Bao Lord

A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir by China's Foremost Journalist

by Liu Binyan

'Tell the World': What Happened in China and Why

by Liu Binyan, with Ruan Ming and Xu Gang, translated by Helen L. Epstein


A Modern Hero

Marc Bloch: A Life in History

by Carole Fink


Crime and Puzzlement

Devices and Desires

by P.D. James


High Noon at the Likud Corral

Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon

by Ariel Sharon and David Chanoff

Sharon: An Israeli Caesar

by Uzi Benziman


Unchildish Activities

Don't Tell the Grown-ups: Subversive Children's Literature

by Alison Lurie


Tripping Over the Future

The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798–1984

by Don Gifford

Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

by O.B. Hardison Jr.


The Power of Flannery O’Connor

Collected Works

by Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald

The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor

by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists

by Ralph C. Wood

Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity

by Frederick Asals


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