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The Pianist
by Anthea Bell Wladyslaw SzpilmanDramatic story of a pianists survival of World War II in Poland.
The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons From a Life in Feathers
by Caroll Spinney J. MilliganMemoir of the man inside Big Bird from Sesame Street.
Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
by Edna Mccown Erica FischerA real-life love story between two women, one of them a Jew living illegally on the streets during WWII.
The Best Lawyer In A One-Lawyer Town
by Dale BumpersAutobiography of the former Arkansas governor and legislator.
Ernest Hemingway and the Pursuit of Heroism
by Leo GurkoLong Synopsis: Dr. Leo Gurko, professor of English at Hunter College in New York, synopsizes and explicates the nonfiction, novels and some of the short stories by Ernest Hemingway. The first chapter is biographical, and the ninth chapter explores Hemingway's search for heroism. Among the material covered in this highly readable book is The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not, The Torrents of Spring, Across the River and Into the Trees, Death in the Afternoon, and more.
20th Century Journey: The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940
by William L. ShirerShirer's life and times from 1930 to 1940
Girish Chandra Ghosh
by Utpal DuttOn the works of Girishchandra Ghose, 1844-1912, Bengali playwright and actor.
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
by Bill GertzBook about our intelligence failures and waste
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime
by Eliot A. CohenDiscussion of how statesmen and the military should interact.
VJP Saldanha
by J. F. D’souzaVincent John Peter Saldanha (June 9, 1925 - 2000) was an Indian litterateur, dramatist, musician, and poet. He made lasting contributions to Konkani literature as a poet, dramatist, novelist, and a litterateur.
Paravastu Chinnaya Suri
by B. RadhakrishnaParavastu Chinnaya Suri (1809-1862) spent all his life in and around Madras. He was acclaimed as a profound scholar in Telugu and Sanskrit in the traditional education.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
by Edward GibbonThe great historian reviews 'the simple transactions of a private and literary life'.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography
by Chuck BarrisAutobiography of creator of game shows including The Dating Game and The Gong Show.
The Universe and Dr. Einstein
by Lincoln BarnettAcclaimed by Einstein himself, this is among the clearest, most readable expositions of relativity theory. It explains the problems Einstein faced, the experiments that led to his theories, and what his findings reveal about the forces that govern the universe.
An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India
by V. S. NaipaulA classic of modern travel writing, "An Area of Darkness" is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. "An Area of Darkness" also abounds with Naipaul's strikingly original responses to India's paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.
Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui
by Suleiman Akhtar Javed Rakhshanda JalilOn the life and works of Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui, 1894-1977, Urdu writer.