Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was ...? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was married to an Academy Award-...
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Author:Kelley, TrueSummary: - Author:Pollack, Pamela D.Summary:
Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J.K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London...
- Author:Maslo, LinaSummary:
As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things...heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself-at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up,...
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
The bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir,...
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Author:Fry, StephenSummary:The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
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Author:Leavy, Barbara FassSummary:Aside from Ruth Rendell’s brilliance as a fiction writer, and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience that her readers can immediately relate to, the intra-familial stresses generated by the...
- Author:Milne, ChristopherSummary:
The autobiography of Christopher Milne and the background to the poems and stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
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Author:Pepys, SamuelSummary:Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.
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Author:Kempe, MargerySummary: -
Author:Wachtel, EleanorSummary:Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's 25 year anniversary, presents many of her best conversations from the show with authors including...
- Author:Solnit, RebeccaSummary:
"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." -Margaret Atwood. "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker....
- Author:Henry, Patti CallahanSummary:
Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. The younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George...
- Author:DICKENS, MonicaSummary:
A witty and humorous account of the experiences of a junior reporter recruited to a weekly paper in a small town.
- Author:Fraser, AntoniaSummary:
Biographer Antonia Fraser recounts her 33 years with husband Harold Pinter--a Nobel Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed modern-day playwrights. Here Antonia draws an intimate portrait of her marriage to Pinter--and reveals him to...
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Author:Beechey, AlanSummary:When a teenage girl disappears from a north London suburb a few days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Effie Strongitharm puts would-be cult leader and reputed exorcist Nigel Tapster on her list of people to be questioned. But when...
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
What happens when you catch a ratite? And when we simulate an attack of appendicitis? Have you ever smoked goat tobacco? Have you ever been decked out in a costume that looks like an undertaker on your way to school? Through the story...
- Author:Shakespeare, NicholasSummary:
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and...
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Author:Wilson, FrancesSummary:Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. In this biography, Frances Wilson tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and originality.
- Author:Shelden, MichaelSummary:
George Orwell was more than just a writer. He was a political and social sage who valued, above all else, individual freedom. His works aren't just entertainment--they're cautionary tales and red flags of warning. And if we...
- Author:Hornby, NickSummary:
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. As a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had...
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