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'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs...'

So begins the first letter that nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding -

Did you know that Roald Dahl loved chocolate, but never ate spaghetti? Or that he was a terrible speller? Or that he had four sisters? D is for Dahl is an A to Z collection of facts, trivia, and zany details that bring Roald Dahl and his memorable charact

Superb Stories, Daring Deeds, Fantastic Adventures

Here is the action-packed sequel to Boy, a tale of Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one the world's best-loved writers,

This new edition of 'Boy' contains a wealth of new photos, facts and writings about Roald Dahl and his childhood, together with the original text and illustrations from his much-loved memoir. With lots of little-known details, this is a must-hav

In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpecte

The crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the iron curtain, and the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" all owe a tremendous debt to F. A. Hayek. Economist, social and political theorist, and intellectual historian, Hayek passionately champion

作者：Valerie Bertinelli

书名：Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

简介：Beloved actress and New York Times best-selling author Valerie Bertinelli

作者：Kathryn Schulz

书名：Lost & Found: A Memoir

简介：Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found,

The author of Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns his powers of observation and analysis on his own life's journey and conveys the excitement of his life-long exploration of mythic traditions, which h

作者：Jenny Lawson

书名：Broken (In the Best Possible Way)《破碎》

简介：As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In

作者：Dwight D. Eisenhower

书名：Crusade in Europe《欧洲十字军》

简介；Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figu

Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, his deft aphorisms

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.

When eleve

The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Lo

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.

*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES*

Determine

The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America—from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott of The New York Times

Invisible Child follows eight dramatic

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Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is mem

Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the

作者：Ai Weiwei

书名：1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

简介：In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the

作者：Sarah M. Broom

书名：The Yellow House《黄房子》

简介：这部非凡、引人入胜的处女作超越了人们对一本回忆录的基本期待，创造了一种娱乐和创造性相融合的文学形式。部分是

作者：Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

书名：An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination《丑陋的真相：Facebook统治之战的内幕》

简介：Award-winning New York

Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena is critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well known, and amazing fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, Undset based t