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The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
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Include books by the same authorAs I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
Lady Sarashina · 176 pages
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Murasaki Shikibu · 117 pages
Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka · 528 pages
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensit
Ball Four
Jim Bouton · 472 pages
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And seriou
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
Virginia Woolf · 408 pages
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 285 pages
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. T
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin · 190 pages
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a gre
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
L.M. Montgomery · 448 pages
Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928
Anne Morrow Lindbergh · 290 pages
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Michihiko Hachiya · 256 pages
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness.
This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl · 431 pages
"A memoir told through the journals, letters, and stories of young cancer patient Esther Earl"--Provided by the publisher. This memoir is told through the journals, letters, and stories of young thyroid cancer patient Esther Earl. Photographs and essays by family and friends help to tell Esther's story. The coauthors are Lori and Wayne Earl.
La Nostalgie heureuse
Amelie Nothomb · 150 pages
Autobiographical narration of the author's childhood in Japan.
The War
Marguerite Duras · 183 pages
These extraordinary pages, written in 1944 but first published in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of *The Lover* and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi Occupation and the first months of Liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a Resistance network headed by François Mitterrand, Duras is swept up in the turmoil of the period. She tells of nursing her starving husband back
A Year With Swollen Appendices
Brian Eno · 424 pages
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi · 216 pages
A long-standing bestseller by Japan's most popular TV personality, also well known for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
Ma Yan, Pierre Haski · 176 pages
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay · 278 pages
As soon as Adam Kay set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realized there's quite a lot they don't teach you at medical school ... His diaries from the NHS front line - scribbled in secret after long nights, endless days and missed weekends - are hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns. This Is Going to Hurt is everything you wanted to know about being a junior doctor, and mor
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett · 841 pages
Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. These pages are filled with previously undisclosed facts about the lives and loves of the irch and famous--from royalty to movie and music stars to renowned artists.