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Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928
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Include books by the same authorThe Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Helene Hanff · 137 pages
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
L.M. Montgomery · 448 pages
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Robert Hunt Rhodes, Elisha Hunt Rhodes
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Michitsuna no Haha · 208 pages
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
Lady Sarashina · 176 pages
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.
Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
Margaret Sartor · 288 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 Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
Belle de Jour, Brooke Magnanti · 336 pages
The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
Ma Yan, Pierre Haski · 176 pages
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Jack Kerouac · 387 pages
Excerpts from his diaries chronicle a pivotal era in Kerouac's life, describing the creation of his first novel; his special friendships with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady; and his own take on the events described in "On the Road."
Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War
Agnes Humbert · 370 pages
A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joine
A Year With Swollen Appendices
Brian Eno · 424 pages
Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Courtney Love · 304 pages
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
The Bolivian Diary: The Authorised Edition
Ernesto Che Guevara · 303 pages
A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45
Astrid Lindgren · 240 pages
Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer a civilian's, a mother's, and an aspiring writer's unique account of the devastating conflict. She emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and wa
Stick Figure
Lori Gottlieb · 230 pages
After happening upon the diary she kept when she was 11 years old, Gottlieb was moved to publish this chronicle of her struggle with anorexia nearly 20 years after she wrote it. In the late 1970s, she lived with her parents and brother in Beverly Hills, where Gottlieb's loneliness and concern about looking attractive to boys swiftly transformed into an obsession with dieting, although she had neve
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
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
Journals of Anaïs Nin Volume 4
Gunther Stuhlmann · 266 pages