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Behind the Scenes - Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White

by Elizabeth Keckley

Published: 2009-08-19

Paperback: 132 pages

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Elizabeth Keckley's rise from slave to White House confidante makes for an involving story that details the cruel and terrible life for those in slavery, and the drive and determination of a woman who would not let others destroy her will. "Behind the Scenes - Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in...

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

by Kate Atkinson

Published: 1997-02

Paperback: 382 pages

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ABOUTBOOK: From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception ("I exist!"), it is clear that she is a narrator who will leave no stone unturned in her account of family life above a pet shop in England. Not content simply to describe her own circumstances, Ruby investigates the lives of the women...

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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Keckley

Published: 2011-04-27

Paperback: 126 pages

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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.

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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 126 pages

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Behind the Scenes, Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House tells the story of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who became a successful Washington, D.C., dressmaker and confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. This intimate bond allowed Keckley to witness the happy times as well...

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Beige

by Cecil Castellucci

Published: 2009-03-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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Beijing Coma: A Novel

by Ma Jian

Published: 2008-05-27

Hardcover: 592 pages

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Being Dead

by Jim Crace

Published: 2000-05-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and...

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Being Dead: A Novel

by Jim Crace

Published: 2001-03-21

Paperback: 208 pages

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Lying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle-aged couple. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are returning to the seacoast where they met as students. Instead, they are battered to death by a thief with a chunk of granite. Their co...

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Being Flynn

by Nick Flynn

Published: 2012-02-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.A Focus Features production, Nick Flynn's moving memoir of his relationship with his father is directed by Paul Weitz, whose films include About a Boy and L...

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Being Mrs. Alcott

by Nancy Geary

Published: 2005-07-18

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Near a white-sand beach on Cape Cod stands the beautiful home that Grace and Bainbridge Alcott have owned for decades--a time during which Grace has deferred her own opinions and dreams to try to be the perfect mother and the perfect "Mrs. Alcott." But with her husband’s premature retirement and their...