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Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles)

by Anne Rice

Published: 1997-05-28

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News"Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends...

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Memoir From Antproof Case

by Mark Helprin

Published: 2007-08-06

Paperback: 528 pages

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An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói, overlooking the ocean.As he reminisces and writes, pla...

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Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid

by Tanya Nicole Kach, Lawrence Fisher

Published: 2011-10-11

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'Tom,' I said, bracing myself for the threat that was sure to follow. 'I need to talk to you about something. About leaving here, I mean.'He didn't hit me. Didn't threaten. Instead, he looked at me with great sadness. 'Who saved your life?''You,' I replied, 'but...''Who takes care of you?'...

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A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics)

by James Edward Austen-Leigh

Published: 2002-12-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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Memoir of the Sunday Brunch

by Julia Pandl

Published: 2012-11-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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For Julia Pandl, the rite of passage into young-adulthood included mandatory service at her family’s restaurant, where she watched as her father—who was also the chef—ruled with the strictness of a drill sergeant. At age twelve, Julie was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch...

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Memoirs of a Dwarf: At the Sun King's Court

by Paul Weidner

Published: 2004-09-03

Hardcover: 346 pages

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Set in the over-scaled, decadent Versailles of Louis XIV, Memoirs of a Dwarf is the story of Hugues, an impoverished dwarf who maneuvers his way up into the very highest of court circles by clandestinely serving the needs of a mob of unscrupulous gamblers, of a priest notorious for saying ...

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Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Published: 1999-01-10

Paperback: 434 pages

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A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover, this brilliant debut novel offers, with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism, the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Optioned for film. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and...

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Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Published: 2000-10-05

Hardcover: 452 pages

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This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life behind the rice-paper screens, and summons up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history.

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Memoirs of a Geisha Uk

by Arthur Golden

Published: 1998-06-04

Paperback: 448 pages

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A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri...

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Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor: Icek Kuperberg

by Icek Kuperberg

Published: 2000-02-15

Paperback: 86 pages

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Powerful in its stark simple language, Icek Kuperberg chronicles his personal experiences as a concentration camp prisoner during World War II. Interned in various work and death camps, Icek had to use his guile and wits to simply stay alive. That he persevered despite tremendous horrors and obstacles,...