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'This is the best book we have had on Vivien Leigh, the most thoroughly and shrewdly researched, the most acute in its realization that Leigh was an actress who had to find herself in her parts if she was to do well, but who invariably began to destroy herself in the process.'--The Boston Sunday Globe AUTHOR: Alexander Walker
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Crooked Cucumber by David Chadwick
This biography of the author of the famous ZEN MIND, BEGINNER'S MIND is written by one of his American students and recounts Suzuki's life in Japan where he first had his dream of bringing Zen to the West, and his life in America where he was to see his dream realized when he became the founder of the first Zen Buddhist monastery in the Western hemisphere. AUTHOR: David Chadwick
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Janette Oke by Laurel O. Logan
Description not available.A biography of the popular Christian novelist, as told by her youngest daughter, chronicles her background as the daughter of a Canadian prairie farmer, wife of a pastor and educator, and mother of four. Reprint. AUTHOR: Laurel O. Logan
PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins
For 18 months, Jenkins toured the countryside of Alaska from a home base in Seward and, with rapt attention, sought out the state's unique spirit. This book is a diary of his discoveries, encounters, and adventures. AUTHOR: Peter Jenkins
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Robert Oppenheimer by Alice K. Smith, Charles Weiner
Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is one of the few American scientists who have become public - and controversial - figures in the twentieth century. This book adds a new dimension to the Oppenheimer story by offering a look at the private man behind the public figure. It consists of letters spanning the period from his Harvard student days in 1922 to his departure from Los Alamos in 1945. The letters are supplemented by recollections of those who knew Oppenheimer and by his own recollections from an interview a few years before his death. AUTHOR: Alice K. Smith, Charles Weiner
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Life among Savages by Shirley Jackson
One of America's most celebrated writers takes you home to a family and a small town so funny and unpredictable, you'd wish it were your own. As warm as it is hilarious and believable . . . Never has the state of domestic chaos been so perfectly illuminated .-- The New York Times Book Review . AUTHOR: Shirley Jackson
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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