People I've met, things I've done

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Fred First

A collection of essays reflecting on the author's life and sense of place along Goose Creek in Floyd County, Virginia. The book is a companion to First's blog Fragments from Floyd.

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edited and introduced by Paul Auster

In 1999, Paul Auster and National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered programme asked listeners to send in true stories, to be read on-air as part of the National Story Project. The response was overwhelming : everyone, it seemed, had a story to tell. *True Tales of American Life* gathers 180 of these stories in one extraordinary volume.

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Pamela Stephenson

Mrs Billy Connolly's tale of a more-than-usually extraordinary year in the life of living with her husband offers an insider's view of his filming, his charity works, his 60th birthday party, the TV and includes personal insight into what makes him tick, and what makes her tick (it's her year too).

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Tracy McMillan

"Television writer Tracy McMillan managed to work her way into a killer Hollywood career--privileged world of pool houses, premieres, and big-time producer deals--despite being the daughter of a fur-coat-wearing, El Dorado-driving, smooth-talking pimp named Freddie. But success couldn't save her from the pattern of self-destructive choices--stemming from her history with her father--that would shape all of her romantic relationships. This is her comic, tragic, and ultimately victorious story, the riveting true tale of how having a father obsessed with women made her a woman obsessed with men."