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      By Worsley, Lucy
       2022., 13:46:44, Tantor Audio Edition: Unabridged.    Click to access digital title.    Sample Summary Note: "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why-despite all the evidence to the contrary-did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was-truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
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      By Cade, Jared, 1962-
       2012., eBook Versions Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: In December 1926 Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. The crime writer was found 11 days later in a hotel in Harrogate,Yorkshire, claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Until now none of her biographers have come up with conclusive evidence as to what Agatha Christie did in the first 24 hours after she disappeared, or whether her memory loss was genuine. Although the notoriety made Agatha Christie famous, she never recovered from the intense press scrutiny, and the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured that she made no reference to it in her memoirs. Illustrated with many hitherto unpublished photographs, Jared Cade's illuminating book provides all the answers, including startling accounts by the novelist's surviving relatives, that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a co-conspirator and how it went wrong.
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      By Yanofsky, Joel, 1955-
       2011., Viking Canada Call No: QWF 813.54 Y24b    Availability:2 of 2     At Your Library Summary Note: A veteran book reviewer, Yanofsky has spent a lifetime immersed in literature (not to mention old movies and old jokes), which he calls shtick. This account of a year in the life of a family describes a father's struggle to enter his son's world, the world of autism, using the materials he knows best: self-help books, feel-good memoirs, literary classics from the Bible to Dr. Seuss, old movies, and, yes, shtick. Funny, wrenching, and unfailingly candid, Bad Animals is both an exploration of a baffling condition and a quirky love story told by a gifted writer.
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      By Forrester, Helen
       1993, c1981., HarperCollins Call No: Bio F731b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The third volume of Helen Forrester's poverty-stricken childhood and adolescence in Liverpool during the 1930s.
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      By Zolf, Larry
       c2010., Exile Editions Call No: Bio Z86d    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In his memoir, Larry Zolf the most personal of journalists, the most astute of astute observers writes like he talks: an amazing combination of amiable anecdotes, one-liners, sharp-eyed historical reporting, open confession, and caustic puns.