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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfallby Spike MilliganISBN 006126380X (0-06-126380-X)
Hardcover, Harper's Magazine Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall'Book summary:'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train'. Spike Milligan's on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese. [via]
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An American Life: The Autobiographyby Ronald ReaganISBN 0743400259 (0-7434-0025-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Life'Book summary:Ronald Reagans autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his lifepublic and privatetold in a book both frank and compellingly readable.
Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in ways that are both fundamental and lasting, than Ronald Reagan. Certainly no president has more dramatically raised the American spirit, or done so much to restore national strength and self-confidence.
Here, then, is a truly American success storya great and inspiring one. From modest beginnings as the son of a shoe salesman in Tampico, Illinois, Ronald Reagan achieved first a distinguished career in Hollywood and then, as governor of California and as president of the most powerful nation in the world, a career of public service unique in our history.
Ronald Reagans account of that rise is told here with all the uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit that made him perhaps the most able communicator ever to occupy the White House, and also with the sense of drama of a gifted natural storyteller.
He tells us, with warmth and pride, of his early years and of the elements that made him, in later life, a leader of such stubborn integrity, courage, and clear-minded optimism. Reading the account of this childhood, we understand how his parents, struggling to make ends meet despite family problems and the rigors of the Depression, shaped his belief in the virtues of American lifethe need to help others, the desire to get ahead and to get things done, the deep trust in the basic goodness, values, and sense of justice of the American peoplevirtues that few presidents have expressed more eloquently than Ronald Reagan.
With absolute authority and a keen eye for the details and the anecdotes that humanize history, Ronald Reagan takes the reader behind the scenes of his extraordinary career, from his first political experiences as president of the Screen Actors Guild (including his first meeting with a beautiful young actress who was later to become Nancy Reagan) to such high points of his presidency as the November 1985 Geneva meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, during which Reagan invited the Soviet leader outside for a breath of fresh air and then took him off for a walk and a man-to-man chat, without aides, that set the course for arms reduction and charted the end of the Cold War.
Here he reveals what went on behind his decision to enter politics and run for the governorship of California, the speech nominating Barry Goldwater that first made Reagan a national political figure, his race for the presidency, his relations with the members of his own cabinet, and his frustrations with Congress.
He gives us the details of the great themes and dramatic crises of his eight years in office, from Lebanon to Grenada, from the struggle to achieve arms control to tax reform, from Iran-Contra to the visits abroad that did so much to reestablish the United States in the eyes of the world as a friendly and peaceful power. His narrative is full of insights, from the unseen dangers of Gorbachevs first visit to the United States to Reagans own personal correspondence with major foreign leaders, as well as his innermost feelings about life in the White House, the assassination attempt, his familyand the enduring love between himself and Mrs. Reagan.
An American Life is a warm, richly detailed, and deeply human book, a brilliant self-portrait, a significant work of history. [via]
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morningby Laurie LeeISBN 0140033181 (0-14-003318-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning'Book summary:''I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far. As I left home that morning and walked away from the sleeping village, it never occurred to me that others had done this before me.'' Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds and describes is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula for the most part untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change. There is humor here, and love, and adolescent awakening, but beneath the smoothly written surface is a foreboding sense of a savage future, a premonition that a war will come, which will not end soon. For Lee, as for much of the world, 1936 was the end of innocence, a fateful year when ''it was being learned again that men needed more than courage, anger, slogans, convictions, or even a just cause when they went to war.'' Thus Lee, innocently but inexorably, becomes entangled in the passionate, violent, and bloody struggle that was the Spanish Civil War. Along with Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Lee's sequel to Cider with Rosie is a singular document, written with the excitement and wonder of a twenty-year-old, but infused with the wisdom of a young adult who sees what lies ahead and is capable of conveying to the reader how bad it will be. [via]
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Autobiographiesby Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Sharon MessengerISBN 0140433902 (0-14-043390-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiographies'Book summary:Self-taught and ambitious, Charles Darwin is most famous for his groundbreaking-and to some still controversial-theory of evolution and natural selection. In Autobiographies the great scientist weighs his career and his life.[via]
Darwin's memoir concentrates on his public career and towering scientific achievements but is also full of moments from his private life. There are lively anecdotes about his family and contemporaries, as well as haunting memories of a mother he never knew, a hot-tempered father he could never please, and lingering doubts about the fitness of the genes he was passing on to his heirs.
Autobiographies comprises a fragment Darwin wrote at the age of twenty-nine and the longer "Recollections" of 1876, showing a man toward the end of his life who stands isolated, dogged by illness and self-doubt. 
The Autobiography of Charles Darwinby Charles Darwin, Nora BarlowISBN 0393310698 (0-393-31069-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang Von Goetheby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John OxenfordISBN 0226300579 (0-226-30057-9)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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The Bafut Beaglesby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0140012664 (0-14-001266-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928by Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0151141800 (0-15-114180-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Bring Me a Unicorn : Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928by Anne M. LindberghISBN 0156141647 (0-15-614164-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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By the Shores of Silver Lakeby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400050 (0-06-440005-0)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Shores of Silver Lake'Book summary:The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over. [via]
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Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of Animated Cartoonistby Chuck JonesISBN 0374526206 (0-374-52620-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of Animated Cartoonist'Book summary:Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist is a sort of autobiography of Chuck Jones, the brilliant Warner Brothers animator who created such enduring characters as Wile E. Coyote and Marvin the Martian. Like his best cartoons, Jones skips around to the fun parts, giving a bit of childhood here, a few words of drawing advice there, and a good yarn wherever one fits. Jones also manages to work in a detailed yet somehow never boring description of the long and silly process of making a cartoon. Jones is refreshingly generous about spreading credit around to others. He fondly remembers art teachers, tips his hat to fellow directors and mentors Friz Freleng and Tex Avery, and gives the reader a new appreciation of the layout men who create the backgrounds for animated features. Most engaging are Jones's accounts of office life at Warner Brothers, which sounds like just as much fun as you hope it would be. Jones recounts stories of drawing tables wired to wake up sleeping animators when the boss approached and Cal Howard, a gag writer who ran an illegal commissary out of his metal-lined desk. The book is filled with sketches and color plates of much-loved moments from Warner Brothers cartoons and even includes a quick Road Runner and Coyote scene that comes to life when the pages are flipped. Highly recommended for kids who like to draw and adults who have not lost their appreciation for Looney Toons. --Ali Davis [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De Quincey, Barry MilliganISBN 0140439013 (0-14-043901-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later generations of literary drug-takers from Baudelaire to Burroughs. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writingsby Thomas De Quincey, Grevel LindopISBN 0192836544 (0-19-283654-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings'Book summary:This unique selection includes a number of texts not available elsewhere. [via]
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Dancing on My Graveby Gelsey KirklandISBN 0425135004 (0-425-13500-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomadby Waris Dirie, Cathleen MillerISBN 0688172377 (0-688-17237-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad'Book summary:By age 6, Waris Dirie was herding her family's sheep and goats, fending off hyenas and wild dogs as the family carved a path through Africa. She was just twice that age when she ran off into the vast furnace of the Somali desert to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man. Traveling for days without food and water, she made her way to Mogadishu and later to London as a servant to her uncle, the Somalian ambassador. There she wrestled with culture shock and got her first taste of the modeling life that eventually brought her into the public eye. Dirie is resilient, having survived drought, hunger, and the ritual female genital mutilation that marks a step toward womanhood among some traditional Moslems but, argue critics, steals or ruins many girls' lives. "As we traveled throughout Somalia," says Dirie, "we met families and I played with their daughters. When we visited them again, the girls were missing. No one spoke the truth about their absence or even spoke of them at all." As a special ambassador to the United Nations, Dirie has spoken out loudly on this subject and championed environmental causes, too. How much of her sometimes breathless story is gospel truth and how much embellished is hard to say. Like Dirie herself, though, the combination is intriguing, powerful, and unique. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Fillets of Plaiceby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0140043381 (0-14-004338-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestlingby Mick FoleyISBN 0061032417 (0-06-103241-7)
Softcover, Regan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling'Book summary:Not only is gap-toothed Mick Foley a heavy character in the World Wrestling Federation, he is the undisputed literary champion of the wrestling bestseller. It's amazing that there is such a thing as a "wrestling bestseller," and that fact owes largely to the No. 1 bestselling success of Foley's first book, Have a Nice Day! Now he's back with another memoir, Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling, and fans will not be disappointed by the jokes, the jibes at fellow WWF arm-twisters, and the genial charm of the literary behemoth of our time. [via]
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From My Lifeby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Thomas P. Saine, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Robert R. HeitnerISBN 0691037973 (0-691-03797-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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From My Life - Poetry and Truthby Thomas P. Saine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jeffrey L. SammonsISBN 0691037981 (0-691-03798-1)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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History of My Lifeby Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. TraskISBN 0801856620 (0-8018-5662-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of My Life'Book summary:This translation of Giacomo Casanova's epic memoir was first published in a multi-volume set more than 25 years ago, but this new paperback edition makes Casanova's story accessible to the general reader. Thankfully, the great Venetian adventurer's memoirs can finally be read as they were written, without the bowdlerizing that plagued them for two centuries. While Casanova is most notorious for his womanizing, his memoirs are also remarkable as they give a top-to-bottom view of European life in the 18th century. Johns Hopkins University Press has done a handsome job, packaging the entire story in six double volumes. And, in keeping with the spirit of the author, it's worth mentioning that a 17th-century painting of lounging nude woman spans across the spines of the set when they're arranged on the shelf. [via]
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An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhoodby Jimmy CarterISBN 0743211995 (0-7432-1199-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood'Book summary:Born on October 1, 1924, Jimmy Carter grew up on a Georgia farm during the Great Depression. In An Hour Before Daylight, the former president tells the story of his rural boyhood, and paints a sensitive portrait of America before the civil rights movement.
Carter describes--in glorious, if sometimes gory, detail--growing up on a farm where everything was done by either hand or mule: plowing fields, "mopping" cotton to kill pests, cutting sugar cane, shaking peanuts, or processing pork. He also describes the joys of walking barefoot ("this habit alone helped to create a sense of intimacy with the earth"), taking naps with his father on the porch after lunch, and hunting with slingshots and boomerangs with his playmates--all of whom were black. Carter was in constant contact with his black neighbors; he worked alongside them, ate in their homes, and often spent the night in the home of Rachel and Jack Clark, "on a pallet on the floor stuffed with corn shucks," when his parents were away. However, this intimacy was possible only on the farm. When young Jimmy and his best friend, A.D. Davis, went to town to see a movie, they waited for the train together, paid their 15 cents, and then separated into "white" and "colored" compartments. Once in Americus, they walked to the theater together, but separated again, with Jimmy buying a seat on the main floor or first balcony at the front door, and A.D. going around to the back door to buy his seat up in the upper balcony. After the movie, they returned home on another segregated train. "I don't remember ever questioning the mandatory racial separation, which we accepted like breathing or waking up in Archery every morning."
In this warm, almost sepia-toned narrative, Carter describes his relationships with his parents and with the five people--only two of whom were white--who most affected his early life. Best of all, however, Carter presents his sweetly nostalgic recollections of a lost America. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Awayby Bill BrysonISBN 076790382X (0-7679-0382-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away'Book summary:In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, often emerges as a major contender for King of Crankiness. Granted, he complains well and humorously, but between every line of his travel books you can almost hear the tinny echo: "I wanna go home, I miss my wife."
Happily, I'm a Stranger Here Myself unleashes a new Bryson, more contemplative and less likely to toss daggers. After two decades in England, he's relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire. In this collection (drawn from dispatches for London's Night & Day magazine), he's writing from home, in close proximity to wife and family. We find a happy marriage between humor and reflection as he assesses life both in New England and in the contemporary United States. With the telescopic perspective of one who's stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years, Bryson aptly holds the mirror up to U.S. culture, capturing its absurdities--such as hotlines for dental floss, the cult of the lawsuit, and strange American injuries such as those sustained from pillows and beds. "In the time it takes you to read this," he writes, "four of my fellow citizens will somehow manage to be wounded by their bedding."
The book also reflects the sweet side of small-town USA, with columns about post-office parties, dining at diners, and Thanksgiving--when the only goal is to "get your stomach into the approximate shape of a beach ball" and be grateful. And grateful we are that the previously peripatetic Bryson has returned to the U.S., turning his eye to this land--while living at home and near his wife. Under her benevolent influence, he entertains through thoughtful insights, not sarcastic stabs. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Awayby Bill BrysonISBN 0767903811 (0-7679-0381-1)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away'Book summary:The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly three million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new-and-improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item.
Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. From motels ("one of those things--airline food is another--that I get excited about and should know better") to careless barbers ("in the mirror I am confronted with an image that brings to mind a lemon meringue pie with ears"), I'm a Stranger Here Myself chronicles the quirkiest aspects of life in America, right down to our hardware-store lingo, tax-return instructions, and vulnerability to home injury ("statistically in New Hampshire I am far more likely to be hurt by my ceiling or underpants than by a stranger").
Along the way Bill Bryson also reveals his rules for life (#1: It is not permitted to be both slow and stupid. You must choose one or the other); delivers the commencement address to a local high school ("I've learned that if you touch a surface to see if it's hot, it will be"); and manages to make friends with a skunk. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended, if at times bemused, love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away. [via]More editions of I'm a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away:
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The Journals of Sylvia Plathby Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCulloughISBN 0385493916 (0-385-49391-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Sylvia Plath'Book summary:No other major contemporary American writer has inspired such intense curiosity about her life as Sylvia Plath. Now the intimate and eloquent personal diaries of the twentieth century's most important female poet reveal for the first time the true story behind "The Bell Jar" and her tragic suicide at thirty. They paint, as well, a revealing portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose stature has seldom been equalled.
"A revelation." The New York Times [via]More editions of The Journals of Sylvia Plath:
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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Centuryby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0684873249 (0-684-87324-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century'Book summary:Kingdom of Fear is billed as a memoir, but in essence, all of Hunter S. Thompson's books could fit into this category since his life and work have always been tightly bound together by a mythology largely of his own making. (After all, this is the man who, before earning a single dollar as a writer, began meticulously saving a copy of every letter he ever sent.) Still, this is certainly an unconventional memoir, but then what would you expect from the father of gonzo journalism? In these pages Thompson manages to dig deep and reveal a few "loathsome secrets" without offering the kind of personal details he has always avoided. His childhood, for instance, is basically summed up in a sentence: "I look back on my youth with great fondness, but I would not recommend it as a working model to others." He does, however, reflect upon his considerable legacy, including his well-known, and admittedly exaggerated, use of controlled substances ("The brutal reality of politics alone would probably be intolerable without drugs"), as well as offer assessments of his own work, such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ("It's as good as The Great Gatsby and better than The Sun Also Rises").
In this collection of twisted parables and outlaw adventures, Thompson writes about his early run-ins with agents of authority and the lessons learned; his stint in the Air Force and the beginning of his journalism career; his unsuccessful, though illuminating, bid for Sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1970 as the Freak Power candidate; the casualties and unintended consequences thus far in the War on Terror; and numerous examples of present-day injustice and hypocrisy--all with his characteristic mix of brutal frankness laced with humor. He also offers his own take on state of the Union: "The prevailing quality of life in America--by any accepted methods of measuring--was inarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of Our Lord 2002." Thompson continues to make even the most deadly serious subject matter endlessly entertaining. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcasterby David AttenboroughISBN 0691113238 (0-691-11323-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400018 (0-06-440001-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House in the Big Woods'Book summary:Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest. Every chapter divulges fascinatingly intricate, yet easy-to-read, details about pioneer life in the Midwest in the late 1800s, from bear-meat curing to maple-tree sapping to homemade bullet making.
Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Little Town on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885432 (0-06-088543-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Town on the Prairie'Book summary:The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school. [via]
The Long Winterby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885424 (0-06-088542-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Memoirs of Casanovaby Jacques CasanovaISBN 140432061X (1-4043-2061-X)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanovaby Jacques CasanovaISBN 0766199258 (0-7661-9925-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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My Invented Country: A Memoirby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0606306994 (0-606-30699-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Path to Powerby Margaret ThatcherISBN 0060927321 (0-06-092732-1)
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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog,by Dylan ThomasISBN 0811202070 (0-8112-0207-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog,'Book summary:First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard or beginning to interpret the urgent rituals of old age and courtship. Then the budding poet with his thrilling friendships and dreams of fortune. Finally, the neophyte reporter roaming suburban Swansea for momentous material. In these stories Dylan Thomas shows the exuberance of youth maturing into a fine celebratory compassion and the poet's sheer ironic relish for the eccentricities of common life. [via]
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Private Partsby Howard SternISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Parts'Book summary:It has been said that you either love or loathe Howard Stern, but it's quite possible to love and loathe him after reading this autobiography. Stern sets out to offend as many people as possible (and he succeeds admirably), but two things prevent this book, and Stern, from becoming unbearable. First, he is as candid about himself as he is about the people he attacks. He describes his tortured adolescence, his physical inadequacies, and his sexual proclivities in such breathtaking detail that it's hard not to like the guy. Stern also avoids the bitterness that characterizes many of the "shock-radio" DJs who have attempted to follow in his footsteps. He can be cruel, but he generally reserves cruelty for people whose fame makes them open targets, and the way he dismantles the whole idea of "celebrity" is hilarious. Howard Stern is like the kid at school who could fart the national anthem--you can't help but laugh at what he does, even though you know you shouldn't. [via]
Red Azaleaby Anchee MinISBN 1400096987 (1-4000-9698-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Azalea'Book summary:This New York Times Notable Book tells the true story of what it was like growing up in Mao's China, where the soul was secondary to the state, beauty was mistrusted, and love could be punishable by death. Newsweek calls Anchee Min's prose "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting." [via]
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Rottenby John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent ZimmermanISBN 031211883X (0-312-11883-X)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rotten'Book summary:"Much has been written about the Sex Pistols. Much of it has either been sensationalism or journalistic psychobabble. The rest has been mere spite. This book is as close to the truth as one can get ... This means contradictions and insults have not been edited, and neither have the compliments, if any. I have no time for lies or fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die."
So writes author John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, in his introduction to the book Rotten, an oral history of punk: angry, honest, and crackling with energy. Seventies punk has been romanticized by the media and the up-and-coming punk bands of today, but the sneering, leering disaffection of that time has been lost. Now, Lydon candidly and at times, dare we say it, fondly looks back at himself, the Sex Pistols, and the "no future" attitude of the time. Rolling Stone calls Lydon a "pavement philosopher whose Dickensian roots blossom with Joycean color," and the San Francisco Chronicle calls Rotten an "invaluable [book] ... sheds welcome light on that short period of great music and spasmodic cultural change."
Bollocks you say? Read, sneer, and enjoy or die. [via]
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 038533379X (0-385-33379-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. [via] -
Star Trek Memoriesby William ShatnerISBN 0061092355 (0-06-109235-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Trek Memories'Book summary:The star of the global cultural phenomenon of Star Trek reveals backstage anecdotes, personal rivalries, and network politics that were hidden behind the camera in this insider's expose+a7. Reprint. [via]
Still Meby Christopher ReeveISBN 034543241X (0-345-43241-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Still Me : A Lifeby Christopher ReeveISBN 0679452354 (0-679-45235-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Story of My Lifeby Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes, Giacomo Casanova, Gilberto PizzamiglioISBN 0140439153 (0-14-043915-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of My Life'Book summary:Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, wit, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known, but also a storyteller of the first order. Since he lived a life richer and stranger than most fictions, the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, but his memoir remained-at twelve volumes-unfinished at the time of his death. In these selections culled from authoritative French texts are all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; carousing and dabbling in the occult; imprisonment and thrilling escape; travels and encounters with major literary figures and world leaders; and, of course, many amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns to cobblers' daughters, all of them willing partners in the adventures of his life.[via]
The first new translation since the 1960s, this Penguin Classics edition will provide readers with the most famous episodes as well as the overall shape of a monumental work in one beautiful, unique volume.
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These Happy Golden Yearsby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060885440 (0-06-088544-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Tori Amos: Piece by Piece A Portrait of the Artist Her Thoughts, Her Conversationsby Ann Powers, Tori AmosISBN 0767916778 (0-7679-1677-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tori Amos: Piece by Piece A Portrait of the Artist Her Thoughts, Her Conversations'Book summary:From her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, to the recent hit, Scarlets Walk, Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music, with one of the most dedicated fan bases in the industry. In Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, the singer herself takes readers beyond the mere facts, explaining the specifics of her creative processhow her songs go from ideas and melodies to recordings and passionately performed concert pieces.
Written with acclaimed music journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a firsthand account of the most intricate and intimate details of Amoss life as both a private individual and a very public performing musician. In passionate and informative prose, Amos explains how her songs come to her and how she records and then performs them for audiences everywhere, all the while connecting with listeners across the world and maintaining her own family life (which includes raising a young daughter). But it is also much more, a verbal collage made by two strong female voices and the voices of those closest to Amosthat calls upon genealogy, myth, and folklore to express Amoss unique and fascinating personal history. In short, we see the pieces that make up as Amos herself puts it the woman we call Tori.
With photos taken especially for this book by the photographer Loren Haynes, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a rare treat for both Tori listeners and newcomers alike, a look into the heart and mind of an extraordinary musician. [via]More editions of Tori Amos: Piece by Piece A Portrait of the Artist Her Thoughts, Her Conversations:
Travelsby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345359321 (0-345-35932-1)
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italyby Frances MayesISBN 0767900383 (0-7679-0038-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy'Book summary:In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her garden, and the intimacy of her dealings with the locals. Cooking, gardening, tiling and painting are never chores, but skills to be learned, arts to be practiced, and above all to be enjoyed. At the same time Mayes brings a literary and intellectual mind to bear on the experience, adding depth to this account of her enticing rural idyll. [via]
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Vet in Harnessby James HerriotISBN 0330443569 (0-330-44356-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vet in a Harness'Book summary:The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - now he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way. All of the old Darrowby friends are on top form - Siegfried thrashes round the practice, Tristan occasionally buckles down for finals, and James is signed up for a local cricket team. 'He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is infectious', observes "The Daily Telegraph". 'Full of warmth, wisdom and wit' - "The Field". 'It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot's company' - "Observer". [via]
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A Year in Provenceby Peter Mayle, Judith ClancyISBN 0679731148 (0-679-73114-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Year in Provence'Book summary:Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Year in Provence, the chronicle of his own foray into Provençal domesticity.
Beginning, appropriately enough, on New Year's Day with a divine luncheon in a quaint restaurant, Mayle sets the scene and pits his British sensibilities against it. "We had talked about it during the long gray winters and the damp green summers," he writes, "looked with an addict's longing at photographs of village markets and vineyards, dreamed of being woken up by the sun slanting through the bedroom window." He describes in loving detail the charming, 200-year-old farmhouse at the base of the Lubéron Mountains, its thick stone walls and well-tended vines, its wine cave and wells, its shade trees and swimming pool--its lack of central heating. Indeed, not 10 pages into the book, reality comes crashing into conflict with the idyll when the Mistral, that frigid wind that ravages the Rhône valley in winter, cracks the pipes, rips tiles from the roof, and tears a window from its hinges. And that's just January.
In prose that skips along lightly, Mayle records the highlights of each month, from the aberration of snow in February and the algae-filled swimming pool of March through the tourist invasions and unpredictable renovations of the summer months to a quiet Christmas alone. Throughout the book, he paints colorful portraits of his neighbors, the Provençaux grocers and butchers and farmers who amuse, confuse, and befuddle him at every turn. A Year in Provence is part memoir, part homeowner's manual, part travelogue, and all charming fun. --L.A. Smith [via]
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