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Adriftby Steven CallahanISBN 1885283164 (1-885283-16-4)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adrift'Book summary:On the night of January 29, 1982, Steven Callahan set sail in his small sloop from the Canary Islands bound for the Caribbean. Thus began one of the most remarkable sea adventures of all time. Six days out, the sloop sank, and Callahan found himself adrift in the Atlantic in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft with only three pounds of food and eight pints of water. He would drift for seventy-six days over eighteen hundred miles of ocean before he reached land and rescue.
Introduction by Edward E. Leslie, Epilogue by Steven Callahan, drawings and photos [via]
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After The Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Nextby Jana Hensel, Jefferson ChaseISBN 1586482661 (1-58648-266-1)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After The Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Next'Book summary:Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its hokey comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and the comforting knowledge that they lived in a Germany unblemished by an ugly Nazi past and a callous capitalist future.[via]Suddenly everything was gone. East Germany disappeared, swallowed up by the West, and in its place was everything Jana and her friends had coveted for so long: designer clothes, pop CDs, Hollywood movies, supermarkets, magazines. They snapped up every possible Western product and mannerism. They changed the way they talked, the way they walked, what they read, where they went. They cut off from their parents. They took English lessons, and opened bank accounts. Fifteen years later, they all have the right haircuts and drive the right cars, but who are they? Where are they going?
In After the Wall, Jana Hensel tells the story of her confused generation of East Germans, who were forced to abandon their past and feel their way through a foreign landscape to an uncertain future. Now as they look back, they wonder whether the oppressive, yet comforting life of their childhood wasn't so bad after all.
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Almost French: A New Life in Parisby Sarah TurnbullISBN 1863252851 (1-86325-285-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Almost French: Love And A New Life In Parisby Sarah TurnbullISBN 1592400825 (1-59240-082-5)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost French: Love And A New Life In Paris'Book summary:The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure--and the love of her life--in Paris.
"This isn't like me. I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Paris hadn't even been part of my travel plan..."
A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frédéric together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decided to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty Sydney journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreigner status.
But as she navigates the highs and lows of this strange new world, from life in a bustling quatier and surviving Parisian dinner parties to covering the haute couture fashion shows and discovering the hard way the paradoxes of France today, little by little Sarah falls under its spell: maddening, mysterious, and charged with that French specialty-séduction.
An entertaining tale of being a fish out of water, Almost French is an enthralling read as Sarah Turnbull leads us on a magical tour of this seductive place-and culture-that has captured her heart. [via]More editions of Almost French: Love And A New Life In Paris:
Aloneby Richard E. ByrdISBN 1885283075 (1-885283-07-5)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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American Elfby James KochalkaISBN 189183049X (1-891830-49-X)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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Another Selfby James Lees-MilneISBN 1585790087 (1-58579-008-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Bend for Homeby Dermot HealyISBN 186046081X (1-86046-081-X)
Hardcover, Harvill Press
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Between the Woods And the Water: On Foot To Constantinople The Middle Danube To The Iron Gatesby Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan MorrisISBN 1590171667 (1-59017-166-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Woods And the Water: On Foot To Constantinople The Middle Danube To The Iron Gates'Book summary:Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts
The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a dayproved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume. Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a background for the events that were beginning to unfold in Central Europe, Leigh Fermor's still-unfinished account of his journey has established itself as a modern classic. Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of a projected three, has garnered as many prizes as its celebrated predecessor, A Time of Gifts.
The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danubeat the very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous splendors of Prague is followed bya trip downriver to Budapest, passage on horseback acrossthe Great Hungarian Plain, and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote castles, mountain villages,monasteries and towering ranges that are the haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all savoredin the approach to the Iron Gates, the division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for now, the story ends. [via]More editions of Between the Woods And the Water: On Foot To Constantinople The Middle Danube To The Iron Gates:
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The Blue Octavo Notebooksby Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Ernst Kaiser, Eithne WilkinsISBN 1878972049 (1-878972-04-9)
Hardcover, Exact Change
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Octavo Notebooks'Book summary:From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omitted these notebooks--which include short stories, fragments of stories and other literary writings--because, he wrote, "notations of a diary nature, dates, are found in them only as a rare exception." The Blue Octavo Notebooks have thus remained little known and yet are among the most characteristic and brilliantly gnomic of Kafka's work. In addition to otherwise unpublished material, the notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms within their original context. This edition of the English translation has been corrected with reference to the German text for certain omissions and discrepancies of sequence. Followers of Kafka will require this book and will find it most rewarding." --Library Journal. [via]
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The Book of My Life (De Vita Propria Liber): (De Vita Propria Liberby Girolamo Cardano, Anthony Grafton, Jean StonerISBN 1590170164 (1-59017-016-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bruchkoby Bruce OlsonISBN 159185993X (1-59185-993-X)
Softcover, Charisma House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bruchko'Book summary:[via]What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then world of missions.
Bruchko, which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, has been called more fantastic and harrowing than anything Hollywood could concoct. Living with the Motilone Indians since 1961, Olson has won the friendship of four presidents of Colombia and has made appearances before the United Nations because of his efforts. Bruchko includes the story of his 1988 kidnapping by communist guerrillas and the nine months of captivity that followed. This revised version of Olsons story will amaze you and remind you that simple faith in Christ can make anything possible. [Bruchko is] an all-time missionary classic. Bruce Olson is a modern missionary hero who has modeled for us in our time the reaching of the unreached tribes. Loren Cunningham Co-founder, Youth With A Mission
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Burmese Daysby George OrwellISBN 1595404309 (1-59540-430-9)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burmese Days'Book summary:Imagine crossing E.M. Forster with Jane Austen. Stir in a bit of socialist doctrine, a sprig of satire, strong Indian curry, and a couple quarts of good English gin and you get something close to the flavor of George Orwell's intensely readable and deftly plotted Burmese Days. In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the worst in this woefully enclosed society, not to mention among the natives who would become the One. Orwell mines his own Anglo-Indian background to evoke both the suffocating heat and the stifling pettiness that are the central facts of colonial life: "Mr. MacGregor told his anecdote about Prome, which could be produced in almost any context. And then the conversation veered back to the old, never-palling subject--the insolence of the natives, the supineness of the Government, the dear dead days when the British Raj was the Raj and please give the bearer fifteen lashes. The topic was never let alone for long, partly because of Ellis's obsession. Besides, you could forgive the Europeans a great deal of their bitterness. Living and working among Orientals would try the temper of a saint."
Protagonist James Flory is a timber merchant, whose facial birthmark serves as an outward expression of the ironic and left-leaning habits of mind that make him inwardly different from his coevals. Flory appreciates the local culture, has native allegiances, and detests the racist machinations of his fellow Club members. Alas, he doesn't always possess the moral courage, or the energy, to stand against them. His almost embarrassingly Anglophile friend, Dr. Veraswami, the highest-ranking native official, seems a shoo-in for Club membership, until Machiavellian magistrate U Po Kyin launches a campaign to discredit him that results, ultimately, in the loss not just of reputations but of lives. Whether to endorse Veraswami or to betray him becomes a kind of litmus test of Flory's character.
Against this backdrop of politics and ethics, Orwell throws the shadow of romance. The arrival of the bobbed blonde, marriageable, and resolutely anti-intellectual Elizabeth Lackersteen not only casts Flory as hapless suitor but gives Orwell the chance to show that he's as astute a reporter of nuanced social interactions as he is of political intrigues. In fact, his combination of an astringently populist sensibility, dead-on observations of human behavior, formidable conjuring skills, and no-frills prose make for historical fiction that stands triumphantly outside of time. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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A Confessionby Leo TolstoyISBN 1598184717 (1-59818-471-7)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Confessions of an Original Sinnerby John LukacsISBN 1890318124 (1-890318-12-4)
Hardcover, St Augustine Pr Inc
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The Country Diary of an Edwardian Ladyby Edith HoldenISBN 1586631152 (1-58663-115-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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De Profundisby Oscar WildeISBN 1598182730 (1-59818-273-0)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Profundis'Book summary:De Profundis does not resemble any of the other works that made Wilde famous; and it's a work that often seems to make critics uncomfortable. Perhaps justly so: in the end it's a response to Wilde's imprisonment for homosexuality. In our modern context, that makes the work easy to look away from -- but it also speaks to things that concern and disturb many people, even today. [via]
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De Profundis, Ballad If Reading Gaol and Other Writingsby Oscar WildeISBN 1840224010 (1-84022-401-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslimby Ziauddin SardarISBN 186207755X (1-86207-755-X)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desperately Seeking Paradise : Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim'Book summary:Raised in Pakistan, Ziauddin Sardar learned the Koran at his mothers knee. As a young student in London, he embarked on a quest to grasp the meaning and contemporary relevance of his religion and, hopefully, to find paradise. After experimenting with the mystical branch of Islam, Sufism, and with classical Islam, he set off on extensive travels through the Muslim world. Along the way, he came to accept that he might never reach paradise, realizing that its the journey thats important. At a time when the Western view of Islam is so often distorted and over-simplified, Desperately Seeking Paradise is essential reading.[via]More editions of Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim:
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Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoirby Lisa Crystal CarverISBN 1932360948 (1-932360-94-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoir'Book summary:In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18, becoming a teen publisher of fanzines, a teen bride, and a teen prostitute. Spin has called Suckdog's album Drugs Are Nice one of the best of the '90s, and the book includes photos of infamous European shows. Yet the book also tells of how Lisa saw the need for change in 1994, when her baby was born with a chromosomal deletion and his father became violent. With lasting lightness and surprising gravity, Drugs Are Nice is a definitive account of the generation that wanted to break every rule, but also a story of an artist and a mother becoming an adult on her own terms.[via]More editions of Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoir:
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Everybody's Autobiographyby Gertrude SteinISBN 1878972081 (1-878972-08-1)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everybody's Autobiography'Book summary:Everybody's Autobiography is among the very best of Gertrude's writing--[it] speaks with the true and original voice of Gertrude Stein, without apparent art or bravado.--Janet HobhouseIn 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody's Autobiography is as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a searing meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. Posing as the representative American, Stein transforms her story into history--responding to the tradition of Thoreau and Henry Adams, she writes: "I used to be fond of saying that America, which was supposed to be a land of success, was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early failure and a long life of later failure." Everybody's Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious, and may yet prove to be among her most popular books. [via]
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Everyday Heaven: Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autismby Donna WilliamsISBN 1843102110 (1-84310-211-0)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Fat Girl: A True Storyby Judith MooreISBN 1594630097 (1-59463-009-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep Southby Rosemary DaniellISBN 1892514265 (1-892514-26-5)
Softcover, Hill Street Press, LLC
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The Fate of the Artistby Eddie CampbellISBN 1596431334 (1-59643-133-4)
Softcover, First Second
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fate of the Artist'Book summary:In this pseudo-autobiography, the subject of the memoir has vanished without a trace. Through six separate threads, each on typographically and stylistically distinct, a private investigator tried to discover the artist's fate through false trails, family and daily life reenactments, and even an imaginary Sunday comic strip. As the narrative threads intersect and colllide in surprising ways, the reader is carried along on a fantastic journey through the life of the artist.[via]
A master comics artist, here Eddie Campbell offers a complex, caustic, and surprising meditation on balancing the lonely life of the artist with the demands of everyday life.
Fear of Fiftyby Erica JongISBN 1585425249 (1-58542-524-9)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Fire under the Snowby Tsering Shakya, Palden GyatsoISBN 1860461166 (1-86046-116-6)
Hardcover, The Harvill Press
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Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisonerby Palden GyatsoISBN 1860465099 (1-86046-509-9)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Forget You Had a Daughter : Doing Time in the 'Bangkok Hilton': Sandra Gregory's Storyby Sandra Gregory, Michael Tierney, Martin BillISBN 1904132065 (1-904132-06-5)
Hardcover, Vision Paperbacks
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The Fringes of Power: The Incredible Inside Story of Winston Churchill During World War IIby John ColvilleISBN 1585745081 (1-58574-508-1)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific Warby William ManchesterISBN 1841581259 (1-84158-125-9)
Hardcover, Birlinn
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Gypsy: A Memoirby Gypsy Rose LeeISBN 1883319951 (1-883319-95-1)
Softcover, Frog Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gypsy: A Memoir'Book summary:Gypsy Rose Lees memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony Awards, as well as raves from critics and audiences:
No matter how long you live, youll never see a more exciting production. Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
Watch out, New York! This GYPSY is a wallop-packing show of raw power. Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Not your ordinary theater experience. This is the best production of the best damn musical ever. Liz Smith, Syndicated Columnist
The memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces for The New Yorker, contains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New Yorkwhere gin came in bathtubs, gangsters were celebrities, and Walter Winchell was king.
Gypsys story features outrageous charactersamong them Broadways funny girl, Fanny Brice, who schooled Gypsy in how to be a star; gangster Waxy Gordon, who fixed her teeth; and her indomitable mother, Rose, who lived by her own version of the Golden Rule: Do unto others & before they do you. [via]More editions of Gypsy: A Memoir:
How I Learned to Snap: A Small-Town Coming-Out and Coming-Of-Age- Storyby Kirk ReadISBN 1588180395 (1-58818-039-5)
Hardcover, Gibbs Smith
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The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addictby William LeithISBN 1592401554 (1-59240-155-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict'Book summary:Combining the revealing cultural commentary of Fast Food Nation with the visceral insights of A Million Little Pieces, this is the story of a journalists struggle with weight, and an unflinching look at our own culture of fat and thin.
"I thought: if I can understand the despair, my own and everybodys elses, I could write the storyof why we hate fat, of why we are fat, of why, in some perverse way, we want to be fat. And, most importantly, what we can do to stop being so fat. Obesity is the essential human problem in a nutshellwe try to make life easy by giving ourselves access to resources, and then we make life difficult by overconsuming those resources. We have more of everything than weve ever had, and yet we feel emptier."
While on assignment to interview Dr. Robert Atkins, journalist William Leith realized that he could not report on diet alone; he wanted desperately to develop a deeper understanding of his relationship with food and the pathological cravings that led him (and millions of others) to become dangerously overweight.
His Atkins interview led him to probe not only the link between carbohydrates and addiction, but also how our relationship with food has changed over the last few decades in light of economic, technological, and cultural changes in the world, as well as our cultural obsession with our bodies. Combining the science of food addiction with memoir, humor, and sociological insights, The Hungry Years is a book that will force us to look at our culture of consumption in a new way. [via]
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I Choose to Liveby Marie-Therese Cuny, Sabine Dardenne, Penelope DeningISBN 1844082687 (1-84408-268-7)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Choose to Live'Book summary:'I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company of the most hated psychopath in Belgium. I need to write this book for three reasons: so that people stop giving me strange looks and treating me like a curiosity; so that no one ever asks me any more questions ever again; and so that the judicial system never again frees a paedophile for 'good behaviour'.' 'The Dutroux Affair' shook the whole of Europe. In the middle of the immense machinery of investigation and justice there was Sabine Dardenne herself, Dutroux's last victim. She was held captive for eighty days - and survived. Far from sensationalising the horror, her story, dignified and restrained, is ultimately uplifting. Says Sabine Dardenne,'I choose to live.' [via]
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix: A Memoirby Shawna KenneyISBN 1928568033 (1-928568-03-3)
Softcover, Retro Systems
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The Jungle Is Neutralby F. Spencer ChapmanISBN 1592281079 (1-59228-107-9)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 1885283105 (1-885283-10-5)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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A LA Recherche Du Temps Perduby Marcel Proust, Jean-Yves TadieISBN 2070111261 (2-07-011126-1)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella L. BirdISBN 1590480333 (1-59048-033-3)
Softcover, Long Riders Guild Pr
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The Last Enemy: The Memoir of a Spitfire Pilotby Richard Hillary, Sebastian FaulksISBN 1580800564 (1-58080-056-4)
Softcover, Burford Books
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraqby John CrawfordISBN 1594482012 (1-59448-201-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq'Book summary:John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly marriedin fact, on his honeymoonhe was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq.[via]Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began writing the true stories of what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became this booka haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
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Lennon Remembersby Jann S. WennerISBN 185984376X (1-85984-376-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lennon Remembers'Book summary:Over 30 years after their acrimonious split, it is undeniable that The Beatles were much more than a regular pop group; they represented a cultural phenomenon of the 20th-century. For the Fab Four themselves, the immediate aftermath of the band became a time for soul searching and reasserting the individuality once submerged within "The Beatles". Lennon Remembers, an extended transcript of the legendary 1970 interview between Rolling Stone magazine's Jann Wenner and John Lennon reveals this process at its most painful, angry and bitter.
Now re-edited to incorporate previously deleted passages (many of which consist of less-than-vital comments from Lennon's then-permanent companion Yoko Ono), Lennon Remembers sees the 30-year-old ex-Beatle determinedly shattering what he saw as the "myth" of his former group. From their clean-cut image ("[our tours] were like Fellini's Satyricon"), to the reasons for their split ("We were fed up of being sidemen for Paul"), and revelations of his drug abuse ("We were full of junk"), Lennon's anger burns from every page.
While undeniably entertaining, the force of Lennon's claims can also make uncomfortable reading. As Yoko Ono herself notes in her introduction, Wenner's interview sees an insecure Lennon, hitting back "and doing a bad job of it". Indeed, his bitterness and anger often leads to personal attacks on such former friends as Brian Epstein, George Harrison and, most hurtfully, Paul McCartney, that are almost unforgivably cruel. However, throughout there remain hints of an abiding respect for his former musical and personal partners. Indeed hints of the old-gang mentality are revealed as he comments at one stage, "I can knock The Beatles"--his implication that others should have more respect suggesting a pride in the group's achievements that is elsewhere buried beneath the weight of bitter reminiscence.
Thankfully, however, despite his tirade, Lennon's humour and humanity is never far from the surface, and it is this that makes Wenner's interview such an ultimately rewarding read. Lennon Remembers is recommended to all, not least as a revealing accompaniment to the more sanitised version of events given in the group's own "autobiography", The Beatles Anthology. --Steve Price [via]
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Lennon Remembersby John LennonISBN 1859846009 (1-85984-600-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lennon Remembers'Book summary:Over 30 years after their acrimonious split, it is undeniable that The Beatles were much more than a regular pop group; they represented a cultural phenomenon of the 20th-century. For the Fab Four themselves, the immediate aftermath of the band became a time for soul searching and reasserting the individuality once submerged within "The Beatles". Lennon Remembers, an extended transcript of the legendary 1970 interview between Rolling Stone magazine's Jann Wenner and John Lennon reveals this process at its most painful, angry and bitter.
Now re-edited to incorporate previously deleted passages (many of which consist of less-than-vital comments from Lennon's then-permanent companion Yoko Ono), Lennon Remembers sees the 30-year-old ex-Beatle determinedly shattering what he saw as the "myth" of his former group. From their clean-cut image ("[our tours] were like Fellini's Satyricon"), to the reasons for their split ("We were fed up of being sidemen for Paul"), and revelations of his drug abuse ("We were full of junk"), Lennon's anger burns from every page.
While undeniably entertaining, the force of Lennon's claims can also make uncomfortable reading. As Yoko Ono herself notes in her introduction, Wenner's interview sees an insecure Lennon, hitting back "and doing a bad job of it". Indeed, his bitterness and anger often leads to personal attacks on such former friends as Brian Epstein, George Harrison and, most hurtfully, Paul McCartney, that are almost unforgivably cruel. However, throughout there remain hints of an abiding respect for his former musical and personal partners. Indeed hints of the old-gang mentality are revealed as he comments at one stage, "I can knock The Beatles"--his implication that others should have more respect suggesting a pride in the group's achievements that is elsewhere buried beneath the weight of bitter reminiscence.
Thankfully, however, despite his tirade, Lennon's humour and humanity is never far from the surface, and it is this that makes Wenner's interview such an ultimately rewarding read. Lennon Remembers is recommended to all, not least as a revealing accompaniment to the more sanitised version of events given in the group's own "autobiography", The Beatles Anthology. --Steve Price [via]
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A Life at the Centreby Roy JenkinsISBN 1842751778 (1-84275-177-8)
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Life Behind Glass: A Personal Account of Autism Spectrum Disorderby Wendy LawsonISBN 1853029114 (1-85302-911-4)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routinesby Bill HicksISBN 1841198781 (1-84119-878-1)
Hardcover, Constable & Robinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines'Book summary:In 1993, network executives abruptly cut the final appearance of comedian Bill Hicks a scathing tirade of digs on the Pope and the pro-life movement from an episode of The Late Show with David Letterman. His banning from the show, along with a profile in The New Yorker by veteran writer John Lahr, catapulted Hicks to national prominence. Just months later, at age 32, he died of pancreatic cancer.
Now available for the first time are Hick's most critical and comic observations, gathered from his stand-up routines, diaries, notebooks, letters, and final writings. This collection features his controversial humor and witheringly funny attacks on American culture, from its worship of celebrity and material goods to its involvement in the first Gulf War. Love All the People faithfully traces Hicks's evolution from a funny but conventional stand-up comedian into a fearless and brilliant iconoclast. [via]
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Luckyby Gabrielle BellISBN 189729901X (1-897299-01-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crimeby Francois Eugene Vidocq, Eugene Francois VidocqISBN 1902593715 (1-902593-71-5)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Mutant Messageby Marlo Morgan, Carri GarrisonISBN 1883473004 (1-883473-00-4)
Softcover, Bookpeople
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My New York Diaryby Julie DoucetISBN 1896597831 (1-896597-83-1)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My New York Diary'Book summary:THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINT Back in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs. [via]
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My Secret Bookby Francesco PetrarchISBN 1843910268 (1-84391-026-8)
Softcover, Hesperus Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Secret Book'Book summary:[via]Written by one of the greatest poets of all time, My Secret Book, now in its first English translation, is a profound and deeply personal account of inner suffering and mental anguish. Deeply troubled by his struggleand failureto achieve spiritual perfection, Petrarch, considered the forefather of Italian humanism, sought catharsis in the writing of a secret book. Only here could he pour out his innermost thoughts, frustrations, and desires. Written in the form of a dialogue between himself and St. Augustine, the book wrestles with the universal themes of suffering, desire, fear, and joy. The result is a rare insight into Petrarchs life and thought and a remarkable early example of self-revelation and autobiography.More editions of My Secret Book:
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1598560514 (1-59856-051-4)
Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 1857150422 (1-85715-042-2)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays, Prose Writings & Poems'Book summary:Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist", Apologia", "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism", "Letter to Robert Ross", "Requiescat" and "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Terry Eagleton is the author of "Criticism and Ideology", "Marxism and Literary Criticsm" and "Literary Theory: An Introduction". [via]
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Point of Departure: Experiment in Biographyby James Cameron, Andrew MarrISBN 1862078246 (1-86207-824-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Poor Bastardby Joe MattISBN 1896597440 (1-896597-44-0)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Margot LiveseyISBN 1590170253 (1-59017-025-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:"I was born an outcast in the world, in which I was destined to act so conspicuous a part. My mother was a burning and a shining light. But she was married to a man all over spotted with the leprosy of sin. She fled from his embraces the first night after their marriage. . . ." James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, published in 1824; it has been called "the greatest of all Scottish novels." [via]
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Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixtiesby Sheila RowbothamISBN 1859844006 (1-85984-400-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Protestant Boyby Geoffrey BeattieISBN 1862077568 (1-86207-756-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Protestant Boy'Book summary:[via]Geoffrey Beattie grew up in the notorious "murder triangle" in North Belfast, where during 30 years of the Troubles more than 600 people were killed. Many of his childhood friends ended up dead or in prison, while Beattie himself moved to England, at first to study and eventually to build a highly successful career as a psychologist. On a visit home to see his ailing mother, Beattie began to explore his Ulster Protestant ancestry and to reflect on the unfashionable and little understood Protestant community. His search takes him to the trenches of the Somme, to the Plantation villages of Ulster, and to Drumcree for the Orange march. And it also takes him deeper into his mother's characterat the heart of the book is an extraordinarily vivid portrait of this opinionated, witty, exasperating Ulsterwoman. Protestant Boy is an honest, beautifully written book about the stories that families and cultures tell themselves, and about the silences that they leave behind. -
A Reading Diaryby Alberto ManguelISBN 1841956384 (1-84195-638-4)
Hardcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Reading Diary'Book summary:Subtitled "A Year of Favourite Books," this small volume combines ruminations by Alberto Manguel on 12 novels, memories of childhood (when he first read many of these books), shards of poetry, events in the daily news that link to the books, visits of friends and neighbours, and the turn of the seasons in his garden, as well as numerous apt quotes from a variety of sources. Manguel is a voracious, generous, and astute reader and he includes works from across the globe: Don Quixote, Kim, The Pillow Book, Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, novels by H.G. Wells and Goethe. His astonishing literary range is evidenced by the inclusion of works from lesser-known South American writers (Bioy Casares and Machado de Assis), children's literature (The Wind in the Willows), and detective fiction (The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). His comments on the works are always intelligent, insightful, original, and engaging.
Manguel maintains a contemplative tone throughout, as befits a book written for the most part in a medieval presbytery, now his home (after a longtime residence in Canada) in southern France. In this reflective tone, he states: "I, of course, will disappear ... the books will be scattered.... As in the eye of a sculptor chiselling away at a stone, the whole will be all the more beautiful for our absence." Manguel's enthusiasms encourage the reader to visit or re-visit many of these literary worlds, but he is especially convincing in his discussions of Cervantes, Kipling, and Sherlock Holmes. There is no doubt Manguel loves libraries and books: "I explore my library like someone returning to his native land after an absence of decades." His gift is the ability to foster that same love in his readers. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldierby Alexandra FullerISBN 1594200165 (1-59420-016-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier'Book summary:Best-selling memoirist Alexandra Fuller travels with a strangely charismatic Rhodesian war veteran into a modern-day heart of darkness.
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K.
K is, seemingly, a man of contradictions: tattooed, battle scarred, and weathered by farm work, he is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. Yet he is also a born-again Christian, given to weeping when he recollects his failed romantic life, and more than anything else welling up inside with memories of battle. For his war, like all wars, was a brutal one, marked by racial strife, jungle battles, unimaginable tortures, and the murdering of innocent civilians-and K, like all the veterans of the war, has blood on his hands.
Driven by K's memories, Fuller and K decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way-by traveling from Zambia through Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. It is a strange journey into the past, one marked at once by somber reflections and odd humor and featuring characters such as Mapenga, a fellow veteran who lives with his pet lion on a little island in the middle of a lake and is known to cope with his personal demons by refusing to speak for days on end. What results from Fuller's journey is a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of men who have killed, mutilated, tortured, and scrambled to survive during wartime and who now must attempt to live with their past and live past their sins. In these men, too, we get a glimpse of life in Africa, a land that besets its creatures with pests, plagues, and natural disasters, making the people there at once more hardened and more vulnerable than elsewhere.
Scribbling the Cat is an engrossing and haunting look at war, Africa, and the lines of sanity. [via]More editions of Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier:
Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Berthaby Bertha Thompson, Ben ReitmanISBN 1902593030 (1-902593-03-0)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Slave Narrativesby Henry Louis Gates, William L. AndrewsISBN 1883011760 (1-883011-76-0)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slave Narratives'Book summary:The prestigious Library of America series now includes a volume featuring 10 of the most important slave narratives in African American history. Edited by English professor William L. Andrews of the University of North Carolina and Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates Jr., Slave Narratives tells the true story of American slavery and freedom through the voices of the slaves themselves. These voices, which span from 1772 to 1864, portray an astonishing unity in diversity: from the African-born accents of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano to the deadpan humor exhibited by J.D. Green on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865. "The Narrative of Frederick Douglass" illuminates what life was like for fugitive slaves, while "The Confessions of Nat Turner" rekindles the flames of the slave revolt. Sojourner Truth's story reflects the revolutionary Christianity that fueled the abolitionist movement and Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" documents the black woman's dual fight against sexual and racial conquest. All told, these works of literature are as important to the American principles of freedom and democracy as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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A Small Boy and Othersby Henry JamesISBN 1885586183 (1-885586-18-3)
Softcover, Turtle Point Pr
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1593080131 (1-59308-013-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:With an introduction and notes by Dr Howard J Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury, this semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness. [via]
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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917by Ernest Henry ShackletonISBN 1841581186 (1-84158-118-6)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepperby Art Pepper, Laurie PepperISBN 1841950645 (1-84195-064-5)
Hardcover, Mojo Books
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Elizabeth DaltonISBN 1593082959 (1-59308-295-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:[via]- New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
- Biographies of the authors
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Swanns Way is the first novel of Marcel Prousts seven-volume magnum opus À la rechercheé du temps perdu, or Remembrance of Things Past. Following Charles Swanns opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literatures most famous and influential scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a decoction of lime-flowers, the associative act from which the remainder of the narrative unfurls. After elaborate reminiscences about Swanns childhood in Paris and rural Combray, Proust describes his protagonists exploits in nineteenth-century privileged Parisian society and his obsessive love for young socialite Odette de Crécy.
Filled with searing, insightful, and humorous criticisms of French society, this novel showcases Prousts innovative prose style, characterized by lengthy, intricate sentences that elongate, stop, and reverse time. With narration that alternates between first and third person, Swanns Way unconventionally introduces Prousts recurring themes of memory, love, art, and the human experienceand for nearly a century readers have deliciously savored each moment.
Elizabeth Dalton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She has published fiction and criticism in the New Yorker, Partisan Review, Commentary, and the New York Times Book Review.
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'Brien, SparkNotes StaffISBN 1586638270 (1-58663-827-0)
Softcover, Spark Publishing Group
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A Time of Giftsby Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan MorrisISBN 1590171659 (1-59017-165-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time of Gifts'Book summary:At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journeyto walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor's book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changedthrough the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube.
At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come. [via]More editions of A Time of Gifts:
The Two Of Us: My Life With John Thawby Sheila HancockISBN 1582344175 (1-58234-417-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Unlikelyby Jeffrey BrownISBN 1891830414 (1-891830-41-4)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1853264768 (1-85326-476-8)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle'Book summary:Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences'. Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to South Sea Islands, Darwin's descriptive powers are constantly challenged, but never once overcome. In addition, The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwin's powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself. [via]
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Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 1589761065 (1-58976-106-5)
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Whatever It Takesby Graham RichardsonISBN 1863593322 (1-86359-332-2)
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Zen in the Art of Writingby Ray BradburyISBN 1877741094 (1-877741-09-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity Expanded'Book summary:"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it's your turn. Jump!" Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities every writer must have, as well as a spirit of adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here are practical tips on the art of writing from a master of the craft-everything from finding original ideas to developing your own voice and style-as well as the inside story of Bradbury's own remarkable career as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, films, and plays. Zen In The Art Of Writing is more than just a how-to manual for the would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act of writing itself that will delight, impassion, and inspire the writer in you. In it, Bradbury encourages us to follow the unique path of our instincts and enthusiasms to the place where our inner genius dwells, and he shows that success as a writer depends on how well you know one subject: your own life. [via]
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Du Cote De Chez Swannby Marcel ProustISBN 2070379248 (2-07-037924-8)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Cote De Chez Swann'Book summary:L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Marie Cardinal : Les Mots pour le Direby P. PowrieISBN 1853993360 (1-85399-336-0)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marie Cardinal : Les Mots pour le Dire'Book summary:Un de ces romans qui agrippent, fascinent, ne vous laissent de repos que lorsque vous posez les yeux sur les derniers mots. Il s'ouvre sur une sombre impasse pavée que la narratrice arpente trois fois par semaine, au rythme de l'analyse qu'elle décide d'entreprendre. Sa détresse est telle que les médecins et leurs prescriptions ne peuvent, n'ont jamais rien pu pour elle. La solution est ailleurs, dans les méandres de son passé qu'elle se décide à forer, au risque d'endurer au début des souffrances plus dévastatrices, semble-t-il, que le mal. Alors, peu à peu filtre la lumière. Celle que la conscience met à jour, réduisant l'angoisse, anémiant la névrose, acculant le silence aux mots.
Ces Mots pour le dire sont précisément l'un des plus grands succès de cet ex-professeur de philosophie, journaliste à L'Express et à Elle. Il s'agit d'un cas vécu, l'expérience de la souffrance aux confins de la folie, animée cependant d'une vitalité, d'une force de caractère et d'une clairvoyance exemplaires. --Laure Anciel [via]
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Une Mort Tres Douceby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 2070361373 (2-07-036137-3)
Softcover, Gallimard
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Sin La Sombra De Las Torres / In the Shadow of No Towersby Art SpiegelmanISBN 1594970882 (1-59497-088-2)
Hardcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sin La Sombra De Las Torres / In the Shadow of No Towers'Book summary:In his first new book of comics since the Pulitzer-Prize winning Maus, Art Spiegelman gives us a deeply personal, politically charged, graphically and emotionally stunning account of the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001. In a large, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics, Spiegelman conveys--through his singular artistry, his outrage and wit--the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy. [via]
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