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Against All Enemies: Inside America's War On Terrorby Richard A. ClarkeISBN 0743260457 (0-7432-6045-7)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War On Terror'Book summary:Few political memoirs have made such a dramatic entrance as that by Richard A. Clarke. During the week of the initial publication of Against All Enemies, Clarke was featured on 60 Minutes, testified before the 9/11 commission, and touched off a raging controversy over how the presidential administration handled the threat of terrorism and the post-9/11 geopolitical landscape. Clarke, a veteran Washington insider who had advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush and his advisors who, Clarke asserts, failed to take terrorism and Al-Qaeda seriously. Clarke details how, in light of mounting intelligence of the danger Al-Qaeda presented, his urgent requests to move terrorism up the list of priorities in the early days of the administration were met with apathy and procrastination and how, after the attacks took place, Bush and key figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney turned their attention almost immediately to Iraq, a nation not involved in the attacks. Against All Enemies takes the reader inside the Beltway beginning with the Reagan administration, who failed to retaliate against the 1982 Beirut bombings, fueling the perception around the world that the United States was vulnerable to such attacks. Terrorism becomes a growing but largely ignored threat under the first President Bush, whom Clarke cites for his failure to eliminate Saddam Hussein, thereby necessitating a continued American presence in Saudi Arabia that further inflamed anti-American sentiment. Clinton, according to Clarke, understood the gravity of the situation and became increasingly obsessed with stopping Al-Qaeda. He had developed workable plans but was hamstrung by political infighting and the sex scandal that led to his impeachment. But Bush and his advisers, Clarke says, didn't get it before 9/11 and they didn't get it after, taking a unilateral approach that seemed destined to lead to more attacks on Americans and American interests around the world. Clarke's inside accounts of what happens in the corridors of power are fascinating and the book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller. But the threat of terrorism and the consequences of Bush's approach to it feel very sobering and very real. --John Moe [via]
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Against All Enemies: Inside Americas War on Terror: ISBN 0786267526 (0-7862-6752-6)
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Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometryby Arthur B SimonISBN 0716710161 (0-7167-1016-1)
Hardcover, W. H. Freeman
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All About Usby Philipp KeelISBN 0767905016 (0-7679-0501-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All About Us'Book summary:The author of the phenomenally popular All About Me now presents a powerfully revealing book for couples, filled with thought-provoking questions to capture your relationship in a meaningful yet fun way.
All About Me has given thousands of readers insight into the thoughts, feelings, and events that uniquely shape their lives. Now Philipp Keel has created an even more personal collection of fascinating questions--a fun, non-threatening tool designed to help couples deepen their relationships.
Unlike dry record books that merely account for dates and names, All About Us gets to the heart of the matter by asking the questions that partners may be desperately curious about but hesitant to bring up, such as: If you could change one of your partner's body parts, what would it be? You have drawn blood in a fight with an ex (yes/no). Name a habit of your partner that you have proudly accepted.
With questions about romance and sex, daily routines and the life of your dreams, All About Us will help you and your partner discover more about yourselves and each other than you ever imagined possible. Whether you fill it out together, separately, or ask and answer questions aloud, this unique book will help you to deepen your relationship and discover that, once again, love is the answer.
All About Us brings a new level of honesty and self-revelation to all couples. Destined to become the must-have gift for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, and any occasion with someone special, this is an irresistible treasure. --> [via]More editions of All About Us:
All About Meby Philipp KeelISBN 076790205X (0-7679-0205-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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All About Me: Millennium Editionby Philipp KeelISBN 0767904125 (0-7679-0412-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All About Me: Millennium Edition'Book summary:As you've probably heard before, an unexamined life... may be pretty darn boring. You can remedy that with All About Me, a journal filled with checklists and fill-in-the-blank questions divided into 25 categories, including sexuality, ego, wishes & dreams, opinions, emotions, memories, and choices. What authors have affected you? Do you believe in God? What film can you watch over and over? Ever had sex on an airplane? Do you want to be buried or cremated?
All About Me can serve as a fine tool for improving your self-knowledge; it's also been used by couples who want to get to know each other better, and would make great fodder for getting a party going (especially the question, "Does a photo of you naked exist?"). If you're interested in self-actualization or improving your relationships, you'll find the book fascinating, while anyone just looking for a fun way to spend a rainy day or make a long trip go by faster will be rewarded, too. [via]
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All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writingsby George BushISBN 0743200411 (0-7432-0041-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings'Book summary:In lieu of a memoir, All the Best, George Bush collects correspondence and diary entries from the former U.S. president to show, as he says, "what my own heartbeat is, what my values are, what has motivated me in life." The letters begin in 1942--when, fresh out of high school, Bush volunteered for U.S. Navy flight school--and continue to the brink of the 21st century, as the retired chief executive worries about the Melissa virus infecting his office's server and keeping his visiting grandchildren in line. ("I realize," he muses, "Keep the freezer door closed from now on and I mean it lacks the rhetorical depth of This will not stand or Read my lips.") All the Best hits all the highlights of Bush's career, from the Texas oil business to his role as ambassador to China, then CIA director, vice president under Ronald Reagan, and finally president himself. Along the way, he reveals a personality that is at turns compassionate, respectful, silly, doting, and resolute--a man for whom being a father and a grandfather matters as much as, and maybe even more than, being leader of the free world. Fans and detractors alike will find in All the Best an intimate human portrait that offers as sure a self-definition of Bush's personal life as A World Transformed did his presidential career. [via]
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Another Selfby James Lees-MilneISBN 0719555981 (0-7195-5598-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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As We Areby E. F. BensonISBN 0701205873 (0-7012-0587-3)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Showby E. F. BensonISBN 0701205881 (0-7012-0588-1)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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Autobiographiesby R.S. Thomas, Jason Walford DaviesISBN 0753801132 (0-7538-0113-2)
Hardcover, Phoenix
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Autobiography of a Super Tramp 1908by Bernard Shaw, W.H. DaviesISBN 076614674X (0-7661-4674-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 071560709X (0-7156-0709-X)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakenings'Book summary:It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It's no wonder Hollywood producers chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human struggle against bondage and despair in these pages.
The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s; his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Aye-Aye and Iby Gerald DurrellISBN 0755111788 (0-7551-1178-8)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Banana Boyby Frank NormanISBN 0701206845 (0-7012-0684-5)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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Bella Tuscanyby Frances MayesISBN 076790284X (0-7679-0284-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bella Tuscany'Book summary:Following up on her bestselling novel, Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes returns to her beloved villa in the small hill town of Cortona, Italy. Welcomed back like an old friend, she is soon puttering in the garden, and as Mayes devotees might expect, busy in the kitchen as well. As Mayes rediscovers her taste for la dolce vita, she embarks on a journey of cultural awakening and embraces a newfound romance with the Italian language and people. "I came to Italy expecting adventure," reads Mayes. "What I never anticipated is the absolute sweet joy of everyday life."
Mayes is as generous a cook as she is a writer, flavoring her story with tasty descriptions of local gustatory delights--many of which are included in a small recipe book. She also serves as narrator, and the beguiling simplicity of her voice makes listening as enjoyable as spending an afternoon with a well-traveled favorite aunt. (Running time: 9 hours, 6 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italyby Frances Mayes, Janet PedersenISBN 0767902831 (0-7679-0283-1)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italy'Book summary:Work's still not completely finished on Bramasole, the Tuscan house that California-based poet and bestselling author Frances Mayes bought a decade ago and has been fixing up every summer since. Nevertheless, in Bella Tuscany, she goes out--in search of Italy and Italian life. The sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun is awash with sensual discovery, from Sicilian markets with "rainbows of shining fish on ice" to the aqueous dream of Venice "shimmering in the diluted sunlight." Wherever she is, Mayes celebrates everyday rituals, such as picking wild asparagus, "dark spears poking out of the dirt ... stalks as thin as yarn" and driving through country rains, as "the green landscape smears across the windshield" for buffalo mozzarella and demijohns of sfuso--bulk wine kept fresh with a slick of olive oil on top. Mayes also ventures into the world of the locals, some "bent as a comma" and others throwing six-hour communion feasts where half a dozen cooks in a barn continually send out heaping platters of pasta with wild boar sauce, roasted lamb, and even the thigh of a giant cow--wrapping up the festivities with honeyed vin santo, grappa, and dancing to the accordion. Capturing the details that enrich the commonplace, in Bella Tuscany Mayes appears less like a visitor and more like someone discovering in Tuscany a real home and a real life. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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Betty Boothroyd: The Autobiographyby Betty BoothroydISBN 0712679480 (0-7126-7948-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betty Boothroyd: The Autobiography'Book summary:Betty Boothroyd: The Autobiography has Baroness Boothroyd of Sandwell, with her characteristic endearing zeal, recounting her trail from working-class Dewsbury to Westminster. The daughter of a weftman, she passes from rags to political riches with the Labour Party, to which she claims an umbilical loyalty. After a now-notorious spell with the Tiller Girls, she started working full-time for the Labour Party, and eventually, after four attempts at securing a seat, she finally won West Bromwich in 1973--the constituency she was to represent for 27 years. Pro-Europe, pro-choice, anti-capital punishment, she was made a junior Whip in 1974 and Deputy Speaker in 1987 before finally succeeding Jack Weatherill to become the 155th--and first female--Speaker of the House of Commons in 1992. By the time of her retirement from the Chair in July 2000, her "wigless informality" had seen her become one of the most recognisable and popular faces, not just in the House or West Bromwich, but throughout the country.
The woman Private Eye cruelly and unfairly accused of having "all the charm of carbon monoxide gas in an airtight room" airs her story with unstuffy grace and emphatic integrity. Much has been made of the large sum the publishers paid for her story, but Boothroyd chooses discretion over revelation in describing her path from model to Madame Speaker: while she discusses her brief experience training with the Tiller Girls, she includes no photographs from the period, and declines to elaborate further on the three proposals of marriage she claims to have received. Nevertheless, she assesses her political career and tenure on the Chair with splendid candour, from the fight to rid the Party of Militant, ding-dongs with party Whips, the "cash for questions" controversy, Nelson Mandela's first state visit to London, Gerry Adams' and Martin McGuinness' refusal to take the Parliamentary oath, to the fuss over her banning women MPs from breastfeeding during committee. Never constrained by doctrine but always fiercely loyal to her principles, her motto as Speaker, "I Speak to Serve", fittingly sums up the distinguished, quietly extraordinary political career of this much-loved Yorkshire terrier. --David Vincent [via]
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland The Middle Danube to the Iron Gatesby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0719542642 (0-7195-4264-2)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates'Book summary:'Between the Woods and the Water' continues Patrick Leigh Fermor's celebrated epic account of his journey at the age of eighteen, in 1933, from the Hook of Holand to Constantinople. Here he travels down the Danube from Budapest, across the Great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania. [via]
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Book of Shadows : A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom and Magic of Witchcraftby Phyllis Curott, Paul AndrewsISBN 0767900545 (0-7679-0054-5)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Shadows : A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom and Magic of Witchcraft'Book summary:"Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world."
When high-powered Manhattan lawyer Phyllis Curott began exploring Witchcraft, she discovered a spiritual movement that defied all stereotypes. Encountering neither satanic rites nor eccentric spinsters, she came to know a clandestine religion of the Goddess that had been forced into hiding over the course of history. Book of Shadows recounts Curott's remarkable initiation into Wicca (meaning "wise one") and shares her insights as a high priestess of an elegant, ancient spirituality that celebrates the magic of being alive.
An Ivy-league graduate and promising lawyer, Curott was a typical young woman in her twenties, determined to forge a law career within the burgeoning, male-dominated music industry. But when she began having prophetic dreams and mysterious visions of ancient female figures and unfamiliar symbols, she discovered an unexpected world of magic and began searching for a rational explanation. When her friend Sophia--a practicing Witch--suggested having her cards read by a Wiccan High Priestess, Curott instinctively dismissed the idea, but then forced her natural skepticism aside on the chance that this age-old practice might help her understand the unusual occurrences in her life.
Thus begins her journey into the magical world of Witchcraft, a religion originally practiced by priestesses, shamans, and healers that empowers our lives by working with the natural cycles of nature. Fascinated by this pre-Judeo-Christian religion that honors women as the embodiment of the Goddess and emphasizes respect and love for the natural world, Curott began attending a local coven's weekly circle to learn the sacred arts. Her Book of Shadows chronicles her ascent to the position of Wiccan High Priestess and her efforts to reconcile her newfound spirituality with her struggles as a woman rising through the ranks of the corporate world. Along the way, Curott relates the history of Witchcraft and shares many traditional Wiccan practices, such as casting a circle, drawing down the Goddess, harnessing the powers of the natural world, and casting spells for health, prosperity, and love.
Engagingly written and rich with detailed rituals and techniques, this inspirational book traces a modern woman's spiritual journey into a realm of extraordinary experience and enlightenment. Book of Shadows provides us with the keys to discover an enchanted world of divine empowerment so as to unlock the power that lies within us all. [via]More editions of Book of Shadows : A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom and Magic of Witchcraft:
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Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddessby Phyllis Curott, Lauren MarinoISBN 0767900553 (0-7679-0055-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess'Book summary:Since Phyllis Currot first published Book of Shadows, the story of her spiritual journey and initiation as a High Priestess in the Wiccan community, Witchcraft has captured America's imagination as a theme for fiction, television shows, and films. Now America's highest-profile Witch returns to dispel more myths and misrepresentations of her faith, and to share a practical guide to the beautiful spiritual rituals and philosophies behind Wiccan tradition.
Rich with enchanting stories from Currot's own experiences and detailed advice for creating potions, working with Nature, and finding the Divine within, Witch Crafting is much more than just another superficial recipe book. Curott's unique guidebook integrates the inspiration of religious wisdom with sound, practical information. Witch Crafting reveals how to: incorporate Wiccan practices into your daily life; master the secret arts of effective spell casting; create sacred space and personal rituals; perform divinations for insight and success; and tap the magical power of altered states, such as dreaming meditation, prayer, and trance.
Perfect for beginners or seasoned practitioners, Witch Crafting is the ideal handbook for anyone seeking to unlock the divine power that makes real magic happen, and to experience the power and gifts of the universe more fully. [via]More editions of Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess:
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The Camino: A Journey of the Spiritby Shirley MacLaineISBN 0743400739 (0-7434-0073-9)
Softcover, Atria Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit'Book summary:Known as the Camino, the Santiago de Compostela Camino is a famous pilgrimage that has been undertaken by people for centuries across northern Spain. It is said that this 500-mile path lies directly under the Milky Way and that it reflects the energy of the star systems above it. Facing her sixth decade of life on earth, writer and actor Shirley MacLaine decided to go on this trek. She wasn't sure why, she only knew that the Camino had been traveled for thousands of years by "saints, sinners, generals, misfits, kings and queens. It is done by the intent to find one's deepest spiritual meaning and resolutions regarding conflicts in Self."
Typical of MacLaine, this is a personal story with enormous adventure, a smattering of flashbacks, and a hefty serving of cosmic revelations. Like a true pilgrim, MacLaine travels solo, willing to strip herself down to the backpacking essentials and find deeper meaning in all the bizarre, frightening, and coincidental events she encounters along the way. It is no small feat that this sixtysomething woman walked the grueling path in 30 days. Readers can expect vivid stories of stalking paparazzi, icy showers, bouts of hunger, lost paths, a worshipping young man, a deranged woman screaming in a roadside shelter, saintly truck drivers, a fellow pilgrim in a wheelchair, bouts of constipation and diarrhea, and a cosmic crescendo that will knock the socks of MacLaine's fans. --Gail Hudson [via]
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China to Meby Emily HahnISBN 0759240604 (0-7592-4060-4)
Softcover, E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd
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Christmas in Plains: Memoriesby Jimmy Carter, Amy CarterISBN 0743227158 (0-7432-2715-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christmas in Plains: Memories'Book summary:Jimmy Carter's Georgia hometown has been the one constant in his life, and he pays tribute to it with Christmas in Plains, a collection of holiday memories from his childhood through his Navy days, his time as Georgia governor and U.S. president, and his very active retirement. As a schoolboy, Carter looked forward to painting many-colored magnolia leaves to mix in with the holly on the mantle. His favorite way to collect mistletoe "usually at the top of oak or pecan trees and on the ends of slender limbs, was to shoot into the clump and let the bullets or buckshot cut off some sprigs." And when his godmother went to Cleveland, Ohio, one December, he asked her to bring back a snowball. It was quite some time before he realized that the large white marble she gave him was not "a real petrified snowball." Carter's memories of holding onto faith during the Christmases of his presidency are often poignant, taking place in the context of the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And his postretirement experiences of Christmas are strangely, comfortingly familiar, characterized by jealousy of in-laws and generosity towards neighbors. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil Warby Sam R. WatkinsISBN 0743255410 (0-7432-5541-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Copy This!: Lessons From A Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turmed A Bright Idea Into One Of America's Best Companiesby Paul Orfalea, Ann MarshISBN 0761137777 (0-7611-3777-7)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady: A Facsimile Reproduction of a Naturalist's Diary for the Year 1906by Edith HoldenISBN 0718115813 (0-7181-1581-3)
Hardcover, Joseph
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Crackpotby John WatersISBN 0743246276 (0-7432-4627-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crackpot'Book summary:Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters' brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinationg people, places and things. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, from William Castle to Pia Zadora, from the National Enquirer to Ronald Reagan's colon, Waters explores the depths of our culture. And he dispenses useful advice along the way: how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read: infamous), and of course, how to most effectively shock and make our nation's public laugh at the same time. Loaded with bonus features, this new special edition is guaranteed to leave you totally mental. [via]
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Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-Dby Lizzie SimonISBN 0743446607 (0-7434-4660-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D'Book summary:By all appearances, Lizzie Simon was perfect. She had an Ivy League education, lots of friends, a loving family, and a dazzling career as a theater producer by the age of twenty-three. But that wasn't enough: Lizzie still felt alone in the world, and largely misunderstood. Having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, she longed to meet others like herself; she wanted to hear the experiences of those who managed to move past their manic-depression and lead normal lives. So Lizzie hits the road, hoping to find "a herd of her own." Along the way she finds romance and madness, survivors and sufferers, and, somewhere between the lanes, herself. Part road trip, part love story, Detour is a fast-paced, enduring memoir that demystifies mental illness while it embraces the universally human struggle to become whole. [via]
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Dirty Jokes and Beerby Drew CareyISBN 0786885599 (0-7868-8559-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Fear and Loathing in Americaby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0747549648 (0-7475-4964-8)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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Flight: My Life in Mission Controlby Christopher C. KraftISBN 0786234261 (0-7862-3426-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiographyby Frank Lloyd WrightISBN 0764932438 (0-7649-3243-8)
Hardcover, Pomegranate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography'Book summary:Frank Lloyd Wright exerted perhaps the greatest influence on twentieth century design. In a volume that continues to resonate more than seventy years after its initial publication, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography contains the master architect's own account of his work, his philosophy, and his personal life, written with his signature wit and charm.
Wright (1867-1959) went into seclusion in a Minnesota cabin to reflect and to record his life experiences. In 1932, the first edition of the Autobiography was published. It became a form of advertising, leading many readers to seek out the master architect--thirty apprentices came to live and learn at Taliesin, Wright's Wisconsin home/school/studio, under the master's tutelage. (By 1938, Taliesin West, in Arizona, was the winter location for Wright's school.)
The volume is divided into five sections devoted to family, fellowship, work, freedom, and form. Wright recalls his childhood, his apprenticeship with Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, the turmoil of his personal life, and the background to his greatest achievements, including Hollyhock House, the Prairie and the Usonian Houses, and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. [via]
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The Garden of the Godsby Gerald DurrellISBN 0755111893 (0-7551-1189-3)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Girl Singer : An Autobiographyby Rosemary Clooney, Joan BarthelISBN 0767905555 (0-7679-0555-5)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addictby William LeithISBN 074757250X (0-7475-7250-X)
Softcover, Bloomsbury
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I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Sthings That Strike Me As Funnyby Bob NewhartISBN 0786289945 (0-7862-8994-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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This isnt a memoir like most memoirs. It's a book only Bob Newhart could have written, with his unique worldview and irrepressibly wry humor on every page. Oh, and there's a fair bit of plain silliness too. In this, his first book ever, Newhart gives his brilliant and bemused twist on a multitude of topics, including flying, the trials of a family holiday in a Winnebago, and more serious subjects, such as gold. And of course, there are side-splittingly funny stories from his life and career. Who else has a drinking game named after him ("Hi Bob!") [via]
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I'm Not Really Hereby Tim AllenISBN 0786889322 (0-7868-8932-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Leave the Letters Till We're Deadby Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann BanksISBN 0701204702 (0-7012-0470-2)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Let Me Finishby Roger AngellISBN 0786288701 (0-7862-8870-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Letters of Vincent Van Goghby Ronald De Leeuw, Arnold J. Pomerans, Vincent Van GoghISBN 0713991356 (0-7139-9135-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Life Is Just What You Make It: My Life So Farby Donnie OsmondISBN 0786889713 (0-7868-8971-3)
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Life Is Just What You Make It: My Story So Farby Patricia Romanowski, Donny OsmondISBN 078686494X (0-7868-6494-X)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Life on the Color Lineby Gregory Howard WilliamsISBN 0788161253 (0-7881-6125-3)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Life So Farby Betty FriedanISBN 0743200241 (0-7432-0024-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life So Far : A Memoir'Book summary:Betty Friedan has given us another terrific and bravely written book--this time, it's a personal memoir from a woman who changed the world. Her many professional accomplishments are detailed here, from her beginning as a labor reporter to the creation of The Feminine Mystique and the organization of NOW, as well as all the fascinating travel, marches, writings, and controversies that have become her career. Told with characteristic straightforwardness, her personal and professional lives are comfortably mixed in every chapter: the death of the ERA occurred at the same time she found her dream home, and Indira Gandhi and Friedan had a relationship that mixed political admiration with a similar fashion sense. Her messy divorce and lack of child support is detailed without bitterness, while her well-publicized differences with Phyllis Schlafly are described in an illuminating and entertaining manner. The tone is both intelligent and conversational--there are no heroes in this book, but no one is a total villain either. Personal recollections of various politicians, activists, and events offer strong opinions, such as Friedan's belief that the National Women's Conference of 1977 was nearly derailed by right-wing ERA opposition, rather than the unexpected lesbian-rights organization that presented itself so strongly during the Houston convention. Divisions within the larger force of feminism are addressed simply--Friedan is first a pragmatist, and was often at odds with the famous sexual-politic theorists of the '70s. Wise and encouraging, Life So Far is a fascinating read for feminists and fans of all varieties. --Jill Lightner [via]
Lucky Georgeby WaldenISBN 0713993162 (0-7139-9316-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientistby Richard P FeynmanISBN 0738201669 (0-7382-0166-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist'Book summary:In this series of lectures originally given in 1963, which remained unpublished during Richard Feynman's lifetime, the Nobel-winning physicist thinks aloud on several "meta"--questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age?
Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend. "In case you are beginning to believe," he says at the start of his final lecture, "that some of the things I said before are true because I am a scientist and according to the brochure that you get I won some awards and so forth, instead of your looking at the ideas themselves and judging them directly...I will get rid of that tonight. I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make." Rare, perhaps. Irreverent, sure. But ridiculous? Not even close. [via]
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Memoriesby Frances PartridgeISBN 0753807750 (0-7538-0775-0)
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Morrie: In His Own Wordsby Morrie SchwartzISBN 0753196689 (0-7531-9668-9)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Mutant Message Down Underby Marlo MorganISBN 0786203307 (0-7862-0330-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutant Message Down Under'Book summary:Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all.
Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long journey and learns how they thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals that exist in the rugged lands of Australia's bush. From the first day of her adventure, Morgan is challenged by the physical requirements of the journey -- she faces daily tests of her endurance, challenges that ultimately contribute to her personal transformation.
By traveling with this extraordinary community, Morgan becomes a witness to their essential way of being in a world based on the ancient wisdom and philosophy of a culture that is more than 50,000 years old. [via]
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My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Strokeby Robert McCrum, Tracy BeharISBN 0767904001 (0-7679-0400-1)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Name All the Animals: A Memoirby Alison SmithISBN 0743255232 (0-7432-5523-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Nickel Dreams: My Lifeby Tanya Tucker, Patsi Bale CoxISBN 0786889365 (0-7868-8936-5)
Softcover, Hyperion
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Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passionby Leona Rostenberg, Madeleine SternISBN 0786214147 (0-7862-1414-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion'Book summary:Like 84, Charing Cross Road, Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern's charming bibliocentric memoir is as much about relationships as it is about books. Charing Cross chronicled the decades-long epistolary friendship between American book lover Helene Hanff and Frank Doel, the equally devoted British bookseller in the London shop from whom she bought many of her treasures. Rostenberg and Stern's book once again proves how a passion for great literature can make for fast friends. And in their case, these two octogenarians occupy the same geographical space, sharing both their professional and private lives.
In their introduction, Rostenberg and Stern write: "Several readers inferred ... that our relationship was a Lesbian one. This was a misconception. The 'deep, deep love' that existed and exists between us ... has no bearing upon sex." With that out of the way early on, the two recount the stories of their lives in alternating sections. And oh, what lives they've had! From identifying some of Louisa May Alcott's previously anonymous early writings to traveling the world in search of rare volumes and pamphlets, they have done and seen it all. Successful antiquarian book dealers Rostenberg and Stern undoubtedly are, but as this memoir makes clear, their greatest accomplishment just might be that rarer commodity of friendship that lasts a lifetime. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0755100182 (0-7551-0018-2)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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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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The Other Half: A Self Portraitby Kenneth ClarkISBN 0719534321 (0-7195-3432-1)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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Owls in the Familyby Farley MowatISBN 0771066937 (0-7710-6693-7)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoirby A. E. HotchnerISBN 0786705922 (0-7867-0592-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir'Book summary:First published in 1966, this adulatory memoir made news by revealing that Ernest Hemingway's 1961 death was a suicide. It also provided the mythmaking, Nobel Prize-winning author with an opportunity to promulgate his preferred public persona from beyond the grave. Chronicling their friendship over the final 14 years of Hemingway's life, A.E. Hotchner vividly captured the writer's appeal as a man and his genius as a storyteller in extensive direct quotes. He draws from contemporary notes, tape recordings, and (he reveals in the foreword to this edition published for the Hemingway centennial) disguised excerpts from personal letters that Hemingway's widow, Mary, refused him permission to use. In conversation, Hemingway sounds like one of his own fictional heroes: terse, witty, profane, manly. Hotchner, in his mid-20s when they first met in 1948 and, he freely admits, "struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe," seldom evaluates either the veracity of or the motivations behind the writer's anecdotes. He makes no claim to be objective, which adds to the emotional force of the painful final chapters showing a desolate, depressed Hemingway convinced he could no longer write. By no means the whole truth, Hotchner's loving portrait shows Hemingway to readers as he wanted to be seen and as his most ardent admirers saw him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Party Monster: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clublandby James St. JamesISBN 0743259823 (0-7432-5982-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Manby Joseph HellerISBN 0743202015 (0-7432-0201-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man'Book summary:"This author was determined," says the apparently autobiographical narrator of Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. "He often appropriated as his own personal infirmity the concluding words of the unnameable voice in Samuel Beckett's The Unnameable, 'I must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.'" And on his last day on Earth, Joseph Heller was still polishing this, his last and strangest novel. It is essentially an essay about a writer who's exactly like him--old and stuck for an idea for his next book. Seeking inspiration, he chats with his wife, his editors, and his friends, and floats one high-concept scheme after another.
How about a novel about the gangsters who ran Coney Island, the enchanted land of his childhood? Nah, too much plot to concoct. Perhaps he could update a classic: Tom Sawyer as a Harvard MBA, or Kafka's The Metamorphosis transposed to Manhattan. When these don't pan out, Heller takes a stab at mythology, done in the manner of his old pal Mel Brooks. Here Zeus's wife complains about his flagging ardor:
I try to put myself in Leda's place. It could be kind of thrilling, I guess, being overpowered by a huge male swan, especially after realizing it was Zeus.... I'd like to see him take the trouble to surprise me like that, even once. But that doesn't happen. He won't waste tricks like that on me. He never does, he knows he doesn't have to. When he comes to me it's never with anything new, it's always just the same, always just the same old god.
Increasingly desperate, the author tries out titles on his friends, and A Sexual Biography of My Wife stirs some interest. Still, his tentative fictions don't grab you the way the novel's sad, searing reminiscences do. When Heller--I mean, the narrator--has a tearful reunion with his adulterous old flame (who's now stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease), or asks another female acquaintance whether she regrets turning down his long-ago offer of romance, we get a privileged glimpse into the private mind of a very public author. "I want to cap my career with a masterpiece of some kind," the narrator tells his editor. This poignantly discursive book is not a masterpiece, but Joseph Heller did go on trying to the end. --Tim Appelo [via]More editions of Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man:
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenanceby Donald MillerISBN 0736901604 (0-7369-0160-4)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Peter D. GarsideISBN 0748663150 (0-7486-6315-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:In the 1920s the eminent French novelist and critic André Gide was given a copy of James Hogg's neglected masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and went on to record how he had read 'this astounding book [...] with a stupefaction and admiration that increased at every page'. Many readers have subsequently shared Gide's enthusiasm, and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is now widely recognized as one of the outstanding British novels of the Romantic era. It has also been acclaimed as one of the defining texts of Scotland, with Iain Crichton Smith recently applauding 'a towering Scottish novel, one of the very greatest of all Scottish books'. Peter Garside's new edition excitingly opens out our understanding of Hogg's work, disclosing new levels of previously undected references. It also throws fresh light on the remarkable story of the novel's genesis, while providing the first full and accessible charting of its diverse cultural, theological, geographical, and historical contexts.
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Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixtiesby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0713994460 (0-7139-9446-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Readings on Native Sonby Richard Wright, Hayley R. MitchellISBN 0737703202 (0-7377-0320-2)
Hardcover, Greenhaven Pr
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The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Jean J. RousseauISBN 0714539414 (0-7145-3941-4)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr
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Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure Of Humanity In Rwandaby Romeo Dallaire, Brent BeardsleyISBN 0786715103 (0-7867-1510-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure Of Humanity In Rwanda'Book summary:For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." When Roméo Dallaire was called on to serve as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, he believed that his assignment was to help two warring parties achieve the peace they both wanted. Instead, he was exposed to the most barbarous and chaotic display of civil war and genocide in the past decade, observing in just one hundred days the killings of more than eight hundred thousand Rwandans. With only a few troops, his own ingenuity and courage to direct his efforts, Dallaire rescued thousands, but his call for more support from the world body fell on deaf ears. In Shake Hands with the Devil, General Dallaire recreates the awful history the world community chose to ignore. He also chronicles his own progression from confident Cold Warrior to devastated UN commander, and finally to retired general struggling painfully, and publicly, to overcome posttraumatic stress disorderthe highest-ranking officer ever to share such experiences with readers.[via]More editions of Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure Of Humanity In Rwanda:
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indianaby Haven KimmelISBN 074328500X (0-7432-8500-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana'Book summary:Haven Kimmel's memoir She Got Up Off the Couch might have been called The Further Adventures of Zippy, since it picks up where her bestselling A Girl Named Zippy left off, and is reeled out in much the same vein. The person who got up off the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda, who for years sat on the titular sofa, ate, read, and watched TV until she weighed 268 pounds and life was nearly unbearable. You would never know the bad parts from Haven Kimmel, who always concentrates on the bright side, even though she lived in a house without heat, food, indoor plumbing, a dependable water supply or even a modicum of cleanliness. Kimmel loves her parents inordinately, even at their most unlovable.
Delonda takes a College Entrance exam, passes it and enrolls at Ball State, where she completes a degree in two years, goes on for a Master's and gets a job as a high school teacher. That sounds fairly straightforward but it wasn't easy. Bob Jarvis, Delonda's husband and Zippy's father, gave her no help at all; in fact, he ridiculed her and ignored her progress. Eventually, he found someone else while Delonda was busy reclaiming her life. We could read this as a tale of the times, where a woman takes charge of herself, loses 120 pounds and, against all odds, gains an education and a livelihood. It is all of that, and more.
Life in Mooreland, Indiana, in the 1970s is not very exciting, but Zippy finds wonder everywhere and often laughed until she "tipped right over." There is an unquenchable spirit in the girl, and then in the woman, that keeps popping up despite a very sketchy upbringing. The neighbors fed and bathed her, she wore the same pair of pants to school every day for an entire school year--without benefit of laundry. Her brother and sister lit out at the first chance they had--though Melinda ends up only a few blocks away and becomes another safe port for Zippy. She is a victim of benign neglect, not malice or meanness.
Her tales of church camp, days with her friends, driving with her Dad, going to a play with her Mother, her love for her niece and nephew and her discovery that her Dad is having an affair are all told in typical Zippy-style: they are humorous, poignant, exuberant, and often breathless. Stay tuned: this book ends when Zippy is only thirteen. Hopefully there's more to come. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Sir Vidia's Shadowby Paul TherouxISBN 0771085060 (0-7710-8506-0)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Boardby Rick Bundschuh, Sheryl Berk, bethany hamiltonISBN 0743499220 (0-7434-9922-0)
Hardcover, Mtv Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board'Book summary:The amazing story of the thirteen-year-old surfer girl who lost her arm in a shark attack but never lost her faith -- and of her triumphant return to competitive surfing.
They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the tremendous passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing -- not even the loss of her arm in a horrific shark attack -- could come between her and the waves?
That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii -- a glorious part of the world, where it's hard to deny the divine -- Bethany responded to the shark's stealth attack with the calm of a girl with God on her side. Pushing pain and panic aside, she immediately began to paddle with one arm, focusing on a single thought: "Get to the beach...." Rushed to the hospital, where her father, Tom Hamilton, was about to undergo knee surgery, Bethany found herself taking his spot in the O.R. It's the kind of coincidence that isn't mere coincidence to the Hamilton family, a clan whose motto could easily be "the family that surfs and prays together stays together." To them it was a sign someone had a greater plan than the one they'd been working on themselves -- which had been to scrape together whatever resources they could to help Bethany rise to the top of her sport. When the first thing Bethany wanted to know after surgery was "When can I surf again?" it became clear that her unfaltering spirit and determination were part of a greater story -- a tale of courage and faith that this modest and soft-spoken girl would come to share with the world.
Soul Surfer is a moving account of Bethany's life as a young surfer, her recovery in the wake of the shark attack, the adjustments she's made to her unique surfing style, her unprecedented bid for a top showing in the World Surfing Championships, and, most fundamentally, her belief in God. It is a story of girl power and spiritual grit that shows that the body is no more essential to surfing -- perhaps even less so -- than the soul. [via]
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South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyageby Ernest ShackeletonISBN 0786705973 (0-7867-0597-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage'Book summary:Soon after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, his Anglo-Irish rival, Sir Ernest Shackleton, sought to top the feat by making his way from one end of Antarctica to the other on sledge. He set off with a crew of 28, including scientists and a movie cameraman, but the voyage turned disastrous when Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, became hopelessly stuck in pack ice, throwing the men (and the dogs brought to pull the sledges) into a desperate battle for survival. South is Shackleton's own account--one of the critical sources for Alfred Lansing's bestseller Endurance--of what it was like to be "helpless intruders in a strange world," a vivid narrative in which tales of Edwardian pluck are counterpointed with lyrical accounts of whales, penguins, and bizarre mirages. This story of a group of men who beat nearly impossible odds to escape death and make their way home is one of the all-time great survival stories. --Robert McNamara [via]
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Still Watersby Jennifer LauckISBN 074343966X (0-7434-3966-X)
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Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in Americaby Mel WhiteISBN 0788154885 (0-7881-5488-5)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 0767902890 (0-7679-0289-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'Book summary:"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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A Time of Giftsby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0719533481 (0-7195-3348-1)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time of Gifts'Book summary:A 'Time of Gifts' sees patrick Leigh Fermor setting out at the age of eighteen, in 1933, on his epic journeyacross Europe from the Hook of holland to Consantinople. This first volume takes us as far as Hungary. [via]
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Time of My Lifeby Denis HealeyISBN 0718131142 (0-7181-3114-2)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time of My Life'Book summary:An autobiography of Britain's foremost politician who, in his range of interests, in the brilliance of his mind, and in his ability to write is probably unique among figures in English public life. Healey grew up in Yorkshire and, after Oxford, joined the army at the outbreak of war. He became a Labour MP in 1952 and has been Minister of Defence and Chancellor. [via]
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True: The Autobiography of Martin Kempby Martin KempISBN 0752832646 (0-7528-3264-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True: The Autobiography of Martin Kemp'Book summary:Writing his own story Martin Kemp talks frankly about his upbringing in working-class Islington, stardom and success with Spandau Ballet and the break up of the band. He writes openly about his film career, the huge success of The Krays, his tremendous fight against brain cancer and on to today with fame again in EastEnders. This is a stunningly written account of a fascinating life written with candour and wit. [via]
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Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Pleaseby John Mills, John MillerISBN 0752844490 (0-7528-4449-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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View from the Summitby Edmund HillaryISBN 0743400674 (0-7434-0067-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 0760754969 (0-7607-5496-9)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle'Book summary:Inviting in its lavish detail, this is Darwin's fascinating account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the now famous Galapagos Archipelago. One of the most important voyages of the 19th century, this is where Darwin made the observations that led to his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, which emerged two decades later. The Voyage of the Beagle (1840-43) has delighted and enlightened millions because of Darwin's loving and insightful observations of the plants, animals, people, and locations he explored. These journals provide striking examples of the great scientist's reasoning ability and intriguing glimpses into his thought processes. They are the precursor to The Descent of Man (1871, 1874), a controversial leap in evolutionary theory from nature to humanity. [via]
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Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Robert Darwin, Charles W. EliotISBN 0766182142 (0-7661-8214-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Waiting on Godby Simone WeilISBN 0710002483 (0-7100-0248-3)
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What If I Had Never Tried It: The Autobiographyby Valentino RossiISBN 0760326827 (0-7603-2682-7)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Tradeby William GoldmanISBN 074754977X (0-7475-4977-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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