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Adventures of Huck Finnby Mark TwainISBN 1580495834 (1-58049-583-4)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Huck Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 1583483403 (1-58348-340-3)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 159308000X (1-59308-000-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 159308157X (1-59308-157-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 1598184911 (1-59818-491-1)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 1583483403 (1-58348-340-3)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 159308000X (1-59308-000-X)
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All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in Indiaby Rachel Manija BrownISBN 1594865264 (1-59486-526-4)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India'Book summary:[via]When she was seven, Rachel Manija Brown's parents, post-60s hippies, uprooted her from her native California and moved to an ashram in a cobra-ridden, drought-stricken spot in India. Cavorting through these pages are some wonderfully eccentric characters: the ashram head, Meher Baba, best known as the guru to Pete Townshend of The Who; the librarian, who grunts and howls nightly outside Rachel's window; a holy madman, who shuffles about collecting invisible objects; a middle-aged male virgin, who begs Rachel to critique his epic spiritual poems; and a delusional Russian who arrives at the ashram proclaiming he is Meher Baba reincarnated.
Astutely observed and laugh-out-loud funny, this astonishing debut memoir--now available in paperback--signals the arrival of a major new literary talent. The hardcover edition was named a Book Sense Pick and was selected as a Book of the Week by BN.com's Book Club.More editions of All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India:
Aspargus Dreamsby Jessica PeersISBN 1843101645 (1-84310-164-5)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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The Bandit Queen: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legendby Paul Rambali, Marie-Therese CunyISBN 1592286410 (1-59228-641-0)
Softcover, Lyons Pr
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Povertyby Muhammad YunusISBN 1586481983 (1-58648-198-3)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty'Book summary:Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Around the world, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs established in the United States alone.[via]
Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in "putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business.
Muhammad Yunus was born in Bangladesh and earned his Ph.D. in economics in the United States at Vanderbilt University, where he was deeply influenced by the civil rights movement. He still lives in Bangladesh, and travels widely around the world on behalf of Grameen Bank and the concept of micro-credit.More editions of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty:
Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda: The Memoirs of Roger Vadimby Roger VadimISBN 1850891311 (1-85089-131-1)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Being Jordan: My Autobiographyby Katie PriceISBN 1844541320 (1-84454-132-0)
Softcover, John Blake
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Billyby Pamela StephensonISBN 1585673080 (1-58567-308-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy'Book summary:Billy Connolly is loud, hilarious and contradictory. His biography, written by his wife, former comedian and practising psychotherapist Pamela Stephenson, is pretty much the same. Over the years Connolly has grown from Glasgow shipyard welder to folk-singing beardy hard man (yes there is such a thing) to darling of the good and great (or at least famous) around the world. That he is so many things to so many people while in no way compromising his core self can only be good. It would be no mean feat for Stephenson, then, to pen a history to that would satisfy Connolly audiences of fans and contemporaries from all periods of his life's journey. In most places, but in truth, not all, the author manages to do this well.
The first half of the biography is somewhat anthropological in tone. Not surprisingly, a post-war Glasgow upbringing is somewhat alien to the antipodean author and Stephenson errs towards Angela's Ashes intonation as she describes her husband's tenement childhood (Scots readers may also find her regular translation of seemingly self-explanatory Scots phrases--which Connolly would use--obtuse). In contrast her examination of her experience of living with the comedian and his life from that point on is much better. Anecdotes which Connolly uses in his live shows pepper the text and laughs are raised as he tells of the time he was mistaken as a drug dealer on Speyside, of his cheeky friendships with cinema's elite and even through the more difficult times; the difficulty of balancing an almost manic humour with a troubled life. Pages turn quickly as we grow to understand more of what makes the man tick.
Certainly fans of Billy Connolly will enjoy this book. It is not perfect but it is certainly entertaining and should fill a gap in the market until Billy--with his half-remembered stories and off-centre view of the world--decides to let us into his head as well as his history. There's surely one ideal way to do this and that's by writing his story himself. --Helen Lamont [via]
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Black Beautyby Anna SewellISBN 1853261092 (1-85326-109-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:"A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12)" [via]
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Blue Bloodby Edward ConlonISBN 1594480737 (1-59448-073-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayasby Michka Assayas, BonoISBN 1594481733 (1-59448-173-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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In these extraordinary, intimate conversations, Bono speaks candidly about his faith, family, commitment, influences, and passions. It is the closest we will come, for now, to a memoir from the iconic frontman of U2. [via]More editions of Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas:
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Brontesby Juliet BarkerISBN 1585673633 (1-58567-363-3)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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The Brontes: A Life in Lettersby Juliet BarkerISBN 1585671525 (1-58567-152-5)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brontes: A Life in Letters'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1995, Juliet Barker's The Brontës was deemed a monumental achievement that set a new standard in literary biography; it garnered rave reviews and was cited as a New York Times Notable Book of 1995 and a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 1995. In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, the much anticipated follow-up to that landmark biography, Barker uses newly discovered letters and manuscripts, some appearing in print for the first time, to reveal the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters. The letters detail the siblings' self-absorbed childhood, highlighted by wild, imaginative games; the years of struggling to earn a living in uncongenial occupations before they took the literary world by storm; the terrible marring of that success as Branwell, Emily, and Anne died tragically young; the final years as Charlotte, battling against grief, loneliness, and ill health, emerged from anonymity to take her place in literary society.
In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Juliet Barker has produced a work of impeccable scholarship but also a story as dramatic, and undeniably readable as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
"Barker proves herself an impeccable editor of family papers we are all the richer for possessing." (New York Times Book Review)
"Provides a real sense of what those strange, brilliant people were like." (The Atlantic Monthly) [via]More editions of The Brontes: A Life in Letters:
Chronicle of Youth: Great War Diary 1913-1917by Vera Brittain, Alan BishopISBN 1842125427 (1-84212-542-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Chronicle of Youth: Vera Brittain's Great War Diary 1913by Vera BrittainISBN 1842120948 (1-84212-094-8)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of Youth: Vera Brittain's Great War Diary 1913'Book summary:Vera Brittain's bestselling Testament of Youth was based on these copious diaries-which have far greater intimacy and immediacy. Beginning in the carefree summer of 1913, it follows the shocking onset of war, and the tragic loss of her brother, her fiancé, and most of their young friends in the fighting. Vera herself abandoned Oxford to train as a nurse, and spent the rest of the war tending to the wounded-including German prisoners. Written in London, Malta, and France, it captures all the war's horrors and Brittain's emergence as a committed pacifist. "One of the rare books which are a landmark for a whole generation."-Times Literary Supplement.[via]More editions of Chronicle of Youth: Vera Brittain's Great War Diary 1913:
Congratulations! It's Asperger Syndromeby Jen BirchISBN 1843101122 (1-84310-112-2)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventureby Dave GormanISBN 1585676144 (1-58567-614-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure'Book summary:If someone called you a 'googlewhack' what would you do? Would you end up playing table tennis with a nine year old boy in Boston? Would you find yourself in Los Angeles wrangling snakes, or would you go to China to be licked by a performance artist? If your name is Dave Gorman, then all of these things could be true...Fuelled by a lust for life and a desperate desire to do anything except what he is supposed to be doing (writing that novel and growing up), Dave falls under the spell of an obscure internet word game - Googlewhacking. Addicted to the game, and gripped by obsession, Dave travels three times round the world, visiting four continents and the unlikeliest cast of real life eccentrics you'll ever meet in what becomes an epic challenge, a life-changing, globe-trotting Googlewhack adventure. A hostage to the vagaries of a search engine, Dave Gorman has become a 21st century Dice Man throwing his fortune to the fates. The only difference is that the dice Dave tolls has 3 million faces... [via]
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 1592640605 (1-59264-060-5)
Softcover, Toby Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, 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:Dickenss favorite of all his novels, David Copperfield is the story of a boy who loses both parents at an early age, and who escapes the torture of working for his pitiless stepfather to make something of himself and, with any luck, find true happiness.
David Copperfield features an unforgettable gallery of characters, including Davids cruel stepfather Mr. Murdstone, the unctuous Uriah Heep, the amiable Mr. Micawber, whom Dickens based on his father, and Dora Spenglow, whom David marries and calls his child-wife. Written in the first person, David Copperfield is perhaps the most autobiographical of Dickenss fictions. This new edition includes commentaries, discussion questions, and Phizs original illustrations.[via]Features the original illustrations by Phiz.Radhika Jones is the managing editor of Grand Street magazine, a freelance writer, and a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Jones also wrote the introduction and notes for the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Charles Dickenss Great Expectations.
Discovering My Autism: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (With Apologies to Cardinal Newman)by Edgar SchneiderISBN 1853027243 (1-85302-724-3)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behindby Ken FosterISBN 1592287492 (1-59228-749-2)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Elizabeth And Her German Gardenby Elizabeth Von ArnimISBN 1594621829 (1-59462-182-9)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden'Book summary:May 16th.-The garden is the place I go to for refuge and shelter, not the house. In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals; but out there blessings crowd round me at every step-it is there that I am sorry for the unkindness in me, for those selfish thoughts that are so much worse than they feel; it is there that all my sins and silliness are forgiven, there that I feel protected and at home, and every flower and weed is a friend and every tree a lover. -from Elizabeth and Her German Garden First published anonymously in 1898, this beautiful chronicle of languid days spent in a rejuvenating Italian garden was a tremendous bestseller at the turn of the century, its cheerful satire and fresh charm endearing it to millions of readers. The first work of its author, the Countess Elizabeth von Arnim, it would form the basis of her extraordinary popularity as one of the most admired literary figures in Europe and "one of the three finest wits of her day." British novelist ELIZABETH VON ARNIM (1866-1941) wrote numerous books, including The Solitary Summer (the sequel to Elizabeth and Her German Garden) and the work she is best known for, Enchanted April. [via]
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The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up With Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed)by WILL HADCROFTISBN 1843102641 (1-84310-264-1)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up With Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed)'Book summary:Offers an insight into the experience of feeling unmutual, or misunderstood, and how this can result in bullying at school and in the workplace, escalating into social phobia, paranoia and obsessive behaviour. The text illustrates some of the more subtle expressions of the Asperger condition and provides an introduction to those new to AS. [via]
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Fireweed: A Political Autobiographyby Gerda LernerISBN 1592132367 (1-59213-236-7)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pick-Up Artistsby Neil StraussISBN 1841957526 (1-84195-752-6)
Softcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pick-Up Artists'Book summary:Discover the secret society of pickup artists. By Neil Strauss- writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, and several other celebrity autobiographies. Easy to read book. [via]
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Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Runby Gus Russo, Henry HillISBN 1590770293 (1-59077-029-3)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co
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The Gateby Francois BizotISBN 1843430568 (1-84343-056-8)
Softcover, Harvill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gate'Book summary:French ethnologist Francois Bizot's The Gate is a unique insight into the rise of the Khmer Rouge. In 1971 Bizot was studying ancient Buddhist traditions and living with his khmer partner and daughter in a small village in the environs of the Angkor temple complex. The Khmer Rouge was fighting a guerilla war in rural Cambodia and during a routine visit to a nearby temple, Bizot and his two khmer colleagues were captured by them and imprisoned deep in the jungle on suspicion of working for the CIA. On trial for his life, over the next three months Bizot developed a strong relationship with his captor, Comrade Douch, who would later become the Khmer Rouge's chief interrogator and commandant of the horrifying Tuol Sleng prison where thousands of captives were tortured prior to execution. The portrait Bizot gives of the young schoolteacher-turned revolutionary and their interaction is simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.
Finally freed after Douch had pleaded his case with the leadership, Bizot became the only western captive of the Khmer Rouge ever to be released alive, but his story does not end there. On his return to Phnom Penh, due to his fluency in khmer, he was appointed interpreter between the occupying forces and the remaining western nationals holed up in the French embassy. As the interlocutor at the eponymous gate, he relates with dreadful resignation the moment when the khmer nationals in the compound were ordered out by the Khmer Rouge forces for "resettlement".
Bizot's is a touching and gripping account of one of the darkest moments in modern history and it is told with a unique voice. As a Cambodian resident, a lover of Cambodia and a fluent khmer speaker, Bizot shows an understanding of the prevailing mood in the country that other western commentators have failed to capture effectively, while as a western academic he is able to see the forces at work and how Cambodia fits into the bigger picture of South East Asian conflict. What emerges is a tale of a land plunged into insanity and Bizot tells it like a eulogy for a dead friend and a confrontation of old demons. The Gate is a stunning book and a must for anyone interested in this grim period of Asian history. --Duncan Thomson [via]
Harriette Wilson's Memoirsby Leslie BlanchISBN 1842126326 (1-84212-632-6)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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I Love Dickby Chris KrausISBN 1584350342 (1-58435-034-2)
Softcover, Semiotext
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I See by My Outfit: Cross-Country by Scooter, an Adventureby Peter S. BeagleISBN 1585790478 (1-58579-047-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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I'll Know It When I See It: A Daughter's Search For Home In Irelandby Alice CareyISBN 1580051324 (1-58005-132-4)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'll Know It When I See It: A Daughter's Search For Home In Ireland'Book summary:Although the author opens with a visit to her mother's native Ireland at 12 and ends with lighting candles in her new home in County Cork four decades later, this is no nostalgic memoir about getting back to your roots. Alice Carey has crafted a tough-minded examination of her complicated relationship with her heritage, a warm tribute to the theatrical free spirits who helped liberate her from an unhappy childhood. She grew up in Queens; her father often hit her and flew into a rage when his wife dared to augment the family's meager finances by working as a maid for Broadway producer Jed Harris. Helping Mammie in the afternoons, Alice glimpsed a glamorous, sophisticated world beyond the constraints of Catholic school and Celtic fatalism. She moved to Greenwich Village in her teens and made her life as a Manhattanite with a weekend home in Fire Island. When AIDS decimated that community in the 1990s, she and her husband moved to Ireland. Making an 18th-century farmhouse habitable is a black comedy Carey describes with a sardonic wit that echoes her Irish forebears and gay friends but is uniquely her own (she names "the Seven Dwarves of Restoration: Happy, Reluctant, Fearful, Suspicious, Wary, Hopeful, and Doubtful"). Her journey towards a new identity as "a real New Yorker living in Ireland" is all the more moving because it is chronicled with sharp perceptiveness and without sentimentality. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapersby Marrit IngmanISBN 1580051405 (1-58005-140-5)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sonsby Andrea J. BuchananISBN 1580051456 (1-58005-145-6)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughtersby Andrea J. BuchananISBN 1580051472 (1-58005-147-2)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Jessie's Journey: Autobiography of a Traveller Girlby Jess SmithISBN 184183033X (1-84183-033-X)
Softcover, Mercat Pr
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Jigsawby Sybille BedfordISBN 1582431434 (1-58243-143-4)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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The Lesser Evil : The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959by Victor Klemperer, Martin ChalmersISBN 1842127438 (1-84212-743-8)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lesser Evil : The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959'Book summary:[via]This final volume of Victor Klemperers diaries opens in 1945. After the horrors of the war, Victor and Evas return to their Dresden home seems like a fairytale. Victor tries to resume his distinguished academic career and joins East Germanys Communist Party. In 1951, Eva dies; a year later, aged 70, Victor marries a studentan unlikely but successful love match. But with the growing repression of the Communist Party, and the memory of those who did not survive, Victors achievements ring hollow. Politics, he comes to believe, is, above all, the choice of the lesser evil. A masterpiece both of Holocaust literature and memoir.More editions of The Lesser Evil : The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959:
Life with Fatherby Clarence DayISBN 1579124321 (1-57912-432-1)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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Living Dangerouslyby Ranulph FiennesISBN 1590481445 (1-59048-144-5)
Softcover, Long Riders Guild Pr
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The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edgeby Richard SheltonISBN 1843541610 (1-84354-161-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Books
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Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventuresby Lucy Blackman, Tony AttwoodISBN 1843100428 (1-84310-042-8)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Magic and Mystery in Tibetby Alexandra David-NeelISBN 1585090972 (1-58509-097-2)
Softcover, Book Tree
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic and Mystery in Tibet'Book summary:David-Neel illustrates the point that there is much more to life than is found on the surface. Readers are initiated into powerful meditations, breathing exercises, the control of body heat, visions, shamanic magic and past life recollection. [via]
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Medicine Womanby Lynn V. Andrews, Daniel ReevesISBN 1585425265 (1-58542-526-5)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medicine Woman'Book summary:Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others.[via]
Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit Woman). Follow her to the Yucatan, where the medicine wheel leads her, and she is faced with the terrifying reality of the butterfly tree (Jaguar Woman). Enter the Dreamtime with her, where she emerges in medieval England as Catherine, and encounters the Grandmother, who offers to show Andrews how to make her life one of goodness, power, adventure, and love (The Woman of Wyrrd).
Not all these stories describe the author's own spiritual experiences. Meet Sin Coraz?n, an initiate into the Sisterhood, whose husband abandons her. She nearly succumbs to her inner dark power and unleashes her rage on men and the Sisterhood (Dark Sister). Andrews also writes about the elder women of the Sisterhood: their loves, their lives, their losses (Tree of Dreams).
Andrews shows us how to channel our own spiritual and intellectual energy and balance the need for love with the desire for power (Love and Power). She takes the reader on numerous spiritual journeys that inevitably uplift.More editions of Medicine Woman:
Memoirs of an Egotistby StendahlISBN 1843910403 (1-84391-040-3)
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My Blue Notebooksby Liane De PougyISBN 1585421561 (1-58542-156-1)
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My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick Douglass, Bill E. LawsonISBN 1591020069 (1-59102-006-9)
Softcover, Humanity Books
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A richer, deeper, and far more ambiguous work than the earlier Narrative, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals Douglasss increased intellectual sophistication and maturity. In the decade that had elapsed since Douglass wrote Narrative, he had broken away from his antislavery mentors, successfully toured England, and established himself as an inspired speaker and writer. With the publication of My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, Douglass became the countrys foremost spokesman for American blacksfree and enslavedduring the tense and politically charged years preceding the Civil War.
One of the highlights of My Bondage and My Freedom is the appendix, which contains excerpts from several of Douglasss speeches, including perhaps his most famous, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Brent Hayes Edwards is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003) and of numerous articles on twentieth-century African-American literature, contemporary poetry, Francophone Caribbean literature, surrealism, and jazz.
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection Of One-Night Standsby Chelsea HandlerISBN 1582346186 (1-58234-618-6)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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My Lifeby Giuseppe Garibaldi, Stephen ParkinISBN 1843910934 (1-84391-093-4)
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My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cureby Shawn DeckerISBN 1585425257 (1-58542-525-7)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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New Lifeby Dante Alighieri, J. G. NicholsISBN 1843910462 (1-84391-046-2)
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The New Lifeby Rossetti Dante, Dante Gabriel RossettiISBN 1590170113 (1-59017-011-3)
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The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right. [via]More editions of The New Life:
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in Southern Franceby Carol DrinkwaterISBN 1585671061 (1-58567-106-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Pages from the Goncourt Journalsby Edmond De Goncourt, Jules De Goncourt, Robert Baldick, Geoff DyerISBN 159017190X (1-59017-190-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Personal Recordby Joseph ConradISBN 1596057580 (1-59605-758-0)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Prisoner of Loveby Barbara Bray, Jean GenetISBN 1590170288 (1-59017-028-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prisoner of Love'Book summary:Starting in 1970, Jean Genetpetty thief, prostitute, modernist masterspent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personalthe last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world. [via]
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Profiles in Courageby John F. KennedyISBN 1579120148 (1-57912-014-8)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage'Book summary:The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-Prize winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format . Eight men who served in the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. [via]
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The Ralph Nader Readerby Ralph NaderISBN 1583220577 (1-58322-057-7)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ralph Nader Reader'Book summary:In a pop media culture dominated by dismissive irony and cloying sentimentalism, how do we talk about a true American political hero? The answer is, we don't. After 40 years in the trenches, Ralph Nader, the standard-bearer in the battle for the rights of the disenfranchised and the consummate American citizen, is still being ignored by the mass media. Reading The Ralph Nader Reader may lead one to view that oversight as less than accidental.
Nader has tilted against injustice wherever he has found it, and he has found it in spades in corporate America. Beginning with his crusade against the auto industry in the early 1960s, Nader went on to fight for the rights of workers by helping create the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as for a citizen's right for access to government documents in the creation of the Freedom of Information Act. He has often stood resolute before the juggernaut--and more often than not, the juggernaut has flinched. His investigation of corporate crime led him to see a far-reaching problem of accountability. Corporations are supposed to be accountable to the people and laws of America, but what happens when the government exempts corporations from these responsibilities? Nader gives one of many shocking examples: "Of America's 250 most profitable corporations in 1988, 45 reduced their tax liability to less than 10%, 6 received refunds." This and countless other examples of corporate-government malfeasance have led Nader to focus increasingly on reestablishing democracy in America. He advocates citizen groups at the local level to be watchdogs for their own interests--be it as voters, taxpayers, workers, consumers, or shareholders. "It is time for a civic rebellion, Jeffersonian style," he writes.
So is there an effort to keep Nader out of the media? When you realize, as Nader points out repeatedly, that one corporation owns 800 radio stations across the U.S., that a handful of corporations control the vast majority of television networks, and that The New York Times owns The Boston Globe, you see that he has ticked off the wrong people if he wants his voice to be heard in America. But his voice speaks clearly in this book, and gives us all an ideal of citizenship and democratic action to strive for. But beware The Ralph Nader Reader--once you take the red pill, you'll have to see how deep the rabbit hole goes, and once you see, you may find yourself doing something about it. --Steve Andersen [via]
Red Rowans and Wild Honeyby Betsy WhyteISBN 1841580708 (1-84158-070-8)
Softcover, Birlinn Ltd
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Roughing It in the Bushby Susanna MoodieISBN 1596055367 (1-59605-536-7)
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Samurai!by Saburo Sakai, Martin Caido, Fred SaitoISBN 1596870869 (1-59687-086-9)
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Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Lifeby Erica JongISBN 1585425141 (1-58542-514-1)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life'Book summary:Erica Jong began this book as a guide for aspiring writers. It was to be a book full of practical advice, inspiring examples, and sage wisdom ("Dare to dream," for instance). But she quickly realized that writing such a book would be dishonest, a way to veil the difficult nature of the writer's life with platitudes and encouragement. A demon out of an Isaac Singer story whispered in Jong's ear: "Tell the truth!" She knew she had no choice but to obey.
Seducing the Demon is the sublime and salacious story of one writer's long and successful career as a poet, novelist, and feminist provocateur. Throughout, Jong is refreshingly direct-whether writing sex scenes, evoking the lure of alcohol and grass in the search for ecstasy, or conforming to the rigid narrative of AA. She tells us candidly about how she always lusted after Bill Clinton, and how she discovered the joys of tantric sex. Equally candid about the privileges of fame and the slaps of notoriety, Jong is above all loyal to the importance of telling the truth in an age of lies.
Jong tells us she writes "to get my life down on paper so it can never be extinguished," and "to keep from going mad." She speaks of the power of sexual desire to "transmute words into flesh," and reveals how a range of writers, from Kafka and Nabokov to Henry Miller and Pablo Neruda, influenced and guided her. Delivering trenchant observations on great writers, she compares the ethereal Virginia Woolf to the earthy James Joyce: "She is Ariel to James Joyce's Caliban." An uncanny combination of bookish and bawdy, literary and libidinous, Seducing the Demon is an invaluable glimpse into one of the most provocative minds of our time. [via]More editions of Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life:
Snakeby Mary WoronovISBN 1852427183 (1-85242-718-3)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Churchby Philip YanceyISBN 1578568188 (1-57856-818-8)
Softcover, Waterbrook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church'Book summary:Like many Christians, Philip Yancey has often felt kicked around, abused, and damaged by the institutional church. And like many Christians, he has found solace in reading about and getting to know some extraordinary individual believers. He profiles 13 of those believers in Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church. "I became a writer, I now believe, to sort out words used and misused by the church of my youth," Yancey writes in the book's first chapter. The church of his youth, which described itself as "New Testament, Blood-bought, Born-again, Premillennial, Dispensational, fundamental," Yancey now describes as a frightening place where racism and bigotry were regularly preached from the pulpit. After graduating from Bible college, Yancey became a writer and chose to direct his attention to "people I could learn from, people I might want to emulate," such as C. Everett Koop and Robert Coles. He also read widely and passionately--Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King Jr., G.K. Chesterton, and Annie Dillard, to name a few. Soul Survivor offers probing, honest profiles of 13 individuals who have "helped restore to me the mislaid treasures of God." For most readers, these profiles will serve as starting points to explore the lives and minds of the individuals who have inspired Yancey. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Stargazing: Memoirs Of A Young Lighthouse Keeperby Peter HillISBN 1841956511 (1-84195-651-1)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stargazing: Memoirs Of A Young Lighthouse Keeper'Book summary:In this sublime reminiscence of the pleasures of solitude, the wonders of the sea, and the odd courses life takes, Peter Hill writes, "In 1973 I worked as a lighthouse keeper on three islands off the west coast of Scotland. Before taking the job I didn't really think through what a lighthouse keeper actually did. I was attracted by the romantic notion of sitting on a rock, writing haikus and dashing off the occasional watercolor. The light itself didn't seem important: it might have been some weird coastal decoration, like candles on a Christmas tree, intended to bring cheer to those living in the more remote parts of the country."[via]
Hill learned quickly, though, of the centuries-old mechanics of the lighthouse, of the life-and-death necessity of its luminescence to seafarers, and of the great and unlikely friendships formed out of routine. With his head filled with Hendrix, Kerouac, and the war in Vietnam, Hill shared cups of tea and close quarters with salty lighthouse keepers of an entirely different generation. The stories they told and idiosyncrasies they exhibited came to define a summer Hill has memorialized with great wit and a disarmingly affectionate style.More editions of Stargazing: Memoirs Of A Young Lighthouse Keeper:
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Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factoryby Mary WoronovISBN 1852427191 (1-85242-719-1)
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The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal And Social Transformation from Female to Maleby Max Wolf ValerioISBN 1580051731 (1-58005-173-1)
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To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsessionby Dan KoeppelISBN 1594630011 (1-59463-001-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1843500965 (1-84350-096-5)
Softcover, Frontlist Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes'Book summary:Most of the problems travelers encounter have to do with transportation. On a 12-day trek through the Cevennes, Stevenson's cross to bear was Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of. After many humorous trials and tribulations, Stevenson found that his disdain for the creature had turned to love, and at the end of the trip he said goodbye with much regret. Written in just a few months when he was in his late twenties, the publication was initially a means to earn a quick buck. Little did Stevenson know that his Modestine would become one of the great characters in travel literature. [via]
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Twenty Days With Julian & Little Bunny by Papaby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul AusterISBN 1590170423 (1-59017-042-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Under the Eye of the Clockby Christopher NolanISBN 1850892660 (1-85089-266-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativityby Julia CameronISBN 1585422606 (1-58542-260-6)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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Walking on Water: A Life in the Lawby Chester PorterISBN 1740511581 (1-74051-158-1)
Hardcover, Random House Australia
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Walter Benjamin: Die Geschichte E. Freundschaftby Lee Siegel, Gershom Scholem, Harry ZohnISBN 1590170326 (1-59017-032-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walter Benjamin: Die Geschichte E. Freundschaft'Book summary:Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationshipÑwhich was to remain crucial for both menÑis both a celebration of his friend's spellbinding genius and a lament for the personal and intellectual self-destructiveness that culminated in Benjamin's suicide in 1940.
At once prickly and heartbroken, argumentative and loving, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel. As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and Kabbala, Europe and Palestine that he shared with Benjamin, it is as if he sought to summon up his lost friend's spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life. [via]More editions of Walter Benjamin: Die Geschichte E. Freundschaft:
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaningby Chris HedgesISBN 1586480499 (1-58648-049-9)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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Chris Hedges of The New York Times has seen war up closein the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central Americaand he has been troubled by what he has seen: friends, enemies, colleagues, and strangers intoxicated and even addicted to war's heady brew. In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.More editions of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning:
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerISBN 1853262285 (1-85326-228-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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When I Was A Soldier: A Memoirby Adriana Hunter, Valerie ZenattiISBN 1582349789 (1-58234-978-9)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury USA
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When I Was a Soldier: A Memoirby Valerie ZenattiISBN 1599900599 (1-59990-059-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When I Was a Soldier: A Memoir'Book summary:[via]What is it like to be a young woman in a war?
At a time when Israel is in the news every day and politics in the Middle East are as complex as ever before, this story of one girl's experience in the Israeli national army is both topical and fascinating. Valerie begins her story as she finishes her exams, breaks up with her boyfriend, and leaves for service with the Israeli army. Nothing has prepared her for the strict routines, grueling marches, poor food, lack of sleep and privacy, or crushing of initiative that she now faces. But this harsh life has excitement, too, such as working in a spy center near Jerusalem and listening in on Jordanian pilots. Offering a glimpse into the life of a typical Israeli teen, even as it lays bare the relentless nature of war, Valerie's story is one young readers will have a hard time forgetting.More editions of When I Was a Soldier: A Memoir:
Wild Childby Chelsea Cain, Moon ZappaISBN 158005031X (1-58005-031-X)
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World As I See Itby Albert EinsteinISBN 1599869659 (1-59986-965-9)
Softcover, Filiquarian Pub Llc
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The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Womanby Betsy WhyteISBN 1841581356 (1-84158-135-6)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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The Zanzibar Chest: a Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Landsby Aidan HartleyISBN 1594480117 (1-59448-011-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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