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'66 Framesby Gordon Ball, Jonas MekasISBN 1566890829 (1-56689-082-9)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madnessby Mike JayISBN 1568582978 (1-56858-297-8)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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All Things Wise and Wonderful/the Lord God Made Them Allby James HerriotISBN 1567313469 (1-56731-346-9)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faithby Kathleen NorrisISBN 1573220787 (1-57322-078-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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American Splendor Presents: Bob & Harv's Comicsby R. Crumb, Harvey PekarISBN 1568581017 (1-56858-101-7)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Picturesby Carol KrenzISBN 1567995314 (1-56799-531-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Autobiography of Michel De Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times His Childhood, Youth, and Prime; His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, warby Michel De Montaigne, Marvin LowenthalISBN 1567920985 (1-56792-098-5)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samuraiby Dave Lowry, Ron SureshaISBN 1570621152 (1-57062-115-2)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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Beautiful Joeby SaundersISBN 1568496990 (1-56849-699-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Best Thing I'Ve Ever Tasted: The Secret of Foodby Sallie TisdaleISBN 1573221309 (1-57322-130-9)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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A Bookby Desi ArnazISBN 1568492545 (1-56849-254-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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A Book of Five Ringsby Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Munenori Yagyu, Thomas ClearyISBN 1570627487 (1-57062-748-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Book of Five Rings'Book summary:To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen, and although you can't do so simply by reading a book, it sure does help--especially if that book is The Book of Five Rings. One of Japan's great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory, and like Sun Tzu's The Art of War it is applicable not only on the battlefield but also in all forms of competition. Always observant, creating confusion, striking at vulnerabilities--these are some of the basic principles. Going deeper, we find suki, the interval of vulnerability, of indecisiveness, of rest, the briefest but most vital moment to strike. In succinct detail, Miyamoto records ideal postures, blows, and psychological tactics to put the enemy off guard and open the way for attack. Most important of all is Miyamoto's concept of rhythm, how all things are in harmony, and that by working with the rhythm of a situation we can turn it to our advantage with little effort. But like Zen, this requires one task above all else, putting the book down and going out to practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Born in Tibetby Chogyam Trungpa, Esme Cramer RobertsISBN 1570627142 (1-57062-714-2)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born in Tibet'Book summary:Chögyam Trungpameditation master, scholar, and artistwas identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku, or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a period of intensive training in mediation, philosophy, and fine arts, receiving full ordination as a monk in 1958 at the age of eighteen. The following year, the Chinese Communists invaded Tibet, and the young Trungpa spent many harrowing months trekking over the Himalayas, narrowly escaping capture.
Trungpa's account of his experiences as a young monk, his duties as the abbot and spiritual head of a great monastery, and his moving relationships with his teachers offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a Tibetan lama. The memoir concludes with his daring escape from Tibet to India. In an epilogue, he describes his emigration to the West, where he encountered many people eager to learn about the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. [via]
Bread and Water: A Spiritual Journeyby Jennifer HainesISBN 157075098X (1-57075-098-X)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Cage Eleven: Writings From Prisonby Gerry AdamsISBN 1570981310 (1-57098-131-0)
Softcover, Natl Book Network
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Death of a Red Heroineby Qiu XiaolongISBN 1569472424 (1-56947-242-4)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Red Heroine'Book summary:By any standard, Inspector Chen Cao is a novelty in the world of police procedurals. A published poet and translator of American and English mystery novels, he has been assigned by the Chinese government, under Deng Xiaoping's cadre policy, to a "productive" job with the Special Cases Bureau of the Shanghai Police Department.
Shanghai in the mid-1990s is a city caught between reverence for the past and fascination with a tantalizing, market-driven present. When the body of a young "national model worker," revered for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up in a canal, Chen is thrown into the midst of these opposing forces. As he struggles to unravel the hidden threads of this paragon's life, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. With party-line-spouting superiors above him and detectives who resent his quick promotion beneath him, Chen finds himself wondering whether justice is a concept at all meaningful in late-20th-century China.
Death of a Red Heroine is a book hovering uneasily between the spheres of fiction and fact, creativity and didacticism. For much of the novel, author Qiu Xiaolong seems more intent on driving home the actions and consequences of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath than on the slowly unfolding plot. Tedious repetitions of the fates, under Mao, of "educated youths" joust with both the actions of the detectives and Chen's "poetic" ruminations, which, unfortunately, are infected by precisely the stiffness and arbitrariness Qiu is at pains to decry in his historical passages. The moving couplets Chen favors are potentially fascinating insights into the interaction between ancient and modern China, but instead of provoking the reader into reflection, Qiu offers reductive explanations of each and every poem.
The moments when Qiu concentrates on invoking atmosphere are both illuminating and rewarding: Detective Yu's wife's pride and pleasure in having brought home a dozen crabs at "state price" are movingly well crafted, all the more so because Qiu seems almost unaware of what he is doing. Rather than lecturing on the economic dilemmas of the modern worker, he lets Peiqin's simple happiness speak for itself. In the last quarter of the book, Qiu seems to find his stride, though his writing style remains undeniably awkward. Here Chen expands and relaxes, and with him, the novel. Qiu's debut, though anything but polished, holds the promise of better things to come. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Diary of an Abduction: A Scientist Probes the Enigma of Her Alien Contactby Angela Thompson SmithISBN 1571742018 (1-57174-201-8)
Softcover, Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of an Abduction: A Scientist Probes the Enigma of Her Alien Contact'Book summary:The tension of Diary of an Abduction builds like a well-crafted suspense thriller. In the opening entries, which begin in September of 1986 and continue for 13 years, we meet author and scientist Angela Thompson Smith (Remote Perceptions), who learns of a phenomenon called alien abduction, which touches upon her professional fields of neuropsychology and the cognitive sciences. Even though the possibility of alien abductions was "beyond comprehension," the author was hooked--and thus began an exploration into the underworld of UFO conferences, abduction clubs, forced impregnation, and reports of alien babies. Ultimately, she comes to the realization that she is, in fact, living a double life that involves unexplained lapses in time, mysterious markings (circular bruises, single-spot scabs) that appear on her body upon waking, and vivid, recurring dreams of abductions. Memories begin to flood her mind, as Smith realizes her abductions began in childhood and are still happening.
When Smith recounts the details of her dreams/abductions, she has an Agent Scully straightforwardness, even as she writes about having a device like a telephone jack (but smaller) implanted in her ear canal, or trying to help a seemingly human baby who is being improperly cared for by bungling aliens. Like any dream memory, the images are fleeting and disjointed. She'll remember the clear plastic seat that holds the baby, but she'll have no sense of the broader setting--her bedroom? A spaceship? A laboratory? What gives this diary authority is the ongoing investigative work of Smith as she researches information from numerous sources, including government officials (expect a fascinating UFO story about a former president), scientific journals, and abduction investigators. Read it like an X-File or read it like a scientific report. Either way, you won't be disappointed. --Tara West [via]
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A Diary of the Century: Tales by America's Greatest Diaristby Edward Robb Ellis, Pete HamillISBN 1568361653 (1-56836-165-3)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930sby Elaine CrowleyISBN 1569471371 (1-56947-137-1)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhoodby Janisse RayISBN 1571312471 (1-57131-247-1)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of a Cracker Childhood'Book summary:The scrubby forests of southern Georgia, dotting a landscape of low hills and swampy bottoms, are not what many people would consider to be exalted country, the sort of place to inspire lyrical considerations of nature and culture. Yet that is just what essayist Janisse Ray delivers in her memorable debut, a memoir of life in a part of America that roads and towns have passed by, a land settled by hardscrabble Scots herders who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, and who bear the derogatory epithet "cracker" with quiet pride.
Ray grew up in a junkyard outside what had been longleaf pine forest, an ecosystem that has nearly disappeared in the American South through excessive logging. Her family had little money, but that was not important; they more than made up for material want through unabashed love and a passion for learning, values that underlie every turn of Ray's narrative. She finds beauty in weeds and puddles, celebrates the ways of tortoises and woodpeckers, and argues powerfully for the virtues of establishing a connection with one's native ground.
"I carry the landscape inside like an ache," Ray writes. Her evocations of fog-enshrouded woods and old ways of living are not without pain for all that has been lost--but full of hope as well for what can be saved. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Edgar Cayce: An American Prophetby Sidney D. KirkpatrickISBN 1573221392 (1-57322-139-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writersby Betsy LernerISBN 157322152X (1-57322-152-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers'Book summary:One feels for Betsy Lerner's writers. Oh, sure, Lerner must be a fabulous agent. But too bad for them: In gaining her as an agent, they lost her as an editor. How rare and wonderful it must have been to have such an advocate, advisor, and, yes, admirer so firmly ensconced in publisher territory (at various times, Houghton Mifflin, Ballantine, Simon & Schuster, and Doubleday). In The Forest for the Trees, Lerner reflects on writing and publishing from an editor's point of view. There are so many books by writers and agents promising to disclose what editors really want; here, finally, is one straight from the source. Like all experienced editors, Lerner has seen writers at their best, and at their worst. "Like shrinks," she says, editors "have a privileged and exclusive view into a writer's psyche, from the ecstasy of acquisition to the agony of the remainder table."
To writers, particularly unpublished ones, editors can seem imposing figures determined to thwart their success. They won't take calls, they don't offer feedback--sometimes they don't respond to queries at all. Guess what: Editors don't lug home hundreds of pounds of manuscripts to read each year because they aren't looking for good writing. "An editor gets off," says Lerner, "on the thrill of discovering a new writer." Editors crave "succinct, well-written cover letters," inspiration that comes from within (as opposed to from the bestseller list), and "catchy, clearly targeted title[s]." They detest unsolicited phone calls, "query letters that sound as if they were penned by Crazy Eddie," and writers who offer to "write it however I want it" (it's "like saying I'll be straight or gay; you tell me, I have no preference"). Lerner is aware of how excruciating it is for a writer to wait for feedback on his or her work. But she also lets writers in on a little secret of her own. "I'm always anxious about the author's response," she confides. "Will he or she take to my editing?" --Jane Steinberg [via]
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George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 The Collected Essays, Journalism & Lettersby George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia OrwellISBN 1567921353 (1-56792-135-3)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters'Book summary:Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a miracle that in only forty-six years George Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. Here, in four fat volumes, is the best selection of his non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. Orwell had something to say about just about everyone and everything. His letters to such luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews (Hitler's Mein Kampf, Mumford's Herman Melville, Miller's Black Spring, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield to name just a few) are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. From 1943 to l945, he wrote a regular column for the Tribune, a left wing weekly, entitled "As I Please." His observations about life in Britain during the war embraced everything from anti-American sentiment to the history of domestic appliances. [via]
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Gerry Faust: The Golden Dreamby Gerry Faust, Steve LoveISBN 1571671188 (1-57167-118-8)
Hardcover, Sports Pub
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Girl Reel: A Lesbian Remembers Growing Up at the Movies Memoirby Bonnie J. MorrisISBN 1566890942 (1-56689-094-2)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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Guerilla Days in Irelandby Tom BarryISBN 1570980470 (1-57098-047-0)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Guerilla Days in Ireland: A Personal Account of the Anglo-Irish Warby Tom BarryISBN 1568331967 (1-56833-196-7)
Softcover, Rinehart Publishers, Roberts
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Guru: My Days With Del Closeby Jeff GriggsISBN 1566636140 (1-56663-614-0)
Hardcover, Ivan R Dee
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Half Luck and Half Brains: The Kemmons Wilson, Holiday Inn Storyby Robert Kerr, Kemmons WilsonISBN 1571025065 (1-57102-506-5)
Hardcover, Hambleton-Hill Pub
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Hard Times: Force of Circumstances, 1952-1962by Simone De BeauvoirISBN 1569249555 (1-56924-955-5)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times: Force of Circumstances, 1952-1962'Book summary:This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle with aging. Beauvoir recounts her difficult long-distance romance with novelist Nelson Algren and her involvement with Claude Lanzmann (the future director of Shoah). She also vividly describes her travels with Sartre to Brazil and Cuba, reveals her private sense of despair in reaction to French atrocities in Algeria, and confronts her own deepening depression. Simone de Beauvoir's outstanding achievement is to have left us an admirable record of her unceasing battle to become an independent woman and writer. [via]
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Here's Morgan!by Henry MorganISBN 1569800014 (1-56980-001-4)
Hardcover, Barricade Books Inc
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Horn of the HunterISBN 1571570241 (1-57157-024-1)
Softcover, Safari Pr
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Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Huntby Robert RuarkISBN 1571570233 (1-57157-023-3)
Hardcover, Safari Pr
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The Horses In My Lifeby Monty RobertsISBN 1570763232 (1-57076-323-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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I Escaped from Auschwitzby Rudolf VrbaISBN 1569802327 (1-56980-232-7)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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I Give You My Life : The Autobiography of a Western Buddhist Nunby Ayya Khema, Sherab C. KohnISBN 1570624151 (1-57062-415-1)
Hardcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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In Cold Bloodby Truman CapoteISBN 1568491522 (1-56849-152-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discoveryby M. Scott PeckISBN 1568952708 (1-56895-270-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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In the Arena: An Autobiographyby Charlton HestonISBN 157297267X (1-57297-267-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Karenby Marie Lyons KillileaISBN 1568490984 (1-56849-098-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal Of The Avataric Incarnation Of Conscious Lightby Da Free John, Adi Da SamrajISBN 1570971676 (1-57097-167-6)
Softcover, Dawn Horse Pr
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The Knee of Listening: The Early-Life Ordeal and the Radical Spiritual Realization of the Divine World-Teacherby Adi Da, Da Free JohnISBN 1570970238 (1-57097-023-8)
Softcover, Dawn Horse Pr
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A Lawyer's Journey: The Morris Dees Storyby Morris DeesISBN 1570739943 (1-57073-994-3)
Hardcover, American Bar Association
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Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalemby Solly GanorISBN 1568363524 (1-56836-352-4)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Little Miraclesby Abraham BichlerISBN 1571974040 (1-57197-404-0)
Softcover, Pentland Pr Inc
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Long Seasonby Jim BrosnanISBN 1566634180 (1-56663-418-0)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Season'Book summary:The classic inside account of a baseball year by a major league pitcher. It begins, appropriately, with the winter doldrums and "sweating out" a new contract, then follows the author and his family to spring training in Florida and through the full seasons schedule to October. "One of the best baseball books ever written. It is probably one of the best American diaries as well."New York Times Book Review. "The greatest baseball book ever written."Jimmy Cannon. [via]
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Make It Biggerby Paula ScherISBN 1568985487 (1-56898-548-7)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Make It Bigger'Book summary:An outspoken voice in the world of graphic design for more than twenty years, Paula Scher has developed a worldwide reputation for her bold, modern graphics and her incisive, sometimes stinging, critiques of the design profession. In Make in Bigger, Scher candidly reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her own experiences as one of the leading designers in the United States, and possibly the most famous female graphic designer in the world. Pointed and funny, it is an instructive guide for all those who navigate the difficult path between clients, employees, corporate structures, artists, and design professionals. Make it Bigger provides a survey of Scher's groundbreaking work, from her designs as art director at Columbia Records, to her identity for New York's Public Theater, to her recent work for the New York Times, Herman Miller, and the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center planetarium. [via]
Mango Elephants in the Sun : How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skinby Susana HerreraISBN 1570625727 (1-57062-572-7)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Susana fights back with every ounce of heart and humor she possesses, and slowly begins to make a difference. She ventures out to the village well and learns to carry water on her head. In a classroom crowded to suffocation she finds a way to discipline her students without resorting to the beatings they are used to. She makes ice cream in the scorching heat, and learns how to plant millet and kill chickens. She laughs with the villagers, cries with them, works and prays with them, heals and is helped by them.
Village life is hard but magical. Poverty is rampantyet people sing and share what little they have. The termites that chew up her bed like morning cereal are fried and eaten in their turn ("bite-sized and crunchy like Doritos"). Nobody knows what tomorrow may bring, but even the morning greetings impart a purer sense of being in the moment. Gradually, Susana and the village become part of each other. They will never be the same again.
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The Master of the Forgeby Harold CourlanderISBN 1569247897 (1-56924-789-7)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Moving Pictures: Memoirs of a Hollywood Princeby Budd SchulbergISBN 1566635268 (1-56663-526-8)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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My Dream of Youby Nuala O'FaolainISBN 1573221775 (1-57322-177-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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My Face for the World to Seeby Liz RenayISBN 1569802289 (1-56980-228-9)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Face for the World to See'Book summary:Liz Renay was born into small-town life in Mesa, Arizona to a family of religious zealots. Then WW II came and she became a "V-girl," attracting servicemen with her beautiful face and voluptuous figure. Thus began her entry into the world of New York high fashion models and Fifty-Second Street strippers. Fate led her into the underworld, where she became a confidante and girlfriend to important mobsters and shady dealers.
From New York she went to Hollywood, where she won a Marilyn Monroe look-alike contest and became a national celebrity; meanwhile her paintings were selling for $5,000 each and her poetry was recorded and broadcast. Then came an indictment and three-year probation for her unwillingness to cooperate with authorities by testifying against the mobster Mickey Cohen. A violation of her probation landed her in prison for three years. Married eight times, appeared before thirteen grand juries, with more lovers than any swinger of her generation-Liz Renay tells the story of her compelling and memorable adventures with honesty and candor. [via]
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My Life in 'Toonsby Joseph BarberaISBN 1570360421 (1-57036-042-1)
Hardcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Placesby Naomi Shihab NyeISBN 1570030820 (1-57003-082-0)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Not Dyingby William SaroyanISBN 1569800812 (1-56980-081-2)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbiby Sherril Jaffe, Alan LewISBN 1568362870 (1-56836-287-0)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Our Cancer Yearby Frank Stack, Harvey Pekar, Joyce BrabnerISBN 1568580118 (1-56858-011-8)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Party of One: The Loners' Manifestoby Anneli S. RufusISBN 1569245134 (1-56924-513-4)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto'Book summary:The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, allalong with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore, and nearly everywhere one looks, loners are tagged as losers and psychopaths, perverts and pity cases, ogres and mad bombers, elitists and wicked witches. Too often, loners buy into those messages and strive to change, making themselves miserable in the process by hiding their true natureand hiding from it. Loners as a group deserve to be reassessedto claim their rightful place, rather than be perceived as damaged goods that need to be "fixed." In Party of One Anneli Rufus -- a prize-winning, critically acclaimed writer with talent to burn -- has crafted a morally urgent, historically compelling tour de forcea long-overdue argument in defense of the loner, then and now. Marshalling a polymath's easy erudition to make her case, assembling evidence from every conceivable arena of culture as well as interviews with experts and loners worldwide and her own acutely calibrated analysis, Rufus rebuts the prevailing notion that aloneness is indistinguishable from loneliness, the fallacy that all of those who are alone don't want to be, and wouldn't be, if only they knew how.[via]More editions of Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto:
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Picasso, My Grandfatherby Marina Picasso, Louis Valentin, Catherine TemersonISBN 1573221910 (1-57322-191-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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In this highly impressionistic account, Marina Picasso writes of life with a man who set impassable boundaries "between the inaccessible demigod and us." And with a vengeance: Picasso terrorized his son, Marina's father, who took refuge in downward-spiraling alcoholism, his ambition crushed. "To make a dove," Picasso once wrote, "you must first wring its neck." The grandchildren fared little better; they provided Picasso only with a little local color, just as women provided him with sexual prey, and in the end everyone in her grandfather's life, Marina writes, wound up as a victim, "sacrificed to his art."
Many books have portrayed Pablo Picasso unfavorably, but this is the closest we have to a fly-on-the-wall account of the artist in his cruel prime. The picture isn't pretty, but it is captivating. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Pictures in My Headby Gabriel ByrneISBN 1570981523 (1-57098-152-3)
Softcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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A Place in the Countryby Laura Shaine CunninghamISBN 1573221570 (1-57322-157-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Plague and Iby Betty Bard MacDonaldISBN 1568490186 (1-56849-018-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
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A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861by Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins BrevardISBN 1570031258 (1-57003-125-8)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Ronald Reagan: A Tributeby Gerald S. Strober, Triumph BooksISBN 1572437030 (1-57243-703-0)
Softcover, Triumph Books
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The Search for Rootsby Primo Levi, Peter ForbesISBN 1566635047 (1-56663-504-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for Roots'Book summary:It is not my job to explain why...the reader who wishes can enter the passage and cast an eye on the ecosystem that lodges unsuspected in my depths, saprophytes, birds of day and night, creepers, butterflies, crickets, and fungi. Primo Levi emerged not only as one of the most profound and haunting commentators on the Holocaust but also as a great writer on many twentieth-century themes. Here is an anthology of writings that he considered to be essential reading. As Peter Forbes says in his Introduction, In the context of the twenty-first century, all of Levi's choices are striking; they exhibit a kind of chastened curiosity rare in our time, and an undiminished sense of wonder and horror at a universe that has such things in it. Most of the pieces, as Levi comments, reflect the fundamental dichotomies that face us all. Many have their roots in Levi's experience of Auschwitz, and in their startling juxtaposition they give the impression of a world turned upside down. One of the most important Italian writers. Umberto Eco [via]
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Secrets from an Inventor's Notebookby Maurice Kanbar, Phil BaechlerISBN 1571780998 (1-57178-099-8)
Hardcover, Council Oaks Distribution
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The Sheik of Baghdad: Tales of Celebrity and Terror from Pro Wrestling's General Adnanby Ross Bernstein, Adnan Al-KaissyISBN 1572437308 (1-57243-730-8)
Softcover, Triumph Books
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A Shropshire Ladby A. E. Housman, Agnes Miller Parker, Ian RogersonISBN 1570760586 (1-57076-058-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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South from Granadaby Gerald Brenan, Chris FortunatoISBN 156836184X (1-56836-184-X)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Spotted Dick, S'Il Vous Plait: An English Restaurant in Franceby Tom HigginsISBN 1569470324 (1-56947-032-4)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Starving for Attentionby Cherry Boone O'NeillISBN 1568381123 (1-56838-112-3)
Softcover, Hazelden
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Steal This Bookby Abbie HoffmanISBN 156858217X (1-56858-217-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steal This Book'Book summary:In 1970, Abbie Hoffman conceived the idea for his most ambitious book project yet. He had begun criss-crossing the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting along in America--some illegal, but most of them having to do with survival techniques. Steal This Book captures the spirit of those years, describing actions and techniques that were already in use in all 50 states.[via] 
The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Selfby Dan P. McAdamsISBN 1572301880 (1-57230-188-0)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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To Hell and Backby Audie MurphyISBN 1567311164 (1-56731-116-4)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Hardcover, William s Konecky Assoc
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True Hallucinations and the Archaic Revivalby Terence McKennaISBN 1567312896 (1-56731-289-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Turn Left at the Black Cow: One Family's Journey from Beverly Hills to Irelandby Richard McKenzie, Betty WhiteISBN 1568332181 (1-56833-218-1)
Hardcover, Roberts Rinehart Pub
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Turning to Torah: The Emerging Noachide Movementby Kimberly E. Hanke, Kimberly E. FenskeISBN 1568215002 (1-56821-500-2)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Twisted Genius: Confessions of a $10 Million Scam Manby Phil Berger, Craig JacobISBN 1568580444 (1-56858-044-4)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Untouchablesby Eliot Ness, Oscar FraleyISBN 1568491980 (1-56849-198-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The View from a Monasteryby Benet TvedtenISBN 1573221341 (1-57322-134-1)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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Walking the High Ridge: Life As a Field Tripby Robert Michael PyleISBN 1571312420 (1-57131-242-0)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam & Jetsamby Skye MoodyISBN 1570614636 (1-57061-463-6)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Wayby Olga SavinISBN 1570628076 (1-57062-807-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way'Book summary:The Way of a Pilgrim is a spiritual classic, but its origins are shrouded in mystery. It came to a remote monastery in Greece in the 19th century and was first published in 1884. Whether it is literal, fictitious, metaphorical, or pedagogical is unknown. The story follows an itinerant spiritual wanderer, all the time practicing Saint Paul's exhortation to "pray without ceasing." Specifically, the pilgrim repeats one prayer unceasingly, the Jesus prayer, until it becomes a sort of mantra. Through repetition of the prayer and encounters with his fellow inhabitants of 19th-century Russia and Siberia, the wanderer finds a spiritual enlightenment.
The Way of a Pilgrim is an oddity, but it can also be strikingly profound. In its sequel, A Pilgrim Continues His Way, the pilgrim engages an even richer dramatis personae in dialogues and spiritual lessons. Olga Savin's crisp, straightforward translation preserves the distinctive timelessness that makes the book great spiritual literature. This edition also includes three appendices that elaborate on the narrative's themes and a helpful glossary. --Eric de Place [via]
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Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuinby Hakuin, Norman WaddellISBN 1570627703 (1-57062-770-3)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin'Book summary:The most important Japanese Zen master after Dogen, Hakuin reinvigorated Rinzai Zen through an emphasis on the uncompromising pursuit of enlightenment. Such a relentless pursuit can be found in the pages of his autobiography Wild Ivy. After being scared out of his wits by a Nichiren priest lecturing on the fires of Hell, Hakuin left home at the tender age of 14. He set himself to practicing but vacillated, alternating between fervent effort and doubt. Wild Ivy tells honestly of the ups and downs of Zen training, of peak satori experiences, and deflating conundrums. Perhaps the great value of this book is the human face that Hakuin manages to put on a centuries-old tradition by offering details from his own life. For instance, take his story of being beaten unconscious by a crazed woman with a broom and coming out of it with a penetrating understanding of the impenetrable Koans he had been working on. Through his merciless practice, Hakuin also experienced a physical deterioration, or "Zen sickness," and relates the storybook account of his ascending a remote mountain to glean the secret method of introspective meditation from a cave-dwelling hermit. Hakuin believed that even after satori, one must never stop practicing. Teaching is one method of practice, and Wild Ivy stands as one of Hakuin's great teachings. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The William Saroyan Readerby William SaroyanISBN 1569800197 (1-56980-019-7)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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With Love from Karenby M. KillileaISBN 1568490992 (1-56849-099-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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