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Accardo: The Genuine Godfatherby William F. RoemerISBN 0804114641 (0-8041-1464-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfusby Jean-Denis BredinISBN 0807611751 (0-8076-1175-1)
Softcover, George Braziller
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Annie Armstrong, Dreamer in Actionby Bobbie SorrillISBN 080546333X (0-8054-6333-X)
Hardcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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Apes, Angels and Victorians.by William IrvineISBN 0809436752 (0-8094-3675-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Womanby Nuala O'FaolainISBN 0805056645 (0-8050-5664-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman'Book summary:Self-preservation did not come instinctually to Irish journalist Nuala O'Faolain. One of 9 children--her mother had 13 pregnancies in all--she grew up in the 1940s and '50s in a defeated Dublin household. Her reporter father seems to have spent his time and money, and even love, elsewhere--and as the family grew more isolated and unable to cope, alcohol became her mother's only way out. "One of the stories of my life has been the working out in it of her powerful and damaging example in everything," the author admits, "Nothing mattered to her except passion." Some of O'Faolain's siblings emphatically didn't make it, but she was lucky to find refuge in books. They have been a defense, a comfort, and a delight.
Does her memoir then follow the standard rags-to-self-acceptance trajectory? Are you wondering if perhaps you can give it a miss, and in fact send the entire genre on a well-deserved vacation? Don't. Are You Somebody (the title unaccountably lost a question mark somewhere between the Irish and American editions) offers a wrenching account of childhood and a highly provocative take on the sexual and professional situation of Irish women. Though literature made O'Faolain, the male-dominated literary life and industry certainly didn't, and she now gives it more than a few body blows. It was a world in which writing and drink mattered far more than women: "The 'literary Dublin' I saw lied to women as a matter of course and conspired against the demands of wives and mistresses.... Women either had to make no demands, and be liked, or be much larger than life, and feared."
Irish women didn't seem to know to look for, let alone demand, equality. O'Faolain miraculously avoided pregnancy; but others were not so blessed. "Lives were ruined at that time, thousands and thousands of them, quite casually.... They were hotly pursued, and half longed to yield, but they were not able to defend themselves against pregnancy, and they were destroyed if they got pregnant." For all her energy and ambition and good fortune (and she needed this trio to jump her family's "sinking ship" and avoid getting pregnant), O'Faolain fell for the cant that she must marry, have children, and serve. Some will be initially shocked by her assertion that she was lucky never to have had a child. "Childbearing, along with bad education, relationships that managed to be simultaneously all-absorbing and rewarding, and financial dependence--these were the enemies of promise. But that's not why I'm glad; I didn't think of myself as having promise. I'm glad because under the old system it was so easy to rear children badly. The child wouldn't have properly survived." Yet the '70s enabled her to break out of the assumptions and realities of Irish women's lives, not to mention her yearning to be like "the troubled, rich, English upper-class people in books."
At the end of her memoir, O'Faolain knows she finally is, in fact, somebody. Still, those who don't recognize her see her only as a single, middle-aged woman. Like children, such individuals "aren't supposed to kick up." Thanks to this bracing book, the author gets to permanently do so. The writing exercise has answered some of her questions and some of her fears, but O'Faolain is too honest not to admit that for others there is no response or cure. She leaves us wanting to know more about her life but grateful that she has allowed us in. [via]
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Astoria: Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprize beyond the Rocky Mountainsby Washington Irving, Richard Dilworth RustISBN 0805785078 (0-8057-8507-8)
Hardcover, Twayne Publishers
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Audrey Hepburn : An Intimate Portraitby Diana MaychickISBN 0806580003 (0-8065-8000-3)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Baker James Cauthen: A Man for All Nationsby Jesse C. FletcherISBN 0805472193 (0-8054-7219-3)
Hardcover, Broadman Press
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Baptism: A Vietnam Memoirby Larry GwinISBN 0804119228 (0-8041-1922-8)
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Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbardby Russell MillerISBN 0805006540 (0-8050-0654-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Bette: An Intimate Biography of Bette Midlerby George MairISBN 0806580062 (0-8065-8006-2)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Bill Wallace of Chinaby Jesse C. Fletcher, Timothy George, Denise GeorgeISBN 080541259X (0-8054-1259-X)
Hardcover, B & H Pub Group
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The Black Arrowby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0804900205 (0-8049-0020-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Arrow'Book summary:The Black Arrow is a book written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Black Arrow is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Robert Louis Stevenson is highly recommended. Published by Quill Pen Classics and beautifully produced, The Black Arrow would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicineby Frank HuylerISBN 0805065970 (0-8050-6597-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Bonnie Raitt: Just in the Nick of Timeby Mark BegoISBN 0806580119 (0-8065-8011-9)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 080857275X (0-8085-7275-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Dahl tells the story of his adventures and misadventures as a child: his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924; his first automobile ride, in which he nearly lost his nose; his many canings by Headmasters; and his vacations at home in Wales with hi [via]
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Celebrating The Pagan Soul: Our Own Stories of Inspiration and Communityby Laura WildmanISBN 0806526246 (0-8065-2624-6)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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Childhoodby Nathalie SarrauteISBN 0807611166 (0-8076-1116-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Complete Films of Greta Garboby Michael Conway, P. Tyler, YakemekISBN 0806501480 (0-8065-0148-0)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley; An Autohagiography.by Aleister CrowleyISBN 080903591X (0-8090-3591-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography, by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), is a book written in six parts, the first two parts published in 1929. It is subtitled "An Autohagiography" which refers to the autobiography of a Saint, a title which Crowley would also have associated with the Plymouth Brethren, who use it to refer to themselves. Crowley was brought up as one of their members. [via]More editions of The Confessions of Aleister Crowley; An Autohagiography.:
The Confessions of Saint Augustineby Saint AugustineISBN 0804901902 (0-8049-0190-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Daughters and Rebels: An Autobiographyby Jessica MitfordISBN 0805011722 (0-8050-1172-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Death in the a Shau Valley : L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970by Larry ChambersISBN 0804115753 (0-8041-1575-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division became L Company, 75th (Rangers). But his unit's mission stayed the same: act as the eyes and ears of the 101st deep in the dreaded A Shau Valley--where the NVA ruled.
Relentless thick fog frequently made fighter bombers useless in the A Shau, and the enemy had furnished the nearby mountaintops with antiaircraft machine guns to protect the massive trail network that snaked through it. So, outgunned, outmanned, and unsupported, the teams of L Company executed hundreds of courageous missions. Now, in this powerful personal record, Larry Chambers recaptures the experience of the war's most brutal on-the-job training, where the slightest noise or smallest error could bring sudden--and certain--death. . . . [via]More editions of Death in the a Shau Valley : L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970:
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The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Rafflesby Nigel BarleyISBN 0805019685 (0-8050-1968-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notionsby John MichellISBN 0806510315 (0-8065-1031-5)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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Eisenhower: A Soldier's Lifeby Carlo D'EsteISBN 0805056874 (0-8050-5687-4)
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testby Tom WolfeISBN 0808501518 (0-8085-0151-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'Book summary:They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debateby Tim M. BerraISBN 0804717702 (0-8047-1770-2)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Eyes Behind the Linesby Gary A. LindererISBN 0804108196 (0-8041-0819-6)
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoirby Vivian GornickISBN 0807071234 (0-8070-7123-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoirby Hilary MantelISBN 0805074724 (0-8050-7472-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir'Book summary:In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel is a fierce, self-possessed child, schooling herself in "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay" and convinced that she will become a boy at age four. Catholic school comes as a rude distraction from her rich inner life. At home, where fathers and stepfathers come and go at strange, overlapping intervals, the keeping of secrets becomes a way of life. Her late teens bring her to law school in London and then to Sheffield; a lover and then a husband. She acquires a persistent pain-which also shifts and travels-that over the next decade will subject her to destructive drugs, patronizing psychiatry, and, finally, at age twenty-seven, to an ineffective and irrevocable surgery. There will be no children; instead she has "a ghost of possibility, a paper baby, a person who slipped between the lines." Hormone treatments alter her body beyond recognition. And in the middle of it all, she begins one novel, and then another.[via]
Hilary Mantel was born to write about the paradoxes that shimmer at the edges of our perception. Dazzling, wry, and visceral, Giving Up the Ghost is a deeply compelling book that will bring new converts to Mantel's dark genius.More editions of Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir:
The Governors General: The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681by Stephen Saunders WebbISBN 0807841862 (0-8078-4186-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failureby Paul AusterISBN 0805054898 (0-8050-5489-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure'Book summary:It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from that most fiction writers only dream of. He worked with Bowery bums at a summer camp, had a childhood friend join the Weather Underground, and was a student at Columbia in 1968 at the height of the student uprisings there (and at which point, he boasts, he knew seven of the FBI's ten most wanted men). He worked on an oil tanker, for a French Mafia-style film producer in Paris, and for a rare-book organization in New York. He translated the North Vietnamese constitution from French into English (don't ask). His work brought him in contact to varying extents with Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jerzy Kosinski, Sartre, Foucault, and John Lennon. The encounters and experiences must have been fascinating, failure aside, but Auster's prose here, sadly, lacks the tightness and luster of his fiction. The remainder--and major portion--of the volume consists of three plays, a baseball card game, and a detective novel, all written during this time. [via]
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I Rode With Stonewallby H.K. DouglasISBN 0807803375 (0-8078-0337-5)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Illustrated Origin of Speciesby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0809013975 (0-8090-1397-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Illustrated Origin of Speciesby Richard E. Leakey, Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0809057352 (0-8090-5735-2)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil Warby Alice Rains TrulockISBN 0807849804 (0-8078-4980-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Isabella Lucy Bird's "a Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains": An Annotated Textby Ernest S. Bernard, Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)ISBN 0806131128 (0-8061-3112-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crowsby Elinor WilsonISBN 0806115556 (0-8061-1555-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows'Book summary:[via]Dismissed as a gaudy liar by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to rank alongside Kit Carson, Bill Williams, Louis Vasquez, and Jim Bridger.
Sometime around 1800 James Beckwourth was born a slave in Frederick County, Virginia, the natural son of Sir Jennings Beckwith and a slave girl. In 1810 Sir Jennings moved with his family to the wilderness of St. Louis, Missouri, where Jim was educated and eventually apprenticed to a blacksmith. His father recorded a Deed of Emancipation in his name on three different occasions, sending young Jim out into the world with his blessings.
Jim Beckwourths apprenticeship as a fur trapper was served with General William Ashleys grueling 1824 winter expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Except for a short stint as an army scout during the Seminole campaign, Jim spent the remainder of his long, eventful life in the West, dying among the Crow Indians whom he loved. He was fur trapper, trader, scout war chief of the Crow Nation, explorer, hotelkeeper, dispatch carrier, storekeeper, prospector, Indian agent for the Cheyennesin short, a mountain man extraordinaire.
In his old age Beckwourth dictated an autobiography to T.D. Bonner, a man more interested in making money with Jims adventures than in accurately recording his life. Beckwourth was later disparaged because of the inaccuracies that crept into Bonners account.
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Jim Bridgerby J. Cecil AlterISBN 0806115092 (0-8061-1509-2)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jim Bridger'Book summary:On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed "to enterprising young men" in the St. Louis area. "The subscriber," it said, "wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire ot Major Andrew Henry . . . or of the subscriber near St. Louis." The "subscriber" was General William H. Ashley, and among the "enterprising younr men" who embarked with Major Henry less than a month later was eighteen-year-old James Bridger, former blacksmith's apprentice. So began the Ashley-Henry fur empire and the long, colorful career of Jim Bridger. [via]
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Killer Angelsby Michael ShaaraISBN 0808598104 (0-8085-9810-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Angels'Book summary:This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863. Reading about the past is rarely so much fun as on these pages. [via]
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella L. BirdISBN 0806113286 (0-8061-1328-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilderby Donald ZochertISBN 0809281740 (0-8092-8174-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Their true-life saga, beloved by countless millions of TV viewers and readers of the bestselling Little House books, is one of spirit and devotion in the face of bitter-cold winters, wilderness trails, and heartbreaking personal tragedy.
Here, for the first time, and drawing on her own unpublished memoirs is the endlessly fascinating full account of Laura's life -- from her earliest years through her enduring marriage to Almanzo Wilder, the "farmer boy" of her stories.
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Letter to His Fatherby Franz KafkaISBN 0805201270 (0-8052-0127-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Letter to His Father : Brief an Den Vaterby Franz KafkaISBN 0805204261 (0-8052-0426-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Life Among the Apachesby John Carey CremonyISBN 0809439565 (0-8094-3956-5)
Hardcover, Time Life Education
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Lillian Smith: A Southerner Confronting the South A Biographyby Anne C. LovelandISBN 0807113433 (0-8071-1343-3)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Mao: A Lifeby Philip ShortISBN 0805066381 (0-8050-6638-1)
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Maus a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0808598538 (0-8085-9853-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelnby Glueckel, Gluckel HamelinISBN 0805205721 (0-8052-0572-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Staelby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0809436558 (0-8094-3655-8)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in Americaby Elliott J. GornISBN 0809070944 (0-8090-7094-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America'Book summary:Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." Mother Jones (1837-1930) was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the labor movement in the early twentieth century. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful.
Mother Jones was on the brink of old age when she began her public life, and her early years have long been shrouded in obscurity. Elliott J. Gorn has uncovered them here, as he not only interprets her career as an agitator but also looks back at her emigration from Ireland, her work as schoolteacher and dressmaker, the tragic early deaths of her husband and children, and the "lost years" when she faded from view altogether. In so doing, he shows how great world events (the Irish potato famine, the cholera epidemic) affected the course of her life and thus the life of the American labor movement. In short, Gorn makes it clear why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever." [via]
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Americaby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0805063897 (0-8050-6389-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America'Book summary:Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just how they were going to survive on the wages of the unskilled--at $6 to $7 an hour, only half of what is considered a living wage. So she did what millions of Americans do, she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet.
As a waitress in Florida, where her name is suddenly transposed to "girl," trailer trash becomes a demographic category to aspire to with rent at $675 per month. In Maine, where she ends up working as both a cleaning woman and a nursing home assistant, she must first fill out endless pre-employment tests with trick questions such as "Some people work better when they're a little bit high." In Minnesota, she works at Wal-Mart under the repressive surveillance of men and women whose job it is to monitor her behavior for signs of sloth, theft, drug abuse, or worse. She even gets to experience the humiliation of the urine test.
So, do the poor have survival strategies unknown to the middle class? And did Ehrenreich feel the "bracing psychological effects of getting out of the house, as promised by the wonks who brought us welfare reform?" Nah. Even in her best-case scenario, with all the advantages of education, health, a car, and money for first month's rent, she has to work two jobs, seven days a week, and still almost winds up in a shelter. As Ehrenreich points out with her potent combination of humor and outrage, the laws of supply and demand have been reversed. Rental prices skyrocket, but wages never rise. Rather, jobs are so cheap as measured by the pay that workers are encouraged to take as many as they can. Behind those trademark Wal-Mart vests, it turns out, are the borderline homeless. With her characteristic wry wit and her unabashedly liberal bent, Ehrenreich brings the invisible poor out of hiding and, in the process, the world they inhabit--where civil liberties are often ignored and hard work fails to live up to its reputation as the ticket out of poverty. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0809073552 (0-8090-7355-2)
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One Childby Torey L. HaydenISBN 0808511394 (0-8085-1139-4)
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Orwell: The Lifeby D. J. TaylorISBN 080507693X (0-8050-7693-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orwell: The Life'Book summary:Winner of the 2004 Whitbread Prize for Biography[via]
"D. J. Taylor has written not only the best recent biography of George Orwell . . . but also one of the cleverest studies of the relationship of that life to the written word."
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In the last fifty years, Animal Farm and 1984 have sold more than forty million copies, and "Orwellian" is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature, and language. D. J. Taylor's magisterial assessment cuts through George Orwell's iconic status to reveal a bitter critic who concealed a profound totalitarian streak and whose progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 1940s was characterized by the myths he built around himself.
Drawing on previously unseen material, Orwell is a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. This biography is as vibrant, powerful, and resonant as its extraordinary subject. 
Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0809435985 (0-8094-3598-5)
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Paul Revereby Augusta StevensonISBN 0808513397 (0-8085-1339-7)
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The Periodic Tableby Primo LeviISBN 0805210415 (0-8052-1041-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Periodic Table'Book summary:Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust. [via]
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Peter the Greatby Vasili KlyuchevskyISBN 0807056472 (0-8070-5647-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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The Quark and the Jaguar: The Quark and the Jaguarby Murray Gell-MannISBN 0805072535 (0-8050-7253-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Rock Lives: Profiles & Interviewsby Timothy WhiteISBN 0805018611 (0-8050-1861-1)
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Say It Ain't So, Joe!: The True Story of Shoeless Joe Jacksonby Donald GropmanISBN 0806513365 (0-8065-1336-5)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wrightby Jean NathanISBN 0805076123 (0-8050-7612-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstoreby Suzanne Strempek SheaISBN 0807072591 (0-8070-7259-1)
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Two years ago, while recovering from radiation therapy, Shea heard from a friend who was looking for help at her bookstore. Shea volunteered, seeing it as nothing more than a way to get out of her pajamas and back into the world. But over next twelve months, from St. Patrick's Day through Poetry Month, graduation/Father's Day/summer reading/Christmas and back again to those shamrock displays, Shea lived and breathed books in a place she says sells'ideas, stories, encouragement, answers, solace, validation, the basic ammunition for daily life.' Her work was briefly interrupted by an author tour that took her to other great bookstores. Descriptions of these and her memories of book-lined rooms reaching all the way back to childhood visits to the Bookmobile are scattered throughout this charming, humorous, and engrossing account of reading and rejuvenation.
For anyone who loves books, and especially for anyone who has fallen under the spell of a special bookstore, Shelf Life will be required reading. [via]More editions of Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, And Other Page-turning Adventures From A Year In A Bookstore:
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Six Silent Menby Kenn MillerISBN 0804115648 (0-8041-1564-8)
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Teller of Tales : The Life of Arthur Conan Doyleby Daniel StashowerISBN 0805066845 (0-8050-6684-5)
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Theologians of the Baptist Traditionby David S. Dockery, Timothy GeorgeISBN 0805417729 (0-8054-1772-9)
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They Called Him Wild Billby Joseph RosaISBN 0806115386 (0-8061-1538-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry DanaISBN 080490085X (0-8049-0085-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Uncle Dick Wootton, the Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region: An Account of the Adventures and Thrilling Experiences of the Most Noted American Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Scout, and Indian Fighter Now Livingby Dick Wootton, Howard Louis ConardISBN 0809439522 (0-8094-3952-2)
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The Vagrant Mood: Six Essaysby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0804605734 (0-8046-0573-4)
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W.E.B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963by David Levering LewisISBN 0805068139 (0-8050-6813-9)
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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Daniel Mark EpsteinISBN 0805071814 (0-8050-7181-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:Poet, playwright, and translator Daniel Mark Epstein certainly has the right background to understand and evaluate poet, playwright, and translator Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)--though Millay didn't write biographies. Readers of Epstein's Sister Aimee and Nat King Cole will recognize the intense personal engagement the author brings to his task. He's not afraid to express an almost physical fascination for his subjects, which is especially appropriate for the flamboyant Millay, who insisted on the right to take as many lovers as she pleased and to write about them in some of the greatest erotic poetry in American verse. Epstein focuses on that poetry, deciphering the affairs that fueled it and elucidating the boldly iconoclastic, almost cynical acceptance of love's fleeting nature that informs it. (Of the last sonnet in A Few Figs from Thistles, with its notorious putdown, "I shall forget you presently, my dear / So make the most of this, your little day," he remarks: "For a woman, not yet thirty, to compose and market such a poem... was a scandal, an alarm, and a red flag to censors.") While the Edna St. Vincent Millay who emerges in Nancy Milford's Savage Beauty is indelibly shaped by her upbringing, particularly her relationship with her mother and sisters, Epstein's Millay is a self-created goddess of love and literature. It's fascinating to compare these two biographies, published nearly simultaneously and each with considerable merits. Milford's lengthy book, the product of three decades of research, is lavish with details and comprehensive in scope. Epstein's more selective work excels in cogent summaries and forcefully stated opinions. Either book will satisfy readers with an interest in Millay or American literature; really passionate aficionados of the art of biography will want to read both. --Wendy Smith [via]
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When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilsonby Gene SmithISBN 080943671X (0-8094-3671-X)
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Willie's Time: Baseball's Golden Ageby Charles EinsteinISBN 080932573X (0-8093-2573-X)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered Cityby Anonymous, Philip BoehmISBN 0805075402 (0-8050-7540-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City'Book summary:An astonishing find-the landmark journal of a woman living though the Russian occupation of Berlin-which has already earned comparisons to diaries by Etty Hillesum and Victor Klemperer[via]
For six weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman, alone in the city, kept a daily record of her and her neighbors' experiences, determined to describe the common lot of millions.
Purged of all self-pity but with laser-sharp observation and bracing humor, the anonymous author conjures up a ravaged apartment building and its little group of residents struggling to get by in the rubble without food, heat, or water. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, she depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. And with shocking and vivid detail, she tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject: the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity. Through this ordeal, she maintains her resilience, decency, and fierce will to come through her city's trial, until normalcy and safety return.
At once an essential record and a work of great literature, A Woman in Berlin not only reveals a true heroine, sure to join other enduring figures of the twentieth century, but also gives voice to the rarely heard victims of war: the women.More editions of A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City:
The Wright Brothersby Quentin ReynoldsISBN 0808511513 (0-8085-1151-3)
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