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1 Brief Shining Momentby William ManchesterISBN 0517612313 (0-517-61231-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Arnold Schoenbergby Charles RosenISBN 0670019860 (0-670-01986-0)
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The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixonby Anthony Summers, Robbyn SwanISBN 0670871516 (0-670-87151-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon'Book summary:Anthony Summers is the past master of scandal, the man who brought you Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and that unforgettable (alleged) eyewitness account of J. Edgar Hoover in a flouncy black dress. Greater experts than I must rule on Summers's exhaustively researched portrait of Richard Nixon, The Arrogance of Power, but it sure is one racy read. Summers depicts a Nixon stoned out of his mind on Seconal, single-malt Scotch, Dilantin, speed, and clinical paranoia, pummeling his wife, Pat (who was rumored to have once been rescued by the Secret Service from drunkenly drowning in a bathtub). Summers's Nixon apparently took Mickey Cohen Mob money to fund his anti-Semitic, salacious smear campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas to get his Senate start; framed Alger Hiss with a fake typewriter; traded gold for POWs with Vietcong; and issued orders to bomb Damascus and Jordan and nuke Vietnam and Korea (orders that were ignored until Nixon sobered up in the morning). His favorite limo was the SS100X that JFK died in. Nixon's shrink reportedly also treated Rita Hayworth, spoke like Dr. Strangelove, and used "Pavlovian technique" to "brainwash Nixon into becoming a better person." No luck.
Summers's Nixon favored the Greek generals who tortured pro-democracy types, and took a bribe from Göring's pal Nicolae Malaxa, who, thanks to Nixon, traded his Romanian mansion (in which thousands of Jews were tortured and killed) for a posh Manhattan apartment. Summers's most fascinating stuff concerns the Howard Hughes/Castro/Watergate connection. Did Nixon order CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro? Did Robert Maheu (said to have inspired Mission: Impossible) arrange "sex services" and "assassination planning" for the CIA, and spy on Jean Peters and Ava Gardner for Howard Hughes? Did Hughes give big money to Nixon under the guise of saving the fast-food "Nixonburger" franchise of Richard's brother Donald Nixon (whom Richard had the FBI spy on)? Did the Castro plot get JFK killed, as Haldeman suspected? Was the Watergate break-in (one of perhaps 100 Nixon break-ins) intended to seize information about Nixon's Hughes loans and Castro plots?
Summers tries to assess his massive data while he's presenting it, and he doesn't credit every wild tale equally. Still, without him, I would never have heard about Castro's alleged ex-girlfriend, "the Mata Hari of the Caribbean," hired by future Watergate burglars to re-seduce Castro and slip two poison pills in his coffee. But she hid the pills in her cold-cream jar, and when she took them out in their Havana Hilton bathroom, they'd melted. Besides, her close encounter with the leader left her "torn by feelings of love." The Arrogance of Power won't give you this feeling. --Tim Appelo [via]
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At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian Englandby Walter Dean MyersISBN 0590486691 (0-590-48669-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England'Book summary:Once there was a little girl--an orphaned African princess--who narrowly escaped death by human sacrifice in a West African village in 1850. A British sea captain named Frederick E. Forbes saved her life by talking King Gezo of Dahomey into giving the girl to Queen Victoria of England as a gift: "She would be a present from the King of the blacks to the Queen of the Whites." As impossible as this tale sounds, it is a true one. Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers--piecing together her story from letters he found in a rare book and ephemera shop in London--paints a hauntingly detached portrait of the small African princess whom the heroic captain named Sarah Forbes Bonetta.
We follow her charmed but unlucky life as the Queen's protégée through a succession of British middle-class households, beginning with the Forbes home. Because of her celebrated association and frequent visits with the Queen, Sarah grows up in an unusual position of privilege, education, and celebrity. On the flip side, she is keenly aware that her decisions are not her own, and as a rescued orphan under the Queen's protection, her life's path is dictated by those acting in what they perceive to be her best interests. It is hard not to feel that it was cruel of her protectors to wrench her (more than once in her life) from the adopted family she adores, and eventually to encourage her to marry a West African businessman whom she clearly stated she could never love, and who would take her away from her adopted country. As the epilogue states, "She was both unfortunate in her losses, and fortunate that those losses were not greater.... She seemed to find a measure of comfort wherever she was, but was destined to be apart from the world in which she lived." This story, rich with historic prints, photographs, newspaper clippings, excerpts from Queen Victoria's diary, and Sarah's letters, is both fascinating and tragic. We have Myers to thank for rescuing this fine woman again--this time from the forgotten shelf of a London bookstore. (Ages 11 and older) [via]
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Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverseby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0595008089 (0-595-00808-9)
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loyby Carolyn BurkeISBN 0520210891 (0-520-21089-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Benjamin Franklinby Ingri D'AulaireISBN 060603515X (0-606-03515-X)
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Berlioz: The Making of an Artist 1803-1832by David CairnsISBN 0520240561 (0-520-24056-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Betrayed!by Stan TelchinISBN 0551009411 (0-551-00941-1)
Softcover, Marshall Pickering
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Blood & Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Centuryby Helen CastorISBN 0571216706 (0-571-21670-6)
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Storyby Timothy B. TysonISBN 0609610589 (0-609-61058-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story'Book summary:"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."
Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel, a rough man with a criminal record and ties to the Ku Klux Klan, and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased Marrow, beat him unmercifully, and killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. In the words of a local prosecutor: "They shot him like you or I would kill a snake."
Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets, led by 22-year-old Ben Chavis, a future president of the NAACP. As mass protests crowded the town square, a cluster of returning Vietnam veterans organized what one termed "a military operation." While lawyers battled in the courthouse that summer in a drama that one termed "a Perry Mason kind of thing," the Ku Klux Klan raged in the shadows and black veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses.
With large sections of the town in flames, Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, pressed his congregation to widen their vision of humanity and pushed the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away.
Years later, historian Tim Tyson returned to Oxford to ask Robert Teel why he and his sons had killed Henry Marrow. "That nigger committed suicide, coming in here wanting to four-letter-word my daughter-in-law," Teel explained.
The black radicals who burned much of Oxford also told Tim their stories. "It was like we had a cash register up there at the pool hall, just ringing up how much money we done cost these white people," one of them explained. "We knew if we cost 'em enough goddamn money they was gonna start changing some things."
In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of conscience, a defining portrait of a time and place that we will never forget. Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer and one family's struggle to build bridges in a time of destruction brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to our complex history, where violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to illuminate America's enduring chasm of race. [via]More editions of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story:
Borgiasby Ivan CloulasISBN 0531151018 (0-531-15101-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Dukeby Patty DukeISBN 0553272055 (0-553-27205-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Catch Me a Colobusby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0670206628 (0-670-20662-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Chuck Berry: The Autobiographyby Chuck BerryISBN 0517566664 (0-517-56666-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Citizen Cohnby Nicholas Von HoffmanISBN 0553278932 (0-553-27893-2)
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Clare Boothe Luceby Wilfred SheedISBN 0525030557 (0-525-03055-7)
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geographyby Kathleen NorrisISBN 0618127240 (0-618-12724-0)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dakota: A Spiritual Geography'Book summary:After 20 years of living in the "Great American Outback," as Newsweek magazine once designated the Dakotas, poet Kathleen Norris (The Cloister Walk) came to understand the fascinating ways that people become metaphors for the land they inhabit. When trying to understand the polarizing contradictions that exist in the Dakotas between "hospitality and insularity, change and inertia, stability and instability.... between hope and despair, between open hearts and closed minds," Norris draws a map. "We are at the point of transition between east and west in the United States," she explains, "geographically and psychically isolated from either coast, and unlike either the Midwest or the desert west."
Like Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge), Norris understands how the boundary between inner and outer scenery begins to blur when one is fully present in the landscape of their lives. As a result, she offers the geography lesson we all longed for in school. This is a poetic, noble, and often funny (see her discussion on the foreign concept of tofu) tribute to Dakota, including its Native Americans, Benedictine monks, ministers and churchgoers, wind-weathered farmers, and all its plain folks who live such complicated and simple lives. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrisonby Geoffrey GiulianoISBN 0525248544 (0-525-24854-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Darwin and the Beagleby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517404923 (0-517-40492-3)
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Death of a Rebelby Marc EliotISBN 0531151115 (0-531-15111-5)
Hardcover, F. Watts
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Dennis Potter: A Biographyby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0571176852 (0-571-17685-2)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Diana : The Last Yearby Donald SpotoISBN 0609803883 (0-609-80388-3)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnesby Phillip HerringISBN 0670849693 (0-670-84969-3)
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The Dream King, Ludwig II of Bavariaby Wilfrid BluntISBN 0670284564 (0-670-28456-4)
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Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Riveraby Patrick MarnhamISBN 0520224086 (0-520-22408-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtueby Jasper RidleyISBN 0670815268 (0-670-81526-8)
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The Enchanted Placesby Christopher MilneISBN 0525292934 (0-525-29293-4)
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Farewell to Manzanarby Jeanne W. HoustonISBN 0553272586 (0-553-27258-6)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell to Manzanar'Book summary:Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation's #1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internmentby James D. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonISBN 0618216200 (0-618-21620-0)
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At age thirty-seven, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Written with her husband, Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar.
Farewell to Manzanar has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. Last year the San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the twentieth centurys 100 best nonfiction books from west of the Rockies.More editions of Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment:
Fillets of Plaiceby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0670313270 (0-670-31327-0)
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The Friendly Jane Austenby Natalie TylerISBN 0670874256 (0-670-87425-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hannibalby Harold LambISBN 0523009011 (0-523-00901-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishmanby Frances Stonor SaundersISBN 057121908X (0-571-21908-X)
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Howard Hughes: The Untold Storyby Pat H. Broeske, Harry Peter BrownISBN 0525937854 (0-525-93785-4)
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I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsbergby Bill MorganISBN 0670037966 (0-670-03796-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert Einstein, Carl SeeligISBN 0517884402 (0-517-88440-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ideas and Opinions'Book summary:A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government. [via]
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworthby Barbara LeamingISBN 0670819786 (0-670-81978-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustratorby Wayne G. Hammond, Christina ScullISBN 0618083618 (0-618-08361-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator'Book summary:J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) renowned author of THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE SILMARILLION, was an artist in pictures as well as in words. Though he often remarked that he had no talent for drawing, his art has charmed his readers and has been exhibited to large and appreciative audiences the world over. In fact, his talent was far more than he admitted, and his sense of design was natural and keen.[via]
J.R.R. TOLKIEN: ARTIST & ILLUSTRATOR explores Tolkien's art at length, from his childhood paintings and drawings to his final sketches. At its heart are his illustrations for his books, especially his tales of Middle-earth. Also examined are the pictures Tolkien made for his children, his expressive calligraphy, his love of decoration, and his contributions to the typography and design of his books.
With 200 reproductions, many in full colour, this lavishly-produced book offers a perfect opportunity for anyone wishing to discover a largely unexplored aspect of J.R.R. Tolkien's character.More editions of J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator:
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Jeb Stuart : The Last Cavalierby Burke DavisISBN 0517185970 (0-517-18597-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jeb Stuart : The Last Cavalier'Book summary:From the author of They Called Him Stonewall. Definitive biography of the dashing Confederate general is history at its best: fascinating, colorful, provocative. Includes portraits of Stuart's early life, training at West Point, the fateful decision to side with the South and action-packed battle scenes. 7 maps. 8 pages of photos. 470 pages. [via]
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Jerzy Kosinski: A Biographyby James Park SloanISBN 0525937846 (0-525-93784-6)
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The Journals of Lewis and Clarkby Frank Bergon, William Clark, Meriwether LewisISBN 0670826111 (0-670-82611-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Lewis and Clark'Book summary:[Traditional paperback edition of this title is 680 pages.]
The journals of Lewis and Clark have been called a national treasure. The Corps of Discovery helped to open the Louisiana Purchase to hundreds of thousands of pioneering settlers.
We're proud to bring this recreation of those handwritten texts to a new generation of readers, learners, and historians.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery as a scientific and military expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. The expedition's goal was stated by Jefferson in a letter dated June 20, 1803, to Lewis: "to explore the Missouri River and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river that may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purpose of commerce".[6] In addition, the expedition was to learn more about the Northwest's natural resources, inhabitants and possibilities for settlement;[7] as well as evaluating the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area.
Jefferson selected U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewishis aide and personal friendto lead the Corps of Discovery. Lewis selected William Clark as his partner. Because of bureaucratic delays in the U.S. Army, Clark officially only held the rank of Second Lieutenant at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain".
They began their historic journey on May 14, 1804. They soon met up with Lewis in Saint Charles, Missouri, and the corps followed the Missouri River westward. Soon they passed La Charrette, the last caucasian settlement on the Missouri River. The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska. On August 20, 1804, the Corps of Discovery suffered its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd died, apparently from acute appendicitis. He was buried at Floyd's Bluff, in what is now Sioux City, Iowa. During the final week of August, Lewis and Clark had reached the edge of the Great Plains, a place abounding with elk, deer, bison, and beavers.
The expedition continued to follow the Missouri to its headwaters and over the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass via horses. In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon. At this point,[clarification needed] Lewis spotted Mount Hood, a mountain known to be very close to the ocean. On a big pine, Clark carved
Clark had written in his journal, "Ocean in view! O! The Joy!". One journal entry is captioned "Cape Disappointment at the Entrance of the Columbia River into the Great South Sea or Pacific Ocean". By that time the expedition faced its second bitter winter during the trip, so the group decided to vote on whether to camp on the north or south side of the Columbia River. The party agreed to camp on the south side of the river (modern Astoria, Oregon), building Fort Clatsop as their winter quarters. While wintering at the fort, the men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife, and interacting with the native tribes.
The explorers began their journey home on March 23, 1806. Lewis and Clark used four dugout canoes they bought from the Native Americans, plus one that they stole in "retaliation" for a previous theft.
Lewis and Clark separated until they reached the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers on August 11. Clark's team had floated down the rivers in bull boats. Once reunited, the Corps was able to return home quickly via the Missouri River. They reached St. Louis on September 23, 1806. [via]More editions of The Journals of Lewis and Clark:
The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Reyby Louise Borden, Allan DrummondISBN 0618339248 (0-618-33924-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Kid : What Happened after My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnantby Dan SavageISBN 0525945253 (0-525-94525-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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King Arthurby Norma Lorre GoodrichISBN 0531097013 (0-531-09701-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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The Last Emperorby Edward BehrISBN 0553344749 (0-553-34474-9)
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Lenin : The Man Behind the Maskby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 0571154603 (0-571-15460-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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Lenin, the Man behind the Maskby Ronald William ClarkISBN 0571139043 (0-571-13904-3)
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The Life of Richard Wagnerby Ernest NewmanISBN 0521291496 (0-521-29149-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Lost Starby Patricia LauberISBN 0590411594 (0-590-41159-4)
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Lovecraft, a Look behind the Cthulhu Mythosby Lin CarterISBN 0586041664 (0-586-04166-4)
Hardcover, Panther
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Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williamsby Paul HemphillISBN 0670034142 (0-670-03414-2)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Lynch on Lynchby Chris Rodley, David LynchISBN 0571195482 (0-571-19548-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lynch on Lynch'Book summary:You know David Lynch as the director of terminally weird movies such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart, as well as the bizarre and highly influential television series Twin Peaks. But did you know that it was Mel Brooks who gave him his first big break? That the idea for Blue Velvet grew out of a fantasy Lynch had about sneaking into a private room and learning the secret to a murder mystery? That Twin Peaks came about because co-creator Mark Frost was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe?
In Lynch on Lynch, a 250-page interview book, editor Chris Rodley does a superb job of getting Lynch to talk at length about the high and low points of his life and career. Their conversation covers his early work as a painter through the making of his major films of the 1980s, the fiasco of Dune ("It is what it is."), and the recent and very obscure Lost Highway ("I just *loved* this title.").
Lynch is particularly interesting when he talks about the creative process: "I don't want to give the impression that I sit around thinking up horrible things. I get all kinds of different ideas and feelings. If I'm lucky, they start organizing themselves into a story--then maybe some ideas come along that are too eerie, too violent, or too funny, and they don't fit that story. So you write them down and save them for two or three projects down the road. There's nowhere you can't go in a film--if you think of it, you can go there." Lynch on Lynch is a treat for Lynch fans of all shapes, sizes, and fetishes. [via]
Lynch on Lynchby David LynchISBN 0571220185 (0-571-22018-5)
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Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale Of Four Indian Queens And Their Journey From Purdah To Parliamentby Lucy MooreISBN 0670033685 (0-670-03368-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Man Ray: American Artistby Neil BaldwinISBN 0517560011 (0-517-56001-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Ray: American Artist'Book summary:The definitive biography of one of the most influential surrealists and a quintessential modernist. Figure-painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, and collagist, Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Brooklyn. This book traces his American upbringing and his departure for Europe plus his work in painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Although he wasnt successful in all media, Man Ray nonetheless had his own style and vision. Baldwins portrait was the first full-length biography of Man Ray. This edition has a new intro by the author updating the artists story.[via]More editions of Man Ray: American Artist:
Mao's Last Dancerby Cunxin LiISBN 067004024X (0-670-04024-X)
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Mark Twain and His World Pby CrownISBN 0517548836 (0-517-54883-6)
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Martin Heideggerby George SteinerISBN 0670459097 (0-670-45909-7)
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Miracle Workerby William GibsonISBN 0553247786 (0-553-24778-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Miracle Worker'Book summary:Drama / 7m, 7f / Unit set Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. With scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Annie's success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single, glorious word: "water". "Interesting, absorbing and moving." - New York Post [via]
Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo With Added Gummoby Simon LouvishISBN 0571193501 (0-571-19350-1)
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Nancy Mitford: A Biographyby Selina HastingsISBN 0525244018 (0-525-24401-8)
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queenby Joyce TyldesleyISBN 0670869988 (0-670-86998-8)
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One More Timeby Carol BurnettISBN 0517681749 (0-517-68174-9)
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An Ordinary Man: an autobiographyby Paul RuseabaginaISBN 0670037524 (0-670-03752-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Ordinary Man: an autobiography'Book summary:The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabaginathe man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda
As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabaginathe "Oskar Schindler of Africa"refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes.An Ordinary Man explores what the Academy Award-nominated film Hotel Rwanda could not: the inner life of the man who became one of the most prominent public faces of that terrible conflict. Rusesabagina tells for the first time the full story of his lifegrowing up as the son of a rural farmer, the child of a mixed marriage, his extraordinary career path which led him to become the first Rwandan manager of the Belgian-owned Hotel Milles Collinesall of which contributed to his heroic actions in the face of such horror. He will also bring the reader inside the hotel for those one hundred terrible days depicted in the film, relating the anguish of those who watched as their loved ones were hacked to pieces and the betrayal that he felt as a result of the UNs refusal to help at this time of crisis.
Including never-before-reported details of the Rwandan genocide, An Ordinary Man is sure to become a classic of tolerance literature, joining such books as Thomas Keneallys Schindlers List, Nelson Mandelas Long Walk to Freedom, and Elie Wiesels Night. Paul Rusesabaginas autobiography is the story of one man who did not let fear get the better of hima man who found within himself a vast reserve of courage and bravery, and showed the world how one "ordinary man" can become a hero. [via]
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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biographyby Peter J. ConnISBN 0521639891 (0-521-63989-1)
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Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywoodby Eileen WhitfieldISBN 0571199801 (0-571-19980-1)
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Pope John XXIIIby Thomas CahillISBN 0670030570 (0-670-03057-0)
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A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal 1996-98by Alec GuinessISBN 0670888001 (0-670-88800-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal 1996-98'Book summary:Alec Guinness begins his most recent memoir, a sort of sequel to his bestselling My Name Escapes Me, with what he calls an apology for a "ramshackle book": "It states it is a Journal and yet it doesn't quite aspire to that and it isn't a diary. Not many dates are to be found in it." What is in it are as charming a collection of memories, readings, observations, and anecdotes as could be imagined from an actor whose genius for self-effacement is legendary. Now in his 85th year, the celebrated Sir Alec has made a major contribution to a minor but much-loved literary form, the notebooks of an English gentleman. (It's no surprise to learn in these pages that Samuel Butler, author of The Way of All Flesh and his own published Notebooks, is one of Guinness's favorite authors.) Considering his age and virtual retirement, Guinness's life is an astonishingly active and full one, and for all the reminiscing, much of A Positively Final Appearance is taken up in describing his present-day doings with his beloved wife Merula (married 61 years), their dogs, and the occasional forays they make to visit friends and family. There are trips farther afield as well, to a spa in Baden-Baden and to films and theater, including a hilarious attempt to see the controversial West End hit Shopping and F***ing (with Guinness suggesting several substitutes for the supplied asterisks). His omnivorous reading is simply staggering, and a lifelong love affair with Shakespeare is evidenced not only by his memories of favorite performances but also his readings of scenes from the Bard, which reveal an imaginative scholarship infused with a lifetime's theatrical experience.
One of the strangest paradoxes of this superb actor (and equally fluent prose stylist) is that he seems destined to be remembered primarily for his becloaked performance in the original Star Wars trilogy as Obi-Wan Kenobi. There's a priceless story included about Guinness's encounter with a child who claimed to have seen the first film over 100 times, and the request he made of the boy: "Do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?" The result of this request, along with much else in this entirely captivating memoir, will amuse and delight. --John Longenbaugh [via]
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Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaohby Joyce TyldesleyISBN 0670884871 (0-670-88487-1)
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Richard III: England's Black Legendby Desmond SewardISBN 0531098176 (0-531-09817-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Yearsby Robert F. KennedyISBN 0553053167 (0-553-05316-7)
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Saint Therese of Lisieuxby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0670031488 (0-670-03148-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Therese of Lisieux'Book summary:Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world's most influential religious figures. In Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, bestselling novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison, whose depictions of women have been called "powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) and "luminously intelligent" (The Boston Sunday Globe), brings to the saint's life her storytelling gift and deep insight as she reveals the hopes and fears of the young girl behind the religious icon.
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux shows us the pampered daughter of successful and deeply religious tradespeople who-through a personal appeal to the pope-entered a convent at the early age of fifteen. There, Thérèse embraced sacrifice and self-renunciation in a single-minded pursuit of the "nothingness" she felt would bring her closer to God. With feeling, Harrison shows us the sensitive four-year-old whose mother's death haunted her forever and contributed to the ascetic spirituality that strengthened her to embrace even the deadly throes of tuberculosis. Tellingly placed in the context of late-nineteenth-century French social and religious practices, this is a powerful story of a life lived with enormous passion and a searing, triumphant voyage of the spirit. [via]More editions of Saint Therese of Lisieux:
Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Manby Vance H. TrimbleISBN 0525249222 (0-525-24922-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sartre, Romantic Rationalistby Iris MurdochISBN 0670817260 (0-670-81726-0)
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The Starship and the Canoeby Kenneth BrowerISBN 055312451X (0-553-12451-X)
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Steinbeck: A Life in Lettersby Elaine SteinbeckISBN 067066961X (0-670-66961-X)
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A Step Furtherby Steve Estes, Joni TadaISBN 0553262742 (0-553-26274-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Step Further'Book summary:Personal answers to the difficult 'whys' of suffering. New 16-page photo section and illustrations by Joni. Originally published in 1978, A Step Further is Joni Eareckson Tada's response to thousands of letters she received from people puzzled about the 'whys' of suffering. Joni answers these questions by taking a personal look at how God has used circumstances, people, and events in her own life and the lives of others. A Step Further has been used by individuals, in hospitals and rehab centers, and in scores of countries overseas to bring comfort and peace to those who are suffering. It is available in over 30 different languages. New 16-page photo section. [via]
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Tall, Dark, and Gruesomeby Christopher LeeISBN 0575064978 (0-575-06497-8)
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Thomas Becketby Frank BarlowISBN 0520071751 (0-520-07175-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Becket'Book summary:On 29 December 1170, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights from the household of his former friend and patron, King Henry II. The horror that the killing inspired and the miraculous cures performed at Thomas's tomb transfigured him into one of the most popular saints in Western Christendom, and Canterbury became one of the greatest pilgrim shrines in the West.[via]
Yet these were unexpected results. Thomas's extraordinary career had been, and remains, controversial. The transformation of a handsome, attractive, and worldly courtier into a zealous prelate, a bitter exile and finally a martyr was for many hard to understand. In this brilliant new biography, based on the original sources and informed by the most recent scholarship, Frank Barlow reconstructs Thomas's physical environment and entourage at various stages of his career, exploring the nuances and irregularities in the story that have been ignored in other studies. 
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, And the Birth of Modern Nationsby Craig NelsonISBN 0670037885 (0-670-03788-5)
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True Stories About Abraham Lincolnby Ruth Belov Gross, Charles TurzakISBN 0590438794 (0-590-43879-4)
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The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White Houseby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 067088006X (0-670-88006-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Raceby David Levering LewisISBN 0613630866 (0-613-63086-6)
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Wallace Stegner : His Life and Workby Jackson J. BensonISBN 0670862223 (0-670-86222-3)
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William Rufusby Frank BarlowISBN 0520049365 (0-520-04936-5)
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloyby Walter Isaacson, Evan ThomasISBN 0571146066 (0-571-14606-6)
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Wordstruck: A Memoirby Robert MacNeilISBN 0670818712 (0-670-81871-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wordstruck: A Memoir'Book summary:People become writers, in large part, because they are in love with language. Wordstruck is the story of one such writer's unabashed affair with words, from his Halifax childhood awash with intriguing accents to life as a traveling journalist who "delighted in finding pockets of distinctive English, as a botanist is thrilled to discover a new variety of plant." Each aspect of Robert MacNeil's youthful existence prompted yet another linguistic thrill. Childhood churchgoing "did not provide me with any spiritual awakening ... but it anointed me with language." His mother's passion for the natural world and his father's life as a ship's skipper gave him two more complete vocabularies. And "If you define yourself by the language you acquire as you enter different spheres," MacNeil writes, the absurd language of "cricket was another piece of my self-definition."
MacNeil is best known as a novelist, coauthor of The Story of English, and onetime executive editor of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. In Wordstruck he imparts a passion for Shakespeare (in particular, Hamlet), Dylan Thomas, and T. S. Eliot, whose ear for the English language, he says, was "the equivalent of perfect pitch--for the harmonic range of our tongue, its rhythms, and all its voices." Wordstruck is a charming memoir from a man "crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind." [via]
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