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Acquired Tastesby Peter MayleISBN 0553371835 (0-553-37183-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acquired Tastes'Book summary:The author of A Year in Provence samples the best that life can offer, from handmade shoes and limousine etiquette, to the art of keeping a mistress in style and the world's best caviar, in a whimsical look at the lifestyles of the rich. [via]
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Ancestors: A Family Historyby William MaxwellISBN 0679759298 (0-679-75929-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancestors: A Family History'Book summary:The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come. [via]
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Angela Davis: An Autobiographyby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0717806677 (0-7178-0667-7)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Autobiography of a Yogiby Paramahansa YoganandaISBN 0685384764 (0-685-38476-4)
Softcover, Wehman Brothers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of a Yogi'Book summary:Born in India on January 5, 1893, Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Sri Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Mrinalini Mata, one of his closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 2011. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world. [via]
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A Backward Glanceby Edith WhartonISBN 0684847558 (0-684-84755-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Battle for Gaulby Julius Caesar, Anne Wiseman, T.P. WisemanISBN 0701125047 (0-7011-2504-7)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle for Gaul'Book summary:Julius Caesar was for a few years the undisputed master of the Roman world -- devoted to expanding Roman supremacy and his own fame. THE BATTLE FOR GAUL contains seven books of Caesar's Commentaries on his campaign in Gaul from 58 to 50 B.C. in their original narrative sequence.
These unparalleled accounts of war in Western Europe in the closing years of the Roman republic are clear and exciting. We feel the immediacy of the moment as we listen to Caesar's dramatic story of his daring expedition into Germany and unprecedented bridging of the Rhine, the decimation of two Roman legions in a forest ambush, and the heroic last defense of 80,000 Gauls in central France. [via]
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A Bed Of Red Flowers: In Search Of My Afghanistanby Nelofer PaziraISBN 0743281330 (0-7432-8133-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833by Susan Fels, Charles TyngISBN 0670886327 (0-670-88632-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Best Little Boy in the World : 1998 Editionby John Reid, Andrew TobiasISBN 067960314X (0-679-60314-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland The Middle Danube to the Iron Gatesby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0670811491 (0-670-81149-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates'Book summary:'Between the Woods and the Water' continues Patrick Leigh Fermor's celebrated epic account of his journey at the age of eighteen, in 1933, from the Hook of Holand to Constantinople. Here he travels down the Danube from Budapest, across the Great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania. [via]
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsessionby Mark ObmascikISBN 0743245466 (0-7432-4546-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprusby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0571201555 (0-571-20155-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Black Iceby Lorene CaryISBN 0679737456 (0-679-73745-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreamsby NasdijjISBN 0618154485 (0-618-15448-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Breaking the Surface: A Lifeby Eric Marcus, Greg LouganisISBN 0679437037 (0-679-43703-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breaking the Surface: A Life'Book summary:Greg Louganis won back-to-back double gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, and his amazing physique and handsome face should have made him a media superstar. Yet Louganis's struggles with self-doubt lack of confidence held him back personally and professionally. He only achieved real happiness after coming out as an HIV-positive gay man. This is a thoughtful, sensitive portrait of a man whose insecurities nearly destroyed him, but who found the love and inner strength to save himself. [via]
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby Caesar, F. P. LongISBN 0760768951 (0-7607-6895-1)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Caesar: The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, H. J. EdwardsISBN 0674990803 (0-674-99080-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Gallic War'Book summary:Caesar (C. Iulius, 10244 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of Commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, 5852 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain 5554, and three on the civil war of 4948. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person, the account of the civil war being somewhat more impassioned. There is no rhetoric.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar is in three volumes. Volume II is his Civil Wars. The Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship, are collected in Volume III.
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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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The Concubine's Children/the Story of a Chinese Family Living on Two Sides of the Globeby Denise ChongISBN 0670829617 (0-670-82961-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Days of Grace: A Memoirby Arthur Ashe, Arnold RampersadISBN 0679423966 (0-679-42396-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Difficult Women: A Memoir of Threeby David PlanteISBN 0575031891 (0-575-03189-1)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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Doveby Robin Lee Graham, Derek L.T. GillISBN 0553266292 (0-553-26629-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Education of a Wandering Manby Louis L'AmourISBN 0553286528 (0-553-28652-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Education of a Wandering Man'Book summary:From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage. [via]
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Even the Stars Look Lonesomeby Maya AngelouISBN 0553379720 (0-553-37972-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Even the Stars Look Lonesome'Book summary:The audio version of Even the Stars Look Lonesome, a collection of unabridged essays read by Maya Angelou, plays as if you are spending an evening with the author herself. You'll feel as if, by some stroke of luck, Angelou had settled down for a pleasant chat over dinner and a glass of wine, telling stories about her family and sharing her powerfully stated opinions about the African American experience, sex versus sensuality, and the ins and outs of growing old. Her reading is lively and intelligent, her words at once lyrical and powerful, blurring the line between memoir and poetry. Don't be surprised if you find yourself repeatedly hitting rewind, just to savor again Angelou's wonderful word play and mighty matriarch's voice. (Running Time: 90 minutes) [via]
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The Factory of Factsby Luc SanteISBN 0679746501 (0-679-74650-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Factory of Facts'Book summary:Luc Sante's memoir/history features the same elegant, faintly sardonic prose that distinguished his first book, Low Life. Born in Belgium in 1954, transplanted to New Jersey at age 5, he intermingles evocative material about his familial and national past with glimpses of his American experiences. Sante's not one to bare his soul, but the cumulative effect of his impressionistic technique is revealing: when he describes the hallmarks of his natal land as "ambivalence, invisibility, secretiveness, self-doubt, passivity, irony, and derision," we infer that these traits also form the author's essence. [via]
A Fine Old Conflictby Mitford, Jessica, HonISBN 0718116178 (0-7181-1617-8)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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Flyingby Kate MillettISBN 0671708597 (0-671-70859-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Gathering Stormby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0553132717 (0-553-13271-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journalby AckerleyISBN 0671707051 (0-671-70705-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Holidays in Hellby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0679724222 (0-679-72422-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays in Hell'Book summary:No doubt about it: P. J. O'Rourke has a bizarre sense of fun. "What I've ... been," he writes in his introduction to Holidays in Hell "is a Trouble Tourist--going to see insurrections, stupidities, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because ... because it's fun." Forget Hawaii or the Poconos--O'Rourke gets his jollies in places like war-torn Lebanon where he is greeted at the border by a gun barrel in his face, or Seoul, just in time for election-day violence. Wherever he goes, however, O'Rourke takes his quirky sense of humor, laser eye for detail, and artful way with words: a Philippine army officer is "powerful-looking in a short, compressed way, like an attack hamster," and the Syrian army is described as having "dozens of silly hats, mostly berets in yellow, orange and shocking pink, but also tiny pillbox chapeaux.... The paratroopers wear shiny gold jumpsuits and crack commando units have skin-tight fatigues in a camouflage pattern of violet, peach, flesh tone and vermilion on a background of vivid purple. This must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses."
O'Rourke's flip, sarcastic style isn't for everyone, of course; the concept that anyone could find sightseeing in the Beirut or El Salvador of the 1980s fun might prove offensive to more than a few readers right off the bat. But love him or hate him, P. J. O'Rourke knows how to tell a good story, and if you like your travel writing laced with more than a little cynicism, Holidays in Hell could be just the book you've been looking for. [via]
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journeyby Alison WearingISBN 0676972705 (0-676-97270-5)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745580 (0-679-74558-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in Londonby Daniel DefoeISBN 0760752370 (0-7607-5237-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Journey From The Land Of No: A Girlhood Caught In Revolutionary Iranby Roya HakakianISBN 0609810308 (0-609-81030-8)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had tainted our days. Too many afternoons had passed in silence, listening to a fanatics diatribes. We were rebelling because we were not evil, we had not sinned, and we knew nothing of the apocalypse. . . . This was 1979, the year that showed us we could make our own destinies. We were rebelling because rebelling was all we could do to quell the rage in our teenage veins. Together as girls we found the courage we had been told was not in us.
In Journey from the Land of No Roya Hakakian recalls her childhood and adolescence in prerevolutionary Iran with candor and verve. The result is a beautifully written coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girls attempt to �nd an authentic voice of her own at a time of cultural closing and repression. Remarkably, she manages to re-create a time and place dominated by religious fanaticism, violence, and fear with an open heart and often with great humor.
Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with intellectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty, satirical exchanges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also part of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fist of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip. It is with the innocent confusion of youth that Roya describes her discovery of a swastika a plus sign gone awry, a dark reptile with four hungry claws painted on the wall near her home. As a schoolgirl she watched as friends accused of reading blasphemous books were escorted from class by Islamic Society guards, never to return. Only much later did Roya learn that she was spared a similar fate because her teacher admired her writing.
Hakakian relates in the most poignant, and at times painful, ways what life was like for women after the country fell into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists who had declared an insidious war against them, but we see it all through the eyes of a strong, youthful optimist who somehow came up in the world believing that she was different, knowing she was special. At her loneliest, Roya discovers the consolations of writing while sitting on the rooftop of her house late at night. There, pen in hand, I led my own chorus of words, with a melody of my own making. And she discovers the craft that would ultimately enable her to find her own voice and become her own person.
A wonderfully evocative story, Journey from the Land of No reveals an Iran most readers have not encountered and marks the debut of a stunning new talent. [via]More editions of Journey From The Land Of No: A Girlhood Caught In Revolutionary Iran:
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selectionby Humphrey Carpenter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0618056998 (0-618-05699-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selection'Book summary:Scholars and fans of the great mythologist will find a rich vein of information in Humphrey Carpenter's The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was a prodigious letter writer all his life; the sheer mass of his correspondence would give pause to even the most stalwart archivist (one shudders to think what he would have done with e-mail). But with the able assistance of Tolkien's son Christopher and a healthy dose of determination, Carpenter manages find the cream of the crop--the letters that shed light on Tolkien's thoughts about his academic and literary work, as well as those that show his more private side, revealing a loving husband, a playful friend, and a doting father. The most fascinating letters are, of course, those in which he discusses Middle-Earth, and Carpenter offers plenty of those to choose from. Tolkien discussed the minutia of his legend--sometimes at great length--with friends, publishers, and even fans who wrote to him with questions. These letters offer significant insights into how he went about creating the peoples and languages of Middle-Earth.
I have long ceased to invent (though even patronizing or sneering critics on the side praise my 'inventions'): I wait till I seem to know what really happened. Or till it writes itself. Thus, though I knew for years that Frodo would run into a tree-adventure somewhere far down the Great River, I had no recollection of inventing Ents. I came at last to the point, and wrote the 'Treebeard' chapter without any recollection of any previous thought: just as it is now. And then I saw that, of course, it had not happened to Frodo at all.
This new edition of letters has an extensive index, and Carpenter has included a brief blurb at the beginning of each letter to explain who the correspondent was and what was being discussed. Still, we strongly recommend buying the companion volume, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, in order to better understand the place these correspondents had in Tolkien's life and get a better context for the letters. --Perry M. Atterberry [via]
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A Little More About Meby Pam HoustonISBN 0743406338 (0-7434-0633-8)
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Maiden Voyageby Tania Aebi, Bernadette BrennanISBN 0671666533 (0-671-66653-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Making the Mummies Danceby Thomas HovingISBN 0671880756 (0-671-88075-6)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Artby Thomas HovingISBN 0671738542 (0-671-73854-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Mao's Last Dancerby Cunxin LiISBN 067004024X (0-670-04024-X)
Softcover, Viking
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Momentous Events, Vivid Memoriesby David B. PillemerISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Momentous Events, Vivid Memories'Book summary:The bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger: every generation has unforgettable events, the shared memory of which can create fleeting intimacy among strangers. These public memories, combined with poignant personal moments--the first day of college, a baseball game with one's father, praise from a mentor--are the critical shaping events of individual lives.
Although experimental memory studies have long been part of empirical psychology, and psychotherapy has focused on repressed or traumatizing memories, relatively little attention has been paid to the inspiring, touching, amusing, or revealing moments that highlight most lives. What makes something unforgettable? How do we learn to share the significance of memories?
David Pillemer's research, brought together in this gracefully written book, extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and how unique events linger in memory and influence lives. A provocative last chapter, full of striking examples, considers potential variations in memory across gender, culture, and personality. Momentous Events, Vivid Memories is itself a compelling and memorable book.
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My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Timeby Sven BirkertsISBN 0670031097 (0-670-03109-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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As a boy growing up in suburban Detroit, Birkerts always felt intensely uncomfortable with his family's ties to Latvia-the birthplace of all four of his grandparents. And yet his struggle to find his own path led inexorably back through the overgrown garden of family lore. Birkerts deftly weaves his own history (from struggles with his overbearing father to adventures at Woodstock, from lost loves to his emergence as a writer) with episodes from his ancestors' lives-scenes from Riga and Moscow during the Russian Revolution, tales of Paris and mistresses and family scandals. My Sky Blue Trades is destined to be a classic exploration of the immigrant experience and the writer's inner life. [via]More editions of My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time:
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol In The Sierraby Jordan Fisher SmithISBN 0618711953 (0-618-71195-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Homeby Chris OffuttISBN 0684865521 (0-684-86552-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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One Pair of Handsby Monica DickensISBN 074512304X (0-7451-2304-X)
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The Orchardby Adele Crockett Robertson, Betsy Robertson CramerISBN 0553378597 (0-553-37859-7)
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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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Painted Birdby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 0553265202 (0-553-26520-2)
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Portrait of a Marriageby Nigel NicolsonISBN 0689105746 (0-689-10574-6)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Portrait of a Marriage: V. Sackville-West and Harold Nicolsonby Nigel NicolsonISBN 0689705972 (0-689-70597-2)
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Raising Blazeby Debra GinsbergISBN 0606314199 (0-606-31419-9)
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The Reawakeningby Primo LeviISBN 0684826356 (0-684-82635-6)
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Revolt of the Cockroach Peopleby Oscar Zeta AcostaISBN 0679722122 (0-679-72212-2)
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A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here And Thereby Aldo Leopold, Charles W. SchwartzISBN 0613924142 (0-613-92414-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here And There'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyondby Deborah LaakeISBN 0688093043 (0-688-09304-3)
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Seeing Through Places: Reflections on Geography and Identityby Mary GordonISBN 0684862557 (0-684-86255-7)
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A Sort of Lifeby Graham GreeneISBN 0671451987 (0-671-45198-7)
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Still Me : A Lifeby Christopher ReeveISBN 0679452354 (0-679-45235-4)
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Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Sonby Christopher DickeyISBN 0684855372 (0-684-85537-2)
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Loveby Jill Conner BrowneISBN 0609804138 (0-609-80413-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love'Book summary:To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include:
The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding
The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times
Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly
What to Eat When Tragedy Strikes, or Just for Entertainment
And, of course:
The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World
From tales of the infamous Sweet Potato Queens' Promise to the joys of Chocolate Stuff and Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas, this irreverent, shamelessly funny book is the gen-u-wine article.
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Ten Things I Wish I'd Known - Before I Went Out into the Real Worldby Maria ShriverISBN 0740733591 (0-7407-3359-1)
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Their Finest Hourby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0553132725 (0-553-13272-5)
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A Time to Dance, No Time to Weepby Rumer GoddenISBN 0688089046 (0-688-08904-6)
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The Times We Had: Life With William Randolph Hearstby Marion DaviesISBN 0672521121 (0-672-52112-1)
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Tiny Ladies In Shiny Pantsby Jill SolowayISBN 0743272188 (0-7432-7218-8)
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Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants : Based on a True Storyby Jill SolowayISBN 074327217X (0-7432-7217-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants : Based on a True Story'Book summary:When Jill Soloway was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies heels, then headed to downtown Chicago in search of their one-and-only true loves forever: the members of whichever rock band was touring through town. Never mind that both girls still had braces, coke-bottle-thick glasses and had only just bought their first bras...they were fabulous, they felt beautiful, they were "tiny ladies in shiny pants."
Now that Jill is all grown up and a successful writer and producer, she can look back on her tiny self and share her shiny tales with fondness, absurdity and obsessive-compulsive attention to even the most embarrassing details. From the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them), "Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants" is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and -- best of all -- Jill.
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True Tales of American Lifeby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Public Radio (U.S.), National Story Project (U.S.)ISBN 0571210708 (0-571-21070-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Tales of American Life'Book summary:Chosen by Paul Auster out of 4000 stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide an illuminating portrait of America in the 20th century. The selection requirement of the stories was that they should be true and not previously published. [via]
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Two Under the Indian Sunby Rumer Godden, Jon GoddenISBN 0688074227 (0-688-07422-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Under a Wing: A Memoirby Reeve LindberghISBN 068480770X (0-684-80770-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under a Wing: A Memoir'Book summary:Reeve Lindbergh's memoir offers a uniquely intimate portrait of her family led by her intensely private father, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and mother, writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Under a Wing captures both her parents' complex personalities with immediacy and intimacy. Reeve explores the contrast between a loving father who "would parade imaginary animals across our backs" and the exacting patriarch who, upon return from his frequent absences, called each of his five children into his office to peruse a handwritten list of their achievements and failures. She seems anguished in her response to one of Charles's notorious, bigoted speeches: "How could someone who spoke the words my father did in 1941," she asks, "how did such a person then raise children who by his instruction and his example, day after day and year after year, had learned from him ... that such words were repellent and unspeakable?" She offers too a blunt but tender portrait of Anne in old age--she has been physically and mentally impaired by a series of stroke--that proves she has a mature understanding of a deeply loving woman who nonetheless always held some part of herself in reserve for her writing. This impressive memoir brings readers close to the private people within two legendary public figures. [via]
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Vanilla Beans and Brodoby Isabella DusiISBN 0743234618 (0-7432-3461-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanilla Beans and Brodo'Book summary:Traditionally, foreign writers describing a country adopt the outsider's point of view and focus on the more quaint and amusing aspects of the locals' lives. This is particularly true of Italy, where the more exotic side of the country is maximised and the lives of people treated as being less important. Not so in Isabella Dusi's fascinating Vanilla Beans and Brodo which takes the radical (and fascinating) approach of dealing with the day-to-day lives of those who live in the beautiful Tuscan Hills. In fact, the book is subtitled Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany, and the author (who sold all she owned to travel halfway around the world and settle in the exquisite mountain eyrie of Montalcino) makes the descriptions of the seasons and countryside as evocative as one could wish, but her real subject is the people. Finding it initially difficult to be accepted into this close-knit wine community, she gradually wins their respect and friendship.
The experiences of the author in the village--as different from English life as could be imagined--are totally absorbing. But this is no mere pleasant pictorial--Isabella Dusi conjures genuine drama as summer approaches and wild storms threaten to destroy the grape harvest. We are given, en route, the bloody history of this medieval village, but what stays with the reader is the incident-packed lives of the inhabitants: a million miles away from most people's placid image of life in this most beautiful part of the world. If you want to live another life for a few hours, here's your chance. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 0760754969 (0-7607-5496-9)
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Welcome to My Country: Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patientsby Lauren SlaterISBN 0679447857 (0-679-44785-7)
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When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiographyby Jill K. ConwayISBN 0679766456 (0-679-76645-6)
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Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitterby Stephanie Pearl-McPheeISBN 0740750372 (0-7407-5037-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter'Book summary:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun as baseball and way cooler than the evil looped path of crochet. Every project, from a misshapen hat to the most magnificent sweater, holds a story. Yarn Harlot tells all those stories with humor, insight, and sympathy for the obsessed.
Over 50 million people in America knit. The average knitter spends between $500 and $1,700 a year on yarn, patterns, needles, and books. No longer just a fad or a hobby, knitting has advanced to a lifestyle.
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humor in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her "yarn harlot" title with her love of any new yarn--she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn.
Since the upsurge in knitting began in the early '90s, the number of women under 45 who knit has doubled. Knitting is no longer a hobby for just grandmothers--women and men of all ages are embracing this art. Describing its allure is best left to Stephanie who explains: "It is a well-known fact that knitting is a sparkling form of entertainment, as spiritual as yoga, as relaxing as a massage, and as funny as Erma Bombeck trapped in a PTA meeting." [via]
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A Year in Van Nuysby Sandra Tsing LohISBN 0609809512 (0-609-80951-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Year in Van Nuys'Book summary:Sandra Tsing Loh, a self-described neurotic, nonachieving, downwardly mobile Dumpy, has started to come out of denial over the fact that she does not live in Provence. Not only does she not live in Provence, she doesnt even live in a nice part of Los Angeles. This upper-lower-middle-class suburb in the sun-swept grid of the San Fernando Valley, consistently ranked one of the worst places to live in America, whose night sky is flamed by a million fast-food neon signs and whose streets are chockablock with carnicerias, taquerias, and pupuserias, will, shes pretty sure, never be Provence.
In A Year in Van Nuys, we find Sandra, an obscure writer, blocked at page 100 of her Great American Novel the one that, when finished, will bring her fame, fortune, and the requisite country house in Provence. Shes 35 and she has eyebags like Bert Lahr, a too-rich, too-thin sister who torments her about her lack of initiative, and a $300-an-hour Malibu therapist. She writes for a failing womens website Amelia.com makes a disastrous appearance on CNN, entertains a networks idea about making a sitcom of her life, especially her eyebags, and watches new and old acquaintances alike succeed wildly at various pursuits. And this is merely the tip of the iceberg of a year in Sandras life. Divided by season The Winter of Our Discontent, Spring Without Bending Your Knees, Summer Where We Winter, and Fall of Our Dearest Expectations Sandras narrative charts a hilarious course through the anti-Hollywood, a morbid inferno that none other than Robert Redford called a furnace that could destroy any creative thought that managed to creep into your brain.
The result of this journey? Not thinner thighs, smoother skin, or a kind of space-age Zen Buddhist acceptance. (Notwithstanding the fact that a wise [gay] man notes that even Madonna has an inner Van Nuys.) No, the true grail turns out to be, unbelievably enough, Maturity. Which coincides, sadly, with the official end of Youth. Which, after a brief mourning period, turns out to be an odd relief for Sandra. After all, when one is no longer burdened by Youth, or Promise, or Potential, or even worldly Interest, a writer finally finds . . . the rush is over. Sandra has all the time in the world. And on a sunny blue-sky morning, a story begins to occur to her of a 35-year-old, with Bert Lahr eyebags, who was blocked in the course of a Great American Novel in a colorful, tattered little outpost called Van Nuys . . . [via]
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