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Adventures of a Bystanderby Peter F. DruckerISBN 0060165650 (0-06-016565-0)
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African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabweby Doris May LessingISBN 0060168544 (0-06-016854-4)
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America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroinesby Gail CollinsISBN 0060185104 (0-06-018510-4)
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Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New Yorkby Anne Bernays, Justin KaplanISBN 0060198559 (0-06-019855-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York'Book summary:Infused with intelligence and charm, Back Then is an elegant reflection on transformative years in the lives of two young people and New York City. Marked by their youthful passion, this double memoir marries the authors' distinct literary styles with a riveting narrative that captures the density and texture of private, social, and working life in the 1950s.
Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books. They both sought self-knowledge and realization through years of psychoanalysis. They brushed shoulders with celebrities like William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Marlene Dietrich, and Anatole Broyard.Before Bernays and Kaplan met and married, each had enjoyed the sexual and social freedom that, along with the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, was among the distinguishing marks of the 1950s. In many other respects, the story they tell could almost as well be about an earlier era.This vibrant, balanced memoir offers an indelible portrait of postwar New York -- exhilarating, hospitable, and affordable. A striking collaboration by two prominent figures in American letters, Back Then surprises and delights as Bernays and Kaplan recall their youthful pursuits, the merging of their lives, and the city's underlying influence on them. [via]More editions of Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York:
Baksheesh & Brahmanby Joseph Campbell, Robin Larsen, Stephen Larsen, Antony Van CouveringISBN 0060168897 (0-06-016889-7)
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Bleachy-haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhoodby Hollis GillespieISBN 0060561998 (0-06-056199-8)
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Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It Allby Bruce PorterISBN 0060179309 (0-06-017930-9)
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The Blue Jay's Danceby Louise ErdrichISBN 0060171324 (0-06-017132-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Jay's Dance'Book summary:Mothers often cling to single moments, small gestures, and specific memories in order to grasp all that happens in the first blurry year of a baby's life. In The Blue Jay's Dance, writer Louise Erdrich has assembled a photo album of snapshots such as these: the days and images that collectively define the passion, ambivalence, yearnings, and satisfactions of carrying, birthing, and nurturing a baby. "Any sublime effort has its dark moments," says Erdrich, referring to a rather bleak snapshot of mother isolation. "Perhaps, if anything, the meaning in this book for others may be this: Here is a job in which it is not unusual to be, at the same instant, wildly joyous and profoundly stressed." The Blue Jay's Dance is a fresh and masterful book that avoids all the sticky clichés while still managing to articulate the depths of mother-baby love. [via]
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Bouncing Back: I'Ve Survived Everything... and I Mean Everything... and You Can Too!by Joan Rivers, Ralph SchoensteinISBN 0060178213 (0-06-017821-3)
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Chinabound: A Fifty Year Memoirby John King FairbankISBN 006039028X (0-06-039028-X)
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Confessions Of A Recovering Slut: And Other Love Storiesby Hollis GillespieISBN 0060562072 (0-06-056207-2)
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Dear Genius : The Letters of Ursula Nordstromby Leonard S. Marcus, Ursula NordstromISBN 0060236256 (0-06-023625-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear Genius : The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom'Book summary:Ursula Nordstrom, editorial director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973 and a formidable creative force in 20th-century children's book publishing, was responsible for polishing and shepherding countless dog-eared classics from Where the Wild Things Are to Charlotte's Web to Harriet the Spy. One of the most remarkable things about this extraordinary woman was her prolific correspondence with her cherished team of children's book authors and illustrators, all of whom she liked to call "Genius." Fortunately, many of her letters--warm, witty, temperamental, flattering, extravagant, self-deprecating, sympathetic, and always human--have been culled from HarperCollins's archives, gathered from many generous individuals, and arranged in chronological order by the noted biographer and critic Leonard S. Marcus. The result is Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, complete with black-and-white photographs, extensive footnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
In this fascinating behind-the-scenes look at children's book publishing, letters to Shel Silverstein, Maurice Sendak, Laura Ingalls Wilder, John Steptoe, and Kay Thompson reveal a woman on an unorthodox quest to wrench children's literature from the stultifying clutches of sentimental illusion and false piety. Her dedication to creative, honest, original, non-condescending books for children changed the landscape of children's literature forever. As Marcus writes in his introduction, "...her letters have much to tell about the arts of writing, illustrating, and editing; the social history of the twentieth century; and the pivotal role that books, and a love of books, can play in children's lives. To read the letters is to receive a many-faceted education from a teacher of rare insight, good humor, and lively humanity. I am glad that readers will now be able to share in the experience." [via]
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Debts of Honourby Michael FootISBN 0060390018 (0-06-039001-8)
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Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!by M. E. KerrISBN 0060231505 (0-06-023150-5)
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The Dirt : Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Bandby Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Neil StraussISBN 0060392886 (0-06-039288-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dirt : Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band'Book summary:After six multi-platinum albums, seven consecutive Billboard Top 20 albums, and four Billboard Top Ten singles, Motley Crue are the undisputed heavyweight champs of rock music. Since the '80s they've been the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anoited High Priests of pentagram rock, pioneers of Hollywood Glam and the creators of MTV's first "power ballad". Their ravenous sexual appetites consumed celebrities from Heather Locklear to Pamela Anderson to Lita Ford, while their legendary scuffles involved everyone from Axl Rose to 2 Live Crew. Now, for the first time, the most influential, enduring and iconic rock band of the 1980s reveals everything in a tell-all of epic proportions. They've collected automatic weapons, pushed the envelope of total drug abuse and dreamt up backstage antics that would make Ozzy Osbourne blanch with modesty. They are the trailblazers of modern excess. Provocatively written and brilliantly designed, this book includes never-before-seen photos and behind-the-scenes paraphernalia. Whether you're a fan of Motley Crue, a fan of rock'n'roll or just a fan of outrageously bad behaviour, you owe it to yourself to read this book - and experience the madness first hand. [via]
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hellby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060595183 (0-06-059518-3)
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Eating My Words: An Appetite for Lifeby Mimi SheratonISBN 0060501103 (0-06-050110-3)
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Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writerby Thomas Merton, Jonathan MontaldoISBN 0060654775 (0-06-065477-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Even Dogs Go Home to Die: Memoirby Linda St. JohnISBN 0060186313 (0-06-018631-3)
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Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf Statesby Zora Neale Hurston, Carla Kaplan, John Edgar WidemanISBN 0060188936 (0-06-018893-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States'Book summary:"Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences."
-- From the Foreword by John Edgar Wideman
African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920s, Every Tongue Got to Confess is the third volume of folk-tales from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It is published here for the first time.
These hilarious, bittersweet, often saucy folk-tales -- some of which date back to the Civil War -- provide a fascinating, verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. Arranged according to subject -- from God Tales, Preacher Tales, and Devil Tales to Heaven Tales, White-Folk Tales, and Mistaken Identity Tales -- they reveal attitudes about slavery, faith, race relations, family, and romance that have been passed on for generations. They capture the heart and soul of the vital, independent, and creative community that so inspired Zora Neale Hurston.
In the foreword, author John Edgar Wideman discusses the impact of Hurston's pioneering effort to preserve the African-American oral tradition and shows readers how to read these folk tales in the historical and literary context that has -- and has not -- changed over the years. And in the introduction, Hurston scholar Carla Kaplan explains how these folk-tales were collected, lost, and found, and examines their profound significance today.
In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Zora Neale Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people and pays tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Africanized language that flourishes to this day.
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Everything About Me Is Fake-- and I'm Perfect!by Janice DickinsonISBN 0060554703 (0-06-055470-3)
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchantedby Annie HawesISBN 0060198508 (0-06-019850-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted'Book summary:Fed up with cold, foggy London and the high cost of real estate, Annie Hawes is persuaded by her sister Lucy to travel to Italy and graft roses for the winter. The sisters arrive in rural Liguria with some formal Italian, no knowledge of rose grafting, and visions of Mediterranean men and sun. What they find is a town full of hard-working, wary olive growers smack in the middle of an olive oil depression who think these two young Englishwomen are nuts. Extra Virgin tells the story of the sisters' acclimation--theirs to Liguria and Liguria to them--and how they fell in love with a crumbling farmhouse in the hills.
Annie quickly finds that though they are only two miles from the Italian Riviera, it might as well be a hundred. Liguria is an old town full of time-honored peculiarities, especially in regard to espresso consumption (never, ever, after lunch; it will close your stomach) and swimming before summertime officially starts. "Seawater at the wrong time of year is even worse for your health than coffee at the wrong time of day, and the beach is only deserted because, as far as the citizens are concerned, if you put so much as a toe into the water before June you are certain to die within the week from exposure or pneumonia or both," says Hawes. Eventually, the sisters are accepted by the townsfolk, though they find the idea of the women buying the farmhouse and running it themselves (there are 50 olive trees on the land) fantastical.
Extra Virgin draws you in to the heart of Liguria and its inhabitants. Hawes has a knack for drawing characters and especially for describing the luscious meals that they are served--and eventually learn to cook. "Lucy and I are kindly allowed to make the tomato-and-basil salad," Hawes says, "and do our best not to be offended by being complemented on how like a proper tomato-and-basil salad it is." Pour yourself an espresso (as long as it's before lunch) or a grappa (aids the digestion), and then sit down to enjoy Extra Virgin. --Dana Van Nest [via]
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Fear of Fiftyby Erica JongISBN 006017739X (0-06-017739-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear of Fifty'Book summary:With intelligence, humor, and candor, the author of Fear of Flying explores what it means to be a woman in the 1990s in chapters including ""The Mad Lesbian in the Attic,"" ""Seducing the Muse,"" and ""How I Got to Be the Second Sex."" 150,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000by Lee Kuan Yew, Kuan Yew LeeISBN 0060197765 (0-06-019776-5)
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurantby Michael S. SandersISBN 0060184728 (0-06-018472-8)
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A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farmby Stanley CrawfordISBN 0060182075 (0-06-018207-5)
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Good Old Boyby Willie MorrisISBN 0060243368 (0-06-024336-8)
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Heaven's Coast: A Memiorby Mark DotyISBN 006017210X (0-06-017210-X)
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Neverby Barbara Kingsolver, Paul MirochaISBN 0060172916 (0-06-017291-6)
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In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Her canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, a family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.
In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction. Defiant, funny, courageously honest, High Tide in Tucson proves once again that "there is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature."--Washington Post Book World [via]
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Hunting The Jackal: A Special Forces And CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorismby Tim Keown, Billy WaughISBN 0060564105 (0-06-056410-5)
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I Hopeby Raisa Gorbachev, David FloydISBN 0060168528 (0-06-016852-8)
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I Know This Much Is Trueby Wally LambISBN 0060391626 (0-06-039162-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know This Much Is True'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of I Know This Much Is True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to take parenting tips from the SS and his grandmother was a possible teenage murderess, his stepfather a latent sadist, and his brother, Thomas, a politically motivated psychopath. Not one to break with tradition, Dominick continues the dysfunctional legacy with rape, a failed marriage, a nervous breakdown, SIDS, a car crash, and a racist conspiracy against a coworker--just to name a few.
A stretch, both literally and figuratively from his Oprah-christened bestseller, She's Come Undone, Lamb's book ventures outside the confines of the tightly bound beach read and marathons through a detailed, neatly cataloged account of every familial travesty and personal failure one can endure. At its heart lies Freud's "return of the repressed": the more we try to deny who we are, the more we become what we fear. Lamb takes Freud's psychological abstraction to the realm of everyday living, packing his novel with tender, believable dialogue and thoughtful observation. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Bookby Neal Karlen, Jenny McCarthyISBN 0060392339 (0-06-039233-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book'Book summary:This book will chat your ear off, one gal pal to another. Arranged like a high-spirited scrapbook of quips and rapidly dispensed disclosures, Jen-X is somewhat of a surprise. In this completely entertaining tell-all, Jenny McCarthy has indeed packaged herself as an open book. This is a tale enamored neither by ambition or success; it's a BH/AH memoir--before and after Hollywood--sometimes raucous, sometimes coolly self-assessing. It's loaded with brash magazine and MTV-style graphics, cute pictures raided from the family album, and zany cartoons of friends, freaks, and phobias.
Jenny McCarthy tells you about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, about dropping out of college, about her breast implants at the age of 18 ("I mean, isn't that the American dream? To purchase fine new breasts on credit?"). Her advice on dating ("Rule #1: Fart immediately") is nothing if not empirical; her lessons learned as a Playboy Bunny, candid without being self-pitying. She talks about her life with comic grit: "Instead of becoming a campus honey, I was a bratwurst queen who sold sausage sandwiches for minimum wage over the counter at a Polish delicatessen in the same neighborhood where I grew up as a friendless geek. At nineteen, I'd already been turned down by every modeling agency in Chicago...." If McCarthy weren't a celebrity, Jen-X would still be worth reading. It's pop culture chronicled through the eyes of a Gen-Xer--fresh, self-deprecating, and silly, like a fun-house mirror. [via]
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Leading With My Chinby Jay Leno, Bill ZehmeISBN 0060186941 (0-06-018694-1)
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japanby Bruce S. FeilerISBN 0060577207 (0-06-057720-7)
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Lenten Landsby Douglas H. GreshamISBN 0060634472 (0-06-063447-2)
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The Little House Collection: Little House in the Big Woods/Little House on the Prairie/Farmer Boy/On The Banks of Plum Creek/By the Shores of Silver Lake/The Long Winter/Little Townby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060529962 (0-06-052996-2)
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Manhuntby James L. SwansonISBN 0060518502 (0-06-051850-2)
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killerby James L. SwansonISBN 0060518499 (0-06-051849-9)
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A Marriage Made in Heaven... or Too Tired for an Affairby Erma BombeckISBN 0060183225 (0-06-018322-5)
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Means of Escapeby Philip CaputoISBN 0060183128 (0-06-018312-8)
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Mission to Tehranby Robert Huyser, Alexander M. HaigISBN 0060390530 (0-06-039053-0)
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Modern American Memoirsby Annie Dillard, Cort ConleyISBN 0060170409 (0-06-017040-9)
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Livedby Ralph HelferISBN 0060182571 (0-06-018257-1)
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden Cityby Alexandra David-Neel, Diana N. Rowan, Dalai Lama XIVISBN 0060596554 (0-06-059655-4)
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No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodelby Janice DickinsonISBN 0060566175 (0-06-056617-5)
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Oleander, Jacarandaby Penelope LivelyISBN 0060171065 (0-06-017106-5)
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Our Life with Mr Gurdjieffby Thomas de Hartmann, Olga de HartmannISBN 0060618655 (0-06-061865-5)
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Paper Daughter: A Memoirby M. Elaine MarISBN 0060182938 (0-06-018293-8)
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Parrot in the Ovenby Victor MartinezISBN 0060267046 (0-06-026704-6)
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Paulaby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0060172533 (0-06-017253-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paula'Book summary:"Listen, Paula. I am going to tell you a story so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost." So says Chilean writer Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits) in the opening lines of the luminous, heart-rending memoir she wrote while her 28-year-old daughter Paula lay in a coma. In its pages, she ushers an assortment of outrageous relatives into the light: her stepfather, an amiable liar and tireless debater; grandmother Meme, blessed with second sight; and delinquent uncles who exultantly torment Allende and her brothers. Irony and marvelous flights of fantasy mix with the icy reality of Paula's deathly illness as Allende sketches childhood scenes in Chile and Lebanon; her uncle Salvatore Allende's reign and ruin as Chilean president; her struggles to shake off or find love; and her metamorphosis into a writer. [via]
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A People's History of the United States : 1492-Presentby Howard ZinnISBN 0060528427 (0-06-052842-7)
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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixtiesby Robert StoneISBN 0060198168 (0-06-019816-8)
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Profiles in Courageby John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Robert F. KennedyISBN 0060544392 (0-06-054439-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage'Book summary:"This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues-- courage. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemingway defined it. And these are the stories of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators and the grace with which they endured them."
-- John F. Kennedy
During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft.
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage -- now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964 -- resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. It is as Robert Kennedy states in the foreword, "not just stories of the past but a hook of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us."
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The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimageby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060173440 (0-06-017344-0)
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Red Odyssey: A Journey Through the Soviet Republicsby Marat AkchurinISBN 0060183357 (0-06-018335-7)
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Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocationby Thomas Merton, Patrick HartISBN 0060654759 (0-06-065475-9)
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The Sacred Journeyby Frederick BuechnerISBN 0060611839 (0-06-061183-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days'Book summary:"A child takes life as it comes because he has no other way of taking it," Frederick Buechner writes in this first of his autobiographical books. With this statement he attempts to explore the event that is at the center of this book, and which forms the (missing) center around which so much of Buechner's fiction and essays take shape: the suicide of his father when he was 10 and his brother 8.
As with much of Buechner's work, there is a movement in this narrative from suffering to grace, a grace that comes in unexpected ways and places. Here it comes through the preacher George Buttrick on a Sunday sermon: Jesus refused Satan's crown, Buttrick said, but "he is crowned in the heart of the people who believe in him. And that inward coronation takes place ... 'among confession, and tears, and great laughter.'" It was when he heard this final statement, Buechner writes, that something turned over for him, and led him to speak to Buttrick and ultimately led him--driven literally by Buttrick--to Union Theological Seminary. Here in this beautiful book this soul-changing journey across Manhattan stands for "the sacred journey" of a life--and of all of our lives. Whether it ends in truth or dream we cannot know, but Buechner sides with King Rinkitink of Oz who says, "Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders." --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Backby Karyn BosnakISBN 0060558199 (0-06-055819-9)
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A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Lifeby Lawrence Cunningham, Thomas MertonISBN 0060654791 (0-06-065479-1)
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4by Sue TownsendISBN 0060533994 (0-06-053399-4)
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Collier, Tasha TudorISBN 0060278536 (0-06-027853-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistanby Christina LambISBN 0060505273 (0-06-050527-3)
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Shy Boy: The Horse That Came in from the Wildby Monty Roberts, Christopher DydykISBN 0060194332 (0-06-019433-2)
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Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoirby Dan QuayleISBN 0060177586 (0-06-017758-6)
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The Starched Blue Sky of Spain and Other Memoirsby Josephine HerbstISBN 006016512X (0-06-016512-X)
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Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing Worldby Margaret ThatcherISBN 0060199733 (0-06-019973-3)
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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!by Michael MooreISBN 0060392452 (0-06-039245-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!'Book summary:Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops". Moore's ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's non-violent shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about America"). Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack.--Tim Appelo [via]
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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated Southby Edward BallISBN 0060505907 (0-06-050590-7)
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Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy Georgeby Spencer Bright, Boy GeorgeISBN 0060173688 (0-06-017368-8)
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Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in AmericaISBN 0060528192 (0-06-052819-2)
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Testaments Betrayedby Milan Kundera, Linda AsherISBN 0060171456 (0-06-017145-6)
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Tete-a-tete: Simone De Beauvoir And Jean-paul Sartreby Hazel RowleyISBN 0060520590 (0-06-052059-0)
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Tete-a-tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone De Beauvoir and John-paul Sartreby Hazel RowleyISBN 0060520604 (0-06-052060-4)
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Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Yearsby Thomas Merton, Victor A. KramerISBN 0060654813 (0-06-065481-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years'Book summary:The fourth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals, one of his final literary legacies, springs from three hundred handwritten pages that capture - in candid, lively, deeply revealing passages -- the growing unrest of the 1960s, which Merton witnessed within himself as plainly as in the changing culture around him.
In these decisive years, 1960-1963, Merton, now in his late forties and frequently working in a new hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani, finds himself struggling between his longing for a private, spiritual life and the irresistible pull of social concerns. Precisely when he longs for more solitude, and convinces himself he could not cut back on his writing, Merton begins asking complex questions about the contemporary culture ("the 'world' with its funny pants, of which I do not know the name, its sandals and sunglasses"), war, and the churches role in society.
Thus despite his resistance, he is drawn into the world where his celebrity and growing concerns for social issues fuel his writings on civil rights, nonviolence, and pacifism and lead him into conflict with those who urge him to leave the moral issues to bishops and theologians.
This pivotal volume in the Merton journals reveals a man at the height of a brilliant writing career, marking the fourteenth anniversary of his priesthood but yearning still for the key to true happiness and grace. Here, in his most private diaries, Merton is as intellectually curious, critical, and insightful as in his best-known public writings while he documents his movement from the cloister toward the world, from Novice Master to hermit, from ironic critic to joyous witness to the mystery of God's plan.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, writer and peace activist. His spiritual classics include New Seeds of Contemplation, The Sign of Jonas, Mystics and Zen Masters and The Seven Story Mountain
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Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949by Doris May LessingISBN 0060171502 (0-06-017150-2)
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Waiting : The True Confessions of a Waitressby Debra GinsbergISBN 0060194790 (0-06-019479-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting : The True Confessions of a Waitress'Book summary:In a truly just world, everyone would have to wait tables for at least six months, just to know what it's like. Failing that, we have writer-waiter Debra Ginsberg's tasty memoir to remind us about life on the other side of those swinging doors. Horror stories? After 20 years of serving other people's food, she's got 'em--and being handed a drunk's vomit-soaked napkins certainly fits the bill. But even though she expresses the usual frustrations with bad tippers and control freaks, in the long run Ginsberg is anything but bitter. In fact, she recently left her publishing job to return to waiting tables, hooked on the freedom, spare time, and ready cash the lifestyle provides. Of course, there are other perks too. Sex thrives in the close quarters and steamy atmosphere of a typical restaurant (not to mention with the high-drama personalities who work there). Fans of Kitchen Confidential will be relieved to know there's as much bad behavior among the floor staff as there is in the back of the house. As in that book, Ginsberg also relates some eyebrow-raising tales about what can happen before your food gets to your table. (The moral here: "It really does pay to be nice to your server.") But Waiting is far more than just a sexual soap opera or a cautionary guide for dining out; it's also the story of one woman's coming of age, most of which just happens to take place while she's wearing an apron. During her tenure as a waitress, Ginsberg thrives as a single mother and comes into her own as a writer--and waiting (as she suggestively calls it) helps her do both. Most of us (including waiters) think of the profession as a stopgap, not a career, but what happens on the way to somewhere else, Ginsberg writes, is every bit as important as the final destination: "Perhaps the most valuable lesson I'd learned was that the act of waiting itself is an active one. That period of time between the anticipation and the beginning of life's events is when everything really happens--the time when actual living occurs." --Mary Park [via]
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Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography 1949-1962by Doris LessingISBN 0060182954 (0-06-018295-4)
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When I Knewby Robert Trachtenberg, Tom BachtellISBN 0060571462 (0-06-057146-2)
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Wickedby Gregory Maguire, Douglas SmithISBN 0060391448 (0-06-039144-8)
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Writings from the New Yorker: 1927-1976by E. B. White, Rebecca M. DaleISBN 0060165170 (0-06-016517-0)
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