Creator: William Sargent
Publication date: 2007-11
List Price: $79.95
Price: $53.23
Review Modern Era Set (Classical Genius Composer Biography) / Novus LLC:
Publication date: 2006
Review The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War {Unabridged} {Audio} {Cd}:When Norman Steinman a member of the 25th Infantry Division, which fought in the Philippines in 1945 died in 1990, he left behind a box full of WWII letters (more than 400), later discovered by his daughter. Among the souvenirs was a small Japanese flag, inscribed with words Louise could not read. She had them translated and found that the flag had belonged to a Japanese soldier. Obsessed, Steinman began her search for him or his family. This small book, a moving memoir about reconciliation and honor, is her tale of her successful quest, her trip to Japan to return the flag and the friendships she forged along the way. Steinman visited the battlefields on Luzon in which her father battled the weather, jungle and Japanese. This volume contains many of his letters, published here for the first time, that show typical G. I. behavior, attitudes toward the enemy and longing for good food and friends back home. Steinman's visit to Hiroshima helped her to understand the war from the Japanese point of view. [+]In coming to understand her father and his postwar behavior, Steinman discovers how real WWII can become to a survivor's family. (Oct. )Forecast: This quiet, heartfelt book is the perfect contrast to all the Pearl Harbor 50th anniversary bombast, telling another side of the war's story. Baby boomers with veteran parents will relate, as will some vets. Look for solid sales.
Creator: Andrew X. Pham
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-09-11
Dewey code: 959.70437
Price: $25.00
Review Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram / Random House Audio:At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly of her devotion to family and friends, the horrors of war, her yearning for her high school sweetheart, and her struggle to prove her loyalty to her country. At times raw, at times lyrical and youthfully sentimental, her voice transcends cultures to speak of her dignity and compassion and of her challenges in the face of the war’s ceaseless fury. The American officer who discovered the diary soon after Dr. Tram’s death was under standing orders to destroy all documents without military value. As he was about to toss it into the flames, his Vietnamese translator said to him, “Don’t burn this one. [+]It has fire in it already. ” Against regulations, the officer preserved the diary and kept it for thirty-five years. In the spring of 2005, a copy made its way to Dr. Tram’s elderly mother in Hanoi. The diary was soon published in Vietnam, causing a national sensation. Never before had there been such a vivid and personal account of the long ordeal that had consumed the nation’s previous generations. Translated by Andrew X. Pham and with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Frances FitzGerald, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is an extraordinary document that narrates one woman’s personal and political struggles. Above all, it is a story of hope in the most dire of circumstances—told from the perspective of our historic enemy but universal in its power to celebrate and mourn the fragility of human life.
Creator: Paul English
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $64.00
Price: $64.00
Review Mao's Last Dancer: Young Reader's Edition / Bolinda Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-07-17
Price: $54.41
Review The Smoking Diaries / Faber and Faber:Reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters. This dairy is a record of shame, adultery, friendship and love.
Creator: Robertson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-06-16
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $90.00
Price: $55.10
Review The Training Ground / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers-both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighti.
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 327.510092
List Price: $79.99
Price: $53.08
Review The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry / Tantor Media:A riveting biography and unique historical record, The Man on Mao's Right recounts the heartfelt struggle of a man who loved two powerful nations that were at odds with each other.
Authors
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Raymond Obstfeld
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $74.25
Price: $54.20
Review On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance / Brilliance Audio on CD Lib Ed:From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light that paved the way for African-Americans all over the country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, the fervent fiction and poetry of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, the groundbreaking art of Aaron Douglas and William H. Johnson, and the triumphant music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong gave voice and expression to the thoughts and emotions that Jim Crow segregation laws had long sought to stifle. In On the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable basketball star and bestselling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites the listener on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace, through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in our history, revealing the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life. Beginning with the rise of the Harlem Rens as pioneers of professional basketball, Kareem traces the many streams of historical influence that converged to create the man he is today - the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a veritable African-American icon. Travel deep into the soul of the Renaissance - to the night clubs, restaurants, basketball games, and fabulous parties that have made footprints in Harlem's history. Meet the athletes, jazz musicians, comedians, actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, and writers who not only inspired Kareem's rise to greatness but an entire nation's. [+]Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born in the midst of a cultural reawakening, carried on the shoulders of athletes trying to prove there was a lot more at stake than a ball game, men and women who made music that could break your heart, and writers and intellectuals who gave voice to not just the ideals of a movement but the raw emotions. Kareem tells what it took to get these revolutionaries to Harlem and how they changed the world. A world that is still riding on the shoulders of giants.
Creator: Rod Espinosa
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $84.14
Price: $56.21
Review George Washington (Bio-Graphics) / Abdo Publishing Company:Graphic novels aren t just for superheroes! George Washington has been plucked from history books and his life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels.
Creator: Rod Espinosa
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $84.14
Price: $56.21
Review Patrick Henry (Bio-Graphics) / Graphic Planet:Graphic novels aren t just for superheroes! Patrick Henry has been plucked from history books and his life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels.
Creator: Rod Espinosa
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $84.14
Price: $56.21
Review Jackie Robinson (Bio-Graphics) / Abdo Publishing Company:Graphic novels aren t just for superheroes! Jackie Robinson has been plucked from history books and his life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels.
Authors
- Michael L. Printz Honor
- Sibert Honor
Price: $38.00
Review Hole in My Life / Listening Library:
Creator: Buck Schirner
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-09-09
List Price: $87.25
Price: $54.97
Review Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his eleven-year-old son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that would become the inspiration for Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a powerful blend of personal narrative and philosophical investigation that has inspired generations. Among the millions of readers to fall under the book’s spell was Mark Richardson, who as a young man struggled to understand Pirsig’s provocative and elusive ideas. Rereading the book decades later, Richardson, now a journalist and father of two, was moved by its portrayal of Pirsig’s complex relationship with Chris and struck by the timelessness of its lessons. So he tuned up his old Suzuki dirt bike and became a “Pirsig pilgrim,” one of the legions of fans who retrace the Pirsigs’ route from Minneapolis to San Francisco. In following this itinerary over the lonely byways of the American West, Richardson revisits the people and places from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, pondering the meaning of Pirsig’s philosophy and the answers it may offer to the questions in his own life. Richardson’s dogged reporting also gives new insight into the reclusive writer’s life, exploring Pirsig’s struggle with mental illness, his unwanted celebrity, and the tragic, brutal murder of Chris in 1979. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of Pirsig’s original trip, Zen and Now is a stirring meditation on a classic work and a passionate inquiry into the lessons it continues to teach us in the complex and bewildering world we inhabit today.
Creator: William Sargent
Publication date: 2007-11
List Price: $79.95
Price: $53.84
Review Twentieth Century Era Set (Classical Genius Composer Biography) / Isummaries:
Creator: Ken Howard
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 364
List Price: $88.00
Price: $55.44
Review Fire Lover: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department. From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed, nationally bestselling author of The Onion Field, comes the astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession - and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying secrets.
Creator: Julia Gibson
Publication date: 2005-11
List Price: $119.75
Price: $59.95
Review The Glass Castle: A Memoir / Recorded Books:Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict. " Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town - and the family - Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home. [+]What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms. For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC. com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor. Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents-Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them-despite their overwhelming self-absorption-resonates from cover to cover. -Brangien Davis.
Creator: Ben Dunn
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $84.14
Price: $56.21
Review The Wright Brothers (Bio-Graphics) / Graphic Planet:Graphic novels aren t just for superheroes! The Wright Brothers have been plucked from history books and their lives and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels.
Authors
- Ernest Henry, Sir Shackleton
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $88.00
Price: $55.44
Review South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage / Blackstone Audiobooks:The epic firsthand account of the Endurance expedition. As the first world war broke out in Europe, Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole became trapped by ice. Their ship, the Endurance, was crushed and the men were forced to survive in and escape from one of the world's most hostile enviroments. Traversing glaciers, scaling cliffs and crossing treacherous seas in open boats, all the time threatened by cold and hunger, the men, through their own strength and Shackleton's leadership, all made it to safety. Soon after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, his Anglo-Irish rival, Sir Ernest Shackleton, sought to top the feat by making his way from one end of Antarctica to the other on sledge. He set off with a crew of 28, including scientists and a movie cameraman, but the voyage turned disastrous when Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, became hopelessly stuck in pack ice, throwing the men (and the dogs brought to pull the sledges) into a desperate battle for survival. South is Shackleton's own account-one of the critical sources for Alfred Lansing's bestseller Endurance-of what it was like to be "helpless intruders in a strange world," a vivid narrative in which tales of Edwardian pluck are counterpointed with lyrical accounts of whales, penguins, and bizarre mirages. This story of a group of men who beat nearly impossible odds to escape death and make their way home is one of the all-time great survival stories. -Robert McNamara.
Publication date: 1996
Price: $55.95
Review Larry King: host of CNN's Larry King Live - How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere (The Secrets to Good Communication) / Nightingale-Conant Inc.:You can't help but benefit from Larry King's years of experience and sage advice. Even if you think you were born without the "gift of gab," you can begin to improve your speaking abilities immediately. King offers myriad techniques, skills, and ice breakers that anyone can learn to use with confidence. Mr. King also tells personal stories about the best and worst communicators he has met or interviewed. You'll hear the secrets that made Mario Cuomo, Richard Nixon, and JFK such powerful political speakers; how Jack Kent Cooke, Ted Turner, and Ross Perot became such dynamic businessmen through their communication styles; what makes George Burns, Bob Hope, and Don Rickles so funny all the time; how the super trial lawyers like Edward Bennett Williams, William Kunstler, and Louis Nizer use very different techniques to get amazingly similar results. Listen to this program, and you'll learn how to: * Open a conversation with anyone, anytime, anywhere. * Be confident that you will always have something interesting to say. * Get prospective clients, customers, and employers listening to what you're saying immediately. * Be prepared with the "greatest question ever asked. [+]".
Creator: Margaret B. Jones
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-02-28
Dewey code: 362.733092
List Price: $82.25
Price: $55.41
Review Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:In an unforgettable voice that weaves stunning, forthright narration together with the distinctive, rhythmic slang of the street, Margaret B. Jones brings us movingly into the world of her youth - a world of gangs and poverty, but also of hope and survival - to create a memoir like no other. At age five, Margaret B. Jones was removed from her suburban California home and put into foster care. At age eight, after many relocations, she landed in a foster home in South Central Los Angeles, the region of gang-ridden neighborhoods made infamous by the Rodney King riots. A part white, part Native American girl, Jones grew up in the predominantly black community in an all-black household run by the formidable “Big Mom,” a stern, single, overworked woman raising four grandchildren for their absent mother. The family’s street was ruled by the Bloods gang, and Jones watched as her beloved older foster brothers were “jumped in” at ages twelve and thirteen. She quickly learned to admire and emulate the lifestyle and within a few years was a member of the gang herself. Even through the cloud of danger and hardship that surrounds her story of life in the inner city, what resonates most is her portrayal of the human, emotional side of this world - the intimate family relationships and tensions, the life-changing lessons of friendship, and the passion and anguish of smart, philosophical kids like Jones struggling just to imagine a safer life waiting beyond their streets, let alone to find a way out. In visceral, cinematic storytelling, she shows us a world in which most of her friends and siblings followed a trajectory of crime, imprisonment, pregnancy - and too often, death. [+]Jones herself, however, was determined to beat the odds: a combination of intelligence, will, tenacity, and pure luck provided her with a lifesaving opportunity, a college education, and a way out of the neighborhood. But she has never left behind the lessons and strength she learned there.
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