Publication date: 1987-03
Dewey code: 791.430280924
List Price: $16.99
Price: $40.00
Review Mommie Dearest / DH Audio:
Publication date: 1994-01-28
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $70.00
Price: $52.78
Review Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War / Cambridge University Press:As a student in Cambridge, Alan Hodgkin first became interested in the basis of nerve conduction, using single nerve fibers from a shore crab in his experiments. In 1963, he won the Nobel prize for his work on nerve conduction, and in 1970 became President of the Royal Society. Chance and Design is a fascinating chronicle of Hodgkin's life, providing a glimpse into the world of Cambridge undergraduates in the thirties, the motivation behind his research into nerve conduction, his work on centimeter radar during World War II, and his life as a Cambridge academic after the war. The book concludes with an account of the Nobel prize ceremony in 1963. This highly readable autobiography gives an insight into the working patterns and private life of an eminent scientist, and will appeal not only to scientists, but also to those interested in gaining an understanding of what inspires scientific research.
Publication date: 2005-07-27
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $39.00
Price: $39.00
Review The Adventures of Childhood / AuthorHouse:While growing up in North Philadelphia (North Philly), a trip in the summertime to North Carolina was a refreshing experience. Many adventures waited whenever my family made the trip. Open fields a fresh country air seems to spell adventure for any kid who loves nature and enjoy taking hikes. What you'll discover in "The Adventures of Childhood" will make you aware of how similar each of our lives was while growing up. You may even say, "That happened to me when I was a child" as you read them to your children. "The Adventures in Childhood", is a series of adventures that children of all ages can relate to and enjoy reading about.
Edition: Turtleback Books
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: $16.80
Review The Coalwood Way (The Coalwood Series #2) / Topeka Bindery:It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered HomerSr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness. Eager to rally the town's spirits and make her son's final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it most needs to come together. And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny realizes that helping his town and redeeming himself in his mother's eyes may be a bigger-and more rewarding-challenge than he has ever faced. The result is pure storytelling magic- a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable adventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world Rocket Boys In this follow-up to his bestselling autobiography Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam chronicles the eventful autumn of 1959 in his hometown, the West Virginia mining town of Coalwood. Sixteen-year-old Homer and his pals in the Big Creek Missile Agency are high school seniors, still building homemade rockets and hoping that science will provide them with a ticket into the wider world of college and white-collar jobs. [+]Such dreams make them suspect in a conservative small town where "getting above yourself" is the ultimate sin and where Homer's father, superintendent of the Coalwood mines, is stingy with praise and dubious about his son's ambitions. Homer's mother remains supportive, but bluntly reminds him, "You can't expect everything to go your way. Sometimes life just has another plan. " Indeed, Hickam's unvarnished portrait of Coalwood covers class warfare (union miners battling with his authoritarian father), provincial narrow-mindedness (the local ladies scorn a young woman living outside wedlock with a man who abuses her), and endless gossiping along the picket "fence line. " These sharp details make the unabashed sentiment of the book's closing chapters feel earned rather than easy. Hickam can spin a gripping yarn and keep multiple underlying themes and metaphors going at the same time. His tender but gritty memoir will touch readers' hearts and minds. -Wendy Smith.
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $32.99
Price: $32.99
Review Carefree on a Tether / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $16.95
Review Saint Hedwig and Me / Allegro Press:
Publication date: 2001-05
Price: $20.00
Review My Green Years Along the Rappahannock / Elk Horn Press:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1993-06
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $61.95
Price: $54.53
Review As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning / ISIS Audio Books:It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs of impending civil war were clearly visible. Thirty years later Laurie Lee captured the atmosphere of the Spain he saw with all the freshness and beauty of a young man's vision, creating a lyrical and lucid picture of the beautiful and violent country that was to involve him inextricably.
Publication date: 2002-09
List Price: $16.00
Price: $32.24
Review A Child in Community / Upfront Publishing:Delightful and inspirational, Veronika van Duin's story is strangely familiar - familiar because we've all been through the toils of school, friendships, struggling with studies and adolescent longings, and trying to sort out our identities. Strange too, because the author, a perfectly normal little girl, was brought up in Camphill communities all over Britain, where she lived alongside disabled children and people with special needs. The idea came from the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, administered in the author's case by the illustrious Dr Karl Kvnig. Institutions can be a mixed blessing. Did she sometimes yearn for an 'ordinary' life in the world outside? Did she sometimes despair of the drabness and inwardness of her surroundings, and lose patience with her 'odd' parents? Did she long to become part of the increasingly affluent society beyond Camphill?Well, you must see and judge for yourself. You'll find, in the rich store of observations, wonderful anecdotes and quirky characters that make up these memoirs, that there are many ways of discovering yourself, many ways of viewing disabilities and caring for others, and many ways of achieving happiness.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 943.086092
List Price: $24.95
Price: $108.24
Review Sparrow: Wartime Journey of Rosemarie Von Wedel / Stillwater Press:
Creator: Roger Hutchings
Publication date: 2002-01
List Price: $21.99
Price: $39.23
Review Crystal Palace Vistas (Reminiscence) / ISIS Large Print Books:
Creator: Susan Denaker
Publication date: 2005-09
List Price: $79.20
Price: $45.99
Review Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless / Books On Tape:From the author of Kiss My Tiara comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date.
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $32.99
Price: $36.65
Review To Bury Caesar / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.99
Price: $31.99
Review The Ghost of Makara: Growing Up Down-Under in a Lost World of Yesteryears / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2005-05-30
Dewey code: 940.5318092
List Price: $49.50
Price: $33.88
Review Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust / State University of New York Press:When German troops come to the small village of Be³zyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp in Flossenbürg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry. Coauthor Alicia Nitecki, whose grandfather was also imprisoned at Flossenbürg, uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story, as well as unpublished memoirs, private letters, and interviews with former inmates of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and the townspeople of Be³zyce and Flossenbürg. Part history, part autobiography, Jakub's World offers an anguished young boy's perspective on the Holocaust.
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
Price: $82.34
Review A Girl from the Home / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
Price: $30.99
Review See Tommy Run: Life on Polio Hill / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Michael Patrick MacDonald
Dewey code: 974.46104092
List Price: $32.50
Price: $32.50
Review All Souls: A Family Story from Southie / ISIS Large Print Books:Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"-the Old Colony projects of South Boston-where 85% of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U. S. In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit any problems, remaining fiercely loyal to their community. MacDonald also introduces us to the unforgettable people who inhabit this proud neighborhood. We meet his mother, Ma MacDonald, an accordion-playing, spiked-heel-wearing, indomitable mother to all; Whitey Bulger, the lord of Southie, gangster and father figure, protector and punisher; and Michael's beloved siblings, nearly half of whom were lost forever to drugs, murder, or suicide. By turns explosive and touching, All Souls ultimately shares a powerful message of hope, renewal, and redemption.
Publication date: 2006-12-18
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
Price: $30.99
Review Through the Eyes of a Child: ''Diary of an Eleven Year Old Jewish Girl'' / Xlibris Corporation:Ilse, who was 2½ months short of her twelfth birthday, was deported from the Jewish orphanage in Prague in mid-October, 1942. She arrived in the concentration camp Terezin, called by the Nazis the "Jewish paradise," when in reality it was the gateway to Auschwitz. Today when Ilse speaks to various groups, mainly school children, she refers to this place as "the center of foolery. " She is one of the hundred children out of fifteen thousand who survived Terezin and the horrific typhus epidemic which took the lives of many. Deported for the second time, she found herself in Birkenau/Auschwitz where she passed the inspection at the selection site in front of the infamous Dr. Mengele who decided who was to live and who was to die. Ilse was sent to a slave labor camp in Silesia named Kurzbach bei Trachtenberg. What helped to save her life was saying that she was eighteen when in fact she was only fourteen as she was forewarned to do so by an inmate of the camp who helped at the train station with new arrivals. Miraculously, it worked! She later escaped from the death march heading for the Gross Rosen concentration camp with two other women and hid in a cellar on a farm amidst piles of potatoes and burlap bags. When the Russian military arrived a few days later, she masqueraded among the soldiers as a young male. [+]After she learned of the war ending, she and her friends walked for some distance towards the Czech border, where she fainted. She awoke to find herself in a Red Cross van heading towards Prague where she was hospitalized for three months. Thereafter she returned to her hometown of Vsetin where she lived with a Christian family with five children of their who were former friends of her mother and her as well. Ilse immigrated to the USA in mid-October 1946 and resided with her mother's brother and his American wife.
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $15.00
Review Return to Appalachian Magic / Bookman Publishing:Return to Appalachian Magic delves into the childhood of Janet Rice and her experiences in growing up on a farm that hugged the banks of a muddy river. Life in the 1940’s was hard for the hill people and “making do” was considered a way of life, along with the religion and the folklore that was mixed into the hill culture. The favorite gathering place was the kitchen table. Here, neighbors and family would discuss ghostly sightings, spells and curses. The local witches and fortune tellers were talked about in great detail and sometimes the talk became so frightening that fear spread in the room. Growing up in Appalachia involved a lot of hard work. There were chores that had to be done every day by young and old alike. In certain seasons, there was hog killing, making the potato hole to store potatoes for the winter, and smelling the sweet scent of apple butter in the fall. Through all of the seasons, there was a magical feeling that merged with everyday life. A feeling that is unique in the hills of Appalachia and where people had a gift that is called “knowing”. [+]Janet Rice took all of the magical knowledge and power that her ancestors bestowed upon her and along with her gift of “knowing”, has become a nationally known Appalachian fortune teller.
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Mommie Dearest, Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War, The Adventures of Childhood, The Coalwood Way (The Coalwood Series #2), Carefree on a Tether, Saint Hedwig and Me, My Green Years Along the Rappahannock, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Child in Community, Sparrow: Wartime Journey of Rosemarie Von Wedel, Crystal Palace Vistas (Reminiscence), Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless, To Bury Caesar, The Ghost of Makara: Growing Up Down-Under in a Lost World of Yesteryears, Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust, A Girl from the Home, See Tommy Run: Life on Polio Hill, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Through the Eyes of a Child: ''Diary of an Eleven Year Old Jewish Girl'', Return to Appalachian MagicTop headlines: Brain-injured troops face long-term risks: Many of the thousands of troops who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of long-term health problems including depression and Alzheimer's-like symptoms, researchers say. ›16:02 The 'Dog Whisperer' Wins Another Convert: A few minutes with Cesar MillanTVs Dog Whispererwas all it took to win back a skeptic. ›18:28 10 Oct, Wed Cops: Man swallows stolen earrings at mall: An X-ray marked the spot for southwest Florida police who say a teenager swallowed a $16 pair of earrings after taking them from a JCPenney store at a mall. ›02:36 2 Dec, Tue Volkswagen Baja Race: Paris to Ensenada: Volkswagen and its Touareg 2 head to Mexico for the Baja 500. ›07:00 16 Oct, Tue Vermont named healthiest state, Louisiana last: Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest state, and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings. ›20:06 3 Dec, Wed RFK auction offers star-studded experiences: For those hard-to-please people on your holiday gift list this year, consider some unusual presents: the chance to sing with Aretha Franklin or tour the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi. ›12:42 Movies no place to learn real history: Moviesbased on history, such as "Frost/Nixon," create a current of discontent among those who prefer letter-perfect depictions, but historians and film experts caution they are intended to entertain, not inform. ›22:51 2 Dec, Tue Ex-FBI agent faces jail over slaying: A former FBI agent is looking at hard time in a Florida prison for the mob-related 1982 slaying of a Miami gambling executive. ›13:58 A Muslim Letter to Christians: In an unprecedented letter, Muslim leaders across the globe invite the worlds Christians to the table. ›14:33 11 Oct, Thu Is O.J. 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