Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 709
Price: $30.00
Review The Life & Work of Henry Scott Tuke: 1858-1929 / GMP Publishers:
Publication date: 1980-11
Price: $59.95
Review Papers of John C.Calhoun (Papers of John C Calhoun) / Univ of South Carolina Pr:
Publication date: 1983-07
Dewey code: 920
Price: $200.00
Review Campaign of Chancellorsville / American Society for Training & Development:
Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 811.54
List Price: $28.95
Price: $279.41
Review Cherry: A Memoir / Thorndike Press:From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl in bloom. Fleeing the thrills and terrors of adolescence, she clashes against authority in all its forms and hooks up with an unforgettable band of heads and bona-fide geniuses. Parts of Cherry will leave you gasping with laughter. Karr assembles a self from the smokiest beginnings, delivering a long- awaited sequel that is both "bawdy and wise" (San Francisco Chronicle). As a girl idling her way through long, toxically boring summer afternoons in Leechfield, Texas, Mary Karr dreamed up an unusual career for herself, "to write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography. " She has since done both, and even when she's recounting a dirty joke, she can't help but employ a poet's precise and musical vision. Her first memoir, The Liar's Club, was as searing a chronicle of family life as can be imagined-tough, funny, and crackling with sorrow and wit. Against all odds, its sequel doesn't disappoint. Cherry finds the teenage Mary still marooned in a family whose behavior ranges from charmingly eccentric to dangerously crazy. [+](This, for instance, is the Karr version of a note from home: "Lecia Karr's leprosy kicked in, and I had to wrap her limbs in balm and hyssop. Please excuse her. ") But here the focus has shifted to Mary herself, furiously engaged in pissing off authority at every turn: flouting the dress code, dropping acid, running from the cops, falling in love. First love, you may say, heart sinking in chest: what more can possibly be said about such a subject? Actually, a great deal. To read Cherry is to realize how rare it is to find a teenage girl portrayed on her own terms. As a chronicle of female adolescence with all its longings, fantasies, cruelties, and fears, Karr's memoir goes darker and deeper than any book in which the protagonist doesn't end up dead. She turns a savage eye on her own hypocrisies and failings, and we like her all the more for them. We even end up fond of Leechfield, easily the toughest, smelliest, nastiest little burg ever to appear between the covers of a book-"a town too ugly not to love," her father called it in The Liar's Club. Growing up in such a place is necessarily about getting the hell out, but it's also about inventing a new identity with which to make your escape. That's the blessing Karr's wise friend Meredith bestows after a particularly harrowing (and harrowingly funny) acid trip: "I see big adventures for Mary. Big adventures, long roads, great oceans: same self. " Cherry is the story of how Karr begins to acquire that self, however fumblingly-a big adventure for Mary, as it is for all of us, and one we never finish as long as we live. Perhaps that's the book's greatest pleasure of all: it hints there's more to come. -Mary Park.
Creator: Svetlana Kokhanovskaya
Publication date: 1997-03
Dewey code: 796
Price: $19.95
Review Tarasov: The Father of Russian Hockey : Hockey's Rise to International Prominence Through the Eyes of a Coaching Legend / Griffin Publishing Inc.:
Publication date: 1998-07
Review Relating to Jane: Studies on the Life and Novels of Jane Austen with a Life of Her Niece Elizabeth Austen/Knight / Minerva Press:
Authors
- Anne Rogers
- Martyn C. Thomas
- John A. Lane
Review Harry Carter, Typographer / The Old School Press:
Publication date: 1994-03-24
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $22.00
Review Tomaso Albinoni: The Venetian Composer and His World (Clarendon Paperbacks) / Oxford University Press, USA:Michael Talbot looks in detail at Albinoni's output, and, placing the composer in his historical context, argues for a general re-appraisal of his achievement. He provides a detailed review of Albinoni's works according to chronology and genre and includes a discussion of several newly discovered works. Alongside this review is a penetrating analysis of Albinoni's musical style in general, resulting from many years of familiarity with the music. Talbot also presents new information about Albinoni's unusual life and many interesting details of Venetian background, showing how this very distinctive social and cultural environment left its mark on the composer. Also included is a complete catalogue of Albinoni's works, and a guide to modern editions.
Publication date: 1998-01
Review Markey Robinson: A Life, the Retrospective / Shortall-Stairs Publications:
Creator: Geoff Thompson
Publication date: 1997-07-31
Review Give Him to the Angels / Summersdale Publishers:
Publication date: 1995-06
Dewey code: 975.804092
List Price: $109.95
Price: $280.96
Review Woman's Life on a Southern Tobacco Farm: The Story of Sallie Mae Taylor, 1893-1977 (Mellen Lives ; 5) / Mellen University Press:
Creator: Christoph Wolff
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $35.00
Price: $280.25
Review The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents / W W Norton & Co Inc:Reveals the life and career of Johann Sebastian Bach through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records relating to his personal and professional life.
Creator: Craig MacInnis
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 796
Price: $16.95
Review Remembering Bobby Orr / Raincoast Books:This Boston Bruins master, who played just nine seasons in the NHL, revolutionized the game with his two-way mobility, freewheeling puck movement, and end-to-end (or side-to-side) rushes. He twice led the NHL in scoring — an unprecedented feat for his position. He was voted the NHL's MVP three years in a row, and best defenseman eight years in a row. Dozens of vintage photographs and complete stats complete this tribute to an amazing superstar from hockey's golden era.
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 818.5403
Price: $40.00
Review The Tangier Diaries, 1962-1979 / Cadmus Press:Every page drips with memories, writes William Burroughs about this collection of Hopkins' diaries covering two decades of a life lived as an ex-patriot. Hopkins was one of the most influential writers living in Tangier at the time; including , among others Paul and Jane Bowles. The writing varies from poetic, reflective to vernacular and antic. The mystery of walking through the palmeraie by night. The silence of the universe blots out the noisiness of man. Hopkins wrote the preceding line on December 23, 1966, however, by the 24th, he is more interested in lanterns made of tin cans, and , a Moroccan schoolboy, [who,] hoping to start a conversation, recited all the French he learned in school: 'Bonsoir, monsieur. Quelle heure est-il?'.
Authors
- Ellen Fletcher
- Nelson Augustus Moore
Dewey code: 759.13
Price: $40.00
Review Nelson Augustus Moore: Connecticut Landscape Painter / Moore Picture Trust:
Publication date: 1999-11-10
Review Kenneth Sandford - Merely Corroborative Detail Pb / K Sandford:
Publication date: 1981-05
Dewey code: 785.0924
Price: $47.00
Review Erich Kleiber: A Memoir (Da Capo Press music reprint series) / Da Capo Pr:
Creator: Robert S. Cohen
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1973-12-31
List Price: $279.00
Price: $279.00
Review Otto Neurath: Empiricism and Sociology (Vienna Circle Collection, Volume 1) / D. Reidel Publishing Company:
Publication date: 1999-11-10
Review Kenneth Sandford - Merely Corroborative Detail Pb / K Sandford:
Publication date: 1981-05
Dewey code: 785.0924
Price: $47.00
Review Erich Kleiber: A Memoir (Da Capo Press music reprint series) / Da Capo Pr:
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The Life & Work of Henry Scott Tuke: 1858-1929, Papers of John C.Calhoun (Papers of John C Calhoun), Campaign of Chancellorsville, Cherry: A Memoir, Tarasov: The Father of Russian Hockey : Hockey's Rise to International Prominence Through the Eyes of a Coaching Legend, Relating to Jane: Studies on the Life and Novels of Jane Austen with a Life of Her Niece Elizabeth Austen/Knight, Harry Carter, Typographer, Tomaso Albinoni: The Venetian Composer and His World (Clarendon Paperbacks), Markey Robinson: A Life, the Retrospective, Give Him to the Angels, Woman's Life on a Southern Tobacco Farm: The Story of Sallie Mae Taylor, 1893-1977 (Mellen Lives ; 5), The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Remembering Bobby Orr, The Tangier Diaries, 1962-1979, Nelson Augustus Moore: Connecticut Landscape Painter, Kenneth Sandford - Merely Corroborative Detail Pb, Erich Kleiber: A Memoir (Da Capo Press music reprint series), Otto Neurath: Empiricism and Sociology (Vienna Circle Collection, Volume 1), Kenneth Sandford - Merely Corroborative Detail Pb, Erich Kleiber: A Memoir (Da Capo Press music reprint series)Top headlines: Pakistan police losing terrorism fight: Outgunned and out-financed, police in volatile northwestern Pakistan are fighting a losing battle against insurgents, dozens of interviews by The Associated Press show. ›23:06 Stacy solves your winter style issues: Have a clothing crisis this season? 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