Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-03-14
Dewey code: 941.1072092
List Price: $180.00
Price: $144.00
Review Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman / Taylor & Francis:First published in 1927. First published at the time of the French Revolution, the memoirs of John Macdonald provide a rich panorama of life in the company of blind fiddlers, maid-servants, the Scottish aristocracy, soldiers, historians, Oriental Princes, servants of the East India Company and men of great wealth.
Publication date: 2004-06-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $19.95
Price: $145.19
Review From Grey Soup to Gateau / PublishAmerica:Anne Beattie was born in England in 1961 and was abandoned by her parents in a railway station at the age of seven months. Adopted by her grandparents and raised in a troubled family, she developed anorexia nervosa at the age of sixteen, and bulimia nervosa, compulsive overeating and depression over the following years. She struggled alone through her illnesses and developed a way of coping with life that has enriched her life and hopefully the lives of others. This story shows how the seeds of the eating disorders were sown, details her fight to overcome them all and is a story of hope for all those who fight similar battles.
Creator: Chris McLeod
Publication date: 2007-11-24
List Price: $32.45
Price: $138.59
Review Finding Eminem / Trafford Publishing:This is autiobiographical piece, focusing on aspects of Janine's life from childhood through to the present. Janine indicates the importance of Eminem to her understanding of herself and her growing awareness for a need for independence from those forces which previously held her back. As well as appreciating Eminem as an artist, she views him as a role model. Her story is expressed simply and with conviction. A strong sense of Janine as a person comes through and this is a great strength of the writing. Overall, it is an engaging account of elements of her life- as well as her interest in Eminem, she tells us something about her feelings regarding her family, an ex-boyfriend, friends and workmates. She feels let down by many of these people but, rather than let this inhibit her, Janine is getting on with her life, (with Eminem's help) Chris McLeod Editor.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-02-27
List Price: $180.00
Price: $144.00
Review MYSTORY: The Original Harold Lee Rush (USA Version) / BLACKLAND.ORG:Autobiographical memoirs and other true life stories of media personality Harold Lee Rush.
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 364.106092
Price: $23.55
Review Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member / Rebound by Sagebrush:Writing from solitary confinement, a former member of Los Angeles's notorious gang, The Crips, recounts his baptism by violence into the gang at age eleven and his evolution behind bars into a militant black nationalist. Reprint.
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 920
Price: $20.99
Review The Brick House / Xlibris Corporation:
Creator: David Preest
Publication date: 2005-10-27
Dewey code: 942.038
List Price: $145.00
Price: $143.53
Review The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422) / Boydell Press:Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and the premier repository of public records, and therefore well placed to observe the political machinations of this period at close hand. Moreover, he knew the monarchs and many of the nobles personally and is able to offer insights into their actions unmatched by any other authority. It is this narrative, transmitted through the popular Tudor histories of Hall, Stow and Holinshed, which provides the principle source for Shakespeare's sequence of history plays. Covering almost fifty years, the narrative provides the most authoritative account of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, from the last years of Edward III (1376-77) to the premature death of Henry V (1422). Walsingham describes the many dramas of this period in vivid detail, including the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the deposition and murder of Richard II (1399-1400), The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr (1403) and Henry V's victory at Agincourt (1415); they are brought to life here in this new translation.
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 650
Price: $19.95
Review Anatomy of the Insurance Broker: The Fundamentals for Extraordinary Success / Authorhouse:
Publication date: 2008-01-28
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $200.00
Price: $146.00
Review The Pear is Ripe LSE: A Memoir / Liberties Press:Born in New York but reared in County Tyrone, John Montague rose to prominence in the 1960's and 1970's with his poetry collections including Poisoned Lands and the long poem The Rough Field. The book is full of warm anecdotes and wry observations on the numerous literary, artistic, and musical characters he encountered, befriended and occasionally provoked. He recounts his personal and professional relationships with such luminaries as Patrick Kavanagh, Allen Ginsberg and, as co-founder of Claddagh Records, with composer Seá O Riada. There is an interesting account of meeting Charles Haughey and a suggestion that a seed was sown that might have led ultimately to the introduction of the artist tax exemption.
Edition: 0
Publication date: 2007-01-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $33.95
Price: $139.95
Review A Letter to Sophie: The Story of an Immigrant / iUniverse, Inc.:Born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1935, author Aziz Anis never expected to end up in the United States of America. If the course of his life had followed the normal, expected trend of his place and time, he would have spent all of his days near his birthplace. Instead, the tides of chance and fortune carry him from one side of the globe to the other. In his lifetime, Anis experiences the innocence of love and the tragedy of loss. He enjoys the stability and prosperity of peace and suffers the turmoil and horrors of war. After building a successful career, he must face the daunting task of starting over again—from scratch. Although his profession takes him to the very presence of royalty and presidents, he also selflessly uses his skills as an ophthalmologist to operate on the poor and the destitute. When Anis tries to share his professional triumphs with his colleagues in Egypt, he finds himself naively enmeshed in international intrigue. For years, he longs for a home in which to rest, but he is a stranger in every land. Through it all, he keeps his faith in the only entity he can rely on: God. [+]A Letter to Sophie shares his powerful true story. “With insight and humility, Anis adeptly renders his frustrations as an immigrant, and his musings on family and the clash of old rituals and changing attitudes are incisive and often moving. A smartly realized memoir presenting a poignant history of change in Egypt through the story of a man whose strength of character saw him through. ” —Kirkus Discoveries.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 355
Price: $24.95
Review An Eye For An Eye And His Blood For My Tears / PublishAmerica:Minus one eye, and a promising military career in ruin after being brutally assaulted by my elder brother, I strayed to the verge of insanity. Fearing a bloody reprisal would tarnish my father’s reputable business name, I was conveniently exiled from the family home in England out of the way, to a life of self-reliance in Africa. Without friends or relatives at the end of the line, trade papers or a job, and little money, the future looked bleak. After thirteen adventurous years steeped in mystery, suspense, and a peppering of steamy sexual encounters, failing eyesight forced me back to England. Believing I’d returned to even the score with my brother, several family members embarked upon a damning witch-hunt to destroy me before it could happen. But after five miserable years of hell on earth, trapped beneath a persecuting shadow of prolonged rejection and emotional torture, I emerged from a cocoon of mental madness to become their worst ever nightmare.
Edition: Large Print edition
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $21.99
Review Them Days / ISIS Large Print Books:
Publication date: 2004-06-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $15.95
Price: $142.40
Review Against A White Sky: A Memoir Of Closets And Classrooms / Artemispress:In Against a White Sky, Laurie Stapleton reveals her experiences with honesty and humor as a gay high school teacher in an "All-American" city. Having spent most of her young adult life in Santa Cruz, California — a beach town accepting of its large lesbian community — Laurie relocates to the more conservative San Joaquin Valley to enroll in an accelerated teacher credentialing program. There, Laurie discovers that she is the only woman who regularly (well, always) wears slacks. She decides she’d better change the way she dresses, walks and talks to feel socially comfortable — and maybe even safe. Laurie becomes certified to teach public high school within a year. Mindful of recent bouts with poverty and low self-esteem, she accepts the first teaching offer she receives — a public high school deeper in the heart of the valley, in a city voted "All-American. " Her relocation doesn’t sit too well with Laurie’s girlfriend back in Santa Cruz, who says to Laurie, "You don’t look like you anymore. " Despite her struggle to sway students’ and teachers’ attention from her sexual identity, they seem to "know" anyway, as evidenced by homophobic slurs she hears in the school halls, and snickers from the student-athletes she coaches. Eventually she asks herself the hard questions: why did she choose to live and teach in a town in which she is at best ignored, and at worse harassed, because of her sexual orientation? What is the meaning behind the irony that, as she helps her students discover their voices, she is silencing her own?.
Authors
- David Cook
- Michael Okenimkpe
Dewey code: 823
Price: $16.00
Review Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, an Exploration of His Writings (Studies in African Literature) / Heinemann (Txt):This is a comprehensive interpretation of all of Ngugi's works. During the last four decades he has proved to be one of the most exceptional writers whose work is meaningful both to the workers of Kenya and to international intellectuals. This book discusses his philosophy, the various graduations of style he has adopted, his social and political focus, and his ultimate vision and aspirations. Each work of fiction is examined in depth, while his non-fiction is systematically analyzed. There is a separate chapter on each of Ngugi's novels from The River Between and Weep Not, Child to Matigari. There are also studies of his drama and his short stories. A critical biography and a careful scrutiny of his social commentaries in the popular press help trace the early formation of his ideological position. Extensive use has been made of Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary and of his influential lectures and writings in Decolonising the Mind, Moving the Centre, and Writers in Politics.
Publication date: 2005-01-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $145.52
Review Lilacs in Bloom / PublishAmerica:This is the story of a forty-something woman reflecting on a year, day by day. It is her second year in the country, during which she develops friendships and relationships within the community. She joins organizations and volunteers, and begins to understand the magic and endless work involved in keeping her home afloat. All the while, her dogs create constant chaos, giving her ample opportunity to laugh, and cry, heartily. Her perceptions in the moment make her look backward, and inward, to everything that brought her to her present life. Through examining the choices and incidences that shaped her past and led her home, she gains insight and confidence, and ultimately, great happiness in how it all turned out.
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 551.46092
List Price: $39.95
Price: $143.77
Review The Sea's Enthrall / Ecce Nova:With early memories of women selling peppers in the streets of Ceylon, where the author lived as a child, the southern English town of Bude during WWII, where he grew up, and emigration to Canada, where his formal education as an ocean scientist would take place, The Sea's Enthrall is more than a tale of an oceanographer. It is a witty, at times philosophical, sometimes even poignant exposition on Life, as seen from the perspective of a man whose scientific training is wonderfully complemented by a curiosity for less empirical matters, such as poetry and religion. Oceanographers in training can learn from Dr. Parson's many insights into topical research; retired professors in the sciences will find many parallels in thought and experience; those who enjoy anecdotal storytelling, or travelogues, or simply appreciate learning about fascinating people who have managed to make a mark in the world - all these will enjoy The Sea's Enthrall.
Creator: To Be Announced (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-03-03
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Cheever: A Life (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:In this luminous biography, Blake Bailey shows us the conflicted soul of a writer of timeless fiction. Though Cheevers groundbreaking work would earn him fame, it never wholly offset his anxieties and desperate loneliness.
Edition: Tra
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 910
Price: $30.95
Review Estambul / Istanbul: Ciudad y Recuerdos/ Memories and the City:
Authors
- Brian Keith-Smith
- Lothar Schreyer
Dewey code: 248.22
List Price: $139.95
Price: $139.95
Review Texte Des Glaubens / Edwin Mellen Press:The twelve texts in this book include introductions and texts that show the writer's developing understanding of his faith, and reveal a process of active commitment and searching independence characteristic of Schreyer's life and style. This work will interest Christian artists, catechetists, clergy and laypeople, and it presents for the first time an account of a further aspect of Schreyer's personal development, especially after the Second World War.
Publication date: 2005-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $27.99
Review Home at Last - Auschwitz Survivor / Not Avail:Home at Last is a first hand account of Kurt Moses'
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