Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 331.88094409034
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Review Flora Tristan's Diary: Tour Of France 1843-1844 / Peter Lang Publishing:
Publication date: 2005-03-01
Dewey code: 942.062092
List Price: $90.00
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Review Thomas Rainborowe (c.1610-1648): Civil War Seaman, Siegemaster and Radical / Boydell Press:This book offers an account of the life and career of Thomas Rainborowe, a significant figure in the English Civil War in both military and political terms. His involvement in the sea-borne Irish Expedition of 1642 was followed by service as an infantry leader within the Eastern Association and the New Model Army, where he achieved particular distinction as a siege commander. In the context of the New Model's burgeoning political role, Rainborowe emerged at the Putney Debates (a landmark in the history of the political philosophy) as perhaps the most cogent spokesman for the radical/Leveller cause; but his association with the abortive Leveller-inspired mutiny at Ware, and his hostility toward continued negotiation with Charles I, led to his fall from grace with Cromwell and the `grandees'. Despite this, he re-emerged as a pre-eminent siege-commander at Colchester; but, en route to impose a more rigorous siege of Pontefract Castle, he was assassinated at Doncaster, in highly suspicious circumstances, in November 1648. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is the first full-length study of a man whose importance has been hitherto neglected.
Creator: Tanya Eby Sirois
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-09-09
List Price: $74.25
Price: $74.25
Review The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking - rape, torture, deprivation – until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.
Authors
- Eleanor Thomas and Patricia Eastland with Ernest W. Tiegs and Fay Adams
Publication date: 1966
Review Teachers' Manual for Your School and Home, Primer for the New Edition By Eleanor Thomas, et al. (The Tiegs-Adams Series) / Ginn and Company:
Publication date: 1987-01
Price: $56.00
Review Trump: The Art of the Deal / Books on Tape:From the Impresario of NBC’s hit show The ApprenticeTRUMP ON TRUMP: “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. ”And here’s how he does it: the art of the deal. Beginning with a week in Trump’s high-stakes life, Trump: The Art of the Deal gives us Trump in action. We see just how he operates day to day—how he runs his business and how he runs his life—as he chats with friends and family, clashes with enemies, efficiently buys up Atlantic City’s top casinos, changes the face of the New York City skyline. and plans the tallest building in the world. TRUMP ON TRUMP: “I play it very loose. [+]I don’t carry a briefcase. I try not to schedule too many meetings. I leave my door open. I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops. ”Even a maverick plays by rules, and here Trump formulates his own eleven guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest deals; he shatters myths (“You don’t necessarily need the best location. What you need is the best deal”); he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker’s art: from the abandoned property that became the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to the seedy hotel that became the Grand Hyatt; from the race to rebuild Central Park’s Wollman Skating Rink to the byzantine saga of the property that became Trump Tower. And throughout, Trump talks—really talks—about how he does it. TRUMP ON TRUMP: “I always go into a deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself. ”Donald Trump is blunt, brash, surprisingly old-fashioned in spots—and always, always an original. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur and an unprecedented education in the art of the deal. It’s the most streetwise business book there is—and a sizzling read for anyone interested in money and success. From the Hardcover edition.
Publication date: 2004-03-24
Dewey code: 940.548173
List Price: $31.99
Price: $74.55
Review Pizza and Mortars: Ba-muoi-ba & Body Bags / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2005-04-30
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $73.99
Price: $73.99
Review Himalayan Journals or Notes of a Naturalist / IndyPublish.com:
Creator: Bill Wallis
Publication date: 2004-04
List Price: $74.95
Price: $74.95
Review The War and Uncle Walter / Chivers Audio Books:The diaries of Walter Musto were recently discovered by his great nephew in an attic. Reflected here is the opinionated, happy voice of a 60-year-old suburban businessman from Surrey who found himself living through the biggest upheaval of modern times. His logbook of political and personal musings offers a charming and colorful picture of life on the home front. When Walter began his diary on January 1st, 1939, he lived quietly with his ageing wife Alice and their even more elderly dog. As war broke out he took up service as an air-raid warden, and grew tomatoes for the war effort. From bird-watching on the Thames to delays at Waterloo due to unexploded bombs, Walter contrasts lyrically the opposing worlds of war and peace, of personal and collective loss.
Creator: Christopher Timothy
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1996-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $74.95
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Review If Only They Could Talk (Vet Series , Vol 1) / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $73.99
Price: $73.99
Review Edgar Huntly or Memoirs of a Sleep-walker / IndyPublish.com:The story of a young man who sleepwalks each night and is a threat to himself and others, unable to control his baser passions. Set outside Philadelphia in 1787, the book is a metaphor for the founding of a new nation, but can be read on a literal level as an American "Gothic" novel.
Creator: Anne Flosnik
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2004-10-26
Dewey code: 813.52
List Price: $74.25
Price: $74.25
Review Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways / Brilliance Audio on CD Lib Ed:A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling with them through beloved old haunts in Spain and France and living with them during the tumultuous final months in Cuba. In name a personal secretary, but in reality a confidante and sharer of the great man’s secrets and sorrows, Valerie literally came of age in the company of one of the greatest literary lions of the twentieth century. Five years after his death, Valerie became a Hemingway herself when she married the writer’s estranged son Gregory. Now, at last, she tells the story of the incredible years she spent with this extravagantly talented and tragically doomed family. In prose of brilliant clarity and stinging candor, Valerie evokes the magic and the pathos of Papa Hemingway’s last years. Swept up in the wild revelry that always exploded around Hemingway, Valerie found herself dancing in the streets of Pamplona, cheering bullfighters at Valencia, careening around hairpin turns in Provence, and savoring the panorama of Paris from her attic room in the Ritz. But it was only when Hemingway threatened to commit suicide if she left that she realized how troubled the aging writer was – and how dependent he had become on her. In Cuba, Valerie spent idyllic days and nights typing the final draft of A Movable Feast, even as Castro’s revolution closed in. [+]After Hemingway shot himself, Valerie returned to Cuba with his widow, Mary, to sort through thousands of manuscript pages and smuggle out priceless works of art. It was at Ernest’s funeral that Valerie, then a researcher for Newsweek, met Hemingway’s son Gregory – and again a chance encounter drastically altered the course of her life. Their twenty-one-year marriage finally unraveled as Valerie helplessly watched her husband succumb to the demons that had plagued him since childhood. Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingways. This memoir, by turns luminous, enthralling, and devastating, is the account of what she enjoyed, and what she endured, during her astonishing years of living as a Hemingway.
Creator: Chris Patterson
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2006-08-22
Price: $19.95
Review Cameron's Inn / Creekside Communications:The book tells the story of how Cameron and family realized his dream of being part of the hospitality business. Cameron's pub became known across the U. S. and Britain when California's impending smoking ban in bars and taverns was to take effect. In 1998 he turned a red double decker bus into a smoking bus. His unique solution to keeping smoking clients happy went across the press wires and landed the story on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Cameron's is illustrated with photos of events, people, and incidences during the colorful development of the pub.
Publication date: 2005
Price: $74.90
Review Heaven and Earth : the Diary of Sarah Fishkin / YIVO Institute for Jewish Research:In the diary of Sarah Fishkin, a Jewish girl from the Dzerzhinsk area who was later shot by the Nazi Germans, describes what she heard from survivors five days after the massacre. Very similar to the better known 'Diary of Anne Frank".
Creator: Mel Foster
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-08-08
Dewey code: 796.332092
List Price: $82.25
Price: $82.25
Review Invincible: My Journey from Fan to NFL Team Captain / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:In 1976, Vince Papale was a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher, part-time bartender, and season ticket holder for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team he'd grown up rooting for. He had always loved football, but the closest he'd ever come to playing on Sundays was in local rough touch leagues. Until fate stepped in. Vince was thirty years old and wondering what he would do with his life, when he heard that Coach Dick Vermeil was holding open tryouts for the Eagles. He had nothing to lose, and with the coaches eyeing him, he ran an explosive 40-yard dash in just 4. 5 seconds - a world-class time - and was offered a contract on the spot. But, as much as his speed, it was Vince's heart that impressed Vermeil. But there was more to the story – Vince's success was tempered by a complicated family life, a past that continued to haunt him, even as a hometown football hero. At its core, Invincible is an underdog story that will inspire others to pursue their dreams, too.
Publication date: 1947
Review Napoleon / Editions Fernand Nathan:
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $73.99
Price: $73.99
Review Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth / IndyPublish.com:
Creator: Christopher J. Common
Publication date: 2005
Price: $74.00
Review A Star to Steer By: The Seafaring Adventures of Captain Jim Common / Stories fom the Sea Pub.:A Memoir as told to his Son.
Publication date: 2005-03
List Price: $73.99
Price: $73.99
Review Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal / IndyPublish.com:An authentic narrative of the horrors, mysteries, and cruelties of convent life by Sarah J. Richardson, an escaped nun, edited by Edward P. Hood.
Creator: Patrick Cullen
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $110.00
Price: $73.62
Review Benjamin Franklin: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Martin Welch
Publication date: 2005-09-13
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $150.00
Price: $74.95
Review Put on Your Pearls, Girls! Deluxe: Boxed Deluxe Edition Book and Tote Bag / Rizzoli:"Here, in Lulu, we have a fashion icon to rival those divas of the past. " -Vogue One of the most popular features of the Lulu Guinness handbag designs is the phrases embroidered on them. These tidbits of fabulous advice add whimsy and fun to dressing up, and have become part of the signature style of the Lulu Guinness label. Now the stunning volume Put on Your Pearls, Girls is available in a special, deluxe package that pairs the book with an original Guinness creation: a tote bag especially made for the presentation of the book. Put on Your Pearls, Girls captures the colorful, creative spirit of the Guinness look, following Lulu throughout her day, finding much beauty, humor, and glamor along the way. The delightful illustrations by Martin Welch bring out the Guinness aesthetic and include her signature prints and a selection of her limited edition handbags.
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Flora Tristan's Diary: Tour Of France 1843-1844, Thomas Rainborowe (c.1610-1648): Civil War Seaman, Siegemaster and Radical, The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine, Teachers' Manual for Your School and Home, Primer for the New Edition By Eleanor Thomas, et al. (The Tiegs-Adams Series), Trump: The Art of the Deal, Pizza and Mortars: Ba-muoi-ba & Body Bags, Himalayan Journals or Notes of a Naturalist, The War and Uncle Walter, If Only They Could Talk (Vet Series , Vol 1), Edgar Huntly or Memoirs of a Sleep-walker, Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways, Cameron's Inn, Heaven and Earth : the Diary of Sarah Fishkin, Invincible: My Journey from Fan to NFL Team Captain, Napoleon, Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, A Star to Steer By: The Seafaring Adventures of Captain Jim Common, Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal, Benjamin Franklin: Library Edition, Put on Your Pearls, Girls! 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