Creator: Lynda Lasswell Crist
Publication date: 1985-11
Dewey code: 973.7130924
List Price: $90.00
Price: $90.00
Review The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1853-1855 (Papers of Jefferson Davis) / Louisiana State University Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-05-01
Dewey code: 306.874208664
List Price: $95.00
Price: $78.88
Review A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers / Routledge:A deeply personal account of the trials and tribulations of the surrogacy journey! Surrogacy’s been coldly and unjustifiably called "baby buying" and "baby selling" and many states have banned it. But those insensitive terms do not tell the inspiring tale of a couple fiercely wanting to become parents. A Gay Couple’s Experience with Surrogacy: Intended Fathers is the moving true story of a gay couple’s decision to have their child through a surrogate mother. With humor and emotion, the author traces their intense experience from the initial decision to have a child through surrogacy on through the entire pregnancy and birth. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy chronicles this couple’s no-holds-barred account of the emotional toll, the legal matters, the financial concerns, and the ultimate fulfillment of parenting a child. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy reveals the author’s answers to these questions: why surrogacy over adoption? which type of surrogacy—traditional or gestational? what were the issues when choosing a surrogate? how much does surrogacy cost? what living expenses are included in the cost? what are the emotional and financial reasons that surrogates choose to bear another’s child? what are the pitfalls in choosing surrogacy? what are the legal issues—what to beware and what to consider An excerpt: Before I knew it, I was writing an ad of my own, and I actually posted it. David, of course, had no idea what I was up to. The ad read: "We’re a gay couple in New York that just celebrated our fourteenth anniversary and we’ve decided to extend our family. We’re looking for someone close by and even have a separate apartment available if needed. " Nice, huh? Could it be just a little bit more. [+]vague? Could my ad have lacked a little more personality? Sure, have our baby and move right in while you’re doing it! Who the hell would respond to that? I wasn’t even sure after reading it myself that it made any sense. But what should I have said? What could I have said? I scrambled to find a way to delete it, but couldn’t. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy is a touching memoir that reveals the challenges that face gay and lesbian couples who may be considering either adoption or surrogacy.
Publication date: 2002-05-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.99
Price: $68.25
Review Regina's Record / Xlibris Corporation:REGINA'S RECORD is a uniquely powerful, thought-provoking, narrative about a resilient, feisty woman whose quality of life was destroyed by the horrific treatment she endured during 32 long years in the American VA psychiatric system. Regina Van Amber is the unfortunate schizophrenic whose story was culled from more than 13,000 government records (which took 7 years to be released) and is graphically recreated over 256 pages by Regina's son, James Anthony Van Amber of Mankato, Minnesota. Told with a dispassionate, yet touching and unforgettable poignancy, REGINA'S RECORD makes superlative reading. Juxtaposed against his mother's relentless trauma, is the story of James' own tortured development involving deep feelings of hurt, confusion, personal abandonment, self-doubt, isolation, sexual and emotional failure, low self-worth and acute peer pressure. The absence of a father and denial of his existence by his own mother, meant that the story is a modern tragedy spiced with dry wit and a welcome dash of wry humour to ease the obvious tension and catalogue of harrowing incidents.
Creator: Roy G. Krenkel
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2006
Review The Man From Cross Plains: A Centennial Celebration of Two-Gun Bob Howard / Lilu.com:This book contains over 60 black and white photos. It also contains over 60 black and white cover reproductions of publications by and featuring REH. "The Ghost with the Silk Hat" was originally published in WRITER OF THE DARK by Dark Carneval Press. Nearly three dozen changes were made to the text. The text included in THE MAN FROM CROSS PLAINS was taken from the typescript and a few corrections are noted at the back of the book. ~ ~ The book is divided into six sections. The first is a rare piece of Howard fiction, the 16,500 word story, "The Ghost in the Silk Hat. " This story appeared in 1985 in Switzerland and there were many changes made to the script. The text of this story was taken directly from the manuscript. The other sections are non-fiction and contain a wide variety of topics from personal travelogs of folks who have visited Cross Plains; a look at Howard's fictional creations , including Conan; Views on Howard publishing and collecting and ends with a section of mini biographies of the contributors to this book.
Creator: Nadia
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 910
List Price: $108.00
Price: $68.03
Review Christopher Columbus / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:In this classic biography, Christopher Columbus emerges as a living, breathing human being with passions and ideas, a man possessing intellect and imagination enough to believe that the earth was round, not flat.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-02-01
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $108.00
Price: $68.04
Review Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History / Blackstone Audio Inc.:Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized from public interest. But like Lincoln, who was also attacked for decades after his death, Reagan deserves to be regarded as one of our greatest presidents, an exemplar of true conservative values. In this bold and philosophical reevaluation, Diggins reveals that Reagan was a far more active and sophisticated president than we ever knew. His negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev and his opposition to foreign interventions demonstrate that he was not a rigid hawk. In his pursuit of Emersonian ideals and distrust of big government, he was an open-minded libertarian, combining a reverence for America's hallowed historical traditions with an implacable faith in the limitless opportunities of the future.
Publication date: 2003-10
List Price: $31.99
Price: $67.37
Review Fauntleroy Boys / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2004-07-09
Dewey code: 940.5318092
List Price: $31.99
Price: $67.74
Review Before The Silver Cord Is Snapped Looking Back On My Journey: Looking Back On My Journey / Xlibris Corporation:
Creator: Publicacoes Europa-América
Publication date: 2008
Price: $68.00
Review O Ficheiro de Hitler - Os Factos Essenciais / Publicacoes Europa-América:Nascido na Áustria, em Abril de 1889, Adolf Hitler suicidou-se num bunker em Berlim, em Abril de 1945, com o exército russo às portas e a Alemanha que jurara fazer renascer reduzida a cinzas. Da infância solitária ao casamento com Eva Braun, Patrick Delaforce apresenta-nos os factos da vida do homem que, de indigente a cabo na primeira guerra mundial, conseguiu erguer-se até governar os destinos de milhões, arrastou o mundo para a segunda guerra mundial e ficou para sempre conhecido como encarnação do mal. O seu amor pela pintura, a sua vida amorosa, os erros tácticos e as características do seu carácter que levaram tantos a segui-lo cegamente, nada foi esquecido. Patrick Delaforce lutou na segunda guerra mundial, na 11. ª Divisão Blindada, e esteve entre os primeiros a entrar no campo de concentração de Bergen-Belsen, em Abril de 1945. Prosseguiu a sua carreira militar junto do Tribunal de Guerra de Hamburgo. Antes de se tornar escritor, Delaforce trabalhou como despachante de vinhos e dirigiu uma agência de publicidade em Nova Iorque.
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Dewey code: 530.092
List Price: $90.00
Price: $67.51
Review The Iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800 / Boydell Press:Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is rare among figures of the past for the number of authentic paintings, engravings and images of him which survive. He was painted by some nine different artists in the latter part of his life, and after his death both portraits and sculptures continued to proliferate, the amazing demand for representations of his image demonstrating his immense fame. This iconography, lavishly illustrated in both colour and black and white, and involving the disciplines of History of Art and History of Science, catalogues 231 icons in two sections, and is thus an invaluable guide to the images. Part I contains 122 portraits and Part II 109 sculptures, about fifty of which were produced before his death, the rest from then until 1800.
Creator: Ann Maury
Publication date: 1953-09
Dewey code: 920
Price: $37.50
Review Memoirs of a Huguenot Family: And Other Family Manuscripts; Comprising an Original Journal of Travels in Virginia, New-York, Etc., in 1715 and 1716 / Clearfield Co:
Publication date: 2008-09-11
List Price: $66.99
Price: $66.99
Review Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, V1 / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2007-03-26
List Price: $68.68
Price: $68.68
Review Restless Soul, Parts I & II / Trafford Publishing:This is the story of Reverend Charles Harrison Bell (1912-1993), reaching back to his ancestors in the UK, to his early New Zealand settler forebears, and to the lives he touched as a church man, a family man and - a pig farmer. The impact of his evangelist, strong work ethic and impecunious heritage is striking. He was a restless soul, his life one of conflict, torn between farming and the ministry. He chose what he thought was the higher calling but was it - ever - the right path for him? He was continually led astray by the dream of having his own land and his own animals. His parishioners didn't share his dream and he achieved notoriety not popularity as a Reverend Farmer. His commitment was questioned and top appointments in the church eluded him which inflamed his self doubt. As a compassionate, good man, he was a successful pastor, but as a high flyer in the church he was not. His wife came from a wealthy family of successful businessmen and her husband's pitiable earnings and his struggle to succeed both dismayed and touched her. Her own life was marked by tragedy and his by disappointment but they always stood together. Dad was kind hearted, gentle and loving - and always well meaning. [+]Through a combination of sometimes delightful and sometimes dismal naivety, and more than his fair share of bad luck, the tales of his life are often hilarious, often tender, often sad. He wrote a lot and thought a lot. Behind his innate shyness, he felt a lot. This is the extraordinary story of a very ordinary man.
Creator: Publicacoes Europa-América
Publication date: 2008
Price: $68.00
Review O Ficheiro de Hitler - Os Factos Essenciais / Publicacoes Europa-América:Nascido na Áustria, em Abril de 1889, Adolf Hitler suicidou-se num bunker em Berlim, em Abril de 1945, com o exército russo às portas e a Alemanha que jurara fazer renascer reduzida a cinzas. Da infância solitária ao casamento com Eva Braun, Patrick Delaforce apresenta-nos os factos da vida do homem que, de indigente a cabo na primeira guerra mundial, conseguiu erguer-se até governar os destinos de milhões, arrastou o mundo para a segunda guerra mundial e ficou para sempre conhecido como encarnação do mal. O seu amor pela pintura, a sua vida amorosa, os erros tácticos e as características do seu carácter que levaram tantos a segui-lo cegamente, nada foi esquecido. Patrick Delaforce lutou na segunda guerra mundial, na 11. ª Divisão Blindada, e esteve entre os primeiros a entrar no campo de concentração de Bergen-Belsen, em Abril de 1945. Prosseguiu a sua carreira militar junto do Tribunal de Guerra de Hamburgo. Antes de se tornar escritor, Delaforce trabalhou como despachante de vinhos e dirigiu uma agência de publicidade em Nova Iorque.
Publication date: 2000-05-01
Dewey code: 914
List Price: $13.99
Price: $68.51
Review On the Spine of Italy: A Year in the Abbruzzi / Macmillan UK:The author and his wife became the first outsiders to live for a year as part of this small Italian community. They became embroiled in the politics of village life, learning about modern Italy, the relationships with Church and State, emigration effects, and how an old way of life is under constant threat from encroaching towns.
Publication date: 2004-12-20
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $29.95
Price: $69.46
Review Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said / PublishAmerica:With loving respect and a desire to pay homage to many who have passed on and to help keep their personalities and talents alive in the public's mind, I wrote letters to the following celebrities and special people in my life: Orson Welles, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bill Bryant, Howard Hawks, Robert Mitchum, David Janssen, Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Steve McQueen, Natalie Woods, Milton Krasher, Walter Matthau, Ray Walston, Rock Hudson, Cornel Wilde, Gardner McKay, Fred Holliday, Nick Calisono, Vince Edwards, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Charles Bronson, John Carroll, Rex Harrison, Jessica Tandy & Hume Cronyn, Richard Burton, Desmond Llewelyn, Michael Hordan, Joe Mankiewicz, Arthur Shields, Harry Guardino, Rick Jason, John Bernardino, Norma Connolly, Emily McLaughlin, David Lewis and Leon Mirrell. And my family and friends: Richard Castle, Helen Coffey, Mary, Jack Kogel, my father, my mother, Dr. Goodrich, and my daughter. This is my last tribute to many of those wonderful souls that passed through my life that I honor in this way.
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $30.99
Price: $67.37
Review Tizne's Summer Notebook / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2009-02-28
Dewey code: 305
List Price: $68.00
Price: $68.00
Review To Change the World: My Years in Cuba / Rutgers University Press:In To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir and an examination of the revolution's great achievements and painful mistakes, the book paints a portrait of the island during a difficult, dramatic, and exciting time. Randall gives readers an inside look at her children's education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary people's lives. She explores issues of censorship and repression, describing how Cuban writers and artists faced them. She recounts one of the country's last beauty pageants, shows us a night of People's Court, and takes us with her when she shops for her family's food rations. Key figures of the revolution appear throughout, and Randall reveals aspects of their lives never before seen. More than fifty black and white photographs, most by the author, add depth and richness to this astute and illuminating memoir. Written with a poet's ear, depicted with a photographer's eye, and filled with a feminist vision, To Change the World-neither an apology nor gratuitous attack-adds immensely to the existing literature on revolutionary Cuba.
Authors
- Fidel Castro
- Ignacio Ramonet
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 972.91064092
List Price: $119.99
Price: $68.30
Review Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography / Tantor Media:Based on over 100 hours of interviews with Fidel Castro conducted over three years, Fidel Castro: My Life is as close to a memoir as we will ever get from the Cuban leader. Here Castro speaks with raw frankness about the events of his extraordinary life and the legacy he hopes to leave behind.
Creator: David Grant
Publication date: 2003-09
List Price: $74.95
Price: $74.95
Review Still Practising / Chivers Audio Books:The sequel to "Just Practising" continues the early adventures and misdemeanours of the author as a young country vet. It also introduces the RSPCA Animal Hospital at Harmsworth, where Grant is now director.
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1853-1855 (Papers of Jefferson Davis), A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers, Regina's Record, The Man From Cross Plains: A Centennial Celebration of Two-Gun Bob Howard, Christopher Columbus, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History, Fauntleroy Boys, Before The Silver Cord Is Snapped Looking Back On My Journey: Looking Back On My Journey, O Ficheiro de Hitler - Os Factos Essenciais, The Iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800, Memoirs of a Huguenot Family: And Other Family Manuscripts; Comprising an Original Journal of Travels in Virginia, New-York, Etc., in 1715 and 1716, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, V1, Restless Soul, Parts I & II, O Ficheiro de Hitler - Os Factos Essenciais, On the Spine of Italy: A Year in the Abbruzzi, Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said, Tizne's Summer Notebook, To Change the World: My Years in Cuba, Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, Still PractisingTop headlines: Cars: Wheres the Perfect Part?: In the past, finding the perfect part for a classic-car restoration meant joining enthusiast clubs, hanging around swap meets and pawing through junkyards. 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