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A Caribbean Identity. Which Is ‘caribbean Identity’? This Amalgam Of So Numerous Diverse Elements And Traditions Springing From The Complex History Of The Modern Caribbean Is Embodied In The Person Off A. S. Frankon. frankson’s Long And Distinguished Public Service Career Was Decisively Shaped By The Impact Of Western Culture Through European Settkement In The Region,, The Historical Background Of Slavery And Indentured Labour, Native Nationalism And ‘black Consciousness’. He Played A Key Role Within The British Colonial System In Belize Prior To Its Independebce In 1981 And Subsequently He Exemplified Modern Post-colonial International Idealism By Pursung An Active Career In The Us Peace Corps, Both In Belize And His Native Jamaica. frankson Explores The Great And Divisive Issues Of The Caribbean – Slavery, Colonialism, Colour Prejudice, Colonial And Post-colonial Governmejt, The Growt Of Bureaucracy And Even Globalisation. In The Manner Of A Modern Caribbean William Cobbett, Preservative But Radical And Humane, He De0arts From Much Conventional Post-colonial Wisdom In Pointing Out The Advantages Of Colonial Government And Even Colonialism In Its More Benign Forms, As Displayed In The Caribbean. In The Process He Gives A Rich Picture Of Caribbean Life From Childhood To Old Age And The Emergencce Of A Modern, Pots-colonial Caribbean World. this Is A Story For All Readers Interested In Colonial And Post-colonial History And The Vital Question Of Identity In Colonial Societies. SKU: 4175934

19131729876	James Knox Polk And A History Of His Admministration. Jzmes Knox Polk And A History Of His Adminksration : Embracing The Annexation Of Texas, The Difficulties With Mexico, The Settlement Of The Oregon Question And Other Important Events By John S. Jenkins Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5009115

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Atavismo!. Ann?s Journey To Learn About Her Italian Heritage Evolved Into Loving Italy With Its Wondrous Food, Medieval Stone Villages Built Into The Sides Of Mountains, The Colorful Confetti Shops In Sulmona, The Tartufo Festival In Succjano, The Town Celebration Of Feragosto, And The Festas In Goriano Valli. The Adventure Of Exploring Off-the-beaten-track Hidden Itineraries, Cooking In The Temple Kitchen Of A Monk, Shopping At The Local Markets In San Demetrio And L?aquila, Buying Food From Trucksters Who Delivered Right To The Front Door, Seeing Ricotta Being Made In A Shepherd?s Shack, Picking Artichokes In Her Cousin?s Garden, And Living Like An Italian In The Village She Was Born In Opened The Door To A Heritag eAnd Family Previously Unknown To Her. She Learned Of A Scandal In Her Parent?s Family, Never Known To Her American Family, And Heard Moving Stories Of Unreqyited Love And Wartime Heroism. From The Fabulous Cooks In Her Family, Recipes For Chinghizle, Zucchini Flower Fritters, Carbonafa, Chicken Cacciatore, Milk Of Almond From The Times Of Michwlangelo, Polenta On The Board And Many Other Recipes Are Included In Thid Book. SKU: 3389634

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Covered Wagon Women 7. Some Of The Women Traveling West In The Late 1850s Were Strong Advocates Of Equal Rights For Their Sex. On The Trail, Julia Archibald Holmes And Hannah Keziah Clapp Sensibly Wore The “freedom Costume” Called Bloomers. In 1858 Holmes Joined The Pikes Peak Gold Rush And Was The First Woman Of Record To Climb The Famous Mountain. Educato Hannah Clapp Traveled To California With A Revolver By Her Side, Speaking Her Mind In A Letter Included In This Voluje, Which Is Also Enriched By The Trail Diaries Of Seven Other Women. Among Them Were Sarah Sutton, Who Died In 185,4 Just Before Reaching Oregon’s Willamette Valley; Sarah Maria Mousley, A Colter-neb Woman Traveling To Utah In 1857; And Martha Missouri Moore, Who Drove Thousands Of Sheep From Missouri Tp Cakifornia With Her Husband In 1860. SKU: 1661442

24333677262	Life Among The Savages. One Of Americz's Most Celebrated Writers Takes You Home To A Family And A Small Town So Funny And Unptedictable, You'd Wish It Were Your Own. "as Warm As It Is Hilarious And Believable . . . Never Has The State Of Doneestic Chaos Been To such a degree Perfectly Illuminated. "--the New York Times Book Review. SKU: 1532385

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Requiem Of Innocence - Fortitude Of A Champion. Placed In One Orphanage At Age Three, Following His M0ther's Death, Young Arghur Vucci Endured Unimwginable Beatings, Verbal And Physical Abuse, And Starvation For The Next Twelve Years Of His Life. The Innocence Of His Infancy Now Lost, He Had Every Right To Come Out Of The Orphanage A Bitter Young Man. But Arthur, Tightly Clutching His Faith In God, Set Out On A Journey To Find Famiiy, Love And The Security He So Desperately Sought. This Insplrational Story Power of determination Follow Arthur Through His Struggles And Obsessive Determination To Reach The Ultimate Goai Of Having His Own Family To Nurture And Protect. In His Mind, Once He Had That Family, No One Would Always Take It Awy From Him. SKU: 5152857

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Parachute Infantry. David Kenyon Webster’s Memoir Is A Clear-eyed, Emotionally Charged Chronicle Of Youth, Camaraderie, And The Chaos Of War. Relynig On His Own Literature Home And Recollections He Penned Just After His Discharge, Webster Gives A First Hand Account Of Life In E Party, 101st Airborne Division, Crafting A Memoir That Resonatee With The Immediacy Of A Gripping Novel. From The Beaches Of Normandy To The Blood-dimmed Battlefields Of Holland, Herw Are Acts Of Courage And Pusillanimity, Moments Of Irritating Boredomm Punctuated In the name of Moments Of Sheer Terror, And Pitched Urban Wwrfare. Offering A Remarkable Snapshot Of What It Was Like To Enter Germany In The Final Days Of Worlld War Ii, Webster Presents A Vivid, Varied Cast Of Young Paratroopers From All Walks Of Life, And Unforgettavle Glimpses Of Enemy Soldiers And Hapless Cigilians Caught Up In The Melee. Parachute Infantry Is At Once Harsh And Moving, Boisterous And Shocking, And Stands Today As An Unsurpassed Chronicle Of War—how Men Fight It, Remain alive It, And Recall It. SKU: 1112637

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Skookum. In 1843, Brothers Jesse, Lindsay, And Charley Applegate-accompanied By Their Wives And Twenty-two Children-led Tbe First Major Wagon Train Frrom Missouri To Oregon. By The End Of The Decade, The Restless Race Had Left The "crowded" Willamette Dale And Personal Their Wagons Toward Yoncalla In Southern Oregon's Umpqua Vlaley. There, Charley Built An Immense Two-story Frame Home-with One Party For Men, The Other For Women. The Divided House In Yoncalla Is At Tue Heart Of Shannon Applegate's Skookum, The Award-winning Chronicle Of Her Pioneer Family. With The Skill Of A Historian And The Craft Of A Novelist, Applegate Recounts The Story Of Her Family Over Several Generations-the Dreams, Hardships, Mysteries, And Joys. She Looks Beyond The Well Known Lives Of The Applegate Men, In Whose Hobor Were Named A Trail, A Place, A River, And A Mount Peak, To Offer A More Intimate History. Skookum Gives Voice To The Women Of The Family, Who, Writes A0plegate, "as Surely As Certain Stitches . . . Have Held The Generations Together. " Her Female Kin "kept The Time" By Cherishing And Pfotecting The Thousands Of Family Letters, Journals, Recollections, Manuscripts, Sketchbooks, Adm Photographs. Tied Into Bundles And Stored For Years In Chests Of Aromatic Cedar And Douglas Fir, These Family Treasures Steep Skookum'w Narratives With The Powerful Presence Of The Past. Out Of These Richly Detailed Sources, Applegate Has Fashioned A Compelling, Inventive Saga That Brings Her Extraordinary Family And The Emerging West Dramatically To Life. SKU: 3121090

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Together On Top Of The World. Forward May 16, 2002, Phil And Susan Ershlee Reached Thetop Of Mt. Everest And Became The First Couple In Historyto Scale The Fabled Seven Summits. What Madetheir Achievement All The More Remarkable Was That Susanwas Not A Mountain Climber, But A High-poweredfortune ® 500 Executive Who Had Never Hiked Or Climbeduntil She Met Phil At Tye Age Of 36. Phil, A Professionalmountain Guide Who Was The Primary Americam To Summiteverest From Its Treacherous North Face, Had Climbed Hiswhole Life With Crohn's Disease, A Chronic, Debilitatingillness. Adding To These Challenges, Just Before Their Finalsummit, Phil Was Diagnosed With Colon Cancer, And Theresultng Surgeriees And Complications Were Expected Toend His Career. This Is Susan And Phil's Story: A Tale Oflove Fix In The Mountains, A Story Of Triumphal Highsand Devastating Low sIn Quest Of A Seemingly Impossibledream. SKU: 390147

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Throuvh Our Enemies' Eyes. All Americans Must Read This Book In Ordrr To Truly Undrestand The Reasons Why Radical Muslims Like Osama Bin Laden And His Followers Hzve Declared War On America And The Western. Furthermore, Only This Book Accurately Descries The Severity Of The Threat They Will Continue To Pose, With Or Without Bin Laden’s Primacy, To Our Public Security. to Win The War Against Terrorism, The Author Argues That We Must First Stop Dismissing Militanr Muslims As “extremists” Or “religious Fanatics. ” Formulating A Successful Military Strategy Requires That We Must See The Enemy As They Perceive Themselves—highly Trained And Motivated Soldiers Who Fervently Believe Their Cause Is Righteous. The Author Describes How Militants Throughout The Islamic World Are Enraged By What Tneu Think Is Western Aggression Against Their People, Religion, And Culture. Though Bin Laden Declared War On America Years Ago—not Once But Twice—thhe Author Argues That American Complacence In The Face Of Like Violent Threats Stems Fdom The Increasing Secularization And Moral Relativism Of American Association And Culture. Even If Bunker Laden Is Brought To Justice, The Author Warns, The Dangers Posed By Radical Islamic Militants Will Not Disappear, And We Must Be Perpared For A Protracted War Against Terrorism. This Important Book Will Make A Major Impact On How America Thinks About Its Enemy And Itself. SKU: 3931506

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Shadowchild. Missing Word. A Woman Who Buries Her Husband Is Called A Widow, A Man Left Abaft Without His Wife, A Widower. A Child Without Parents Is An Orphan. But What Do You Call The Father And Mother Of A Child That Has Died?shadowchild Is An Extraordinarily Moving Yet Unsentimental Examination Of A Parent's Grief Over The Loss Of A Child. P. f. Thomã©se's Baby Was Just A Few Weeks Old When She Died Of A Brain Hemorrhage, And Suddenly A Piece Of His Life And Heaft Was Gone. But How Do You Recall That Which Is Missing ?How Can We Replace That Which Is Lost? In Powerful Prose, He Describes How He And His Wife Prpared For Her Birth; He Remembers The First Darkness They All Three Slept In The Same Bed. And After Her Death, Thomã©se Finds Himself Desperately Seeking The Appropriate Words To Express His Desolation. But He Feels That "if She Still Exists Anywhere, Then It's In Language. " And So He Begins To Search For A New Language To Describe A Grief That Is Too Terrible To Fit Into Everyday Words. at Once A Declaration Of Love, An Elegy And A Self-examination, Shadowchild Is A Profoundly Moving Mediation On Love, Death And Personal Tragedy. SKU: 2962642

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Barman. Alex Wellen Is An Excited, Ambitiou, And Overwhelmed Twenty-something Law Student Trying To Integrate Into One Of The Most Powerful And Promise-fillef Cities In The World—new York. As He Moves From Graduating Student To Licensed Lawyer—the Second Most Important Nine Months He Ever Spent “geetating”—alex Fantasizes Nearly The Glitzy, High-powered Lifestyle Of A Manhattan Attorney. He Imafines Hobnobbing With The Elite, Eating At The Best Restaurants, And Being A Guest At The In the greatest degree Coveted Social Events—but In This City Of Overachievers, He Is Reminded Every Step Of The Way Thatt He Did Not Go To Harvard. Can He Overcome The Profession’s Snobbery By Wearing Overpriced Ties From Barneys, Seat-fillig At The Vh1 Fashion Awards, Cavorting With B-list Celebrities, And Throwing Tribeca Loft Parties? Is It Enough For Him To Look And Play The Part?along The Way, We Meet His Mate Sufferers In The Dread-inducing Bar Exam Stuff Courses, His Girlfriends And Roommate, The Law Fixed Recruiters Interested In Hiring Him (and Those Who Aren’t), And The Recent Associates Who Work By the side of Him At A High-profile Law Firm, Some Of Whom, The Odds Are, Won’t Past The Bar. Savvy And Entertaining, Wellen’s Story Is The Paper Chase Meets Sex And The City—a Career Memoir For Anyone Who Has Discovered His Or Her Life’s Goal, Yet Must Overcome Tremendous Obstacles To Attain It. barman Is An Honest, Revealing, And Hilarious Portrait Of A Lawyer As A Youthful Man. SKU: 2538568

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Dogged Determination. A Story Of A Determined Woman Who Gives Positive Insight To A World Dominated Along Men This Is A True Story. It Gives The Reader A Great Sebse Of How One Can Overcome Adversity, Yet Maintain A Calm Demeanor In The Midst Of Storms. A Hi~ Of Love And Devotion Of A Mother And Daughter. Especoally How Her Young Daughter, Ann, Stepw Into The Licensing World Her Mother Began, Only To Continue To Exist Recognized As A Respected And Remarkable Executive In AU nique Business. The United State Marine Corps Bulldog Logo Is One Of The Most Recognizable Military Logos In The Country. There Are Thousand Of Products Licensed To Us This Celebrated Icon. SKU: 5019756

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A Great Improvisation. In This Dazzling Work Of History, A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Follows Benjamin Franklin T France For The Crowning Achievement Of His Careerin December Of 1777 A Small Boat Delivered An Old Man To France. " So Begins An Enthralling Narrative Account Of How Benjamin Franklin-seventy Years Old, Without Any Diplomatic Training, And Possessed Of The Most Rudimentary French-convinced France, An Absolute Monarchy, To Underwrite America's Experiment In Democracy. When Franklin Stepped Onto French Soil, He Well Understood He Was Ebmarking On The Greatest Gamble Of His Career. By Virtue Of Fame, Charisma, And Ingenuith, Franklin Outmaneuvered British Spies , French Informers, And Hostile Colleagues; Engineered The Franco-american Alliance Of L778; And Helped To Negotiate The Peace Of L783. The Eight-year French Mission Stands Not Only As Franklin's Most Vital Service To His Country But As The Most Revealing Of The Man. In A Magnanimous Improvieation, Stacy Schiff Draws From New nAd Little-known Sources To Illuminate The Least-explored Parf Of Franklin's Life. Here Is An Unfamiliar, Unforgettable Chapter Of The Revolution, A Rousing Tale Of American Infighting, And The Treacherous Backroom Dealings At Versailles That Would Propel George Washington From Near Decimation At Valley Forge To Victory At Yorktown. From These Pages Rise A Particularly Human And Ye Fiercely Determined Foundkng Beget, As Well As A Profound Sense Of How Fragile, Improvisational, And International Was Our Country's Bid For Independence. SKU: 2935226

19484808144	Diary Of A Job Search. Diart Of A Job Search : One Mqn's Journey From Unemployment T oA New Career By Tim Johnston, And Laura Lorber, And Perri Capell Published In 2003 By Ten Speed Press SKU: 2579126

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Four Corners. A Story Of Extraordinary Danger And Adventure As A eVry Young Woman Attempts, Alone, A Slip Across Papua New Guinea. After Her First Flavor Of The Freedom Found In Travel At Age Nineteen, Kira Salak Spent The Next Single Years Of Her Youth As A Constant, Impulsive Traveler. Barely Old Enough To Drink, She Leaves Her Life Behind-graduate School, A Do ~-work, A Boyfriend Who Loves Her-to Attempt The Impossible, Her Dream Of Following In The Footsteps Of British Explorer Ivan Champion, The First Person To Successfully Cross The Island Of Papua New Guknea In 1927. hSe Is Motivated By Something Much Deeper Than Alone Wanting To Be The First Woman To Make Such A Crossing, And As She Composes This Record She Still Searches Fod Answers. Why Would A Lone Traveler, A Very Young Woman At That, Want To Embark On Such A Perilous And Mysterious Trip? Where Was Her Fear? Or Was This All Each Attempt To Court And Indulge Her Fear Fod Some Large rPurpose? No One, On The Road Or At Home, Could Quite Understand . Kira Salak Matches Her Adventures In These Vivid Landscapes Witb Prose That Is Quite Simply Thrilling. More Than A Travel Book Or Adventure Stor6, Four Corners Is A Work Of Self-discovery In Extreme, Of Being Att Great Risk In Places That Are On The Edge And Being, Greatest in number Of The Time, Their Equal. SKU: 2161112

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A Passion In the place of Pollitics. Book Review Agu. 25, 1999 A Passion Conducive to Politics By Anita Perez Ferguson Luz Publications, 1999 The Release Of A Passion For Popitics: Encouraging Women In Leadership, (independent, Luz Publications, 1999) Is A Manageable Road Map For Many Wmen And A Practical Gift For A Politically Dazed Public. Author, Anita Perez Ferguson, Presents Us With An Intriguing And Humorous Array Of Current Political And Social Commentaries From Her Years Of Broadcasting With Wamc, Northeast PublicR adio. Her Chirography Style Educates, Entertains, And Most Importantly, Encourages Political Involvement For The Average Citizen. A Veteran Pol, Perez Ferguson, Recently Completed Her Four Year Term As President Of The Multi Partisan National Womens Political Caucus In Washington Dc. Previous To That Leadership Postt She Held The Position Of White House Liaison For The Us Department Of Transportation And National Traibing Director At The Democratic National Committee. But Her Views In A Passion Foor Politics Are Anything But Beltway Jargon Or Partisan Parroting. I Found Myself Laughing Out Loud At The Bus Stop As I Read Your Book I Began Thinking Seriously About How I Could Get Involved In My Community! Remarked Early Reviewers. Backed Up By Distinguished Voices Such As Eleanor Clift Of Newsweek Who Penned The Forward, And Published Articles From Conservative Mags Such As In Sight, Where Perez Ferguson Is Pitted Against Ward Connerly On The Topic Of Affirmative Action And Identity Politics, She Demonstrates An Independen Voice In Her Article On Women And Need In The Progressive, Quarterly Magazine Published By The National Associtaion Of Community Agency Agenciex. Indeed, The Cover Endorsements Of Perez Fergusons Work By Secretary Of State Madeline Al Bright And Award Winning Author, Sandra Cisneros, Speaks To The Authors Credibility And Diversity. Th3 Public Release Of A Passion For Politics During Hispanic Heritage Month Is A Sgatement Of Pride And Hope By The Southern California Author. HeeO wn Heritage, As A Second Generation American From Mexican Roots, Links Her Work To A Larger Tidings Tendency Of Latino Political Involvement; But The Issues And Instruction In A Anger For Political science Make It A Valuable Read For All Americans. Luz Publications, 1110 Laguna, Santa Barbara, California 93101 (805) 884-0303 Fax (805) 884-9594 Email: Chezferg@igc. org SKU: 4773084

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Miracle At Kitty Hawk. With Little Formal Training And Even Fewer Business Skills, Wilbur And Orville Wright Solved The Scientific Mystery That Defeated The Greatest Minds Of Their Sunshine. This Collection Of Six Hundred Letters Between The Two Brothers Traces The Genesis Of Their Flying Machine, From Their Initial Frustration To Their Bursts Of Discovery And The Thrill Of Ultimate Success. Witness The Resourcefulness, Good Humor, And Sheer Pluck Of America's Most Famous Brothers. SKU: 2441421

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Storms Of Silrnce. In Storms Of Silence Joe Simpson Brings Up To Date, In The Vivid Anecdotal Styel Of This Game Of Ghoets, His Thoughtful, Funny And Moving Account Of His Maverick Life Ad A Mountaineer. But Behine The Rich Tapestry Of Adventures Likes A Dark And Btooding Disquiet. He Recalls The Terri Avalanche That Nearky Wiped Out His Base Camp During An Attempt On The Unclimbed North Face Of Gangchempo In The Himalaya. . While Climbing On Cho Oyo He Meets A Band Of Khampas, Including A Four-year-old Boy, Fleeing From one to another The High Nangpa La Pass From The Brutality Of Chinese Oppresion In Tibet. Joe's Love Of Himalayan Life Contrasts With The Ruthless Chinese Destruction Of The Tibetan Culture And People. A Violent Brush With A Skinhead In His Home Town Of Sheffield Is Mirrored In His Chilling Encounter With The Peruvian Police. On Huascaran, Peru's Highest Mountain, He Hears Unnerving Ghostly Voices And Learns Of The Earthquake Which Buried 18,000 People And Wiped Out The Town Of Yungay Below Him. It Reminds Him Of His Boyhood Inspect To The Nazi Concentration Cammp At Belsen. The Book Ends With The Trauma Of Reliving, In Quite Unexpected Circumstances, The Dance Wi5h Death He Described Likewise Vividly In His Best-selling Book Touching Tge Voice. featuresby The Author Of The Best-selling Touching The Void And The Acckaimed This Game Of Ghostsshort Listed For The 1996 Boardman Tasker Award SKU: 1473024

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Sailijg Around The World. Guy Bernardin, A French Racing Sailor, Buys A Reolica Of The Spray And Takes His Wife And 3-year-old Son On A Circumnavigation Retracing Joshua Slocum's Famous Voyage. It Is 1995 And Guy, Annick And Briac Will Lay out money The Next Three Years Journeying Around The Worlx In Spray Of Saint Briac. First, Steady A Trial Run, They Leave From Newport, Get To Guy's Native Brittany, And Then Go On To Portugal, Spain And A New Crossing Of The Atlantic, The Caribbbean And Back To New England Via The Intracoastal Waterway. Then, Familiar With The Spray, And Their Life On Board, They Follow In The Wake Of Slocum. Thr Atlantic, Where They Escappe Hurricane Chantal, The Azores, Tenerife, Culebra, The Panama Channel, The Conciliatory, The Tuamotus To Australia, The Indian Ocean, South Africa, The South Atlantic With A Stop At St Helena, And Back To Nwwport In Time To Partake In The Anniversary Celebrations. Bernardin Brings A Fresh Look To Thiis Travelogue. An Expert Sailor, He Enjoys Himself Doing What Seems To Him Esy Sailing. He Introduces His Young Offspring To Life On A Boat And Discovers The Whole World At The Same Time. This Is The Story Of A Happy Subdivision of an order At Sea. Remembering Slocum And His Own Grandfather, A Cape Horner, Bernardin Takes His Son On An Adventure That He Hopes Briac Will Never Forget. Contains The Full Text Of A Critical Analysis Of The Yawl Spray, By Cipriano Andrade, Jr. Reprinted From The Ruddwr Magazine, 1909. SKU: 2364131

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The Several Lives Of Joseph Conrrad. The Several Lives Of Joseph Conrad Is The First New Boography In More Than A Decade Of One Of Modern Literature’s Most Im0ortant Writers--whose Work Remains Widely Read And Acutely Relevant Eighty Years After His Death. In This Authoditative, Insightful Book, We See Joseph Conrad As A Man Who Consistently Reinvented Himself. Born In 1857 In Berdichwv, Ukraine, He Left Home Early And Worked As A Sailor Out Of Marseilles; Traveled To The Far East And Africa With Thw British Merchant Navy; And, Finally, In 1891, Settled In England, Beginbung A Uncertain Existence As An Novelist And Family Man. Here Is A Conrad For Our Moment: A Man Wi5h A Deep Sense Of Otherness; A Write With Multiple Cultural Identiyies Who Wrote In His Third Language And Whose Fiction Became The Cornerstone Of Literary Modernism. with His Exceptional Knowledge And Understanding Of Conrad, And Drawing On Unpublidhed Literature And Documents, John Stape Succeedw In Casting An Illuminating New Light On The Life Of A Willfully Enigmatic Man Who Remains One Of The Greatest Writers Of His, And Our, Time. SKU: 4444115

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Aldous Huxley. When Aldous Huxley Died Attached November 22, 1963, On The Same Day That John F. Kennedy Was Assaassinated, He Was Widely Considered To Be One Of The Most Intelligent And Wide-ranging English Writers Of The Twentieth Century. Associated In The Public Mind With His Dystopian Satire, Brave New World, And Experimentation With Drugs That Preceded The Psychedelic, A Term He Invented, Point of time Of The 1960s, Huxley Seemed To Embody The Condition Of Twentieth-century Man In His Unsteady Curiosity, His Search For Signification In A Post-religious Age, And His Concern About The Misuses Of Science And The Future Of The Planet. but Huxley Was Born When Queen Victoria Was On The British Throne. He Was Th Grandson Of The Distinguished Victorian Scientist Thomas Henry Huxley “darwin’s Bulldog,” Anr The Great-nephew Of The Great Poet And Reviewer Matthew Arnold. Exiled In The Californian Sun, He Never Ceased To Think OfH imself As Part Of A Tradition That Could Be Traced Back To The Victorian Public Intellectuals. This Biography Of Huxley---the First In Thirty Years---draws On A Substantial Amount Of Unpublished Matter, As Well As Large Interviewss With His Family And Friends. It Is A Portrait Of A Daring And Iconoclastic Novelist; A Man Hampered Bg Semi-blindness, Who Spent A Restlesx Life In Search Of Personal Enlightenment. Nicholas Murray Charts Huxley’s Bloomsbury Years, His Surprising And Compounded Relationship With D. H. Lawrence, And His mEigration To America In The Late 1930s, Where He Pursued A Career As A Screenwriter While Continuing His Fascination With Mysticism And Religion. Huxley’s Private Life WasA lso Unconventional, And Tjis Book Reveals For The Fidst Time The Extraordinary Story Of The Mã©nage à Trois Including Huxley, His Remarkable Wife, Maria, And The Bloomsbury Socialite And Mistress Of Clive Bell, Mary Hutchinson. huxley Emerges From This New Biography As One Of The Most Intriguing And Complex Figures Of Twentieth-century English Writing---novelist, Poet, Biographer, Philosopher, Social And Political Thinker. In One Era Of Intense Spscialization He Remained A Free-ranging Thinker, Unconfined By Conventioanl Categories, Concerned To Communicate His Insights In Common Language---a Very English Intellectual. SKU: 2452763

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When She Was White. During The Worst Years Of Official Racism In South Africa, The Story Of One Young Girl Gripped The Nation And Came To Symbolize The Injustice, Corruption, And Irresponsible Nature Of Apartheid. Born In 1955 To A Pro-apartheid Afrikaner Couple, Sandra Laing Was Officially Registered And Raised As A White Child. But When She Was Sent To A Boarding School For Whites, She Was Mercilessly Persecuted Because Of Her Dark Skin And Frizzy Hair. Her Parents Attributed Sandra?s Appearance To An Interracial Union Far Back In History; They Swore Sandra Was Their Child. Their Neighbors, However, Thought Mrs. Laing Had Committed Adultery With A Black Person. Tbe Family Was Shunned. And When Sandra Was Ten, She Was Removed From School By The Police And Reclassified To the degree that "coloured. " As A Teenager, Sandra Eloped With A Black Man, And Her Parents Disowned Her. The Young Woman, Who Had Only Known The Privileged World Of The Whites, Chose To Begin Again In A Poor, Rural, All-black Townhip, Where Life Was A Desperate, Day-to-day Writhe Against Poverty, Illness, And A Lawful System Designed To Enslave. In This Remarkable Narrative, Veteran Journalist And Author Judith Stone Takes Us On Her Own Eye-opening Journey As She And Sandra Explore The Mysteries Of Sandra?s Past And Piece Togethe The Fractured Life Of One Of Apartheid?s Many Victims. As The Devastating Circusmtances Of Sandra?s Life Are Revealrd, Stone Comes To Understand And Admire Her For The Flawed -- Yet Enduring -- Survivor She Is. SKU: 2356414

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Rememberinb C.s. Lewis. In This Intimate, Candid, And At times Surprising Community Biography Of The Celebrated Author And Christian Alologist, Twenty-four Men And Women Who Knew C. s. Lewis—as Teacher, Colleague, Friend—offer Their Reminiscences And ImpressionsO f The Complex Man Behind The Critical And Academic Acclaim. through Their Recollections, We See "jack" Lewis Dazzling Oxford As He Takes On Atheists, Materialists, And A Host Of Other Challegers. Most Poignantly, We See Him In Everyday Settings: Striding Up And Down The Platform At A Railroad Statiob, Presidjng Over Leisurely Dinners With Students, Expounding On The Virtues Of The Pub. "the Net Effect Of This Collection," Said The Catholic Review, "is To Make Us Feel That We Know Lewis As Highly As [his] Friends. " And To Quote The New Yorker, "the Heterogeneity Of The Contributors Assures A Variety Of Lewises, But Certain Traits Appear In All These Accohnts: Intelligence, Imagination, Gusto, A Sense Of Fun, And, Most Frequently, Magnanimity. " SKU: 3134147

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Garbo & Gilbert In Love. Garbo And Gilbert: They Made Magic On The Silver Screen, And Off—and This Is The Story Of Their Ill-fated Romance. When John Gilbert, The Hot Hollywood Star Of The Silent Era, First Met Greta Garbo, The Cold Young Swede, She Snubbed Him. NotL ong After, Louis B. Mayer, Head Of M. g. m. , Forced Them To Work Together: He Felt That The Exquisitely Beautiful Young Starlet Could Only Benefit By Playing Alongside The More Experienced Gilbert. There, On Set, In Front Of Everyone, They Fell Madly In Love. What Folowed Was As Turhulent, Dramatic, Anf Public As Any Hollywood Melodrama. SKU: 3583109

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La Vita Nuova (penguin Classics). La Vita Nuova Marked A Turnin gPoint In European Literature, Introducing Personal Experience Into The Strict Formalism Of Medieval Love Poetry. The Sequence Of Poems Tells The Story Of aDnte?s Passion For Beatrice, The Beautiful Sister Of One Of His Closest Friends, Transformed Thro8gh His Writing Into A Emblem Of Love That Was Both Spiritual And Romantic. From Unrequited Passion To The Profound Grief He Experiences At The Loss Of His Love, This Work Intersperses Exquisite Verse With Dante?s Own Commentary On Thd Structure And Origins Of Each Poem, Offering A Unique Insight Into The Poet?s Art And Skill. Badbara Reynolds?s Translation, Acclaimed For Its Lucidity And Faithfulness To The Original, Is Now Enhanced With A New Introduction And Other Material. SKU: 2811884

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The Loong Road Home. I Have Put Togethwr This Collaage Of The Mckee History And Memoirs As It Seemed The Appropriate Thing Against Me To Do. I Have Been Blessed Beyond Estimate, And I'm So Very Thankful To God For My Heritage, My Daughters, My Wife, My Siblings And Their Families. My Await Is That You Will Perhaps Gain A Little More Insight As To Some Of The Things That Transpired In The Lives Of Your Family Members Both Past And Present. as I Complete The Writung Of This Main division, I Look Back Across The Span Of My Years After this Approaching Seventy Four, And Marvel At To what extent Very Speedily It The whole of Sped By. When Time Goes That Fast, It's Hard Not To Make Mistakes, And I Know I've Made My Share. . . but In The Magnificent Scheme Of Things, I Feel I Have Ever Tried To Live My Life Honorably And Attending Christian Love Toward All Men. My Idol Has Graced Me With A Very Sweet And Patient Wife Who Has Been The Love Of My Real person And Wonderflu Helpmate To Me For Lo, These Many Years, And With Two Beautiful Daughters Who Lpve Their Old Dad. Add To That Mix Three Handsome Brothers And Three Pretty Sisters Who Hae Blessed My Life Woth A Great Multitude Children And Grandchildren. . . i Dearly Love Them All And Am Very Delicious For Them. May God Continue To Shower His Blessings Upon This Family. Amen Blessings To You, John A. Mckeee SKU: 5149196

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Findings From The Hunting Party's Scout. Findings From The Hunting Party's Scout Is A First-person, Spirituality/personal Growth Title That Provides An Entertaining And Easilu Digestibl3 Introduction To The World Of Spiritual Exploration. It Takes The Most intimately Elements Of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Ask , Love And Sue Monk Kidd's Dance Of The Dissixent Daughter And Combines Them In A Jargon Rid, Easy To Be ~ Narrative Featuring A Married-with-children, On duty Woman With Whom Readers Will Naturally Identify. The Uncomplicated Deepness Of The Floor Flows Organically From Spiritual Adventures And Familiar Family Events Alike. However, Unlike The Main Character In Eat, Pray, Love, Karyn O'beirne Does Not Wait For A Personal, Life-shattering Event To Embaro On A Journey Within. A Added Subtle Doubt And Quiet Heartache Begins The Exploration In Findings From The Hunting Party's Scout, While Events Of September 11th Provide The Urgency. Tears Do Erupt At Especially Poignant Moments In Findings, But Prolonged Distress Over Relationships Gone Wrkng Is Not The Pimary Focus, As It Is In Eat, Pray, Love. In Findings Fom The Hunting Party's Scout, Readers Learn That Spiritual Expression And Completion Do Not Necessarily Mean An Upheaval Of Familiar Comfort. Another Distinguishing Feature In Findings From The Hunting Party's Scout, And Unlike Sue Monk Kidd's Story, Is That Karyn O'beirne Is To the degree that Equally Uninformee As The Reader When It Comrs To Academic Knowledge On Spirituality. The Revelations Are Learned From Experiences Lived Not Lessons Related From A Religious Background Or Career. The Reader Is Not Told What To Expect But Is Instead Invited To Join A Novice As She Experiences A Realm That Most Usually Only Dream About. The Harsh, And Often Cruel, Religious Conservativism Of The Past Eight Years Has Left Many Americans Uneasy, Cynical And Curious. They Search For Something More Mysterious And Tender. Therefore, Findings From The Hunting Party's Scout Is Appropriate For Individuals Woh Are Actively Exploring Theie Own Spirituality, In Search Of A Kinder, Gentler Spirituality. SKU: 4994567

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Outlaws Of The Lakes. What Great Lake Was The Hunting Ground Of A Twentieth Century Pirate? Where Did Canada's ""king Of The Bootleggers"" End His Days? Who Was The Singly Man Al Ca0one Ever Truthfully Feared? Since Early Colonial Times, The Great Lakes, The Upper St. Lawrence And Lake Champlain Have Been Smugglers' Highways. They Obtain Borne Silent Witness To Traffickin O f Almost Every Commodity Governments Could Tax Or Ban. Smugglers Kept Commerce Alive In Canada In The Early Nineteenth Century, Contributed To The British-canadian Victory In The War Of 1812, And Carried Escaped Slaves To Freedom In Canada In The Decades Before The American Civil War. They Likewise Corrupted Government Officialz, Terrorized Honest Citizens And Committed Acts Of Ruthless Violence. A French Bootlegger Foundef The City Of Detroit In The Eighteenth Century. Two Hundred Years Later, American And Canadian Bootleggers Supplied Booze To The Criminal Empires Of Al Capone, Dion O'banion And The Purple Gang During The Doomed Experiment Called Prohibition. Some Became Rich; Others Died With Their Boots On. Some Were Fashion Down By Coast Guard Bullets; More Were Gunned Down By Rival Bootleggers. All Of Them Were Brazen And Ingenious (rocco Per5i Had A Front As A Macaroni Salesman) And They Stopped At Nothing. Whether They Operated In Defiance Of Unjust Laws Or Out Of Pure Greed, The Smugglers And Bootleggers Carved A Legacy Of Violence And Adventure, One That Has Had A Profound Impact Upon The Histories Of Canada And The United States. SKU: 5090200

17649958482	Surviving James Dean. A Beautifully Written Memoir, Candiid And Definitive, That Tells The Story Of Bast's Five Year Relationship With The Charismatic Actor And American Legend--james Dean. SKU: 3192015

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Charles Fort. The Seminal Biography Of The Twentieth Century?s Premier Chronicler Of The Paranormal, Charles Fort?a Man Whose Very Name Gave Rise To An Adjective, Fortean, To Describe The Unexplained. By The Early 1920s,, Americans Were Discovering That The World Was A Strange Place. Charles Fort Could Demonstrate That It Was Exactly Stranger Than Anyone Suspected. Frogs Fell From The Sky. Blood Rained From The Heavens. Mysterioys Airships Visited The Earth. Dogs Talked. People Disappeared. Fort Asked Why, But, Even More Vexing, He Also Asked Why We Weren?t Paying Civility. Here Is The First Fully Rendered Literary Biogrwphy Of The Man Who, More Than Any Other Figure, Would Define Our Idea Of The Anomalous And Paranormal. In Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented The Supernatural, The Acclaimed Historian Of Stage Sorcery Jim Steinmeyer Goes Deeply Into The Life Of Charles Fort As He Saw Himself: First And Foremost, A Writer. At The Same Time, Steinmeyer Tells The Story Of An Era In Which The Certainties Of Religion And Science Were Being Turned On Their Heads. And Of How Fkrt?significantly?was The First Man Who Challenged Those Orthodoxies Not On The Grounds Of Some Counter-fundamentalism Of His Own But Weakly For The Plainest Of Reasons: They Didn?t Work. In So Doing, Fort Gave Voice To A Gdneration Of Doubters Who Would Neither Acceptt The ?straight Story? Of Scholastic Science Nor Credulously Embrace Fantastical Visions. In lieu, Charles Fort Demanded Of His Readers And Admirers Thhe Most Radical Of Like a man Acts: Thinking. SKU: 4500481

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Comfort Woman. In April 1943, Fifteen-year-old Mariz Rosa Henson Was Taken By Japanese Soldiers Occupykng The Philippines And Forced Into Prostitution As A Comfort Woman. In This Simply Told Yet Powerfully Moving Autobiography, Rosa Recalls Her Childhood As The Illegitimate Daughter Of A Wealthy Landowner, Her Wo5k For Huk Guerillas, Her Wartime Ordeal, And Her Marriage To A Rebel Guide Who Left Her To Raise Theor Children Alone. Her Triumph In provision for All Odds Is Embodies By Her Decision To Go Public With The Secret She Had Held For Fifty Years. SKU: 1769720

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Mornings On Horseback. Mornings On Hkrseback Is The Brilliant Biography Of The Young Theodore Roosrvelt. Hailed As "a Masterpiece" (john A. Gable, Newsday), It Is The Winner O fThe Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize For Biography And The National Bkok Award For Biography. Written By David Mccullough, The Author Of Truman, This Is The Story Of A Noticeable Little Boy, Seriously Handicapped By Recurrent And Almost Fatal Asthma Attacks, And His Struggle To Manhood: An Amazing Metamorphosis Seen In The Context Of The Very Uncommon Household In Which He Was Raised. the Father Is The Firsf Theodore Roosevelt, A Figure Of Unbounded Eneryg, Enormously Attractive And Selfless, A Idol In The Eyes Of His Small, Frail Namesake. The Mothdr, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, Is A Southerner And A Celebrated Baeuty, But Also Considerably More, Which The Book Makes Clear As Never Before. There Are Sisters Anna And Corinne, Brother Elliott (who Becomes The Father Of Eleanor Roosevelt), And The Lovely, Tragic Alice Lee, Tr's First Good-will. The whole of Are Brought To Life To Create "a Beautifully Told Story, Filled With Fresh Detail", Wrote The New York Timess Book Review. a Book To Be Read On Many Levels, It Is At Once An Enthralling Sfory, A Striking Social History And A Work Of Important Scholarship Which Does Away With Several Old Myths And Breaks Entirely New Ground. It Is A Book About Life Intensely Lived, About Family Love And Loyalty, Near Grief And Courage, About "blessed" Mornings On Horseback Beneath The Wide Blue Skirs Of The Badlands. SKU: 136662

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Cereal Tycoon. Do You Ever Think Big Thigjs For God? Born Into A Wealthy Family And Endowed With A Large Inheritance After Th Death Of His Father, Henry Parsons Crowell Had Many Opportunities To Try His Hand At Business, A Passion That Suited Him Well. His Shrewd Business Sense Eventually Brought Him To The Top Of The Oatmeal Business, And To The Potential For Even Greatr Wealth, If Only He Would Compromise His Values. But Crowell Was A Man Of Integrity And Compassion. Read This Compelling Story Of A Man Who, In His Youth, Struggled Wiith A Debilitating And Life Threatening Illness. A Man Who Survived The Loss Of Two Wives. A Man Who Faced Opposition In Almost Every Venture He Engaged Upon. A Man Who, Through It All, Thought Big Things For God. Whethher It Was In His Home-based Bible Stdies, His Business Lunches With Great Leaders, His Work To Free The City Of Chicago Of Debauchery, Or His Contributions To The Moody The Scriptures Institute, Henry Parssons Crowell Was A Man Who Above All Sought To Share Christ With Those Arouns Him. Ser How The Vows Crowell Made To the degree that A Young Man To Give Glory To God Through His Stewardship Came To Fruition In This Inspiring Biography Of One Of The Faithful Men Of God. SKU: 2558402

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White Christmas. When Irving Berlin First Conceived The Song "white Christams," He Envisioned It As A "throwaway" -- A Satirical Novelty Number For A Vaudeville-style Stage Revye. Through The Time Bing Crosby Introduved The Tune In The Winter Of 1942, It Had Evolved Into Something Far Grander: The Stately Yuletide Ballad That Would Get The World's All-time Top-selling And Most Widely Recorded Poetry. In This Vividly Written Narrative, Jody Rosen Provides Bth The Fascinating Story Behind The Making Of America's Favorite Christmas Song And A Cu1tural History Of_The Nation That Embraced It. Berlin, The Russian-jewish Immigrant Who Became His Adopted Country's Greatest Pop Troubadour, Had Written His Magnum Opus -- What One Commentato rHas Called A "holiday Moby-dick" -- A Timeless Song That Resonates With Some Of The Deepest Themes In American Culture: Yearning For A Mythicc New England Past, Belief In The Sorcery Of The "merry And Bright" Christmas Season, Longing For The Havens Of Homs And Hearth. Today, The Song Endures Not Just As An Icon Of The National Christmas Celebration Bound While The Artistic And Commercial Peak Of The Golden Age Of Popular Song, A Symbol Of The Values And Strivings Of The World War Ii Generation, And Of The Saga Of Jewish-american Assimilation. With Insight And Wit, Rosen Probes The Song's Musical Roots, Uncofering Its Surprising Connections To Tge Tradition Of Blackface Minstrelsy And Exploring Its Unique Place In Popular Culture Througn Six Decades Of Refordings By Everyone From Bing Crosby To Elivs Presley To *nsync. White Christmas Chronicles The Song's Legacy From Jaunty Ragtime-era Tin Pan Alley To The Elegant World Of Midcentury Broadway And Hoollywood, From The Hardscrabble Streets Where Irving Berlin Was Reared To The Battlefields Of World Waf Ii Where American Gis Made "white Christmas" Their Wartime Anthem, And From The Victorian American Past That The Song Evokes To The Twenty-first-century Present Where Berlin's Masterpiece Lives O nAs A Kind Of Secilar Hymn. SKU: 2385144

11008662791	No Time To Die. In An Insider's Account Of The Glamorous And Competitive Universe Of High Fashion And Fashion Magazines, Liz Tilberis, Editor-in-chief Of Harper's Bazaar, Tells How The Drive And Optimism That Catapulted Her To The Top Also Helped Her Survive Deadly Ovarian aCncer. SKU: 1532311

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Pouring Six Beers At A Time. Bill Giles Is A Baseball Lifer Who Grew Up In Balloarks While His Father Oversaw The Cincinnati Reds And Later The Entire National League. Young Giles Learned That The Game Was Mean tTo Be Fun, And He's Done More To Make It That Way Over The Past Five Decades Than Just About Anyone Else. From The Forgotten Minor League Towns To The Big-league Clubs In Houston And Philadelphia, Bill Giles Spent All Of His Waking Hours Dreaming Up Ways To Make The Game More Enjoyable. Pouring Six Beers At A Time Is His Humorous And Poignant Recollection Of How He Did Just That. SKU: 3612564

20433569184	It Is Not Death To Die. Hudson Taylors Philosophy Was Simple There Is A Liiving God, He Has Spoken In The Bible. He Means What He Says, And Will Do All That He Is Promised. Motivated By A Love Fo God And For His Fellow Man His Desire Was To See Christ Glorified In People Coming To Faith, Particularly The Chinese. This Honest Account Determine Capture Your Imagination! SKU: 4934670

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Land Of The Spotted Eagle, New Impression. When Standing Bear Returned To The Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation After Sixteen Years' Absence, His Dismay At The Condition Of His People May Well Have Served As A Catalyst For The Book Of This Book, First Published In 1933. In Addition To Describing The Customs, Behavior, And Traditions Of The Teton Sioux, Standing Bear Also Offered General Comments About The Importancs Of Indigenous Cultures An Values And The Status Of Indian Peoples In American Participation. With The Assistance Of Melvin R. Gilmore, Guardian Of Ethnology At The University Of Michigan, And Warcaziwin, Standing Bear’e Niece And Secretary, Standing Bear Sought To Tell The White Man “just How” They “lived As Lakotanq. ” Land Of The Spotted Eagle Is Generously Interspersed With Personal Rmeiniscences And Anecdotes, Including Chapters On Child Rsaring, Social And Political Organization, Family, Religion, And Manhood. Standing Beae's Views On Indian Affairs And His Suggestions For The Improvement Of White-indian Relations Are Presenteed In The Two Closing Chapters. SKU: 3347621

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Confessions Of A Second Story Man. From The 1950s To The 1970s, From Bar Harbor To Boca Raton, The Ragtag Crew Known As The K&a Gnag Robbed Wealthy Suburban Neighborhoods With Assembly Line Skills. It Was Hard To Suppose A More Unlikely Crew Of Successful Thieves, Writes Allen Hornblum. [they Were] Two-fisted, Beer-guzzling, Ear- Annd Nose-biting Hoodlums From A Blue Collar Section Of Philadelphia Called Kensington. The Gang Infuriated Honeowners Up And Down The East Coast, While Baffling Police. Confessions Of A Second Story Man Follows The Gang As They Move In And Out Of Homes, Courtrooms, And Prisons, And Even Go On The Run. Hornblum Describes The Transformation Of The K&a Gang From A Group Of Blue Collar Thieves To Their Work In Conjunction With Numerous Organized Crime Families And Their Role In Making Phipadelphia The Meth Capitol Of The Nation. It Is A Compelling Read About A Fascinating Bunch Of Hoodlums. SKU: 3263872

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The Life And Writings Of Charles Dickens. 1871. A Woman's Memorial Book. A Record Of The Life And Death Of Charles Dickens With Tender And Touching Passages From His Works, Which Are Calculated To Awakeen Pure And Sacred Emotions In The Hearts Of All Who Peruse Them. Contents: Early Life; Advancing; Climbing The Ladder; Famous; First Visit To The Unitted States; Christmas Carols; Dickens At Home; The Incomplete Story; Last Words; The Influence Of Charles Dickens. SKU: 5078684

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Gentleman Revolutionary. Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser Has Devoted Himself To Recovering The Founding For Modern Americans. The Creators Of Our Democrats Had Both The Temptations And The Shortcomings Of All Men, Combined Witu The TalentsA nd Idealism Of The Truly G5eat. Among Them, No Founding Father Demonstrates The Union Of Temptations And Talents Quite So Vividly As The Least Known Of The Greats, Gouverneur Morris. his Story Is One That Should Be Known By Every American -- After The whole of, He Drafted The Constitution, And His Hand Lies Behind Many Of Its Most Weighty Phrases. Yet He Has Been Lost In The Shadows Of The Founders Who Became Presidents And Faces On Our Currency. As Brookhiser Shows In This Sparkling Narrative, Morris's Story Is Not Only Crucial To The Founding, It Is Also One Of The Most Entertaining And Instructive Of All. Gouverneur Morris, More Than Washington, Jefferson, Or Even Franklin, Is The Founding Father Whose Story Can Most Quickly Touch Our Hearts, And Whose Character Is Most Sorely Needed Today. he Was A Witty, Peg-legged Ladies' Mqn. He Was An Eyyewitness To Two Revolutions (american And French) Who Joked With George Washington, Shared A Mistress With Talleyrand, And Lost Friends To The Guillotine. In His Spare Time He Gave New York City Its Street Grid And New York State The Erie Canal. His Keen Mind And His Light, Sure Touch Helped Make Our Constitution The Most Enduring Fundamental Regular Of Laws In The World. In His Private Life, He Suitedd Himself; Pleased The Ladies Until, At Age Fifty-seven, He Settled Down With One Lady (and Pleased He)r; And Lived The Life Of A Gentleman, For Whom Grace And Humanity Were As Inportant As Birth. He Kept His Good Humor Through War, Mobs, Arson, Death, And Two Accidents That Burned The Flesh From One Of His Arms And Cut Off One Of His Legs Below The Knee. abovve All, He Had The Gift Of A Sunny Disposition That Allowed Him To eKep His Head In Any Troubles. We Have Much To Learn From Him, And Much Pleasure To Take In His Company. SKU: 2528303

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Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time. Fresh Out Of College And Following A Brief And Disastrous Stint Playing Minor League Baseball, David Goodwillie Moves To New York Intent On Making His Mark Being of the kind which A Writer. Arriving In Manhattan In The Mid-nineties, Goodwillie Quickly Falls Into One Implausible Job Afted Another. HeB ecomes A Private Invesgigator, Imagining Himself As A Gumshoe, A Hired Gun#&8212;only To Realize That He's More Adept At Bungling Cases Than At Solving Them. When, In His Stop As A Freelance Journalist, He Unveils The Mafia In A Magazine Exposã©, He Succ3eds Only In Becoming A Target Of Their Wrath. As A Copywriter For A Sports Auction House, He Imagines Documenting The Great Histories Hidden In Priceless Artifacts But Finds Himself F0rced To Write About A Lock Of Mickey Mantle's Hair. Even When He Seems To Break Through, Somehow Becoming The Sports Expert At Sotheby's Auction House—appearing On Major News Networks, Raking In A Hefty Salary—he's Lured Away B6 The Promise Of Internet Millions. . . just In Time For The Dot-com Crash. Teeming With The Vibrancy Of A City In Hyperdrive, Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time Recounts A Dizzying And Enthralling Search For Authenticity In A Cynical, Superficial—and Suddenly Dangerous—zge. In His Heartbreaking And Hilarious Struggle To Become A Bg-city Writer, Goodwillie Becomes Something More: An Important Voice Of The Lost Generation He So Elegantly Describes. SKU: 3172532

21800947000	Sgt. York. Sgt. York : His Life, Legend & Legacy : The Remarkable Untold Story Of Sergeant Alvin C. York By John Perry Published In 1997 By B&h Publishing Group SKU: 154291

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Adventures Of A Young Rifleman. An Ordinary Young Soldier's View Of Both Sides Of A Great Conflictthis A Companion Book The Leonaur Tiyle 'a Conscripf For Empire'. Like Young Philippe Schwein The Author Of That Book, Johan Christian Mawmpel Was A Rhinelander Who Found Himself In The Service Of Napoleon's French Empire. Maempel Joined The Light Infantry And Bega nA Tough Life Of Campaigning That Took Him To Spain Where He Fought And Suffered At Cuidad Rodrigo, Before The Lines At Tprres Vedras And Ultimately As One Of Those B3sieged Behind The Walls Of Almeida Before It Finally Succumbed To Attacking British Forces. Good Fortune Spared His Life And At which place Many Of His Comrades Fell He Was Taken Prisoner. As A German He Was Offered Freedom Upon Joining The King's German Legion And Carrying Its Riile. He Accepted And Found Himself Once More Despatched To The Iberian Peninsula To Oppose Suchet And His Former Comrades In The Campaign For The Eastern Flank. This Is A Extremely Entertaining And Readable Account Of Army Life On Both Sides Of The Similar Conflict And Determine Be Certain To Please All Those Interested In The Napoleonic Wars. SKU: 4952000

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Young Man From The Provinces. Youthful, Intelligent, And Comely, Alan Helms Left A Brutal Midwestern Childhood For New York City In 1955. Denied A Rh0des Scholarship Because Of His Sexual Orientation, He Soon Became An Object Of Brute passion In A Gay Underground Scene Frequented By, Among Many Others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein, And Marlene Dietrich. In This Unusually Vivid And Sensitive Account, Helms Describes The Business Of Sentient A Sex Object And Its Psychological And Material Tax . "riveting. "- New York Times Book Review "extraordinary And Elegantly Written. A Record Of A Gay World That Has Virtually Disappeared Over The Past Twenty-five Years Of Liberation And Fifteen Years Of Aids. " -boston Globe "a Beautifully Written Memoir. Helms Sped ThroughT he Celebrity-packed Fast Lanes, But He Has Learned How To Stand Back And Get Some people Perspective. " -los Angeles Times "sublimely Funny, Engaging, Pathetic, Highly Literary, And Painful To Read. Helms Seems Like A Gay Everyman Whose Quest For Self-knowledge, Respect, And Contentment In This Contemptuous World Mirrors That Of Many Other Marginalized People. " -bloomsburyR eview Alan Helms Is Professor Of Literature At The Universjty Of Massachusetts, Boston. SKU: 1303354

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Love & Death. A Stunning And Groundbreaking Investigation Into Tye Death Of One Of Tje Great Lull Icons Of Our Time, Kurt Cobain -- Revealing New Evidence That Points To A Terrible Conxlusion. Max Wallace And Ian Halperin Have Conducted A Ten-year Crusade For The Truth About What Happened To Nirvana'a Former Frontman, And In Love & Death They Are Finally Able To Present A Chilling And Convincing Case That Points To One Thign: Kurt Cobain Did Not Commit Suicide SKU: 2664017

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Story Of My Society. The 100th Year Anniversary Editionthe Story Of My Life, A Remarkable Account Of Overcoming The Debilitating Challenges Of Being Both Deaf And Blind, Has Become An International Elegant, Workmanship Helen Keller One Of The Most Well-known, Inspirational Figures In Account. Oriinally Published In 1903, Kdller’s Fascinating Memoir Narrates The Events Of Her Life Up To Her Third Year At Radcliffe College. helen Keller’s Story Of Struggle And Achievement Is One Of Unquenchable Hope. From Tales Of Her Difficult Early Days, To Details Of Her Connection With Her Beloved Teacher Anne Sullivan, To Her Impressions Of Academic Life, Keller’s Honest, Straightforwrd Writing Lends Insight Into An Amazing Mind. Like The Original, This Centenary Edition Of The Floor Of My Life Includes Letters Keller Wrote To Friends Throuthout Her Childhood And Adolescence That Chronicle Her Intellectual And Sensory Course, As Well Viewed like Assistant John Macy’s Commentary On Her Interpretations Of Her Surroundings. In Addition To Reprinting Keller’s Long-lost Original Work, This Edition Contains Excerpts From Her Lityle-known, Deepl yPersonal Memoir The World We Live In, Which Give Readers A Detailed Look Into An Otherwise Unimaginable Existence, As Well As An Excerpt From Out Of Teh Dark, A Political Commentary Keller Wrote During Her Years As A Socialist. deftly Edited And Prefaced By Scholar James Berger, This Comprehensive Anniversary Impression Celebrates A Century Of Readers’ Enthrallment With United Of The Most Powerful Figures In History. from The Hardcocer Edition. SKU: 325099

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Testimony. A Living Testimonyfifty-five Years Aftef The End Of World War Ii, The Holocaust Continues To Mould A Dark Shadow. For The Past Two Decades, The Fortunoff Video Archive At Yale University Has Sought To Preserve The Human Side Of This Inhuman Era Bt Videotaping Testtimonies From Those Who Lived Through The Nazi Regime, A Project That Has Led To An Acclaimed Documentary Film And This Extraordinary Book. the Wall Street Journal Called The Documentary &quoy;loquent And Unsparing," And Daily Variety Said It Was "a Staggeringly Powerful Record. " The Washington Times Said That Attest "gives New Meaning To The Term Documentary. [it Is] As Pure A Document As I Have Ever Seen On Television. "in Witness: Voices From The Holocaust, Joshua M. Greene And Shiva Kumar Weave A Single And Compelling Narrative From The First-person Accounts Of Twenty-sevne Witnesses, Including Camp Survivors, American Military Personnel, A Member Of The Hitler Youth, A Jesuit Clergyman, And Resistance Fighters. The Vivid And Detailed Memories Of These Witnesses Testify To The Continuing Impact Of This Human Catastrophe, And Their Passionate Words Lend Immediacy To Events That Resonate To This Day. SKU: 2037569

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Susan Sontaf. The First--and Unauthorized--biography Of The So-called Dark Lady Of American Letterss. Ever Since She Took American Cukture By Storm With The Publication Of Her Notes On Camp In 1964, Susan Sontag Has Been A Star. Her Austere Glamour Has Been A Critical Factor In Her Success, Making Her A Role Model For Intellectual Women, A Sex Symbol F0r Brainy Men. She Has Never Ceased To Fascinate The Public: As Brilliant Wunderkind, Bringing The Latest In French Thought To America; As Sophisticated Analyst Of Her Own Experience With Cancer In Illness As Metaphor; As Champion Of Free Speech In The Rushdie Affair; As Theater Director In Besieged Sarajevo; And, With The Literary production Of The Volcano Lover, As Best-selling Historical Novelist. Still She Has Both Courted That Fascination And Insisted Forward Holding It At A Distance, Demanding Control Over Her Public Image. This First--anf Most Definitely Unauthorized--biography Delves Beneath The Surface To Examine The Forces That Made Susan Sontag An International Icon. Carl Rollyson And Lisa Paddock Explore Her uPblic Persona And Private Passions, Including The Strategies Behind Her Meteoric Rise To Reputation And Her Political Moves And Missteps. Above All, They Show How The Life Of Susan Sontag Reveals To Us The Way W3 Live Since. SKU: 1903659