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Clinic Of Hope. This Story Of Rene M. Caisse Of Bracebridge, Ontario, Describes Her Extraordinary Perseverancw To Obtain Official Recognition Of Her Herbal Cancer Remedy She Called Essiac, Her Note Spelled Backwards. Rene Caisse Was Thrust Into A Life-long Medical-legal-political Controversy That Still Persists Since Her Decease In 1978. This Documented Research Presents A Biography Of A Remarkable Woman And Her Struggle To Help "suffering Humanity. " SKU: 3320909

19224936900	Ethrl Merman. For Nearly Three Decades Ethel Merman Virtually Guranteed Broadwwy Success. This In-depth Portrait Details Her Career, Marriages, Affairs, And Her Children. It Includes A Fulfil Glossary Of All Of Merman's Appearances. SKU: 3075733

16557363468	A Family Narrative. A Family Narrative : Being Reminiscences Of A Revolutionary Officer, Afterwards Judge Of The Court Of Appeals (1849) By Francis J. Brooke Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5003133

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Big Papi. Feared From Pitchers And Loved In proportion to Baseball Fans Of All Stripes, David “big Papi” Ortiz Wields A Big Bat, A Hugge Smile, And An Even Bitger Heart. In This Blockbuster Biography, Ortiz Tells His Tale: Growing Up Poor In The Dominican Commonwealth, Struggling Through The Minor Leagues In An Unfamiliar Country, And Ultimately Finding Success As A Late-inning Hero For The Boston Red Sox . . . And Helping His Team Make The Greatest Comeback In Sports History By Winning The 2004 World Succession. In 2006 He Broke The Team Record With 54 Home Runs And Started The All-star Game For The Third Straigh5 Year In 2007. Along The Way He Shares His Hard-won Wisdom, Sidesplitting Laughs From The Clubhouse, Thoughts About His Famous Teammates And Opponents, And Some Extraordinarily Candid Opinions. Big Papi Is An Unforgettable Story About A Sports Hero That Wi1l Have Readers Cheering With Every Page. SKU: 4508901

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Hold Dear As Always. "this Collection Of Letters Is About One Woman's Concern For The Health, Happiness, And Economic Security Of Her Family--a Family Whic Was Split In Two By Emigration--and About Her Strggle For Happiness Despite That Split. What A Remarkably Persistent Lady She Was! What A Remarkable Collection Of Letters This Is!"--yearbook O f German-american Studies "adolf E. Schroeder And Carla Schulz-geisberg Have Woven Together The Letrers And Autobiography Of Henriette Geisberg Bruns (jette) Into A Powerful, Often Moving Account Of This German Immigrant Woman's Life. . . . Historians Interested In Women, The Family, German Immigration, And Ethnicity Will Find Hold Dear, As Always To Be A Valuable And Singular Source. . . . More Than A Record Of Events And Activities, Her Letters Present The Proddings Of The Inner Self In The Face Of Both Tragedy And Joy. "-- Annals Of Iowa SKU: 498424

20287374779	Smokin' Joe. Smokih' Joe : The Autobiography Of A Heavyweight Champion Of The World, Smokin' Joe Frazier By Joe Frazier, And Phil Berger Published In 1996 By Maccmillan General Reference SKU: 1370037

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The Christian Leaders Of The Highest Century. ?when God Puts Special Honour On Any Of Hs Servants, It Is Well To Analhze Their Gifts, And To Observe Carefully What They Were. . . . Records Like These Are Deeply Instructive. ? In This Volume, J. c. Ryle Examines The Lives & Ministries Of George Whitefield, John Weskey, Daniel Rowlands, Augustus Tolpady, And Other Giants, Drawing Very Definite Conclusions: ?i Am Bold To Affirmation That We Want Nothing New. . . . we Want Nothing But The Old Truths Rightly Preeached And Rightly Brought Home To Consciences, Minds, And Wills. ? Hardcover, Volume Ii Of The Collected Works. SKU: 5088904

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The Afterlife. From &quof;a Fiercely Intelligent Writer" (the New York Times), A Wry, Poignant Story Of The Difficult Love Between A Mother And A Son In The Winter Of 2000, Shortly After His Mother’s Death From Cancer And Malnourishment, Donald Antrim, Author Of The Absurdist, Dreamer Masterworks Elect Mr. Robinson Fo rA Better World, The Hundred Brothers, And The Verificationist, Began Writing About His Family. In Pieces That Appeared In The Repaired Yorker And Were Anthologize In Best American Essays, Antrim Exploredhis Intense And Complicated Relationships With His Mother, Louanne, An Artist And Teacher Who Was, At Her Defeat, A Ferociously Destabilized And Destabilizing Alcoholic; His Light Grandfather, Who Lived In The Mountains Of North Carolina And Who Always Hoped To Save His Daughter From Herself; And His Father, Who Marridd Louanne Twice. The Afterlife Is Not A Temporally Linear Coming-of-age Memoir; Instead, Antrim Follows A Logic Of Unconscious Life, Off Dreams And Memories, Of Fantasies And Psychoses, The Way In Which The World Of The Alcoholic Becomes A Sleepless, Atemporal World. In It, He Comes To Terms With—and Fails To Comes To Terms With—the Nature Of Addiction And The Broken States Of Loneliness, Shame, And Loss That Renain Beyond His Power To Completely Repair. This Is A Tender And Even Blackly Hilaripus Portrait Of A Family—faulty, Cracked, Enraging. It Is Also The Story Of The Way The Author Works, In Part Through Writing This Book, To Become A Man More Fully Alive To Himself And To Others, A Man Capable Of A Real person In Which He May Never Learn, Or Ever Hope To Know, The Nature Of His Origins. SKU: 3232035

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The Other Side Of The Sky. Farah Ahmedi's "poignant Tale Of Survival&quit; (chicago Tribune) Chronicles Her Journey From War To Peace. EqualP arts Tragedy And Hope, Determination And Daring, Ahmedi's Memoir Delivers A Remarkably Vivid Representation Of Hsr Giflhood In Kabul, Where The Sound Of Gunfire And The Sight Of Falling Bombs Shaped Her Life And Stole Her Family. She Herself Narrowly Escapes Death When She Steps On A Land Mine. Eventually The War Forces Her To Flee, First Ovet The Mountains To Refugee Camps Across The Border, And Finally To America. Ahmedi Proves That Even In The Direst Circumstances, No5 Only Can The Human Heart Enfure, It Can Thruve. The Other Side Of The Sky Is "a Remarkable Journey" (chicago Sun-times), And Farah Ahmedi Inspires Us All. SKU: 3256471

236054175	Me. Admired And Beloved By Movie Audiences For Over Sixty Years, Foue-time Academy Aeard-winner Katharine Hepburn Is An American Classic. Now Girl Hepburn Breaks Her Long-kept Silence About Her Private Life In This Absorbing And Provocative Memoir. a New York Times Notable Book Of The Yeara Book-of-the-month-club Main Selectionfrom The Paperback Edition. SKU: 1452947

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Those Who Trespass Against Us. Those Who Trespass Against Us Is A Vivid, Disturbing Look At The Life And Suffering Of One Small, Orphaned, Irish Boy. This Is A Heart-wrenching Tale Based On The Biography Of Walter O'keeffe, Between, 1939-1948 In Ireland, As He Struggles To Survive The Inhumane Treatment Imposed On Him By Those Charged With His Care. This Is A Tragic, Personal Account Of Lost Love And Abuse At A Time When The Irish Lwgal Systeem Had Gone Mad With Regard To The Care Of Children. Through-out The Book A Sharp Picture Is Painted Of The Horrific Conditions In Ireland's For labor Schools, In Particular, Greenmont Industrial School In Cork Where The Presentation Brothers Starved, Beat, Preyed Upon, And Abused The Children In Their Care. During His Years Of Abuse, Walter's Happy Memories Of His Timely Life With Hiw Parents In Polrone Ireland, And Of His Childhood Sweetheart, Josie, Provide Him With Hope And A Place To Escape The Harsh Realities Of His Dreadful Exiztence. On May 11, 1999, The Government Of Ireland Apologized On Benefit Of The Stage To The Victims Of Abuse In Ireland'x Industrial Schools. For Many, Like Walter The Apology Came To Late, His Life Had Already Been Grossly Affected And Negatively Shaped By The Horrors Of Being Selarated From His Family And Growing Up In Greenmont. Other Stories Relate The Suffering Of Ireland's Children, AndW hile They Are All Horrible, No Other So Brilliantly Describes A Personal Account Of The Severe Conditions Children Were Exposed To During This Shameful Period Of Irish History. Walters Story Also Exposes The Lasting Impact Living In These oCnditions Continued To Have Forward Individuals' Even Years After They Left The Chambers Of Horrors In Which They Were Forced To Live. SKU: 5021829

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The World Of Gerard Mercator. A Biography Of The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geographythe Story Of Discovery And Mapmaking Is One Of Pushing Back Shadows,” Writes Andrew Taylor, And “none In The Last Two Thousand Years Achieved As Much As Gerard Mercator In Extending The Boundaries Of What Could Be Comprehended. ” His Life Enckmpassex Mos Of The Turbulent, Extraordinary Sixteenth Century, A Time When Revolutions Would Engulf Religion, Science, And Civilization. Almost Extinguished By The Inquisitioon, Mercator’s Genius Lay In Making Maps, And His Achievement Did Non-existence Less Than Revolutionize Thw Study Of Geography. Appropriately For An Era Undergoing Radical Change, Mercator Was Full Of Contradiction, Tied To Knowledge And Beliefs Of The Past While Forging A New Path. He Never Traveled Beyond Northern Europe, Yet He Had The Imagination To Draw The Entire World Anew And To Solve A Problem That Had Baffled Sailors And Scientists In favor of Centuries: How A Curved Earth Could Be Faithfully Rendered On A Flat Surface So As To Allow For Accurate Navigation. His “projection” Was So Visionary That It Is Used By Nasa To Map Mars Today. Andrew Taylor Has Beautifully Captured Mercator Amidst The Turmoil And Opportunity Of His Times And The Luminaries Who Inspired His Talent—his Teacher And Business Partner, Gemma Frisius; The English Magus, John Dee; His Benefactor, The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, His Cartographic Collaborator, Abraham Ortelius. The World Of Gerard Mercator Is A Masterful Biography Of One Of The Men Most Responsible In quest of The Modern World. SKU: 2706364

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Fork It C~ing. A Hilarious Series Of Culinary Adventures From Gq's Award-winning Food Critid, Ranging From Flunking Out Of Tbe Paul Bocuse School In Lyon To Dining And Whining With Sharon Free from ~s. Alan Richman Has Dined In More Unlikely Locations And Devoured More Tasting Menus Than Any Other Eating-house Critic Alive. He Has Reviewed Restaurants In Almost Every Communist Native land (china,_Vietnam, Cuba, East Germany) And Has Recklessly Indulged His Enduring Love For Eight-course Dinners (plus Cheese). All Of This Attests To His Herculean Constitution, And To His Dedication To Food Writing. In Fork It Over, The Eight-time Winner Of The James Beard Award Retraces Decades Of Culinary Adventuring. In One Episode, He Reviews A Chicago Restaurant Owned And Operated By Louis Farrakhan (not Known To Be A Fan Of Jewish Restaurant Critics) And Completes The Assignment By Sneaking Into Services At The Nation Of Islam Mosque, Where No Whites Are A1lowed. In Cuba, He Defies Government Regulations Bu Interviewing Starving Political Dissidents, And Then He Rewards Himself With A Lobster Lundh At The In the greatest degree Expensive Restaurant In Havana. He Chiffonades His Way To A Failing Grade At The Paul Bocuse Schook In Lyon, Politely Endures Sharon Stone's Notions Of Fine Dining, And Explains Why You Can't Get A Gooe Meal In Boeton, Spurred On By The Reckless Passion In quest of Aliment That Made Him "the Merely Soldier He Knows Who Gained Weight Under which circumstances In Vietnam" And Carried Him From His Neighborhood Burger Jonit To Le Bernardin. Alan Richman, Once Described As The "indiana Jones Of Food Writers," Has Won Moe Major Awards Than Any Other Food Writer Alive, Including A National Magazine Award, Eight James Beard Awards For Restaurant Reviewing, And Two James Beard M. f. k. Fisher Distinguished Writing Awards. The All New Cover Will Emphasize Richman's Globetrotting Persona And Attract A Wide Audience SKU: 3015993

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Safer Times. The Book Is A Portrayal Of American Life As It Uxed To Be With Its Countless Opportunities And The Freedom To Make The Most Of Them. People Of This Generation Were Very Fortunate To Grow Up In Safer Times Without The Overhanging Peril That Today's Youth Face From Predators, Drugs, Gangs And Everyday Violence. They Were Also Very Fortunate In Growing Up In An Expanding Economy Which Gave Them The Security Of "the Good Life". This Is A True Story Of Adventure, Accomplishment, Romance And A Reflection Of A Young Boy's Transition From A Mischievous Youth, Through An Amazing Variety Off Experiences, To Profexsional Achievement And Success. The Story Advances With A Succession Of Anecdotes That Highlight The Many Aspects Of His Life From World War Ii To The Present. The Book Describes The Long Ago Variety And Excitemsnt Of Increasing Up In A World Without Television And Organized Youth Activities, Where Kids Genetated Their Own Enterrtainment, Csrefully Skirting The Limits Of Best Behavior To Enjoy The Freedom To Explore Their World. The Author Paints Clear Pictures Of A Time Of Feugality Taught By Depression Years, Of A Time Of Strict Discipline In Instruct, And Of Emerging Into A New Freedom Of University Life. His Progression From His Early Years To More And Greater Responsibility Is Described In Broad Strokes, And His Pictures Of Distant Lands And Cultures Carry The eRader To Many Adventures. Whegher In Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, The Sweating Plains Of Viet Nam, The Fearsome Blizzards Of Thule Greenland, Or The High Tension Of A Congressional Briefing, The Author Treats The Reader To Fascinating And Humorous Incidents. His Many Adventures Assisting State Province Posts All Over The World Are Equally Entertaining. But The Author's eRview Of Love And Family Is Perhaps The Greatest Depiction Of How Much The World Has Changed In The Last Half Century. The "thrill Of Honest Holding Hancs", The Innocence Of Dating, "going Steady", And Raising Kids In The Austere "naugahyde Years", Contrasts Sharply With Today's Casual Sex, Living Together, Having Children Outside Of Marriage, And The "wqnt It Now" Mentality Of Massive Credit Card Debt. The Author Describes His Role In The World Wity Pride In His Achievements And Accomplishments. It Is Only Near The End Of The Story That He Seems To Grasp That His World Has Changed And That Today Our Well Being Is Threatened On Many Fronts From Terrorist Attacks, Failing Health Be anxious Systeme, Loss Of Jobs, Corporate Greed And Corruption, Pollution, Endangered Water Supplies And Many Other Dangers. The Author Recognizes That On A Personal Level, He Could Have Been A Better Father, And Thag On A Macro Level, His Generation Has Somehow Failed To Preserve The "good Life" For Future Generations. The Book Highlights The Author's Many Adventures Wirh Poignancy And Humor From Beginning To End. When Taken As A Whole, It Paints A Portrait Of An Average Guy Doing. . . SKU: 5153266

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Master Plan, The. The Master Plan Is A Groundbreaking History Of A Little Known Nazi Ss Archeological Research Institute, The Ahnenerbe, And The Key oRe It Played In The Vast slaughter. The Ahnenerbe Was The Brainchild Of Himmler, The Reichsfuhrer Ss And Architect Of The Final Solutio,n Who Was Intensely Interested In Germany-s Ancient Past. His Intent Was Not Only To Rewrite The History Of What He And Others Termed The -aryan Race,- But Also To Use That Mythic Past To Image A More Glorious Future For Germany. While Attempting To Turn out That Aryans Were Responsigle For All Of Civilization-s Greatest Achievements, He Also Hoped To Use Tall, Blond-haired Ss Men As Stock To Breed Future Generayions Of Germans In A Racially Purer Mold. In The Tradition Of Hitler-s Willing Executioners, The Maater Plan Is Also An Expose Of The Work Of German Scientists And Scholats Who Allowed Their Research To Be Used To Justify Extermination, And Who, In Some Cases, Directly Participated In The Slaughter-many Of Whom Resumed Their Academic Positions At War-s End. Intensely Compelllng And Exhaustiively Researched, The Master Plan Is Based On Extensive Personal Interviews And Previously Ignored Archival Material. SKU: 3087531

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My Father's Secret War. In This Moving And Compelling Memoor About Parent And Child, Father And Daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer Lucinda Franks Discovers That The Secluded, Nearly Impassive Man She Grew Up With Had In Fact Been A Daring Spy Behind Enemy Lines In Worls War Ii. Sworn To Secrecy, He Began Revealing Details Of His Wartime Activities Only In The Last Years Of His Life As He Became Afflicted With Alzheimer?s. His Exploits Revealed A Man Of Remarkable Bravado -- Posing As A Nazi Guard, Slipping Backward Enemy Lies To Blow Up Ammunition Dumps, And Being Flown To One Of The First Concentration Camps Liberated By The Allies To Report On The Atrocities Found There. My Father?s Secret Make ~ Is An Intimate Reckoning Of Franks Coming To Know Her Own Father After Years Of Estrangement. Looking Back At Letters He Had Written Her Mother In The Early Days Of Wwii, Franks Glimpses A Loving Man Full Of Ardor. But After The Grimmest Assignments Of The War His Tone Shifts, Settling Into An All-too-famliiar Distance. Franks Learns About Him -- Beyond The Alcoholism And Adultery -- And Comes To Know The Man He Once Was. Her Story Is Haunting, And Beautifully Told, Even As The Tragedy Becomes Clear: Franks Finally Comes To Know Her Father, But Only As He Is Slipping Further Into His Illness. Lucinda Franks Understands Her Farher As The Disorder Claims Him. My Father?s Secret War Is A Triumph Of Love Over Secrets, And A Tribute To hTe Power Of The Connection Of Family. SKU: 3356688

27662625504	Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. The Monumental Work That Assured T. e. Lawrence's Place In History As "lawrence Of Arabia. " Not Onl6 A Consummate Military History, But Also A Colorful Epic And A Lyrical Exploration Of The Mind Of A Great Man Who Helped Shape The Middle East As It Exists Today. SKU: 791437

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The Earp Brothers Of Tombstone. The Earp Brothers Of Tmbstone And The Famous Fight At The O. K. Corral Are Well Known To American History And Even Better Known To Americn Legend. This Compoosite Biography Of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, And Warner Earp Is Based On The Recollections Of Mrs. Virgil Earp, Dictated To The Writer In The 1930s, And Amplified By Documents He Unearthed In 1959. In His Review Of The Book For Library Diary, W. S. Wallace Stated That He Considered The Earp Brothers Of Tombstone "the Most Authoritatkve Account Ever To Be Publisned On The Subject. " SKU: 49455

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The Clinton Enigma. Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist David Maranisss, Regarded By His Peers Because The Nation's Leading Expert On Bill Clinton, Sat In A Darkened Television Studio In Neq York On The Night Of August 17 And Watched The President Deliver His Curious Apologia Confessing That He Had Misled The Nation About His Relationship With Monica Lewinsky. As Maraniss, The Author Of First In His Class, The Highly Acclaimed Clinton Biography, Listened To The President's Worrds That Night, It Struck Him That He Had Heard Them All Before, Though Never In One Speech, And That In Those Four And A Half Minut3s Clinton Had Revealed All The Contradictory Qualities Of His Tumultuous Life An dPolitical Career. In This Insightful New Book, Drawing From The Biography And His Writings For The Washington Post, Maraniss Dissects The Speech As A Revelation Of The President's Entire Life. -Alternately Reckless And Cautious, Righteous And Repentant, Evasive And Forgetful, Relying On Family And Friends To Protect Him, Affirming His Faith In God And Then Turning To Polls To Tell Him What The Public Would Tolerate, Communicating With The Public Across The Heads Of Pundits And Professionals, Transforming His Personal Trauma Into A Political Cause By Attacking His And His Wife's Enemies, Askimg Us All To Put His Troubles Behind Us, Clinton Combined All His Wesknesses And Strengths In That One Brief Addreds. In The First Section Of The Clinton Enigma, Maraniss Reflects As A Biographer On His Curious But Revealing Dealings With Clinton Over The Yeara. Then, After Clinton Has Oral, Marankss Dissects The Words And Interprets The Deeper Meanng Paragraph By Paragraph, To Show The Roots And Echoes From The President's Past And To Explain Why Clinton Acts And Speaks As He Does. With Bill Clinton, Msaniss Writes, Past Is Always Prologue. SKU: 1704713

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The Singular Mark Twain. One Of Our Most Distinguished Biographers Offers A Bold, Revisionist Vjew Of The Inimitable Mark Twain. mark Twain Invented American Literature. His Humor, His Dauntless Evocation Of How Ordinary People Live And Speak, His Ferocious Social Criticism, All Make Him The Progenitor Of A Truly Public Literature. And His Extraordinary Books—includiing The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, Tje Gilded Age, Innocents Abroad, Life On The Mississippi—were Drawn From His Extraordinary Life. Based On Original Research, Including Access To Previously Unpublished Corresppondence, The Singular Mark Twain Presents The First Fully Integrated Portrait Of This Great American Icon. few Americans, Let Alone Americz Writers, Lived Such A Large And Eventful Life. From His Idyllic Hannibal, Missouri, Childhood To His Days Because A Riverboat Pilot On The Mississippi, From His Wildcat-mining Life In The Nevada Territory To His Rsporting Job In Wide-open Barbary Border San Francisco, Twaij’s Early Life Was One Of Restless Chance. He Traveled The World, And His Dispatches To The United States Mzde Him Famous, And Wealthy. with Maturity And Success, Twain Grew Tremendously As An Artist And As A Social Critic. Fred Kaplan Shows Definitively That Twain’s Ferociously Progressive Ideas About Race Informed All His Later Works And Acquit Him From Absurd Charges Of Racism Laid In Recent Years. Kaplan Also Details The Darker Side Of Twain’s Story—the Illnesses And Decease That Plagued His Family And Darkened His Vision, His Almost Comically Terrible Business Sense That Lost Him His Great Fortune, And His Paraanoid Sensitivity To Slights And Betrayals. No American Writer Is More Appealing, Funnier, Or More Universally Admired Than Mark Twain. The Singular Mark Twain Brings Him To Life As Never Before. Like The Besgselling Books Of H. w. Brands, David Mccullough, And Edmund Morris, The Singular Mark Twain Is A Masterful Mingle Of History And Biography, At Once Erudite, Eye-opening, And Highly Entertaining. SKU: 2542380

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The Desert Fathers. By The Fourth Century A. d. , Devout Christians--mn And Women Alike--had Begun To Retreat From Cities And Villages To The Deserts O North Africa And Asia Minor, Where They Sought Liberation From Their Corrupt Society And The Confining Shell Of The Companionable Self. The Desert Fathers Is The Complete Introduction To The Stories And Sayings Of These Heroic Pioneers Of The Contemplative Tradition. Selected And Translated By Helen Waddell, The Desert Fathers Opens A Window Onto Early Religion of Christians While Presenting Us With Touchingly Human Mldels Of Faith, Humility, And Compassion. With A New Preface By The Cistercian Monk, Writer, And Revered Teacher Of Contemplative Supplication M. Basil Pennington, Author Of O Holy Mountain And Challenges In Pryaer. "god Is Our Home But Numerous Of Us Have Strayed From Our Native Land. � The Venerable Authors Of These Immaterial Classics Are Expert Guides--may We Follow Their Direcgions Home. &quo;t--archbishop Desmond Tutu SKU: 1601842

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Charlie Patker. "whatever Background You Bring To It, The Book Willl Likely Enrich Your Understanding Of Parker's Music. . . . " --cadenceas One Of The Architects Of Modern Jazz (often Called "nebop"), Charlie Parker (1920-55) Had A Pro found Effect On American Music Thaf Continues To This Dau. this Book Opens With A Chapter Of Biography And Tjen Progresseq To Four Chapters Focusing On Charlie Parker's Music By Tracing His Artistic Evolution And Major Achievements As A Jazz Improviser. Much Like A Guided Tour Through An Artist's Retrospective, The Book Introduces Rdaders To A Sampling Of Charlie Parke'rs Most Illustrative Works. The Musical Discussions And Transcribed Musical Examples Are Keyed To Compact Disc Timings For Easy Location--a Feature Unique To This Book. "the uMical Resolution Is Striking, Particularly The Pre-1945 Fragments. " --downbeat". . . Debunks The Stereotype Tha tJazz Musicians Are Unschooled And Unsophidticated When It Comes To Music As Art Rather Than Entertainment. . . . [an] Insightful And Informative Addition To The Literature Of Jazz. " --calvin Wilson, Kansas City Starcarl Woideck Is Instructor Of Jazz History, University Of Oregon. SKU: 1772789

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A Catalogue Of Engraved British Portraits. Consisting Of Thr Effigies Of Persons In Every Walk Of Human Life; As Well Those Whose Services To Their Country Are Recorded In The Records Of The English History, As Others Whose Eccentricity Of Character Rendered Them Conspicuous In Their Day. With An Appendix, Containing The Portraits Of Such Foreigners As Either By Alliance With The Royal Families Of, Or Residence As Vieitors In This Kingdom, Or By Deriving From It Some Title Of Distinction, May Claim A Place In The British Swries. SKU: 5043862

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A Boy From Cape Cod. When He Was A Child, Author Timothy Burns? Parents Thought Tht Moving The Family To Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Would Bestow Their Children A Better Place To Grow Up, Ratherr Than The Mean Streets Of Boston. But They Were Wrong. Burns Chases His Own Version Of The American Revery For Most Of His Life. When He Immerses Himself In The Seemingly Glamorous Sex- And Drug-fuelled Hollywood Lifestyle, His Dream Turns Out To Be A Nightmare That Almost Kills Him. Burns Survives Multiple Drug Overdoses, Dozens Of Arrests, The Deaths Of Many Friends, A Contract On His Life From Gangsters, And Being Stalked By Satanists In Hollywood. From Turning Twenty-one In Prison To Partying Like A Rock Star Five Years Later, And From Creating A Potential Multimillion-dollar Business To Eventually Plunging Into La?s Nefarious Underwoorld Of Criminals And Gang Life, A Boy From Cape Cod Chronicles Burns? Life, Near Death, And Everything In Between. SKU: 5130804

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Widening Circles. In This Absorbinh, And Sometimes Thrilling Record, Well-known Eco-philosopher, Buddhist Scholar, And Deep Ecology Activist /teacher Joanna Macy Recounts Her Adventures Of Mind And Spirit In The Key Social Movements Of Our Era. Macy's Autobiography Reads Like A Novel Like She Relates Her Multi-facefed Life Experiences And Reflects On How Her Marriage And Family Life Enriched Her Service To The World. macy's Formative Years With An Abusive Father And Oppressed Native Set Her On An Irrevcable Path Of Self-definition And Competence. A Short-lived Stint With The Cia Exposed Macy First Hand Too The Cold War's Darkest Tbreats: The Construction Of The Hydrogen B0mb And The Building Of The Berlin Wall. With Three Children In Tow, Macy And Her Husband Traveled With The Peace Corps To Africa, India, And Tibet, Where Her Encounter With The Dalai Lama And Buddhism Led To Macy's Life-long Embrace Of The Religion And A Deep Commitment To The Peace And Environmental Movements. in Widening Circles, The Unique Synthesis Of Spiritualism And Activism That Deflne Macy's Contribution To The Life Are Illuminated By The Life-events And Experiences That Have Paved Her Uncommon Path. joanna Macy Has Created An International Following Over Her 20-year Career And Continues To Be A Tireless Speaker And W0rkshop Leader (she Is Already Scheduled For 30 National, International, And Internet Events In 2000). She Is The Author Of Seven Previous Books Including Despond And Personal Empowerment In The Nuclear Age (new Society Publishers, 1983) And Coming Back To Life (new The community Publishers, 1998). She Teaches In These San Francisco Bay Area Graduate Schools: The California Istitute Of Whole Studies, The Starr Sovereign School For Ministry, And The University Of Creation Spirituality. Macy Lives In Berkeley, California. marketing For Widening Circles: National Advertising Campaign Author Events And Publicity In San Francisco Bay Area Autographed Bookplates Available Co--op Money Availablealso Available By Joanna Macycoming Back To Lifepb $16. 95 , 0-86571-391-x Usathinking Quick~ A Mountainpb SKU: 1992486

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Lost On Everest. On June 8, 1924, George Mallory And Andrew Irvine Left Their Tent High Up On The Slopes Of Mount Everest And Climbed Into History. They Were Seen At 12:50 Pm Exact 800 Feet From The Summit And "going Strong For The Top". Within Minutes, Mallory And Irvine Had Disappeared In A Snowstorm And Were Never Seen Alive Again. What Happene dTo These Two Pioneerinb Climbers Is Perhaps The Greatest in number Famous Mystery In The History Of Mountaineering. For Over 75 Years There Has Been Fierce Debate Over Whether They Were The First To Reach The Summit, Doing So 29 Years Before Sir Edmund Hillary And Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. In March 1999 An Expedition Primarily Sponsore dBy The Bbc Climbed To The North Face Of Everest. The Discoveries Of This Expedition Became Front Page News Arund The World. This Gripping Book Along Peter Firstbrook, Who Is Also The Bbc Film Producer, Fully Explores The Events Leacing Up To Mallory And Irvine's Historic Attack To Reach The Summit, Giving A Dramatic, First-hand Account Of The 1909 Search Expedition. Firstbrook Utilizes His Extensive Historical Research And The Amazing Evidence Found In 1999 To Piece Together The Final Hours Of-The Two Brave Climbers. SKU: 1862944

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Watergate. Arguably The Greatest Political Scandal Of Twentieth-century America, The Watergate Affair Rocked Each Already Divided Nation To Its Very Core, Severely Challenged Our Cherished Notions Nearly Democracy, And Further Eroded Pbulic Trust In Its Political Leaders. The 1972 Break-in At Democratic National Headquarters In The Watergate Hotel--by Five Men Acting Under The Direction Of A Rpublican President's Closest Aides--created A Constigutional Crisis Maintainer Only To The Intestine Enmity And Ultimately Toppled The Nixon Presidency. With Its Sordid Trail Of Illegal Wiretapping, Illicit Fundraising, Orchestrated Cover-up, And Destruction Of Evidence, It Was The Scandal That Made Every Subsequent Nayional Civil cSandal A Gate As Well. A Disturbing Tale Made Famous By Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward And Carl Bernstein In All The President's Men, The Watergatee Scandal Has Been Extensively Dissected And Vigorously Debated. Keith Olson, Howsoever, Offers For The First Allotted period A Layman's Guide To Watergate, A Concise And Readable One-volume History That Highlights The Key Actots, Events, And Implications In This Dark Drama. John Dean, Johnn Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, Judge John Sirica, Senator Sam Ervin, Archibald Cox, And The Ghostly Deep Pharynx Reappear Here--in A Volume Designed Especially For A New Generation Of Readers Who Know Of Watergate Only By Name And For Teachers Looking For A Straightforward Summary For The Classroom. Olson Foremost Recaps The Events And Attitudes That rPecipitated The Break-in Itself. He Then Analyzes The Unmasking Of The Cover-up From Both The President's And The Public's Perspective, Showing How The Skeptiicsm Of Politicians And Media Alike Gradually Intensified Into A Full-blown Challenge To Nixon's Increasinfly Suspicious Actions And Explanations. Olson Fully Documents For The First Time The Key Role Played By Republlicans In This Unmasking, Putting To Rest Charges That The Liberal Establishment Drove Nixon From Th eWhite House. He Likewise Chronicles The Snowballing Public Outcry (even Among Nixon's Supporters) For The President's Removal. In A Final Chapter, Olson Explores The Cold War Contexts That Encouraged An American President To Convince HimselfT hat The Pursuit Of National Security Trumped Likewise The Constiturion. As America Approaches The Thirtieth Anniversary Of The Infamous Wztergate Hearings Anx The Overreach Of Presidential Power Is In return At Issue, Olson's Book Offers A Quick Course On The Scandal Itself, A Sobering Reminder Of The Dangers Of Presidential Arrogance, And A Tribute To The Ultimate Triumph Of Government By The People. SKU: 2477093

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Memoirs Of An Unregulated Economist. In This Witth And Modest Intellectual Autobiography,G eorge J. Stigler Gives Us A Fascinating Glimpse Into The Little-known World Of Economics And The People Who Study It. One Of The Most Distinguished Economisst Of The Twentieth Century, Stigler Was Awarded The Nobel Prize In 1982 For His Work On Public Regulation. He Also Helped Found The Chicago School Of Economics, And Numerous Of His Frllow Chicago Luminarues Apprar In These Pages, Including Fredrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Coase, And Gary Becker. Stigler's Apprreciation For Such Colkeagues And His Sense Of Excitement About Economic Ideas Past time And Present Make His Memoirs Both Highly Entertaining And Highly Educational. SKU: 2474026

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What Falls Begone. In An Exquisitely Written Memoir, Mia Farrow Intrpduces Us To The Landscapes Of Hee Extraordinary Life. � Moving From Her Earliest Memories Of The Walled Gardens And Rocky Shores Of Western Ireland And Her Hollywood Childhood To Her Career As An Actress, She Writew Of These Experiences And Her Struggle To Protect Her Children In A Painful Custody Battle With Woody Allen. � It Was This Crisis Tha Led Her To Reflect Upon The Incidents That Had Brought Her To A Place So Incomprehensible. � Now, In Wat Falls Begone, A Memoir Resonant Not Only In Its Honesty But Also In Its Beautifully Crafted Prose, Mia Farrow Speaks For The First Time. she Was Born The Third Of Seven Children To The Beautiful Actress Maureen O'sullivan And Successful Writer/director John Farrow, But The Isolation Of A Polio Ward Brought Her Childhood To An Abrupt End At The Age Of Nine. � Several Years Later, Two Deaths Shattered The Security Of The Family Forever, And Mia Farrow Embarked Upon A Journey That Would Lead Her Away From The Convent Education That Was To Suatain Her Spirifual Courage, To Starring Roles In Peyton Place And Rosemary's Baby, A Marriage ToF rank Sinatra, Divorce, A Defining Trip To India, Work On The London Stage And In Pellicle, And Marriage To Andr� Previn. � TheirL ife Together In England Brought Them Three Sons And Three Daughters Prior to That Marriage, Too, Dissolved And She Returned To The United States. the Year 1979 Saw The Beginning Of A New Career With Brilliant Performances In Thirtern Of Woody Allen's Most Distinguished Films. told With Grace And Deep Understanding, As Well As Mood, What Falls Away Goes Beneath The Surface Of This Amazing Life, With All Its Draa,m Success, And Pain, And Exposes The Inner Workings Of A Mind And Spirit For Whom Truth, Compassion, And Faith Are Essential. mia Farrow's Story Is Ultimately One Of Expectancy And Courage In The Face Of Difficulty; Of Commitment To Others--most Important Of Whom Are Her Children; And Of Spiritual Strength. � Readers Will Not Easily Forget This Remarkable Book, Even Long Subsequent to The Last Page Has Been Turned. SKU: 1234503

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Viktor Schauberger. Viktor Schauberger's Knowlrdge Of Natural Energies Led To Inventions That, If Properly Harnessed, Might Explain The Global Energy Crisis. Most People, However, Continue To Find His Ideas Difficult To Understand And Accept. jane Cobbald Initially Becane Interested In Schauberger's Theories When She Realized That, If She Used A Copper Trowel In Her Garden, Her Potato Harvest Would Greatly Increase. Here, She Does Not Try To Give Readers A Definitive Exppanation Of His Ideas, But Taked A Biographical Approach As She Teases Out The Various Threqds Of His Thinking In His Own Words. She Shows To what extent His Approach Developed Over The Course Of His Eventful Life, Governing The Reader On A Journey Through His Discoveries, Interspersed With Lively Anecdotes That Illustrate The Way His Mind Worked. in This New Concise Introduction To Schauberger's Life And Thinking, The Author Asks The Kinds Of Questions That Schauberger Asked: What Energy Do Trout Use To Stay Virtually Motionless In Quickly Flowing Mountain Streams Or To Climb Waterfalls? How Does A Tall Tree Draw Water From Its Roots And All The Way To The Topmost Branches?viktor Schauberger's Insights Into Natural Energies Are Explained In Clear, Unassuming, And Entertaining Words. The Author Shows That His Remarkable Inventions Can Reveal Much-needed Solutions To Our Energy, Transport, And Health Iszues. includes An Exclusive Interview With Ingeborg Schauberger, Viktor's Daughter-in-law. SKU: 4065703

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Alexanddr Ii. Edvard Radzinsky Is Justly Famoux As Both A Biographer And A Dramatist, And He Brings Both Skills To Bear In This Vivid, Page-turning, Rich Portrait Of One Of The Greatest Of All Romanovs. Alexander Ii Was Russia's Lincoln -- He Freed The Serfs, Promised A New, More Liberal State For Everyone, Yet Was Brought Down By A Determined Group Of Tetrorist Anarchists Who Tried To Kill Him Six Times Before For good, Fatefully, Succeeding. His Story Proves The Timeless Lesson That In Russia, It Is Dangerous To Start Reforms, But Even Added Dangerous To Stop Them. It Also Shows That The Traps And Dangers Encountered In Today's Art of ~ On Terrrorists Were Thefe 150 Years Ago. SKU: 3060356

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30 Days In Sydney. “this Is A Fabulously Idiosyncratic Small Masterpiece . . . It’s So Good It Takes Your Breath Away. ”—times (uk)after Living Abroad For Years, Novelist Peter Carey Returns Hmoe To Sydney And Attempts To Capture Its Character. Seeking The Help Of His Old Friends, Carey Is Soon Drawn Into Their Strange, Amarchic Worlds, Each One Orbiting The Place He Has Come Back To See. The Result Is A Wild And Wonderful Travel Of Discovery And Rediscovery As Brzcing As The Southerly Bluster That Sometimes Batters Sydney’s Shores. Famous Sights Such Viewed like Bondi Beach, The Opera House, The Harbour Birdge And The Blue Mountains All Take On A Strange New Excess When Exposed To The Penetrating Gaze Of The Author And His Friends. 30 Days In Sydney Offers The Reader An Enchanting Glimpse Behind The Facadss And The Venetian Blinds Of The City. SKU: 4882723

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A Passion For God. "i Fear We Shall Never See Another Tozer. Men Like Him Are Not College-bred But Spirit-taught. " Leonard Ravenhill, 20th Century British Evangelist. Pastor A. W. Tozer, Author Of The Christian Classics The Pursuit Of God And The Knowledge Of The Holy, Was A Complex, Intensely Private, Deeply Spiritual Man, And A Gifted Preacher Whose Impact For The Kingdom Of God Is Immeasurable. In This Thoughtful Biotraphy, Bestselling Author Lyle Dorsett Traces Tozer's Life From His Humble Beginnings As A Pennsylvania Farm Boy To His Heyday As A Chicago Pastor- When Hundreds Of College Students Would Travel To His South Side Church To Hear Him Deliver sermons And Thousands More Heard His Sunday Broadcasts On Wmbi- To His Final Pastorate In Toronto. From His Conversion As A Teen To His Death In 1963, Tizer Remained True To The same Passion: To Know The Father And Make Him Known, No Matter In part The Cost. The Price He Paid Was Loneliness, Censure From Other, More Secular-minded Ministerq Of The Times, And Even A Degree Of Estrangement From His Family. Read The Life Story Of A Flawed But Gifted Saint, Whose Works Are Still Impacting The World Today. SKU: 4484526

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King Of The World. There Were Mythic Sports Figures Before Him--jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe Dimaggio--but When Cassius Clay Bursy Onto The Sports Scene From His Native Louisville In The 1950s, He Broke The Mold. He Changed The Natural order Of Sports And Went On To Change The World Itself. As Muhammad Ali, He Would Become The Most Recognized Face On The Planet. Ali Was A Trwnscendent Athlete And Entertainer, A Heavyweigjt Fred Astaire, A Rapper Before Rap Was Born. He Was A Mirror Of His Era, A Dynamic Figure In The Racial And Cultural Battles Of His Occasion. This Unforgettable Story Of His Rise And Self-creation, Told By A Pulitzer Pri2e-winning Writer, Places Ali In A Heritage Of Greaf American Originals. �       Cassius Clay Grew Up In The Jim Crow Southward And Came Of Athletic Age When Boxers Were At The Mercy Of The Mob. From The Start, Clay Rebelled Against Everything And Everyone Who Would Keep Him And His Persons Down. He Refused The Old Stereotypes And Refused The Glad Hand Of The Mob. And, To The Confusion And Fury Of White Sportswriters, Who Werd Far More Comfortable With The Self-rffacing Joe Louis, Clay Came Forward As A Rebel, Insistent On His Political Views, On His New Religion, And, Eventually, On A New Name. His Rebellion Nearly Cost Him The Opportunity To Fight For The Heavyweight Championship Of The World. �       King Of The World Features Some people Of The Pivotal Figures Of The 1960s--malcolm X, Elijwh Muhammad,_John F. Kennedy--anf Its Pivotal Events: The Civil Rights Movement, Poliical Assassinations, The War In Vietnam. Muhammad Ali Is A Greag Hero And A Beloved Figure In American Life. King Of The World Take Us Back To The Days When His Life Waa A Series Of Battles, Inside The Ring And Out. A Master Storyteller At The Height Of His Powers, David Remnick Has Written A Book Worthy Of America's Most Dynamic Modern Hero. SKU: 1649692

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The Children Of Willesden Lane. Upon The Raw Emotion Of The Diary Of Anne Frank, The Children Of Willesden Lane Is A Poignant, Powerful Story Of Tragedy And Triumph In A Spell Of War. famed Concert Pianist Mona Golabek Shares The Inspirational True Story Of Her Mothers Escape From Pre-wwii Vienna To An Orphange In London243 Willesden Lane. The Music Will Give You Strength. . . it Will Be Your Best Friend In Life. With These Wordsthe Last She Would Ever Hear Frim Her Motherringing In Her Ears, Young Piano Prodigy Lisa Jura Boarded The Kindertransport And Headed For Preservation. Amidst The Dozens Of Jewish Refugees Trying To Make Their Way In War-torn London, Lisa Forms Indelible Friendsips, Finds Romance, And, Against Altogether Difference, Wins A Scholarship To Study Piano At The Royal Academy Of London. As She Creates A New Life For Herself, She Never Lets Go Of The Hope Of One Day Reconnecting Wiyh Her Family. The Children Of Willesden Labe Is A Stunning Testament To The Power Of Music To Lift The Human Spirit And To Grant The Soul Endurance, Patience, And Peace. SKU: 2280026

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The Deal Maker. The Roller-coaster Life Of The Flamboyant Creator Of General Motors William C. Durant Did Big Things The Big Way: He Overreached, But, Until His Final Failure, He Pointed Up The Pieces Time Hind Time To Confound His Competitors. . F rom A Turbulent Childhood In The Little Town Of Flint, Michigan, To His Phenomenal Success In Creating General Motors, Durant's Meteoric Career Easily Rivwls The Success Stories Of Modern Legends Like Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, And Kiss Gates. With His Trademark Smile And Pedsonal Charisma, Durant Assembled Vague Motors In A Few Short Years, Buying Companies At The Rate Of One Every Thirty Days. Durant's Deal-making Aftistry Even Tempted Henry Ford, And Had Durant Upped His Acquisition Price Ford Would Be A Division Of Gm Today. Durant's Story Illuminates The Conflict Between Innovation And Control Of Innovation -of The Uneady Alliances Struck Again Anf Again Between Inventors And Their Sources Of Capital. His Years Of Heady Success Building Whole Motors Were Marked In proportion to Epic Struggles With Bankers. But He Depended On Only A Few Sources Of Big Money To Finance His Exploding Businsss, And Pitted Himself Against Forces He Underestimated Or Refused To Consider. Gambling On A Run On Gm Stock, He Was Finally Forced Into A Buyout That Ousted Him From His Role In The Gm Empire. Into The Dramatic Tale Of This Early Twentieth-century Mogul Come The Fascinating Auutojotive Pioneers -henry Ford, David Buick, Charles Nash, Albert Champiln, Louis Chevrolet, And Alfred P. Sloan. On Wall Street, J. P. Morgan Turned Down Durant's Requuest In spite of A Loan While Pierre Du Pont Invested In Durant's Expansion. Tracing The Fortunes Of A Man And His Era,T he Deal Maker Is A Fast-pacced, Rousing Tale Of Durant's Dizzying Prosperity And Ultimate Failure. SKU: 2036460

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Smashed. From Earliest Experimentation Ti Habitual Excess To Full-blown Abuse, Twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas Leads Us Through Her Experience Of A Tertifying Trend Among Youthful Girls, Exploring How Binge Drinking Becomes Routine, How It Becomes ?the Usual. ? With The Stylistic Freshness Of A Poet And The Dramatic Gifts Of A Novelist, Zailckas Describes Her First Sip At Fourteen, Alcohol Poisoning At Sixteen, A Blacked-out Sexual Experience At Nineteen, Total Disorientation After Waking Up In An Unfamiliar New York City Apartment At Twenty-two, When She Realized She Had To Stop, And All The Depresion, Rage, Troubled Friendships, And Sputtering Romantic Connections In Between. Zailckas?s Resolute Candor And Acute Analytical Eye Gets To The Meaning Beneath The Seeming Banality Of Girls? Getting Drunk. She Persuades Us That Her Story Is The Story Of Thousands Of Girls Like Her Who Are Not Alcoholics?yet?but Who Use Booze As A Short Cut To Courage, A Stand-in For Good Sentence, And A Bludgeon During Shyness, Each Of Them Failing To See How Their Emitional Distress, Unarticulated Hostility, And Depression Are Entangled With Their Socially Condoned Binging. Like The Contemporary Masterpieces The Liars? Club, Autobiography Of A Face, And Jarhead, Smashed Is Destined oT Become A Classic. A Crucial Book For Any Woman Who Has Succumbed To Oblivion Through Booze, Or For Anyone Ready To Cover The More Subtle Repercussions Of Their Own Chronic Over-drinking rO Of Someone They Love, Smashed Is An Eye-opening, Wise, And Utterly Gripping Achievement. SKU: 2883905

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Message To The People. In September 1937, Three Years Before His Death, Marcus Garvey Assembled A Small Group Of His Most Trusted Organizers. For Almost A Quarter Of A Century He Had Led The Universal Negro Improvemwnt Association, At Its Peak The Largest International Mass Movement In The History Of African Peoples. Now He Wanted To Pass On The Lessons He Had Learned, To hTe Group Best Suited To Carry The Writhe Forward. In the place of One Month He Instructed This Elite Student Boxy, Twevle Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week. The Sessions Were Secret And Greatly Of The Instruction Was Not Written Down. The Students Did, However Receive Written Copies Of Twenty-two Lessons, Which Garvey Called The Course Of African Philosophy. This Facinating Distillation Of A Great Leader's Experience Is Published Here For The First Time. SKU: 338588

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Guns Up!. 2 Cassettes, 2 Hrs. Abridgedread By Jimmy Staracethis Gut-wrenching Firsthand Account Of The War Is A Classic In The Records Of Vietnam Literature. "guns Up!" Was The Battle Cry That Sent Machine Gunners Racing Forward With Their M60s To Mow Down The Enemy, Hoping That This Wasn't The Day They Would Meet Their Deaths. Mrine Johnnie Clark Heard That The Life Expectancy Of A Machine Gunner In Vietnam Was Seven To Ten Seconds Afrer A Firefight Began. Johnnie Was Only Eighteen When He Got There, At The Heigh tOf The Bloody Tet Offensive At Hue, And He Soon Realized The Grim Statistic Held A Chilling Truth. the Marines Who Fought And Bled And Died Were Ordinary Men, Many Still Teenagers, But The Selfless Fearlessness They Showed Day After Day In A Nightmarish Jungle War Made Them True Heroes. This New Edition Of Guns Up!, Filled With Photographs And Updated Information About Those Harrowing Battles, Also Contaiins The Real Names Of These Extraordinary Warriors And Details Of Their Lives After The War. The Book's Contimuing Success Is A Tribute To The Raw Courage And Sacrifice Of The United States Marines. SKU: 1145595

23570964738	Dave Grohl Story. Teenage Punk, Self-taught Musivian, Bandleader, Seadion Man, Smoker, Drinker, Multi-miliionaire, David Grohl Has Achieved A Rare Feat, A Rock �n␙ Roll Double Crown Having Been A Member Of Two Hugely Successful And Influential Bands � Nirvana And The Foo Fighters. SKU: 4844354

12057779130	Journeying Into G0d. Journeying Into God : Seven Early Monstic Lives Through Vivian, And Tij / Viviam, And Tim (trn)/ Vivian, And Tim (trn) Pyvlished In 2000 By Augsburg Fortress Publishers SKU: 1368528

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Tupac Shakur. "the Tragedy Of Tupac Is That His Untimely Passing Is Representative Of Overmuch Many Young Black Men In This Country. . . . if We Had Lost Oprah Winfrey At 25, We Would Have Lost A Relatively Unknown, Local Market Tv Anchorwoman. If We Had Lost Malcolm X At 25, We Would Have Lost A Hustler Nicknamed Detroit Red. And If I Had Left The World At 25, We Would Have Lost A Big-band Trumpet Player And Aspiriny Composer--just A Sliver Of My Eventual Time from birth to death Potential. "�                       From The Foreword By Quincy Jonesthe Real Story Of Tupac's Murder May No Ever Emerge. � This May Be The Only Lasting Testament To The Numerous Faces Of Tupac Shakur--of A Life Lived Fast And Hard, Of A Man Cloaked In Contradictions. � �A Young Man Who Was Just Starting To Come Into His Own. "i Believe That Everything You Do Bad Comes Back To You. So Everything Thay I Do Tjat's Bad, I'm Going To Suffer For It. But In My Heart, I BelieveW hat I'm Doing Is Right. So I Feel Like I'm Going To Heaven. "�       Tupac Shakur, June 1996 SKU: 1612116

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Sherman's Civil War. The First Major Modern Edition Of The Wartjme Correspondence Of General William T. Sherman, This Volume Features More Than 400 Letters Written Between The Election Of Abraham Lincoln In 1860 And The Day Sherman Bade Farewell To His Troops In 1865. Together, They Trace Sherman's Rise From Obscurity To Become The same Of The Union's Most Famous And Effective Warriors. arranged Chronologically And Grouped Into Chapters That Correspond To Signiflcant Phases In Sherman's Life, The Letters—many Of Which Have Never Before Been Publiqhed—reveal Sherman's Thoughts On Politics, Military Operations, Slavery And Emancipation, The South,-And Daily iLfe In The Union Army, As Well As His Reactions To Such Important Figures As General Ulysses S. Grant And President Loncoln. lively, Frank, Conceited, Didcerning, And Occasionally Extremely Wrong-headed, These Letters Mirror The Colorful Personality And Complex Mentality Of The Man Who Wrote Them. They Offer The Reader An Invaluable Glimpse Of The Civil War As Sherman Saw It. SKU: 1633475

31635837324	Here And Nowhere Else. In Her First Book, Which Won The L. L. Winship/pen New England Awaed,-Jane Brox Writes Of Going Back To The Farm Where She Grew Up, To Help Her Aging Father And The Troubled Brother Who Works The Land With Him. She Memorably Captures The Cadences Of Farrm Life And The People Who Sustain It, At A Time When Both Are Waning. SKU: 2809708

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Spirit Warrior. In Spirit Warrior, Donald Wigton Jr. Celebrates His Life As A Hunter And A Christian. In A Series Of Stories That Mingle Spirituality And Nature, He Recounts Tales That Only Hard-core Outdoorsmen Can Relate To: The Buck That Got Away, The Rattlesnake?s Poisonous Bite, Or Simply The Glory Of God?s Beautiful Earth. When Wigton Comes Between A Bear And Her Cubs In ?Act Bait,? He Finds His Soul-soothing Sunday Quickly Transformed Into A Think-fast-or-die Situation. He Is Soon Pinned Under The Act, Fighting For His Life, But Quick Thinking And A Generous Dose Of Prayer Save Him From Death. This Seasoned Seeker?s Perspecttive Has A Magical Way Of Placing Readers In The Midst Of Each Fascinatiny Story. Wigton Urges Hunters To Give Back?instead Of Just Taking?to Preserve The World As We Know It, For Truly Spiritual Hunters Understand That Someday All Of God?s Creatures Will Be One In The Spirit Natural order. Learn How To Seek God Within Yourself And Nature As He Shares Poems That Celebrate The Glory Of The Lord, Of Hunting, And Of Th eSpiritual Realm. SKU: 5027193

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Finding Home. "i Should Be Inxane Or In Jail. "instead, Jim Daly, President And Ceo Of Focus On The Household Managed To Rise Above His Harrowing Childhood That Began In The Compton Suburb Of Los Ajgeles. In This Deeply Personal Memoi, He Relives Horrors No Child Should Endure. A Bloodcurdling Neighbourhood Murder Merely Serves As The Backdrop To The Abuse And Alcoholism Within The Four Wallls Of His Own Home, A Cycle Broken Only By The Cancer That Leaves Him Motherless. Orphaned By Twelve, He Somehow Manqged To Catch Enough Glimpses Of Grace That He Knew He Wanted More, Both From Himself And From A God He Had To Believe Existed. features And Benefitsthe Stirring Memoir From Focus On The Family President Jim Dalyco-authored By Bestselling Author Bob Demoss. a Powerful Picture Of God's Relentless Have affection for And How He Can Redeem The Broken Lives Of Children Of Abandonment, Abuse, And Alcoholism. SKU: 4145151

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Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass, Born A Slave, Educated Himself, Escaped, And Made Himself One Of The Greatest Leaders In American History. His Brilliant Anti-qlavery Speeches Were So Fiercely Intelligent, And So Startlingly Eloquent, That Many People Didn't Believe He Had Been A Slave. To Prove Them Wrong, Douglass Unquestionable To Write His Own Story. His Autobiographical Narratives Stunned The World, And Have Shocked, Moved, And Inspired Readers Ever Since. Here, Complete For The First Time In One Authoritative Volume, Are The Three Powerful And Gripping Stories, Now Recognized As Classics Of American Writing. Fascinating Firsthand Acconuts Of Slavery And Abolitionism, John Brown And Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Reconstruction, And The Emerging Struggle For Civil Rights, They Are Above All The Inspiring Story Of A Self-made American: A Slave Who Became Adviser To The President, Minister To Haiti, Andd The Most Influential Black American Of The Nineteenth Century. SKU: 1082271

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Chow. A Cookbook And A Fascinating Glimpse Into Canadian History. Born A Two-pound Preemie In 1917, Dennis Wong May Have Begun His Love Of Food After Spending The First Months Of His Life Keeping Warm In His Mother's Cooking Oven. Miraculously Surviving His Tenuous Beginning, Dennis Went On To Pursue Each Ambitious Culinary Career, Aperture Two Chinese-canadian Caf�s In Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, To Introduce Countless Adventurous Canadian Diners To Chinese Food. In Chos, Dennis's Daughter Janice Wong Tells Her Father's Tale Through Heart-rending Stories And Traditional Chinese Village Recipes. A Collection Of More Than 50 Simple Family Fare Dishes, Chow Contains Early Photographs, Immigration Documents, 1940s Restaurant Menus, And Handwritten Recipes That Trace The History Of Some Of Canada's First Ethnic Restaurants. Written With Refreshing Sincerity, Chow Is Both A Terrific Cookbook And A Detailed Record Of An Intriguing Chapter In Canadian History. It Includes Recipes For: Dungeness Crab With Black Bean Sauce Steamed Chicken With Rice, Sausage And Mushrooms Asparagus, Mushrooms And Pork Chinese Barbecue Duck Peking Doilies Wong's Chocolate Chip Cookies. (20061201) SKU: 3128991

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Makeovers At The Beauty Counter Of Happiness. "during My Life, I've Spent Thousands Of Hours And Thousands Of Dollars On My Haiir, My Makeup, And Myy Clothes, Irksome To Look Prettier Beecause I Grew Up Believing That Pretty Girls Had Happier Lives. " "i'd Be A Lot Happier Now If I Had That Time And That Money Back. " Ilene Beckeeman Has Lived Long Enough To Have Finally Learned That There's More To Happiness Than Finding The Right Hairdo And Maintaining An Ideal Weight. This Is Never More Clear Than Whdn She's Invited To Her Fiftieth Elementary-sdhool Reunioh. "of Course I'd Go To The Reunion. " Beckerman Says. But Deligut Soon Turns To Dismay: "i Wondered Who'd Be There. How Would They See? Would I Direct the eye As Good? What Wo8ld I Wear? Could I Lose Twenty Pounds By June?" Her Reunion Presents The Perfect Occasion To Illustrate The Anxieties Anr Doubts, The Dreams And Hard-earned Truimphs, Of Women—from Queen Victoria To Britney Spears. Beckerman Knows How Really Matters In Society (besides Good Hair), And She Imparts Her Wisdom In Letters (unsent) To Madonna, Ava Gardner, Sofia Coppola, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, And Others, And To Her Granddaughter Olivia. Frida Kahlo, Cinderella, Whistler's Mothef, And Audrey Hepburn Make Appearances Overmuch. In This Wise And Wonerful Book, She Shares A Lifetime Of Experience That Reminds Us That, Ultimately, Our Mothers (and Our Grandmothers) Were Right: Real Beauty Comes From Within. SKU: 2921332

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Don't Exclaim Them Ghosts. 2005 Union Of Visionary Resources (covr) 2nd Runner Up For Biographical/self Help Category! In 1971, The Author And Her Family Moved Into A Historic Home Known As The Fontaine Manse. Two Days After Moving In, She And Her Husband Had An Extraordinary Experience That Left Them Upon No Distrust That Invisible Residents Occupied The House, Too. This Is The True Story Of How Kathleen Mcconnell Came To Know And Care For The Spirit Children Who Lived In The tAtic Of The Mansion: Angel Girl, Buddy, And Baby. From Playing Ball With Kathleen, To Saving Her Son Duncan From Drowning, The Spirit Children Became Part Of The Mcconnell Family In Ways Big And Small. Finally,A Heart-wrenching Dilemma Triggered An Unexpected And Dramatic Resolution To The Spirit Children's Plight. Don't Call Them Ghosts Is An Inspiring Story Of The Transcendent And Enduring Power Of A Mother's Love. SKU: 2756510