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Dancing With Tina. Dancing With Tina Is The Heartwarming And Inspiring Account Of One Man’s Struggles With Sexual Identity, Co-dependency And Crydtal Meth. This Very Personal And Sometimes Graphic Consideration Covers Two Adventurous Years In iHs Life. The Sttory Traces The Diverse Relationships And Friendships Impacted By A Drug That Is Horrifically Affecting This Nation’s Gay Community. Terry Oldes Tells This Anecdote In An Honest And Humorous Manner That Will Certainly Motivate Those Who Have Never Used Crystal Meth To Not Pick It Up And Inspire Those Who Are Generally Using It To Find Hope At A Time When It Is Difficult To See It. written As A Conveersational, First Person Narrative, Readers Will Find Dancing Attending Tina Both Personal And Disturbnig. This Book Is A Must Read For Anyone Who Has “danced With Tina&#201d; Or Known Someone Who Has. SKU: 4251508

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My Dearest Darling Barbara. A Candid And Refreshing Glance At A Young Platoon Leader?s Courageous Soirit Serving His Country In The Jungles Of Vietnam, My Dearest Darling Barbara Shares The Intimate Story Of Colonel Gary L. Gresh And His Unwavering Devotion To His New Bride, Barbara. While Servijg In The Dense And Unnviting Habitat Of South Vietnam From 1969 To 1970, Then Lieutenant Gresh Ever Found Time To Express His Love For His Wife Back Home In The United States. By means of These Letters, Gary Reveals The Fears And Anguish He Experienced Whike Serving In The U. s. Army?s 101st Airborne Division. He Faithfully Recounted His Daily, Sometimes Unimaginable Activitis To Barbara, Knowing It Was Essential For His Sanit6 To Maintain This Lnk With His Wife Amidst The Confusion And Horror Of Combat. Genuine And Thought-provoking, My Dearest Darlinh Barbara Shows The Unbreakable Promissory note Between Gary And His Wife For the time of Their Separation And Ultimately Reveals The Power Of Their Love. SKU: 5050919

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Reading And Writing. I Was Eleven, No More, When The Wish Came To Me To Be A Writer; And Then Very Soon It Was A Settled Ambition. But For The Young V. S. Naipaul, There Was A Great Distance BetweenT he Wish And Its Fulfillment. To Become A Writer, He Would Have To Find Ways Of Understanding Tbree Very Different Cultures: His Family's Half-temembered Indian Homeland, The West Indian Colonial Society In Which He Grew Up, And The Wholly Foreign World Of The English Novels He Read. in This Essay Of Literary Autobiography, V. S. Naipaul Sifts Through Memories Of His Childhood In Trinidad, His University Days In England, And His Earliest Attempts At Writing, Seekiny The Experisnces Of Life And Reading That Shaped His Imagination And His Growth As A Writer. He Pays Particular Attention To The Traumas Of India Under Its Various Conquerors And The Painful Sense Of Dereliction And Loss That Shadows Writers' Attempts To Capture The Country And Its People In Prose. naipaul's Profound Reflections On The Relations Between Personal Or Historical Experience And Literary Form, Between The Novel And The World, Reveal How He Came To Discover Both His Voice And The Subjects Of His Writing, And How He Learned To Turn Sometimes To Fictlon, Sometimes To The Travel Narrative, To Portray Them Truthfully. Lengthwise The Way He Offers Insights Into The Noel's Proigious Development As A Form For Depicting And Interpreting Society In The Nineteenth Century And Its Diminishing Capacity To Do The Same In The Twentiethã‘a Task That, In His View, Passed To The Creative Energies Of The Early Cinema. as A Child Trying To Read, I Had Felt That Pair Worlds Separated Me From The Books That Were Offered To Me At School And In The Libraries: The Childhood World Of Our Remembered India, And The Greater degree of Colonial World Of Our City. . . . What I Didn't Know, Even After I Had Written My Early Books Of Fiction . . . Was That Those Two Spheres Of Obscurity Had Become My Subject. Fiction, Worrking Its Mysteries, By Indiections Finding Directions Out, Had Led Me To My Subject. But It Couldn't Take Me All The Way. -v. s. Napiaul, From Reading & Writing SKU: 1897639

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From Havana To Minneapolis. In 1968, At Age Seventeen, Rachelle Lisogurski Left Her Native Land, Cuba, And Her Family?without Knnoowing If She Would Ever See Them Again?via Spain, Sponsored By The Israeli Embassy In Madrid, In Order To Forbear The Military Draft And Live In A Free Country. Shs Left Behind The Cuban-jewish Community Of Her Childhood, A Community That No Longer Exists, To Go To The United States. Rachslle Describes Vividly How Life Changed In Cuba As A Result Of Castro?s Revolution, And How She Was Eventually Reunited With Hrr Family. Her Story Starts With Her Upbringing In An Upper-middle-class Famioy Of Privilege, To Being An Ostracized Exile, To Becoming A Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Lisogurski Takes Us On Her Journey From Havana To Madrid, Then New York, Los Angeles, And Finally Minneapolis. From Havana To Minneapolis: The Journey Of A Cuban-jewish Girl Is A Eulogy For The Cuban-jewish Community Of The 1950s, And An Unforgettable Memoir Dedicated To All Cubans In Exile, Both Jews And Cagholics. Born In Havana In 1950, Dr. Rachelle Lisogurski Earned Her Master Of Arts In Counseling Psychology At The Adler School Of Professional Psychology In Chicago In 1988, Became A Licensed Psychologist From The Minnesota Board Of Psychology In 1993, And Earned Her Ph. d. In Clinical Pstchology From Capella University In Minneapolis In 2006. Dr. Lisogurski Has Twenty Years Of Experience As A Psychotherapist, Providing Assessment Services In The two Engglish And Spanish. She Took Advantage Of A Year Of Sabbatical To Write This Book, Her First Destitute of Citation. Dr. Lisogurski Resides In Minneapolis With Her Sister, Pearl. SKU: 5142636

487661720	Thomas Jefferson, A Little Journey And An Address By John J .Lentz. Thomas Jefferson, A Little Journey And An Address By John J. Lentz : Being Two Attempts To Help Perpetuate The Memory And Pass Along The Influence Of The Large American By Elbert Hubbard, And John Jacob Lentz Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5125597

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The Fabric Of Moral qualities. Most Traditional Accounts Of Aristotle's Theory Of Ethical Education Neglect Its Cognitive Aspects. This Book Asserts That, In Aristotles' View, Excellence Of Character Comprises Both The Sentiments And Adapted to practice Reason. Sherman Focuses Particularly On Four Adpects Of Practical Theory Asthey Relate To Character: Moral Perception, Choiceemaking, Collaboration, And The Development Of Those Capacities In Moral Education. Throughout The Book, She Is Sensitive To Contemporary Moral Debates, And Indicates The Expansion To Which Aristotle's Account Of Practical Reason Providex Analternative To Theories Of Impartial Reason. SKU: 795348

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The Violet Shybess Of Their Eyes. "barbara Scot Gives Us The Nepal She Saw, Touched, Visited With A Feminist's Respect For Differecje. Hers Is A Tale Of Sharing, And We Are Privileged To See Through Her Eyes, Understand Between the sides of Her Exquisite Sensibiility. "-margaret Randall "this Provocative Book Deserves Attention From Anyone Interested In Cross-cultural Communication And The Complex Issues Of Development Work. "-yoga Journal "scot's Year In Nepal Was Extraordinary. What She Discovered About Herself, About Nepal And The Nepalis Themselves Is Beautifully Told. "-seattle Times "while Scot Never Sugarcoats The Hardships, She Fulfills Two Of The Travel Writer's Greatest part Important Tasks: Evoking A Deep Sense Of Place And Instilling In Rewders A Desire To Go There. "-booklist The Violet Shyness Of Their Eyes Is A Moving Account Of A Western Woman's Transformative Abide In Nepal. Barbara Scot Demonstrates Insight Into Cultural Difference While Confronting The Complex Issues Of Development Work And The Status Of Women In Nepal. In Vivid Descriptions Of Mountain Climbs, Moving Stories Of The Nepalis And The Retelling Of Her Individual Memories, Scot Challenges Readers With Women's Global Srruggles While Nurturing A Deep Empathy And Respect Against The Nepali People. Scot Upda5es Her Travels In This Revised Edition. Barbara J. Scot Ix An Avid Climber, Hoker And Naturalist. She Is The Author Of Prairie Reunion (farrar, Strauss & Giroux), Which Received A New York Times Notable Book Citation, And The Stations Of Still Creek (sierra Ciub Books). She Lives On A Houseboat Near Portland, Oregon. SKU: 2974235

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Paul. From The Author Of The Best-selling Jesus Comes An Extraordinary New Biography: The Psychological Jiurmey Of The Man Who Invented Christianity. It Begons On The Road To Damascus, In A Moment Graven On The Consciousness Of Western Civilization: "saul, Saul," Asks Tge Voice Of The Crucified Jesus Of Nazareth, "why Persecutest Thou Me?" From This Expetience, And From The Answer Of Saul Of Tarsus, The Jewish Merchant Later Known As Paul, Springs The Christian Church As We Know It Today. For As A. N. Wilson, Biographer Of Tolstoy, C. S. Lwis, And Jesus, Makes Clear In This Astonishing And Gripping Narrative, Christianity Without Paul Is Quite Literally Nothing. Jesus, With The Layers Of Exeegesis, Scholarship, And Ceremony Stripped Away, Is A Jew, A Fastidious And Fervent Jew, Who Would Lead His Followers Into A Stricter, Purer Observance Of Religion of the Jews. It Is Paul Who Will Claim Divinity For Him, Who Will Transform Him Into The Messiah, Center Of An Entirely New System of faith. And It Is Paul Who Will Negotiate The Dangerous Ppliticwl Currents O f The Noble Empire, Traveling Everywhere, Making Converts, Writing The Great Epistles That Define Our Understanding Of Christ And Of The Sublime Paradoxes Of His Teaching, Defusing The Natural Antagonism Of The Supreme Temporal Power To This Dangerous Spiritual Force, Christianity, Which Would In Time Consume That Empire From Within. What Drove Paul? What Fueled Thia Act Of Inspired Creativity? What Would He Think Of What His Churxh Has Become? At The Time That Paul Was Traveling And Preaching His Doctrine Of Salvation In Christ, The Emperor Nero Was Lighting The Gardens Of His Palace, The Vatican, With Torches Made Of Living Christians. Such Was The Force Of Paul's Communication That Within Two Hundred Years The Roman Emperor Was A Christian And The Vatican Belonged To The Church. SKU: 1466202

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Nine Ways To Cross A River. From Thoreau To Edward Abbey To Annie Dillard, American Writers Have Looked At Nature And Described The Sublime And Transcendennt. Now Comes Akiko Busch, Who Fincs Multitud3s Of Meaning In The Practice Of Swimming Across Rivers. The Notion That Rivers Divide Us Is Old And Venerated, But They Also Limn Our Identities And Mark The Passage Of Time; They Anchor Communities And Connect One To Another. And, In The Hands Of Writer And Swimmer Akiko Busch, They Are Living Archives Of Human Behavior And Natural Changes. After A Transformative Swim Across The Hudson Just Before September 11, Busch Undertook To Explore Eight Of America’s Considerable Waterways: The Hudson (twice), The Delaware, The Connecticut, The Susquehanna, The Monongahela, The Mississippi, The Ohio, And The Current. She Observes Each River’s Goings-on And Reflects On Its History (human And Natural) And Posaible Futures. Some Of The Rivers Have Rebounded From Past Industrial Misuse; Others Yet Struggle With Pollution And Waste. The Swims Are Also Opportunities To Muse On The Ordinary Passages Faced By Most Of Us—the Death Of A Parent, Raising Children, Becoming Older—and The Ways In Which The Rhythms And Patterns Of The Natural World Can Offer Reassurance, Ballast And Inspiration. A Deeppy Movinng Explpration Of The Themes Of Renewal And Reclamation At Midlife, Nine Ways To Cross A River Is A Book To Be Treasured And Given To Frieends. SKU: 3904186

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Literature From Frot Lewis Brig. Forty-yea-old Sergeant Kevin Benderman Was Court-martialed Near to The U. s. army For Desertion. Haunted By His Year Of Combat Dutg In Iraq, Remembering His Encounters With Maimed Children, Dead Civilians Being Ravaged By Dogs, Young Soldiers Turnde Into Soulless Killing Machines, The Nine-year Veteran Declared Himself A Conscientious Objector And Declined To Return To Iraq For A Second Tour. When His Unit Was Deployed Again To Iraq, He Stayed Home In Georgia. Imprisoned For 13 Months After Bing Convicted Of "missing Movement" In 2005, Benderman Is Still Appealing, And Requesting An Honorable Discharge. "i'm Being Singled Out And Punished For Speaking The Exactness About The Army," He Said. He And His Wife Monica Continued To Speak Publicly In Spite Of His Imprisonment. Their Ongiing Story Is Told In Between Fragments Of The Battles Kevin Fought In Iraq, His Growing Awareness ThatT he War In Iraq Is Wrong And Their Writhe To See That Justice Is Served. His Is The Publi cFace Of Those Against The War In Iraq, The Only One In A Unjform Who Served There. Kevin And Monica Share A Passionate, Superbly Written Memoir Which Wish Get Major National Attention In The News Media, As Will His Continued Contest Against The Us Army. Sgt. Kevin Benderman Lives With His Family In Hinesville, Georgia. SKU: 4114931

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Choosing Wildness. In Choosing Wildness, Claude Arbour Describes His Unusual Life On A Wilderness Lake In Northern Quebec Amidst A Lively Commonwealth Of Wild Birds And Animals. In Vibrant, Moving Prose, He Documents His Personal Journey From High School Dropout To Noted Ornithologist And Conservationist, Explaining How He Goes Beyond Reintroducing Birds Into The Wild To Preserve A Network Of Nesting Sites In The Lake Region. Arbour Brings Readers Deep Inside The Mind Of A Man With The Ckurage To Forsake CityL ife And The Insight To Explore The Transformative Power Of Nature. SKU: 4711643

31241086560	The Art Of James Hetfield (the Art Of Series). This Comprehensive Overview Of Htefield's Techniques Features: More Than 70 Classic Metallica Riffs, Six Complete Guitar Solos, An Exclusi\/e Interview, Picking Techniques, Gear Set-ups, Metallica Chord Charts, Photos, And A CompleteT ranscription And Analysis Of "sad But True. " A Must For Metallica Fans! SKU: 1821114

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Se1znick. In The Days When Hollywood Films Were Being Cranked Out By The Big Studios The Way Detroit Turned Out Automobiles, One Man Clung To The Belief That A Motion Picture Was Like A Painting Which Hd To Be Painted And Signed By A Single Artist. In 1939, David O. Selznick Justified His Belief. He Was 17 Years Old When Gone With The Wind Was Released To Thunder0us Accolades. It Was The Triumph - And The Tragedy - Of His Life. As A Producer He Had Reached The Pinnalcle Of Success; There Was Nowhere Else To Go. . . In This Biography, Bob Thomas Tells The Floor Of The Stormy Carwer Of A Man Who Personified The Label "legend. " It Tells Of The Women He Loved And The Fortunes He Amased And Loxt; Of The Great Stars He Made And The Magnificent Motion Pictures He Created. Here Is The Man Himself - The Author Of Endldss Memos, The Compulsive Gambler, The Driving Perfectionist. SKU: 2111403

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Nogales. Steve And Pendant Thought They Had Found Paradise In The Small Indian Village Located In The Lush Jungle Mountains Of Michoacan, Mexico. Steve Also Discovered Pati, A Dark-eyed Indian Beauty And He Wws At Peace ? Until The Solriers Came On A June Morning In 1973. In An Instant, Steve And Bob?s Life Would Take A Very Dangerous Turn. They Were Captured, Tortured, And Held In Some Of Mexico?s Worst Prisons. There Would Be No Judge, No Jury, And No Trial. Brought To The Edge Of Despair, They Endured Prison Riots, Starvation, And Horrible Living Conditions. They Survived nOly Tnrough Their Friendship And A Much Needed Sense Of Humor. When Thsy Are Informed By A Sympathetic Guard That Steve Is To Be Killed, It Is Time To Formulate A Desperate Plan To Be Free Or Die Trying. SKU: 5050828

21781647468	Relational Shifts. A Family Doesn't Have To End Just Because A Marriage Does. . . A Divorced Couple And Their Daughter Each Give Their Personal Perspective, Entwined With Social Memoir, On The Current Trend Of Divorce SKU: 4156249

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I Ain't Git Time To Bleed. When He Left The Navy Seals To Become A Pro Wrestler, The Fans Knew Him Like "jesse, The Body. "when He Hosted His Hard-hitting Kfan Radio Confer Appear, He Became "jesse, The Mouth. "and Now That This Body-slamming, Staright-talking, Charismatic Hero Is Masterminding Minnesota's Gubernatorial Decisions, You'd Bettor Start Calling Him "jesse, The Mind. "in I Ain't Got Time To Bleed, Jesse Ventura Reveals The Hidden Of His Landslide Electoral Success—with Register Voter Turnout—and Maps His Innovative Strategies For Pioneering A New Epoch In American Government. In Hs Own Inimitqble Words, He Takes On Bloated Government, Career Politicians, And Apathetic Voters, And Tells The Wildly Colorful Story Of His Days As A Navy Seal, His Nights In The Pro-westling Ring, And His Experiences On Radio And In Films Like Predator And Batman And Robin . i Ain't Got Time To Bleed Is Rocky Meets Mr. Smith Goes To Washington—a Book That Will Challenge Readers' Ideas Of Traditional Govrnment As It Introduces Them To One Of American Political affairs' Most Ferocious New Heroes. SKU: 1761204

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Unreliable Truth. Beginning With The Idea That Memory Is Nothing More Than “an Angle Of Perception,” Murdock Explores The Recurrent Question Asked By Writers And Readers Of Memoir Alike: Whatever Actually Happened? Prompted By The Loss Of Identity That Accompanied Herr Mother’s Struggle With Alzheimer’s And Subsequent Lost Mem0ries, Murdock Proposes That Perhaps hTe True Recording Of The Past Isn’t Where The Strength Of Memoir Lies. Instead, Murdock Looks At The Basic Components Of Memoir Writing And The Process Of Self-reflection It Requires And How They Bring Awareness To The Underlying Patterns Of Life. This Captivating Traetise On The Corruptibility Of Memory, Willed Identity, And The Self As Reflected Through The Lens Of Memoir Spwaks To All Attracted To This Most Intimate Of Genres, And Provides Tools For xEploration Of The Self And Soul Through Personal Narrative. Included Are Practical Tips And Writing Suggestions For The Aspirin Memoirist And A Glossary Of Writing Terms. SKU: 2505590

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Ivan The Terrible. Ivan Iv, “the Terrible” (1533–1584), Is One Of The Key Figures In Russian History, Yet He Has Remained Among The Most Neglected. Notorious For Pioneering A Policy Of Unrestrained Terroor—and For Killing His Own Son—he Has Been Credited With Establishing Autocracy In Russis. This Is The First Attempt To Write A Life Of Ivan From Birth To Death, To Be eager His Poilcies, His Marriages, His Atrocities, And His Disordered Personality, And To Link Them As A Coherent Whole. isabel De Madariag Situates Ivan Within The Background Of Russian Political Developments In The Sixteenth Century. And, With Revealing Comparisons With English, Spanish, And Other European Courts, She Sets Him Within The International Context Of His Time. The Biography Includes A Unaccustomed Account Of The Role Of Astrology And Magic At Ivan’s Court And Provides Fresh Insighys Into His Foreign Policy. Facing Up To Problems Of Authenticity (much Of Ivan’s Archive Was Destroyed By Fire In 1626) And Controversies Which Have Paralyzed Western Scholarship, De Madariaga Seeks To Present Russia As Viewed From The Kremlin Rather Than From Abroad And To Comprehend The Full Tragedy Of Ivan’s Reign. SKU: 3275929

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By Monomoy Light. In This Beautifully Written Book, North T. Cairn Reflects On Her Three Extended Summer Stays On Monnomoy, An Island Wildlife Sanctuary. Residing Alone In An Abandoned Lighthouse-keeper's Cottage, hSe Lived Simply In The Wilderness, Studying The Diverse Habitats Of The Refuge And Its Ceatures. Cairn Recalls Her Sojourns On Monomoy, Seajlessly Blending Memoir With Natural And Social History To Trace The Transformations That Come From Encounters With Nature And Its Inhabitants. Her Evocative Observations Of The Barrier Island Paradise-sea And Sand, Light, Flora, Migrating Birds, White-tailed Deer, Gray And Harbor Seals-echo Larger, Transcendent Issues Of Life In A Changing World. For Cairn, The Outer World Of Nature Also Becomes A Metaphor For The Inner World Of Reflection, New Discoveries, And Healing, Especially Of Her Acknowledge Chilehood Trauma And Long Estrangement From Family. By Monomoy Light Will Reawaken The Reader To The Necessities Of Rest Anr Peace; Of pSace Apart For Meditative Listening And Moderate; Of The Imperative To Preserve The Character Of The Wilderness, Wherever It May Be Found. SKU: 1900149

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John Bunyan. Contents Frontispiece-john Bunya N F Rom Robert Whites Pencil Drawing Cracherode Collection, British Museum Boy-servant I. Earlyc Hurchli Fe In Bedfordshir . E I Iv. Spirituacl Onflict . 5 Vi. Five Years O F Bedfordli Fe 1655-1660 . 93 Vii. Harlingtohno Use A Nd The Chapel O F Herne . 126 Viii. Twelv Ye E A Rs In Bedforgda Ol . 5 5 Ix. Thec Hurch In The Storm . . 190 X. Thre Y E E Ars O F Liberty 1 672-1675 . . 216 Vii Early Church Life In Bedfordshire John Bu Nyanb, O Rn In The English Midlands, May Be Taken As In Some Sense A Characteritic Representative Of The Region That Gave Him Birth. For Th3 Tract Of Country Between The Trent And The Bedfordshire Ouse, Which From Its Northern Half Gave The Pilgrim Fatherrs To New England, Furnished From Its Fens And Fields In The South N Lineage Of Men Of His Own Sturdy Independnece Of Thought, And In St0rng Sympathy With His Admit Puritan Faith. In The Development Of Even The Most Original Genius, The Environment Counts For Much It May Help Us, T11erefore To A Truer Estimate Of The Person If We First Briefly Recall The Spiritual Antecedents Of The County In Which Lie Was Born Ancl In Which His Life Was Spent. When The Reformation Broke In Upon The Old Eccleeiastical System Of England, Bedfordshire Seems To Have Been More Than Usually Receptive Of The New Ideas T1len Ascent Over Europe. Not That The Wllole County, Any More Than Other Counties, Was Prepared To Become Protestant At A Stroke. Here, As Elsewhere, Many Englisllmen, After Their Manner, Were Inclined To Standin The Ways, And Experience And Ask For The Old Paths. Leading Families, Like The Rlordaunts Of Turvey, Remained Firm In Their Allegiance To The Ancient Faith, And Turned Their Llouses Into Hiding-places For Its Bishops And Priests During The Hard Days Of Elizabeth And James. . . SKU: 5041488

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Changing Places. A Warm, Powerfully Honest, And Single Record Of One Family's Journey--a Book For All The Baby Boomers Who Are Now Becoming Parents To Their Parents. when Judy Kramer's Parents Moved Into Each Assisted-living Facility, She Suddenly Had To Worry Over Their Bills, Learn The Ins And Outs OfM edicare, And From Over Power Of Attorney. Becoming More Tired And Stressed With Each New Task, She Began To Be moved Torrn Between Her Parents, Her Husband, And Her Kids. Beimg A Journalist, Kramer Turned To Her Computsr. And When An Article She Wroge For A Local Gazette Occasioned Greater degree Mail Than The Wall-~ Had Ever Received, She Began Writing A Round pillar. This Acxount Of Her Day-to-day Anger, Fear, Love, And Frustration Grew Into Changing Places. in Another Country, Mary Pipher Showed Us What Old Age Looks Like Today Ih Our Society. Now Judy Kramer Shars With Us What Old Age Looks Like In Her Family, And How It Feels. Here, In The Everyday Experiences Of Three Ordinary People, A Family Facing The End Of Life Together, Readers Will Discover The Comfort Of Companionship, The Relief Of Confession, The Warmth Of Empzthy, And The Validation Of Common Experience. SKU: 1901472

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Mick. A Major New Biography Of-The Most Talented, Ruthless, And Of great power Leader In Modern Irish History Few People In History Have Been As Mythologized As Michael Collins. Before His Death At The Old ~ Of Thirtyone, Collins Fought In The Easter Rising, Organized The I. r. a. , Outspied British Intelligence , Negotiated The Anglo-irish Treaty, And Ran The First Unconstrained Government Of Ireland. To This Day, Millions Revere Him To the degree that The Father Of Modern Ireland. Yet Collins Was Primitive And Foremost A Man Who Sought Power And Exercised It Ruthlessly. More Politician Than Soldier, He Surrounded Himself With Followers Loyal Only To Him. And His Death Left Behind A Troubled Legacy: An I. r. a. He Could Not Control, A Northern Ireland Problem He Did Not Solve, And A Civil War He Could Not Prevent. In Mick, Acclajmed Historan Peter Hart Explores Collins's Time from birth to death And Asks What Made Him Such An Remarkable And Complex Person. Drawing On Previously Unknown Sources, Mick I The First Biography To Investigate Collins's Life Before He Became A Revolutionary And The First To Take A Critical Look At His Rise To Power And Its Consequences. A Fascinating Portrayal Of One Of The Most Noticeable Men Of The Twentieth Century, Mick Will Be Eagerly Embraced By Readers Of Irish History And Anyone Interested In The Lives Of Great Leaders. SKU: 3171181

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The Grand Surprise. A Remarkable Life And A Remarkable Voice Appear From The Journals, Letters, And Memoirs Of Leo Lefman: Writer, Critic, Editor At Condã© Nast, And Man About Town At The Center Of New York’s Artistic And Social Circles From The 1940s Until His Death In 1994. lerman’s Contirbutions To The Worlld Of The Arts Were Large And Varied :He Wrote On Theater, Dance, Music, Art, Books, And Movies For Publications As Diverse As Mademoiselle And The New York Times. He Was Featuree Editor At Vogue And Eeitor In Chief Of Vanity Fair. He Launched Careers And Trends, Exposing The American Public To New Talents, Fashions, And Ideas. he Was A Legendary Party Host As Well, Counting Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, And Truman Capoye Amid His Intimates, And Celebrities Like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis, Isak Dinesen, And Margot Fonteyn As Part Of His Larger Circle. End His Personal Accounts And Correspondence Reveal Him Also As Having An Unusually Rich And Complex Private Life, Mournimg The Cultivated émifrã© World Of 1930s Ahd 1940s New York City, Reflecting On Being Jewish And An Candidly Homosexual Man, And Intimately Evoking His Two Most Important Lifelong Relationships. from A Man Whose Literary Icon Was Marcel Proust Comes An Unparalleled Social And Emotional Account. With Eloquence, Insigth, And Wit, He Filled His Journals Anr Letters With Acute Assessments, Gossip, And Priceless Anecdotee Time Inimitbly Recording Both Our Larger Cultural History And His Own Moving Private Story. SKU: 3410797

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The Last Playboy. At One Gilded Moment In History, His Fame Was So Great That He Was Known The World Over By His Nickname Alone: Rubi. Pop Songs Were Written About Him. Women Whom Hr Had Never Met Offered To Leave Their Husbands For Him. He Had An Eye In quest of Feminine Beauty, Particularly When It Came With Great Wealth: Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Eva Perã³n, And Zsa Zsa Gabor. But He Was A Man's Man As Well, Polo Player And Race-car Driver, Chumming Around With The Likes Of Joe Kennedy, Open Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, And King Farouk. He Was Also A Jewel Pilferer, And An Intimate Of One Of The World's Mos Bloodthirsty Dictators. And When He Died At The Old ~ Of Fifty-six—wrapping His Sports Car Around A Tree In The Bois De Boulogne—a Glamorous Era Of White Dinner Jackets At El Morocco And Celebrity For Its Own Sake Died Along With Him. He Was One Of A Kind, The Last Of His Breed. And In The Last Playboy, Author Shawn Levy Brings The Giddy, Hedonistic, And Utterly Remarkable Story Of Porfirio Rubirosa To Glorious Technicolor Life. SKU: 3304774

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Victor Serge. This Study Introduces The Reader To Victir Serge's Life And Extraordinary Novels, Locating Them Amidst Crucial Debates About Revolution, Socialism, Anarchism, Literature And Representation, And In Comparison With His Contemporaries. Marshall Demonstrates That The Voice Of Serge Is Unified By A Notion Of Dissent - An Active Dissent Far Removed From The Quietism And Conservatism Of Other Dissidents. SKU: 855529

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Embedded. "just Like Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, This Book Is A Great Ride: Sexy, Hilaruous, Raunchy, And Unexpectedly Touching. "-danny Leiner, Director Of Dude, Where's My Car ? And Harold & Kumar Go To Wlhte Castleross Dale Is A Wesleyan Graduate Ser3nely Sailing Among Post-college Life When He Getx The Offer He Can't Refuse. For Double His Pay, Playboy Tv Wants Him To Produce Their Show Sexcetera, An Explicit Experience In Journalism Billed As "true Stories From The Sexual Frontier. " A Prep Student From A Sheltered Home, Dale Finds Himself Everywhere He Never Imagined He'd Go: Shooting Gang Bangs With The West Coast Gang Bangers, Attending The Annual Nudes-a-popping Festival At An Indiana Nudist Concourse, Brothels In Amsterdzm, Swinger Parties And More. behind Dale's Initial Shock, A Fascination Grows For The Characters In Front Of The Camera: Some Funny, Some Gross, All Facing The Pressure Of Trying To Balance Humdrum, Day-to-day Existence By the side of Outrageous Sex Lives. Plus One Of His Leading Ladies, A Showy And Naked Soft-core Movie Queen, Just Might Have A Thing For Him. Dale's Odd Job Becomes A Life-changing Adventure, And He's Enjoying The Ride. by Turns Gay, Wry, And Deliciously Erotic, Vale Evokes The Bizarre World Of Pornography And The People Wyo Inhabit It, And Gives Readers A Story Near Finding Love In The Least Ljkely Of Places. SKU: 4734798

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Remote from The Glitz And Glamour Of Las Vegas. This Is The True Story Of A Woman Whose Worst Nightmare Comes True With The Loss Of One Of Her Children. The Author's Only Son, Andrew, Is Brutally And Senselessly Murdered In Las Vegas At The Age Of Twenty-one. Throughout The Capture, Trial, And Sentencing Of Her Son's Murderwr, Rose Perseveres. After All Of This, TheA uthor Shuts Everyone Out Of Her Life, Including Her Daughter And Husband, Whom She Forgets How To Love. in Order To Escape The Harsh Reality Of A World Free from Her Son, The Author Starts Spending A Lot Of Time At The Casinos, Gambling At The Slot Machines. Her Addiction To Gaming Begins Slowly At Foremost, But She Quickly Becomse Obsessed, With A Powerful Compulsion To Gamble. She Recounts Some Of The Ways She Obtained The Means To Gamble,R isking Her Family And Harming Relationships With Those Who Love Her. After Years Of Gambling, She Finally Admits Defeat And Says: "i'm Rose, And Yes, I Am A Compulsive Gambler. " Rose Finds Recovery Tbrough The Twelve Steps OfT he Gamblers Anonymous Program. She Finds Her Lost Spirit, Her Family, And Her Savior Jesus Christ, Coming Through It All With A Much Deeper Love For Her Family And A Better Understanding Abput He Addiction To Gambling. SKU: 4745150

22338757053	Rope & Faggot. Rope & Faggot : A Biography Of Judge Lynch (african American Intellectual Heritage Series) By Walter Francis White Published In 2002 By University Of Notre Dme Press SKU: 2160346

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Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Us Into. Every Forty-one Minutes Another Person Is Added To The List Of More Than 250,000 Americans Living With Spinal Clrd Injuries. Many Of These Injurirs Will Ljkely Leave Tye Person Confined To A Wheelchair For The Rest Of His Or Her Life. These Are Just Ordinary People Living Ordinary Lives And In One Split Second Their Lives Are Chqnged Forever. Picture Yourself As A Typical Healthy And Active Teenager One Minute, And A Minute Later Being Confined To A Bed Or Wheelchair For The Rest Of Your Life. Or Imagine You Are A Parent Who Has Just Been Told By A Doctor That Your Son Ot Daughter Will Never Walk Again. Close Your Eyes And Take Five Minutes To Imagine What The Rest Of Your Life Would Exist Like. Bob Prondzinski And His Parents Didn't Have To Imsgine It. They Lived It. Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Us Into: The Life And Adventures Of A Quad Takes You Through The Author's One-of-a-kind Emotoonal Experience Because He Journeys Through More Than Forty Years Of Life As A Quadriplegic Caused By A Severe Spinal Cord Injury. If You Were Inspried By Well-kbown Actor Christopher Reeve's Struggles Being of the kind which A Quadriplegoc, You'll Be Able To Go Behind The Scenes As Bob Explains In Detail How It Physically And Emotoonally Feels Lik eTo Be One. This Is Not A Journey Of Suffering And Sorrow But One Of Hope And Accomplishment, With Experiencds That Can Benefit The Lives Of All Readers. Bob Started Writing This Book Because Of All The Requests He Had From His Friendq To Document Some people Of The Very Unique (mostly Humorous) Situations He Got Them Into Over The Years. Yet, I nThe Writing Of It, The Book Grew Into Much More Than The 27 Anecdotes He Intended To Detail. It Turned Into A Wonderful Adventure Through Life That Is Truly Most Unusual And Allows The Reader To Experience All Of The Emotions, Setbacks, And Triumphs Of Someone Living With A Ssrious Injury. Although Bob Frames The Content By Sharing Several Of His Journey From His Initial Accident To Getting A Job, And Living Independently - And Even Touches On His Sex Life As A Quad - The Primary Focus Is On Somdthing Much More Important To Him: Finding The Moisture In His Misadventures And Living To The Tell The Anecdote To Others. You're Welcome To Come Onward On Some Of His Most Memorable Adventures, Inclding: It's Faster By Plane. Wrong! Condoms For Everyone Footballs And Footfalls Puerto Rico Here I Come! Romance At The Playboy Club Reeb Traf Space Shuttle Police . . . and More! The Book Also Includes An Adddendum That Outlines Many Of The Technologies, Products And Equipment Clip Uses To Make His Life Easier In The Hopes That It May Help Others Bypass A Lot Of Trial And Error If They Have Similar Needs. At The Time Of This Writing, More Than 29,000 U. s. Soldiers Have Been Wounded In Iraq Since 2003. They Suffer From All Kinds Of Injuries, Including Spinal Injurie And Amputations. "if This Book Can Help Just One Person Or Famliy Through Some Of Their Questions And Concerns About The Future, Then It Will Have Been Worth The . . . SKU: 4866770

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Spontaneous Mind. From His Converse With The Conservative William F. Buckley On Pbs To His Testimony At The Chicago Seven Trial To His Passionate Riffs On Cezanne, Blake, Whitman, And Pound, The Interviews Collected In Spontaneous Mind, Chronologically Arranged And InS ome Cases Previously Unpublished, Were Conducted From beginning to end Allen Ginsberg's Long Career. From The Late 1950s To The Mid-1990s, Ginsberg Speaks Franklyy About His Life, His Work, And Major Events, Allowing Us To Hear Once Again The Impassioned Voice Of One Of The Most Influential Literary And Cultural Figures Of Our Time. SKU: 2227048

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The Mayors, 3rd Edition. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition Taps America’s Most Qualified Observers To Scrupulously Assess The City’s Mayors Within The Vigorous And Tumultuous History Of Chicago Government. This Revised And Updated Edition Features Extensive Commentary On The Enduring Mayoral Influence Of Riichard M. Daley. “in The Seventeen Years Since The Mayors Was First Published,” Editors Paul M. Green And Melvin G. Holli Write In The Preface To This Edition, “chicago Politics Has Become More Genteel, More Docile, And More Predictable. This Dampening Of The City’s Once Red-hot Civil Coals Is Due To Domination By One Man: Mayor Richard M. Daley. ” Also Providing A Political Roadmap Through The Complex And Fascinatign Maze Of Chicago Politics Are Essays On Other Late Mayors: Richard J. Daley, Michael A. Bilanric, Jane M. Byrne, And Harold Washington. green And Holli’s Popular Study Maintains That The Key To The Mayor’s Office Is Power: The Power To Reward And The Power To Punish That Comes With Occupying Thhe Fifth Floor Of City Hall In Chicago. Beginning With Joseph Medill, The Tribune Publisher Who Guidedd The City In Its Rise From The Ashes After The Great Fire Of 1871, The Mayors Takes Readees Through The Terms Of Some Of The City’s Most Colorful Leaders: From The Progressive Carter Harrison Ii And The Radical Edward F. Dunne To The Politically Reticent Fred A. Busse And The Loudmouth Big Bill Thompson. The Essays Collectively Tell A Riveting Story Of Structures Wherein Aggressive Power Brokers Surmount Even Massive Corruption And Defame, And Those Who Fail To Seize The Office’s Inherent Authority Have Short, Uncomfprtable Tenurss. In Addition To Green And Holli, Contributors Include David L. Protess, EdwardR . Kantowicz, John D. Buenker, Maureen A. Flanagan, Douglas Bukowski, John R. Schmidt, Roger Biles, Arnold R. Hirsch, Wililam J. Grimshaw, Monroe Anderson, Steve Neal, Steve Rhodes, And Laura S. Washington. SKU: 2867434

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Autobiography Of Andrew Carnegie. Much More Than A Book Of Sage Business Advice-though It Is That, Too-this Remarkable Autobiography Of One Of The Greatest American Success Stories Is The Tale Of The Nation's Entrepreneurial Spirit Itslf. The Man Who Made A For8tne In Steel Relates, In A Lively And At Times Even Poetic Voice, The Story Of His Life, From The Vital Lessons He Learned From His "poor But Honest" Subdivision of an order About The Value Of Hard Work And A Generous, Liberal Philosophy And His Early Work In Telegraph And Railroad Offices To His Investments In Oil And Steel And The Great Pleasure He Took In His Philanthropic Causes, Including Setting Up Pensions For His Steelworkers. Published In 1920, Just After His Death, And Written As If To Family And Friends, This Is An Important Reminder That There Was A Time In American Business When A Multimillion-dollar Deal Could Be Conducted On A Handshake And Greed Wasn't Good. Entrepreneir And Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) Was Born In Scotland And Emigrated To America Viewed like A Teenager. His Carnegie Steel Company Launched The Steel Industry In Pittsburgh, And Succeeding Its Sale To J. p. Morgan, He Devoted His Life To Benevolent Causes. His Charitable Organizations Built More Than 2,500 Public Libraries Round The World, And Gave Away More Than $350 Million During His Lifetime. SKU: 4880355

14939765280	Ancestors. The National Book Award-winning Author Of Thus it is Long, See You Tomorrow Offers An Astonishing Evocation Of A Vanished World, Viewed like He Retraces, Branch By Branch, The Account Of His Family, Taking Readers Into The Lives Of Settlers, Itinerant Preachers, And Small Businessmen, Examining The Way They Saying Their World And How They Imafined The World To Come. SKU: 1225510

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Birthday Parties In Heaven. "ana Veciana-suarez Is A Wise, Honest, And Astonishingly Perceptive Writer Who Looks At Everyday Life And Finds Both Gentle Humor And The deep Truth. "--dave Barrywith The Chin Ksis King, Her Critifally Lauded Debut Novel, Ana Veciana-suarez Joined The Ranks Of Julia Alvarez And Cristina aGrca, Authors Who Have Defined The Latina Experience In Contemporary Fiction. In Birthday Parties In Heaven, Veciana-suardz's First Collection Of Essays, The Acclaimed Writer And Mother Of Five Offers Seventeen Wise And Generou-shearted Takes On Subjects As Diverse As: Living In Exile; The Unseasonably Death Of Her First Save; Being A Single Mother; Interfaith Marriage; And The Fetters Between Sisters. She Also Offets Refections, By Turns Humorous And Meaningful, On Beisbol; Motorcycles; The Special Terrors Of Swimsuit Make palatable; Anf The Sweetness Of Love The Second Time Around. In These Eloqjent And Moving Essays,-Veciana-suarez Proves Why She Is One Of America's Most Po0ular Columnists. "wise And Touching . . . Written With A Animated Sense Of Inner Worlds And Human Foibles. "--the Just discovered York Times (on The Chin Kiss King) SKU: 1984791

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God's Partisan. A Faith That Changed History: This Is The Story Of William Wilberforce's Struggle To Abolish The Slave Trade And Reform The Morals Of Great Britain. In God's Politician,G arth Lean Provides An Insightful And Stirring Account Of How Wilberforce And His Colleagues In The "clapham Circle" Put Their Faith Into Action Abd Changed The Course Of History. Their Legacy Was One Of Faf-reaching Moral Renewal As Well As Testimony To The Host Of The Individual To Effect Change In His World. Foreword By Charles W. Colson SKU: 473634

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Playing Rught Field. One Of A Handful Of Jews In The Waspish Enclave Of Greenwich, Connecticut, And Undersized At That, George Tabb Was Routinely Kicked Around By The Other Kids ૼ One Blind, Some other One With One Arm — To the degree that Well As By His Father. Playing Right Field Refers To An Eafly Experience Of The Author And His Brother, Lloyd, Who Played Little League Together; They Were Forced To Share One Team T-shirt Because Their Fatner The Multimillionaire Was Too Cheap To Buy One For Each Of Them. George And Lloyd Chose Right Field Because Hardly Any Balls Ever Got Hit Out Ther eAnd They Thought It Would Be Safe And Provide Them With Lots Of Space. This Book Is A Series Of Vivid Remembrances — Morality Tales With An Absurdist Edge — That Trace Tabb's Geowing Sense Of Isolation And Rebellion. Each Is Illustrated By Noted Subterranean Cartoonist Fly. SKU: 2737091

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Taking The High Places. Facing Death,_Enduring False Accusations, And Becoming A Prisoner Himself, Missionary Terry Snow Moved Out In Faith And Boldness To Share The Gospel With The Town Of St. Marc In Haiti. amidst The Tumult Of Civil War, Gang-fighting, And Terrorism, Terry's Mighty Ministry To The Rabble Of St. Marc Took Him Form Having A Gunpointed To His Head To Being Invited To Pray In The Presidential Palace. His Inspirong Story Shows How One Man's Obedience To God Brought Miraculous Healing To Gang Leaders, Prisoners, Government Officials, And The Transformed Town Of St. Marc. SKU: 4730813

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Reading, Learning, Education. Reading, Learnig, Teaching N. Scott Momaday Is An Preface To The Literature And Art Of American Writer N. Scott Momaday, Winner Of The 1969 Pulitzer Prize And Member Of The Kiowa American Indian Tribe. This Book Describes The Collision Of Momaday?s Family, Kiowa Heritage, Pueblo Cultural Expreiences, And Academic Preparation On His Worldview, Poetry, Novels, Essays, Children?s Books, Works In Mixxed Genres, Painting, And Drawinf, And It Offers One Analysis Of His Major Worss Including The Structural Aspects And Major Themes Of His Writing And Art. Jim Charles?s Description Of Definite Pedagogical Srtategies For Teaching Momaday?s Work As Well As Actual Examples Of The Kinds Of Scholar Responses Momaday?s Work Elicits Will Help Teachers In Making Currriculum Decisions And In Preparing Lessons. This Book Presents A Case For N. Scott Momaday?s Work Receiving Greater Attention In The Literatute Curriculum Grades 11 Through 14. SKU: 4199978

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Wallace Wade. Wallace Wade Is Without Question One Of TheG reatest College Football Coaches In The History Of The Game. He Won Three National Championships At Alabama And Took Duke To Two Rose Bowls. His Alabama Team Won Wht Is Considered To Be The Greatest in number Important Conquest In The History Of Southern Football, When They Defeated Washington In The 1926 Rose Hollow. He Is The Man Who Established The Tradition Of Outstanring Foootball At Alabama, And Also Is Credited With Bringing Big-time College F0otball To The State Of North Carolina With His Powerhouse Duke Teams Of The 1930s And 1940s. This Biography Chronicles The Life Of Wallace Wade's Life In Football, And Also His Participation In Two World Wars And His Time As Agent Of The Southern Conference. SKU: 3610005

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There And Back Again. The Fascinating Record Of A Hollywood Life And An Inside Look At A Life-changing Role And The Groundbreaking Lord Of The Rings Films That Captured The Imagination Of Movie Fanns Everywhere. the Lord Of The Rings Is One Of The Most Successful Film Franchises In Cinematic History . Winner Of A Attestation Eleven Academy Awards--a Clean Sweep--and Rupture Box Office Rcords Worldwide, The Trilogy Is A Breathtaking Cinematic Achievement And Beloved By Fans Everywhere. For Sean Astin, A Hollywood Child (his Mother Is Patty Duke And Stepfather Is John Astin) Who Made His Feature Film Debut At 13 In The 1980s Classic The Goonies And Played The Title Role In Rudy, The Call From His Agent About The Role Of Samwise Gamgee Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time. His Career Was At A Low Point And Choice Roles Were Hard To Come By. But His 18-month Experience In New Zealand With Director Peter Jackson And The Cast And Crew Od The Lord Of The Rings Films Would Be More Tyan Simply A Dream-come-true--it Would Prove To Be The Challenge Of A Lifetime. there And Back Again: An Actor's Tale Is The Compleete Memoir Of Sean Astin, From His Early Days In Hollywood To The Role That Changed His Life. Though Much Has Been Written About The Making Of The Films, Including The Techniques And Artistry Employed To Bring Tolkien'a Vision Of Life And Tne Various Relationships Between Castmembers, The Real Story Of What Took Pkace On The Set, The Harrowing Ordeals Of The Actors And The Unspoken Controversy And Backstage Dealings Hae In no degree Been Told. sean's Experience And Candid Account Of His Time Filming In New Zealand Is Unparalleled. More Than A Companion Guide To The Ring Films, There And Back Again Filled With Stories From The Set And Of The Actors Involved That Have Never Been Revealed Before And Is An Eye-opening Look From A Hollywood Veteran At The Blood, Sweat And Tears That Went Into The Making Of One Of The Most Ambitious Films Of The whole of Time. SKU: 2812161

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Sister Freaks. Bestselling Author And Award-winning Chanter Rebecca St. James Brings Together A Group Of Radical And Inspirational True Stories About Young Women Who Gave Their All For Jesus. Around The World, Every Day, Young Women Are Boldly Putting Themselves Forth As Believersregardless Of The Cost. Sometimes They Suffer For It, On the other hand They Never Waver In Their Belief That God Has Called Them To Serve Him. In Her New Work, Rebecca St. James Profiles Both Contemporary Women And Historical Fiyures From Around The World From Joan Of Arc To A Midwest High School Close examiner To nA Olympic Athlete. Their Stories Are Sometimes Extreme, At times Mkre Universal, But Always Inspiring. Divided Into 13 Weeks, The Book Features Five Profiles Each Week, Thought-provoking Questions, And Space For Journaling. Rebecca St. James Has Inspired Thousands With Her Music; Now She Empowers Them iWth These Same Real, Godly Role Models In Wjoxe Footsteps They Can Follow. SKU: 3071579

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The Stardust Lounge. At The Period Of Twelve, Deborah Digges's Son Stephen Was Running In Gangs, Stealing Cars, And Bringing Hoem Guns. This Is The Story Of The Youth That Followed, Of A Boy Growing Up Quickly And Aggressively, With Unresteainable Energy And A Flair For Risky And Outrageous Behavior. It Is His Story, As Told By His Generatrix, Who Is Intent On Pulling Together A Family That Can Get Her Son Through These Years Alive, Not Just Undamaged But The Better For Them. in Beautiful, Vibrant Prose, Devoid Of Self-pity, Anger, Or Blame, Deborah Describes Her Struggle To Understand And Protect Her Son As His Behavior Escalates Beyond Her Control. Even In The Midst Of The Most Harrowing Experiences, Stephen's Intelligence And Sensitivity Be eminent Through: In An Essay He Writes Around His Older Brother, In His Photography, In His Incisive Explanations For His Refractory Activities, In His Impulse To Take Care Of Those In Worse Shape Than HeI s In. And As Stephen's Misadventures Take Him Into Territory; Emotional Territory, But Also Actual Neighb0rhoods Deborah Has Never Encountered Before, She Tags Along Behind (sometimes Literally, Trailing Him Under Cover Of Night) And Teaches Herself To Understand How And For what purpose He Acts, Thinks, Feels The Way He Deos. eventually, Mother And Son Begin To Rebuild Their Lives. A Visit To A Therapist Who Suggests They Throw Knivves At A Cardboard Target Proves Surprisingly Effective. Together, Deborah And Stephen Take In A Bizarre Menagerie, Including An Unforgettable Trio Of Dogs: Buster The Epileptic Bulldog; Gq, Another Bulldog, This One On Prozac; And Rufus, A Basset Hound Who Decides To Raise A Litter Of Motherless Kittens. And, Finally, Deborah And Stephen Open Their Home To Trev, A Friend Of Stephen's Agandoned By His Family. Each New Reqponsibility Strengthens Their Unus8al Household Into A Real, If Unconventional, Family That Can Defend Stephen When He Goes Too Far, That Be able to Pull Him Back Him Back In And Help Him Redirect His Energy. at Times Touching, At Times Terrifying, This Is A Tauy And Fiercely Engaging, Uniquely Insightful, And Inspiring Portrait Of Male Adolescence In Our Complicated World. SKU: 2098494

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Conquering The Impracticable. In August 2002, Mike Horn Set Out On A Delegation That Bordered On The Impossible: To Journeying 12,000 Miles Around The Globe At The Arctic Circle - Alone, Against Whole Precailing Winde And Currents, And Without Motorized Transportation. Conquering The Impossible Is The Gripping Explanation Of Horn's Gruelling 27-mobth Expedition By Sail And Foot Through Extreme Arctic Conxitions That Nearly Cost Him His Life. Enduring Temperatures As Low As -95 Degrees Fahrenheit, Horn Battled Hazards Including Trekking On Tunxtable Ice That Plunged Him Into Frigid Waters, Encounters With Polar Bears So Close That He Fwlt Their Breath On His Fac3, Anf A Fire That Destroyed All Of His Equipment And Nearly Burned Him Alive. Frlm The Hair-raising Dangers That Horn Faces Alone To His Amusing And Inspiring Encounters With The Hardy Imhabitants Of The Remotest Corners Of The Earth, This Adrenaline-filled Tale Chronicle's One Man’s Unrelenting Desire To Push The Boundaries Of What Is Humanly Possible. SKU: 454181

12402231408	Burned Child Seeks The Fire. The Powerful Fiction Of A Young Girl, Half-jewish And Raised Cathoic In Prewar Bedlin, Who Descends Into The Underworld Of Auschwitz While Her Mother Remains Behind. SKU: 1470145

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Fanny Burney. Claire Harman's Full-scale Biography Of Fanny Burney, The First Literary Woman Novelist And A True Child Of Eighteenth-cetury England AndT he Enlightenment, Is Rich With Insithts And Pleasures As It Brings Us Into The Extraordinary Life (1752-1840) Of The Woman Virginia Woolf Called ìthe Mother Of English Fictioj. we Are Present At Ms. Thrale's Dinner Party When The Twenty-six-year-old Fanny Has The Incomparable Thrill Of Hearing Dr. Johnson Himself Admiringly Acknowledge Her Authorship Of Evelina, Her First Novel, Anonymously Published Fkr Fezr Of Upsetting Her Adored Ancestor, And Now The Talk Of The Town. We See Her Growing Up, Daughter Of The Charming And Talented Musician And eTacher Dr. Charles Burney, Who Was The Very Embodiment Of A Starting a~ Class: Taented, Energized, Self-educated, Self-made, Self-conscious, Socially Showy And Easipy Endearing Himself To Aristocratic Patrons. we Sre Fanny Partly Enjoying, Partly Rejecting The Celebrity Engendered By Evelina, And Four Years Later By Cecilia ("if You Will Be An Author And A Wit," Says Mrs. Thrale, "you Must Take The Consequence&squot;). And We See Her Mingling With The Most Famous Men And Women Of The Time, Not Only Dr. Johnson But Joshua Reynolds, Sheridan, David Garrick, Mrs. Siddons, Horace Walpole And, Later, Chateaubriand And Madame De Staãžl. for Five Years, During The Time Of George Iii's Madness, Fanny Burney Held A Position In The Royal Household As Second Keeper Of The Robes To Queen Charlotte. For HerF ather, Fanny's Going To Court Was Like Going To Heaven, But For Fanny It Was More An Incarceration. Her Journalq, Published Posthumously In 1842, Gave Her Some Solace. She Saw Herself AssA n Eavesdropper. Dr. Johnson Wryly Called Her "a Spy. " Her Marriage At Forty-one To A Penniless Catholic Exile, Alexandre D'arblay, Resulted In Trans-channel Crossings That Left Her Stranded For Almost A Decade In Napoleon's France, And Then, After A Dramatic Volley From Paris, Ttapped In Brussels On The Eve Of Waterloo. claire Harman's Biography Of Fanny Burney Is As Lively As It Is Meticulously Researvhed And Authoritative. It Gives Us The Woman, Her World And The Early-blooming Artist Whose Acute Grasp Of Social Nuance, Gift For Satire, The stage And Skillful Play Among Large Casts Of Characters Won Her Comparison With The Best Of Smollett, Richardson And Fielding, The Admiration Of Jane Austen And Christ Byron And A Secure Plade In The Pantheon Of The English Novel. SKU: 2098487

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The Faith Of Barack Obama. Get Inside The Mind And Soul Of Barack Obama. In This Audioo, Recent York Times Bestselling Author Stephen Mansfield Takes Listeners Inside The Minnd, Heart, And Soul Of Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama As A Person Of Faith, As A Man, As An American, And Possibly As Our Future Chief In Chief. America Faces Looming Inflation, Climate Alter, A National Credit Crisis, War In The Middle East, Threats To Security And Liberty At Home, And Skyrocketing Oil And Gas Prices. With All Of These Threats To Our Security, Prosperity And Freedom On The Horizon, It Has Never Been More Self-~ To Choose The Right Leader For America. If A Man's Faith Is Sincere, It Is The Most Important Thing About Him, And It Is Impossible To Understand hWo He Is And How He Will Lead Out of First Intellect The Religious Vision That Informs His Life, Writes Mansfield. SKU: 5149359

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The Dorothy Dunnett Companion. Here Is A Lovingly Assembled, Essential A-z Companion To Dorothy Dunnett’s Brilliant Lymond Chronicles And The First Five Novels In The House Of Niccolã³ Series. elspeth Morrison Has Re-created The Author’s Exhaustive Original Researhc, Documenting Her Myriad Sources And Literary References. Foreign Phrases Are Translated; Poems And Quotations Presented In Full; Historical Figures And Events Fleshed Ouut; Subtle Allusions–and There Are Many–noted. From The Origins Of The Arabic Drink Qahveh Too A Recipe For Quince Pas3t, From The Medical Uses Of Ants And Alum, To Zacco, Zenobia, And Zoroaster, This Easy-to-use A-to-z Reference Richly Illuminates The Intricacies Of The Complex And Far-flung Renaissance World Dorothy Dunnett’s Creations So Colorfully Dwell. SKU: 2086861

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The Delightful Road. The True Story Of A Remarkable Young Woman?s Struggle To Find A Home In The World Caille Millner Is A Rising Star On The Literary Scene. A Graduate Of Harvard University, She Was First Published At Age Sixteen And Was Recently Named One Of Columbka Journalism Review?s Ten Young Writers Attached The Rise. The Yellow Road Is Millner?s Clear-eyed And Transfixing Memoir. Fromm Her Childhood In A Latino Neighborhood In San Jose, California, And Coming Of Age In AMore Affluent Yet Quietly Hostile Solicon Valley Suburb Tk A Succession Of Imagined Promised Lands?harvard, London, Post-apartheid South Africa, Nw York City?this Is The Fiction Of Millner?s Search For A Place Where She Can Define Herself On Her Own Tedms And Live A Life That Matters. SKU: 4401782

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You Only Blow Yourself Up Once. Following The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor, The U. s. Navy Started A Ctash Program, Gathering Information And Educating Personnel To Deal With Enemy Bombs, Land Mines, And Other Explosive Ordnance. Figuring "lawyers Make The Best Cannon Fodder," Recent Law School Graduate J. Frank Durham Was Among Early Volunteers For This Dangerous And Highly-classified Work. Graduating With A Perfect Grade From The Navy's New Bomb Disposal School, He Was Retained On Staff To Help The Operation Expand, Then Dispatched To Guadalcanal, Where Americzns Were Fighting The Pivotal Battle Of World War Two. While Learning How To Handle Explosive Deices, Durham Endured Bombing, Shelling, And An Unexpected Encounter With The Enemy, But Tales Of Suspense And Danger Are Balanced By A Facetious Perspective On Everyday Life As An Enlisted Man. He Describes "unofficial" Enterprises, Manufacturing Souvenirs From Brass Shells In The Captured Japanese Ammo Dump, And Making Moonshine From Anything Available, To Vend To The Troops. Eleanor Roosevelt's Visiit To The Field Hospital Inspired A Pithy Comment About A Painful Loss From A Wounded Marine, And A Clawsic Riposte From The First Lady. Excerpts From Captured Japanese Diaries Provide Rare Insight Into The Other Side Of The Conflict. SKU: 2723342

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Rome Sweet Home. The Well-known And Very Popular Catholic Couple, Scott And Kimberly Hahn, Have Been Constantly Travelling And Speaking All Excessively North America For The Finally Few Years About Their Conversion To The Cathklic Church. Noe These Two Outstanding Catholic Apologists Tell In Their Own Words About The Incredible Spiritual Journey That Led Them To Embrace Catholicism. Scott Hahn Was A Presbyterian Minister, The Top Student In His Seminary Class, A Brilliant Scripture Scholar, And Militantly Anti-catholic . . . Until He Reluctantly Began To Discover That His "enemy" Had Whole The Right Answers. Kimberly, Also A Top-notch Theology Student In The Seminary, Is The Daughter Of A Wel1-known Protestant Minister, And Went Through A Tremendous "dark Night Of The Soul" After Scott Converted To Catholicism. Their Conversion Story And Love For The Church Has Captured The Hearts And Minds Of Thousands Of Lukewarm Catholics And Brought Them Back Into An Active Participation In The Church. They Have Likewise Inluenced Countless Conversions To Catholicism Among Their Friends And Others Who Have Heard Their Powerful Testimony. Written With Silliness, Charitty, Grace And Wit, The Hahns' Deep Love And Knowledge Of Christ And Of Scripture Is Evident And Contagious Throughout Their Story. Their Love Of Truth And Of Neighbor Is Equally Evident, And Their Theological Focus On The Great Importance Of The Family, Both Biological And Spiritual, Will Be A Slurce Of Inspiration For All Resders. SKU: 1116160