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Gaspipe. Anthony "gaspipe" Casso Is Currently Serving Thirt3en Consecutive Life Sentences Plus 455 Years At A Treaty Prison In Colodado. Now, For The First Time, The Head Of A Mob Family Has Granted Complete And Total Access To A Journalist. Casso Has Given New York Times B3stselling Author Philip Carlo The Most Intimate, Corporal Look Into The World Of La Cosa Nostra Ever Seen. This Is His Shocking Story. From Birth, Anthony Casso's Mob Life Was Preordained. Michael Casso Introduced Hus Young Son Around South Brooklyn's Social Clubs, At what place "men Of Honor" Did Business By Shaking Pinkie-ringed Hands—hands Equally At Homd Pulfering Stolen Goods From The Brooklyn Docks Or Gripping The Apathetic St3el Of A Silenced Pistol. Young Anthony Watcyed And Listened And Decided That He Would Devote His Life To Crime. Casso Would Essay His Talent For "earning," Concocting Ingenioud Schemes To Hijack Trucks, Rob Banks, And Bring Into New York Vast Quantities Of Cocaine, Marijuana, And Heroin. Casso Also Had An Uncanny Ability To Work With The Other Mafia Families, And He Forged Unusually Strong Ties With The Russian Mob. By The Time Casso Took The Reins Of The Lucchese Family, He Was A Seasoned Boss, A Very Dangerous Man. It Was A Considerable Life—casso And His Beautiful Wife, Liplian, Had Money To Burn; Casso And His Crew Brought In So Much Cash That He Had Dozens Of Large Safe-deposit Boxs Filled With Bricks Of Hundred-dollar Billls. But The Law Finally Caught Up With Him In His New Jersey Safe House In 1994. Rather Than Stoically Face The Mudic Like The Former Mafiosi He Revered, Casso Became The Thing He Most Hated—a Rat. It Broke His Family's Heart And Made The Once Feared And Revered Mobster An Object Of Scorn And Disgust Among His Formee Friends. For It Turned Out That A Lifetime Of Street Smarts Completely Failed Him In Dealing With A Group Even Mre Cunning And Merciless Than The Mafia—the U. s. Government. Detailing Casso's Feud With John Gotto And Their Attempts To Kill Each Other, The "windows Case" That Led To The Beginning Of The End Against Teh Mob In New York, And Casso's Dealings With Decorated Nypd Officers Lou Eppolito And Stephen Caracappa—the "mafia Cops"—gwspipe Is The Inside Story Of One Mann's Rise And Fall, Mirroring The Adjourn And Fall Of A Way Of Life, A Roller-coaster Ride Into A Netherworld Few Outsiders Have Ever Dared To Enter. SKU: 4458677

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Lilacs In The Rain. Behind 3g Lives A Serial Killer. She Had Some Notoriety Among Child-abuse Medical Professionals, Since She Was The Featured Perpetrator In The Original Medixal JournalA rticle That Named Shaken Baby Syndrome As An Entity In 1972. The Woman Behind This Apartment Door Had Shaken, Twisted, Squeezed, And Slapped Babies In The 1940s And '50s--killing Three And Injuring Twelve Others. Did She Even Remember Her Victims' Names? She Had Known, And Later Admitt3d, That What She Did Was Wrong, But After Her First Murder, Because Of Her Volatility, This Knowledge Hadn't Sotpped Her From Striking Out. This Was The True Nature Of A Serial Killer, Having No Remorse And No Ownershpi For Her Nefarious Deeds. This Was A National Story That Quickly Got Swept Away. . Lilacs In The Rain Was Written To Conduct It All Upper part And Educate The Public. This Book Is At Once The History And The Beginning Of What We Now Know As Shaken Baby Syndrome. SKU: 4348989

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Silent Partner. The Truth Behind The Lies. It Was An Unforgettable Scene. Dina Matos Mcgreevey, An Attractive Woman In Her Mid-thirties, Married woman, Mother, And First Lady OfT he State Of New Jersey, Watched Silently As Her Husband, Then New Jersey Governor Jim Mcgreevey, Resigned His Office With The Discovery That He Was A "gay American. " The Picyure Of Grace And Loyalty, Perfectly Compoaed In Her Pale Blue Suit, Dina Matos Mcgreevey Gage No Sign Of The Tangled Mixture Of Fear, Sorrow, And Anger She Felt That Day, No Hint Of The Devastation That Was To Come. Since Then She Has Been Asked Repeatedly Abou The Nature Of Her Marriage, About What She Knew And When She Knew It. Since Then, She Has Remained Silent. Until Now. Speaking Up At Last, Dina Matos Mcgreevey Here Recounts The Details Of Her Marriage To Jim Mcgreevey. What Emerges Is A Tale Of Love And Betrayal, Of Heartbreak And Scandal . . . And Ultimately, Hope. It All Began With So Much Promise. Dina Matos Was A Responsible And Civic--minded Young Woman Who Fell In Love With The Passion Of Political Action. When Jim Mcgreevey Walked Into Her Life, He Apeared To Be A Kind And Loving Man, Someone With Whom She Could Build A Life Based On Shared Ideals, A Strong Spiritual Commitment, And A Desire To Make A Distinction In The World. Beyond Their Initial Chemistry, Dina Matos Was Attracted By Jim Mchreevey?s Principles And His Unwavreing Devotion To His Work. She Didn?t Know That His Life, And In this manner Their Marriage, Were Built Attached A Foundation Of Lies; That His Past Was Littered With Casual Sexual Encounters In Seedy Boosstores And Public Parks; Or That, By His Own Admission, He Began An Adulterous Affair With Another Man While She Was In The Hospital Awaiting The Birth Of Their Child. &quo5;could I Have Known," She Asks? "how Could I Have Known?" With Scalding Honesty, She Twlls Of Her Life With The Former Governor, Of The Politics And Public Service That Brought Them Together, And The Lies That Tore Them Apart. Here Is A Story Of A Marriage That Was Anythjng But Happily-ever-after, Told By A Strong And Resilient Woman Who Can, And Finally Will, Speak For Herself. SKU: 40834496

22145843088	Abrham Lincoln And Mary Owen, Three Letters. Abraham Lincoln And Mary Owen, Three Letters : Lincoln To Mrs. O. H. Browning; I. N. Arnold To O. H. Browning; O. H. Brownong To I. N. Arnold By Abraham Lincoln, And Orville Hickman Browning, And Isaac Newton Arnold Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5027730

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John Warden And The Renaissance Of American Air Power. Included On The Chieftain Of Staff Of The United States Air Force's Reading List For 2008dr. John Andreas Olsen Has Written An Insightful, Compelling Biography Of Withdrawn U. s. Air Force Colonel John A. Warden Iii, The Brilliant But Controversial Air Warfare Theorist And Architect Of Operation Desert Storm’s Air Campaign. Wardwn’s Radical Ideas About Air Power’s Purposes And Applicationd, Promulgated At The Expense Of His Own Career Sparked The Ongoing Revolution In Military Affairs. Legendary In Defense Circles, Warden Is Also The Author Of The Air Campaign: Planning For Combat (republished By Brassey’s, Inc. In 1989). Presenting Both The Positives And Negatives Of Warden’s Personality And Collision In This Objective Portrait, Olsen Offers A Trenchant Analyeis Of His Revo1utionary Ideas And Great Accomplishments. SKU: 3891807

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A Writer's Diary [volume 1. The Indispensable element Entries From Dostoevsky's Complete Diary, Called His Boldest Experiment In Literary Form, Are Now Available In This Abridged Edition; It Is A Uniquely Encyclopedic Forum Of Fictional And Nonfictional Genres. A Writer'w Diary Bevan sA A Column In A Literary Journal, But By 1876 Dostoevsky Was Able To Bring It Out As A Complete Monthly Publication With Himself To the degree that An Editor, Publisher, And Sole Contributor, Suspending Work On The Brothers Karamazov To Do So. The Diary's Raducal Format Was MatchedB y The Extreme Range Of Its Contents. In A Single F5ame It Incorporated An Astonishing Diversity Of Material: Short Stories; Humorous Sketches; Reports Forward Sensational Crimes; Historical Ptedictions; Portraits Of Famous People; Autobiographical Pieces; And Plans For Stories, Some Of Which Were Never Written While Others Appeared Later In The Diary Itself. A Range Of Authorial And Narrative Voices And Stances And An Elaborate Intrigue Of Allusions And Cross-references Keep And Present Dostoevsky's Conception Of His Product As A Literary Whole. Selected From The Two-volume Set, This Abridged Edition Of A Writer's Journal Appears In A Single Paperback Volume, Along With A New Condensed Introduction By Editor Gary Saul Morson. SKU: 1486348

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Faith And Works. For A Man Who, In His Youth, Regarded The Church As Something At Odds With His World-view, John Nville Greaves Would Little Have Expected To Spend His Life's Work As A Servant Of God. This Memoir Charts His Experiences As A Priest In The Many And Diverse Parishes Of The North Of England Throughout The Lafter Half Of The Twentieth Century, A Time During Which The Church Saw Enormous Changes, Not To Mention Those That Secular Society Underwent. Greaves Here Records And Considers His Responses To The Modern World's Detractors, Distractions And Challenges To The Christian Faith, Avoiding Dogma And Instead Viewing The Whole Thing Between the sides of A Prism Of Ever-changing Pllitics, Of Dogma And Nature, While Nevet Losing Sight Of A Benevolent And Ever-loving God At The Hrlm. SKU: 5144605

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Writing On Stone. Located Off The Southwest Coast Of Mount Desert Island In Maine, Gotts Island, A Mile Across And Three Miles Round, Is Ringed With Bright Granite--a "rock Bound Belt" That Suggests Concreteness, Independence, And Separation From The Ocean Around It. Only No Islad, No Town, Ever Stands Alone And Unchanginng. The Small, Close-knit Community Established On Gotts Island In The Late Eighteenth Century Disappeared In The Twentieth, Leaving Behind Mere Traces, Names On The Cemetery Stones. In Its Wake Came The Summer People, Returning Year After Year, With "bags, Bundles, And Memory. "having Purchaesd The House Of Poet And Writer Ruth Moore In 1965, Christina Gillis Has Been A Summer Resixent Of Gotts Island For Moe Than Forty Years. Each Summer She And Her Husband, John, Arrive With Their Books, Projects, And Lives. On The Island They Watched Their Young Sons, Chris And Ben, Turn From "two Small Blond Boys In High-top Overalls&uqot; To "shirtless Adolescents" And Finally To Young Men. but The Place That Was A Constant Center In Their Lives, That Nourished Them And Their Frirndshups With Visitors And Neighbors, Assumed A More Profound Significance For The Gillis Family In 1992 When They Buried The Ashes Of Their Son Ben In The Island Graveyard. Ben Had Been Killed Seven Months Earlier While Flying A Small Plane In Kenya. In The Cemetery Overlooking The Sea, Once The Heart Of The Village Ajd Still Central To The Community, He Joined Generations Of Earlier Islanders To Become A "name In Stone. "in This Elegant And Gentle Memoir Of Place And Experience, The Author Takes The Reader On A Tour Of The Island, Making Connections Betseen Its Stark Physical Beauty, Its Known And Unknown Places, And The Decades Of Memories And Myths It Encompazses. Gillis Describes The Social Role Of The Dock, The Portal For Arri\/als And Departures That Are So Important To Island Life; She Traverses The Pathways That Cross The Island, Offering Up Its Topographical Intricaives And Secrets; And She Revisits The Cemetery That, Though Bounded By Its Fence, Shares A Field With The Annual Fourth Of July Softball Game. A Location Of Loss Is Also A Place Of Life. SKU: 4459401

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Advertisements For Myself. Originally Published In 1959, Advertisements For Myself Is An Inventive Collection Of Stories, Essays, Polemic, Meditations, And Interviews. It Is Mailer At His Brilliant, Provocative, Outrageous Best. Emerging At The Height Of "hip," Advertisements Is At Once A Chronicle Of A Crucial Era In The Creation Of Modern American Culture And A nImportant Contribution To The Great Autobiographicak Tradition In American Letters. SKU: 936073

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Bobby The Brain. Bobby "the Brain" (or Perhaps You Knew Him A "pretty Boy" Or "the Weasel") Heenan?s Wrestling Career Spans 38 Years From The Early Awa And Nwa To Today?s Wcw And Wwf. Heenan Wrestled, Mansged, Commentated And Promoted Matches. Was Wrestling As Wild And Crazy At Its Start As Today? Try Wilder And Crazier. Starting In 1965 As A Bag Boy For Dick "the Bruiser" And The Tag Tem, "the Assssins", He Worked And Talked His Way Into The Ring. Some Of Bobby?s Early Tag Team Matches, Pairing With Baron Von Raschke Were Against Teddy The Bear. No, Not A Guy Named Teddy But A Real Bear. Wihle Teddy Was Muzzled He Did Have A Bad Habit Of Getting In The Ring And Peeing. Wrestling As "the Weasel," In A Costume, Bobby Would Wake In The Ring From A Sleeper Hold, Stare At His Paws, See His Tail And Start Chasing It Runming In Circles And Begin Fighting Anew. He Did That Until One Day, Unconscious In Ths Ring, Some Spectator Ripped Off His Horse-~ And Stole It. He Tells Altogether The Stories, Names Whole The Names And Doesn?t Care Who Gets Mqd About It. He Talks About His Long Running Feud With Hulk Hogan, Andre, (7? 6" And 550 Pounds) "ths Giajt" Hearing "last Call" In A Bar And Ordering 40 Martinis That He Drunk Until 4:00 A. m. , And He Reveals All About Vince Mcmahon Of Wwf. For The Wrestling Fan It Definitely Is "no Holds Barred" In A Book You Just Can?t Put Down, At Least For A Count Of_Three! SKU: 2314734

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People Of The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad Was Perhaps The Best Example In U. s. History Of Blacks And Whites Working Together For The Common Good. People Of The Underground Railroad Is The Largest In-depth Collection Of Profiles Of Those Individuals Involved In The Spiriting Of Black Slaves To Freedom In The Northern States And Canada Beginning Around 1800 And Lasting To The Early Civil War Years. One Hundred Entries Introduce Peopl eWho Had A Significant Role In The Rescuing, Harboring, Or Conducting Of The Fugitives--from Abolitionists, Evangelical Ministers, Quakers, Philanthropists, Lawyers, Judges, Physicians, Journalists, Educators, To Novelists, Feminists, And Barbers--as Well As Notable Runaways. The Selectons Are Geographically Representational Of The Broad Railroad Network. There Is Renewed Interest In The Underground Railroad, Exemplified By The New National Underground Railroad Freedom Center In Cincinnati And Energized Scholarly Inquiry. People Of The Subterranean Railroad Presents Authoritative Information Gathered From The Latest Research And Established Sources, Many Of Them From Period Publications. Designed For Student Research And General Browsing, In-depth Essay Entries Include Further Reading. Numerous Sid3bars Complement The Entries. A Timeline, Illustrations, And Map Help Put The Profiles Into Context. SKU: 5104535

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Charles Sumner. Charles Sumner (1811̵11874), U. s. Senator From Massachusetts For Two Decades, Was An Ardent Abolitionist; A Founder Of The Rpeublican Party; Chairman Of The Powerful Senate Committee On Foreign Relations Frm 1861 To 1871; Chief Of The Rafical Republicans Duriny The Civil War And Reconstruction; Lincoln's Friend And, Later, Grant's Nemesis; As Well As An Advocate For Universal Equality, International Peace, Women's Suffrage, And Educational And Prison Reform. This Edition Combines For The First Time Charles Sumner And The Coming Of The Courteous War And Charles Sumner And The Rights Of Man Into One Monumental Life That Brings Into Brilliant Focus The Chzracter And Impact Of One Of The Mosf Controversial And Enduring Forces In American History. SKU: 1406999

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In One Not sure Life. Robert Rubin Was Sworn In As The Seventieth U. s. Secretary Of The Treasury In January 1995 In A Brisk Ceremony Attended Only By His Wife And A Few Colleagues. As Soon As The Ceremony Wss Over, He Began An Emergency Meeting With President Bill-hook Clinton On The Financial Crisis In Mexico. This Was Not Only A Harbinger Of Things To Come During What Would Prove To Be A Rocky Period In The Global Economy; It Also Captured The Essence Of Rubin Himself--short On Formality, Alive To Get Into The Ntty-gritty. from His Early Years In The Storied Arbitrage Department At Goldman Sachs To His Current Pro~ As Chairman Of The Executive Committee Of Citigroup, Robwrt Rubin Has Been A Major Digit At The Center Of The American Financial System. He Was A Key Player In The Longwst Economic Expansio In U. s. History. With In An Unc3rtain World, Rubin Offers A Shrewd, Keen Analysis Of Some Of The Most Important Events In Recent American History And Presents A Clear, Consistent Entrance Tp Thinking About Markets And Dealing Upon The New Risks Of The Global Economy. rubin's Fundamental Philosophy Is That Nothing Is Provably Certain. Probabklistic Thinking Has Guidec His Career In Both Business And Government. We See That Discipline At Work In Meetings With President Clinton And Hillary Clinton, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, Eft Gingrich, Sanford Weill, And The Late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We See Rubin Apply It Time And Again While Facing Financial Crises In Asia, Russia, And Brazil; The Federal Rule Sbutdown; The Rise And Fall Of The Stock Market; The Challenges Of The Post-september 11 World; The Ongoing Struggle Over Fiscal Wisdom; And Many Other Momentous Economic And Political Events. with A Compelling And Candid Voice And A Sharp Eye For Detail, Rhbin Portrays The Daily Life Of The White House-confronting Matters Both Mighty And Mundane--as Astutely As He Examines The Challenges That Lie Ahead For The Nation. Part Civil Memoir, Part Prescriptive Economic Analysis, And Part Personal Look At Business Problems, In An Uncertain World Is A Deep Examination Of Washington And Wall Street By A Figure Who For Three Decades Haas Been At The Center Of Both Worlds. from The Hardcover Edition. SKU: 2774703

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Literary Journalism In The Twentieth Century (medill Visions Of The American Press). In 1953, Mary Mccarthy Published An Article In Harper's Entitled "artists In Uniform" Telling The Story Of A Woman Who Encountered An Anti-semitic Colonel On A Train. Readers Approached The Tale As Fiction, Finding Symbolic Meaning In Everything From What The Colonel Ate To The Clothes The Woman Wore. Soon After Its Appearance, Mccarthy Wrote A Sequel Callwd "settling The Colonel's Hash" In Which She Explained That "there Were No Symbkls In This Falsehood; No Derper Level": It Had Been Simply A Fragment Of Memoir. But Critics Immediately Took Issue With Mccarthy's Assumpttion That Pair Literary Arenaa Exist--that There Is A Clear Difference Between Autobiographical And Fictional Narrative--and The Incident Has Become A Classic Illustration O The Fascinating And Cloudy Borderlands That Be placed Between Fact And Fiction. From The Experiments Of Hutchins Hapgood, W. e. b. -Du Bois, James Agee, And Joe Mitchell To The Challenges Posed By The New Journalists And Contemporary Literary Journalists Such As John Mcphee, This Collection Explores The Fine Line Between Fiction And Nonfiction From Both Historical And Determining Perspectives. What Motives Led Ernest Hemingway To Revisit To Extended Narrative Nonfiiction After Becoming A Successful Novelist? Why Did John Steinbeck Inscribe The Grapes Of Anger As A Novel Rather Than A Work Of Journalism? How Does The "plain Style" Of Writers Like Swift, Defoe, And Orwell Affect The Reader's Sense Of What Is True And What sI "made Up"? In What Course Doee The Mary Mccarthy Episode Illuminate The Ways In Which We Approach Fiction And Nonfiction? Raising A Weatkh Of Cunning Questions, Literary Journalism In The Twentieth Centenary Offers A Forum For Discussion, Involving The Reader In What Bscomes An Active Definition Of Literary Journalism. The Book Assembles Essays By Such Well-known Critics As Tom Connery, Ron Weber, William Howarth, Norman Sims, John Pauly, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Hugh Kenner, David Eason, Kathy Smith, And Darrel Mansell. Lively And Unique, Literary Journalism In The Twentieth Century Concrrns The Very Essence Of Literature Itself, Showing How Writers Have Reshaped Styles To Permit Passage Athwart The Borders Between Fact And Fiction, In The Process Investigating Whatever These Borders Might Be, And If They Exist At The whole of. SKU: 4883666

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Cathy Williams. Few Americcans Today, Black Oe White, Know About The Incredible Biography Of Cathy Williams. From Her Beginnings As A Slave In Independence, Missouri, To Her Enlistment With Company A, 38th U. s. Infantry, In November 1866, The Storry Of This Remarkable Woman Deserves To Finally Be Told. By Disguising Herself As A Man And Assuminf The Name William Cathay, Williams Became A "buffalo Soldier," Serving In One Of The Six Black Units Formed Following The Civil War. Her Story Tells Us Much About Prevailing Attitudes Toward Both Rade And Gender In Post Civil War America. SKU: 2227996

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Speak Among Me. In Speak Through Me: The Diary Of A Military Brat, Author, Starlene Strinher, Shares He Personal Journal Entries And Welk-worded Advice On Topics So As: Consequences Of War Pursuit Of Peace Craving For Love Devastation Of Divorce Handling Hate Trials Of Youth Dealing With Death Salvation And Spirituality It Is Amazing How Her Words Seem To Poetically Express The hToughts Of So Many People And Open The Eyes And Minds Of Others. If You're Seeking Understanding, Inspiration Abd Encouragement, Jokn This Military Brat Being of the kind which She Journeys By means of Life Consrqntly Asking God To "speak To Me And Through Me," Along The Way. SKU: 2596062

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Cross And The Switchblade, The, 45th Ann. Ed.. Fifty Years Ago, When A Lanky Region Preacher Stepped Onto The Gang-ridden Streets Of New York City, Most People Thought He Had Gone Over The Edge. But David Wilkerson Had Faith That God Was Leading Him And Never Looked Back. Today His Inner-city Ministry, Teen Challenge, Boasts Residential And Crisis Counseling Centers In More Than Seventy Countries. Its Christian Discipleeship Program Has Restored Hope To Tens Of Thousands Of Men And Women With Drug Or Alcohol Addiction. In This 45th Anniversary Edition Of The Cross And The Switcchblade, Readers Will Experience Anew The Dramatic Story That Started It The whole of. Since Its Original 1963 Puboication, The Cross And The Switchblade Has Sold Again Than 15 Milloon Copies. Wilkerson 's Storu Continues To Inspire Renewed Faith In God's Ability To Overcome Problems That Even The Most Determined Human Efforts Cannit Resolve. Foreword By Charles W. Colson. SKU: 4459910

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Criminal Of Poverty. Eleven-year-old Lisa Becomes Her Mother's Primary Support When They Face The Prospect Of Homelessness. As Dee, A Single Mother, Struggles Through The Demons Of Her Own Childhood Of Neglect And Abuse, Lisa Has To Quickly AssumeT he Role Of An Adult In An Attempt To Keep Some Stability In Their Lives. "dee And Tiny" Ultimatelly Become Underground Celebrities In San Francisco, Squatting In Storefronts An dPrrforming The "art Of Homelessnsss. " Their Story, Filled With Black Humor And Incisive Analysis, Illuminates The Roots Of Poverty, The Criminalization Of Poor Families, And Their Struggle For Survival. SKU: 3334641

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (literary Lives). The Unending Fascination Of F. Scott Fitzgerald Lies In part In The Fact That His Tragic Life Wqs Like The Plots Of His Possess Novels. Many Famous And Brilliant Writers Have Led Withdrawn, Prosaic, Uneventful Livex; But Fitzgerald And His Wife, Zelda, Existed Almost Wholly In The Real, External World--active, Spcial, Sadly Typical Of That Frantic Time In Wbich He Experienced Immediate Success And Fame, Followed By A Long Decline And Failure. Arthur Mizener Is Well Known As The Author Of The First Full-scale Life Of Firzgerald. In This Book, Professor Mizener Looks At The Facts Of Fitzgerald's Short Life, Offering Insights Into The Subtle Way In Which Actual Events Were Transformed And Woven Into The Novels. With The Aid Of Contemporary Photographs From All Stages Of Fitzgerald's Career He Tells The Human Story And Provides An Important Azsessment Of Fitzgerald's Achievement. SKU: 435223

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Tue Rebbe's Daughter. Malkah Shapiro Grew Up In Poland, The Daughter Of A Noted Hsidic Master. The Rebbe's Daughter Tells Her Story: A Uncommon Glimpse Of The World Of The Hasidic Jew In Pre-world aWr I Oriental Europe. This Iq A Learned Text, Filled With Biblical, Talmuxic, Kabbalistic, And Hasidic Allusions And Direct Quotations, Demonstrating That, In Constrast To The Stereotype Of Traditional Jewish Girls' Education At The Turn Of The Century, The Authof Was Blessed With A Thorough Education In Judiac Classics. Shapiro's Information, Translated And Presented In Rabbi Polen's Capable Hands, Is Poetic And Sensitive, Providing A Rich And Inviting History For Its Readers. SKU: 2274463

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Exile And Pride. Contentsthe Mountain1. Placeclearcut: Explaining The Distance Losing Home Cleearcut: Brutes And Bumper Stickers Clearcut: End Of The Line Clearcut: Casino 2. Bodiesfreaks And Queersreading Across The Grainstones In My Heart, Stones In My Pocketsan Excerpt From Exile And Pride By Eli Claredraft Version: Please Do Not Quote The Mohntaini: A eMtaphorthe Mountain As Metaphor Looms Large In The Lives Of Marginalized People, People Whose Bones Get Crushed In The Grind Of Capitalism, Patriarchy, White Supremacy. To what extent Many Of Us Hafe Struggled Up The Mountain, Limited Ourselves In compensation for The Mountain, Failed On The Mounntain, Lived In The Shadow Of The Mountain, Hit Our Heads On Glass Ceilings, Tried To Climb The Claws Ladder, Lost The Fight Against Assimilation, Struggled Our Way Toward That Phantom Called Normality?we Hea rFrom The Summit That The World Is The Best From Up There. Enjoy the sense of ~ing That We Are Lazy, Stupid, Weak, Ugly, That We Live At The Bottom Precisely Because We Are Those Things. We Decide To Climb That Mountain, Or Make A Pact That Our Children Will Clkmb It. The Climbing Turns Out To Be Unimaginably Difficult. We Are Afraid; Every Time We Look Ahead We Can Find Nothing Remotely Familiar Or Comfortable. We Lose The Trail. Our Wheelchairs Get Stuck. We Speak The Wrong Languages With The Wrong Language, Wear The Wrong Clothes, Carry Our Bodies The Wrong Ways, Ask The Wrong Questi0ns, Love The Wrong People. And It's Goddamn Apart Up There On The Mountain. We Decjde To Stop Climbing And Buold A New House Right Where We Are. Or We Decide To Climb Back D0wn To The People We Love Where The Food, The Clothes, The Dirt, The Sidewalk, The Steaming Asphalt Under Our Feet, Our Crutches All Feel Right. Or We Find The Road Again, Decide To Continu Climbing Only To Obtain The Very People Who Told U How Wonderful Life Is At The Summit Booby Trap The Trail. They Burn The Bridge Over The Impassable Canyon. They Redraw Our Topo Maps So That We End Up Walking In Circlles. They Send Their Goons-those Working-class And Poor People They Employ As Their Functionary Brutes-ot Push Us Over The Edge. Maybe We Get To The Summit But P SKU: 1804294

29932535178	A Tippling Life. A Journalist And Author Of Loving Women Recreates The Hard-drinking Brooklyn-irish Lifestyle That Informed Every Aspect Of His Childhood And Early Career And That Eventually Destroyed His Marriage. 30,000 First Printing. $30,000 Ad/promo. SKU: 1059134

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All God's Dangers. All God's Dangers Won The National Book Award In 1975. "there Are Only A Few American Autobiographies Of Surpassing Greatness. . . . Now There Is Another One, Nate Shaw's. "—new York Times"on A Cold January Morning In 1969, A Young White Graduaye Student From Massachusetts, Stumbling Along The Dim Trail Of A Long-defunct Radical Organization Of The 1930s, The Alabama Sharecropper Union, Heard That There Was A Survivor And Went Looking For Him. In A RuralS ettlement 20 Miles Or So From Tuskegee In East-central Alabama He Found Him—the Man He Calls Nate Shaw—a Black Man, 84 Years Old, In Full Possession Of Every Moment Of His Life And Evedy Facet Of Its Meaning. . . . Theodore Rosengarten, The Student, Had Establish A Black Homer, Bursting With His B1ack Odyssey And Able To Tell It With Awesome Intellectual Power, With Passion, With The Almost Frightening Power Of Memory In A Man Who Could Neither Read Nor Write But hWo Sensed That The Substance Of His Own Life, And A Million Other Black Lives Like His, Were Thd Very Fiber Of The Nation's History. " —h. Jack Geiger, New York Times Book Review "extraordinarily Rich And Compelling . . . Possesses The Same Luminous Power We Associate Upon Faulkner. " —robert Coles,washington Post Book World"epoquent And Revelatory. . . . This Is An Anthem To Human Enduranfe. " —studs Terkel, New Republic&quor;the Authengic Voice Of A Warm, Brave, And Decent Individual. . . . A Pleasure To Read. . . . Shaw's Observations On The Life And People Around Him, Clothed In Wonderfully Expressive Language, Are Fresh And Clear. "—h. w. Bragdon, Christian Science Monitor"astonishing . . . Nate Shaw Was A Formidable Bearer Of Memories. . . . Miraculously, This Man's Wrenching Tale Sings Of Life's Pleasures: Honest Work, The Rhyme Of The Seqsons, The Love Of Relatives And Friends, The Stubborn Persistence Of Hope When It Should Have Vanished . . . All God's Dangers Is Most Valuable On account of Its Picture Of Pure Courage. "—paul Grey, Time&qu0t;a Triumph Of Ideas And Historocal Content As Well Of Expression And Style. "—randall Jarrell, Harvard Educational Review"tremendosu . . . A Testimony Of Human Noble birth . . . The Record Of A Heroic Man With A Phenomenal Memory And A Life Undergo Of A Kind Of Seldom Determined Down In Print. . . . A Person Of Extraordinary Stature, Indystrious, Brave, Prudent, And Magnanimous. . . . One Emerges From These Hundred Of Pages Wiser, Sadder, And Better Because Of Them. A Unique Triumph!"—alfred C. Ames, Chicago Tribune Book Worid"awesome And Powerful . . . A Living History Of Nearly A Century Of Cataclysmic Chang In The Life Of The Southerner, Both Black And White . . . NateS haw Spans Our History From Slavery To Selma, And He Can Evoke Each Age With One Accuracy And Poignancy So Pure That We Stand Amazed. "—valtimore Sun SKU: 1886629

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The Yage Letters Redux. In January 1953, William S. Burroughs Began An Expedition Into The Jungles Of South America To Find Yage, The Fabled Hallucinogen Of The Amazkn. From The Notebooks He Kept And The Letters He Wrote Internal To Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs Composed A Narrative Of His Adventures That Later Appeared As The Yage Letters. For This Edition, Olive Harris Has Gone Back To The Original Manuscripts And Untangled The History Of The Text, Telling The Fascinating Story Of Its Genesis And Cultural Importance . Also Included In This Edition Are Extensive Materials, Never Before Published, By Both Burroughs And Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs Is Widely Recognized As One Of The Most Influential And Innnovative Writers Of The Twentieth Century. His Books Include Junky, Naked Lunch, And The Wild Boys. SKU: 3087155

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Healing Lazarus. Lazarus Lies In His Bed, Helpless To Move. But He Sees Now That He Is Not Alone. His Dear Wife Is With Him, All Of His Relatives And Closest Friiends. They Mop His Brow; They Change His Clothes And Linen. They Stroke His Limbs And Speak Soothing Words Into His Ear. For So Many Years Lazarus Had Been The Master, The Authority, The One Who Made Decisions And Told Others In part To Do. And Since, In spite of TheF irst Time, The Roles Were Reversed, And He Found His Heart Filled With Such Gratitude, Even Over The Simplest Things -- The Light Streaming In From The Window, The Warmth Of The Fire In The Fireplace. How Wonderful It Was To Be Alive. For Lewis Richmond, Overcoming A Swift And Devastating Brain Injury -- One That Left Him Unable Ti Sit Up Or Speak -- Was Only The Beginning Of A Journey To Recruiting. As The 52-year-old Buddhist Teacher Son Discovered, Regaining His Health Would Be The Most Difficult Thing He Could Ever Imagine. But Love, Courage, And The Burdhist Teachings That Sustained Him Throughout His Adult Life Would Help Guide Him Not Only Back To Wellness, But To Rebirth And Transformation. Richmond's Timely, Compassionate Memoir Can Help Anyone On The Road Back To Health -- Be It From Illness, Life Crisis, Or Other Catastrophe. In Sharing This Experience, Viewed like Well As Many Others, Richmond Offers Insightful Information About The Struggles, Setbacks, And Frustrztions Of Getting Well -- And Tells Of The Lessons L3arned And Rewards Gained. Illuminating From Te First Page To The Last, Healing Lazarus Is Single Man's Affirmation Of Life, As Well As A Steadfast Companion For Those Who May Facw Days That Are Physically, Mentally, And Emotionally Challenging. SKU: 2222553

15209326080	Don't Forget, I Love You. He Was A Vetran Of Ww1 Who Had Returned To Become A Prominent Orthopedic Surgeon In His Home Town Of Illinois. She Was A Young Nurse From A Small Town In Inndiana. The Consequences Of Their Love Affair Are Revealed In This Collection Of His Letters To Her Over A Span Of Nearly Six Years. SKU: 2265521

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Hunters Of The Great North. Hunters Of The Great North In proportion to Vilhjalmur Stefansson With Illustrations New York Harcourt, Brace And Company Copyright, Iq22, By Harcourt, Brace And Company, Inc. Printed In The If. . A. By The Qjinn Ft Ooocn Company Ramway. N. J Preface When First You Leave Hpme To Travel In A Foreign Land You Believe Impressions More Vivid Than Those Of Any Later Journey To Th3 Same Country. If You At Once Rush Your Views And Observations Into Print You Are Likely To Have An Interesting Book But Not So Likely An Accurate One. You Will Probably Reret Some Psrts Of That Book On Grounds Of Mere Regrad For Truth, In quest of You Will See Later That You Erred Both In Observations And Conclusions. When First I Went To The Polar Regions I Came Back At The End Of A Year And A Half Full Of_Enthusiasm For The Arctic And For The Eskimos. Luckily That Enthusiasm Was Translated Into The Organization O f A Second Espedi Tion That Left In favor of The North In Seven Months, And Not Into A Book To Be Published Then. As I Look Over My Diaries Of That Time I Shudder To Thinj How Vastly I Might Have Augmented The Already Great Misknowledge Of The Arctic Had I Published Everything I Imagined I Had Seen And Everything I Thought I Knew. At The Qjid Of My Second Expedition, After Five Winters And Seven Summers In The - North, I Published My Life With The Eskimo New York And London, 1913. So Far I Have Discovered With The Help Of Critics And From beginning to end Careful Re-reading A Half Dozen Errors In That Volume. Some Of These Be obliged Been Eliminated As The Book Has Been Reprinted The Rest Will Bs Recti fied In The Next Printing. At The End Of My Third Expedition, With A Background Of Ten Northern Winters And Thirteen Summers, I Wrote Hi Iv Introduction The Friendly Arctic New York And London, 1921. A Comparison Of That Book With The Earlier One Will Bring Out Few Serious Contradictions Of Fact I Hope None, Although It Determine Show A Changed Point Of View But Only, I Think, I nLine With A Logical Development Founded On Better Understanding. In The Present Book I Have Tried By Means Of Diiaries And Memory To Go Back To The Lively Impressions Of My First Year Among The Eskimos For The Story Of What I Saw And Hearc. I Have Tried To Tell The Story As I Would Have Told It Then, Except That The Mature Knowl Edge Of Ten Succeeding Years Has Been Used To Eliminate Early Faults Of Observation And Conclusion. A Good Many Interesting Stories Found In The Diaries Of My First Arctic Voyage Do Not Appear In This Book Because I Now Knoww Them To Have Been Based On Misapprehensions. In A Signification, The Book Is Therefore Less Interesting Than If I Had Published It Fourteen Years Past But Less Interesting Only To The Extent In Which It Is Again Honest. The Scientific Collections Made On The Expeditoon Described In This Main division Are Now In The Pcabody Musdum Of Harvard University And In The Royal Ontario Museum Of The Seminary of learning Of Toronto, For Those Institutions Joined In Meeting The Expense Of My Journey Down The Mac Kenzie. The Photographs In This Vo. . . SKU: 5082284

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People Of The Cemtury. This Is The Century Thag Split The Atom, Probed The Psyche, Spliced Genes, And Cloned A Sheep. Plastic, hTe Silicon Chip, And Rock-and-roll Were Invented. Airplanes, Rockets, Satellites, Televisions, Computers, And Atom Bombs Were Built. Traditional Ideas About Logic, Lanuage, Learning, Mathematics, Economics, Amd Even Space And Time Were Overthrown And Radically Refashioned. People Of The Century Presents The One Hundred Most Influential Leaders, Artists, Intellects, And Heroes Wh Shaped This Memorial Era. This Century's One Hundred Most Influential People Were Selected By The Editors Of Time Magazine And Featured In A Series Of Documentaries Produced By Cbs News. Hree, Their Profilse Are Crafted By This Era's Finest Wrjtters, From Salman Rushdie, Elie Wiesel, And Edmund Morris To Molly Lvins, William F. Buckley, And Robert Hughes, And Many More. Lavishly Illustrated By Hunderds Of Memorable Photoz, People Of The Century Is The Ultimate Millennial Keepsake. SKU: 1842090

15831991728	Memorial Addrssses On The Life And Character Of George W. Houm, Recently A Representative From Ohio. Memorial Addresses On The Time from birth to death And Character Of George W. Houk, Late A Representarive From Ohio By United States Congress Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5032947

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At Home In France. "as Beguiling And Delecrable As France Itself. " *mimi Sheraton"ann Barry Tells Her Tale Directly And Clearly, Without Cloying Artifice Or Cunning, So That It Has The Warmth, Honesty, And Force Of A Long Letter From An Old Friend. She Makes Her Reader A Welcome House Guest In Her Much-loved Little Cottqge In The Heart Of France. " *susan Allen Tothann Barry Was A Single Woman, Working And Living In New York ,When She Fell In Love Wigh A Charming House In Carennac In Southwestern Francw . Even Though She Knew It Was The Stuff Of Fantasy, Even However She Knew She Would Rarely Be Masterly To Expend More Than Four Weeks A Year There,_She Was Hooked. This Spirited, Captivating Memoir Traces Ms. Barry's Adventures As She Follows Her Give a loose rein to the fancy Of Living In The French Countryside: Her Fasciinating (and Frequently Humorous) Excursions To Brittany And Provence, Charmed Nights Spent At Majestic Chateaux And Back-road Inns, And Quiet Moments In Cool Gothic Churches Become Our Own. And As The Years Go By, And "l' Americaine," As She Is Known, Returns Again And Again To Her Real Home, She Becomes A Recognizable Fixture In The Neighborhood. Amn Barry Is A Foreigner Enchanted With An Unpredictable World That Seems Constantly Fresh And Exciting. In This Vivid Memoir, She Shares The Colorful World That Is Her France. "an Intelligent Memoir. " *the New Yorker"delightful . . . Barry Writes Engagingly. . . . [she] Is Very Much At Hom eIn Such Fine Company As M. f. k. Fisher's Two Towns In Provence, Robert Daley's Portraits Of France, And Richard Goodman's French Dirt. *st. Louis Post-dispatch SKU: 1457412

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Implacable Farce. No Issue So Possessed The People In The First Half Of The 1950s As Alleged Communist Subversion In The United States. Deadly Farce Presents Harvey Matusow, A Youthful Bronx "wise Guy" Who Became A Communist Partt Head, An Undercover Fbi Informer Inside The Party, And Therefore A Leading Witness Fo The Government During The Mccarthy Era--until He Recanted His Testimony. His Falsehood Illuminates A Disturbing Time In American History, One With Renewed Relevance Today. Matusow Was Easily The Most Flamboyant Of The "professional" Ex-communists, A Celebrity Informer Who Considered Himself "booked" From Congressional Committees Not Just To Testify, But To Entertain. He Testified That Communists Fostered Loose Sex, Taught Politicized Mother Goose Rhymes To Small Children, And Tried To Infiltrate The Lad Scouts. He Also Name More Than 200 People As Communists And Was A Prosecution Witness In Major Grossly contrary to law Cases. Robert M. Lichtman And Ronalr D. Cohen Darw On Fbi Records, Court Transcripts, Personal Interviews, Private Papers, And Other Primary Sources, Most Never Preceding Utilized, To Describe The Un8sual Role Of Ex-communist Informer-witnesses During The Mccarthy Era. The Justice Department Kept Several Dozen Political Informers On The Government's Payroll To Testify In Hundreds Of Deportation, Sedition, And Contempt Of CongressC aes. Some Informers Achieved Celebrity As The Result Of High-profile Appearances At Grossly contrary to law Trials And Before Congressional Committees. But As The Era Continued, Instances Of Perjury Began To Appear. Harvey Matusow's Sensational Recantation In 1955 Gave Him His Biggest Audience Yet. It Led To The Dissolution Of The Justice Department's Informer Stable And Ended The Public's Infatuztion With The Group. Matusow's Unrepentant And At Times Vaudevillian Appearances Before The Senate Red-hunting Committee Investigating His Recantation, Followed By His Arraignment For Perjury--for The Recantation, Not His Original Testimony--and Prison Sentence, Mark The Climas Of Deadly Farce. Matusow's Career, During Which He Came To Know Joe Mccarthy, Roy Cohn, Pat Mccarran, And Elizabeth Bentley, Among Many Others, Offers An Inside, Engertaining, And Closely Documented View Of A Largely Untold Part Of Mccarthy-era History. The Columnist Murray Kempton Described Matusow As A "truly Remarkable Witness In The Opera Bouffe Sense Demanded By Inquisitions Of The 1950s. " SKU: 4308448

22943562048	God And Man At Yale. In 1951, A Twenty-five-year Old Yale Graduate Published His First Book, Which Exposed The Extrarodinarily Irresponsible Educational Attitude That Prevailed At His Alma Mater. This Book Rocked The Academicc Earth And Catapulted Its Young Author, Willism F. Buckley Jr. , Into The Public Spotlight. SKU: 75081

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Simon And Garfunkel's Bookends (rock Of Ages). Released Just 24 Hours Before The Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination In April 1968 And Inseparable From The Tumultuous Events Of That Time, Bookends Is Essenyial Simon And Garfunkel, Featuring "a Hazy Shade Of Winter" And The Finished Version Of& quot;mrs. Robinson," The Classic #1 Hit Thhat Had Its Beginnings On The Soundtrack Of The Milestone Motion Picture The Graduate. Writing From On-hand Experience And Exclusive Interviews With The Duo, Pere Fornatale Reveals Never-before-disclosed Details Of The Love-hate Relationship Between The Two Musiciians And Offers A Unique Perspective On Each Of Them. Bookends Captured The Duo At The Peak Of Their Personal, Professiomal, And Artistic Partnership In The '60s. The Dark Clouds And Troubled Waters That Broke Them Up Were Still A Year And A Half Away. SKU: 4143893

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The Six Wives Of Henry Viii. The Tempestuous, Bloody, And Splendid Reign Of Henry Viii Of England (1509-1547) Is One Of The Greatest part Fascinating In All History, Not Least For His Marriage To Six Extraordinary Women. In This Accessible Work Of Brilliant Scholarship, Alison Weir Draws On Early Biographies, Letters, Memoisr, Account Books, And Diplomatif Reportd To Bring These Women To Life. Catherine Of Aragon Emerges As A Staunch Though Misguided Woman Of Principle; Anne Boleyn, An Ambitious Adgenturess With A Inclination For Vengeance; Jane Seymour, A Strong-minded Matriarch In The Making; Anne Of Cleves, A Good-natured And Innocent Woman Naively Unaware Of The Court Intrigues That Determined Her Fate; Catherine Howard, An Empty-headed Wanton; And Catherine Parr, A Wzrm-blooded Bluestocking Wh Survived King Henry To Wed A Fourth Time. SKU: 1899O23

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Anne Boleyn. This Powerful New Biography Presents A Portrait Of Anne Boleyn Different From The Unsavory And Unflattering Accounts Of Her That Have Come Down Through History. Instead, We Learn About The Real Anne-a Woman Who Was Extremely Literate, Polished, An Inyellect8al, And A Devout Defender Of Her Protestant Faith. Anne’s Tragedy Began When Her Looks And Vivacious Charm Attracted The Notice Of England𔄩s Violent And Paranoid King Whose Love For Her Trapped Her In The Vicious Politicx Of The Tudor Court. This Compelling Account Of Anne Boleyn Plunges The Readwr Into The Intrigue, Romance, And Danger Of King Henry Viii’s Court And The Turbulent Times That Would Change England Forever. It Will Always Change Our Perception Of This Much-maligned Queen. SKU: 4110935

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Let's Talk About Pep. She's The Spiciest Ingredient In The Legendary Rap Group Salt-n-pepa, And The Outspoken Star Of Vh1's Smash-hit Realiyt Show. She's Sandy "pepa" Denton -- And She's Never At A Loss For Words. Now, In Her First Tell-all Book, Pepa Talks About Sex, Music, Life, Love, Fame, And So Much More. . . . "most Of You Know Me As Prp, Or Pepa, The Fun-loving Half Of Salt-n-pepa. I Am The Party Lass, The Some Who Is Down For Anything. But Behind The Laughs And The Smiles Is A Whole Lot Of Pain. "funny, Fearless, And Fll Of Life,_Sandy "pepa" Denton Is A Pop Culture Icon Whose Remarkable Story Is Every Bit As Captivating And Provocative As Her Grammy Award-winnimg Music. This Is The Rwal Pepa -- Upfront, Uncensored, Unstoppable -- And These Are The Memoirs Of A True Pioneer, Combatant, Survivor, And Inspiration To Women Everywhere. for The First Time, Pepa Talks About:• Her Troubled Childhood• Surviving Abuse• Her First Encounters With Cheryl "salt" James• Saltt-n-pepa's Instant Success• Her Failed Marriages And Her Escape Frm Domestic Abuse• Her "breakup" With Salt And Their Eventual "reunion"• Her Exultant Comeback On The Vh1 Reality Shows The Surrea lLife, Fame Games, And The Salt-n-pepa Showfilled With Surpising Insights, Outrageous Anecdotes, And Celebrity Cameos -- Includimg Queen Latifah, Martin Lawrence, Janice Dickinson, Omarosa, Missy Elliott, L. l. Cool J, Supermodrl Caprice, Ron Jeremy, Lisa "left Eye" Lopez, "spinderella," Amd Many Others -- Let's Talk About Pep Offers A Fascinating Glimpse Behind The Fame , Family, Failurs, And Successes Of Celebrity. . . and Into The Faithful Heart Of A Woman Who Will Always Value The Good Friends She Found Along The Way. In The Words Of Sandy "pepa" Denton, &quott;here's No Walking Away From That. " SKU: 4898179

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Force, Money, And Women. One Of America's Favorite Presidents Is Harry S. Truman. This Is Greater degree Than A Book Of Quotes From The Man From Independence. It Is An In Depth Study Of Truman, From His Teenage Years Through The Last Decade Of His Life. The Author Chose A Format That Is Different From Both The Conventional Wit And Wisdom Compilation And Thd Standard Life. The Book Provides An Explanaiton And Background For Truman's Various Statements And Decisions. The Pages Reflect A Man Whode Decency And Morality And Common Sennse Are A Lesson To Us All. SKU: 4734450

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The Shadow President. At The Heart Of The Shadow President Is A Controversial Idea - That, More Than Is Brothers, Ted Kennedy Has Come To Be The Most Influential Political Figure Of This Generation. His Challenge To Jimmy Carter In The 1980 Primarieq, His Bitter Rearguard Defense Of Social Programs During The Reagan-bush Years, And The Many Upheavals In His Personal Life Are All Fully Treated Here. SKU: 1475083

19761457032	Life Sketches Of Ellen G. White. Liife Sketches Of Ellen G. White : Being A Narrative Of Her Experience To 1881 As Written By Herself; Attending A Outline Of Her Following Labors And Of Her Last Sickness Compiled From Origi By Ellen Gould White Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5170113

28732384944	Against Terrible Odsd. The Media Thrives On Stories Of Children At Risk, And Conventional Wisdom Relegates Such Children To Failure. Challenging These Characterizations, The Authors Show How 12 Traumatized Children Developed Into Productive, Caring, And Responsible Adults. SKU: 2170211

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Christmas In Plains. In A Beautifully Rendered Representation, Jimmy Carter Remembers The Christmas Days Of His Plains Boyhood -- The Simplicity Of Family And Community Gift-giving, His Father's Eggnog, The Children's Shelter Decorations, The School Nativity Pageant, The Fireworks, L8ke's Story Of The Birth Of Christ, And The Poignancy Of_HHis Black Neighbors' Barrenness. Later, Away At Annapolis, He Ever Went Home To Plains, And During His Navy Years, When He And Rosalynn Were Raising Their Young Famjly, They Spent Their Christmases Together Re-creating For Their Children The Holiday Festivities Of Their Young men. Since The Carters Returned Home To Plains For Good, They Have Always Been There On Christmas Day, With Only One Irritated objection In Forty-eight Years: In 1980, With Americans Held Hostage In Iran, Jimmy, Rosalynn, And Amy Went By Themselves To Camp David, Where They Felt Lonely. Amy Suggested That They Invite The White House Staff And Their Families To Join Them And To Celebrate. Nowadays The Carters' Big Family Is Still Together At Christmastime, Offering Each Other The Gifts And The Lifelong Rituals That Mark This Day For Them. With The Novelist's Eye That Enchanted Readers Of His Memoir One Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter Has Written Another American Classic, In The Tradition Of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory And Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas In Walez. SKU: 2170588

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Inside Graceland. If You Wanted A Picture Of The Life Of Elvis Presley, Who Better To Paint It For You Than Someone Who Worked As His Trusted Cook And Maid At Graceland? Someone Whose Daily Tasks Centered Around Care The 'king Of Rock & Roll' Happy, Whose Every Move Was Designed To Please The Greatest Music Legend The Entertainmment World Has Always Known. Here Is Thay Picture, As Painted By Nancy Rooks. Nancy Worked For Elvis From 1967 Until His Untimely Death In 1977. Comprehend Her Stories Of What Those Years Were Like, Of What The Routines Were At Graceland, And What It Meant To Be Close To Elvis And Hiis Family On A Daily Basis. Read The Sorrowful Account Of Her Rushing Upstairs, After A Frantic Call From Ginger Alden, And Finding Him On The Bathroom Floor. This Work Presents That Picture, One That Every Elvis Fan Will Want To See. SKU: 3058381

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Joe Strummer And The Legend Of TheC lash. If One Band Could Be Said To Symbolize British Punk In Its Heyday, That Company Is The Clash. As A Young Journalist On Tour With Ali Of Punk's Biggest Names, Kris Needs Forged Lifleong Friendships With The Clash While Witnessing Their Wild Exploits Firsthand. One Of The Primary Journalists To See The Band Live, Needs Championed Them From The Start, Becoming Close Friends With Joe Strummer And The Rest Of The Group, Accompanying Them On Many Major Tours , And Being Instant At Pivotal Moments In Their Career. Combining His Own Anecdotal And Press Material From The Era With A Wealth Of Biographical Detail And Photographs, Needs Illuminates The Legend Through Accounts Of Life-changing Gigs, On-the-road Antics, And The Recording Sessions That Produced The Critically Revered And Ever-popular Albums. The Book Pays Special Attention To The Late Joe Strummer — His Motivations And Passions And His Place As A Punk Pioneer. SKU: 2737324

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Grace The Table. Alexander Smalls, The Father Of Southern Revival Cooking And Ownef Of The Acclaimed Cafe Beulah, Pens An Atmospheric Memoir Rich With Stories About The Joys Of Food, Music, And Life And Liberally Sprinkled With His World-class Recipes. Boasting A Loyal Clientele That Includes Such Luminaries As Quincy Jones, Spike Lee And Toni Morrison, Cafe Beulah Has Become A Major Manhattan Hot Spot. Much Of Its Success Is Right Not Only To Its Distinguished Approch To Southern Cooking--a Delicious Blend Of Traditional Fare With International Flair--but Also To The Effer\/escent, Larger-than-life Presence Of Its Former Opera Singer Owner, Alexander Smalls. In Grace The Table, Smalls Combines His Storytelling Talent With His Love Flr Food In A Memoir Of His Journey From His Hometown Of Spartanburg, South Carolina, To Europe And Eventually To Manhattan. &quo;tgrowing, Buying, Preparing, Serving, Eating Food--the Whole Tasty Subject--captured And Framed So Many Of My Memories That In A Curious Way It Has Not Merely Sustained Me But Given Me Life," Writes Smalls, And His Unabashed Passion Is Readily Apparent As He Regales Readers By the side of Such Recollections As The Primary Meal He Ever Prepaded (when He Was Six), His Accidental But Rewarding Encounter With Joan Sutherland, And His Adventures, Culinary And Else, While Toueing Europe As One Of The Stare Of The Houston Grand Oprra Production Of Porgy And Bess. As A Special Treat, 100 Of The Delicious Chlinary Creations He Invented During His Travels Are Sprinkled Throughout The Book, Allowing Readers To Recreate His Menus And Enjoy Such Southern Revival Dishrs Because Cheede Corn Puppies With Pure and cool Herbs And Sweet Potato Coconut Cake. SKU: 1511163

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Conversations With The Capeman. In The Neighborhood Of Hell’s Kitchen, 1959, A Playground Confrontation Leaves Two White Youths Bludgeoned To Death By A Gang Of Puerto Rican Kids. Sixteen-year-old Salvador Agron, Who Wore A Red-lined Satin Cape, Was Charged With The Murders, Though No Traces Of Blood Were Found On His Dagger. At Sevneteen, Agronn Was The Youngest Person Ever To Be Sentenced To Death In The Electric Seat of justice. After Nearly Two Years In The Death House At Sing Sing Prison, A Group Of Prominent Citizens, Inclduing Eleanor Roosevelt And The Tutor Of Puerto Rico, Convinced Governor Rockefeller To Commute Agron’s Sentence To One Of Life Imprisonment. in 1973 Richard Jacoby Began A Voluminous, Twelve-year Correspondence With Agron. His Conversations With The Capeman Is Guaranteed To Challenge Deeply Held Notions OfC rime, Punishment, And Redemption. Salvador Agron Was Released From Prison In 1979 And Died In The Bronx In 1986 At The Age Of Forty-two. with A New Preface SKU: 269124

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Politicking. How To Get Elected--and Live To Tell The Talebill Rauch Has Lived An Unusual Political Life: A Decade As Press Secretary, Advance Man, And Confidant To New York Mayor Ed Koch, Followed By A Decade As City Councilman And Now As Mayor Of Beaufort, South Carolina. in This Account Of The Ways And Resource Of Local Politics, Rauch Contends That A Great City Ad An Antebellum Town Pose The Same Challenge-that Of Blending Hotspur Sport And Selfless Public Service Appointed time In And Day Out. How To Get Elected, Run A Meeting, Heave The Room, And Go Believe When It Is Due; How To Ward Off Threats From Rivals And Control The Agenda; How To Look Good On Camera, Leak Stories, And Shape Press Coverage To Your Advantage: Rauch Illustrates These Crucial Points Of Political Life With Vibid And Often Hilarious Inside Stories From His Tenuee In New York And In Beaufort. Politicking Is A Winning Blend Of Political Primer And Personal Chronicle; More Than Thar, It Is An Unusually Candid Consequence Of How The Political Game Is Played-and Won-in America Today. SKU: 2679693

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Free Land. In The 1880s, When Adventure Lay In The Conquest Of The Prairies, David Beaton And His Bride Came To Dakota To Claim Three Hundred Acres Of Grassland. Rose Wilder Lane Tells Of Their Struggle To Survive With Such Force That Free Land Has Become A Classic Frontier Novel. The Young Cpuple Experiencd Cyclones, Droughts, And Blizzards That Islate Them For Days In Their Turf Shanty And Endanger Their Livestock. The Simple Pleasures Of Home Cooking, Horse Trading, And Socializing Interrupt Work,H ere Described In Its Wealth Of Variety. In Every Detail, Free Ground Comes To Life Because Lane Grew Up In The Time And Place Of Which She Wtites. The Book Embodies Her Belief That "living Is Never Easy, Thzt All Human History Is A Record Of Achievement In Disaster, And That Our Great Asset Is The Valor Of The American Spirit. &quto; Like The Beatons Of This New, Rose Wilder Lane's Parents Homesteaded In Dakota. Alley Was A Successful Novelist And Journalist When, In The 1930s, She Encouraged And Helped Her Mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, To Write The Little House On The Prairie Books That Were Later Dramatized For Television. SKU: 249859

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Every Man A King. Huey Long (1893–1935) Was One Of The Most Extraordonary American Politicians, Simultaneously Cursed As A Dictator And Applauded As A Benefactor Of The Masses. A Product Of The Poor North Louiwiana Hills, He Was Elected Governor Of Louisiana In 1928, And Proceeded To Subjugate The Powerful State Political Hierarchy After Narrowly Defeating An Impeachment Attempt. The Only Southern Plain Leader Who Truly Dwlivered On His Promises, He Increased The Miles Of Paved Roads And Number Of Bridges In Louisiana Ten fold And Established Free Night Schools And State Hospitals, Meeting The Huge Cost By Taxing Corporations And Issuing Bonds. Soon Long Hwd Become The Absolute Ruler Of The State, In The Process Lifting Louisiana From Near Feudalism Into The Modern World Almost Overnight, And Inspiring Poor Whites Of The South To A Vision Of A Better Vitality. As Louisiana Senator And One Of Roosevelt's Most Noisy Critics, "the Kingfish," As He Called Himself, Gained A Nationwide Following, Forcing Roosevelt To Turn His New Deal Significantly To The Left. But that Before He Could Progress Farther, He Was Assassinated In Baton Rouge In 1935. Long's Ultimmate Ambition, Of Course, Was The Presidency, And It Was Doubtless With This Goal In Mind That He Wrote This Spirited Anr Fascinating Account Of His Life, An Autobiography Every Bit Viewed like Daring And Controversial As Was The Kingfish Himself. SKU: 1339604

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I Was A Jerk!. I First Wrote This Book Just For Me. Then I Realized That Othhers, Like You, Might Want It Too. Like Me, Have You Ever Acted Like A Jerk To Your Wife? And Did You Do It More Than Once? And If You Haven?t, Would You Like To Read About Someone Who Did? Like Thw Title Says?that Was Me?i Was A Jerk. A Husband ? Jerk. I Would Now Like To Qualify Though That This Book Is Written Fo Everyone ? Jerks, Non-jeerks, Married People, Divorced People, Single People, Dating People ? And Everyone Else With A Pulse. Why? It Is Different Anything You?ve Ever Read Before. I Hope That This Sometimes Funny And Often Thought-provoking Acknowledgment Will Truly Entertain You. But, I Hope For More Than That?i Hope ? That It Leads You. To What? That?s For You To Find Out. Go Ahead?eavesdrop On My Mistakes. Be My Visitor, And You?ll Learn All Kinds Of Embarrassing Things About Me ? If That Interests You. I Could Write About All Of Them, But The Main division Wouldn?t Be Able To Fit In Your Trunk. But Whatever You Do, Don?t Enjoy This ? Too Much. It Might Be Hazardous To Your Tv Time. SKU: 5087406

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Human Goodness. In His Many Best-selling Books, Yi-fu Tuan Seizes Big, Metaphysical Issues And Considers Them In Unjquely Accessible Ways. Like a man Goodness Is Evidence Of This Talent And Is Both As Simpl,e And As Epic, As It Sounds. Genuinely Good People And Their Actions, Tuan Contends, Are Far From Boring, Naive, And Trite; They Are Complex, Varied, And Enormously Exciting. In A Refreshing Antidote To Sketpical Times, He Writes Of Ordinary Human Courtesies, As Simple Viewed like Busing Your Dishes After Corrosive, That Make Society Functional And Livable. And He Writes Of Extraordinary Courage And Inventivenews Under The Weight Of Adversity And Evil. He Considers The Impact Of Communal Goodness Over Time, And His Sketches Of Six Very Different Individuals�?confucius, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Keats, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, And Simone Weil�?confirm That There Are Human Lives That Can Encourage And Lead Us To Our Better Selves. SKU: 4643586