In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of...
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- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
When the gang discover that a flood has turned the creek into a lake with an island, they set about building canoes and a fort; but unknown to them, they are being watched. The third book in the Seddon Street Gang series. Suggested...
- Author:Johnson, DouglasSummary:
- Author:Rule, JaneSummary:
Jane Rule tells the story of her first twenty-one years of life. The manuscript was discovered in her papers in 2008, a year after her death.
- Author:Masters, Edgar LeeSummary:
From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their simple, honest, happy lives. Some are elderly and others are...
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The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
Well crafted short stories in the classic style of Mansfield & Lawrence. Concerns ordinary people and their inner lives.
- Author:Maas, RobinSummary:
This volume offers a comprehensive intellectual and experiential introduction to Christian spirituality. It embraces spiritual traditions from the Patristic period to the present day. Part I, "The Roots of Contemporary Western...
- Author:Bowers, RickSummary:
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
- Author:Pacholik, BarbSummary:
- Author:Joe, RitaSummary:
Straight from the heart, Rita Joe tells the story of her remarkable life: her tumultuous childhood in foster homes, education in an Indian residential school, turbulent marriage and daily struggles with prejudice, sexism and poverty....
- Author:McNeill J.R.Summary:
- Author:Pink, SarahSummary:
The study of everyday life is fundamental to our understanding of modern society. This book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments. Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic approach...
- Author:Page, AndreaSummary:
The author's great-uncle John Bear King was a Sioux Indian in the First Cavalry in the Second World War. Her book follows seven Sioux who put aside a long history of prejudice against their people and joined the fight against Japan,...
- Author:Fisher, CarrieSummary:
Carrie Fisher shares more of her life stories in a laugh-out-loud memoir--including how she's borderline addicted to her shock therapy treatments.
- Author:Hutton, Robin L.Summary:
Amid an inferno of explosives on a minefield in Korea, a four-legged marine proved to be a heroic force of nature. Sergeant Reckless was her name, and she was the horse renowned for transporting wounded soldiers and supplies across...
- Author:Doig, NoelSummary:
Most people know that in 1962 Saskatchewan became the "birthplace of Medicare" and that the rest of Canada soon followed. But few people today remember the political fight that the people of the province and its doctors waged in...
- Author:Edsel, Robert M.Summary:
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans...
- Author:Kelton, ElmerSummary:
Kelton reveals the origins and development of his unique storytelling talent and Texas treasure.