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By Henry David Thoreau, Walter Harding. 1995
Noted Thoreau scholar offers rich selection of favorite excerpts from voluminous Journals. Masterly meditations on man, society, nature and many…
other subjects--expressed with verve and vigor in some of the most poetic prose in American literature. Perfect introduction to the great naturalist and his thought. Introduction.By Lenora Conkle. 1997
Reading Hunting the Way it Was is like lingering around a campfire 50 miles deep in the Snag River…
country or at Wolf Lake and hearing the fascinating and entertaining stories told by Bud and LeNora about hunting in Alaska s bygone era It is the true tales about one of Alaska s best fair-chase guides of horse-wranglers and assistant guides and of pilots who flew clients in their fragile Super Cubs to the frozen arctic for polar bear and to the windy Alaska Peninsula for the big browns -- and all the other big game Alaska had to offer brave hunters Hunting the Way it Was is more than an Alaskan big game guide s story -- it s LeNora Conkle s biography as well She was there -- This is her story and Bud s These are not the flowered up narratives of a professional journalist but the true tales of two amazing Alaskans and what they did for a living This is the story of hunting in Alaska the way it was but will never be againBy William Dampier. 1968
It was William Dampier's passion to see the world that turned him into a buccaneer. He possessed remarkable powers of…
observation and analysis, and his life as a seventeenth-century navigator aboard pirate and privateering ships is brilliantly detailed in his journal. Throughout his travels of Central and South America and the East Indies, Dampier provides riveting accounts of sea battles against Spanish treasure ships, as well as pirate life, lore, and customs. Originally published in 1697 as the New Voyage, his journal became an instant success, and has been read ever since as one of the greatest travel and adventure accounts ever written.But Memoirs of a Buccaneer is far more than historical adventure. Dampier was a man of intelligence and education with a strong naturalist's urge, and his book quickly became a vital source of information on the geology, biology, zoology, and peoples of the lands he visited. His descriptions of the West Indian manatee, booby birds, cacao, and mangrove trees--flora and fauna never before heard of in England and the Continent--are incredibly accurate. His notes on the produce of Guam and Mindanao--coconuts, vanilla beans, bananas, breadfruit, and more--exerted a powerful influence on Britain's explorations and colonizations. And his depictions of Central America's Mosquito Indians and the natives of Mindanao proved to be highly reliable.The influence of this classic book on the work of later travelers is incalculable, leading writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Coleridge to borrow both facts and literary style from it. It continues to inspire readers today.By Larry Elder. 2012
Dear Father Dear Son is national bestselling author and syndicated radio host Larry Elder s personal memoir of his…
troubled one might even say tortured relationship with his father Elder writes A man s relationship with his father every boy every man lucky enough to have a father in his life has to figure that out My own father I thought I knew him even though he seldom talked about himself And what I knew I hated really really hated Cold ill-tempered thin-skinned my father always seemed on the brink of erupting Scared to death of him I kept telling myself to find the courage to stand up to him When I was fifteen I did We did not speak to each other for ten years And then we did for eight hours Dear Father Dear Son is the powerful story of those eight hours during which Elder finally confronted his father It is the story of one extraordinary all-day conversation between Elder and his long-estranged father that utterly transformed their relationship It is the story of one man discovering a son he never really knew And of the son finding a man a friend a father who had been there all alongBy Jennifer Ridha. 2015
A candid memoir from a talented young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with the convicted drug felon she represents--Cameron Douglas,…
son of film actor Michael Douglas--and who soon makes the mistake of her life. Or does she?Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney's account of the criminal justice system as seen through the prism of a particular case: her own. Jennifer Ridha is enlisted to defend Cameron Douglas in a federal drug trafficking case while he is incarcerated in a maximum-security prison under difficult, even dangerous, conditions. As media scrutiny and the pressures of Cameron's case mount and as Jennifer becomes increasingly transfixed by her charismatic but troubled client, he asks her to do the unthinkable: commit a crime. In a decision inexplicable even to herself, guided only by her indignation and infatuation, she agrees. When her transgression is discovered, her criminal case begins, and her life as she knows it is over. A page-turning trip through professional self-destruction, tabloid scandal, and self-reckoning, Criminal That I Am is about the choices one woman makes: how they define her, how she lives with them, and, ultimately, how she is transformed by them. Recounted with brutal introspection and self-deprecating humor, this strange and twisted love story contemplates what we make of crime and punishment...and what it makes of us.By Victoria Zackheim. 2015
Delve into this thought-provoking collection of personal essays from award-winning and bestselling authors who explore the perennial question: What do…
I believe?Whether believer, skeptic, agnostic, atheist, or something other, these twenty-four authors share a fascinating, daring, and multifaceted perspective on what faith means (or doesn't mean). The collection of personal essays includes bestselling authors such as Anne Perry, who writes about a deeply spiritual faith that embraces and sustains her through every step of her life. Caroline Leavitt writes about tarot cards, mediums, and quantum physics to explain her concept of faith. Afghan-American author Tamim Ansary beautifully captures his childhood curiosity amidst his Islamic views. There is the irrepressible Malachy McCourt's anti-religion rant, and then Pam Houston's signature wit and sense of irony, which gives the question of faith a surprising twist. Honest, provocative, and candid, Faith begins a larger conversation and invites the question: What do you believe?By Steve Wolfe. 2005
Steve Wolfe fresh out of college comes to the little town of Homer Alaska and begins his…
wrestling coach career Homer Alaska is at the end of the road Coach soon finds that Alaska is full of unbelievable characters--kids and adults alike--students teachers and neighbors Coach s interactions with these characters make for nonstop humor and inspiration Call Me Coach is a story of rare experiences of struggle failure but ultimately triumph Alaskans and wrestlers have a common spirit--the spirit of adventure and overcoming all adversity Call Me Coach is a humorous story of motivation and the spirit of Alaska and wrestlingBy Steve Wolfe. 2007
Steve Wolfe knows his stuff when it comes to coaching and wrestling Call Us Champions would entertain the…
most avid wrestler all the way to a beginner This is not only a excellent and fun book for those interested in wrestling but those interested in how it is to raise a family in Alaska Wolfe writes about his young family in a way that makes you want to read more Thanks for a wonderful book Rainbow Saupe San Jose CA Steve Wolfe does a wonderful job of captivating not only the idiosyncrasies of the sport of wrestling but the essence of the human spirit I found myself laughing out loud of some of the humorous events within the book and appreciate having this coach share his experience with up and coming coaches like myself Mike Illg Lowell MABy Sarkis Atamian. 2005
Douglas Avenue is the story of an immigrant Armenian family the Stepanians whose children grow up during the…
Great Depression In the midst of their poverty like so many other Armenians the Stepanians cling to their hope for a better tomorrow and cherish their children above all else It is a time of trials and triumphs as Dickron and Mariam struggle to make a home for their boys Garo and Harry on Douglas Avenue in Providence Rhode Island Join Garo and Harry in their boyhood adventures during the Great Depression Here are the stories of their pranks and escapades as they learn how to survive by overcoming the differences between two culturesBy Meri-Jane Rochelson. 2018
Eli s Story A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life is first and foremost a biography Its subject is…
Eli G Rochelson MD 1907 1984 author Meri-Jane Rochelson s father At its core is Eli s story in his own words taken from an interview he did with his son Burt Rochelson in the mid-1970s The book tells the story of a man whose life and memory spanned two world wars several migrations an educational odyssey the massive disruption of the Holocaust and finally a frustrating yet ultimately successful effort to restore his professional credentials and identity as well as reestablish family life Eli s Story contains a mostly chronological narration that embeds the story in the context of further research It begins with Eli s earliest memories of childhood in Kovno and ends with his death his legacy and the author s own unanswered questions that are as much a part of Eli s story as his own words The narrative is illuminated and expanded through Eli s personal archive of papers letters and photographs as well as research in institutional archives libraries and personal interviews Rochelson covers Eli s family s relocation to southern Russia his education military service and first marriage after he returned to Kovno his and his family s experiences in the Dachau Stutthof and Auschwitz concentration camps including the deaths of his wife and child his postwar experience in the Landsberg Displaced Persons DP camp and his immigration to the United States where he determinedly restored his medical credentials and started a new family Rochelson recognizes that both the effort of reconstructing events and the reality of having personal accounts that confirm and also differ from each other in detail make the process of gap-filling itself a kind of fiction an attempt to shape the incompleteness that is inherent to the story In the epilogue the author reminds readers that the stories of lives don t have clear chronologies They go off in many directions and in some ways they never end An earlier reviewer said of the book Eli s Story combines the care of a scholar with the care of a daughter Both scholars and general readers interested in Holocaust narratives will be moved by this monographBy Barbara Fifer. 2008
The lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home…
to prostitutes and poets, desperadoes and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.By Carol Weishampel Ed D. 2009
Stalked by her abusive ex-husband and in fear for her life Leah Gray plans an escape Leah s…
faith in God and in humanity shattered when she is forced out of her comfort zone she secretly purchases a used motor home as a mobile hide-out and prepares to pursue a search for a meaningful life Intrigued by her father s stories of building the Alaska Highway Leah determines to flee into the Alaska wilderness On her road trip from Texas to Alaska she encounters empowering women who encourage her on her road to self discovery Leah s fear of men intensifies when she is forced to trust Barret an Alaskan mountain man Can Leah stop running and find healing and love and return to her faith in GodBy Harry G. Lang. 2004
Edmund Booth was born in 1810 and died in 1905, and during the 94 years of his life, he epitomized…
virtually everything that characterized an American legend of that century. In his prime, Booth stood 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighed in at 210 pounds, and wore a long, full beard. He taught school in Hartford, CT, then followed his wife-to-be Mary Ann Walworth west to Anamosa, Iowa, where in 1840, he built the area's first frame house. He pulled up stakes nine years later to travel the Overland Trail on his way to join the California Gold Rush. After he returned to Iowa in 1854, he became the editor of the Anamosa Eureka, the local newspaper. Edmund Booth fit perfectly the mold of the ingenious pioneer of 19th-century America, except for one unusual difference -- he was deaf. Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer follows the amazing career of this American original and his equally amazing wife in fascinating detail. Author Harry G. Lang vividly portrays Booth and his wife by drawing from a remarkable array of original material. A prolific writer, Booth corresponded with his fiancé from the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, and he kept a journal during his days on the California trail, parts of which have been reproduced here. He also wrote an autobiographical essay when he was 75, and his many newspaper articles through the years bore first-hand witness to the history of his times, from the Civil War to the advent of the 20th century. Edmund Booth depicts a larger-than-life man in larger-than-life times, but perhaps its greatest contribution derives from its narrative about pioneer days as seen through Deaf eyes. Booth became a respected senior statesman of the American Deaf community, and blended with his stories of the era's events are anecdotes and issues vital to Deaf people and their families. His story proves again that extraordinary people vary in many ways, but they often possess a common motive in acting to enhance their own communities.By Jennifer Noonan. 2016
A heartbreaking yet also funny and ultimately empowering memoir revealing the a multi-year journey into the latest science and treatments…
in order to rescue her kids and her family from autism.By Clayton Littlewood. 2008
What is the correct etiquette for visiting a brothel? How should one react when a transsexual wants to show off…
her latest surgery? Is it appropriate to speak to television personalities when they're buying underwear? These are the questions that matter in London's Soho neighborhood, where Clayton Littlewood runs the cult clothing store Dirty White Boy. From his window on one of the busiest street corners in the world, Littlewood watches the daily parade of fashion queens, prostitutes, gangsters, and celebrities that make up the population of this strangest of villages. Dirty White Boy is a vivid mosaic of modern London, caught between the ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the future. With an unforgettable cast of characters ranging from Chico the camp queen to Pam the Fag Lady (with guest spots by stars like Kathy Griffin and Graham Norton), these compulsively readable true tales offer a wry panorama of Soho's rich and often raucous subcultures.By Stanton Peele, Ilse Thompson. 2014
For decades you've been told that addiction is an irreversible disease, a biological force over which you have no control.…
That defeatist message not only is without scientific foundation, but actually prevents your overcoming addiction. Now, world-renowned addiction expert Stanton Peele demystifies addiction and offers a groundbreaking program that puts at your disposal what does work in treatment and recovery. For four decades, Dr. Peele has challenged our understanding of addiction and recovery. He has developed approaches that break the cycle of addiction and empower us to take control of our lives--including understanding that we are able to direct our own brains to change. In Recover! Dr. Peele's PERFECT Program takes you through the key concepts of mindfulness--that is, your ability to detach from your addictive experience and to see that it is not who you are--combined with the Buddhist idea of loving kindness, or self-acceptance. It's an easily grasped, yet multifaceted program that allows your true self to overcome your addictive urges. Instead of focusing on what's wrong with you, the PERFECT Program will help you discover, embrace, and build your recovery on what's already right about you. Combining the best evidence-based treatments with the mindful use of meditation, Recover! presents a life-transforming philosophy for freeing yourself from addiction forever.By Holly L. Springer. 2015
This book continues the story of one woman's experiences in recovering from a near fatal brain aneurysm. Learning how to…
cope with the new person challenges the author daily. However, learning to live with the unique person she now has become with the help of new insights allows a new perspective on life, to which others may relate.By Catherine Texier. 1998
I will never forgive you.I will never make love with you again.I do not love you anymore.Breakup is the erotically…
charged chronicle of the tempestuous final months of an eighteen-year romantic and literary partnership, self-destructing in the aftermath of the ultimate betrayal. Fearlessly and courageously, Texier chronicles the end of that love as it is wrecked by infidelity and deceit in a literary tour de force reminiscent by turns of Marguerite Duras and Henry Miller.Texier writes in harrowing detail about the powerful sexual relationship she shared with her husband even during their breakup, how sex between them became a substitute for real intimacy, and how the fabric of a marriage (a shared cup of café au lait on a yellow table every morning, the memories of giving birth to two glorious daughters, of coediting their own literary magazine) is brutally dissolved.Breakup is unsentimental and unflinching, a journal of love's exquisite torture. Every emotion, including rage, disgust, self-pity, hatred, sympathy, and jealousy, is mined. Heartbreaking, too, is the effect of the breakup on Texier's two children who, sometimes caught in the crossfire of their parents' turmoil, are trapped as the relationship spirals out of control and their once-secure home becomes a battlefield.Ultimately, Breakup is about the risks one great passion involves. It is a journey of the heart in all its wild beating; a courageous diary of a soul laid bare, and the redemptive power of love.By Rachel Kelly. 2015
In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling mildly anxious to being completely unable…
to function within the space of just three days. Prescribed antidepressants by her doctor, and supported by her husband and her family, Rachel slowly began to get better, but her anxiety levels remained high, and six years later, as a stay-at-home mother, she suffered a second collapse even worse than the first. Throughout both of Rachel's periods of severe depression, the healing power of poetry became an integral part of her recovery. As someone who had always loved poetry, it became something for Rachel to cling on to in times of need - from repeating short mantras to learning and reciting entire poems - these words and verses became a powerful force for change in her life. In Black Rainbow Rachel analyses why poetry can be one answer to depression, and the book contains a selected 40 of the poems that provided Rachel with solace and comfort during her breakdown and recovery. At a time when mental health problems and depression are becoming more common, and the stigma around such issues is finally being lifted, this book offers a lifeline for anyone seeking to understand depression and seek new ways to treat it. Poetry is free, has no side-effects and, as Rachel can attest, 'prescribing words instead of pills' can be an incredibly powerful remedy.Disillusioned with life in the city and spurred on by childhood dreams of adventure and discovery a young…
geologist take a chance and moves his family to Alaska during the 1970s pipeline boom Awed and humbled by the Great Land and its unpredictable inhabitants--animal and human--he begins a 20-year search for the elusive tundra daisy--a giant oilfield with the potential to put him and his discovery o the map Unexpectedly however this young explorer s search yields more than black gold when he discovers that life s greatest lessons are often learned under difficult circumstances A mix of harrowing humorous and heartwarming true stories Craig White s Tundra Daisy embodies the spirit of a real Alaskan and recaptures a bygone era of discovery in the Last Frontier