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By Carlos De Abreu, Janice Pennington. 1994
Janice Pennington, hostess on the TV game show The Price Is Right, married German mountain climber Fritz Stammberger in 1974.…
In 1975, while climbing in the Tirich Mir area along the Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Russian borders, Stammberger disappeared. Years later, after Pennington had him declared legally dead and married another man, she uncovered startling information. Some descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Anne Lamott. 1994
Practical information and encouragement from the author's personal experience as the daughter of a writer and as a novelist and…
writing instructor. Lamott offers tips on skills such as producing credible dialog and collecting phrases and observations, and she also describes her own writing life. Some strong language. BestsellerBy Aphrodite Jones. 1994
Sixteen-year-old Melinda Loveless became angry when her young lesbian lover got involved with twelve-year-old Shanda Sharer. Planning to teach Shanda…
a lesson, Melinda and three of her teenage friends tortured and burned the girl to death. Melinda's troubled childhood is described as are the events leading up to the murder. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Gerry Spence. 1995
Spence, a noted trial attorney, has not lost a criminal case in forty years. Wanting to share what he's learned,…
he identifies disabling locks to the art of arguing and offers enabling keys. He details the structure, preparation, and technique of the winning argument and explains when to use these skills and how to apply them in different situations. 1995.By Julia Child. 1995
Recipes from twenty-six chefs Child invited to her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for her PBS television series. The list includes…
Roberto Donna, Charlie Trotter, Jody Adams, Leah Chase, Jimmy Sneed, and Monique Barbeau. Each entry includes a brief biography of the chef and helpful hints from Child. BestsellerBy George Foreman. 1995
Boxer George Foreman tells of growing up poor in Texas, dropping out of junior high and turning to crime and…
drinking, and then going on to become the heavyweight champion of the world. He also discusses his several marriages and children and the effect religion has had on his adult life. Some violence. BestsellerBy John Feinstein. 1995
The author spent fifteen months following seventeen players on the Professional Golf Association tour. As Feinstein observes these famous and…
not-so-famous golfers, he learns what drives them to play day after day, and how one week they seem to have discovered the secret to the game, and the next week they never want to golf again. But each player keeps striving to be "there" on Sunday afternoon. BestsellerBy Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger. 1994
Apollo 13 was to have been the fifth mission to the moon. But two days into the trip, on April…
13, 1970, the oxygen tank exploded in the command module, placing the three astronauts in grave danger. Lovell describes those terrifying days as astronauts, contractors, and Mission Control struggled to bring Apollo 13 safely back to earth. Basis for the movie Apollo 13. BestsellerBy Laurence Leamer. 1994
The large Catholic family that produced noted politicians and suffered through multiple tragedies is examined through its daughters, sisters, and…
wives. The six-generation family saga begins with President Kennedy's great-grandmother, Bridget Murphy, in Ireland, spans 104 years of Rose Kennedy's life, ends with Jackie Kennedy's death, and describes the lives of numerous other Kennedy women. Bestseller. 1994By Margaret Thatcher. 1995
In this companion to The Downing Street Years (DB 39179), Thatcher looks at her personal life. She discusses her childhood,…
her years at Oxford, her marriage to Denis Thatcher, her family life, her first steps in politics, her experiences as a minister and as leader of the opposition, and the beginning of her role as prime minister. BestsellerBy Isadore Rosenfeld. 1995
Although he considers himself an "establishment" doctor, Rosenfeld believes that almost every major medical condition is either caused or affected…
in some way by food. He provides advice on what food may help or hurt various conditions including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, pregnancy, panic attacks, jet lag, migraines, and osteoporosis. BestsellerBy Carl Sagan. 1994
Sequel to Cosmos (DB 15796), which is about human attempts to understand the universe from the vantage point of Earth,…
continues with a view of Earth from the perspective of space. The popular astronomer and author examines the claim that "our world and species are unique, and even central to the workings and purpose of the Cosmos," and concludes with an optimistic look at a future beyond our planet. BestsellerBy Robert Lacey. 1994
The author examines the image of a beautiful fairy-tale princess who did not live happily ever after. Lacey chronicles the…
story of Grace Kelly's abbreviated life through her American phase, depicting the actress with a cool, classy facade and a tawdry private life. When the Hollywood star married her European prince, the location of her fantasy life changed, but reality began to destroy the portrait. BestsellerBy Oliver W Sacks. 1995
Case histories of people with neurological disorders who reconstruct the world according to their needs. Comfortable with his forty-five years…
of blindness, one man is confused by the sudden restoration of his sight. An autistic zoology professor is at ease with animals but cannot bear human contact. Each tale portrays a patient with a condition such as Tourette's Syndrome, deafness, or amnesia. Bestseller. Winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1995.By Norman Mailer. 1995
Mailer refers to this as a "sad tale of a young American who lived abroad and returned to a grave…
in Texas." Using transcripts, letters, and interviews, Mailer examines Lee Harvey Oswald's time in Russia, in the service, and in Dallas, concluding that Oswald "had the character to kill Kennedy, and that he probably did it alone." BestsellerAuthor of You Just Don't Understand (DB 32031) discusses how conversational style can affect the way a person is understood.…
Tannen uses an office setting to explain how differences in geographic, economic, and ethnic backgrounds, as well as gender, can affect how well men and women communicate. BestsellerAfter Submarine: A Guided Tour inside a Nuclear Warship (DB 37742), the bestselling author of military fiction examines the special…
organization of the armored cavalry, its equipment, its soldiers, its leaders, and how it fights. The focus is on the 3rd, or the "Brave Rifles," regiment that took part in the Persian Gulf War. Included are interviews with two cavalry leaders from that war. BestsellerExpose of recent chief executives and the mansion they and their families occupied. Author of previous "inside" looks at the…
FBI and the CIA relays the first-hand impressions of presidential assistants, Air Force One flight attendants, military aides, secret service agents, servants, chefs, and other members of the White House staff. BestsellerBy Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden. 1995
Novelist Allende wrote The House of the Spirits (DB 21524) to say goodbye to her dying grandfather. She wrote this…
book to bring her comatose twenty-eight-year-old daughter, Paula, back to life. In case Paula has lost memories when she awakens, Allende tells her the story of their family. Intertwined is the story of Allende fighting to save her daughter, until Paula finally comes to her in a dream and asks to be released. 1995By Barbara De Angelis. 1994
Talk show host believes that "we have become experts at preparing to live, but have a difficult time fully enjoying…
the process of being alive, right now." Although planning and achieving goals can bring satisfaction, real happiness can only be achieved by experiencing the present. Drawing from her own spiritual learning experience, De Angelis provides tips on learning this skill. Bestseller