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By Tom Rubython. 2010
By Alex Henshaw. 1999
Sequal to 'The flight of the Mew Gull'. Alex Henshaw, after his success in races and record flights in the…
1930's asked for something useful to do in 1939, and fairly soon found himself assisting the chief test pilot at the vast Castle Bromwich factory where Spitfires were built for 6 years, and where he and his fellows flew over 37,000 flights in nearly 13,000 aircraft, often in unspeakable conditions.1999.By Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through…
the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncovered sources. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire. Companion to "At the sharp end" (DC32639). Some descriptions of sex and descriptions of violence. 2009.By Alexandra Fuller. 2004
"Scribbling the Cat" chronicles Fuller's journey through Africa's war-torn history with a battle-scarred veteran of the Rhodesian war. What emerges…
is a gripping portrait of men who struggle every day with the sins they cannot forget. 2004.By Heather Hodgson. 1989
By Mark Duncan. 1988
By Laurie D Graham. 2016
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of…
nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, she reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. Poems from this book won the 2013 Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.By Jorge Luis Borges. 1986
Seven lectures in which the famous Argentine writer shares his personal observations on poetry and on great poetic works such…
as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Thousand and One Nights." In the final essay he reminisces on his blindness and how blindness has served him and other blind poets. 1986.By Dick Bass, Frank Wells, Rick Ridgeway. 1986
By James Kaplan, John McEnroe. 2002
This autobiography chronicles the tennis career of John McEnroe. From his first Wimbledon in 1977, when he stunned the tennis…
world by reaching the semi-finals, and shocked it with his on-court behaviour. What followed was a double act of technique and temperament that set the sport alight. The book also covers his life outside tennis from his friendship with Keith Richards and Jack Nicholson, his stormy marriage to Tatum O'Neal, his forays into the worlds of art and rock music, and his arrival as one of the most astute sports commentators around. 2002.By Marcus Luttrell, James D Hornfischer. 2012
Following the account of his tour in Afghanistan in “Lone Survivor”, Navy SEAL Luttrell recounts his deployment to Ramadi, Iraq.…
He reflects on the sacrifices servicemen and women make for their family, country, and freedom. Sequel to “Lone Survivor”. c2012.By Jack Kerouac. 1990
By Brenda Hillman. 2013
Hillman evokes fire to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice.…
She fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and matter at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. 2014, c2013.By Oscar Wilde, Ian Hamilton. 1998
"Bloomsbury Poetry Classics" are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets, aimed at the general reader. The…
selections have been made by the poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton. Although now famed chiefly as a playwright, Oscar Wilde started his career as a poet, winning the Newdigate Prize at Oxford in 1878. His most well known poem is 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. 1998.By Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1988
The selection includes early poems published in 1826, when Elizabeth Barrett was 20, to the last poems she wrote before…
her death at age 55. Religious verse, lively ballads, social reforming and political poetry - all seemed to have had a good reception, as well as the better-known romantic poems. The selection shows the poet's versatility and also her development, as an inspiring and innovative writer. 1988.By Stephen Brunt. 2006
Bobby Orr redefined the defensive style of hockey - he was the first to infuse the defenseman position with offensive…
juice, driving up the ice, setting up players and scoring some goals of his own. He was the first player to win three straight MVP awards, the first defenseman to score twenty or more goals in a season. But history will also remember Bobby Orr as a key figure in the Alan Eagleson scandal, and as the unfortunate player forced into early retirement in 1978 because of his injuries. Some strong language. 2006.By Doug Hunter. 1998
Beginning with his roots in the Montreal Canadien development system in the 1950s and 60s, this book examines the life…
and times of hockey legend Scotty Bowman. Hunter details Bowman's coaching debut with the St. Louis Blues in 1967/68 and his triumphant return to Montreal, the site of five Stanley Cup wins in the 1970s.By Ted Hughes. 1976
By Ezra Pound. 1967
This selection from the Cantos was made by Pound himself in 1965, working from the Faber collected edition of Cantos…
I- CIX. In re-reading the work to make his choice, Pound marked several alterations and corrections, prepared a working index, and wrote a short but characteristic foreword. 1967.