'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

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Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album   Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by listeners everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immi grant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice -- his uncanny humor and his astonishing ear for dialogue -- that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always revisiting what everyone tells him, that men and women who have dreamed and toiled for years to get to America should "stick to their own kind" once they arrive. Somehow, Frank knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blond, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach -- and to write -- that Frank finds his place in the world. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of listeners in Angela's Ashes comes of age. ...Show more

Into the Wadi by Michele Drouart

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Whatever happens to me here, my understanding of it will be incomplete. Jokes, stories, events, decisions - like so many things in this part of the world - remain open-ended, intertwined like the encircled and encircling chambers of the thousand and one tales ...... Into the Wadiis the compelling and in tensely personal story of an Australian woman and the Jordanian family into which she marries. In a deeply engaging style - sensuous, accessible and thoughtful - Michèle Drouart writes about marriage, female friendship, and the preciousness of culture and community. ...Show more

One Crowded Hour - Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman, 1934-1985 by Tim Bowden

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Ba Rose - My Years in Vietnam 1968-1971 by Iris Mary Roser

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A PRISONER IN THE GARDEN : OPENING NELSON MANDELA'S PRISON ARCHIVE

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THE GOOD OLD DAYS by PATRICK GRANT

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JOSIAH WEDGWOOD F.R.S : HIS PERSONAL HISTORY0 by SAMUEL SMILES

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VET IN A SPIN by JAMES HERRIOT

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The Mitred Earl - An Eighteenth-Century Eccentric by Brian Fothergill

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Lord Hervey - Eighteenth-Century Courtier by Robert Halsband

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Beckford of Fonthill by Brian Fothergill

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William Beckford, who was fluent in seven languages and schooled in philosophy and law, who claimed to have been taught piano by Mozart but was more famous for his singing, may perhaps be best known for his career as a Gothic fabulist. However, his spectacular hedonism and disregard for convention led t o his epic fall from grace in a homosexual scandal. Following his time in luxurious exile in Europe, he returned to England as an eccentric aesthete who amassed a great library in the sprawling grandeur of Fonthill Abbey. "Beckford of Fonthill" is Brian Fothergill's account of a sensational life, a history of the celebrated and vilified "Fool of Fonthill." ...Show more

THE HOUSE OF ELRIG by GAVIN MAXWELL

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