Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| DONALD L. BARLETT / JAMES B. STEELE | EMPIRE: THE LIFE, LEGEND, AND MADNESS OF HOWARD HUGHES (part 1) -
Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.
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(10T,15H) | $28 | No | T |
| DONALD L. BARLETT / JAMES B. STEELE | EMPIRE: THE LIFE, LEGEND, AND MADNESS OF HOWARD HUGHES (part 2) -
Hughes had always been different. Raised by overprotective parents, pathologically fearful of germs, in awe of his father, unable to make friends, he grew into a man ruled by madness. Certainly his riches set him apart. But he was also tough. Orphaned and a millionaire at eighteen, Hughes repudiated his relatives, seized control of the Hughes Tool Company, the linchpin of his fortune, and went on to become a flamboyant movie producer, holder of many world aviation records, principal owner of Trans World Airlines, a critically-important defense contractor, Hollywood's most pursued, and elusive, bachelor, and partner of the United States government. This is an epic biography of an epic figure, who bestrode the world like a colossus, yet could not master himself. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| RON CHERNOW | TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. (part 1) -
John D. was history's first recorded billionaire and one of the most controversial public figures in America at the turn of the 20th century. Standard Oil -- which he always referred to as the result of financial "cooperation," never as a "cartel" or a "monopoly," controlled at its peak nearly 90 percent of the United States oil industry. While Chernow amply catalogs Rockefeller's misdeeds, he also presents the tycoon's human side. Told with depth and style, the story of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., is, in many ways, the story of America between the Civil War and the First World War.
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(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| RON CHERNOW | TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. (part 2) -
"This book is a triumph of the art of biography...it brings John D. Rockefeller, Sr. to life through a sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale 19th-century kind." (New York Times Book Review) | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| HAMMOND INNES | THE LAST VOYAGE: CAPTAIN COOK'S LOST DIARY -
Having the chance to read Captain James Cook's journal of his last voyage around the world would be a great boon any scholar. Unfortunately, if he kept a journal on this voyage, it has been lost. To fill the gap left in the historic record by the absence of this journal, Hammond Innes has written Cook's diary for him. Based upon what is authoritatively known about Cook's voyage, Innes has crafted a marvelously detailed and historically accurate, but nonetheless fictional, diary for Captain Cook.
Captain Cook left Plymouth on July 12, 1776. He sailed on the Resolution, a three-masted collier. The Resolution was accompanied on its journey by the Discovery, another collier, which was commanded by Captain Clerke. Colliers are diminutive vessels; The Resolution was only about 110 feet long and only 35 feet wide at its widest point.
This was to be Cook's third and last voyage of discovery. He died on the fourteenth of February 1779 without ever discovering the Northwest Passage. The Last Voyage: Captain Cook's Lost Diary commences on July 22, 1776 and its last entry is dated February 13th. Throughout, Innes maintains the illusion that this is indeed a reproduction of Cook's real diary. An afterward has been added by the author that explains the events that precipitated Cook's death in Hawaii. It also details what happened to the expedition after his death.
Historical accuracy aside, this is a rousing good adventure story. Innes brings Cook's last voyage to life, and he allows the reader to experience Cook's sense of adventure and thrill at making new discoveries, a glimpse into a bygone time when there were still many mountains left to climb and many men willing to risk their lives to be the first to accomplish the unimaginable.
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(8T,12H) | $20 | No | T |
| CARL JUNG | MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS -
A must read for any Jungian or anyone else for that matter. If you are one who finds yourself identifying with jung's thoughts and feelings to a high degree, you may experience more than just dreams. The book becomes an integral part of your life. It won't let you skip around or stop reading it for too long. You will be bound to the book to finish it in order. When you reach the 10th and 11th chapters in which he describes his afterlife experiences and thoughts, be extremely careful. You may enter into that same "shadow of the valley of death" while you are reading this part. This is not a book to be taken lightly. It gives you knowledge coupled with experience, not just knowledge. | Y
(2T,3H) | $10 | No | T |
| PETER MATTHIESSEN (© 1978) | THE SNOW LEOPARD -
Across the most awesome mountains on earth, the Himalayas, Peter Matthiessen went in search of the rare snow leopard. His dangerous trip became a pilgrimage, a luminous journey of the heart.
"A memorable story of spiritual adventure. On page after page the reader's spine tingles. Matthiessen creates a unique picture of that upper Himalayan world in the resonant strokes that are his hallmark." (Audubon)
"Simply as a step-by-step account of villages entered, peaks crossed, the enormously elating business of survival, THE SNOW LEOPARD is stunning...It is also Matthiessen's attempt to stand beyond modern time...He has expressed with candor, and with no prospect of relief, a longing which keeps the soul striving and alert in all of us." (Washington Post Book World)
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(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| JACK MILES | GOD: A BIOGRAPHY -
God: just who or what is he? What is his life story? For answers, Jack Miles looks with a literary eye at the Old Testament.
God emerges as the epic hero, from his first appearance as the creator to his last as the enduring Ancient of Days. A god-warrior, he fights his greatest battle with himself. Through his relationship with man, made in his image, God wrestles with his own conflicting urges. He is tender and ruthless, creative and destructive, omniscient and blind . . . wondrously mysterious.
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(14T,21H) | $48 | No | T |
| EDMUND MORRIS | THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT (part 1) -
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT is a sweeping narrative of the man and his legend. It is told as a hard-riding adventure story, spanning the years from Roosevelt's birth in 1858 to President McKinley's death and TR's assumption of office in 1901.
"Roosevelt the Good," as Republicans called him, was an adventurer, cowboy, gentleman and politician. It was his style that took him to the White House. It was leadership that kept him there.
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(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| EDMUND MORRIS | THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT (part 2) -
"Morris's account of Roosevelt's rise is like riding through the Rockies, the peaks whipping past, one exceeding another in magnificence." (B-O-M-C News) | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| PATRICK O'BRIAN | PICASSO (part 1) -
Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso explores comprehensively the life of this awe-inspiring artist. Enormously productive and hugely successful, Picasso continues to attract avid, insatiable public interest. O'Brian was a close friend and a neighbour of Picasso's, and the book reflects the closeness of their friendship and the immense erudition and warm wit of Patrick O'Brian. The man that emerges from the pages is full of contradictions: hard yet tender, mean yet generous, affectionate but cold, professing communism but retaining an essentially Catholic mentality, private despite his relish of fame. Critically, O'Brian's is the only biography to fully appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso's character and art.
| (10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| PATRICK O'BRIAN | PICASSO (part 2) -
Sex and money, eating and drinking, friends and quarrels, comedies and tragedies, suicides and wars tumble over each other in the vast chaos of Picasso's experience, He was 'a man almost as lonely as the sun, but one who glowed with much the same fierce, burning life.'
" 'Patrick O'Brian has written much the best biography of Picasso. It is full of information, the judgements both of Picasso as a man and as an artist seem to me remarkably convincing, and it is extremely well-written. In particular, the relationship between Picasso and the Catalan painters is given its true importance, both in his formative years and, as friends, throughout his life.' Kenneth Clarke | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| TAD SZULC (© 1995) | POPE JOHN PAUL II: -
Nearly a billion believers consider Pope John Paul II to be God's mouthpiece on earth. He wields extraordinary influence as a world statesman. This is an unauthorized, yet sympathetic biograpy, in which Szulc discloses how Eastern bloc communists helped Karol Sojtyla (the Polish pontif's given name) climb to the papacy, then later plotted to neutralize him as Pope. We also learn that John Paul II, while he ws Cardinal Wojtyla, drafted Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae vitae on contraception. Now, the Pope is presiding over one of the Catholic Church's deepest periods of crisis. | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
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