Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| CARLOS BAKER | ERNEST HEMMINGWAY (PART 1)
Now hailed as a classic, Carlos Baker's bestselling Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story brings into sharp focus one ot the titans of twentieth-century American literature, a writer whose life itself was the stuff of legend. Baker draws not only on Hemingway's diaries, letters, and unpublished writings, but unlike more recent biographers, on the personal testimony of the artists and writers, sportsmen and soldiers-indeed, virtually all the men and women who played a part in Hemingway's career.
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| CARLOS BAKER | ERNEST HEMMINGWAY (PART 1) - (2nd Copy)
Now hailed as a classic, Carlos Baker's bestselling Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story brings into sharp focus one ot the titans of twentieth-century American literature, a writer whose life itself was the stuff of legend. Baker draws not only on Hemingway's diaries, letters, and unpublished writings, but unlike more recent biographers, on the personal testimony of the artists and writers, sportsmen and soldiers-indeed, virtually all the men and women who played a part in Hemingway's career. | Y
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| CARLOS BAKER | ERNEST HEMMINGWAY (PART 2) -
The scenes are spectacular-Spain, Key West, Cuba, Kenya, Sun Valley-and the gallery of characters is a panorama of the literary history of our time: Fitzgerald, Ford, Pound, Stein, Dos Passos. Baker reveals a man of baffling complexity behind the myths and mystique of the Hemingway persona-volcanic, mercurial, frequently tortured, consumed with anxiety, yet always interesting. Here are the many faces of Hemingway: boxer, drinker, humorist, fisherman, hunter, lover, heroic activist; but above all, here is Hemingway, the most influential prose stylist of the century.
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| GOLD AND ROBERT FIZDALE (© 1990) | THE DIVINE SARAH -
She was the first international superstar (50 years before Hollywood), with as huge a following in America and England as in her native France. Adored by Victor Hugo and the inspiration for Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past,' Sarah Bernhardt fascinated people as diverse as Freud and D.H. Lawrence.
In this acclaimed biography, grounded on bedrock beneath legend and fiction, there lives a beautiful, ironwilled and tempestuous woman. We see the living portrait of one of the supreme artists of the theatre.
"A marvelous job. Sparkles with detail. A buoyoant, affecting biography.
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| DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (© 1961) | LEE (PART 1) -
Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee captures the man as well as the general. The son of a Revolutionary War hero, Lee was a product of young America's elite. And he embodied all the conflicts of his time.
For Lee and others the Civil War was not about slavery but loyalty...to state or nation? When Lincoln offered him command of the U.S. Army, he chose instead the Confederacy, convinced that duty lay in serving his native Virginia.
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| DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (© 1961) | LEE (PART 2) -
"Biography in the grand manner, military history par excellence." | Y
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| PAT F GARRETT (1882) | THE AUTHENTIC LIFE OF BILLY THE KID -
Reputed to have killed his first man at the age of twelve, William Bonney went on to gun his way into Western legend as Billy the Kid. When he himself was finally shot and killed in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1881 at the advanced age of twenty-one, the Kid was famous throughout the country as the boy who, so he boasted, had killed a man for every year of his life.
In The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid the story of William Bonney is told by the lawman who ended his notorious career. Pat garrett was the sheriff of Lincoln County when he cornered and killed Billy the Kid on the night of July 14, 1881. Between that date and April 1882, when Garrett's book appeared, eight lurid "dime novels" had glorified and falsified the Kid, making him into a murderous super-outlaw. Garrett's book is an attempt to tell the more genuine story of a young, reckless cowhand who became a cattlerustler in the Texas panhandle, and a hired gun. Garrett explains the public sympathy that the citizens of the southwest often accorded youths like Bonney. He also challenges the legends surrounding the twenty-one kills, claiming that the Kid shot no more than twelve, and possibly as few as seven, men.
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid combines the best elements of eyewitness history with the dramatic flair of a great western novel. It is the clearest account we have of the meteoric career of the man some thought of as a murdering fiend, and others as the Robin Hood of the Southwest.
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| BILLY GRAHAM | JUST AS I AM (PART 1) -
In Just As I Am, Billy Graham looks back at it all with down-to-earth warmth and candor---remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences, and the overwhelming international response to his public ministry based on his unshakable belief in Jesus Christ. This is an inspiring story of how a man of God grew into a man of great influence. Examining his life and ministry from the wise and humble perspective that has made him one of the world's most beloved and respected leaders, Billy Graham's "Just As I Am" is an unforgettable portrait that will be treasured by listeners everywhere. The audio is read by Cliff Barrows, a friend and associate of Billy Graham's for over 50 years.
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| BILLY GRAHAM | JUST AS I AM (PART 2) -
In Just As I Am, Billy Graham looks back at it all with down-to-earth warmth and candor---remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences, and the overwhelming international response to his public ministry based on his unshakable belief in Jesus Christ. This is an inspiring story of how a man of God grew into a man of great influence. Examining his life and ministry from the wise and humble perspective that has made him one of the world's most beloved and respected leaders, Billy Graham's "Just As I Am" is an unforgettable portrait that will be treasured by listeners everywhere. The audio is read by Cliff Barrows, a friend and associate of Billy Graham's for over 50 years.
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| HELEN KELLER (1904) | THE STORY OF MY LIFE -
Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life. That she accomplished all of this in an age when few women attended college and the disabled were often relegated to the background, spoken of only in hushed tones, is remarkable.
As a young girl Keller was obstinate, prone to fits of violence, and seething with rage at her inability to express herself. But at the age of 7 this wild child was transformed when, at the urging of Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Sullivan became her teacher, an event she declares "the most important day I remember in all my life." (Sullivan herself had once been blind, but partially recovered her sight after a series of operations.) In a memorable passage, Keller writes of the day "Teacher" led her to a stream and repeatedly spelled out the letters w-a-t-e-r on one of her hands while pouring water over the other. This method proved a revelation: "That living world awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away." And, indeed, most of them were.
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| WILLIAM S MCFEELY (© 1981) | GRANT: A BIOGRAPHY (PART 1) -
Ulysses Grant showed little aptitude for the common careers open to young men, so he went off to West Point. He showed no great scholastic aptitude, fared better during the Mexican War, but when that contest was over he returned home. It was all downhill -- from farmer to collector of rents to shop clerk.
To such a man the Civil War spelled opportunity. Grant reached out and took it. His early war years in the Mississippi theatre were brilliant. His ruthless pursuit of victory brought him to Linclon's notice. Grant never looked back.
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| WILLIAM S MCFEELY (© 1981) | GRANT: A BIOGRAPHY (PART 2) -
In war he was strong and decisive, but these virtues did not last. His years as president were a disgrace and only when he again found himself in battle, his last with cancer, did he summon his heroic energies.
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| FRANK MCLYNN (© 1996) | CARL GUSTAV JUNG (PART 1) -
In recent years the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung has emerged as the guru of the New Age, a source of 'alternative' modes of thought. But Frank McLynn's Jung is the first full-length biography of this enduring icon, a one-time protege, of Freud who established his own following after a quarrel with his mentor. Jung was controversial for his idiosyncratic views on the psyche, as well as his extreme right-wing politics and sexual promiscuity. But he was an innovator who worked extensively on the "collective unconscious" and on the role of dreams in psychic health, and his interest in myth and oriental religion brought psychoanalysis closer to religion than any other thinker. Frank McLynn's fascinating biography will introduce readers to the man whose views continue to shape psychotherapy and popular religion.
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| FRANK MCLYNN (© 1996) | CARL GUSTAV JUNG (PART 2) -
The first full-scale biography of the psychologist's contributions to science and controversies on right-wing politics and sexual promiscuity.
"The best account of Jung yet published." (The Evening Standard)
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| DAVID REMNICK (© 1999) | WONDERFUL TOWN, Stories from The New Yorker -
New York City is the heart of American literary culture. 'Wonderful Town,' an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of twnty-one of its best stories: touches on some of the city's famous places and stops at some of its more obscure corners, but the real guidebook in and betwen its lines is to the hearts and minds of those who populate the metropolis.
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