| 1501. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music | |
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by: Mark Zwonitzer, Charles Hirshberg List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.50 You Save: $7.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description To all but a few of us -- that "few" being those who knew them personally -- A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter have always been little more than stoic, unsmiling, unreadable faces on the covers of Carter Family reissues. Mark Zwonitzer, assisted by Charles Hirshberg, manages to put breath and life into these three giants of country and folk music. Though they were ordinary people, they possessed an extraordinary gift, and it took them far from the shadow of their native home in Clinch Mountain, Virginia, ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 1502. The Last American Man | |
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by: Elizabeth Gilbert List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is one of those books that stir up strong opinions and heated controversy. Eustace Conway, the back-to-nature mountain man of the title, is someone you can see as a living American myth or a nut case. The author's portrait of him, full of ironies right from the title onward, lends itself to either point of view. And depending on how the book is read, you can see either admiration or skepticism in what she says about Conway. Or you can see subject and author in all of these ways which, as I understand ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1503. Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot | |
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by: Robert L. Gandt, Robert Gandt List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Bogeys and Bandits gives the real life accounts of the training of F/A-18 Navy fighter pilots. The book jumps around each of the characters as they progress through their training -- from accomplishing difficult missions to getting medically disqualified. To anyone that wants to be or dreams to be a pilot or astronaut, this is a must-read. Perhaps the only downfall is that the story begins with all the characters already set for jet training. Personally, I would have liked to know how the characters also got into the training ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1504. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us | |
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by: Kate Bornstein List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Kate Bornstein has written a fabulous book about what it means to be differently gendered. Her experience of being male, being female, being something else entirely, has lead her to ask the question "What is gender, anyway?" This book is the beginning of an answer to that question. Boornstein does not pretend to know the answers to the questions she raises. For the most part, the critical act in this book is raising the questions at all. And even when she has worked out an answer for herself, she is extremely clear (with herself ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1505. Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences with Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Second Edition | |
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by: Stephen Shore, Temple Grandin List Price: $21.95 Amazon.com's Price: $15.37 You Save: $6.58 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description All I can write is "WOW"! The author Stephen Shore takes you through an amazing journey - his life. I have over 85 books on autism and this is definately my favorite for providing some possible insight on what my autistic son Jeff may be feeling. Not only is the insight amazing and explainations easy to understand - but he gives so much hope. There are few books I have read where I truly laughed, cried, and celebrated his ups and downs (corny but absolutely true.) The authors words have helped me better understand and communicate to my ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1506. Sports Leaders & Success : 55 Top Sports Leaders & How They Achieved Greatness | |
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by: Investor's Business Daily, Investor's Business Daily List Price: $10.95 Amazon.com's Price: $8.76 You Save: $2.19 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description All I can write is "WOW"! The author Stephen Shore takes you through an amazing journey - his life. I have over 85 books on autism and this is definately my favorite for providing some possible insight on what my autistic son Jeff may be feeling. Not only is the insight amazing and explainations easy to understand - but he gives so much hope. There are few books I have read where I truly laughed, cried, and celebrated his ups and downs (corny but absolutely true.) The authors words have helped me better understand and communicate to my ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1507. Gather Together in My Name | |
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by: MAYA ANGELOU Amazon.com's Price: $6.50 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This beautifully descriptive story takes place some time before the 1940's. It talks about the stuggles that blacks were facing, before the time that civil rights groups were starting to develop. As an Afican American, the story she depicts makes me proud of my race and the world as the HUMAN race. Maya Angelou is an exceptional author and to write about her own life experiences enriches the story and enlightens the reader of our past. I stongly urge anyone, no matter what race you are, to read this book. Read Reviews and Description
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| 1508. Where Rivers Change Direction | |
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by: Mark Spragg List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $5.60 You Save: $8.40 (60%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is one of the most beautiful, enlightening and transporting books I have ever read. I am a housewife in Iowa and a contemporary of the author. I have never lived in a part of our country where man finds himself in the middle of the food chain. Mr. Spragg's essay's take me to that place in a way that my very senses become sotted with the sting of the Wyoming wind, the piercing cry of a horse's pain, the chaffing of a new pair of cowboy boots on a young boy's feet. His observations about the people in his life are precise, penetrating and without ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1509. Saint Augustine's Sin (Augustine, Confessiones. Bk. 3.) | |
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by: Augustine, Gary Wills, Garry Wills List Price: $23.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.77 You Save: $7.18 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I want to start this review by thanking Garry Wills for giving us this real gem of a book. I found it in the new books section of my local library, and, intrigued (Augustine's *Confessions* being one of the few books I've enjoyed enough to read more than once), I brought it home with me. I returned it the next day, having devoured it in the meantime. It is a rare gift to be able to take a work over 1600 years old and make it fresh and new again, but it is clearly a gift Wills possesses in spades. I can say with complete honesty that this small book has changed ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1510. For the Sins of My Father : A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life | |
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by: ALBERT DEMEO List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.47 You Save: $4.48 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description The Godfather, The Sopranos, Godfellas, all classic movies that basically display America's fascination with mob life. What do American's like more than mob stories? True stories! There is no better combination than a true story about mob life. In Albert DeMeo's book, "For the Sins of My Father," he dives into his dark past of being the son of one of the Gambino families top killing machines, Roy DeMeo. From the days of carrying a gun as a young child to his teen years of running the family business and dealing with prostitutes, he faces everything that the mafia ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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