Creator: Jeri Johnson
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-04
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2008-06-12
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review Riding Through The Storm: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour de France: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour De France / Orion:
Edition: 1st American Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2007-08-15
Dewey code: 362.76
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.80
Review Shattered Lives: Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-02-15
Dewey code: 796.352092
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.38
Review The Life of O'Reilly: The Amusing Adventures of a Professional Irish Caddie / John Wiley & Sons Inc:
Publication date: 2008-02-07
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99
Review Broken / Hodder & Stoughton:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-03-13
Dewey code: 616.85227
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.50
Review Touch and Go Joe: An Adolescent's Experience of OCD / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.94
Review The Falling Angels / Flamingo:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-05-16
Dewey code: 373.1102092
RRP: £12.95
Price: £3.02
Review Teach with Your Heart / Broadway Books:
Authors
- Peter Zheutlin
- Thomas Graboys
Dewey code: 362.1968330092
RRP: £10.68
Price: £6.02
Review Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia / Union Square Press:
Publication date: 2004-10-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.11
Review Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME and Fibromyalgia: The Long Awaited Cure / authorsonline.co.uk:
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.01
Review Waiting for Snow in Havana / Scribner:Carlos Eire's memoir of his childhood in Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy explodes off the page with the smells, sights, and sounds of the tropics. But the most interesting aspect of his story is the story of the Revolution from a boy too young to know exactly what's happening. Just nine-years-old when Castro and his fellow revolutionaries overthrew Batista, Eire watched as relatives were arrested, property confiscated, and rights lost. Naturally, it was a confusing time for the boy, as his whole world was turned upside-down by factors both visible, such as militiamen, and invisible. "I woke up to the fact that something had gone awfully wrong with the world that day," writes Eire. "We stood there for a while, all of us, asking questions, complaining. it was the sheer shock of encountering a stupid rule that kept us there, loitering under the marquee. " The rule? The movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was suddenly off-limits to minors. [+]There is no love lost between the author-today a history and religious studies professor at Yale-and the man he calls a "ruthless dictator masquerading as a humanitarian. " Waiting for Snow in Havana is a cry from the heart of a boy torn from family, country, and way of life. Eire was 11 at the time he was shipped off to the US to live with strangers, and the fire still burns in him at the injustice of it. This fury propels his memoir, which is by turns cloying, sentimental, repetitious, and meandering. (Eire can, and does, go on for paragraphs about the shape of clouds. Federico Lorca he is not. ) But readers looking for insight into one of the century's most "successful" revolutions will come away from Waiting for Snow with a fresh perspective on a crucial period of Cuban, and world, history. -Shawn Conner, Amazon. ca.
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 796.44092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.02
Review Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams / William Morrow & Company:
Publication date: 2008-03-27
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.67
Review Michael O'Leary: A Life in Full Flight / Penguin Ireland:
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.52
Review Save ME from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story / HarperSanFrancisco:
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin Ed
Publication date: 2001-03-31
Dewey code: 363.4509861
RRP: £14.95
Price: £4.78
Review Blow: How a Smalltown Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Edition: 1st Pocket Books Trade Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2003-12-01
Dewey code: 362.87
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.85
Review Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-08-03
Dewey code: 795.41209793135
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.55
Review The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time / Little, Brown & Company:
Edition: Open Market Ed
Publication date: 1999-03-04
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.70
Review Desert Flower / Virago Press Ltd:Waris Dirie's story puts "rags to riches" to shame. The "Desert Flower" started life as one of 12 children of a Somali nomad family, a people with no written culture, where the basic unit of currency is the camel. Faced at 12 with the prospect of marriage to a 60-year-old man she didn't know, she broke all the rules and ran away, surviving a traumatic trek across the desert to end up in London, as a maid to the Somalian Ambassador. It was in McDonalds that her striking beauty was "discovered", leading to a career in modelling and another as an ardent campaigner against female genital mutilation (circumcision). As a novel it would be unbelievable, as Waris survives circumcision, rape, arranged marriage, a lion attack-you name it, she's lived through it. But the book is remarkable less for its deliberately dramatic set pieces, and more for its haunting evocation of the little-told life of Somalian nomads, seen from a child's telling perspective, where life centres on the beloved camels, the horrors of womanhood are still an exciting mystery, and the nights are filled with the smell of frankincense. Desert Flower is a recollection of such gentle beauty that "rags to riches" seems hardly appropriate. -Alan Stewart.
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-05-15
Dewey code: 362.1968588320092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.55
Review Alone Together: Making an Asperger Marriage Work / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-02-02
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.66
Review The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered / Pimlico:
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