Publication date: 2006-12-07
Dewey code: 306.775
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.61
Review Female Submission: The Journals of Madelaine / Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.:
Creator: David Dollenmayer
Publication date: 2008-10-21
Dewey code: 940.53183
RRP: £16.25
Price: £9.04
Review The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List / Other Press:
Creator: Jerry Mungadze
Publication date: 2008-04-14
Dewey code: 362.196852360092
RRP: £16.25
Price: £4.04
Review Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder / Touchstone Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-04-10
Dewey code: 940.53175982092
RRP: £5.99
Price: £78.03
Review The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1994-12
Dewey code: 973.04960730092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £37.59
Review W.E.B.DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (Owl Books) / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Publication date: 2004-05-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £94.95
Review George and Sam: Autism in the Family / Viking:
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Dewey code: 647.959747
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.96
Review Clublife: A Year Behind the Velvet Rope at New York's It Nightclubs: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs / HarperEntertainment:
Publication date: 2006-10-31
Dewey code: 370
RRP: £25.00
Price: £22.06
Review An Arduous Climb: From the Creeks of the Niger Delta to Leading Obstetrician and University Vice-Chancellor / Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-08
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £3.25
Price: £7.81
Review Jennifer Lopez: An Unauthorized Biography / St. Martin's Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-31
Dewey code: 618.92858820092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £31.88
Review Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism / E P Dutton & Co Inc:
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 306
RRP: £17.99
Price: £0.86
Review Blue-eyed Son: The Story of an Adoption / Macmillan:
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
Publication date: 2000-03-01
Dewey code: 796.83092
Price: £8.99
Review King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero / Vintage Books:You'd think there wouldn't be much left to say about a living icon like Muhammad Ali, yet David Remnick imbues King of the World with all the freshness and vitality this legendary fighter displayed in his prime. Beginning with the pre-Ali days of boxing and its two archetypes, Floyd Patterson (the good black heavyweight) and Sonny Liston (the bad black heavyweight), Remnick deftly sets the stage for the emergence of a heavyweight champion the likes of which the world had never seen: a three-dimensional, Technicolor showman, fighter and minister of Islam, a man who talked almost as well as he fought. But mostly Remnick's portrait is of a man who could not be confined to any existing stereotypes, inside the ring or out. In extraordinary detail, Remnick depicts Ali as a creation of his own imagination as we follow the wilful and mercurial young Cassius Clay from his boyhood and watch him hone and shape himself to a figure who would eventually command centre stage in one of the most volatile decades in our history. To Remnick it seems clear that Ali's greatest accomplishment is to prove beyond a doubt that not only is it possible to challenge the implacable forces of the establishment (the noir-ish, gangster-ridden fight game and the ethos of a whole country) but, with the right combination of conviction and talent, to triumph over these forces. -Fred Haefele You'd think there wouldn't be much left to say about a living icon like Muhammad Ali, yet David Remnick imbues King of the World with all the freshness and vitality this legendary fighter displayed in his prime. Beginning with the pre-Ali days of boxing and its two archetypes, Floyd Patterson (the good black heavyweight) and Sonny Liston (the bad black heavyweight), Remnick deftly sets the stage for the emergence of a heavyweight champion the likes of which the world had never seen: a three- dimensional, Technicolor showman, fighter and minister of Islam, a man who talked almost as well as he fought. But mostly Remnick's portrait is of a man who could not be confined to any existing stereotypes, inside the ring or out. In extraordinary detail, Remnick depicts Ali as a creation of his own imagination as we follow the willful and mercurial young Cassius Clay from his boyhood and watch him hone and shape himself to a figure who would eventually command centre stage in one of the most volatile decades in our history. To Remnick it seems clear that Ali's greatest accomplishment is to prove beyond a doubt that not only is it possible to challenge the implacable forces of the establishment (the noir-ish, gangster-ridden fight game and the ethos of a whole country) but, with the right combination of conviction and talent, to triumph over these forces. [+]-Fred Haefele, Amazon. com.
Creator: Ann Kempner Fisher
Publication date: 2006-07-17
Dewey code: 362.1969940092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £103.11
Review B.O.O.B.S: A Bunch of Outrageous Breast-Cancer Survivors Tell Their Stories of Courage, Hope and Healing / Cumberland House Publishing,US:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1997-01
Dewey code: 929.20899162073
Price: £17.56
Review Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Wheeler Hardcover) / Wheeler Publishing:"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. " Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either-not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting clichés about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty, and frequent death and illness, and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings of a compelling memoir.
Publication date: 2002-12-20
Dewey code: 782.421644092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.01
Review Erykah Badu: The First Lady of Neo Soul / Sanctuary Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 364.17709861
Price: £16.29
Review Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw / Atlantic Monthly Press:Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden's intoxicating account of the turbulent life of Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar and his inevitable demise, relates in riveting detail the cataclysmic effect one man can have on the world economy. Finally tracked down and killed in 1992 after a 15-month intense manhunt that had resulted in hundreds of casualties on both sides, Escobar was, ironically, that archetypal American hero, the outlaw, siding with "ordinary people" against the ruling oligarchy (although at his peak Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh-richest person in the world). His break came when the American drug of choice changed from dope to cocaine, a golden, or perhaps powdered, egg exploited by Escobar with resourceful manipulation of officials and politicians-he would offer the classic choice of his silver or his lead. Even when incarcerated at La Catedral prison on a smuggling charge, he turned it into a state within a state. The guards, the army and the police all fell within his pay and he led his operation with a quiet, well-mannered ruthlessness. Until, that is, the Americans took an interest. Bowden is well-equipped to describe the drawn-out campaign by the intelligence services to assassinate Escobar, having already covered similar territory in the superb Black Hawk Down, which chronicled the disastrous 1993 American operation in Mogadishu. His descriptions of the electronic surveillance that finally ensnared the hounded Don and the shady mutual interests of civilian militia group Los Pepes, the Colombian government forces and the US Delta unit that wore him down, are taut, dramatic and deeply thrilling. While he stops short of claiming that the Americans were present or active in the killing, he admits that Delta knew roughly where Escobar was and were dismissive of the electronic wizardry, pointing out that Escobar was eventually spotted by the naked eye. Though Escobar died, the circumstances he seized upon would be harder to expunge. [+]The troubling, concluding lines of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui come to mind, referring to a character based on Al Capone and Hitler but who could have been Escobar, "The bastard son is dead but the bitch is still on heat". -David Vincent.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-01-20
Dewey code: 362.196994490092
RRP: £17.95
Price: £14.25
Review The Secret History of a Woman Patient / Radcliffe Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-31
Dewey code: 370
RRP: £25.00
Price: £22.06
Review An Arduous Climb: From the Creeks of the Niger Delta to Leading Obstetrician and University Vice-Chancellor / Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1997-01
Dewey code: 929.20899162073
Price: £17.56
Review Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Wheeler Hardcover) / Wheeler Publishing:"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. " Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either-not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting clichés about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty, and frequent death and illness, and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings of a compelling memoir.
Publication date: 1998-06-08
Dewey code: 270.2092
RRP: £9.95
Price: £9.95
Review Manus O'Donnell's "Life of Colum Cille" / Four Courts Press Ltd:
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