Creator: Anthony Robbins
Publication date: 2002-10-24
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.79
Review The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer: Living with Purpose and Passion / Piatkus Books:
Publication date: 2006-01-05
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.45
Review Berserk in the Antarctic: Sailing to the World's Most Uninhabitable Continent / Summersdale Publishers:
Publication date: 2004-09-29
Dewey code: 616
RRP: £7.00
Price: £2.99
Review I've Got Cancer, But it Hasn't Got Me: Rising to the Challenge of Breast Cancer / Veritas Publications:
Publication date: 2005-04-04
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.37
Review The Choice: The True Story of a Mother Fighting for Her Life - And Her Child / Harper Element:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-27
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family / Orion:"Winter 1970, Daly City, California-I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on the top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head is tilted backward. My hands became numb hours ago. My neck and shoulder muscles begin to throb. But that's nothing new-I've learned to turn off the pain. I'm Mother's prisoner. " In The Lost Boy, the sequel to Dave Pelzer's bestselling A Child Called It, Dave recounts the final days with his "family" before the intervention of a schoolteacher led to his being removed from hell and taken into foster care. As Pelzer explains, A Child Called It was told from the perspective of a child aged from 4 to 12; The Lost Boy recounts his years from 12 to 18. [+]The earlier account documents the extraordinary, painful and moving story of this young boy's "lifeless" existence with his alcoholic, abusive mother and a father who was so cowed by his sadistic wife that he could not help his son. Like its predecessor, Pelzer's account of his adolescant years is no easy read, as he takes us through the mixed, mixed-up world of the US care system, relentlessly pursued by his mother, to a final peace of sorts with a caring series of foster parents. An important, raw and exposing book, the Lost Boy's message is, as Pelzer quotes, that "it takes a community to save a child". -Kate Weaver.
Publication date: 2008-07-03
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.69
Review Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can be Really Distracting: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting / Virago Press Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 364.15230942837
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.74
Review Rachel - A Stolen Life: The Killing of Rachel Moran / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 904
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.57
Review Coming Back Alive / Griffin,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-04-17
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01
Review Unbroken Spirit: A true story of a girl's struggle to escape from abuse: The True Story of a Girl's Struggle to Break Free / Hodder Paperback:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-01-31
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £12.95
Price: £5.36
Review Desperate Voyage / Sheridan House:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1994-10-03
Dewey code: 971.91
Price: £9.99
Review Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 / McClelland & Stewart Inc.:
Price: £9.68
Review Life on the Edge:
Publication date: 2007-08-02
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.01
Review For a House Made of Stone: Gina'sstory / Vision:
Publication date: 2006-09-01
Dewey code: 918.412
RRP: £17.50
Price: £8.86
Review Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival / Boomerang New Media:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.30
Review Sky Burial / Chatto & Windus:In the world of fiction reviewing, extraordinary is an over-used word. Yet there really is no other way to describe Chinese author Xinran's second book, Sky Burial. It is extraordinary in so many ways-the subject matter, the setting, the central character, but mostly its authenticity and the author's continuing search for the woman whose life is told here. Sky Burial is the true story of a Chinese woman's 30-year search through Tibet for news of her lost, presumed dead, husband. Xinran is working as a radio journalist on a women's programme when a listener calls in to tell her about Shuwen. Xinran travels hundreds of miles across China to interview her and, over two days, Shuwen opens her heart and reveals her tragic, scarcely imaginable life story. Xinran returns to her life and spends the subsequent 10 years trying to find Shuwen again, researching her story and writing this book-a homage to an ordinary woman's extraordinary life-long search for the truth. The story is a simple one: Shuwen meets her intelligent, idealistic husband-to-be while they are both training to be doctors. After less than 100 days of marriage, Kejun travels to Tibet as a Chinese army doctor and before long, Shuwen is notified that he has died in an "incident". Shuwen decides to join the army herself, travel to Tibet and find out if he really is dead, and if so, how and why he died. [+]And then, as if travelling to a closed country like Tibet as a young woman in the 1950s is not difficult enough, Shuwen quickly becomes separated from her unit and, close to death herself, is taken in by a family of Tibetan nomads. Her transformation from Chinese doctor to nomadic Buddhist is a long, painful and at many turns, deeply distressing one. Sky Burial is a slight book-little more than an extended short story-and yet the ground it covers is immense, not just because of the fascinating glimpse it offers into a land and a people still largely unknown in the West. Despite its tragic themes of loss and survival in one of the world's harshest landscapes, it is an uplifting tale of unwavering loyalty and immeasurable inner strength. -Carey Green.
Authors
- Don Stephens
- Lynda Rutledge Stephenson
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.90
Review Ships of Mercy / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2008-03-03
Dewey code: 362.1968520092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.92
Review The Butterfly Girl / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-13
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea / Fourth Estate:Meteorologists called the storm that hit North America's eastern seaboard in October 1991 a "perfect storm" because of the rare combination of factors that created it. For everyone else, it was perfect hell. In The Perfect Storm, author Sebastian Junger conjures for the reader the meteorological conditions that created the "storm of the century" and the impact the storm had on many of the people caught in it. Chief among these are the six crew members of the swordfish boat the Andrea Gail, all of whom were lost 500 miles from home beneath roiling seas and high waves. Working from published material, radio dialogues, eyewitness accounts and the experiences of people who have survived similar events, Junger attempts to re-create the last moments of the Andrea Gail as well as the perilous high-seas rescues of other victims of the storm. Like a Greek drama, The Perfect Storm builds slowly and inexorably to its tragic climax. The book weaves the history of the fishing industry and the science of predicting storms into the quotidian lives of those aboard the Andrea Gail and of others who would soon find themselves in the fury of the storm. Junger does a remarkable job of explaining a convergence of meteorological and human events in terms that make them both comprehensible and unforgettable. -Christine Buttery.
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.94
Review Hidden: Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy Overcame the Odds. / Harper Element:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-01-12
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.69
Review Kingdoms Of Experience / Canongate Books:
| Models & Brands:
The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer: Living with Purpose and Passion, Berserk in the Antarctic: Sailing to the World's Most Uninhabitable Continent, I've Got Cancer, But it Hasn't Got Me: Rising to the Challenge of Breast Cancer, The Choice: The True Story of a Mother Fighting for Her Life - And Her Child, The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can be Really Distracting: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting, Rachel - A Stolen Life: The Killing of Rachel Moran, Coming Back Alive, Unbroken Spirit: A true story of a girl's struggle to escape from abuse: The True Story of a Girl's Struggle to Break Free, Desperate Voyage, Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899, Life on the Edge, For a House Made of Stone: Gina'sstory, Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival, Sky Burial, Ships of Mercy, The Butterfly Girl, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea, Hidden: Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy Overcame the Odds., Kingdoms Of Experience |
