Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 306.70285
RRP: £14.95
Price: £2.93
Review Virtual Slut: I Was a Cybersex Addict by Screenseductress / Creation Books:
Publication date: 2007-07-12
Dewey code: 362.29092
Price: £16.99
Review All That Glitters / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2008-03-21
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.93
Review PERSIAN GIRLS: A Memoir / J P TARCHER/PENGUIN PUTNAM:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Dewey code: 363.470973
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.79
Review Traci Lords: Underneath It All / HarperCollins:Traci Lords: Underneath It All is the autobiography of the infamous porn starlet. Nora Kuzma was a troubled teenager from Steubenville, Ohio; Traci Lords was the underage glamour mag/porn queen who became the centerpiece of the adult-video industry's greatest scandal. In reality, they were one and the same, the subject of this slick, if thin autobiography. But what's striking here is not the familiar story line-confused, sexually abused teen falls in with drugs and the wrong Southern California crowd, forges fake IDs to become Penthouse Pet of the Month at 16 and the 80s hottest adult star, then arrested as focus of the Reagan administration's crackdown on porn, only to become reborn as cleaned-up, psychoanalysed/rehabed purveyor of legitimate film, TV and music career. Rather, what's striking is Lords' capacity for denial, compartmentalisation and myopia when it serves her own ends. Her scandalous tenure in the porn trade-undeniably the sole basis for her infamy and subsequent legitimate career-is glossed over here in a few dozen pages, with more attention paid to the heavy-metal musicians that dotted her life than the motivations and machinations of the Feds who literally changed her life; Slash's snake gets more ink here than Attorney General Ed Meese. Quick to ladle generous sympathy on her own plight, she heaps little but scorn upon those from the seedy past of her porn-star alter-ego, yet seems to have had few qualms about formally adopting that moniker as her legal name. Many of her former cohorts in the adult industry (some of whom were jailed as targets of Federal law enforcement and tax probes related to her case) have long claimed that Lords was little more than a scheming careerist, and a careful reading of her own words does little to undermine their case. There are indeed many insights to Lords's troubled life here, with more than a few lurking between the lines. -Jerry McCulley, Amazon. [+]com.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-06-24
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.16
Price: £4.02
Review Hack: How I Stopped Worrying about What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab / Villard Books:
Creator: F. Lyra
Publication date: 1995-06-27
Dewey code: 186.4
RRP: £23.95
Price: £38.95
Review Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity) / Harvard University Press:
Publication date: 2007-06-21
RRP: £13.00
Price: £10.73
Review Pholomolo: No Man No Woman / iUniverse.com:
Publication date: 1999-11
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.43
Price: £6.96
Review A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer / Bantam:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 704.042
RRP: £11.95
Price: £5.96
Review Women, Art and Society (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-05-04
Dewey code: 818.5409
RRP: £16.33
Price: £2.99
Review Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir / Jeremy P. Tarcher:
Publication date: 2004-09-13
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.45
Review Joyce Grenfell: My Kind of Magic - A Scrapbook / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-01-01
RRP: £19.95
Price: £131.05
Review Why Jonny Can'T Come Home / Johnny Gosch Foundation:
Authors
- Lucy Ellis
- Bryony Sutherland
Publication date: 2002-06-11
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £9.95
Price: £8.59
Review Annie Lennox: The Biography / Omnibus Press:
Publication date: 1996-11-15
Dewey code: 291.4092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.43
Review Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking up from the Story of My Life / Joan Tollifson. / Random House USA Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2008-03-06
Dewey code: 843.7
RRP: £45.00
Price: £34.64
Review Madame De Stael: The Dangerous Exile / OUP Oxford:
Creator: Charlotte Mosley
Publication date: 2007-11
Dewey code: 920.720941
Price: £26.14
Review The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters / Harper:
Publication date: 1997-05-01
Dewey code: 305
RRP: £10.00
Price: £8.45
Review Fiona's Story / Virago Press Ltd:
Creator: Jim Haskins
Publication date: 2001-10-31
Dewey code: 608.996073
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.12
Review African American Women Scientists and Inventors (Black Stars) / Jossey Bass:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-09-15
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History / O'Brien Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-06-15
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.29
Review I Wish I Was: A True Story of Fear and Rejection, Hope and Redemption / Authentic:
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