Saturday, December 31, 2005

Better Off Wed

Better Off Wed

Better Off Wed

The murder of a particularly difficult mother-of-the-bride has cast a pall on wedding planner Annabelle Archer's latest triumph -- and suspicion falls heavily on her sometime-business partner and friend Richard Gerard. Annabelle knows that even her trusted wedding emergency kit won't be able to salvage their careers if she and Richard can't find the real culprit. It's no easy task since the slain matron was perhaps the most hated socialite in D.C., but Annabelle navigates through the city's colorful wedding industry and powerful social scene on the deadly trail of a killer. Always the bridal consultant and never the bride, she's seen her fair share of bouquet tosses. But there's no telling what surprises a ruthless killer will throw her way if she gets too close.

ISBN: 1585476455
Author: Laura Durham
Publisher: Center Point
Rating: 3.54

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Saturday, December 3, 2005

You re Better Off Dead

You re Better Off Dead

You re Better Off Dead

Mark Preston was hired to trace General Hudson's grandson, but the case took a twist when he found there were stolen paintings involved. But the real trouble came when a weedy hopeful began to sell his daubing for big prices, and when beautiful Claire Hotchkiss came onto the scene. She was no connoisseur of art but she was not without talent either, as Preston hoped to discover - if he lived long enough.

ISBN: 1843952041
Author: Peter Chambers
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Rating: 2.00

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Friday, December 2, 2005

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised). Severely traumatized by this experience, she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying desperately through psychotherapy - she is treated by disciples of both Freud and C.G. Jung, and even by Jung himself - to regain the ability to recognize her own reality and to feel. It is only with the help of the most unlikely ally she can imagine that she begins to study the mythological "reasons" invented by her ancient ancestors for what was done to her and to millions of other women and girls over thousands of years. As her understanding grows, so does her capacity to encounter her overwhelming grief. Underneath this grief is her glowing anger. Anger propels her to act. Action brings both feeling - life, the ability to exist with awareness in the moment - and death, of which she finds she has completely lost her fear.

While not a sequel to The Color Purple or The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy follows the life of a barely-glimpsed character from those books. Combining fact and fiction, communing with the spirits of the living and the dead, Alice Walker in this novel strikes with graceful power at the heart of one of the most controversial issues of our time.

ISBN: 0671789457
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Rating: 4.05

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Thursday, December 1, 2005

Slim Aarons: A Place in the Sun

Slim Aarons: A Place in the Sun

Slim Aarons: A Place in the Sun

Slim Aarons made a career, in his words, photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. His subjects were the beautiful and the celebrated, the rich and the powerful, the talented and the privileged, high society and aristocracy. Slim Aarons captured their image for the picture magazines of the 1940s - '90s, and, in so doing so, defined the image of the Beautiful People - the post-war international Jet Set. Aarons always shows his subjects in their natural setting, in a circumstance synonymous with their station in life, and in so doing, he gained their trust and a most precious thing - access. And so he was welcomed into the exclusive precincts of the world's elite, in essence attaining the status of court photographer. The images included here are the fruit of that access.

ISBN: 0810959356
Author: Slim Aarons
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Rating: 4.17

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Alice Walker: A Life

Alice Walker: A Life

Alice Walker: A Life

Alice Walker's life is remarkable not only because she was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (the book that won her that award, The Color Purple, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and made into an Academy Award–nominated film), but also because these accomplishments are merely highlights of a luminous and varied career made from inauspicious beginnings in rural Georgia. Drawing on extensive interviews and exhaustive research, Evelyn C. White brings this life to light.

ISBN: 0393328260
Author: Evelyn C. White
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Rating: 4.04

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

High School Girls Volume 5 (High School Girls)

High School Girls Volume 5 (High School Girls)

High School Girls Volume 5 (High School Girls)

ISBN: 1597960586
Author: Towa Oshima
Publisher: Dr. Master Productions Inc.
Rating: 4.21

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

High School Girls: Volume 4

High School Girls: Volume 4

High School Girls: Volume 4

Stool samples, lingerie and breast-feeding in public. Are our favorite ladies from the all-girls high school ready for such things? You won't know until you read the next surprising volume of High School Girls.

ISBN: 1597960845
Author: Towa Oshima
Publisher: Dr. Master Productions Inc.
Rating: 4.07

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Friday, July 1, 2005

No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism

No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism

No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism

The first English translation of Guérin’s monumental anthology of anarchism, published here in one volume. It details a vast array of unpublished documents, letters, debates, manifestos, reports, impassioned calls-to-arms and reasoned analysis; the history, organization and practice of the movement—its theorists, advocates and activists; the great names and the obscure, towering legends and unsung heroes.

This definitive anthology portrays anarchism as a sophisticated ideology whose nuances and complexities highlight the natural desire for freedom in all of us. The classical texts will re-establish anarchism as both an intellectual and practical force to be reckoned with. Includes writings by Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, Berkman, Bakunin, Proudhon, and Malatesta.

Daniel Guérin was the author of Anarchism: From Theory to Practice.

In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.



ISBN: 1904859259
Author: Daniel Guérin
Publisher: AK Press
Rating: 4.08

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

High School Girls: Volume 3

High School Girls: Volume 3

High School Girls: Volume 3

When Yuma's younger sister enrolls in the same high school, the older sibling and her friends are plagued with a new set of problems, as the younger sister begins to gossip and spread rumors about Yuma and Eriko.

ISBN: 1588992020
Author: Towa Oshima
Publisher: ComicsOne Corporation
Rating: 4.11

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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution

Remember the days of longing for the hands on the classroom clock to move faster? Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Why is that? What happens to creativity and individuality as we pass through the educational system?

Walking on Water is a startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity, and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization. This time Derrick Jensen brings us into his classroom--whether college or maximum security prison--where he teaches writing. He reveals how schools perpetuate the great illusion that happiness lies outside of ourselves and that learning to please and submit to those in power makes us into lifelong clock-watchers. As a writing teacher Jensen guides his students out of the confines of traditional education to find their own voices, freedom, and creativity.

Jensen's great gift as a teacher and writer is to bring us fully alive at the same moment he is making us confront our losses and count our defeats. It is at the center of Walking on Water, a book that is not only a hard-hitting and sometimes scathing critique of our current educational system and not only a hands-on method for learning how to write, but, like Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, a lesson on how to connect to the core of our creative selves, to the miracle of waking up and arriving breathless (but with dry feet) on the far shore.

ISBN: 1931498784
Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Rating: 4.22

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Monday, April 4, 2005

High School Girls: Volume 2

High School Girls: Volume 2

High School Girls: Volume 2

Life at an all-girls school is not quite what its cracked up to be. This volume brings even more tension between the" insiders" and "outsiders." It ain't all "sugar and spice and everything nice" at Yamasaki High!

ISBN: 1588992012
Author: Towa Oshima
Publisher: ComicsOne Corporation
Rating: 3.57

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

High School Girls: Volume 1

High School Girls: Volume 1

High School Girls: Volume 1

A true life account of the author's experience attending an all-girl private high school. Eriko, Yuma, and Ayano are three buddies about to enter the all-girl Yamasaki Private High School. Watch as their dreams and fantasies of the "sophisticated high class school" get crushed by reality. As the students come of age we witness their search for love, sexual controversy, and the rivalry between cliques.

ISBN: 1588992004
Author: Towa Oshima
Publisher: ComicsOne Corporation
Rating: 3.46

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Friday, March 18, 2005

Endless Love

Endless Love

Endless Love

Engaging a range of emotions from sorrow to joy, Endless Love offers a collection of verse that takes into account the types of challenges a person might confront while striving to achieve a sense of wholeness or kinship in a sometimes confusing modern world. I draw upon my own experiences, blending observation with a concept of human nature, which I frequently underscore with a spiritual approach. I open with "One Way Highway," employing a tavern setting and the image of a road, as part of a metaphor for the twists and turns that a life's path might take, especially when an addiction may be involved. Endless Love closes with a pair of expressions that draw upon notions of history and pagan belief, in an effort to place earthly attraction into alternate contexts, characterizing such exchange in terms of what may be viewed as a natural life cycle.

ISBN: 1413760791
Author: Corinna Ann Rose
Publisher: America Star Books
Rating: 0.00

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

The ABC of Anarchism

The ABC of Anarchism

The ABC of Anarchism

A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assassination, he was expelled to the Soviet Union, a country which he eventually renounced. But before his repudiation of the Soviet system, Berkman attempted to answer some of the charges made against anarchism and to present its case clearly and intelligently. This book, first published in 1929, is the result of those efforts.
Thorough and well stated, The ABC of Anarchism is today widely regarded as a classic declaration of the movement's goals and methods. For those who have questions about anarchism, Berkman provides lucid answers. In conversational tones, he discusses society as it existed in the early twentieth century; why in his opinion, anarchy was necessary; the myths surrounding it; and necessary preparations for its successful implementation.
Of the book, Emma Goldman said: "People need a primer of Anarchism—an ABC, as it were, that would teach them the rudimentary principles of Anarchism and whet their appetites for something more profound. [The book] was intended to serve this purpose. That it has fulfilled its purpose no one who has read [it] will deny."

ISBN: 0486433692
Author: Alexander Berkman
Publisher: Dover Publications
Rating: 3.91

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