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*Ten Degrees of Reckoning*
In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered course and changed everything. This is the incredible true story of one family's love, loss, and a remarkable woman who decided to live against all odds. |
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*Looking for Love* |
Her mother named her after a beautiful plantation in Jamaica. But Sugar has seen little beauty in her young life. After her step-father was gunned down in front of her and her mother fled to England, Sugar and her little brothers were left in Jamaica at the mercy of a voodoo-practicing hooker. When she finally managed to join her mother in England, Sugar was plunged into the ferocious world of illegal immigrants and forced to peddle drugs, before being abandoned again. The care system only taught her how to survive in a tough world, stealing and using drugs. Pregnant, but wanting a future for herself and her child, Sugar stumbled across Kids Company. There she met an extraordinary woman whose care and untiring dedication would allow her to rebuild her life and face the future with hope. Sugar's story is not just an unforgettable account of one of society's most vulnerable children; it is also a powerful call-to-arms for anyone who believes that every child deserves the chance of a happy life. |
*Border Town* |
Originally published in 1934, 'Border Town' tells the story of Cuicui, a young country girl who is coming of age during a time of national turmoil. The granddaughter of a poor ferryman, Cuicui grows up in Chadong, a small town in China's exotic south western frontier, where she is sheltered from the warlord fighting that was prevalent in China in the 1920s. Like any teenager, Cuicui dreams of romance and finding true love. She's caught up in the spell of the local custom of nighttime serenades, but she is also haunted by her grandfather's aging and imminent death. Both Cuicui and her grandfather know that she must find a husband who will take care of her once her grandfather is gone. Cuicui is pursued by two brothers - strong and brusque Tianbao, whose name means 'Heaven-protected', and his younger brother Nuosong ('Sent by the Nuo Gods') who is known for the fineness of his face and voice. Not wholly bound by the dictates of arranged marriage, Cuicui is prepared to make her choice based on love, but she is confounded by fate and her grandfather, who wishes for her to mature on her own. |
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*A Freewheelin' Time* |
The long awaited memoir by the woman who was Bob Dylan's girlfriernd in the early sixties... 'I met Bob Dylan in 1961 when I was seventeen years old and he was twenty...' Thus begins Suze Rotolo's wonderfully romantic story of their sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair and its eventual collapse under the pressure of Dylan's growing fame. It is Rotolo who is pictured with Dylan on the famous and iconic sleeve of his album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. She has never written about her time with him, and this memoir is therefore very eagerly anticipated. Set during the time when Dylan was writing the soundtrack to the cultural revolution of the 1960s, this is a unique and remarkable narrative of a place and time when art, culture and politics all seemed to be conspiring to make America freer, better and more equitable. With a supporting cast that includes Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez and Andy Warhol, this is the book not only Dylan fans but also anyone fascinated by the sixties will have been waiting for. In hardback A Freewheelin' Time attracted ubiquitous press coverage. Suze Rotolo is an artist who lives in New York City with her family. |
*Thank Heaven* |
Spotted by Gene Kelly in Paris when she was just 17 and a member of Roland Petit's legendary ballet company, Leslie Caron became an overnight sensation when Kelly brought her to Hollywood to co-star with him in An American in Paris. She recalls the days of all-night parties where Judy Garland would try out her songs, Gregory Peck smiled at you on the sidewalk, the Duke of Windsor turned up to watch the filming, and Elizabeth Taylor came to supper. The toast of the town, Leslie Caron went on to star in a series of famous films which she writes about with endearing candour, including such classics as Lili, Daddy Long Legs with Fred Astaire, Gigi, with Maurice Chevalier, Fanny, and the L-Shaped Room. However, her story starts in occupied Paris, and she describes vividly her family's changing fortunes under the Germans and her early successes as a young ballerina in Paris before her move to Hollywood. Never less than frank, Caron talks about the many men in her life - including her second husband Peter Hall and Warren Beatty, with whom she had a two-year love affair; nor does she shrink from describing her more recent battles with alcoholism and depression and - movingly - her triumphant recovery and continuing success in television and films including Damage and Chocolat. With friends that have included Jean Renoir, Vincent Minelli and Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron's story is essential reading for Leslie Caron fans and film fans alike. Leslie Caron starred in classic films such as Gigi and An American in Paris and still works as an actress, appearing in films such as Chocolat and Damage. She lives in France where she has a home in Paris and an Auberge in Burgundy. |
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*Up for Renewal* |
This is the story of a recently divorced, eternally hopeful woman in her 30s who decides to turn her life around with the how-to-wisdom gained from today's woman's magazines. For the next twelve months, men fall at her feet, stains miraculously disappear with apple vinegar, coworkers crumble with the firm shaking of a pen, and wardrobes defy even the staunchest edict of hemline. Well, that was at least the premise of the yearlong social experiment. In the end, what she learns is this: The only constant thing in life is change. To truly grow is to suffer transition - out of a damaging relationship, a rotten job, the illness of a loved one. Funny, relatable and genuine, UP FOR RENEWAL explores the hilarious (and ultimately moving) uncharted territory of life by the book - or by the magazine. |
*One Sweet Moment* |
It's 1820s Edinburgh. Since losing their parents, Kate and Andrew have been living with their cold-hearted aunt and uncle within the vaults of the city's South Bridge. Worked relentlessly by day and tormented at night, Kate has little chance to dream of the future until the day Richard Hope walks into her life. Wealthy, upper-class and studying to become a doctor, Richard knows that he and Kate come from very different worlds, but as soon as he lays eyes upon her, he knows she is the girl for him. Instantly smitten, Richard vows to do whatever it takes to spend his time with her. Set against a richly evoked historical background, 'One Sweet Moment' beautifully captures the struggle of young love to survive against all odds. |
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*Edwin and Matilda* |
This beautifully written novel by Laurence Fearnley is about finding love in the most unlikely of places. Set in the southern South Island, it describes the unusual friendship formed between 62-year-old photographer Edwin and 22-year-old Matilda, whom he meets when shooting photographs for her wedding. Brought together, Edwin and Matilda embark on a search for Edwin's mother, a woman he has long believed dead. The journey involves a series of telling, sometimes agonising, discoveries by Edwin - all the while with Matilda by his side. Along the journey, Edwin and Matilda develop an increasingly intense relationship, one which grows in ways neither of them could possibly have predicted. |
*The Lost Mother* |
The Lost Mother is a poignant, interweaving narrative about author Anne Summers' relationship with her mother, Eileen Hogan, told through her search for a lost painting of her mother as a child. In 1933, the artist Constance Parkin saw Summers' mother, a ten-year-old schoolgirl, at Mass one Sunday morning in Brighton.
Evidently attracted by something about the young girl's features, Parkin asked if she might paint her portrait. Over the next few months, Parkin painted two portraits of Eileen: Alice, in which the schoolgirl holds a large Alice in Wonderland book; and A Saint, a religious painting in which the young girl is draped in fabric so as to appear like the Madonna.
Alice was eventually purchased by Summers' grandmother from the Catholic Archdiocese in 1970. The whereabouts of A Saint remain unknown. Summers' search for the painting is simultaneously an intriguing literary mystery and a touching attempt to bring closure and understanding to her turbulent relationship with her mother. |
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*Come on Shore |
What happens when two utterly different cultures meet and then collide? Beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and Cook's circumnavigation in 1770, this compelling account explores many of the themes and episodes of New Zealand's early history, from the establishment of the first Christian mission, to the annexation of New Zealand by the British, to the beginnings of the Maori rebellion and the outbreak of the Maori Wars. But this book goes beyond New Zealand's history to the heart of a present-day mixed marriage in which these two cultural and historical strands are intertwined. It is at once a cross-cultural love story and a search for understanding about what happens when two cultures collide. Transporting us back and forth in time and around the world, from Australia to Hawaii to tribal New Zealand and finally to a house in New England that has ghosts of its own, 'Come on Shore' brings to life a lush variety of characters and gorgeous settings. Christina Thompson seamlessly blends memoir, anthropology, romance, travelogue and history to reveal the ways in which the past is alive in all of us. |
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*Peyton Place* |
First published in 1956, PEYTON PLACE uncovers the passions, lies and cruelties that simmer beneath the surface of a postcard-perfect town. At the centre of the novel are three women, each with a secret to hide: Constance MacKenzie, the original desperate housewife; her daughter Allison, whose dreams are stifled by small-town small-mindedness; and Selena Cross, her gypsy-eyed friend from the wrong side of the tracks. PEYTON PLACE shocked America with its tale of secrets, sex and hypocrisy in a small New Hampshire town . . Saucy, compelling, and surprisingly literary... A crafty, page-turning brew of illicit sex, secret lives, public drunkenness, abortion, incest and murder... A scandalous phenomenon VANITY FAIR |
*That Summer in Sicily* |
From the national bestselling author of 'A Thousand Days in Venice' and 'A Thousand Days in Tuscany' comes a magical, beautifully-written true story of life, love, and the magic of Sicily. |
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*Hurry Down Sunshine* |
A 'Time' Best Book of the Year, this mesmerizing account tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of 15, Greenberg's daughter, Sally, was struck mad. Unsentimental and deeply humane, this work chronicles Sally's journey into and out of psychiatric wards and its effect on those closest to her. |
*Somewhere in Heaven* |
By turns heartbreaking, uplifting, and compelling, 'Somewhere in Heaven' is more than just a portrait of a marriage between Dana and Christopher Reeve. It is the profoundly human story of two souls whose brief lives made a difference. |
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*Desire Turned Deadly* |
McMurray recounts the story of Kara Beth Borden, a home-schooled teenager from a Christian fundamentalist family whose boyfriend, David Ludwig, was sentenced to life in prison for killing her parents. photos. Original. |
*Broken* |
A journalist suffering from a broken heart documents her spiritual transformation through her work with an Arapahoe medicine man and horse trainer, in this captivating and beautifully rendered memoir. |
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