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Therese, Catherine: The Weight of Silence: A Memoir
Book Number: 53076
Hachette May 1, 2009 8vo softcover 284pp near fine. A memoir about a girl who carries a shard of glass, votes for herself and believes in holding rain. THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE is the gravity of all the unsaids, the unseens, and how they shape our lives. A father s drinking, a mother s shame, a daughter s longing to hold onto a trouser leg to hear someone speak of what never happened.
Keywords: Careers The Weight of Silence A Memoir Therese Catherine
Price: $12.00 |
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Angier, Carole: Jean Rhys
Book Number: 53188
Penguin Books Ltd April 6, 1992 8vo softcover 784pp very good.
Keywords: American English Jean Rhys Angier Carole
Price: $12.00 |
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Sisia, Gemma - Signed.: St Jude's
Book Number: 53226
Pan Macmillan Australia, 2007. 8vo. softcover. 234pp. colour illus. near fine. A girl from Guyra, a school in Africa and the parton saint of hopeless causes.
Keywords: tanzania africa school children australian
Price: $18.00 |
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Wilson-Howarth, Jane: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Family's Journey of Love and Loss in Nepal
Book Number: 53330
Pier 9, Murdoch Books 2007 8vo softcover 432pp very good+. David, Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth's second son, was born with serious neurological disorders. Battle after battle with the medical profession,who had diagnosed David as severely retarded, forced the family to make a life changing decision. To stay in England, where David had access to the best medical services or return to Nepal, where they could make his shortnlife one worth living. Against huge opposition, they returned to Nepal and that's where this story of courage, love and beauty really begins. It's a shared story of adventure, colour and humanity. The shining thread that pulls the book together is their love for their `beautiful boy' and the disparity between the embarrassment they encountered back home to the Nepalese people's huge love and admiration for David's differences.
Keywords: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows A Family's Journey of Love and Loss in Nepal Wilson Howarth Jane
Price: $15.00 |
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Lanyon, Anna: The New World of Martin Cortes
Book Number: 53348
Allen & Unwin 2003 8vo. softcover. 272pp. index, b/w illus. very good+.
Keywords: spain spainish history mexico cortes aztec medieval renaissance
Price: $16.00 |
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Bauby, Jean-Dominique: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
Book Number: 53361
Vintage June 23, 1998 8vo softcover 131pp very good. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him.
Keywords: Biography/Autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly A Memoir of Life in Death Bauby Jean Dominique
Price: $12.00 |
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Shackleton, Shirley: Circle of Silence - A Personal Testament Before, During and After Balibo
Book Number: 53364
Non Basic Stock Line May 1, 2010 8vo softcover 320pp very good, po name on half title. Australian Shirley Shackleton was launched into an unexpected life as a human rights activist when her journalist-husband, Greg Shackleton, was killed in East Timor in 1975. Her story is filled with a profound sense of purpose, enduring love for her late husband, and a fierce determination to seek truth and justice not only regarding the events leading up to the murders of the journalists who came to be known as Balibo Five, but for the cause of democracy and freedom in East Timor.
Keywords: Biography Autobiography / General Circle of Silence Shackleton Shirley
Price: $12.00 |
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Witham, Madeleine: Ella. The real story of an ordinary mother's journey with her extraordinary child.
Book Number: 53376
Ark House Press, North Sydney 2009 8vo. softcover. 131p. b/w illus. Very good.
Keywords: Cornelia De Lange Syndrom children desease health biography
Price: $18.00 |
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Curtis, Vanessa: Virginia Woolf's Women
Book Number: 53370
SUTTON PUBLISHING May 22, 2003 8vo softcover 280pp near fine. This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the caregivers of her Victorian childhood who instilled in her a lifelong battle between creativity and convention: her taciturn sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; aristocratic novelist Vita Sackville-West; and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth. It has a foreword by Julia Briggs.
Keywords: English Virginia Woolf's Women Curtis Vanessa
Price: $12.00 |
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Carpenter, Humphrey: Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s
Book Number: 53488
Unwin Hyman Ltd, London, 1987. 8vo. hardcover. 246pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. /very good d/w.
Keywords: American Writers authors Paris 1920s
Price: $15.00 |
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