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  Pound for Pound - A Story of One...

  Shannon Kopp

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  "The dogs don't judge me or give me a motivational speech. They don't rush me to heal or grow. They sit in my lap and lick my face and make me feel chosen. And sometimes, it hits me hard that I'm doing the exact thing I say I cannot do. Changing."Pound for Pound is an inspirational tale about one woman's journey back to herself, and a heartfelt homage to the four-legged heroes who unexpectedly saved her life.For seven years, Shannon Kopp battled the silent, horrific, and all-too-common disease of bulimia. Then, at twenty-four, she got a job working at the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA, where in caring for shelter dogs, she found the inspiration to heal and the courage to forgive herself. With the help of some extraordinary homeless animals, Shannon realized that her suffering was the birthplace of something beautiful. Compassion.Shannon's poignant memoir is a story of hope, resilience, and the spiritual healing animals bring to our lives. Pound for Pound vividly reminds us that animals are more than just friends and companions — they can teach us how to savor the present moment and reclaim our joy.

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  A Hot-Eyed Moderate - Essays

  Jane Rule

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  The essays in this inspiring collection analyze the craft of writing and the art of living and loving    Jane Rule shares her insights into the creative process, sexual fidelity, feminist politics, and the transformative power of love.      Part I—“On Writing”—dispenses advice (writing is “a craft that has to be practiced”); offers observations (“The creative process in any art takes time”); and dissects the writer-publisher relationship, both feminist and traditional. Part II—“Writing for the Gay Press”—discusses, among other things, what it means to be a lesbian writer.   With chapters like “The Myth of Genital Jealousy” and “You Cannot Judge a Pumpkin’s Happiness by the Smile Upon Its Face,” this collection shatters common myths such as why you should always write about what you know. There are also moving pieces about Rule’s grandmother, artists who have influenced Rule, and what it is to be human and female in your time. From censorship to morality in literature to how men and women can live together in peace, A Hot-Eyed Moderate is Jane Rule at her provocative best.  

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  A Girl Named Zippy

  Haven Kimmel

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  This Today Show book club selection is now available on audio.Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds her.Kimmel takes listeners back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period: people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

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  Rock Meet Window - A Father-Son...

  Jason Good

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  A dying man’s son reflects on their relationship and fatherhood as he considers how to raise his own two boys in this funny, poignant memoir. 
   
  Humorist and family-man Jason Good is an only child with an atypical story to tell. His isn’t the usual rant about how hard it is to be a modern father or a tale about a damaging relationship with his father. Jason grew up with a charismatic, communicative, affectionate, and frustrated political science professor for a father—a man who taught him most everything about how to be a dad, how to live. Jason was figuring out how to parent his own two young boys when his dad was diagnosed with cancer and told he had nine months to live. That moment, and the year that followed, inspired Jason to tell the story of something he had always taken for granted: how his father had earned his true friendship and admiration in adulthood by the way he had parented him to manhood. 
   
  Rock, Meet Window shows how an imperfect father can be perfection in all the ways that matter in the end, moving us to alternately hoot and become misty-eyed through his retelling of the friction points and lessons learned. Ultimately, this book inspires us to reconsider our own relationships and to appreciate the power of fatherhood. 
   
  “A vantage point on the average American family that is sweet, funny, and deep. Good builds a world you want to linger in for a while and a family you root for until the very end.” —Parents Magazine

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  Letters to Camondo

  Edmund de Waal

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  "With deep appreciation for Camondo's generosity and taste, de Waal takes listeners on a journey they won't forget." -- AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by the authorA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de CamondoLetters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art.The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, “the Rothschilds of the East,” who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society, as well as being targets of antisemitism—much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with art for his son, Nissim; after Nissim was killed in the First World War, the house was bequeathed to the French state. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis.After de Waal, one of the world’s greatest ceramic artists, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  Dwellings of the Damned - 15...

  Robert Arthur, E.F. Benson, A....

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  A collection of stories concerning shunned and disreputable houses. 
  Contents: 
  Nobody's House by A. M. Burrage (1927) 
  The history of a haunted house. 
  A Night of Horror by Dick Donovan (1899) 
  A haunted castle in the hills of Wales. 
  The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson (1912) 
  A recurring nightmare. 
  The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White (1906) 
  A night at a remote country house. 
  The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft (1937) 
  An abandoned house in Providence. 
  The Red Lodge by H. Russell Wakefield (1928) 
  A dreadful rental experience. 
  The Specter Priestess of Wrightstone by Herman F. Wright (1925) 
  A legend surrounding an English castle. 
  The Secret of the Vault by J. Wesley Rosenquest (1938) 
  A charnel chamber beneath an old house. 
  Black Was the Night by Laurence Bour, Jr. (1940) 
  An encounter in a crumbling house. 
  Six Flights to Terror by Manly Banister (1946) 
  How do you bury a building? 
  Up Under the Roof by M. W. Wellman (1938) 
  Something stalks the space between the roof-peak and the ceiling. 
  The Believers by Robert Arthur (1941) 
  A radio host broadcasts from a crumbling, haunted mansion. 
  Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard (1938) 
  A deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons. 
  The Ghost of a Hand by Sheridan Le Fanu (1863) 
  A house haunted by a partially visible ghost. 
  Dark Mummery by Thorp McClusky (1944) 
  Beware of 'reputedly' haunted houses.

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