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  Dream Homes - From Cairo to...

  Joyce Zonana

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  The American daughter of Egyptian Jewish immigrants journeys in search of belonging from Brazil to New Orleans and beyond—includes recipes and photos!   Born to Egyptian Sephardic Jews who fled to the United States after the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Joyce Zonana spent her childhood in Brooklyn. But her experience of Jewish culture was very different from that of the other children she knew, from the foods they ate to the language they spoke. As she struggled to find a sense of inclusion, never feeling completely American or completely Egyptian, a childhood trip to Brazil became the basis for a lifelong quest to find her place in the world.   Meeting members of her extended family who had migrated to Brazil was one step in discovering the kind of life she might have lived in Egypt, and exploring the woman she was becoming. Through travels that ranged from Cairo to Oklahoma and finally New Orleans in the shadow of Katrina, and including an evocative exploration of the way food varies from culture to culture, this is a “frank, spirited memoir of identity from a Brooklyn-raised, Egyptian-born Jewish feminist.” (Kirkus Reviews)   “Zonana makes every human encounter lively” —Booklist

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  Geoffrey Giuliano In...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  December 3, 1972 - The ladies collide professionally with Gary Glitter. The brief emergence of Ruth McCartney and talent! A reprehensible villain enters their lives. Managing Garry Glitter. Prince Charles and Paul McCartney. The explosive end of the ladies relationship with Beatle Paul. Angie loses her home. Angie calls Geoffrey an asshole and means it! Gary Glitter takes the ladies for a ride. Glitter goes bankrupt and the ladies stash his memorabilia in their garage. The ladies are homeless, broke and forced to sell their Beatles memorabilia. Paul is not amused. Angie applies for the dole and is asked why Paul won’t help. Sleeping on their luggage in a cold water flat. The ladies look bravely to the future.  Music by AudioNautix.

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  Isles at the Edge of the Sea

  Jonny Muir

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  Off the western seaboard of Scotland are hundreds of islands. Beginning on Arran, Jonny Muir sets out to explore these places with a single ambition: to reach the St Kilda archipelago, the islands at the edge of the world. On the way he attempts to finds his inner peace on Holy Island, takes part in a punishing foot race across the mountains of Jura, confronts the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye and walks the white-sand beach on Berneray. He encounters sharks and whales, discovers gory histories and follows in the footsteps of Boswell and Johnson, but island life is not without its challenges. 'Man-eating' midges live up to their reputation on Rum. An Atlantic storm threatens to rip his tent to shreds on Barra. Wicked weather lashes the Outer Hebrides, leaving his prospects of reaching St Kilda balanced on a knife-edge. An intensely personal account of a journey through some of Britain's most extraordinary landscapes. Complete with twenty five beautiful colour plates.

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  Beyond The Sea - A Wren at War

  Christina Lamb

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  Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War"A WW2 heroine." - Dan SnowChristian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren Officers to have served throughout the Second World War, from Blitz ravaged London, to the important Radar and Operations rooms and undertaking a vital role in D Day.Escaping both the Spanish Flu pandemic when she was born and the pandemic we are emerging from today, she has reached the impressive age of 101. Now she leads us through the story of her extraordinary life and the wartime experiences of her fellow Wrens.

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  Showgirls Teen Wolves and Astro...

  Michael Adams

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  "Michael Adams's book is great fun! No one intends to make a truly bad movie, but when they do, Michael Adams will be there to watch it...and make it entertaining!" —John Landis, director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers In Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, film critic Michael Adams embarks on a year-long odyssey to discover the worst movie ever made, which Mystery Science Theater 3000 star, writer, and director Kevin Murphy calls "disturbingly comprehensive, joyously critical, and the best of its kind." From all-time cult classics such as Reefer Madness and Plan 9 from Outer Space to new entries to the pantheon such as Gigli and Baby Geniuses, no genre, star, or director is safe from Adams’s acerbic wit and hilarious observations. In the vein of A.J. Jacobs’s New York Times bestselling book The Know-It-All, and with the snarky sarcasm of television’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Soup, Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies leaves no stone unturned. With a foreword by cult director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead).

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  Short Story Collection Vol 011

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s Short Story Collection 011: a collection of 10 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

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