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  There Are Worse Things I Could Do

  Adrienne Barbeau

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  Adrienne Barbeau never set out to be a sex symbol and she never planned on giving birth to twins when she was 51 but both those stories and a lot more are detailed in this witty, revealing memoir. 
  From her early years as one of the first Go-Go girls in New York (“No one said Mafia out loud in those days. There was always the fear you wouldn’t live to say anything else.”) to starring on Broadway in Grease (“Alexander Cohen swore the only way we’d win a Tony was over his dead body”) Adrienne tells tales about her two hit television series (Maude and Carnivale), her many television and feature films (The Fog, Escape From New York, Cannonball Run, Swamp Thing, Creepshow), and her singing career (“Doc Severinson and the band had been in the audience during my nude foray off-Broadway in Stag Movie”).  With humour and fearlessness, she shares her romance with a superstar, her marriage to a famous film director, her marriage to a much younger man and her successful battle with infertility.
  ©2006 Codysmom, Inc.; (P)2006 Codysmom, Inc.

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  Anton Chekhov - Six of the Best...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
   1 - Six of the Best - Anton Chekov - An Introduction 
  2 - Anton Chekhov - An Introduction 
  3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov 
  5 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov 
  6 - Misery by Anton Chekhov 
  7 - The Student by Anton Chekhov 
  8 - Volodya by Anton Chekhov

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  Living to Die - Dying to Live

  Michael McLenaghan

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  From the chimneys at age four, then onto the tanks as a boy soldier and the heights as a paratrooper, from multiple immigrations to prison walls—this is a story of extraordinary resilience spanning eight decades.
  
  Now facing Parkinson's disease, multiple dementias, strokes, and diabetes, the author draws upon seven decades of survival skills to navigate a healthcare system that has failed him. Behind locked ward doors, he encounters violence, abuse, and systemic failures that would break most people.
  
  But this is not a story of defeat. It's the account of someone who has mastered the art of escape and evasion—not just from physical dangers, but from systems designed to strip away dignity, wealth, and hope.
  
  A raw, unflinching memoir that exposes the hidden failures of our care institutions while celebrating the unbreakable human spirit that refuses to surrender.
  
  "When the system fails you, survival becomes an art form."

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  Not Going Alone - A Hospice...

  Penny Terrell

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  Hospice nurse Penny Terrell has walked alongside countless people in their final moments-holding hands, offering comfort, and witnessing scenes she could never explain. Moments when the dying reach out to loved ones long gone. When they smile at an unseen presence. When they speak to mothers, fathers, children, and even pets who have been absent for decades.In Not Going Alone, Penny shares these stories-not as proof or persuasion, but as a collection of experiences too beautiful to forget. From a boy who saw his sister with her favorite teddy bear, to an elderly woman greeting her mother on a birthday eighty years too late, these accounts cross boundaries of belief, culture, and age.Told with compassion and humility, these stories offer comfort to the grieving, hope to the fearful, and wonder to the curious. They remind us that death may not always be an ending-it is a moment of connection that reaches beyond the veil.If you have ever sat by a loved one's bedside and felt something you could not explain, Not Going Alone will speak to you.

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  Jailing the Johnstown Judge -...

  Bruce Siwy

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  In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly remarried, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench . . .  
   
   
   
  Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels, and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander." Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies. 
   
   
   
  Set in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood and including courtroom testimony, the memos of whistleblowers, contemporary interviews, and excerpts from O'Kicki's unfinished tell-all memoir, Jailing the Johnstown Judge is a fresh examination of the extraordinary western Pennsylvania case that attained international infamy.

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  Shut Out - From their pens to...

  F Anstey

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  F. Anstey was the pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie who was born in Kensington, London on August 8th, 1856, to Augusta Amherst Austen, an organist and composer, and Thomas Anstey Guthrie., a prosperous military tailor.  Anstey was educated at King's College School and then at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Although his education was first rate Anstey could only manage a third-class degree; A Gentlemen’s degree as it was euphemistically known.  In 1880 he was called to the bar. However this career path rapidly fell away in his desire to become an author.  The successful publication of Vice Versa, in 1882, with the premise of a substitution of a father for his schoolboy son, made his name and reputation as a refreshing and original humorist.  The following year he published a rather more serious work, The Giant's Robe.  Interestingly the story is about a plagiarist and Anstey was, ironically, accused of plagiarism in writing the work.  Despite good reviews both he and his public knew that his writing career was to be that of a humorist.  In the following years he published prolifically beginning with; The Black Poodle (1884), The Tinted Venus (1885), A Fallen Idol (1886), and Baboo Jabberjee B.A. (1897).   Anstey worked not only as a novelist and short story writer but was also a valued member of the staff at the humorous Punch magazine, in which his voces populi and his parodies of a reciter's stock-piece (Burglar Bill) represent perhaps his best work.  In 1901, his successful farce, The Man from Blankleys, based on a story that originally appeared in Punch, was first produced on stage at the Prince of Wales Theatre, in London.  Anstey had become a writer, and a successful one at that, of many talents.  Many more of his stories were made into plays and films over the years. Others were simply taken for the premise alone, usually with no credit to the original author.  By the end of the First World War Anstey’s original publications had slowed to a crawl and he seemed rather more interested in translating and publishing some works of Moliere.  Thomas Anstey Guthrie died of pneumonia on March 10th, 1934 in London.  His self-deprecating autobiography, A Long Retrospect, was published in 1936.

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