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  Crime Classics: Incredible...

  Elliott Lewis

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  A surprisingly good story of a truly amazing rogue of old England. Maria has just come home from a party dressed to kill. She’s come home to discover a robber, the famous John Shepherd who removes Maria’s earrings, slowly and her rings. She was face to face with John Shepherd and for the rest of her life she’d have something to talk about…

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  The Reluctant Escapologist -...

  Mike Bradwell

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  An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise – and partial fall – of fringe theatre, Mike Bradwell's deadpan account of his adventures is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theatre today. Winner of the 2010 Theatre Book Prize awarded by the Society for Theatre Research.
  As he travels through a counterculture peopled by nutters, chancers, dreamers and prophets, Bradwell makes us marvel at his resilience and creativity, captured in a succession of vivid – and often laugh-out- loud – episodes such as: creating a character with Mike Leigh; enjoying the onstage mass orgasms of The Living Theatre; eating fire with Bob Hoskins; becoming an underwater escapologist (reluctantly) in the Ken Campbell Roadshow; creating Hull Truck; and doing battle with the Health and Safety brigade, the funding bodies and a Polish heavy-metal disco during his ten years running the famous Bush Theatre in West London.
  Bradwell is a passionate champion of the alternative as well as an admired and successful director. He makes a compelling – and urgent – case for preserving the true and subversive spirit of theatre from castration at the hands of bankers, consultants, stakeholders, cultural-diversity compliance monitors and the Arts Council.
  'Towards the end of this brilliant account of his epic forty-year journey, Mike tells us, 'I don't believe that theatre is safe in the hands of grown-ups', and it is his healthy, eternal youthfulness that makes the book so inspiring' Mike Leigh, from his Foreword
  'Inimitably filthy, achingly funny... Bradwell is one of the most colourful figures in theatre today' - Ian Herbert - The Stage
  'Both a history and a pointer to the future of theatre, written by one of its most courageous and effective champions' - Theatres Magazine
  'Funny and rude, bloody-minded and undervalued, much like the theatre to which he has given his all' - Times Literary Supplement

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  Where the Indus is Young - A...

  Dervla Murphy

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  In Where the Indus is Young , Dervla Murphy's indomitable will is matched by that of four-footed Hallam and her six-year-old daughter Rachel. Together they make a mockery of fear, trekking through the awe-inspiring Karakorum mountains not only in the heart of winter, but close to Pakistan's disputed border with Kashmir. They work their way up beside the perilous gorge carved through the mountains by the Indus, lodging with locals and eating, sleeping and bargaining with the Balts, who farm one of the remotest regions on earth. Despite the hardship, Dervla never forgets the point of travel, retaining enthusiasm for her magnificent surroundings and using her sense of humour to bring out the best in her hosts, who are often locked into the melancholic mood of mid-winter.

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  Christine's Kilimanjaro - My...

  Christine M. Malone

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  A memoir of a spiritual awakening that began with a thank-you letter to God . . .  For the first time, I resolved to be my own tour guide up my mountain of life. Finally believing in myself, I was forging a new path instead of plodding along the tired and worn out one I had become accustomed to, discovering something new and no longer impossible along the way.   Christine Malone found herself at a crossroads in her life when she stumbled across an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show one busy, stressed-out day. There she sat transfixed before the television, not expecting that her reality in an ordinary world would ever change. She never saw it coming—that this was the day her dreams would begin to change her life forever.   A beautifully written story about one woman’s quest to be the change she wishes to see in this world, Christine’s Kilimanjaro is about the spiritual awakening that took place as the author wrote out snapshots of her life, standing up to a few demons she really never faced until she began to write her memoir. Covering experiences both funny and heartbreaking, from her work as a nurse helping cancer patients to a visit to a psychic with her friends, it is a moving and poignant path to self-discovery in which she learns how to put the pains of the past behind her, embrace her present, and envision the future of her dreams.

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  While I Remember

  Becky Grubbs Ritter

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  This is the true story of some who have lived; heroes and failures, resourceful and talented, delightful and disappointing human beings whose "days are like grass, flourishing like a flower in the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone; its place is remembered no more."' But while I still can, I will remember.The tale is told in three parts intertwined with amusing and heart-breaking stories, peppered with historical references. Part One: Those Who Came Before includes ancestors who: entertained on a riverboat during the Civil War, played piano during silent movies, taught in a one room schoolhouse, delivered milk to front porches in a horse drawn wagon, participated in dance marathons during the Great Depression, and served as a fighter pilot in World War II. Part Two: Childhood to Car Keys begins with baby boomers (the author being one) and the construction building boom of the early 1950's, wrestlers competing for the Olympics in Rome, middle class families with big dreams and a built-in swimming pool, Kennedy's assassination, Teen Town at the Y, race riots in the summer of 67', the first draft lottery for the Viet Name War, and the author gets her car keys.Part Three: Self Determination involves: negotiating a changing world, a family collapse, drug culture, 1970s traveling Show Band, unrequited love, searching for truth, searching for truth in Florida, singing in a trio, finding God, losing God, playing in a piano bar, waiting tables, alcohol consumption, continuing to search for God, "naming it and claiming it," "Jesus Freaks," and finding a life.About the Author: Becky Grubbs Ritter is a lover of books, history, and learning. She is a maker of things, a musician, singer, and burgeoning author. At the core she is wife, mother, grandmother, and “post-evangelical” Christian…just another flower flourishing in the field and feeling the wind blow.

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  A Radiant Life - The Selected...

  Nuala O'Faolain

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  Writings from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Are You Somebody?, on topics from Catholicism to feminism to Irish American culture, and more.    Curious and funny, tender and scathing, Nuala O’Faolain’s columns in the Irish Times were never less than trenchant and always passionate. Through the prism of casual, everyday encounters, O’Faolain digs into her subjects in ways that transcend topicality. Taken together, her years of commentary form a historical narrative, a chronicle of Ireland’s transformation by one of its sharpest observers and canniest critics.   Covering a vast array of subjects, A Radiant Life includes more than seventy entries, showcasing the unequivocal voice of Nuala O’Faolain, hailed by Irish Times literary editor Fintan O’Toole as “one of the greatest columnists to ever inhabit the English language.”   “O’Faolain . . . writes with such precision and individuality that she could make the copy on the back of a cornflakes packet compelling.” —The Guardian on Almost There

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