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  The Legendary Casey Brothers

  Jim Hudson, Jim Casey

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  Nowhere in the annals of sport is there a family so gifted. In 1982 the seven Casey brothers were inducted into the Irish Sports Hall of Fame, the only family ever to receive that honour. The brothers, from Sneem in County Kerry, starred as Olympic-class oarsmen, Tug-O'-War champions, professional wrestlers and boxers and won fame throughout the sporting world. Steve, known as 'Crusher' Casey, became the supreme wrestler in the world and for a decade no one could match him. When he turned to boxing, the great Joe Louis refused to go into the ring with him. In 1983 at a family reunion in Sneem, five brothers, all in their seventies, climbed into the four-oar boat they used to win championships in the 1930s. Although they had not rowed together in fifty years, they still moved with natural unity and grace. Sports people from Kerry have achieved fame in many fields but the success of the Caseys surely outshines all.

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  Killing Noise The: Jimi Hendrix...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Whether you like rock music or not. Whether you understand the imaginative, spasmodic, other worldly, electric compositions of Jimi Hendrix you know he’s damn a good - he’s special. Jimi was certainly one of a kind. The man was a walking contradiction. Barely educated he never had even a single guitar lesson. He was wildly aggressive, sometimes even violent with his music - and yet as a person he was quiet, passive and ever polite. Hendrix spoke what he wanted to say through his music - off stage, among friends, he earned the nickname Gentleman Jim. In this unique audiobook on the unlikely life and times of one James Marshall Hendrix, who left us all too soon under very mysterious circumstances, you’ll find the very best of the man and his music via rare interviews with Jimi and those who knew him best. Written and narrated by author actor Geoffrey Giuliano here is a unique audio treasure for the avid fan, popular music historian, rock enthusiast, curious commuter and all school and university systems. Here is, perhaps for the first time, the elemental, essential, unparalleled Jimi Hendrix.

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  The Splendid Years - The Memoirs...

  David Kenny, Maire Nic Shuibhlaigh

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  Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh was a founder actress of the Abbey Theatre and its first leading lady on its opening in 1904, when she played the title role in W. B. Yeats's Kathleen Ni Houlihan. On that night, five members of her family were acting and working in the theatre. Her beauty and talent captivated audiences and critics at home and abroad. Portrait artists queued up to paint her. Revolutionaries and poets wrote plays for her. The Pearse brothers, AE, Countess Markievicz, Maud Gonne, J. M. Synge and John B. Yeats counted among her admirers.
  The Splendid Years – with a foreword by Padraic Colum – is Maire's first-hand account of some of the momentous events that shaped Irish history: including the establishment of the Abbey Theatre and her role as leader of the Cumann na mBan 'girls' in Jacob's Biscuit Factory during the Rising. Withdrawn from print just weeks after its initial publication in the 1950s, the story of this remarkable and inspiring Irishwoman is available again, with new and never-before-seen material.
  Here we have Pearse imitating Yeats onstage; J. M. Synge rolling cigarettes for his actors; Maire's aged father printing the War News in 1916; her marriage to Major General Bob Price, and a lost portion of her story, detailing her childhood in Carlow before her rebellious, Parnellite family was run out of town by the clergy.

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  Money a Memoir - Women Emotions...

  Liz Perle

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  A “remarkable” and revealing account of one woman’s finances—and how women’s thoughts and feelings about money can wreak havoc on their lives (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 
   
  Long ago, and not entirely consciously, Liz Perle made a quiet contract with cash: she would do what it took to get it—work hard, marry right—but she didn’t want to have to think about it too much. The subject of money had, since childhood, been quietly sidestepped, a shadowy factor whose private influence was impolite to discuss. This denial eventually exacted its price, however, when a divorce left Perle with no home, no job, and a four-year-old with a box of toys. She realized she could no longer afford to leave her murky and fraught relationship with money unexamined. 
   
  What Perle discovered as she reassembled her life was that almost every woman she knew also subscribed to this strange code of discretion—even though it laced through their relationships with their parents, lovers, husbands, children, friends, coworkers, and communities. Women who were all too willing to tell each other about their deepest secrets or sexual assets still kept mum when it came to their financial ones. 
   
  In Money, A Memoir, Perle attempts to break this silence, adding her own story to the anecdotes and insights of psychologists, researchers, and more than 200 “ordinary” women. It turned out that when money was the topic, most women needed permission to talk. The result is an insightful, unflinching look at the subtle yet commanding influence of money on our every relationship. 
   
  “Profiles dozens of everyday women, spotlighting the anxiety, embarrassment and guilt money causes them. Commentary from financial experts, sociologists and others helps demonstrate Perle’s thesis: women cannot afford to be ambivalent about money and must learn to separate feelings from finance.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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  Halloween Tales

  Edgar Allan Poe, E.F. Benson,...

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  A wonderful collection of spine-tingling, imaginative, terrifying, but beautifully written tales to keep you hiding under the bedclothes this Halloween.    1. "The Room in the Tower", by E. F. Benson    2. "The Green Light", by Barry Pain    3. "His Brother’s Keeper", by W. W. Jacobs    4. "The Bus Conductor", by E. F. Benson    5. "A Joy Ride", by A. J. Alan    6. "Query", by Seamark    7. "The Squaw", by Bram Stoker    8. "The Dream", by A. J. Alan    9. "The Dancing Partner", by Jerome K. Jerome    10. "The Three Sisters", by W. W. Jacobs    11. "The Black Ferry", by John Galt    12. "Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle    13. "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe    14. "Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa M. Alcott    15. "The Mark of the Beast", by Rudyard Kipling    16. "The Pit and the Pendulum", by Edgar Allan Poe    17. "A Pastoral Horror", by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle    18. "The Severed Hand", by Wilhelm Hauff    19. "The Furnished Room", by O. Henry    20. "The Perfect Murder", by Stacy Aumonier    21. "A Coincidence", by A. J. Alan    22. "An Egyptian Cigarette", by Kate Chopin

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  Kesselring - The Making of the...

  Kenneth Macksey

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  Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander, leader, administrator; the only senior German officer to start and finish the Second World War holding a high command appointment. There was scarcely a major campaign in which he was not at some time deeply involved: he flew in the forefront of the battle over Poland, Holland, Britain, Russia and the Western Desert and was shot down five times; as a field commander he defended Tunisia, Italy and, ultimately, Germany. But it is as much for his role in the formation and development of the Luftwaffe that Kesselring is remembered-his were many of the ideas, plans and insights about the part played by aircraft in the land battle. They were central to the careful, systematic reorganization and building up of the German military machine in the 1920s and 30s. This first complete biography presents the complex, fascinating personality of a man whose qualities of utter determination, charm and good humor, harnessed to outstanding training and experience, enabled him to cope with both victory and defeat and, finally, when placed on trial for his life, to face his judges with dignity, equanimity and a staunch defense.

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