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  Patrick Kavanagh A Biography -...

  Antoinette Quinn

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  Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of W.B. Yeats and the rise of Seamus Heaney, tells the triumphant story of his journey from homespun balladry through early journal and poetry publications to his eventual coronation as one of the most influential figures in Irish poetry.
  
  Kavanagh (1904–1967) was born in County Monaghan, the son of a cobbler-cum-small farmer. He left school at thirteen to work the land but continued to educate himself, reading and writing poetry in his spare time. In 1929 he began contributing verses to the Irish Statesman and was soon publishing in Irish and English journals. His first collection, Ploughman and Other Poems, appeared in 1936 and was followed by an autobiography, The Green Fool, in 1938.
  
  In 1939 he moved to Dublin where he spent the rest of his life as a freelance writer and as part of the social and literary scene, keeping company with a gifted generation of writers, among them Flann O'Brien and Brendan Behan. He gained recognition as an important literary voice with his long poem 'The Great Hunger' in 1942. Further collections and the novel Tarry Flynn appeared in the following decades to growing critical acclaim.
  
  Published to widespread praise, Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography traces Kavanagh's publishing history as well as revealing what he was writing in the long interval between his books. This engaging, well-researched account of his daily professional life as a writer, his revisions and redraftings, his negotiations with publishers and editors, dispels the view that he was an untutored, gormless genius visited by an occasional flash of inspiration.
  
  Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography is the definitive account of Patrick Kavanagh's life and work and should be the standard for years to come.
  Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography: Table of Contents
  Introduction
  
  - No Genealogic Rosary (1850–1910)
  - Childhood (1904–1918)
  - Serving his Time (1918–1927)
  - Dabbling in Verse (1916–1930)
  - Farmer-Poet (1929–1936)
  - Towards The Green Fool (1936–1937)
  - The Green Fool and its Aftermath (1937–1939)
  - I Had a Future (1939–1941)
  - Bell-lettres (1940–1942)
  - The Great Hunger (1941–1942)
  - Pilgrim Poet (1940–1942)
  - Marriage and Money? (1942–1944)
  - The Enchanted Way (1944–1947)
  - Film Critic (1946–1949)
  - Tarry Flynn (1947–1949)
  - From Ballyrush to Baggot Street (1948–1951)
  - King of the Kids (1949–1951)
  - Bluster and Beggary (1952–1953)
  - Trial and Error (1954)
  - The Cut Worm (1954–1955)
  - The American Dream (1955–1957)
  - Noo Pomes (1957–1958)
  - Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1959–1960)
  - Roots of Love (1960–1964)
  - Sixty-Year-Old Public Man (1964–1965)
  - Four Funerals and a Wedding (1965–1967)
  - 'So long'

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  Hopper - A Journey into the...

  Tom Folsom

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  James Dean to Hopper"I saw what you did today. Today you were great." 
  Jack Nicholson to Hopper"We're geniuses, you know that?Isn't it great to be a genius?" 
  The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean who longed to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. An enigmatic man from Dodge City, Kansas, on an endless quest to realize the American Dream. 
  Dennis Hopper has been described as a rebel, an icon, an addict plagued by demons, and one of the most important champions of the pop-art movement. Friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, mentor to Sean Penn, champion of Ice-T, Dennis Hopper built a career that was a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of American popular culture. 
  Tom Folsom's Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis's many lives. Featuring hundreds of interviews with Hopper's fellow actors, artists, musicians, and residents of Taos, New Mexico (where he spent much of his most manic time), as well as his ex-wives and many other people who knew him, Hopper takes you on an extraordinary—and sometimes troubling—journey. From Dennis's early days with his grandparents on a dusty farm in Kansas, where he watched trains go by on their way to Los Angeles, to his formative time in Hollywood as one of a bright new crop of actors straddling the edge of the studio system, to the rebellious 1960s and the start of the independent film movement, to the drug-addled 1970s and beyond, when Hopper staged one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time—Tom Folsom has crafted a biography as unconventional as Dennis Hopper himself.

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  A Lion Where There Were Lambs -...

  Bill Erxleben

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  The true story of a crusading lawyer willing to risk his career and reputation in some of the most famous cases in Pacific Northwest history. 
   
  Referred to by a political commentator as "Front Page Bill" for his headline making exploits, Bill Erxleben was an anti-corruption federal prosecutor, consumer protection and environmental champion. He would take on vested interests and the federal bureaucracy and win national acclaim for his zealous commitment to the public interest. 
   
  Politicians and industry representatives upset with his outspoken manner and vigorous enfrocement of the law, called for his dismissal three times, including several requests that went all the way to the White House and Congress. Erxleben discloses new details about some of the most famous, headline-breaking legal cases in the Pacific Northwest. 
   
  This fascinating story is packed with regional history, national intrigue, and lessons from the past that directly apply to today's current events.

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  Brawler Unfiltered

  Steve Lombardi

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  You think you know WWE / WWF?  You don't know nothing!!!!  Here, I talk about my over three decades of working with WWF / WWE wrestling.  You will hear stories NEVER hear before until now.

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  Fairy Tales stories vol: 2

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  This is a collection of a few  stories by Hans Christian Andersen included - The Little Match Girl-The Swineherd- The Real Princess- The Leap-Frog- The Elderbush- The Bell- The Old House

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  Genghis Khan - The truth about...

  Susanne Monroe

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  Do you want to learn about Genghis Khan?  
  Gеnghiѕ Khаn аnd thе Mаking of thе Modern Wоrld because I rеаlizеd I knеw relatively littlе аbоut оnе оf the mоѕt influential men in humаn hiѕtоrу. Rеѕеаrсhеrѕ hаvе еѕtimаtеd thаt 0.5 реrсеnt of mеn hаvе Gеnghiѕ Khan’s DNA in thеm, whiсh iѕ реrhарѕ оnе оf the mоѕt tаngiblе means оf dеtеrmining hiѕtоriсаl imрасt. But thаt’ѕ juѕt thе tip оf the iсеbеrg. Thе Mоngоliаn wаrlоrd соnԛuеrеd a mаѕѕivе chunk оf thе 13th-century сivilizеd wоrld—inсluding mоrе than оnе-third оf its рорulаtiоn. He сrеаtеd оnе of the first intеrnаtiоnаl роѕtаl systems. Hе dесrееd universal freedom of religion in all hiѕ соnԛuеrеd tеrritоriеѕ—indееd, some of hiѕ ѕеniоr gеnеrаlѕ wеrе Chriѕtiаnѕ. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Who was Genghis Khan and what he did? Biographical aspects of his lifeBecoming Genghis KhanGеnghiѕ Khan’s Education and Beginnings Early life and family Military СаmраignѕMuch,much more! 
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