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  Sean O'Casey Writer at Work -...

  Christopher Murray

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  Christopher Murray's definitive study of Seán O'Casey, the last great writer of the Irish literary revival, provides a strong interpretative context for his life.
  
  Murray looks afresh at the Dublin of the 1880s and 1890s in order to provide an authoritative background to O'Casey's childhood. He pays particular attention to the political situation from 1880 to 1922, setting it against O'Casey's own treatment in his autobiographies in an attempt to establish 'O'Casey's Ireland'.
  
  But O'Casey was an international as well as a national figure: half his life was spent away from Ireland and his annual income came mainly from the USA. Murray considers O'Casey's career up to the controversial premiere of The Plough and the Stars in 1926 in the light of W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory and their dream of a national theatre. Thereafter he interprets it in a much wider, equally contentious, international context, chronicling his subsequent projects, which included The Silver Tassie and his Marxist play The Star Turns Red.
  
  Murray establishes O'Casey as a self-made man of letters, an irrepressible fighter, a man who combined political courage and innocence, an individual torn between a humanist vision of life rooted in his Dublin childhood and a utopian but blinkered loyalty to the Soviet Union. Murray contends that while much of O'Casey's work was uneven, flawed and overambitious, at its best it was infused with a passion and generosity that place it among the best bodies of drama in the twentieth century.
  
  Rich in original material, Murray's biography reconstructs a life committed to the act of writing as a moral endeavour. There was something profoundly religious in O'Casey's psyche, which was at war with the communism he embraced, just as there was something profoundly romantic in a sensibility that retained the image of his first love throughout his years in exile. He was a man of many contradictions, a complex, combative public figure and yet a warm and intimate family man.
  
  If Seán O'Casey's life was in the end a failure, it was a noble one which reveals that, to quote a Jacobean playwright he admired, 'Integrity of life is fame's best friend'. That integrity shines through in this biography more brightly and engagingly than ever before.
  Seán O'Casey, Writer at Work: Table of Contents
  Preconception(s)
  
  PART 1 First Things
  - Beginnings
  - Seeing Things
  
  - 'Give Me That Old Style Religion!'
  - 'To Make Eternal Silence Speak'
  - Under Which Flag?
  PART 2 The Dublin Plays
  - Love Among the Ruins
  - Going Through the Mill
  - Telling It Like It Is
  - 'I Banish You!'
  PART 3 London – New York – London
  - London Lights and The Silver Tassie
  - Trapped Inside the Gates?
  - 'Beside the Golden Door'
  PART 4 Toughing It Out In Devon
  - O'Casey's Good War
  - Oak Leaves and Lavender
  - Cock-a-Doodle Dandy
  - The Road to Torquay
  PART 5 Last Things
  - The Writer's Not for Burning
  - A Death in the Family
  - The Drums of Archbishop McQuaid
  - Something of a Renaissance
  - Talking to God
  Afterlife

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  Asgard Stories - Tales from...

  Mary H. Foster, Mable H. Cummings

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  Written in 1901, this anthology contains stories such as The Story of the Beginning, Odin’s Reward, The Hammer of Thor, and The Punishment of Loki. As the gods of Asgard continue to permeate pop culture, this book will send you back to the origin of these myths.

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  The Life of a Rose - A Blue...

  Ava Cooper

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  This journey has been extraordinary, and the motivation behind penning this book stems from the desire to illustrate that one's childhood and life's challenges need not dictate their ultimate destiny. The unwavering commitment to perseverance and faith in God serves as a constant wellspring of motivation, enabling individuals to rise above adversities and continue to achieve success and radiance in life.

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  Lieutenant General Sir Samuel...

  John D. Grainger

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  Samuel Auchmuty was born in New York in 1756. During the American Revolution his remained loyal to King George and he joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. After the war he remained in British service, campaigned in many parts of the world and rose through the ranks. Despite a varied and distinguished career he has not received the attention he warrants, neither as a Loyalist from New York, nor as a successful British soldier.Auchmuty served in India through the Second and Third Mysore Wars, the Rohilla War and a serious mutiny. In 1798 Auchmuty was adjutant-general of the successful Red Sea campaign against French forces in Egypt. Returning to Britain in 1803 he commanded the defences in Thanet, East Kent, at the height of the French invasion threat. He was the only British commander to emerge from the River Plate campaign with credit, capturing Montevideo in 1807. In 1811 he commanded the land forces that captured Java from Franco-Dutch control. He ended his life as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland. John Grainger examines his part in events which shaped world history.

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  When Force Meets Fate - A...

  Jamison Hill

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  "[Hill's] memoir serves to amplify the ways in which disabled people are neglected by the American health system." -- Kirkus Reviews 
  At age twenty-two, Jamison Hill was a fitness instructor who could lift more than four hundred pounds. Five years later, after surviving a tragic car accident that killed the other driver, a rare disease left Jamison bedridden and too weak to hold a water glass. He spent every day lying motionless in bed, his body paralyzed by pain and fatigue, his mind hijacked by flashes of crunched metal, broken windshields, and exploding gas tanks. 
  After months of not being able to speak or eat, Jamison's health finally improved and he began to tell his story. When Force Meets Fate is an unflinching exploration of the human condition, notably how our strengths and limitations shape our identities, and how unexpected events can inevitably alter our perceptions. It's a story of perseverance―of sheer will and unrelenting fight―but also of overcoming life's toughest challenges through the power of vulnerability, and how freeing it can be to surrender to the unpredictability of circumstances out of our control. 
  "The gripping prose in this memoir describes a young man, whose life deteriorates from a healthy fitness trainer to the sudden depths of being sick and bedridden with a mysterious illness for years. Jamison's dedication to life, however fragile, and advocacy, however impossible, have brought out this incredible story of survival." ―Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive 

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  Wah! Things I Never Told My Mother

  Cynthia Rogerson

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  Cynthia's mother is dying. Often. 
  Travelling between her home in Scotland and California, as she spends time at her mother's bedside. 
  Cynthia recalls her youthful adventures: living in a squat, train-hopping, hitchhiking and all the other things she never told her mother.

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