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  Bringing Home the Birkin - My...

  Michael Tonello

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  An insider's hilarious, whirlwind account of his years spent globe-trotting in search of the holy grail of handbags: the BirkinFor more than twenty years, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of celebrities, there is a fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Hermès, and the average fashionista has a better chance of climbing Mount Everest in Prada pumps than of possessing one of these coveted carryalls. Unless, of course, she happens to know Michael Tonello . . .Michael's newfound career started with an impulsive move to Barcelona, a vanished job assignment, no work visa, and an Hermès scarf sold on eBay to generate some quick cash. But soon the resourceful Michael discovered the truth about the waiting list and figured out the secret to getting Hermès to part with one of these precious bags. Millions of dollars worth of Birkins later, Michael had become one of eBay's most successful entrepreneurs—and a Robin Hood to thousands of desperate rich women.With down-to-earth wit, Michael chronicles the unusual ventures that took him to nearly every continent, from eBay to Paris auction house and into the lives of celebrities and poseurs. Flirting with danger, Michael recounts the heady rush of hand delivering his first big score to famed songwriter Carole Bayer Sager in Paris; how he had to hire thugs to rescue a bag that one of his "shoppers" held for ransom; and the story of the Oscar-worthy performances that allowed him to snag "reserved" bags from other, less dogged Birkin seekers. Whether he's relating his wining and dining, buying and selling, dodging and weaving, laughing and crying, or schmoozing and stammering, Michael is a master raconteur who weaves together tales of hunting Birkins in the world's most posh locales, memories of meals that would make any gastronome salivate, anecdotes of obsessed collectors with insatiable desires, and sweetly intimate stories about his family, friends, and finding true love. The result is a memoir that is distinctive, fun, page-turning, and as addictive as its namesake.

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  A Canadian Folk-Song

  William Wilfred Campbell

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of A Canadian Folk-Song by William Wilfred Campbell. This was the weekly poetry project for January 4th, 2009.

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  The Perfect Stranger

  P.J. Kavanagh

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  'It's hard to think of a memoir that describes the experience [of love] with as much honesty, passion and precision.' David Nicholls
  First published in 1966, this extraordinary memoir has collected a passionate band of devotees. Written with a poet's precision, it is a funny, absorbing and brilliantly portrayed rite of passage - from school playing fields to war's battlefields, holiday camps to writers' hang-outs, Brighton to Paris, Korea to Oxford, Barcelona to Jakarta ... Driving the narrator is a desire to recount the effect of a singular young woman; the love of her and the loss of her.
  A joyous and movingly wise evocation of youth, travel and love; those moments of maximum brilliance, at the edge of possibility.

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  Middletown America - One Town's...

  Gail Sheehy

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  The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually transcending it, are the best antidote to our fears. Middletown, America is a book of hope. 
  All Americans were hit with some degree of trauma on September 11, 2001, but no place was hit harder than Middletown, New Jersey. Gail Sheehy spent the better part of two years walking the journey from grief toward renewal with fifty members of the community that lost more people in the World Trade Center than any other outside New York City. Her subjects are the women, men, and children who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back together. 
  Sheehy tells the story of four widowed moms from New Jersey who started out scarcely knowing the difference between the House and the Senate, yet turned their sorrow and anger into action and became formidable witnesses to the failures of the country's leadership to connect the dots before September 11. Sheehy follows the four moms as they fight White House attempts to thwart the independent commission investigating 9/11 and expose efforts at a cover-up. 
  What would become of the young wives carrying children their husbands would never see, wives who had watched their dreams literally go up in smoke in that amphitheater of death across the river? Amazingly, each finds her own door to the light. Here, too, is the story of the widow and widower who met in the waiting room of a mental-health agency and brought each other back from the brink of despair across a bridge of love. Sheehy also reveals how bereft mothers who will never have another son or daughter found reasons to recommit to life. And she follows in the footsteps of the robbed children, documenting the incredible resilience of four-year-olds, the anger of teenagers, the courage of sisters and brothers. 
  Sheehy follows survivors who escaped the burning towers only to find themselves trapped inside a tower of inner torment, from which it took love, family, and faith to free themselves. She is taken into the confidence of the night crew at Ground Zero, police officers who worked in that pit for eight months straight and then faced the "returning home" phenomenon. She recounts the confessions of religious leaders who struggled to explain the inexplicable to their flocks. Mental-health professionals confide in her, as do corporate chiefs, educators, friends and neighbors, town officials, and volunteers who rose to the occasion and committed themselves to healing their wounded community. 
  As a journalist who conducted more than nine hundred interviews, Gail Sheehy is an impeccable researcher. As a writer with a novelistic gift, she weaves the individual stories into a compelling narrative. Middletown, America illuminates every stage of a tumultuous passage-from shock, passivity, and panic attacks, to rising anger and deep grieving, and on to the secret romances and startling relapses, the realignment of faith, the return of a capacity to love and be loved, and, finally, the commitment to constructing new lives.

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  God Owns My Business - They Said...

  Stanley Tam, Ken Anderson

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  God Owns My Business is more than a book about a successful businessman. It  is the chronicle of how an average man can, with God's guidance and a willing heart, succeed in any endeavor. They  said it couldn’t be done, but formally and legally, business owner Stanley Tam made God the owner of his business.  To say that his business has met with success thanks to this decision would be a significant understatement—Stanley  Tam's businesses are large and profitable, giving well over a million dollars annually. Learn what happens when a  man gives his business—literally—to God, and be inspired to steward your whole life for God's honor.

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  Lost in Ghost Town - A Memoir of...

  Carder Stout

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  As a therapist to Hollywood’s elite, Dr. Carder Stout’s clientele includes Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, andGrammy winners, bestselling authors, and billionaires. He may not be able to share their dark secrets, but for the firsttime, everyone will know his.At the age of thirty-four, Carder would have gladly pawned the silver spoon he was born choking on for a rock ofcrack. His downfall was as swift as his privilege was vast … or had he been falling all along?Raised in a Georgetown mansion and educated at exclusive institutions, Carder ran with a crowd of movers,shakers, and future Oscar winners in New York City. But words like “promise” and “potential” are meaningless in theface of serious addiction. Lost years and a stint in rehab later, when Carder was a dirty, broke, soon-to-be-homelesscrackhead wandering the streets of Venice, California. His lucky break came thanks to his old Ford Taurus: he lands ajob of driving for a philosophical drug czar with whom he finds friendship and self-worth as he helps deliver qualityproduct to LA’s drug enthusiasts, from trust-fund kids, gang affiliates, trophy wives, hip-hop producers, and Russianpimps. But even his loyalty and protection can’t save Carder from the peril of the streets—or the eventual contract onhis life.From a youth of affluence to the hit the Shoreline Crips put on his life, Carder delves deep into life on the streets.Lost in Ghost Town is a riveting, raw, and heartfelt look at the power of addiction, the beauty of redemption, andfinding truth somewhere in between.

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