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  Vanished Hero - The Life War and...

  Jay A. Stout

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  A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most unknown, yet compelling, colorful, and controversial commanders of World War II. 
  Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis during the closing months of the fight with a no-holds-barred aggressiveness that transformed the group from a middling organization of no reputation into a headline-grabbing team that had to make excuses to no one. Indeed, Righetti's boldness paid off as he quickly achieved ace status and additionally scored more strafing victories—twenty-seven—than any other Eighth Air Force pilot. 
  However, success came at a high cost in men and machines. Some of Righetti's pilots resented him as a Johnny-come-lately intent on winning a sack of medals at their expense. But most lauded their spirited new commander and his sledgehammer audacity. Indeed, he made his men most famous for "loco busting," as they put more than six hundred enemy locomotives out of commission—170—in just two days! 
  Ultimately, Righetti's calculated recklessness ran full speed into the odds. His aircraft was hit while strafing an enemy airfield only four days before the 55th flew its last mission.

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  Will Eisner - Champion of the...

  Paul Levitz

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  A celebration of the life of the acclaimed comic book storyteller through his work as well as interviews with fellow creators. 
   
  Will Eisner (1917–2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, best known for The Spirit, his iconic newspaper comic strip, and A Contract With God, the first significant graphic novel. This seminal work from 1978 ushered in a new era of personal stories in comics form that touched every adult topic from mortality to religion and sexuality, forever changing the way writers and artists approached comics storytelling. Noted historian Paul Levitz celebrates Eisner by showcasing his most famous work alongside unpublished and rare materials from the family archives. Also included are original interviews with creators such as Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Jeff Smith, Denis Kitchen, and Neil Gaiman—all of whom knew Eisner and were inspired by his work to create their own graphic novels for a new generation of readers. 
   
  NOTE: The cover is a high-quality photographic reproduction of Eisner's original art. The design intentionally reveals tape and other stray markings that are part of the artist's process and reflect the age of the artifact that was photographed. 
   
  “Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him,” —John Updike 
   
  “What Will did was and is timeless,” —Neil Gaiman 
   
  “Will Eisner is, and remains, one of my precious idols,” —Frank Miller 
   
  "He was the greatest,” —Harvey Kurtzman 
   
  “Will Eisner is a national treasure,” —Jules Feiffer 
   
  “Will Eisner is the heart and mind of American comics,” —Scott McCloud 
   
  “Eisner is the single person most responsible for giving comics its brains,” —Alan Moore 
   
  “Eisner was unique in feeling from the start that comic books were not necessarily this despised, bastard, crappy, lowbrow kind of art form, and that there was a potential for real art,” —Michael Chabon

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  Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman...

  John Cleland

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  One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. 
  The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures. 
  Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns the ways of physical passion. She soon escapes her fate for the loving arms of a wealthy young man, but misadventure and fate conspire to keep her from domestic bliss. Instead, Fanny discovers that sex need not be just for love; that it can be had for pleasure. She then sets out to explore those pleasures in as wide a variety as she can. With old men and young, and women as well; in positions of power, and situations where she has none; either watching or participating, Fanny's journey through the realms of sexual pleasure is a literary tour-de-force.

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  Winter Journal

  Paul Auster

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  From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself 
  "That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as well.  
  Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful.  
  Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  The The Top 10 Short Stories -...

  Anton Chekhov, Fyodor...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  The Russian Literary Tradition has justly earned a magnificent reputation.  The Russian Empire of the Czars was a huge and disparate patchwork of peoples ruled by an overbearing elite that employed a middle-class bureaucracy to keep the working class firmly underfoot.  Within its vaulted ranks are a role call of many of the greatest literary talents of the ages. 
  01 - The Top 10 - The Russian Men - An Introduction 
  02 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  03 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  04 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostovesky  
  05 - The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Cloak' 
  06 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky 
  07 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev 
  08 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 
  09 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 
  10 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  11 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

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  The Cobbler - How I Disrupted an...

  Steve Madden

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  Everyone knows Steve Madden's name and his shoes, but few are familiar with his story. Over the past thirty years Steve Madden has taken his eponymous shoe company from the fledgling start-up he founded with a mere $1,100 to a global, multi-billion-dollar brand. But Madden's mistakes, from his battle with addiction to the financial shortcuts that landed him in prison, are as important to his story as his most iconic shoes. In this raw, intimate, and ultimately inspiring book, Madden holds nothing back as he shares what it took to get here and the lessons he's learned along the way. From his unconventional hiring strategies to his slavish devotion to product, Madden offers a business perspective that is as unique as his styles. In The Cobbler, listeners are treated to the wild ride though his rise, fall, and comeback. But they will also walk away uplifted by a man who has owned up to his mistakes and come back determined to give back and use his hard-won platform to create positive change.

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