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Author: Andrew Harvey
Condition: 4/10
This books Published Date: 1986
Pages: 236
"One of the best books available on the Western experience of Tibetan spiritual life." -- NEW AGE JOURNAL

Author: James Joyce
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1924

This edition - 1995

Joyce's classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus's boyhood and coming-of age in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century - his child hood, sexual awakening, intellectual development and revolt against Catholicism - remains one of the key works of modern literature.

Author: Sam Walton
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date: 1993
Pages: 346
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.

Author: Dave Pelzer
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 1995
This Edition: June 2005
Pages:  489
Type:  Softcover

Dave Pelzer's remarkable journey from a child who lived in terror of his unstable, violently unpredictable mother's every move to his emergence as an inspiration the world over, is a remarkable tale of survival and the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.

Author: Patricia Glyn
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2004

In early 2003, South African journalist and broadcaster Patricia Glyn spent 59 long days( and even longer nights) with the discovery Expedition at Base Camp, the makeshift town which grows each year on the side of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

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Author: Rupert Everett
Condition: New
Published Date: 2006

Rupert Everett was born in Norfolk in 1959.  Educated at Ampleton College, he was latter expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, but soon made a name for himself in the avant - garde Glasgow Citzen's Theatre.  In 1984 he found international fame following his lead role in Another Country, and has since appeared in many successful films, including Shakespeare in Love; An Ideal Husband; The Madness of King George; The Importance of Being Earnest; Dance with a Stranger; Pret - a Porter and My Best Freinds Wedding.

Author: Lorenzo Carcaterra
Condition:8/10
Published Date: 1995
Pages:  370
Type:  Softcover

"Lorenzo Carcaterra looks back into his childhood in hell's kitchen and the experience that forever changed him and his three friends. After stealing a hotdog cart and pushing it down the stairway of a subway station, the boys recieve a considerable sentence in prison. There the boys suffer sexual abuse at the hands of the corrections officers. Years later the boys murder one officer and force the other officer tell the story of the sexual abuse he inflicted on the boys in court. This is a disturbing novel that leaves the reader saddened and angry at the abuse suffered by these young boys. "  - Daniela Lo Presti, Resident Scholar

Author: Christopher Reeve
Condition: 9/10
Published Date: 1998

An autobiography of the life of Christopher Reeve, the first ever Superman. How his life turned from the moment he fell off his horse in 1995, being paralyzed and how that never stopped him from making a difference, a man of steel without the Big "S" on his chest.

Author: Greg Marinvoich and Joao Silva
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 2001

They were four young photographers who covered the township war in South Africa in the early 90's.

Author: Georges Perec
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 1989

First published in 1975 (France)

First published in Great Britain 1988

Translated from french by David Bellos

Written in alternating chapters W or The Memory of Childhood tells two parallel tales whose meaning lies in their fragile intersection, or in the silence beyond their ending, Gaspard Winckler, an eight -year-old deaf-mute is lost in a shipwreck somehere off Cape Horn.  Another person, also called Gaspard Winckler, is apparently trapped into searching for him.  The story of W, an island state based on the rule of sport, seems to be the only trace of what he found.  There are no survivors.

What this disturbing book has to say is not quite said in the story of W and is not quite said in the rediscovered fragements of a wartime childhood.  Perec's unpretentious language, persistent, self - criticism and attention to detail lead the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the orgin of the post - war world and at the crux of the author's identity.  Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecendented way, Perec, allows no easy escape from his story, or from history.  W or The Memory of Childhood  is as much a mile stone in autobiography as Stendhal's Life of Henry Brulard and Sartre's Words.