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Salinger
(Paperback)
David Shields, Shane Salerno
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R637
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An instant "New York Times "bestseller, this "explosive biography"
("People") of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the
twentieth century is "as close as we'll ever get to being inside
J.D. Salinger's head" ("Entertainment Weekly").
This "revealing" ("The" "New York Times") and "engrossing" ("The"
"Wall Street Journal") oral biography, "fascinating and unique"
("The Washington Post") and "an unmitigated success" ("USA TODAY"),
has redefined our understanding of one of the most mysterious
figures of the twentieth century.
In nine years of work on "Salinger," and especially in the years
since the author's death, David Shields and Shane Salerno
interviewed more than 200 people on five continents, many of whom
had previously refused to go on the record about their relationship
with Salinger. This oral biography offers direct eyewitness
accounts from Salinger's World War II brothers-in-arms, his family
members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his
neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his "New Yorker"
colleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were
secret even to his own family. Their intimate recollections are
supported by more that 175 photos (many never seen before),
diaries, legal records, and private documents that are woven
throughout; in addition, appearing here for the first time, are
Salinger's "lost letters"--ranging from the 1940s to 2008,
revealing his intimate views on love, literature, fame, religion,
war, and death, and providing a raw and revelatory self-portrait.
The result is "unprecedented" (Associated Press), "genuinely
valuable" ("Time"), and "strips away the sheen of Salinger's]
exceptionalism, trading in his genius for something much more real"
("Los Angeles Times"). According to the "Sunday Times" of London,
"Salinger" is "a stupendous work...I predict with the utmost
confidence that, after this, the world will not need another
Salinger biography."
Twenty Years at Hull House, by the acclaimed memoir of social
reformer Jane Addams, is presented here complete with all
sixty-three of the original illustrations and the biographical
notes. A landmark autobiography in terms of opening the eyes of
Americans to the plight of the industrial revolution, Twenty Years
at Hull House has been applauded for its unflinching descriptions
of the poverty and degradation of the era. Jane Addams also details
the grave ill-health she suffered during and after her childhood,
giving the reader insight into the adversity which she would
re-purpose into a drive to alleviate the suffering of others. The
process by which Addams founded Hull House in Chicago is detailed;
the sheer scale and severity of the poverty in the city she and
others witnessed, the search for the perfect location, and the
numerous difficulties she and her fellow activists encountered
while establishing and maintaining the house are detailed.
Robert W. Merry presents a fresh, playful, and challenging way of
playing America's favorite game, "Rating the Presidents," by
pitching historian's views and experts' polls against the judgment
and votes of the presidents' contemporaries.
During nine years in the British Army, Shaun Pinner deployed on
operations around the world, and trained in Survival, Evasion,
Resistance and Escape. He never imagined that he would be one day draw
deep on that training as a prisoner of the Russians ...
But when Pinner fell in love with and married a Ukrainian woman, the
couple made their home in Mariupol. Missing the camaraderie and purpose
he'd relished in the Royal Anglian Regiment he joined his adopted
country's military as a sniper instructor.
Four years later, the section he led was on the frontline when Vladimir
Putin's forces launched their invasion.
Outnumbered and outgunned in the fiercest fighting seen in Europe since
the end of the Second World War, Pinner's troops staged a fighting
retreat back to Mariupol to join the remarkable, defiant last stand
that captured the world's imagination. At the height of the battle,
Pinner's wife urged him to 'Live. Fight. Survive.'
He fought on. Until, ordered by President Zelensky to save themselves,
his platoon made a break for it. The enemy was waiting. Pinner was
captured.
Over the months the followed, the former British soldier required every
ounce of strength, resolve, ingenuity and dark humour to see him and
his fellow prisoners of war through the savage mental and physical toll
meted out by his ruthless captors. But he refused to be broken.
Live. Fight. Survive. is the breathtaking story of a soldier fighting
for his home and family: an unforgettable account of superhuman
courage, resistance and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. And
a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit.
A TIME TO BETRAY
This exhilarating, award-winning memoir of a secret double life
reveals the heart-wrenching story of a man who spied for the
American government in the ranks of the notorious Revolutionary
Guards of Iran, risking everything by betraying his homeland in
order to save it.
Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family
and friends. But the enlightened Iran of his youth vanished
forever, as Reza discovered upon returning home from studying
computer science in the United States, when the revolution of 1979
ushered in Ayatollah Khomeini's dark age of religious
fundamentalism. Clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, Reza
joined the Ayatollah's elite Revolutionary Guards. As Khomeini's
tyrannies unfolded, as fellow countrymen turned on each other, and
after the deeply personal horrors he witnessed firsthand inside
Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America
to dangerously become "Wally," a spy for the CIA.
In "A Time to Betray," Reza not only relates his razor's-edge,
undercover existence from moment to heart-pounding moment as he
supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103, the Iran-Contra affair, and more; he also
documents a chain of incredible events that culminates in a
nation's fight for freedom that continues to this very day, making
this a timely and vital perspective on the future of Iran and the
fate of the world.
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