Angela's Ashes
Craters, Caverns, and Canyons
Delving Beneath
-------the Earth's Surface
Crazy All the Time
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
Sea Legs
Songbirds, Truffles,
-------and Wolves
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Frank McCourt
1996
...The luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages.
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...Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the cruelty of relatives and neighbors - yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exhuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Jon Erickson
1993
Third in a series of books on the changing Earth, this concise, clear and highly illustrated guide to craters, caverns, canyons and other aspects of the Earth's interior is an ideal primer for anyone interested in the geological underpinnings and openings of the planet... For the budding geologist, armchair explorer or student of natural history, Crater, Caverns, and Canyons holds a landslide's worth of compelling geologic facts.
[From back cover.]
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Frederick L. Covan, Ph.D. with Carol Kahn
1995
In Crazy All the Time, Frederick L. Covan, Ph.D., chief psychologist at Bellevue Hospital, takes you behind the gates and into the psych ward of one of the world's most famous mental institutions. With razor-sharp insight and great compassion, Covan follows the lives of a group of young interns and the unforgettable patients they are committed to serve, including Brenda, a paranoid schizophrenic who claims she has slept with six presidents; Matthew, a silent, tormented young man who cut off his own [edit] with a pair of pinking shears; and Gloria, a severely despressed dermatologist with a panic reaction to the sight of skin.
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Balancing the delicate line between normalcy and pathology, theory and reality, Crazy All the Time explores the dark moods and outrageous behaviors of both doctors and patients in a place where madness reigns and disorder is the order of the day.
[From back cover.]
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Philip Hallie
1994
During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town in southern France called Le Chambon. There, quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death.
[From back cover.]
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Kathleen Crane
2003
Sea Legs is the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. By turns personal and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea and her research of deep-sea underwater volcanoes. As research doors in the United States closed during the 1980s, Crane charted her scientific future with the Europeans and with scientists from the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. In the process, she became an unwitting diplomat.
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From the Galapagos dives in the Alvin and early searches for Titanic, to many of the first scientific expeditions of the Arctic, Crane offers an exclusive and compelling first-hand account as a pioneer for women in oceanography. An explorer, environmentalist, and filmmaker, Crane's story encompasses the world's oceans, politics, international relations, scientific espionage, ships, and a passion for the natural world. At its heart, however, this is a story about humanity and the forces that drive people to persevere, despite the odds, and do the things they love.
[Excerpt from dust jacket.]
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Gary Paul Nabhan
1994
"In part to ponder my Mediterranean roots and in part to learn of the land of my Saint, San Francisco," Gary Paul Nabhan, one of America's finest nature writers and author of The Desert Smells Like Rain, decided to walk the two hundred miles from Florence to Assisi. Along the way he met peasant farmers eager to share the love of their plants and seeds, recipes and customs. The fruit of pilgrimage is writing that imaginatively traverses the boundary between nature and history.
[From back cover.]
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