African Silences

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MATTHIESSEN, PETER

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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Guardian of the Word

Camara, Laye

Literature & Fiction

She Came to Stay

BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE

Literary

In 1982 Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual adviser to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison.  In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying.  At the same time, she came to  know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute him--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.  Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment.  Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the Christian imperative of love, Dead Man Walking is an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating.

Dead Man Walking

Politics & Social Sciences

Sister Helen Prejean

Social Sciences

“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas.” —The New York TimesNotebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the early 1980s to talk with workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, new immigrants, desperate Arabs, and visionaries, asking them questions about Israel’s past, present, and future. What he heard is set down here in those distinctive voices, alongside Oz’s observations and reflections. A classic insider’s view of a land whose complex past and troubled present make for an uncertain future.“Oz’s vignettes . . . wondrously re-create whole worlds with an economy of words.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

In The Land Of Israel

OZ, AMOS.

<p>When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing, transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of Rock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife—first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback—is a book whose spare poetry and expansive vision established it as an American classic.</p>

Wildlife

FORD, RICHARD

Contemporary

Et Tu, Babe

Leyner, Mark

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFar more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and—described in haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs and lows of his celebrated career.

Open: An Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Agassi, André

Memoirs

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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

Engineering & Transportation

HOLMES, Richard

Transportation

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