Listening: Ways of Hearing in a Silent World
 Beautiful book: This is a delightful memoir written by a woman who cannot hear. In losing her ability to hear, she gained an awareness of the importance of listening. It is that awareness that she shares in this book. _Listening_ is a composite of [... more]
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Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East
The author of THE VIRGINIAN: Owen Wister was born in Philadelphia into elite society, went to Harvard where he studied music and the law, travelled out West because of ill health, fell in love with Wyoming and began writing short stories with western [... more]
$24.95
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Dax's Case: Essays in Medical Ethics and Human Meaning
A Case of Right-To-Die in Texas: This is, literally, a textbook case for medical ethics and the right-to-die -- to determine one's own destiny. In 1973 "Dax" was critically injured in a propane gas explosion that took his father's life and [... more]
$14.95
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The Reality of God and Other Essays
Author: Schubert M. Ogden Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 231 EAN: 9780870743184 ISBN: 087074318X Number Of Pages: 237 Publication Date: 1992-04 [... more]
$14.95
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Rockspring (Southwest Life and Letters)
Author: R. G. Vliet Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780870743344 ISBN: 0870743341 Number Of Pages: 129 Publication Date: 1992-06 [... more]
$9.95
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Go the Distance: Baseball Stories
Slugger McBatt?: I think this was originally released as The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt; if so, this is another great opportunity to be entertained and moved by Kinsella. I've been reading his baseball books since I was a youngster, and they [... more]
$10.95
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JFK for a New Generation
Surprisingly thorough coverage for a "coffee table" book.: Although this book is intended for the "next generation", I found it well worth reading, and was impressed with Ms. Hunt's thorough and detailed coverage of the assassination, [... more]
$19.95
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Partial View: An Alzheimer's Journal
Great book for great people: This book is extraordinary if I do say so myself! Cary Henderson is my grandfather. He was diagnosed with AD soon after I was born. I have no memory of him not having it. It has gotten so bad no that a I feel like he is [... more]
$24.95
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Texas Bound IV: More Stories by Texas Writers
Excellent literary and cultural reflections on Texas: A book/audio combination provides an excellent package of stories written and read by Texas authors and actors. Texas Bound IV provides an excellent set of literary and cultural reflections on Texas, [... more]
$17.95
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In the Shadow of Our House
Powerful stories, unsettling: This writer reminds me of a youngish John Cheever or Faulkner who happened to turn his eye, not on the dissipated affluent or dispossessed Southerners, but on the otherworldly everyday, in Austin, Texas. Characters nurture [... more]
$19.95
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The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood's Big Studio System
Best book on Hollywood I've ever read: Did you know Coco Chanel designed costumes for three films? Do you know the difference between a first, second, and third AD? Do you know what a key light is? Can you tell the difference between a Paramount film and [... more]
$14.95
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Texas Bound: 19 Texas Stories (Southwest Life and Letters)
Spell-binding short stories of Texas: From the preface: "Since 1992, Texas actors have a theater audience as part of the literary series "Arts and Letters Live" at the Dallas Museum of Art. Out of the great success of these readings has [... more]
$12.95
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