Every Eighteen Minutes
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Aussie Book Karma
Showing posts with label General Non-Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Non-Fiction. Show all posts
Love in a Torn Land
Saturday, June 7, 2008 by Aussie Book Karma
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Title: Love in a Torn LandAuthor: Jean Sasson
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death.It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin ‘Chemical Ali’ to bombard Joanna’s village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape.Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women’s lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious ‘Chemical Ali’, Saddam Hussein’s most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available
Fondling Your Muse
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Title: Fondling Your MuseAuthor: John Warner
Category: General Non-Fiction, Writing
Blurb: Fondling Your Muse is John Warner's innovative and slightly insane book of instruction for those who want to write, and those who think they already can. It's packed with quirky (possibly deranged) advice guaranteed to make you laugh out loud in the most embarrassing fashion possible. You know what we mean. It also includes a special chapter entitled "Everything Stephen King Knows About Writing Successfully: Plus Some Things I Know That He Doesn't Because He Isn't That Special."
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available
Writing a Romance Novel for Dummies
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Title: Writing a Romance Novel for DummiesAuthor: Leslie Wainger
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: Writing A Romance Novel For Dummies is perfect for both beginning and more accomplished writers who are looking to get the leading edge on writing a romance novel and get it published. Leslie Wainger, Executive Editor at Harlequin Books, explains what it takes to become the next Nora Roberts, providing the techniques you need to succeed.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available
Idiot's Guide to Getting Your Romance Published
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Title: Idiot's Guide to Getting Your Romance PublishedAuthor: Julie Beard
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: If you genuinely love happy endings, Julie Beard (My Fair Lord) is here to help you become the next, well, Julie Beard. Embedded within chapters about writing and publishing and promoting your romance are all kinds of juicy tidbits about the romance biz. Beard discusses each romance subgenre in detail, disclosing typical story lines, the appropriate tone to use, and authors whose work is worth checking out.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available
The Bookseller of Kabul
Friday, June 6, 2008 by Aussie Book Karma
Title: The Bookseller of KabulAuthor: Asne Seierstad
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: A female journalist from Norway moved in with the Khan family in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Disguised as she was behind the bulky, shapeless burka and escorted always by a man and even in Western dress, she was somehow anonymous and accepted readily into the bookseller's large extended family. Her account is of the tragedy, contradictions, rivalries, and daily frustrations of a middle-class Afghan family. She accompanied the women as they shopped and dressed for a wedding and was privy to the negotiations for the marriage. She tells of the death by suffocation of a young woman who met her lover in secret, the bored meanderings of a 12-year-old boy forced to work 12-hour days selling candy in a hotel lobby, and of going on a religious pilgrimage with a restless, frustrated teen. All this is recounted with journalistic objectivity in spite of her close ties to the Khans.
Owner: Helen
Posted: 14 April 08
Status: Available
English Social History
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Title: English Social HistoryAuthor: G M Trevelyan
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: Trevelyan's best known work is a pioneering classic, and in many respects remains a great achievement. It covers the period from the early fourteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and is one of the very first attempts to describe everyday life in England between these dates. It is not entirely consistent in approach, but in the main it centres around certain individuals whose writing is important in understanding their times: Chaucer, Defoe and Cobbett, for example.
Owner: Debbie
Posted: 16 April 08
Status: Available
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