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Books: Text Books: American Literature
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalistby Roger Lowenstein List Price: $18.95 Available from Amazon $12.32 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the 20th century -- an astounding net worth of $10 billion and counting. That awesome record has made him a cult figure. This illuminating biography reveals a man whose conscientiousness, integrity, and good humor exist alongside an odd emotional isolation. Buffett also masterfully traces his life: his enormously successful partnership; his early, inspired investments in American Express and Geico; his companionship and investment with Katharine Graham of the Washington Post; his role in the Capital cities purchase of ABC; his unique relationship with his wife and mistress; and his rescue of the scandal-ridden Salomon Brothers.
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An American Childhoodby Annie Dillard List Price: $14.00 Available from Amazon $10.78 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole afternoon (or many whole afternoons) endlessly pitching a ball at a target. In this intoxicating account of her childhood, Dillard climbs back inside her 5-, 10-, and 15-year-old selves with apparent effortlessness. The voracious young Dillard embraces headlong one fascination after another--from drawing to rocks and bugs to the French symbolists. "Everywhere, things snagged me," she writes. "The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world." From her parents she inherited a love of language--her mother's speech was "an endlessly interesting, swerving path"--and the understanding that "you do what you do out of your private passion for the thing itself," not for anyone else's approval or desire. And one would be mistaken to call the energy Dillard exhibits in An American Childhood merely youthful; "still I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day," she writes, "as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive." From Publishers Weekly Dillard's luminous prose painlessly captures the pain of growing up in this wonderful evocation of childhood. Her memoir is partly a hymn to Pittsburgh, where orange streetcars ran on Penn Avenue in 1953 when she was eight, and where the Pirates were always in the cellar. Dillard's mother, an unstoppable force, had energies too vast for the bridge games and household chores that stymied her. Her father made low-budget horror movies, loved Dixieland jazz, told endless jokes and sight-gags and took lonesome river trips down to New Orleans to get away. From this slightly odd couple, Dillard (Teaching a Stone to Talk acquired her love of nature and taut sensitivity. The events of childhood often loom larger than life; the magic of Dillard's writing is that she sets down typical childhood happenings with their original immediacy and force. Copyright 1987 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
American Literature (EZ-101 Study Keys)by Francis E. Skipp Available from Amazon $8.99 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Key topics start with colonial writers and cover three centuries of American prose and poetry, including present-day trends and influences. Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks. |
101 More Hymn Storiesby Kenneth W. Osbeck List Price: $14.99 Available from Amazon $9.74 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Product Review Booktalk : 101 More Hymn Stories is a most inspiring reminder of the faith that has gone before and of the value of the great hymns. Booktalk : 101 More Hymn Stories is the most inspiring reminder of the faith that has gone before and of the value of great hymns. Provident Bookfinder : It is common knowledge that nothing breaks down the barriers between people as do songs and music. When these stories of the origin of the hymns we sing are added, it makes singing even more meaningful, increasing understanding, and multiplies blessing. Cliff Barrows Billy Graham Evangelistic Association : These are a wealth of information and enjoyable reading. Sword of the Lord There can be little disagreement with the claim that next to the bible itself, the hymnal is a book of primary importance in the Christian ministry. It is for this reason that I heartily commend Ken Osbeck's book(s) on hymn backgrounds. Truth Aflame : This book should be on the shelf of every pastor and congregational song leader. . . Mid-American Theological Journal : This book will be a blessing to all who read it. Book Description (Foreword by Cliff Barrows) More inspiring stories behind the hymns of past and contemporary favorites. |
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