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Going Rogue: An American Life HarperCollins One year ago Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet Yet even now few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is / On September 3 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world / As chief executive of Americas largest state she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about Energy independence Ethics reform And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U S history And while revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations Palin also beat the political good ol boys club at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel / Like her GOP running mate John McCain Palin wasnt a packaged and over-produced candidate She was a Main Street American woman a working mom wife of a blue collar union man and mother of five children the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest an infant with special needs Palins hometown story touched a populist nerve rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket / But as the campaign unfolded Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism Supporters called her refreshing and honest a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin / In this eagerly anticipated memoir Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska meeting her lifelong love her decision to enter politics the importance of faith and family and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race providing a rare moms-eye view of high-stakes national politics from patriots dedicated to Country First to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost / Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizens extraordinary journey and imparts Palins vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth / Open: An Autobiography Knopf ISBN13 9780307268198 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a From Andre Agassi one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court a beautiful haunting autobiography r r Agassi s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child By the age of thirteen he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp Lonely scared a ninth-grade dropout he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon He dyes his hair pierces his ears dresses like a punk rocker By the time he turns pro at sixteen his new look promises to change tennis forever as does his lightning-fast return r r And yet despite his raw talent he struggles early on We feel his confusion as he loses to the world s best his greater confusion as he starts to win After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals Agassi shocks the world and himself by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target r r Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned Alongside vivid portraits of rivals from several generations Jimmy Connors Pete Sampras Roger Federer Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields He reveals a shattering loss of confidence And he recounts his spectacular resurrection a comeback climaxing with his epic run at the 1999 French Open and his march to become the oldest man ever ranked number one r r In clear taut prose Agassi evokes his loyal brother his wise coach his gentle trainer all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf Inspired by her quiet strength he fights through crippling pain from a deteriorating spine to remain a dangerous opponent in the twenty-first and final year of his career Entering his last tournament in 2006 he s hailed for completing a stunning metamorphosis from nonconformist to elder statesman from dropout to education advocate And still he s not done At a U S Open for the ages he makes a courageous last stand then delivers one of the most stirring farewells ever heard in a sporting arena r r With its breakneck tempo and raw candor Open will be read and cherished for years A treat for ardent fans it will also captivate readers who know nothing about When the Game Was Ours Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA These were the basketball epics of the 1980s--Celtics vs Lakers East vs West physical vs finesse Old School vs Showtime even white vs black Each pushed the other to greatness--together Bird and Johnson collected 8 NBA Championships and 6 MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at its most critical time When it started they were bitter rivals but along the way they became lifelong friends / With intimate fly-on-the-wall detail When the Game Was Ours transports readers to this electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting one another From the heady days of trading championships to the darker days of injury and illness we come to understand Larrys obsessive devotion to winning and how his demons drove him on the court We hear him talk with candor about playing through chronic pain and its truly exacting toll In Magic we see a young invincible star struggle with the sting of defeat not just as a player but as a team leader We are there the moment he learns hes contracted HIV and hear in his own words how that devastating news impacted his relationships in basketball and beyond But always in both cases we see them prevail / A compelling up-close-and-personal portrait of basketballs most inimitable duo When the Game Was Ours is a reevaluation of three decades in counterpoint It is also a rollicking ride through professional basketballs best times align left class h1 Amazon Exclusive Bill Walton Reviews When the Game Was Ours / r / r/ Bill Walton played in the NBA for 13 years and in 1996 was named one of the top 50 players in NBA history Hes been an analyst for CBS Sports and NBC Sports and since 2002 hes been a game analyst for ESPN NBA telecasts Read his guest review of When the Game Was Ours / r / mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ Bill Walton150 jpg / Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are transcendent iconic and timeless standard bearers of excellence who changed The Game forever always bringing out the best in each other and never failing to put a smile on all our faces / I was one of the lucky ones I had the incredible good fortune to have witnessed firsthand the Bird/ Magic rivalry It was an intense and constant thing for us all But even I didnt realize how powerful their connection was until I read When the Game Was Ours a riveting and page-turning masterpiece that could only be written with the help of someone like Jackie MacMullan who was there every step of the way and who sensed there was a whole lot more to their story than what happened on the court or got played over and over again on the highlight reels In this book Larry and Magic tell stories like they never have before I was enthralled page after page Theirs was a unique relationship They were polar opposites but in ways few of us realized they were very much the same They both wanted the same thing day in and day out--to win And did they know how to win / When the Game Was Ours perfectly captures the defining moments of their lives from the very beginning of their fiercest of rivalries through their constantly evolving historical relationship and friendship right up to the present This epic tome is the capstone of their landmark careers It is also so much more than anyone could ever dream for When the Game Was Ours brilliantly explains why The Game will always belong to Larry and Magic -- Bill Walton / Photo Joe Faraoni/ ESPN / r/ hr class bucketDivider size 1 / r/ align left class h1 Amazon Exclusive A Q A with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson / r/ mg True Compass: A Memoir Twelve ISBN13 9780446539258 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Edward M Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nations history He is also the patriarch of Americas most heralded family In this landmark autobiography five years in the making Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candor about his extraordinary life / R / R R/ The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected As a young man he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F Kennedy In 1962 he was elected to the U S Senate where he learned how to become an effective legislator / R / R R/ His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance a love for family and an abiding faith He writes movingly of his brothers and their influence on him his years of struggle in the wake of their deaths his marriage to the woman who changed his life Victoria Reggie Kennedy his role in the major events of our time from the civil rights movement to the election of Barack Obama and how his recent diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor has given even greater urgency to his long crusade for improved health care for all Americans / R / R R/ Written with warmth wit and grace True Compass is Edward M Kennedys inspiring legacy to readers and to history Product Description / r In this landmark autobiography five years in the making Senator Edward M Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family politics and fifty years at the center of national events r r TRUE COMPASS / r r The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected As a young man he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F Kennedy recounted here in loving detail In 1962 he was elected to the U S Senate where he began a fascinating political education and became a legislator r r In this historic memoir Ted Kennedy takes us inside his family re-creating life with his parents and brothers and explaining their profound impact on him For the first time he describes his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of their deaths Through it all he describes his work in the Senate on the major issues of our time--civil rights Vietnam Watergate the quest for peace in Northern Ireland--and the cause of his life improved health care for all Americans a fight influenced by his own experiences in hospitals r r His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance a love of family and an abiding faith There have been controversies too and Kennedy addresses them with unprecedented candor At midlife embattled and uncertain if he would ever fall in love again he met the woman who changed his life Victoria Reggie Kennedy Facing a tough reelection campaign against an aggressive challenger named Mitt Romney Kennedy found a new voice and began one of the great third acts in American politics sponsoring major legislation standing up for liberal principles and making the pivotal endorsement of Barack Obama for president r r Hundreds of books have been written about the Kennedys TRUE COMPASS will endure as the definitive account from a member of Americas most heralded family an inspiring legacy to readers and to history and a deeply moving story of a life like no other r r hr class bucketDivider size 1 / span class h1 A Look at Edward M Kennedy Through the Years / / span r/ Click on each image below to see a larger view r/ r/ A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity Broadway Books ISBN13 9780767928823 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The year was 1957 the month September and I had just turned eight years old Dwight Eisenhower was President but in my life it was the diminutive intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive For reasons you will soon understand my parents had remanded me to the penal institution of St Brigid s School in Westbury New York a cruel and unusual punishment if there ever was one r r Already I had barely survived my first two years at St Brigid s because I was well a little nitwit Not satisfied with memorizing the Baltimore Catechism s fine prose which featured passages like God made me to show his goodness and to make me happy with him in heaven I was constantly annoying my classmates and of course the no-nonsense Sister Lurana With sixty overactive students in her class she was understandably short on patience For survival she had also become quick on the draw r r Then it happened One day I blurted out some dumb remark and Sister Lurana was on me like a panther Her black habit blocked out all distractions as she leaned down looked me in the eye and uttered words I have never forgotten William you are a bold fresh piece of humanity r r And she was dead-on / One day in 1957 in the third-grade classroom of St Brigid s parochial school an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O Reilly and said William you are a bold fresh piece of humanity Little did she know that she was early in his career as a troublemaker defining the essence of Bill O Reilly and providing him with the title of his brash and entertaining issues-based memoir r r And this time it s personal In his most intimate book yet O Reilly goes back in time to examine the people places and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family his neighborhood his church and his schools and how his views on America s proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent What will delight his numerous fans and surprise many others is the humor and self-deprecation with which he handles one of his core subjects himself and just how O Reilly Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Doubleday ISBN13 9780385522267 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The bestselling author of Into the Wild Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning eloquent account of a remarkable young man s haunting journey r r Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast In May 2002 Tillman walked away from his 3 6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army He was deeply troubled by 9/ 11 and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban Two years later he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan r r Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman s own platoon had fired the fatal shots the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman s wife other family members and the American public for five weeks following his death During this time President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman s name to promote his administration s foreign policy Long after Tillman s nationally televised memorial service the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible r r In Where Men Win Glory Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman s journals and letters interviews with his wife and friends conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven complex and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death Before he enlisted in the army Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding With his shoulder-length hair outspoken views and boundless intellectual curiosity Tillman was considered a maverick America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut Sent first to Iraq a war he would openly declare was illegal as hell and eventually to Afghanistan Tillman was driven by complicated emotionally charged sometimes contradictory notions of duty honor justice patriotism and masculine pride Book Description / r / The bestselling author of em Into the Wild / em em Into Thin Air / em and em Under the Banner of Heaven / em delivers a stunning eloquent account of a remarkable young man s haunting journey r / em r / / em Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast In May 2002 Tillman walked away from his 3 6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army He was deeply troubled by 9/ 11 and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban Two years later he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan r / r / Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman s own platoon had fired the fatal shots the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman s wife other family members and the American public for five weeks following his death During this time President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman s name to promote his administration s foreign policy Long after Tillman s nationally televised memorial service the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible r / r / In em Where Men Win Glory / em Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman s journals and letters interviews with his wife and friends conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven complex and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account em / em of the events and actions that led to his death Before he enlisted in the army Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding With his shoulder-length hair outspoken views and boundless intellectual curiosity Tillman was considered a maverick America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut Sent first to Iraq a war he would openly declare was illegal as hell and eventually to Afghanistan Tillman was driven by complicated emotionally charged sometimes contradictory notions of duty honor justice A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit Sentinel HC ISBN13 9781595230621 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The first Christmas was a simple one So simple that it had all the makings of a first-class disaster Its a miracle it turned out well at all In fact thats the whole point It really was and remains a miracle--the greatest miracle of all time And it really was simple R -Mike Huckabee R R Christmas has become synonymous with shopping overindulging competition and stress But according to Mike Huckabee who was a pastor before getting into politics that was never Gods intention Going back to the Nativity Christmas is supposed to be about simple things faith love family and hope The hard part in todays crazy world is remembering that those simple things are the most precious of all R R Now Huckabee recounts twelve Christmas memories--often funny sometimes deeply moving--that range from his childhood in Arkansas to his years as a young husband and father to his time as a governor and then a presidential candidate These true stories will help you smile take a deep breath and maybe slow down your own holiday treadmill For instance R R As kids Mike and his sister would sneak open their gifts before Christmas play with them then rewrap them so their parents wouldnt notice The plan worked great for several years until one Christmas morning when young Mike unwrapped a brand-new football that was covered in mud That led to a powerful lesson about patience R R In 1966 like millions of preteens Mike was obsessed with the Beatles He dug in his heels telling his parents that if they wouldnt buy him a guitar for Christmas he didnt want anything at all He was selfish stubborn and obnoxious with no idea what it would take for working-class parents to find an extra 99 It took many years for him to understand the sacrifice they made for that life-changing gift--or how it connected to the Lords own sacrifice R R Only a year after Mike and his wife Janet had gotten married she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at the shocking age of twenty That Christmas of 1975 was the most terrifying and upsetting they would ever know as they wondered if they would ever get to share another one But in retrospect its a Christmas they will treasure forever R R If youre looking for a little clarity sanity and inspiration at this insane time of year youre sure to enjoy A Simple Christmas Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Penguin Books ISBN13 9780143038252 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The astonishing uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban s backyard / Anyone who despairs of the individual s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson a homeless mountaineer who following a 1993 climb of Pakistan s treacherous K2 was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools especially for girls that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth As it chronicles Mortenson s quest which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit Lit: A Memoir Harper ISBN13 9780060596989 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The Liars Club brought to vivid indelible life Mary Karrs hardscrabble Texas childhood Cherry her account of her adolescence continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal Entertainment Weekly Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinners descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness-and to her astonishing resurrection Karrs longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore But she cant outrun her apocalyptic past She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother reaching the brink of suicide A hair-raising stint in The Mental Marriott with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith Not since Saint Augustine cried Give me chastity Lord-but not yet has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober becoming a mother by letting go of a mother learning to write by learning to live Written with Karrs relentless honesty unflinching self-scrutiny and irreverent lacerating humor it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up-as only Mary Karr can tell it Product Description / r/ The Liars Club brought to vivid indelible life Mary Karrs hardscrabble Texas childhood Cherry her account of her adolescence continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal Entertainment Weekly Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinners descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection / Karrs longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore But she cant outrun her apocalyptic past She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother reaching the brink of suicide A hair-raising stint in The Mental Marriott with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith Not since Saint Augustine cried Give me chastity Lord-but not yet has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity / Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober becoming a mother by letting go of a mother learning to write by learning to live Written with Karrs relentless honesty unflinching self-scrutiny and irreverent lacerating humor it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it / r/ hr class bucketDivider size 1 / r/ align left class h1 Photos from Mary Karr / r/ Click to Enlarge / r width 100 border 0 cellspacing 1 cellpadding 1 align center valign top class tiny width 25 mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ DadDogs175 jpg border 0 / width 25 mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ CharlieKarr175 jpg border 0 / width 25 mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ Mary and howard nemerov175 jpg border 0 / width 25 mg src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ MaryMentaMarriott175 jpg border 0 / / align center valign top class tiny width 25 Marys much adored oil-worker Daddy / The Glass Castle: A Memoir Scribner ISBN13 9780743247542 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children In the beginning they lived like nomads moving among Southwest desert towns camping in the mountains Rex was a charismatic brilliant man who when sober captured his childrens imagination teaching them physics geology and above all how to embrace life fearlessly Rose Mary who painted and wrote and couldnt stand the responsibility of providing for her family called herself an excitement addict Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever Later when the money ran out or the romance of the wandering life faded the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape He drank He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days As the dysfunction of the family escalated Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves supporting one another as they weathered their parents betrayals and finally found the resources and will to leave home What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity Hers is a story of triumph against all odds but also a tender moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms For two decades Jeannette Walls hid her roots Now she tells her own story A regular contributor to MSNBC com she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor Jeannette Wallss father always called her Mountain Goat and theres perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically In The Glass Castle Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric nomadic parents--Rose Mary her frustrated-artist mother and Rex her brilliant alcoholic father To call the elder Wallss childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly As Rose Mary and Rex motivated by whims and paranoia uprooted their kids time and again the youngsters Walls her brother and two sisters were left largely to their own devices But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes they themselves never seemed to do so repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family from the embarrassing wearing shoes held together with safety pins using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants to the horrific being told after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity that sexual assault is a crime of perception and being pimped by her father at a bar Though Walls has well earned the right to complain at no point does she play the victim In fact Walls removed nonjudgmental stance is initially startling since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive and unquestioningly neglectful But on the contrary Walls respects her parents knack for making hardships feel like adventures and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover --Brangien Davis