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  The Autobiographical Trilogy -...

  Laurie Lee

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  A young man’s journey—from the international bestselling account of his idyllic childhood in rural England to “a poetic memoir” of the Spanish Civil War (The Washington Post).   In his acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, “one of the great writers of the twentieth century” presents a vivid portrait of coming of age in Europe between the wars (The Independent). Beginning with the international bestselling, lyrical memoir of his childhood in the Cotswolds, Laurie Lee follows up with a fascinating travel narrative of crossing England and Spain on foot, and brings the story to a climax with a gripping chronicle of his part in the Spanish Civil War.  Cider with Rosie:International Bestseller Three years old and wrapped in a Union Jack to protect him from the sun, Laurie Lee arrived in the village of Slad in the final summer of the First World War. The cottage his mother had rented had neither running water nor electricity, but it was surrounded by a lovely half-acre garden and big enough for the seven children in her care. In this verdant valley tucked into the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, Lee learned to look at life with a painter’s eye and a poet’s heart—qualities of vision that, decades later, would make him one of England’s most cherished authors.   “A remarkable book . . . dazzling.” —The New York Times  As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: At age nineteen, Lee set out to walk the hundred miles from Slad to London, carrying only a change of clothes, his violin, a tent, a tin of biscuits, and some cheese. With a detour of an extra hundred miles to see the sea for the first time, Lee hopped a ferry to Spain because he knew enough Spanish to ask for a glass of water, and wandered the country for a year on foot. In one of the finest travel narratives of the twentieth century, Lee offers an unforgettable portrait of Spain on the eve of its civil war.   “The vivid, sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened after [Lee] left home.” —The Daily Mail  A Moment of War: Returning to a divided Spain in the bitter December of 1937 by crossing the Pyrenees from France, the idealistic young Lee came face to face with the reality of war, in this New York Times Notable Book. The International Brigade he sought to join was far from the gallant fighting force he’d envisioned but instead a collection of misfits without proper leadership or purpose. In a sudden confrontation with the enemy, he was left feeling anything but heroic. Captured more than once as a spy, Lee was lucky to escape with his life.   “Written with brilliant economy and belongs to the remarkable literature which the Spanish Civil War inspired.” —The Independent

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  Summary of Barack Obama's A...

  Swift Reads

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  Buy now to get the insights from Barack Obama's A Promised Land. 
    
  Sample Insights: 
  1) Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States, did not come from a political family. He had liberal maternal grandparents who left the Midwest before he was born and moved to Hawaii, away from political and racial turmoil in the 1960s. 
  2) Obama’s mother was different from her parents, and had strong opinions. She had rebelled against convention ever since her schooldays, joined civil rights marches, and advocated against the Vietnam War and for women’s rights. Yet she never actively participated in politics.

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  Coming into the End Zone - A Memoir

  Doris Grumbach

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  A New York Times Notable Book: One woman’s search for the value of a long life  With the advent of her seventieth birthday, many changes have beset Doris Grumbach: the rapidly accelerating speed of the world around her, the premature deaths of her younger friends, her own increasing infirmities, and her move from cosmopolitan Washington, DC, to the calm of the Maine coast. Coming into the End Zone is an account of everything Grumbach observes over the course of a year. Astute observations and vivid memories of quotidian events pepper her story, which surprises even her with its fullness and vigor.  Coming into the End Zone captures the days of a woman entering a new stage of life with humanity and abiding hope.

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  Farmer John's Cookbook - The...

  Jon Peterson

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  Get a taste of farm life with seasonal recipes and stories from the founder of Angelic Organics, the popular CSA farm with members across the Chicago area.John Peterson grew up on the family farm he later transformed into the community supported farm Angelic Organics. For him, farming isn’t just about growing vegetables. It is also about building relationships between the farm and the people it serves. A leader in organic and biodynamic gardening, his passion is helping to connect people with their food, their farmers, and healthful living. In Farmer John’s Cookbook, readers get to experience a slice of farming life through stories and recipes that are arranged seasonally by crop. Peterson shares information on storing and preserving perishables as well as tips for using more peculiar vegetables grown on his farm, such as sunchokes and kohlrabi. Farmer John’s Cookbook is a “farm kitchen bible presented with missionary zeal” (Publishers Weekly).

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  Washington's Revolution - The...

  Robert Middlekauff

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  A vivid new portrait of the formative years that made George Washington a great leader, from a highly respected and accomplished historian who is a Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist. 
  George Washington was famously unknowable, but Robert Middlekauff penetrates the mystique to reveal the fears, values, and passions that drove him. Rich in psychological details regarding Washington's temperament, idiosyncrasies, and experiences, this audiobook shows us a self-conscious Washington who grew in confidence and experience as a young soldier, businessman, and Virginian gentleman; and was transformed into an American patriot by the revolutionary ferment of the 1760s and 70s. Taking command of an army constantly in dire need—without adequate food, weapons, and, at times, even clothing and shoes, right up until the end—Washington displayed incredible persistence and resourcefulness, and evolved into a leader who understood perhaps better than anyone the crucial role the army had to play in the formation of a new American society. Washington, Middlekauff leaves no doubt, was at the heart not just of the revolution's course and outcome, but also the success of the nation that it produced. This is an essential audiobook for understanding the character of one of America's great figures.

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  Kubrick's Men

  Richard Rambuss

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  The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic—or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone. 
   
   
   
  The stories that Kubrick's movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals. They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art. 
   
   
   
  Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick's three bodies of work, Kubrick's Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick's male-oriented work. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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