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Passing Time in the Loo
Passing Time In The Loo Book Vol 2
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\nBrand New In Packaging
\n552 Pages
\nCover Soft
\ Scarab
\ 21.5cm x 14cm
\ £16.95
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\nMore for the person who has it all but doesnt know it all. Around 600 pages of comprehensive two-page book summaries, topical overviews and other vital information
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\nDreamscapes & Realityscapes”enlightening overviews of the worlds literary masterpieces, classic to contemporary, fiction to Farm, The Odyssey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Catch-22, Childhoods End, Ten Little Indians, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Rabbit Run
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\nWalking Back in Time”the drama of history through the worlds most amazing and illuminating 100 Events That Shaped the World, The Medieval Underworld, Touching the Void, Roots, The March of Folly.
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\nThey Made a Difference”biographies of cultural icons, sports champions, business moguls, movie stars, comedians, musical geniuses, political legends, and guardians of humanity.
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\nPoets & Poetry”of the most Shakespeare, Longfellow, Shelley, Dickinson, Whitman, Browning, Frost, Parker, Nash, Plath, Prelutsky
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\nThoughts Worth Pondering”Classic Comedy collections,
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\nWisecracks & Witticisms, Lights to Live by, Maxims & Mottos fantastic Facts”trivia to learn by, brainteasers and fun.
\n
\nBrand New In Packaging
\n552 Pages
\nCover Soft
\ Scarab
\ 21.5cm x 14cm
\ £16.95
\n
\nMore for the person who has it all but doesnt know it all. Around 600 pages of comprehensive two-page book summaries, topical overviews and other vital information
\n
\nDreamscapes & Realityscapes”enlightening overviews of the worlds literary masterpieces, classic to contemporary, fiction to Farm, The Odyssey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Catch-22, Childhoods End, Ten Little Indians, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Rabbit Run
\n
\nWalking Back in Time”the drama of history through the worlds most amazing and illuminating 100 Events That Shaped the World, The Medieval Underworld, Touching the Void, Roots, The March of Folly.
\n
\nThey Made a Difference”biographies of cultural icons, sports champions, business moguls, movie stars, comedians, musical geniuses, political legends, and guardians of humanity.
\n
\nPoets & Poetry”of the most Shakespeare, Longfellow, Shelley, Dickinson, Whitman, Browning, Frost, Parker, Nash, Plath, Prelutsky
\n
\nThoughts Worth Pondering”Classic Comedy collections,
\n
\nWisecracks & Witticisms, Lights to Live by, Maxims & Mottos fantastic Facts”trivia to learn by, brainteasers and fun.
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First published September 25, 2007
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April 25, 2019
This is one of those books which apart from does exactly what it says on the cover (although no I didnt read it there) it is a book you never feel like you have completed reading.
It is basically a whole load of subjects (from famous books of many differing genres, famous people, poetry and even just fun facts on various subjects) all condensed down in to short chapters which are easy for dipping in and out of.
True this format though brilliant for quick random reads does mean its a bit of a drain on longer reading hence why its sat on this list for a while (and even longer reading before I recorded it).
One of the issues I had also - which may have pulled a star off the rating was that the binding made it very tricky to read. The text is small and with a large book and tight binding you do run the risk of either breaking the spin or creasing the book. Neither of which i really want to do so I always struggling to read the entries.
That said the various articles and concise and easy to read and highly enjoyable. I know in other books of a similar style you have to connect with the format and "voice" of the author something I have struggled with in other books.
Like I say this is a book I will be returning to - to re-visit some articles and others to explore again as I know feel like I have missed things. maybe on a second pass I will discover something new and maybe even revisit the rating
It is basically a whole load of subjects (from famous books of many differing genres, famous people, poetry and even just fun facts on various subjects) all condensed down in to short chapters which are easy for dipping in and out of.
True this format though brilliant for quick random reads does mean its a bit of a drain on longer reading hence why its sat on this list for a while (and even longer reading before I recorded it).
One of the issues I had also - which may have pulled a star off the rating was that the binding made it very tricky to read. The text is small and with a large book and tight binding you do run the risk of either breaking the spin or creasing the book. Neither of which i really want to do so I always struggling to read the entries.
That said the various articles and concise and easy to read and highly enjoyable. I know in other books of a similar style you have to connect with the format and "voice" of the author something I have struggled with in other books.
Like I say this is a book I will be returning to - to re-visit some articles and others to explore again as I know feel like I have missed things. maybe on a second pass I will discover something new and maybe even revisit the rating
May 19, 2016
The book is a 606 pages of worthy library filled with seemingly all the information you need to know to be a very knowledgeable person.
In a condensed but well-written style, the book has a perfect balance between fiction and non-fiction collection: short biographies of 25 of the most influential personalities in history, summary of 35 of some of the best business books (from Tom Peter's "A Passion for Excellence" to Peter Lynch's "One Up on Wall Street"), 19 synopsis in personal effectiveness books (like "7 habits of highly effective people"), 80+ classical literature summaries (such as Dickens, Shakespeare, Thoreau, Wilde, Voltaire and Hemmingway), and even the synopsis of some of the most influential books for mankind such as Darwin's "Origins of Species", Marx's "Das Kapital" and Plato's "The Republic."
Moreover, the book also has a huge volume of inspiring quotations, a no-nonsense guide to a lot of practical things, challenging quizzes and miscellaneous trivial facts from geography, to sports, art and music. Although the title of the book is slightly damaging its credibility, I can't deny that with the short narrative for each topic, it is indeed best to read the book in a toilet. After all, can you think of a better place to learn and contemplate some of the best knowledge in life?
In a condensed but well-written style, the book has a perfect balance between fiction and non-fiction collection: short biographies of 25 of the most influential personalities in history, summary of 35 of some of the best business books (from Tom Peter's "A Passion for Excellence" to Peter Lynch's "One Up on Wall Street"), 19 synopsis in personal effectiveness books (like "7 habits of highly effective people"), 80+ classical literature summaries (such as Dickens, Shakespeare, Thoreau, Wilde, Voltaire and Hemmingway), and even the synopsis of some of the most influential books for mankind such as Darwin's "Origins of Species", Marx's "Das Kapital" and Plato's "The Republic."
Moreover, the book also has a huge volume of inspiring quotations, a no-nonsense guide to a lot of practical things, challenging quizzes and miscellaneous trivial facts from geography, to sports, art and music. Although the title of the book is slightly damaging its credibility, I can't deny that with the short narrative for each topic, it is indeed best to read the book in a toilet. After all, can you think of a better place to learn and contemplate some of the best knowledge in life?
October 29, 2016
Another great selection of summaries of books, biographies, speeches and general trivia. Terrible title though!
n.b. There is a third volume with more of the same, it's only available on a kindle though, I believe.
The contents are:
Passing Time in the Loo: Volume 2
LIBRARY 1: Dreamscapes – Exploring the Worlds Within
Everlands and Neverlands – whimsical parable, social allegory
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
On the Edge – mystery, terror and the supernatural
Alfred Hitchcock’s Supernatural Tales of Horror and Suspense
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Short Stories of Washington Irving
Ten Little Indians (Agatha Christie)
A Stranger is Watching (Mary Higgins Clark)
Round the Fire Stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Shining Armour – heroes of myth and legend
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
Fururescapes – science fiction classics
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
On the Beach (Nevil Shute)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
The Short Stories of Kurt Vonnegut
The Short Stories of Clark Ashton Smith
The Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
The Dreaming Jewels (Theodore Sturgeon)
LIBRARY 2: Realityscapes – Confronting the Waking World
Heartwarmers – learning life's lessons
Mama Makes Up Her Mind (and Other Dangers of Southern Living) (Bailey White)
Listening for the Crack of Dawn: A Master Storyteller Recalls the Appalachia of the '50s and '60s (Donald Davis)
The Short Stories of H.H. Munro (Saki)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Hearthstones – family and domestic drama
The Kitchen God’s Wife (Amy Tan)
Memory of Kin: Stories about Family (ed. Mary Helen Washington)
Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns)
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
The Human Experience – from Triumph to Despair
The Short Stories of O. Henry
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Seize the Day (Saul Bellow)
The Short Stories of John Cheever
Ambitious Pursuits – intrigue and adventure
Rising Sun (Michael Chrichton)
The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy)
Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
The Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper)
Wastelands – reaching for relevance
The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
The Short Stories of Pearl S. Buck
Ulysses (James Joyce)
The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
The Short Stories of Raymond Carver
The Short Stories of Isaac Babel
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred Taylor)
Transcendence and Realities – dealings in self doubt
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Short Stories of James Joyce
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
LIBRARY 3: Walking Back in Time – The Drama of History
What is History? (E.H. Carr)
Prejudice and Politics – select snapshots
Roots (Alex Haley)
The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom)
All the President’s Men (Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward)
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)
Kafir Boy (Mark Mathabane)
Personal Perspectives – courage and conquest
MiG Pilot (John Barron)
Touching the Void (Joe Simpson)
Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)
These Good Men (Michael Norman)
Danziger's Travels (Nick Danziger)
Situational Perspectives – through their own eyes
The Medieval Underworld (Andrew McCall)
Cannon Fodder (A. Stuart Dolden)
Women of the West (Cathy Luchetti)
Black Cowboys (Paul W. Stewart)
Brave Are My People (Frank Waters)
Drama Across Continents – a sampler of cultural histories
The Incas (Inca Garcilaso de la Vega)
The Fatal Shore (Robert Hughes)
India (Stanley Wolpert)
China: A Macro History (Ray Huang)
African Civilizations Revisited (Basil Davidson)
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History (Richard Shenkman)
The Canadians (Andrew H. Malcolm)
Turning Points – anthologies of historical highlights
Famous Last Words (Barnaby Conrad)
100 Events That Shaped World History (Bill Yenne)
The March of Folly (Barbra W. Tuchman)
Seeds of Change (Henry Hobhouse)
Disease and History (Frederick Cartwright)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Paul Kennedy)
Cradles of Civilization – setting the stages of today
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
The Vanished Library (Luciano Canfora)
The Histories and the History of the Persian Wars (Herodotus of Halicarnassus)
History of the Peloponnesian War and Hellenica (Thucydides & Xenophon)
When Egypt Ruled the West (George Steindorff & Keith C. Seele)
Human Rights Giants – citizens of the world
“The Perils of Indifference” (Elie Wiesel)
“The Rivonia Trial”, “Our March to Freedom” & “Glory and Hope” (Nelson Mandela)
“I Have a Dream” (Martin Luther King)
“Nonviolence Is...My Faith” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“Let Me Be a Free Man” (Chief Joseph)
“Citizen’s Right to Vote” (Susan B. Anthony)
“American Slavery” (Frederick Douglass)
The Patriot Pulpit – echoes across the globe
“After September 11” (George W. Bush )
“Eulogy” and “The Cost of Political Indifference” (Boris Yeltsin)
“Tear Down this Wall” (Ronald Reagan)
“Address to Israel's Knesset” (Anwar El-Sadat)
“Let Me Give You My Vision” & “The Falklands Factor” (Margaret Thatcher)
“Inaugural Address” & “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” (John F. Kennedy)
“The Locust Years”, “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”, “This Was Their Finest Hour” & “The Iron Curtain” (Winston Churchill)
“The Gettysburg Address” & “The Second Inaugural Address” (Abraham Lincoln)
“The Temple Speech” & “The Farewell Address”(George Washington)
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (Patrick Henry)
LIBRARY 4: They Made a Difference – Shapers of our world
Cultural Icons - trendsetters
Don't Shoot, It's Only Me (Bob Hope)
Forever Lucy: The Life of Lucille Ball (Joe Morella & Edward Z. Epstein)
If I Can Dream: Elvis' Own Story (Larry Geller & Joel Spector)
Marilyn: Norma Jeane, The Woman Who Will Not Die [bio of Marilyn Monroe] (Gloria Steinem)
The Autobiography of Mark Twain (ed. Charles Neider)
That's Entertainment – in the palm of their hands
Steven Spielberg: The Man, His Movies and Their Meaning (Philip M. Taylor)
Disney's World: A Biography [bio of Walt Disney] (Leonard Mosley)
Me: Stories of My Life (Katharine Hepburn)
The Gershwin Years (Edward Jablonski & Lawrence D. Stewart
Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography (Charles Chaplin)
Moguls – empires of their own making
Accidental Millionaire: The Rise and Fall of Steven Jobs at Apple Computers (Lee Butcher)
Dave's Way: A New Approach to Old-Fashioned Success (R. David Thomas)
Sam Walton: Made In America, My Story (Sam Walton with John Huey)
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( Andrew Carnegie)
Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist (Carol Gelderman)
Sports Greats – legends in their own time
HangTime: Days and Dreams with Jordan (Bob Greene)
Billie Jean (Billie Jean King with Frank Deford)
The Greatest: My Own Story (Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham)
Jackie Robinson: A Life Remembered (Maury Allen)
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (Robert W. Creamer)
Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete (Robert W. Wheeler)
Visionaries and Warriors – taking up a cause
Higher than Hope: Authorised Bio of Nelson Mandela (Faima Meer)
Albert Schweitzer, The Enigma (James Bentley)
The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)
Patton: The Man Behind the Legend (Martin Blumenson)
Geronimo: His Own Story (ed. S.M. Barrett)
Frederick Douglass (William S. McFeely)
Political Profiles – courage and power
Gorbachev (Gerd Ruge)
The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (Hugo Young)
Truman (David McCullough)
My Life (Golda Meir)
Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
LIBRARY 5: Poets and Poetry – Epic Verses and versemakers
Paradigm Poetry
William Shakespeare/ John Donne/ William Blake/
George Gordon “Lord” Byron/ Percy Bysshe Shelley/ John Keats
Mid- and Late-19th-century Lyricists
Elizabeth Barrett Browning/ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/ Edgar Allan Poe/
Alfred “Lord” Tennyson/ Walt Whitman/ Emily Dickinson/ Christina Rossetti
Twentieth-century Verse
Rudyard Kipling/ William Butler Yeats/ Robert Frost/ James Joyce/
William Carlos Williams/ Ezra Pound/ Marianne Moore/ T.S. Eliot
Popular Poetry Today
Dorothy Parker/ Ogden Nash/ Dylan Thomas/ Sylvia Plath/
Shel Silverstein/ Jack Prelutsky/ Larry Levis
LIBRARY 6: Thoughts Worth Pondering – Musings for the Moment
Classic Comedy Collections
Wisecracks and Witticisms
Comic Kids' Stuff
Maxims and Mottos
The Human Condition
The Religious Voice
Lights to Live By
Point/Counterpoint
Deep Ideas
Tutorial Tales
LIBRARY 7: Fantastic Facts – Oddities, inquiries and curiosities
BONUS BOOK
Spd Rdng – The Speed Reading Bible (Susan Norman & Jan Cisek)
n.b. There is a third volume with more of the same, it's only available on a kindle though, I believe.
The contents are:
Passing Time in the Loo: Volume 2
LIBRARY 1: Dreamscapes – Exploring the Worlds Within
Everlands and Neverlands – whimsical parable, social allegory
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
On the Edge – mystery, terror and the supernatural
Alfred Hitchcock’s Supernatural Tales of Horror and Suspense
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Short Stories of Washington Irving
Ten Little Indians (Agatha Christie)
A Stranger is Watching (Mary Higgins Clark)
Round the Fire Stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Shining Armour – heroes of myth and legend
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
Fururescapes – science fiction classics
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
On the Beach (Nevil Shute)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
The Short Stories of Kurt Vonnegut
The Short Stories of Clark Ashton Smith
The Short Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
The Dreaming Jewels (Theodore Sturgeon)
LIBRARY 2: Realityscapes – Confronting the Waking World
Heartwarmers – learning life's lessons
Mama Makes Up Her Mind (and Other Dangers of Southern Living) (Bailey White)
Listening for the Crack of Dawn: A Master Storyteller Recalls the Appalachia of the '50s and '60s (Donald Davis)
The Short Stories of H.H. Munro (Saki)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Hearthstones – family and domestic drama
The Kitchen God’s Wife (Amy Tan)
Memory of Kin: Stories about Family (ed. Mary Helen Washington)
Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns)
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
The Human Experience – from Triumph to Despair
The Short Stories of O. Henry
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Seize the Day (Saul Bellow)
The Short Stories of John Cheever
Ambitious Pursuits – intrigue and adventure
Rising Sun (Michael Chrichton)
The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy)
Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
The Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper)
Wastelands – reaching for relevance
The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
The Short Stories of Pearl S. Buck
Ulysses (James Joyce)
The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
The Short Stories of Raymond Carver
The Short Stories of Isaac Babel
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred Taylor)
Transcendence and Realities – dealings in self doubt
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Short Stories of James Joyce
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
LIBRARY 3: Walking Back in Time – The Drama of History
What is History? (E.H. Carr)
Prejudice and Politics – select snapshots
Roots (Alex Haley)
The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom)
All the President’s Men (Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward)
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)
Kafir Boy (Mark Mathabane)
Personal Perspectives – courage and conquest
MiG Pilot (John Barron)
Touching the Void (Joe Simpson)
Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)
These Good Men (Michael Norman)
Danziger's Travels (Nick Danziger)
Situational Perspectives – through their own eyes
The Medieval Underworld (Andrew McCall)
Cannon Fodder (A. Stuart Dolden)
Women of the West (Cathy Luchetti)
Black Cowboys (Paul W. Stewart)
Brave Are My People (Frank Waters)
Drama Across Continents – a sampler of cultural histories
The Incas (Inca Garcilaso de la Vega)
The Fatal Shore (Robert Hughes)
India (Stanley Wolpert)
China: A Macro History (Ray Huang)
African Civilizations Revisited (Basil Davidson)
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History (Richard Shenkman)
The Canadians (Andrew H. Malcolm)
Turning Points – anthologies of historical highlights
Famous Last Words (Barnaby Conrad)
100 Events That Shaped World History (Bill Yenne)
The March of Folly (Barbra W. Tuchman)
Seeds of Change (Henry Hobhouse)
Disease and History (Frederick Cartwright)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Paul Kennedy)
Cradles of Civilization – setting the stages of today
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
The Vanished Library (Luciano Canfora)
The Histories and the History of the Persian Wars (Herodotus of Halicarnassus)
History of the Peloponnesian War and Hellenica (Thucydides & Xenophon)
When Egypt Ruled the West (George Steindorff & Keith C. Seele)
Human Rights Giants – citizens of the world
“The Perils of Indifference” (Elie Wiesel)
“The Rivonia Trial”, “Our March to Freedom” & “Glory and Hope” (Nelson Mandela)
“I Have a Dream” (Martin Luther King)
“Nonviolence Is...My Faith” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“Let Me Be a Free Man” (Chief Joseph)
“Citizen’s Right to Vote” (Susan B. Anthony)
“American Slavery” (Frederick Douglass)
The Patriot Pulpit – echoes across the globe
“After September 11” (George W. Bush )
“Eulogy” and “The Cost of Political Indifference” (Boris Yeltsin)
“Tear Down this Wall” (Ronald Reagan)
“Address to Israel's Knesset” (Anwar El-Sadat)
“Let Me Give You My Vision” & “The Falklands Factor” (Margaret Thatcher)
“Inaugural Address” & “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” (John F. Kennedy)
“The Locust Years”, “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”, “This Was Their Finest Hour” & “The Iron Curtain” (Winston Churchill)
“The Gettysburg Address” & “The Second Inaugural Address” (Abraham Lincoln)
“The Temple Speech” & “The Farewell Address”(George Washington)
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (Patrick Henry)
LIBRARY 4: They Made a Difference – Shapers of our world
Cultural Icons - trendsetters
Don't Shoot, It's Only Me (Bob Hope)
Forever Lucy: The Life of Lucille Ball (Joe Morella & Edward Z. Epstein)
If I Can Dream: Elvis' Own Story (Larry Geller & Joel Spector)
Marilyn: Norma Jeane, The Woman Who Will Not Die [bio of Marilyn Monroe] (Gloria Steinem)
The Autobiography of Mark Twain (ed. Charles Neider)
That's Entertainment – in the palm of their hands
Steven Spielberg: The Man, His Movies and Their Meaning (Philip M. Taylor)
Disney's World: A Biography [bio of Walt Disney] (Leonard Mosley)
Me: Stories of My Life (Katharine Hepburn)
The Gershwin Years (Edward Jablonski & Lawrence D. Stewart
Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography (Charles Chaplin)
Moguls – empires of their own making
Accidental Millionaire: The Rise and Fall of Steven Jobs at Apple Computers (Lee Butcher)
Dave's Way: A New Approach to Old-Fashioned Success (R. David Thomas)
Sam Walton: Made In America, My Story (Sam Walton with John Huey)
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( Andrew Carnegie)
Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist (Carol Gelderman)
Sports Greats – legends in their own time
HangTime: Days and Dreams with Jordan (Bob Greene)
Billie Jean (Billie Jean King with Frank Deford)
The Greatest: My Own Story (Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham)
Jackie Robinson: A Life Remembered (Maury Allen)
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (Robert W. Creamer)
Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete (Robert W. Wheeler)
Visionaries and Warriors – taking up a cause
Higher than Hope: Authorised Bio of Nelson Mandela (Faima Meer)
Albert Schweitzer, The Enigma (James Bentley)
The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)
Patton: The Man Behind the Legend (Martin Blumenson)
Geronimo: His Own Story (ed. S.M. Barrett)
Frederick Douglass (William S. McFeely)
Political Profiles – courage and power
Gorbachev (Gerd Ruge)
The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (Hugo Young)
Truman (David McCullough)
My Life (Golda Meir)
Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
LIBRARY 5: Poets and Poetry – Epic Verses and versemakers
Paradigm Poetry
William Shakespeare/ John Donne/ William Blake/
George Gordon “Lord” Byron/ Percy Bysshe Shelley/ John Keats
Mid- and Late-19th-century Lyricists
Elizabeth Barrett Browning/ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/ Edgar Allan Poe/
Alfred “Lord” Tennyson/ Walt Whitman/ Emily Dickinson/ Christina Rossetti
Twentieth-century Verse
Rudyard Kipling/ William Butler Yeats/ Robert Frost/ James Joyce/
William Carlos Williams/ Ezra Pound/ Marianne Moore/ T.S. Eliot
Popular Poetry Today
Dorothy Parker/ Ogden Nash/ Dylan Thomas/ Sylvia Plath/
Shel Silverstein/ Jack Prelutsky/ Larry Levis
LIBRARY 6: Thoughts Worth Pondering – Musings for the Moment
Classic Comedy Collections
Wisecracks and Witticisms
Comic Kids' Stuff
Maxims and Mottos
The Human Condition
The Religious Voice
Lights to Live By
Point/Counterpoint
Deep Ideas
Tutorial Tales
LIBRARY 7: Fantastic Facts – Oddities, inquiries and curiosities
BONUS BOOK
Spd Rdng – The Speed Reading Bible (Susan Norman & Jan Cisek)
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