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My history of gambling really began before I was born So opens Bill Lees selftold story of gambling addiction which is set in San Franciscos Chinatown and steeped in a culture where it is not unheard of for gamblers to lose their children to a bet From wagering away his beloved baseball card collection in third grade to forfeiting everything he owned at blackjack tables in Las Vegas every new and terrifying loss validated Lees feelings of worthlessness With gritty honesty and true humility Lee describes what gambling addiction feels like and looks like from the inside Everything was a blur to me Lee writes about a gambling jag that brought him to financial ruin I was in such a reckless and selfdestructive frame of mind that I would have bet my life if required In a way thats what I was doing I was that far gone from reality In the end however Born to Lose is a memoir of hope as Lee reveals how recovery from his gambling addiction has been possible through the Twelve Step program
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Limited double vinyl LP pressing 2015 album from the British Shoegazealtrock band their first new album in 18 years I Wasnt Born to Lose You is the classic Swervedriver sound the liquid distortion of shoegaze combined with the swagger of Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr It was recorded at legendary studios Konk in London and Birdland in Melbourne
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Jean Genet poetthief novelist revolutionary gay icon Genets early life was one of vagrancy and crime He emerged in 1942 from prison with the extraordinarily subversive novel Our Lady of the Flowers Championed by Cocteau and Sartre Genet became a legend to the underworld for his subsequent novels dark fusions of crime sex and flowers In later life he became involved with rebel groups such as the Black Panthers and the PLO Born To Lose poetnovelist Jeremy Reeds strippeddown amply illustrated biography of Genet displays profound empathy for its subject Reed explores Genets novels criminal activities addiction to sleeping pills relationships with lovers and rent boys mercurial friendships fugitive poetry and the obsession with death that underscores his work
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Jean Genet poetthief novelist revolutionary gay icon Genets early life was one of vagrancy and crime He emerged in 1942 from prison with the extraordinarily subversive novel Our Lady of the Flowers Championed by Cocteau and Sartre Genet became a legend to the underworld for his subsequent novels dark fusions of crime sex and flowers In later life he became involved with rebel groups such as the Black Panthers and the PLO Born To Lose poetnovelist Jeremy Reeds strippeddown amply illustrated biography of Genet displays profound empathy for its subject Reed explores Genets novels criminal activities addiction to sleeping pills relationships with lovers and rent boys mercurial friendships fugitive poetry and the obsession with death that underscores his work
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Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew how to drink how to dance how to talk and how to stir up the devil Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones But in her mother a wouldbe artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York where studying with the legendary Stella Adler she learned the lesson that would define her as an actress Use it Adler told her Whatever disappointment pain or anger life throws in your path channel it into the workIt was a lesson she would need At twentytwo just as her career was taking off she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter Having already signed the adoption papers she was allowed only a fleeting glimpse of her child As her star continued to rise her life became increasingly demanding and fulfilling a whirlwind of passionate love affairs lifesaving friendships and bonecrunching work Through it all Mulgrew remained haunted by the loss of her daughter until two decades later she found the courage to face the past and step into the most challenging role of her life both on and off screenWe know Kate Mulgrew for the strong women shes playedCaptain Janeway on Star Trek the toughasnails Red on Orange is the New Black Now we meet the most inspiring and memorable character of all herself By turns irreverent and soulful laughoutloud funny and heartpiercingly sad BORN WITH TEETH is the breathtaking memoir of a woman who dares to live life to the fullest on her own terms
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Told at seven that she was adopted and at thirty that her natural parents were still living the author recounts her psychological emotional and actual search for her origins and her subsequent meeting and relationship with her natural mother
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Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew how to drink how to dance how to talk and how to stir up the devil Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones But in her mother a wouldbe artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York where studying with the legendary Stella Adler she learned the lesson that would define her as an actress Use it Adler told her Whatever disappointment pain or anger life throws in your path channel it into the work It was a lesson she would need At twentytwo just as her career was taking off she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter Having already signed the adoption papers she was allowed only a fleeting glimpse of her child As her star continued to rise her life became increasingly demanding and fulfilling a whirlwind of passionate love affairs lifesaving friendships and bonecrunching work Through it all Mulgrew remained haunted by the loss of her daughter until two decades later she found the courage to face the past and step into the most challenging role of her life both on and off screen We know Kate Mulgrew for the strong women shes playedCaptain Janeway on Star Trek the toughasnails Red on Orange is the New Black Now we meet the most inspiring and memorable character of all herself By turns irreverent and soulful laughoutloud funny and heartpiercingly sad BORN WITH TEETH is the breathtaking memoir of a woman who dares to live life to the fullest on her own terms
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From literary journalist Sara Mansfield Taber comes a deep and wondrous memoir of her exotic childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA operative Born under an Assumed Name portrays the thrilling and confusing life of a girl growing up abroad in a world of secrecy and diplomacyand the heavy toll it takes on her and her father As Taber leads us on a tour through the alluring countries to which her father is assigned we track two parallel storiesthose of young Sara and her Cold War spy father Sara struggles for normalcy as the family is relocated to cities in North America Europe and Asia and the constant upheaval eventually exacts its price Only after a psychiatric hospitalization at age sixteen in a US Air Force hospital with shellshocked Vietnam War veterans does she come to a clear sense of who she is Meanwhile Saras sweetnatured philosophical father becomes increasingly disillusioned with his work his agency and his country This is the question at the heart of this elegant and sophisticated work what does it mean to be an American In this fascinating painful and ultimately exhilarating comingofage story young Sara confronts generosity greatness and tragedyall that America heaps on the world
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The classic memior of Betty Jean Liftons search for her secret past that helped open the way for so many othersBetty Jean Lifton acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adtoped that have helped open the field tells her own story of growing up adtoped in the closed adoption system Calling Twice Born both an autobiography and a psychological journey into the past Lifton takes the reader with her as she describes the loneliness and islolation of an adopted child cut off from the knowledge of her heritage She explores the ambivalence and guilt that she feels toward her adoptive parents when she awakens as an adult to her need to ask Who am IWith the mounting suspense of a detective novel Twice Born explores not only the difficulty of searching for ones past when ones records are sealed but also the complexity of trying to reunite with the birth mother from whom one has been separated by social taboosand by timeMore than a vivid and poinant memior Lifton has given hs a story of mothering and motherloss attachment and bonding secrets and lies and the human need for origins Important reading for anyone touched by these issues and by the experience of adoptionwhich is everyone
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A reissue of the classic 1975 memoir that Elie Wiesel called deeply stirringimportant and enrichingIn this significant and lasting account Betty Jean Lifton acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adopted tells her own story of growing up at a time when adoptees were still in the closet Twice Born recounts her early struggle with the loneliness and isolation of not knowing her birth parents her identification as a journalist in the Far East with the orphans left behind by American soldiers in Japan and Vietnam and the guilt she experiences over what feels like a betrayal of her adopted parents as she sets off on a forbidden quest to find her rootsWith the mounting suspense of a detective novel Twice Born explores the difficulty of searching for ones past when records are sealed and the complexity of reuniting with a birth mother from whom one has been separated by both time and social taboos More than a vivid and poignant memoir Lifton has given us a story of mothering and motherloss attachment and bonding secrets and lies and the human need for origins
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In the tradition of the modern classics The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer and The Liars Club by Mary Karr Blaine Lourds meaningful debut Born on the Bayou is a powerful gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s LouisianaIn honest confessional prose Born on the Bayoua rollercoaster ragstoriches storytransports us to a pocket of the South where Lourd learns how to be a man from the two people he looks up to the most his largerthanlife father Puffer a prominent figure in the oil business and his successful older brother Bryan With an eye turned perpetually toward the gruff and distant Puffer Lourd illustrates how those closest to us can cause the most hurt even as we seek their approval Whether hes learning how to skin a duck at age ten enjoying his first beer at thirteen or detailing the finer points of rideon lawn mowing Lourd gets to the heart of being a Southerner with rawness and grace From his early childhood through his eventual pilgrimage to the West Coast he beautifully details what it means to have tangible roots to a place so ingrained it is a part of your own being From barreling down the low country roads in a shiny Thunderbird to chasing women and learning to be a gentleman Born on the Bayou is one mans struggle against the forces of family love loyalty and obligation and the ties that keep us tethered to our roots no matter how far we run
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A memoir from one of Britains finest novelists and critics nbspnbspnbspnbspnbspI drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935 which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England The only child in a lowermiddleclass London family who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his IrishBelgian mother David Lodge was four when World War II began and grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change giving him plenty to write about in his distinguished careernbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp In this memoir of his life up to the publication of his breakthrough booknbspChanging Places David looks back over his childhood and youth including his undergraduate years at University College London where he met Mary his future wife in freshers week After National Service and two years postgraduate research married at last and soon a father he struggles to make a start as both novelist and academic until a lucky break brings him a job at the University of Birmingham and a stimulating friendship with a colleague of similar ambition Malcolm Bradbury A promising career anchored on a happy marriage opens up full of opportunities for travel enjoyment of exciting new trends and interesting new friends but also intertwined with unexpected setbacks and challenges both professional and personalnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp Candid witty and insightful illuminating both the author and his worknbspQuite a Good Time to be Bornnbspgives a fascinating picture of a period of transition in British society and the evolution of a writer who has become a classic in his own lifetime
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This powerful memoir portrays the lifealtering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting Fadumo Korn who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia is sent to live with a wealthy uncle brother to the Somali president She enters a world of luxury underpinned with political instability and cruelty but receives an invaluable education Korn eventually moves to Germany for therapy and recounts her life thereher marriage the birth of her son and her involvement in the movement to end genital cuttingwith warm and inspiring humor
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A courageous indispensable testament Elfriede Jelinek 2004 Nobel Laureate in LiteratureSelected as a Kirkus Reviews top pick for book clubs Fadumo Korns story describes her brutal circumcision at age seven and her agonizing path to physical and psychological recoveryAs a feisty nomad Fadumo freely roamed the wild steppes of her native Somalia until her mother delivered her into the hands of an excisor to undergo female genital cutting FGC also known as female genital mutilation or FGM to be made a woman in the eyes of her tribe The complications brought on by the circumcision provide the impetus to her search for health and her story Fadumo first travels to the bustling city of Mogadishu and the household of a wealthy uncle brother of the Somali president She enters a world of luxury underpinned by political instability and cruelty in a country gearing for rebellion As her symptoms worsen she journeys to Germany where she receives not only therapy but love and acceptance from the most unlikely of placesFadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of traditional practices with revelations about their disturbing effects This deftly crafted tale full of sorrow and surprising humor provides a candid history of a life sculpted by crippling rheumatism and an unexpected path to recovery
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A memoir from one of Britains greatest novelists and critics showing how his childhood and early career led to him becoming the writer of Changing Places Small World and The Art of Fiction nbspnbspnbspnbspnbspI drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935 which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England The only child in a lowermiddleclass London family who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his IrishBelgian mother David Lodge was four when World War II began and grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change giving him plenty to write about in his distinguished career nbspnbspnbspnbsp In this memoir of his life up to the publication of his breakthrough book Changing Places David looks back over his childhood and youth including his undergraduate years at University College London where he met Mary his future wife in freshers week After National Service and two years postgraduate research married at last and soon a father he struggles to make a start as both novelist and academic until a lucky break brings him a job at the University of Birmingham and a stimulating friendship with a colleague of similar ambition Malcolm Bradbury A promising career anchored on a happy marriage opens up full of opportunities for travel enjoyment of exciting new trends and interesting new friends but also intertwined with unexpected setbacks and challenges both professional and personal nbspnbspnbspnbsp Candid witty and insightful illuminating both the author and his work Quite a Good Time to be Born gives a fascinating picture of a period of transition in British society and the evolution of a writer who has become a classic in his own lifetime
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