Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage

Friday, August 15th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage
Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Many held Hughes accountable for her suicide six-and-a-half years later. How marriages fail and how men fail in marriages is one of the books central themes.

Diane Middlebrook is the author of two highly praised, best-selling biographies, Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton and Anne Sexton, which was a finalist for both a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. A former professor at Stanford University, she lives in San Francisco and London.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Diane Middlebrook
Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
ISBN: 0-7861-3141-1
Normal Price: $56.95
Download Price: $23.95

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Secret Language of Dolphins, The

Monday, May 5th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Secret Language of Dolphins, The

"The stare, direct and aggressive, was from Spray, an Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin….I realized I’d never known such an intellectual gaze in my life."–from the book

In her extraordinary work with dolphins, Patricia St.John has broken new ground in opening little known worlds, all in pursuit of what she fiercely believes in: learning the languages of those who have been unreachable. Using what she has discovered from her years of work with dolphins, St.John is able to break through to autistic children. Her story is a remarkable one.

Said the author: "When I left the pool that first day, I had no way of knowing I was taking the first steps toward breaking the barriers of dolphin-human communication…[or that] I would go on to find a way to use what I’d learned to improve the condition of other humans. At that first meeting, I had no idea how this information would enable me eventually to free autistic children to communicate with those who cared for them and about them."

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Patricia St.John
Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
ISBN: 0-7861-3020-2
Download Price: $16.95

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