Stuffed: Adventures Of A Restaurant Family

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Stuffed: Adventures Of A Restaurant Family
In this wildly funny and charming memoir, Patricia Volk entertains with a unique perspective of New York in the mid to late twentieth century and of a bigger-than-life family that owned fourteen restaurants, including Morgens in the garment district. She credits her family with opening the first Jewish deli in the Big Apple. Sharing life and good food for three generations, the family exhibited a voracious appetite for life.

Patricia Volk is the author of the novel White Light and two collections of short stories, All It Takes and The Yellow Banana. She has published stories, book reviews, and essays in numerous publications, including Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, New York, New Yorker, Playboy, Redbook, GQ ,and O, the Oprah Magazine. She was a weekly columnist for New York Newsday, and she lives in New York City.

Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded and popular narrators in the country, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the “Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century.” She is a three-time recipient of the coveted Audie Award and has earned twenty-six Earphones Awards. She has appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London’s West End and on Broadway.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Patricia Volk
Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat
ISBN: 0-7861-3222-1
Normal Price: $44.95
Download Price: $16.95

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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

Monday, April 14th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

"Compelling. No other living author could have gotten it all down so
well."–New York Daily News

"Gripping. It is impossible for an American to read this book without pride in what
his country accomplished in those days of enormous challenge."
Christian Science Monitor

"When Manchester speaks of the awesome heroism and hideous suffering of the
Marines he lived with and fought with, he is reverent before the mystery of individual
courage and gallantry."–Baltimore Sun

"A strong and honest account. Manchester’s combat writing stands comparison
with the best."–New York Times Book Review

"It belongs with the best war memoirs ever written."–Los Angeles Times

In this intensely powerful memoir, America’s pre-eminent biographer-historian, who
has written so brilliantly about World War II in his acclaimed lives of General Douglas
MacArthur (American Caesar) and Winston Churchill (The Last Lion),
looks back at his own early life.

This memoir offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: of what
it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who
underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: William Manchester
Narrator: Barrett Whitener
ISBN: 978-0-7861-6923-8
Download Price: $29.95

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