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The Story of My LIfe stands out among latter-day Irma Thomas albums not only because she gives a consistently excellent performance, but because the record boasts three new songs from Dan Penn, who wrote some of the greatest soul songs of the '60s. While his new songs ("Hold Me While I Cry," "I Count the Teardrops," "I Won't Cry for You") aren't quite as strong as his best, they are nevertheless wonderful contemporary soul numbers, and they help make the record, the remainder of which is comprised...

Left blind, deaf, and mute after an illness in infancy, Helen Keller overcame her disabilities with the help of Anne Sullivan, her inspired teacher. Her classic autobiography, first published in 1903, covers her first 22 years. This deeply moving memoir offers an unforgettable portrait of one of the 20th century's most remarkable women.

ISBN-10: 0393325687 ISBN-13: 9780393325683. Edition: Reprint.

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of hope for people all over the world. This book–published when Keller was only twenty-two–portrays the wild child who is locked in the dark and silent prison of her own body. With an extraordinary immediacy, Keller reveals her frustrations and rage, and takes...

Hank Green's extraordinary life in baseball--playing with and against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, and Joe DiMaggio--combines uncommon courage, dignity, strength, and humor in the face of formidable odds. Ranked among the great home run hitters of the game, he became the first Jewish player to be elected to the Hall of Fame. Photos throughout.

Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. Signet Classics. With a new afterword by actress Marlee Matlin. Helen Keller' striumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller's own story- complex, poignant, and filled with love. Paperback. 6/1/2010. 256 pages. keywords: Women In The U.S. 9780451531568.

Royalty and Politics is the fascinating autobiographical account of a life rich in controversy, leadership, service, achievement and innovation. Born 1925 into the prominent and influential royal family of Mankon in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, Solomon Anyeghamot Ndefru least expected becoming king, only to find himself the chosen one following the death of his father in 1959. As Fo Angwafo III of Mankon, one of the most educated 'traditional rulers' at the dawn of independence, he more >>

First Edition Near fine in brick colored cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorative rules on the spine and a facsimile of the author's signature on the front board, with gilt to the top edge of the text block. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. Without its issued dust jacket. 504 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with black and white photographs and a frontispiece portrait of the author. The autobiography of...

The Story of My Life chronicles Emmerson G. Donald's young years, the many hardships suffered, along with the abuse he endured at the hands of his stepfather, then his father and stepmother when he moved away to live with them in late 1981. Determined to escape the abuse and find a better life, Donald sought to achieve academic success in school. Later, when his grades declined, he withdrew, refusing to admit his deteriorating, shattered life to his teachers. In 1985, his grandmother died and...

Too stubborn to remain in the background, too insistent to be silent, this most famous blind and deaf woman tells her remarkable story of courage and determination. The Academy Award-winning movie The Miracle Worker described a several-month period in her childhood. Now hear about the rest of her early years, from age seven to 22. She learned to read in several languages, graduated with honors from Radcliffe, wrote 13 books, and became a spokesperson for disabled people everywhere.

Autobiography of a woman who overcame twin handicaps of blindness and deafness. This 100th anniversary edition includes a new introduction, a selection of Keller's letters, a key to Braille, and a key to the manual alphabet.

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, wit, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known, but also a storyteller of the first order. Since he lived a life richer and stranger than most fictions, the tale of his own adventures is his most compelling story, but his memoir remained-at twelve volumes-unfinished at the time of his death. In...

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In addition to her remarkable accomplishment of overcoming such huge disabilities, her other achievements are impressive in their own right. She published thirteen books and numerous articles; she devoted her life to social reform; and she campaigned on behalf of the handicapped in thirty-five countries, touching the faces--and hearts--of kings, presidents, and movie stars. Today the foundations she established continue to help the deaf and blind throughout the world.