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Thendral: Vol 11, Issue 07, June 2011
by MadhurabharathiThis issue features an interview with Ishukrishna of the tinsel world, a biography of Tamil Scholar Kaa. Appadurai, The achieving story of Animation experts Ashwin and Ashok, a religious article on the Hindu Temple of South India-‘Mannargudi Rajagopalaswamy’, Five short stories, a short novel (Sila MatrangaL), an article on the mystery novelist of yester years Vaduvoor K. Duraisamy Iyengar with an extract from his novel “Mangai Madavannam”, a health article Endometriosis in Nalam Vaazha, Kondakkadalai Kaara Bonda and Kondakkadalai Jamoon in Maya Bazaar plus usual features of Thendral Pesukirathu, Anbulla Snehitiye, Kavithaippandhal, Podhu, Kathiravanai KeLungaL, Jokes and Ilanthendral.
Alcatraz: The True End of the Line
by Darwin E. CoonAn Autobiography of the Life and Times of Former Inmate Darwin Coon.
Dogs against Darkness: The Story of the Seeing Eye
by Dickson HartwellThis book is a moving and an inspirational story of the first seeing eye dog in America, Buddy, and his master, Morris Frank.
Sears, Roebuck, U.S.A.: The Great American Catalog Store and How It Grew
by Gordon WeilSears Started from a watch company, and grew into the biggest store in the world at one time. This is how it happened.
The Story of Florence Nightingale
by Margaret LeightonFLORENCE NIGHTINGALE came of a wealthy family, but unlike her sister who loved the social whirl, young Flo preferred to take care of people and animals, as well as dolls. She used to help the vicar in the village with the sick and poor and, when she was about fifteen, she set the broken leg of an old shepherd's collie. She finally decided that what she wanted to do was to work in the service of the unfortunate and she planned to become a nurse in one of the hospitals. Her family, however, opposed this scheme because hospitals at that time were dirty and unwholesome places and nurses were looked down upon by the upper classes of society. Nevertheless, Florence studied all she could about the management of hospitals until she became almost the sole expert in England on the subject. But it was only after many disappointments that she was allowed to take a position as the head of the nurses in a new English hospital. She was so successful that when the Crimean War broke out she was ready to go to the front with a group of volunteer nurses. In the face of tremendous odds--terrible hospital conditions, opposition of the regular medical officers, and lack of supplies --Florence did a magnificent job and was worshiped by the soldiers. The spirit and courage of Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp, should prove an inspiration to any youngster--especially as they are portrayed in this wonderful new story by Margaret Leighton.
A Death in the Sanchez Family
by Oscar LewisA Death in the Sanchez family is a short and poignant account of how the poor die—of the death of Aunt Guadalupe, and of her funeral, to which the members of the Sanchez family come as mourners. Jhe Children of Sanchez by Professor Lewis has become an anthropological classic, which is read and studied throughout the world. In this short book Professor Lewis revisits the members of the family, now a few years older, on the occasion of the death of their old aunt. As in his previous books, Professor Lewis allows the members of the family to tell their own stories: their reactions to the funeral and their memories of the impoverished but often heroic life of their deceased aunt. As Professor Lewis writes: "For the poor, death is almost as great a hardship as life itself.” The struggle to get Aunt Guadalupe decently into the earth is one of the themes of this book. But Professor Lewis’ main subject is how her death illuminated her life, and how her life and death reflected the culture of poverty in which she lived.
Recollections and Letters of General Lee
by Robert E. LeeBiography of the famous general by his son
A Queen's Command
by Anna KuhnThis is the story of St. Bernadette of Lourdes, canonized by the Catholic Church in 1933. It is her biography replete with poverty, misunderstanding, sickness, and the Blessed Virgin's appearance.
Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps
by Haim Watzman Tom SegevProfiles some of the men responsible for the running of the Concentration Camps.
Meant To Be
by James G. VerityBorn in Brooklyn in 1925, James Verity, enters priesthood formation program at age 14. After almost 30 years, he leaves, but always he wants to serve God and man. Powerful and beautiful.
Manhattan Passions: True Tales of Power, Wealth and Excess
by Ron RosenbaumThe rich get richer--and nastier.
Einstein: A Biography
by Jurgen Neffe Shelley Frischinteresting book. There several German and Austrian names in the text but the book is absolutely intriguing.
Viva Mexico! A Traveller's Account of Life in Mexico
by Charles Macomb FlandreauFirst published in 1908, this is a classic memoir about life in Mexico (from the point of a wealthy foreigner) in the years before the Revolution of 1910. Flandreau describes life on a coffee plantation, and attempts to explain Mexican character and folkways. Although much in this book is overtly racist by today's standards, Flandreau's observations are vivid and his storytelling is often compelling.
Edward the Caresser: The Playboy Prince Who Became Edward VII
by Stanley WeintraubA weak English King at a critical time.
The Close
by Chloe BreyerThe author tells the story of her first year in seminary at General Theological Seminary.
An Anthology of the New England Poetry from Colonial Times to the Present Day
by Louis UntermeyerThis is a magnificent collection of poetry. The editor features the famous along with such lesser-known poets as Edward Taylor, Jones Very, William Ellery Channing II, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman and Anne Bradstreet, the first female (and Puritan) poet to be published. Introductory comments are interesting. "Here Cain and Abel come to sacrifice; Fruits of the Earth and Fatlings each do bring: On Abel's gift the fire descends from Skies, But no such sign on false Cain's offering. With sudden hateful looks he goes his ways, Hath thousand thoughts to end his brothers days, Upon whose blood his future good he hopes to raise. Who fancies not his looks now at the Bar ? His face like death, his heart with horror fraught. No Malefactor ever felt like war When deep despair with wish of life hath fought. Branded with guilt and crusht with treble woes, A Vagabond to Land of Nod he goes; ..." (Bradstreet) "
Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War
by Mark PerryDiscussion of the Civil War with an emphasis on Gettysburg.
The Porter of St. Bonaventure's
by James Patrick DerumThis is a well-researched biography of a deeply righteous and truly humble priest. It traces his life from childhood in the Western United States, through his labors in the lumber mills and the railroads, to his priestly vocations with his many sufferings, then to the enormous influence he had on thousands of people.
Fragile Innocence
by James Reston Jr.When the author's daughter suffers brain damage from a high fever, he and his wife go on a quest to find the cause and hopefully a cure.