NEW BOOKS - Frankfurt Bookfair 2010

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Margaret Hawkins
HOW WE GOT BARB BACK - The Story of My Sister’s Reawakening after 30 Years of Schizophrenia
Unimaginable as it might seem, for 30 years Barb Hawkins went undiagnosed and untreated. How We Got Barb Back recounts the story of those years and the steps her sister Margaret Hawkins took to bring her sister back from the depths of crippling mental illness. This story of sisterly love is both full of surprises and profoundly inspiring.
256pp - September 2010 (Conari Press)
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Addie Johnson
STICK-TO-IT-IVENESS
Johnson shares ideas that inspire us to make light of the hard work of achieving our dreams. There’s a simple key to accomplishing our wildest dreams - a secret, hidden in plain view - sticking to it.
112pp - September 2010 (Conari Press)
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Guy Finley
COURAGE TO BE FREE
There is a world of wisdom in this small gem of a book. Guy Finley is a master at opening our eyes, ears, and hearts to the plain and simple truths of this life. We are not our sense of inadequacy, our compulsions, our defeated thoughts and feelings. We can choose the fearless path because we were, in fact, born fearless.
128pp - August 2010 (Weiser Books)
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Philippe Montillier
HIMALAYA WITH THE NEPALESE PORTERS
(Himalaya, avec les Porteurs du Nepal)
Most books on the Himalayas celebrate the bravery of the men who conquered the highest summits but they rarely speak about the porters who made these exploits possible. Preface by Jaming Tenzing Norgay, son of Sherpa Tenzing.
160pp (Editions Olizane)
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Claude Marthaler
BETWEEN SADDLE AND EARTH
(Entre Selle et Terre)
3 years after publication of his first book around the world (120'000 km in 7 years), the author makes off for another biketrip of 3 years accompanied by his girlfriend. They travel through Nord Africa, the Middle East, the Himalaya - beside many adventrues they are witnessing the uprising of the Tibetan people in Spring 2008 and were in Burma a few days after the cyclone Nargis hit the country badly.
320pp (Editions Olizane)
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Bruno Paulet
MEMORIES OF THE SANDS
(Mémoires des Sables. En Haute-Asie sur la piste oubliée d’Ella Maillart et Peter Fleming)
In the steps of Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming in Central Asia. This book relates a 800 km trip on a high altitude desert (average of 4000 m) situated on the edge of the Taklamakan, a region where the tibetan, mongol and uighur civilisation meet. The book received the prestigious Prix Pierre Loti (for travel literature) in 2008.
320pp - 16pp colour photographs (Editions Olizane)
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Ngoc-Thu Flament
THE GHOSTS OF TWILIGHT – A Vietnamese Youth
(Les Fantômes du Crépuscule. Une jeunesse vietnamienne)
This novel recalls the life of a Vietnamese familiy during the war from the departure of the French until the reunification ot the two Vietnam in 1975. The author also gives a lively portrait of a certain class in Saigon during this period.
320pp (Editions Olizane)
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Dominique Lelièvre
CHINESE TRAVELERS – How they Discovered the World
(Voyageurs Chinois à la Découverte du Monde. De l’antiquité au XIXe siècle)
The Western world often ignores that many chinese travelers travelled throughout the world since the earliest times. It is their particular view of non chinese civlisations that enlightens our own history.
480pp (Editions Olizane)
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Anthony Galvin
THE CRUELLEST CUT - Women Who Kill
What drives women to commit violent, bloody crimes? A. Galvin examines the cases of fifteen murders, all committed by women. From the notorious case of the scissor sisters, Charlotte and Linda Mulhall, to the involvement of women in the ongoing feuds in Limerick, to other bloody murders all around Ireland.
256pp - PubDate: Oct. 2009 (Gill & Macmillan)
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Terry Harrison
IRELAND IN WATERCOLOUR
Pull-out outlines on tracing paper are provided for six beautiful paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring Irish landscapes to life with watercolours. Scenes include an Irish castle, a traditional fishing harbour, a thatched cottage, Georgian Dublin and a Connemara landscape.
48pp (Gill & Macmillan)
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