YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America
YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America
YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America
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WYNETTE, TAMMY<br />
Stand By Your Man<br />
RC 13979<br />
The Country-Western singer tells her life story from the obscurity <strong>of</strong><br />
the tarpaper shack in rural Mississippi, where she picked cotton as a<br />
child, to her rise to stardom. She describes her five marriages and four<br />
divorces, and her affair with actor Burt Reynolds<br />
ESSAYS<br />
DE ANGELIS, BARBARA<br />
Real Moments<br />
RC 39632<br />
Talk show host believes that "we have become experts at preparing to<br />
live, but have a difficult time fully enjoying the process <strong>of</strong> being alive,<br />
right now." Although planning and achieving goals can bring<br />
satisfaction, real happiness can only be achieved by experiencing the<br />
present. Drawing from her own spiritual learning experience,<br />
DeAngelis provides tips on learning this skill.<br />
DONNER, FLORINDA<br />
The Witch's Dream<br />
RC 25271<br />
A young anthropologist's fieldwork takes her to the northeastern<br />
Venezuelan state <strong>of</strong> Miranda where she apprentices herself to a<br />
spiritual healer. Her observations <strong>of</strong> the woman she calls "Mercedes<br />
Peralta" and the healer's complex art combining sorcery, witchcraft,<br />
Western drugs, and Catholic ritual are interwoven with colorful<br />
personal stories <strong>of</strong> several patients.<br />
KERR, JEAN COLLINS<br />
How I Got to Be Perfect<br />
RC 12319<br />
Bright, spry essays on marriage, out-<strong>of</strong>-town play tryouts, airplane<br />
anxieties, and the daily calamities <strong>of</strong> the children in the humorous<br />
author's household.<br />
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