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Ralph Waldo Emerson at BrainyQuote.comBook Review: A Hand to Guide Me (Meredith Corporation, 2006)
Author: Denzel Washington with Daniel Paisner
Subjects: Mentoring, Conduct of Life
Carlsbad Library Shelf Location: 158 WAS
Review: For a quarter century, Denzel Washington has been one of America's most beloved actors and role models, but this is his first book. In A Hand To Guide Me, the two-time Academy Award winner shares the story of his own troubled adolescence and the
mentors who helped guide him through these crises. This candid testimonial is reinforced by the personal memories of more than 70 leading personalities about their own life-changing mentors. The contributors include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Antwone Fisher, Bonnie Raitt, Cal Ripken, Alex Rodriguez, Dick Vitale, and Whoopi Goldberg. (Portions of the book's proceeds will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, for which Washington serves as a spokesman.) Barnes and Noble Editors
We all get where we're going with a push from someone who cares, says acclaimed actor Washington. A national spokesperson for Boys and Girls Clubs of America, he tells how he found his own mentor in the Mount Vernon, N.Y., Boys Club and celebrates the organization's 100th anniversary with this collection of 70 celebrities' accounts of how as youngsters they were guided by a caring adult. Among the contributors are actors, athletes, authors, artists and former presidents. Retired basketball coach John Wooden remembers his hardworking father, a farmer, making the time every night to read poetry and Scripture to his children. Gloria Steinem describes how she saw a commitment to women's rights in the novels of Louisa May Alcott. Whoopi Goldberg credits her mother with teaching her empathy the day she abandoned her best friend to hang out with the popular kids. Bill Clinton was influenced by a great-uncle, an undereducated man who not only taught him to value people's differences but to refrain from making judgments. Washington has produced an anthology that will inspire successful men and women to help and empower the next generation. B&w photos. (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information
Publishers Weekly excerpt at Barnes and Noble.com
Book Review: Ines of My Soul: A Novel (Harper Collins, 2006)Author: Isabel Allende
Personal Subject: Suarez, Inez, 1507(ca.) - 1580
Carlsbad Library Shelf Location: FIC ALL
Review:Starred Review. Only months after the inauguration of Chile's first female president, Allende recounts in her usual sweeping style the grand tale of Doña Inés Suárez (1507– 1580), arguably the country's founding mother.
Writing in the year of her death, Inés tells of her modest girlhood in Spain and traveling to the New World as a young wife to find her missing husband, Juan. Upon learning of Juan's humiliating death in battle, Inés determines to stay in the fledgling colony of Peru, where she falls fervently in love with Don Pedro de Valdivia, loyal field marshal of Francisco Pizarro. The two lovers aim to found a new society based on Christian and egalitarian principles that Valdivia later finds hard to reconcile with his personal desire for glory. Inés proves herself not only a capable helpmate and a worthy cofounder of a nation, but also a ferocious fighter who both captivates and frightens her fellow settlers. Inés narrates with a clear eye and a sensitivity to native peoples that rarely lapses into anachronistic political correctness. Basing the tale on documented events of her heroine's life, Allende crafts a swift, thrilling epic, packed with fierce battles and passionate romance.
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Publishers Weekly excerpt at Amazon.con
Also see: Washington Post Review excerpt of Ines of My Soul at Amazon.com
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