A Garden Story

When writer Whiteson decided to spruce up his Hollywood backyard, he never dreamed that the garden would become as absorbing a creative endeavor as the novel. This book describes the initial lure of the garden, the trial and error planting and the increasing ambition that turned Whiteson's desolate yard into a spectacular story of its own.

Literature & Fiction

Whiteson, Leon

Essays & Correspondence

Faber&Faber

David Cronenberg's Scanners: A Novel

Cronenberg, David

HarperCollins, Publishers

pp. 272, b/w and color illustrations

Modern Canadian architecture

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Hurtig Publishers

The Watts Towers of Los Angeles by Leon Whiteson.

The Watts Towers of Los Angeles

Mosaic Pr

The Watts Towers

A celebration of love and sex through the seasons.In the Garden of Desire presents a series of linked stories exploring a wide range of explicit sexual experiences. The book follows the seasons of erotic life-from Spring and the loss of innocence, to the darker side of sexuality in Fall, and finally Winter, where deeper levels of sexual feeling are expressed in compassion and tenderness. In the Garden of Desire is a book inspired by the erotic love poetry of medieval Andalusia, celebrating every aspect of love and sex.

In the Garden of Desire: Erotic Meditations

Religion & Spirituality

An explosive and timely topic! Leon Whiteson is a bestselling author who co-authored the book A Place Called Waco, published by the Perseus Group in the Fall of 1999. A Terrible Beauty: An Exploration of the Positive Role of Violence in Life, Culture and Society explores various aspects of violence from historical, cultural, literary and personal perspectives. In this book Whiteson argues that what sex was to the nineteenth century, violence is to the 20th century- a fact of existence but banished to a netherworld: For us, violence is a kind of pornography, a vice roundly condemned and slyly enjoyed, a crudely compelling fact of life we seem helpless to confront in any way that makes sense of our thorough;py confused feelings...violence, like sex, is a valid force in its own right, with creative as well as destructive possiblities.

A Terrible Beauty: An Exploration of the Positive Role of Violence in Life, Culture and Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch--Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Texas. David Thibodeau survived to tell the story. When he first met the man who called himself David Koresh, David Thibodeau was a drummer in a local a rock band. Though he had never been religious in the slightest, Thibodeau gradually became a follower and moved to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. He remained there until April 19, 1993, when the compound was stormed and burned to the ground after a 51-day standoff with government authorities. In this compelling account--now with an updated epilogue that revisits remaining survivors--Thibodeau explores why so many people came to believe that Koresh was divinely inspired. We meet the men, women, and children of Mt. Carmel. We get inside the day-to-day life of the community. We also understand Thibodeau's brutally honest assessment of the United States government's actions. The result is a memoir that reads like a thriller, with each page taking us closer to the eventual inferno. Originally published as A Place Called Waco.

Waco: A Survivor's Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Thibodeau, David

Historical

Hachette Books

Mercury House

One of nine survivors of the attack on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993 describes how he came to join the religious community and offers an eyewitness account of the tragedy

A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story

Professionals & Academics

PublicAffairs

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