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The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920

Pat Conroy; Thomas Wolfe

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Recipes From My Life

Pat Conroy; Suzanne Williamson Pollak

America's favorite storyteller is back--with a memoir of good food and good company from his beloved South and beyond.

"This audiobook is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the left bank of Paris that I found when I was writing The Lords of Discipline. There are meals I ate in Rome while writing The Prince of Tides that ache in my memory when I resurrect them. There is a shrimp dish I ate in an elegant English restaurant, which passed out Cuban cigars to all the gentlemen in the room after dinner, that I can taste on my palate as I write this. There is barbecue and its variations in the South, and the subject is a holy one to me. I write of truffles in the Dordogne Valley in France, cilantro in Bangkok, catfish in Alabama, scuppernong in South Carolina, Chinese food from my years in San Francisco, and white asparagus from the first meal my agent to me to in New York City. Let me tell you about the fabulous things I have eaten in my life, the story of food I have encountered along the way."

Narrated by the author himself, the audiobook is filled with great stories. Stories about people, places, great meals, and a life lived large, by one of the most beloved literary figures of our time.

Includes 5 recipe cards and a q&a with the author!

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, 2004

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The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes Of My Life

Pat Conroy; Suzanne Williamson Pollak

"This book is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the left bank of Paris that I found when writing The Lords of Discipline. There are meals I ate in Rome while writing The Prince of Tides that ache in my memory when I resurrect them. There is a shrimp dish I ate in an elegant English restaurant, which passed out Cuban cigars to all the gentlemen in the room after dinner, that I can taste on my palate as I write this. There is barbecue and its variations in the South, and the subject is a holy one to me. I write of truffles in the Dordogne Valley in France, cilantro in Bangkok, catfish in Alabama, scuppernong in South Carolina, Chinese food from my years in San Francisco, and white asparagus from the first meal my agent took me to in New York City. Let me tell you about the fabulous things I have eaten in my life, the story of the food I have encountered along the way.”



Pat Conroy is well known to his readers as a lover of good food, but what may surprise them is that he has had a passion for cooking for more than thirty years. It all started with a chance purchase of The Escoffier Cookbook, an unlikely and daunting introduction for the beginner. But Conroy was more than up to the task. He set out with unwavering determination to master the basics of not only French but all good cooking—stocks and dough—and, with his kitchen redolent of veal demi-glace and pâte brisée, he went on to become an accomplished cook. He mastered the dishes of his beloved South and re-created the dishes he had savored in places as far away from home as Paris, Rome, and Bangkok. From Breakfast Shrimp and Grits to Fried Baby Artichokes with Beef Marrow, from Pappardelle with Prosciutto and Chestnuts to Fava Beans with Pecorino to Mocha Macaroons, Conroy takes the reader with him on a mouthwatering tour of some of the world's great cuisines. Along for the ride is his culinary accomplice and teacher, Suzanne Williamson.

There are 100 delicious recipes in THE PAT CONROY COOKBOOK, and because it is a memoir as well as a cookbook, there are just as many stories. Stories about people, places, great meals, and a life lived large, by one of the most beloved literary figures of our time.

So begin your meal with Soupe de Poisson with Garlic Toasts and Rouille, move on to Saltimbocca with a side of Collard Greens, and finish up with Peppered Peaches—all with the incomparable Pat Conroy at your side.

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My Losing Season

Pat Conroy

PAT CONROY–AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER -- IS BACK!

“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood.”

So begins Pat Conroy’s journey back to 1967 and his startling realization “that this season had been seminal and easily the most consequential of my life.” The place is the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, that now famous military college, and in memory Conroy gathers around him his team to relive their few triumphs and humiliating defeats. In a narrative that moves seamlessly between the action of the season and flashbacks into his childhood, we see the author’s love of basketball and how crucial the role of athlete is to all these young men who are struggling to find their own identity and their place in the world.

In fast-paced exhilarating games, readers will laugh in delight and cry in disappointment. But as the story continues, we gradually see the self-professed “mediocre” athlete merge into the point guard whose spirit drives the team. He rallies them to play their best while closing off the shouts of “Don’t shoot, Conroy” that come from the coach on the sidelines. For Coach Mel Thompson is to Conroy the undermining presence that his father had been throughout his childhood. And in these pages finally, heartbreakingly, we learn the truth about the Great Santini.

In My Losing Season Pat Conroy has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in the midst of defeat. And in his trademark language, we see the young Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to the writer the world knows him to be.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003, Softcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2003, 2002, 2002, Hardcover - 2002, Hardcover - 2002, 2002

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The Great Santini

Pat Conroy

Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. Hes all Marine -- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- bearutiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Bens got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesnt give in -- not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy's most explosive character -- a man you should hate, but a man you will love.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002, 2001, Hardcover - 1994, Softcover - 1994, 1994, Hardcover - 1976, Hardcover - 1976

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Beach Music

Pat Conroy

PAT CONROY, America’s preeminent storyteller, delivers a sweeping novel of lyric intensity and searing truth–the story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart.

Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, Beach Music sings with life’s pain and glory. It is another masterpiece in PAT CONROY’S legendary list of beloved novels.

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Other editions: 2002, Hardcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1996, 1996, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1995

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The Water Is Wide

Pat Conroy

The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence–unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher.É

Here is PAT CONROY’S extraordinary drama based on his own experience–the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to an island and the new life its people gave him.

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Other editions: 1995, Hardcover - 1994, Softcover - 1993, 1992, Hardcover - 1992, Hardcover - 1990, Hardcover - 1972

Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

Titles include "The Water Is Wide, Lords of Discipline, Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini".

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Other editions: Softcover - 2002

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The Lords of Discipline: Library Edition

Pat Conroy

A novel you will never forget... This powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They will experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal. Together, they will brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one will not survive. With all the dramatic brilliance he brought to The Great Santini, Pat Conroy sweeps you into the turbulent world of these four friends -- and draws you deep into the heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean, an outsider forging his personal code of honor, who falls in love with a whimsical beauty... and who undergoes a transition more remarkable then he ever imagined possible.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002, 1997, 1997, Hardcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1991, 1988, Softcover - 1982, Hardcover - 1980

Southern Living Family Album

Pat Conroy

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The Boo

Pat Conroy

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1992, Softcover - 1987, Softcover - 1981, Hardcover - 1976, Hardcover - 1970

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Prince Of Tides

Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family to which they were born. Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina lowcountry as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince Of Tides is Pat Conroy's most magnificent novel yet.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1993, 1992, Hardcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1987, 1987, Hardcover - 1986

The World of Pat Conroy: The Great Santini/the Lords of Discipline/the Prince of Tides/the Water Is Wide

Pat Conroy

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