`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

Alcott asked Niles if he would publish a book of short stories by his daughter ; instead, he suggested she write a book about girls.

Augustus made her record any daily activities she did in the imperial day book and the emperor took severe measures in preventing Agrippina from forming friendships, without his consent.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

In 2004, she accorded three stars to chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten ’ s Spice Market restaurant after Vongerichten gave her book Cooking for Mr. Latte a positive blurb ; the Times spotlighted the incident with an Editor ’ s Note.

A few years later, Ann Watts published a book in which she argued against the imperfect application of traditional, Homeric, oral-formulaic theory to Anglo-Saxon poetry.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

In the book, she also made comparisons of her close gay friends to today's homosexuals, who " jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through " and that some contemporary homosexuals behave like " fairground freaks ".

This allowed the developer / user to utilize its products " just like a book "; he or she was allowed to make multiple copies of a program, as long as only one copy was in use at any point in time.

However, the 1552 book was used only for a short period, since Edward VI died in the summer of 1553 and, as soon as she could do so, Mary I, restored the old religion.

Although Love said she would " never write a book ", she did publish a memoir in 2006 titled Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.

" For instance ," said Dr. Joseph Merlino, Senior Editor of the book Freud at 150: 21st Century Essays on a Man of Genius, " that ... I'm a cross-dresser and I don't want to keep it confined to my circle of friends, or my party circle, and I want to take that to my wife and I don't understand why she doesn't accept it, or I take it to my office and I don't understand why they don't accept it, then it's become a problem because it's interfering with my relationships and environment.

Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, in which she argues that many young women in the United States and beyond are replicating male chauvinism and older misogynist stereotypes.

Two were libel suits, one against Day and her publishers over comments she made about Rosenthal in her book in which he sought damages.

As she remarked in her book, " The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's highly publicized comment about my virginity (" I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin.

* Rabbi Harold Kushner talks and gives stories in relation to his latest book Overcoming Life's Disappointments ( video )

Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944, while Lewis was at Oxford during World War II.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

In the documentary, the real author of Histoire d ' O, Dominique Aury ( also a pen name ), talks about the book A Girl in Love.

Any cricket book that talks easily of Henry James and Siegfried Sassoon and Ranji and Grace and Richard Burton ( the writer, not the actor ) and Coleridge is bound to have a special charm of its own.

The book is divided into nine " lectures ", and was based on edited transcriptions of the talks Li gave throughout China in the preceding three years.

John French's 2010 book Through the Eyes of Magic describes some of the " talks " which were initiated by his actions such as being heard playing a Frank Zappa drum part (" The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )") in his drumming shed, and not having finished drum parts as quickly as Beefheart wanted.

He also released a book Man in the Middle, published by ESPN Books ( ISBN 1-933060-19-0 ) which talks about his professional and personal life as a closeted basketball player.

In his book Commonitorium, which was published in 414, Orosius talks of his arrival, his meeting with Saint Augustine etc.

* A slightly out-of-date but still useful book that talks about XPCOM

Strabo in his Geography, book 7, 3, 1-11 talks about a certain Deceneus ( Dékainéos ) which calls γόητα, " magician ".

This broadcast brought enough attention to Crisp and his book that he soon entered talks about a dramatisation.

The library district also hosts a number of special events, including book talks and informational presentations.

Morganton and surrounding areas including Charlotte, Marion, Asheville, and Black Mountain ( where the book is based ) are also mentioned in the fictional book, " One Second After " by William R. Forstchen where it talks about the state mental hospital.

Actor, comedian, and friend of Peter Jackson Simon Pegg talks in his book nerd do well that Braindead is one of the main influences on his film Shaun of the Dead.

A frequent broadcaster on the BBC Third Programme from its inception in 1946, Tippett published some of his radio talks in 1958 as a book.

* The book is moved from 1926 to 1928, which results in an anachronism-Lord Peter meets briefly with the US Ambassador in Buckingham Palace and talks with the King, but at that point the King was actually desperately ill and recuperating from a bout of septicaemia.

Olga de Hartmann was Gurdjieff's personal secretary for many years, and collected many of Gurdjieff's early talks in the book Views from the Real World ( 1973 ).

A book of his early talks was also collected by his student and personal secretary, Olga de Hartmann, and published in 1973 as Views from the Real World: Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York, and Chicago, as recollected by his pupils.

Giannis Androutsopoulos ( see References ) talks about Exegesis, a book in Greeklish that was published by Oxy Publications in 2000.

The book also talks about many other things that happened to Sacks, such as the many whippings at Braefield school, the burning down of the Crystal Palace, his interest in amateur chemistry, and his short-lived obsession with coloring his own black-and-white photographs using chemicals in his home laboratory.

A book of talks for schoolgirls which, with its two successors, became the most popular of all Knox's writings.

The second book of his talks for schoolgirls.

The final book of his talks for schoolgirls.