Best book to buy for a guy? Its my brother inlaw, he is going through depression.?
Its his birthday and I thought a book would be great. He likes sports and much. He is 35.
My hubby loves books by Ken Follett. Perhaps you can look at one of them to see if they would be anything he would be interested in too. Good luck 
unemployment during the great depression = Great Opportunity
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Meditations2Go Guided Audio Meditations CD Set 1 $14.99 Meditations2Go CD Set 1 features two full-length, fully immersive guided audio meditations (synchronized music and narration) on a single Audio CD. Track 1: “Restoring Balance and Clarity” (26:48 minutes). This guided audio meditation helps restore your natural calm and balance, emotionally, mentally, and physically, gathering in your strength, your energy and your clarity. It’s excellent as a ge… |
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Greatest Hits 2 (Bonus CD) $19.98 You don’t have to get very far into Alan Jackson’s splendid second anthology of hits before you’re struck by how well the rangy Georgian has built his catalogue and how beautifully Keith Stegall continually produces his songs, filling the instrumental breaks with unexpectedly creative solos. While Jackson’s choice of cover songs is usually inspired (“Pop-A-Top,” “Little Bitty”), he’s a deft writer… |
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Dust Bowl Ballads $7.99 “If you’ll gather ’round me children, a story I will tell,” sings Woody Guthrie in “Pretty Boy Floyd.” Children of all ages have never stopped gathering ’round Woody Guthrie since he recorded these songs in the spring of 1940, and that most-famous line tells us a lot about his approach: his songs are for all people, simple and direct enough to be understood by young ones, irresistibly catchy, yet … |
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The Great Depression (History Channel – 4 video set) [VHS] $55.35 Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention, and at no point has a cliché been so prescient as in the 1930s. During that era, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal took documentation to new heights in U.S. history, turning artists and artisans into government-sponsored vehicles for reportage and representation of both American ideals and the harsher set of realities citizens were dea… |
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Brother Can You Spare a Dime [VHS] $14.99 As those who are old enough to have lived through the Great Depression disappear, the era seems more and more remote; it’s nearly impossible for later generations to understand just how desperate things were in the United States in the 1930s. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? captures not only the history but also the culture of the time in a rather unusual documentary format. Totally without th… |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? $5.38 Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) escapes the chain gang with two fellow convicts the simple and somewhat slow Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and ill-tempered Pete (John Turturro) to pursue the promise of hidden loot stashed in his house that is about to be swept away in a flood. On the way the trio experience a journey filled with hilarious adventure and cast of strange characters starting with … |
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The Grapes of Wrath $5.99 Ranking No. 21 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American films, this 1940 classic is a bit dated in its noble sentimentality, but it remains a luminous example of Hollywood classicism from the peerless director of mythic Americana, John Ford. Adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck’s classic novel, the film tells a simple story about Oklahoma farmers leaving the de… |
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Cinderella Man [Blu-ray] $8.00 The fascinating life of Depression-era boxer Jim Braddock is brought to the screen in director Ron Howard’s powerful drama. Russell Crowe stars as Braddock, whose determination to make a better life for his wife (Renee Zellweger) and family saw him triumph over poverty and an injured right hand to rise to the top of the boxing world, culminating in a bout with heavyweight champ Max Baer (Craig Bie… |
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Monopoly $10.95 Everybody remembers the Monopoly game – that’s why it’s still the most popular, most widely played, and best-selling board game in the world! Across the generations and around the globe, what other game brings back so many memories of wheeling-and-dealing family fun’ No other game has turned so many game playing moments into memories! Whether you’re discovering the fun for the first time or relivi… |
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Nancy Drew: Secret Of the Old Clock $4.25 This hot, latest installment of the Nancy Drew game series includes the best parts of the first four books and takes place in the same time period – welcome to 1930’s America and the Great Depression. A friend of Nancy’s asks her to visit the town of Titusville, where another friend, Emily Crandall, lives. Emily owns an inn and she’s in a jam; she’s low on cash and nearly bankrup… |
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