Author: Anna Quindlen
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588363678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book. “A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on motherhood.”—The Sunday Oklahoman With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Anna Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. In these pieces, first written for Newsweek and The New York Times, Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children, from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values, from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private, connecting people to each other and to the greater world, Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives, even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change.
Author: Lake Headley
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
ISBN: 9780805011388
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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A private investigator reveals how he amassed enough evidence to force the Arizona state supreme court to reverse the state's verdict against two innocent men wrongly convicted of murdering investigative reporter Don Bolles
Author: Robin Pulver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781306862035
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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When Mr. Wright's students express a dislike for silent letters, the offended letters decide to teach them a lesson by going on strike.
Author: Marjorie Ingall
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0804141428
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish secrets for raising self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. She offers abundant examples showing how Jewish mothers have nurtured their children’s independence, fostered discipline, urged a healthy distrust of authority, consciously cultivated geekiness and kindness, stressed education, and maintained a sense of humor. These time-tested strategies have proven successful in a wide variety of settings and fields over the vast span of history. But you don't have to be Jewish to cultivate the same qualities in your own children. Ingall will make you think, she will make you laugh, and she will make you a better parent. You might not produce a Nobel Prize winner (or hey, you might), but you'll definitely get a great human being.
Author: Iftach Spector
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 1616732504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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A recently retired Israeli Air Force general and its second-highest-scoring fighter ace, Iftach Spector is one of Israel’s living legends. He was the leader of the flight that attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. After the 1967 and 1973 wars, in which he commanded a squadron of fighter-bombers, he rose to head the IAF’s Training and War Lessons Section and later became its the Chief of Operations. He was one of the eight Israeli pilots who attacked Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirik in 1981. In 2003, his career took an even more dramatic turn: he was the senior signatory of the famous “Pilots’ Letter,” in which Spector and 27 other Israeli pilots stated their refusal to bomb targets in Palestine where collateral damage would likely be severe. His maverick conscience is well on display in this artfully written memoir, which is currently a 10-week-and-counting bestseller in Israel and has been licensed in Brazil as well. The son of a family that immigrated to Palestine at the turn of the 20th century, whose father and mother served in the Palmach, Israel’s early clandestine commando force, Spector has written a rich and reflective meditation on loyalty, on what is right and wrong in war, and on his dedication to the idea and reality of the state of Israel. The Pilots’ Letter ended Spector’s military career, but also made him one of the most compelling and celebrated defenders of the conscience of the Jewish state. In that battle, as in his previous battles against Nasser’s MiGs, his mother’s constant lesson to him sustained him: “All from within.” General Spector’s first book, A DREAM IN BLACK AND AZURE (1992; never translated into English), won the Sade Literary Award, given to him personally by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He has a B.A. in history and Middle East Studies from Tel Aviv University and a masters in political science from UCLA, both with honors.
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618329700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
Author: Sunny Tsiao
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781296042837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Author: Robert J. Serling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The dramatic history of the Lockheed Electra airliner.
Author: The Loud House Creative Team
Publisher: Loud House
ISBN: 1545808899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Behold the long awaited answers to some of the biggest questions surrounding the Loud family! Lola's favorite color is... Pink?! Leni's favorite color is... Zebra?! Lincoln's top two favorite comic characters are Muscle Fish and Ace Savvy?! All these groundbreaking revelations and side-splitting laughs and more served up by Lincoln Loud and his ten sisters, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, and Lily and all their friends in the latest anthology installment based on the hit Nickelodeon animated series. Featuring stories by the Loud House creative team!
Author: Michael Lewis Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Michael Kahn has done it again. Here is the definitive analytical and clear description of the most powerful nation in the planet's history, with revelations of its true beginnings, which were previously disguised by the establishment's historians. Included we find reasons and motivations of US actions, who is behind them, and the workings of power-plays and manipulations. It also includes proof that every DC politician was complicit in 9-11 demolition job. Kahn defies conventionality by crossing borders of democrat and republican by exposing that they work in tandem. The source of "fake news" and how it works and by whom, as well as its intended results are explained. Reading this book shows clearly how we have all been "played" by our leaders, and the plans by the evil leaders of the US, as well as a conclusion that has real do-able solutions with a plan of action to achieve them.This conspiracy "factist" document is a damnation of the United States, and illuminates the tactics of domination and destruction as perpetrated by deceivers and manipulative powerful people. The "fourth branch of the government"-the media, is also addressed.
