Author: Beverly Deepe Keever
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496210468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Chosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South Vietnam, she was still there seven years later, having then earned the distinction of being the longest-serving American correspondent covering the Vietnam War and garnering a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In Death Zones and Darling Spies, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation's bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon as Vietnam's war entered a new phase and American helicopter units and provincial advisers were unpacking. She tells of traveling from her Saigon apartment to jungles where Wild West-styled forts first dotted Vietnam's borders and where, seven years later, they fell like dominoes from communist-led attacks. In 1965 she braved elephant grass with American combat units armed with unparalleled technology to observe their valor--and their inability to distinguish friendly farmers from hide-and-seek guerrillas. Keever's trove of tissue-thin memos to editors, along with published and unpublished dispatches for New York and London media, provide the reader with you-are-there descriptions of Buddhist demonstrations and turning-point coups as well as phony ones. Two Vietnamese interpreters, self-described as "darling spies," helped her decode Vietnam's shadow world and subterranean war. These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige.
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Author: The Story Lady
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595206816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Introducing seven main new characters, The House of the Seven Cats will fulfill the appetite for fun filled family fantasy on or off the silver screen. The Master, Mistress and their family, though silhouetted through out the story, create an atmosphere where one is able to enter the world of these seven furry personalities and become part of their unique adventures.
Author: The Story Lady
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595205844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The third in the series of The House of The Seven Cats Adventure Stories introduces four new furry adventuresome characters; Kitten Angel, Mama Cat, Carlos and Priscilla. Through the magic of imagination one will travel through their how and why adventures with the new mansion's family members, Gramps, their three darling felines; Little man, Dusty, and Ben along with Man-E, the mansion's voice. You will also be meeting again, the mansion's first family, The House of the Seven Cats Family and their seven darling rascals; Molly, Little Mother, Grand Duchess Rebecca Ann, Cissy, Nutty Buddy, Captain Sam, and Teeny Yabbett. Fasten Your seatbealts! For this adventure is going to be a Doggone Heavenly Ride!
Author: Cristina Alger
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143122754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A Bonfire of the Vanities for our times, by an author who “knows her way around 21st-century wealth and power” (The Wall Street Journal). Since he married Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to all the luxuries of Park Avenue. But a tragic event is about to catapult the Darling family into the middle of a massive financial investigation and a red-hot scandal. Suddenly, Paul must decide where his loyalties really lie. Debut novelist Cristina Alger is a former analyst at Goldman Sachs, an attorney, and the daughter of a Wall Street financier. Drawing on her unique insider's perspective, Alger gives us an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society—and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions that powerfully echoes Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and reads like a fictional Too Big to Fail.
Author: Brooke Lea Foster
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982115033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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"In 1962, coed Heddy Winsome leaves her hardscrabble neighborhood behind and ferries to Martha's Vineyard to nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she grows enambored with the seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two children, Heddy discovers that her academic scholarship at Wellesley has been revoked, putting her entire future at risk. Determined to find her palce in the couple's social circles, Heddy nurtures a romance with the hip surfer down the beach while wondering if the better man for her might be a quiet college boy instead. But no one she meets on the summer island--socialite, starlet, or housekeeper--is as picture perfect as they seem, and she quickly learns that the right last name and a house in a tony zip code may guarantee privilige, but that rarely equals happiness."--Page 4 of cover
Author: Governerur Morris
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Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Author: Story Lady
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595180876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Exciting adventures are never really lost, though they may get misplaced for a time while other exciting adventures are happening. You will find proof of that in this story as adventure after adventure unfolds with Dusty and Little Man, The Master, Mistress and the three other family adult members residing now in the lonely no-more mansion. Meet Little Man, a gun metal gray, short-haired, tiger striped picture perfect faced cat who is big on ideas though lacking a bit on cat man stature. Meet Dusty, a beautiful long-haired ebony Calico, every inch a lady cat whose jet black eyes seem to disappear now and then behind her lovely long-haired coat. Witness the adventure these two felines have when they and their adult family move into the now lonely no-more mansion that was empty for some ten years since the family of The House of the Seven Cats moved away. Join in on the adventures these two felines have when they meet the village stray street cats and their leader Ben. What brought about their trip to the White House and the meeting with the President? Share in their escapades in finding The Promised Land! Let your imagination soar within these pages.
Author: Morris Gouverneur
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318072729
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Gouverneur Morris
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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