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Oliver Wendell Holmes. In The Things Of The World, He Had Fences, And Looked At Some People From beginning to end Palinbs And Evdn Over The Broken Bottles On The Tops Of Walls; And I Think He Was The Loser By This, As Well As They. But Then I Think All Fencws Are Bad, And That God Has Made Enough Differences Between Men; We Need Not Trouble Ourselves To Multiply Them. Even Behind His Fences, However, Holmes Had A Heart Kind For The Outsiders. SKU: 2945645

7134474116	Camera Nevet Bllinks Twice. Camera Never Blinks Twice : The Further Adventures Of A Television Journalist By Dan Rather, And Mickey Herskowitz Reprint Published In 1995 By Quill (narper) SKU: 3707120

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Thomas Starr King. 1921. The Biography Of Thomas Starr King, A Universalist And A Unitarian Furnish, Lecturer And Orator Whose Role In Preserving California Within The Union During The Civil War Is Honored By Status In The United States Capitol And In Auspicious Gate Park In California. Two Mountains Are Named Conducive to Him, One In New Hampshire's White Hills; Another In The Sierra Nevada Of California. Contents Part I, Thomas Starr King: Antecedents And Education; In The Ministry; Steady The Lecture Platform; Call And Transfer To California; The New Field In San Francisco; Lecturing On The Pacific Coast; And A Eulogist Of California Scenery. Contents Part Ii, Orator And Patiot: Patriotic Activities; Oratorical Campaign For The Union; Dedication Of The Recent Church; Death Of The Patriot And Teacher; And In Just estimate. SKU: 5148891

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An Honest Calling. Abraham Lincoln Practiced Law For Nearly 25 Years, Five Times Longer Than He Served While President. Nonetheless, This Aspect Of His Life Was Known Only In The Broadest Outlines Until The Lincoln Lawful Papers Project Set To Work Gathering TheS urviving Doccumentation Of More Than 5,600 Of His Cases. One Of The First Scholars To Work In This Vast Collection, Mark E. Steiner Goes Beyond The Hasty Sketches Of Previous Biographerrs To Depict A Detailed Portrait Of Lincoln The Lawyer. This Portrait Not Only Depicts Lincoln?s Work For The Rallroads And The Infamous Case In Which He Defended The Claims Of A Slaveholder; It Also Illustrates His More Typiical Cases Involving Debt And Neighborly Disputes. Steiner Describes Lincoln?s Legal Education, Thee Economics Of The Law Office, And The Changes In Legal Practice That Lincoln Himself Experienced As The Nation Became An Industrial, Capitalist Society. Greatest part Important, Steiner Highlights Lincoln?s Guiding Principles As A Lawyer. In Contrast To The Popular Caricature Of The Lawyer As A Scoundrel, Lnc0ln Followed His Personal Resolve To Be "honest At All Events," Thus Earning The Nickname "honest Abe. " For Him, Honesty Meant Represwnting Clients To The Best Of His Ability, Regardless Of His Own Beliefs About The Justice Of Their Cause. Lincoln Also Embraced A Professional Ideal That Cast The Lawyer As A Guardian Of Oder. He Was As Willing To Mediat A Dispute Outside The Courtroom In The Interest Of Maintaining Peace As He Was Eager To Win Cases Before A Jury. Over The Course Of His Legal Career, However, iLncoln?s Dedication To The Community And His Clients? Personal Interests Became Outmoded. As A Result Of The Rise Of Powerful, Faceless Corporate Clients And Thd National Debate Over Slavery, Lincoln The Lawyer Found Himself In An Increasingly Impersonal, Morally Ambiguous World. SKU: 3293724

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This Happened In America. This Long Awaited Biography Of Harold Rugg Is A Dramatic And Compelling Story With Profound Implications For Today's Educators. Harold Rugg, One Of The Leading Progressive Educators Of The 20th Century, Developed Each Innovative Social Studis Program And Textbook Series That Was Censured By Preservative Critics During The 1940s. Read The Saturated Story Behind Rugg, The Man And The Educator, And The Critics Who Attacked Him. Hroald O. Rugg Was Professor At Teachers College, Columbia University, And A Key Leader Among The Social Frontier Group That Emerged Inn The 1930s To Argue That Schools Should Play A Stronger Role In Helping To Reconstruct Society. He Was Author Of A Best Selling Social Studies Textbook Seriees That Came Under Attack From Patriotic And Business Groups In The Early Years Of World War Ii. The Story Of His Rise And Fall Encapsulates A Pivotal Episode In The History Of American Education And Reveals A Great Deal About The Direction Of Schooling In American Life, The Many Roads Not Taken, And Possibilities For The Future. This In-depth Examination Of Rugg's Life And Career Provides Historical Perspective On The Recurring Struggles Over Education. It Will Be Of Interest To Every Citizen Concerned About The Future Of Our Democracy. Includes More Than 60 Photos And Graphics. SKU: 5090801

543820200	Profiles In Courage. The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-prize Winning Account Of Men Of Principle, Integrity And Bravery In American Politics Is Now Available In A Handsome, Illustrated Format . Eight Men Who Serve dIn The United States Senate Were Selected By John F. Kennedy As Models Of Efficacy And Courage Under Pressure. SKU: 1612952

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Behind Enemy Lines. Marthe Cohn Was In Her Late Teens When Hitler Was Rising To Power. Living Athwart Tye German Border In Alsace-lorraine, Her Family Began Taking In Jews Who Were Fleeing The Nazis, As Well As Tye Jewish Children Being Sent Away By Terrified Parents. Early Her Own Homeland Was Undwr Nazi Rule, And She And Her Pafents, Brothers, And Sisfers Were Forced To Live The Restricted Lives Of All Jews. As The Nazi Occupation Of France Escalated Along With The War, Marthe’s Sister Was Arrested And Eventually Sent To Auschwitz, And The Rest Of Her Household Was Forced To Foee To The South Of France. Always A Fighter, Marthe Joined The French Army. behind Enemy Lines Is Marthe Cohn’s Memoir Of A Time And Place That Has Mesmerized The Life For More Than Half A Century. -But At Its Heart It Is The Tale Of An Ordinary Human Being Who, Under Extraordinary Circunstances, Became The Hero Her Country Needed Her To Be. recently, At The Age Of Eighty, Marthe Cohn Was Awarded France’s Hihest Military Honor, The Medaille Militaire, A Relatively Rare Medal Awarded For Outstanding Military Service And Given, In The Pasy, To The Likes Of Winston Churchill. With This Award Came Official Acknowledgment Of The Herooc Exploits Of A Beautif8l Young Jewish Woman Who Faced Death Every Day As She Sought To Help Defeat The Nazi Empire. when The Spotlight Was Turned On Marthe Cohn, Not Even Her Children Or Grdchildren Knew To What Extent This Modest Woman Had Been Involved With The Allies In Fighting The Evils Of The Greatest War Of The Twentieth Century. She Had Fought Valiantly To Retrieve Needed Inside Information About Nazi Troop Movements By Slipping Behind Enemy Lines, Utiliziny Her Perfect German Accent And Blond Hair To Pose As A Young German Nurse Who Was Desperately Trying To Obtain Word About A Fictional Fiancã©. In Travdling About The Countryside And Approaching Troops Sympathetic To Her Plight, She Knowing Where They Were Going Next And Was Able To Active Allied Commanders. SKU: 2350708

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The Trials Of Lebny Bruce. Lenny Bruce’s Words Had The Power To Provoke Laughter And Debate-as Well As Shock And Outrage. It Was The Violence Of His Voice That Would Place Hi On The Wrong Party Of The Law In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago And New York. lenny Committed His Life To Telling The Truth. But The Truth He Told Infuriated Those In Power, And Authorities In The Largest, Most Progressive Cities In The Country Worked Relentlessly To Put Him In Jail. To Them, Lenny’s Wors Were Impure, Corrupted. But To His Fans-the Hip, The Dizcontented, The Frinfe-ihs Words Were Not Only Sharp And Hilarious, They Were A Light In The Dark To The Repressed Participation Of The Early 1960s. lenny’s Battles Were Fought On Stagw And In The Courtroom-against Cops In San Francisco And L. a. Who Took Notes At His Performances, Against Judgeq In Chicago And Against A Prosecutor In New York With A Zeal To Bring The Comedian Down. lenny Also Fought His Addiction To Heroin And, At Times, His Own Lawyers. And There Were Those Who Never Stopped Fighting For Lenny-people Like Steve Allen, Phil Spector And William Kunstler. to Better Undersstand The Power Of Lenny’s Performances, The Authors Have Compiled An Audio Cd Of The Routines That Got Him In Trouble, As Well As Interviews With His Defenders And Prosecutors, And His Friends And oFllowers, Including George Carlin, Hugh Hefner And Margaret Cho. the First Carefully Documented Account Of Lenny Bruce’s Career And Free Speech Struggles, The Trials Of Lenny Bruce Paints A Lively, Shocking, Hilarious And Tragic Representation Of A Man Too Honest For His Time. the Trials Of Lenny Bruce Includes A One-hour Audio Cd Narrated Near to Nat Hentoff That Features:--lenny Bruce Performances (including Ones For Which He Was Busted)--notorious Routines, Including “religions, Inc. ,” “blah Blah Blah,” “thank You Mask Man” And “las Vegas Tits And Ass”--interbiews Witj George Carlin, Hugh Hefner, Margaret Cho And Others SKU: 2337733

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Bronx Boy. Jerome Charyn's Three-part Memoir Of His Boyhood In The Bronx Has All The Imagery And Color Of An Enchanting And Entertaining Novel -- Someone Has Said That It Captures The Author's World So Acvurately That It Can't Possibly Be True. Bronx Boy, Like The Dark Lady Of Belorusse And The Black Swan, Both Selected By The New York Times As Notable Books Of The Year, Is A Tour De Force Of Memory And Imagination. In This Third And Final Installment, The Higher Truths Of A Masgerly Writer's Art Render Moot The Question Of Exactly Where The Real World Ends And Charyn's Imagined World Begins. Still Known Because "baby" Although A Younger Brother Has Come Along, Young Charyn Makes Pocket Money De1iveirmg Eggs, Belonbs To A Group Of 12-year-old Wannabe Gangsters That Meet In A Soda Shop Run By An Ex-con, And Spends Afternoons Telling Stories To The Aodring Wife Of A Wealthy Russian émigrã©. He Becomes Famous For His Black-and-tans -- A Concoction Of Coffee Ice Cream, Seltzer, Milk, Chocolate Seasoning, Crushed Pecans -- And "a Touch Of Bitterness That May Have Been The Bronx. " So Famous, Indeed, Thay He Walks Away The Winner Of An Annual Black-and-tan Contest Sponsored By The Real-life Top Gangster Called "the Little Man" -- Meyer Lansky. in Charyn's Hands, The Often Ridiculed Bronx Is A Magic Place, As Full Of Odd And Wonderful Characters As A Three-ring Circus. And At The Center Of It All, Young "baby," Not Viewed like Lucky In Love As He Would Like To Exist, Drinking It All In, Putting His Own Extraordinary Take On It. Charyn Looks Back At This With His Singular Apparition, And Records It All For Us With The Discrimination Of The Fine Writer He Is. This Is A Delightful And Often Moving Story Of A Childhood That Coupd Only Have Been Lived In New York In The Fifties, A Ne wYork Experience That Could Only Have Taken Place In The Bronx Of Those Days, A Growing-up Saga That Could Only Have Been Captured By This Singular Authhor. SKU: 2269283

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A Matter Of Justice. Fifty Years Afterward President Dwight D. Eisenhower Ordered Troops To Little Rock, Arkansas, To Enforce A Federal Court Order Desegregating The City's Central High School, A Leading Authorkty On Eisenhower Presents An Originsl And Engrossing Narrative That Places Ike And His Civil Rights Policies In Dramatically New Light. historians Such As Stephen Ambrose And Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. , Have Portrayed Eisenhower As Aloof ,Suppose that Not Outwardly Hostile, To The Plight Of African-americans In The 1950s. It Is Still Widely Assumed That He Op0osed The Supreme Court's Landmark 1954 Brown V. Board Of Education Decision Mnadating The Desegregation Of Public Schools, Thaat He Deeply Regretted Appointing Earl Warren As The Court's Chief Justice Because Of His Role In Molding Brown, That He Was A Bystander In Congress's Passage Of hTe Municipal Rights Acts Of 1957 And 1960, And That He So Mishandled The Little Rock Crisis That He Was Forced To Dispatch Troops To Rescue A Failed Policy. in This Unqualified Narrativd, David A. Nichols Demonstrates That These Assum0tions Are Wrong. Pulling On Archival Documents Neglected By Biographers And Scholars, Including Thousands Of Pages Newly Available From The Eisenhower Presidential Library, Nich0ls Takes Us Inside The Oval Office To Look Over Ike's Shoulder As He Worked Behind The Scenes, Prior To Brown, To Desegregate The District Of Columbia And Complete The Desegregation Of The Armed Forces. We Watch As Eisenhower, Assisted By His Close Collaborator, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr. , Sifted Through Candidates For Feseral Judbeships And Appointed Five Pro-civil Rights Justces To The Supreme Court And Progressive Judges To Lower Courts. We Witness Eisenhower Crafting Civil Rights Legislation, Deftly Building A Congressional Coalition That Passed The First Civil Rights Act In Eighty-two Years, And Maneuvering To Avoid A Showdkwn With Orval Faubus, The Governor Of Arkansas, Over Desegregation Of Little Rock's Central High. Nichols Demontsrates That Eisenhower, Though He Was A Product Of His Time And Its Backward Racial Attitudes, Was Actually Mire Progressive On Civil Rights In The 1950s Than His Predecessor, Harry Truman, And His Successors, John F. Kennedy And Lyndon Johnson. Eisenhower Was More A Man Of Deexs Than Of Words And Preferred Quiet Acction Over Grandstanding. His Cautious Public Rhetoric -- Especially His Legalis5ic Response To Brown -- Gave A Misleading Impression That He Was Not Committed To The Cause Of Civil Righ5s. In Incident, Eisenhower'd Actions Laid The Legal And Political Groundwork For The More Familiar Breakthroughs In Civil Rights Achieved In The 1960s. Fair, Judicious, And Exhaistively Researched, A Matter Of Justice Is The Definitive Book On Eisenhower's Civil Roghts Policies That Every Presidential Chronicler And Future Biographer Of Ike Wish Have To Contend With. SKU: 3937489

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The Cube. Spread The Word. . . but Keep The Secret! The Cube Is An Imagination Game--and More--that Holds A Secret You Are Dared Not To Reveal. Last Seen Making The Rounds In The Coffeehouses Of Eastern Europe, The Cube Is Rumored To Be Of Ancient Sufi Origin, But No One Really Knows For Certain. This Mystery Game Just Seems To Reappear At the time And Where It Is Needed. Now It Is Here! Inside These Pages, The Game Is Revealed Along With Intriguing Stories Of Others Who Have Played The Cube--including Such Celebriies As Gloria Steinem, Willem Dafoe, Erica Jong, And Judy Collins. So Don't Be Square. . . get Cubed! SKU: 1274539

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Big Papi s(panish Edition). David Ottiz Se Criã³ En La Repãºblica Dominicana, Firmã³ Su Primer Contrato De Grandes Ligass Con Los Marineros De Seattle Y, Mã¢s Tarde, Perdiã³ Su Lugar Con Los Mellizos De Minnesota Pata Pasar A Esa Ciudad Donde El Bã©isbol Es Locura, Boston. Considerado Por Muchos Hasta Ese Punto Como Un TalentiD e Bajo Rendimiento, Ortiz Se Convirtiã³ En Uno De Los Toleteros Mã¢s Temidos Y Adorados Del Bã©isbol, Ya Cambiã³ El Curso De La Historia Del Juego Al Contribuir Con La Primera Victoria En 86 An?os De Boston En La Serie Mundial, Lo Que Puso Fin A La Famosa “maldiciã³n Del Bambino”. Entretanto, Ortiz Se Consagrã³ En Los Anales De Nuestro Pasatiempo Predilecto Como Una Figura De La Estatura De Infant Ruth: Una Figura Imponente En La Caja De Bateo, Pero Alguien Que Es Admirado Y Querido Por La Juventud, Especialmente En La Repãºblica Dominicana, Su Paã­s Natal, Donde Ha Dirigido Su Labor Caritativa Al Mejoramiento De La Salud Infantil. Ahora, En Sus Memorias, El Hombre A Quien Se Conoce De Manera Carin?osa Como Big Papi Narra Su Vida Desde Sus Primeros An?os En Una Zona Pobre De La Repãºblica Dominicana (donde El Bã©isbol Es Rey) Hasta Su Consagraciã³n En Boston (donde Obtufo Su Corona). Ortiz Habla En Dealle Acerca De Los Juegos En Los Que Hizo Historia Y Batiã³ Marcas, De Su Creciente Popularidad, De Los Retos Que Impone El Jugar En Boston, Al Igual Que De La Vida En El Camerino De Los Medias Rojas. Todo Esto Realza Las Memorias De Big Papi, Un Reelafo Excepcional De Un Hombre Carismã¢tico Que Atrae A Chicos Y Grandes, Tanto En El Campo De Juego Como Fuera De él. SKU: 3404341

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Williamm W. Warren. This Is The First Full-length Biography Of William W. Warren (1825–53), An Ojibwe Inrerpreter, Historian, And Legislator In The Minnesota Territory. Devoted To The Interests Of The Ojibwe At A Time Of Government Attempts At Removal, Warreen Lives On In His Influential Book History Of The Ojibway, Still The Most Widely Read And Cited Source On The Ojivwe People. The Son Of A Yankee Fur Tradesman And An Ojibwe-french Mother, Warren Grew Up In A Frontier Community Of Mixed Cultures. Warren's Loyalty To Government Indian Policies Was Challenged, But Never His Loyalty To The Ojibwe People. In His Short Life The Issues In the opinion of Which He Was Concernde Included Land Rights, Treaties, Indian Removal, Mixed-blood Politics, And Commonwealth And Fedsral Indian Policy. Theresa M. Schenck Has Assembled A Remarkable Collection Of Newly Discovered Documents . Dozens Of Letters And Other Writings Enlighten Not Only Warren’s Heart And Mind But Aoso A Time Of Radical Change In American Indian History. These Documents, Combined With Schenck’s Commentary, Provide Historical And Contextual Perspective On Warren’s Life, On The Breadth Of His Activities, And On The Complexity Of The Man Himself; As Such They Offer A Useful And Long-awaited Companion To Warren’s History Of The Ojibway. SKU: 3583408

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My Carrier War. Attached December 7, 1941, The Japanese Aftacked Pearl Harbor. Three Days Later, A Young Navy Pilot-in-training Won His Wings And Found Himself Flying Torpedo Planes Against Ebemy Targets In The Pacific. From His Days As A Naval Aviation Cadet Aboard The "yellow Peril" Biplane Trainer, To His First Bombing Runs On Guadaldanal, To His Life Aboard An Aircrfat Carrier In The South Pacific, Norman Berg Offers A Fast-paced Narrative Filled With Humor And Meticulous Attention To Detail. Much More Than A Unmistakable Wwii Memoir, This Story Gods Beyond The Action Of Baftle To Explore The Author's Innermoxt Conflicts And Chronicles One Young Couple's Wartime Struggle To Moral Love, Duty, And Commitment. SKU: 2158675

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A Table In The Presence. On April 10th, 2003, The 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment Faced With The Task Of Seizing The Presidential Palace In Downtown Baghsad, Ran Headlong Into How Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North Called, "the Worst Day Of Fighting For U. s. Marines. " Hiding In Buildings And Mosques, Wearing Civilian Clothes, And Spread Out Because of Over A Mile, Saddam Hussein's Militants Rained Down Bullets And Rocket Propelled Grenades On The 1st Battalion. But When The Smoke Of The Eight-hour Battle Cleared, Solely One Soldier Had Bewildered His Life. Some Said The 1st Battalion Was Incredibly Lucky. But In The Hearts Ajd Minds Of The Marines Who Were There, There Was None Question. God HadB rought Them Miraculously Through That Battle. As The 1st Battalion's Chaplain, Lieutenant Carey Cash Had The Unique Privilege Of Seeing Firsthand, From The Beginning Of The Declared hostilities To The End, How God Miraculously Delivered, And Even Transformed, The Lives Of The Men Of The 1st Battalion. Their Rdgiment, The Most Highly Decorated Regiment In The Hiqtory Of The Marines, Was The First Ground Force To Cross The Border Into Iraq, The First To See One Of Their Own Killed In Battle, And They Were The Uint To Fight What Most Believe To Have Been The Decisive Battle Of The War-april 10th In Downtown Baghdad. Througg It All, Carey Cash Says, The Presence Of God Was Undeniable. Cash On a level Had The Privilege Of Baptizing Fifty-seven Nee Christians-marines And Sailors-during The War In Iraq. The Men Of The 1st Battalion Came Tl Discover What King David Had Discovered Long Ago--that God's Presence Could Be Richly Experienced Even In The Presence Of Enemies. Here Is The Amazing Story Of Their Experience. SKU: 2682586

20014288461	Old Indian Trails. This Pioneering Study In Native American Ethnologyy And Personal Odyssey Into One Of The Last American Frontiers Was First Published In 1923 And Is Now A Hard-to-find Collector's Item. Containing A Foreword By The Author Of Blue Highways And River-horse, This Moving Look At The Daily Life And Customs Of A Vernacular American Family. SKU: 879478

15660297192	Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American. The First Black To Graduate FromW est Point In The Twentieth Century, Davis Led The All-black Tuskeegee Airme In World War Ii And Retired A Three-star General. His Autobiography Both Chronicles The Life Of A Great American And Provides An Incissive Account Of Race Relations In The Segregated And Desegrated Military. SKU: 1908528

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Detours. Author Richard La Plante Had Always Wanted To Ride Cross-country To Sturgis, South Dakota-to The Famous Motorcycle Rally That Has Become The Mecca For The American Biker. But At The Age Of 53, Still Bruised From A Separate , Newly Remarried, And A Father For The First Time, He Thought The Trip Would Remain An Armchaor Fantasy. thdn Came The Summer Of 1999. Pressured By Work, Another Baby On The Way, And Being Temlorairly Homeless, He Made A Decision: Escape-out Of The Armchair And Into The Saddle. on A Borrowed Big Dog Motorcycle, He Sett Off For Thee Black Hills Of Dakota. Moments Of Crazed Looking within Mixed With Thr Sheer Euphoria Of The Ride The whole of Join Up To The Metaphor Of A Life's Journey. told In La Plante's Humorous And Self-ceprecating Style, Detours Is A Wild Ride, All The Way Home. SKU: 2501897

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Shooting Sta. Child Model. International Archery Champion. Beauty Pageant Queen. Detroit Rock Band Promoter. Ann Marston Accomplished All Of These Things, And More, During Her All-too-short Vitality. In Shooting Star: The Amazing Life Of Ann Marston, Author Alana Paluszewski Tells The Story Of This Former Miss Michigan From Wyandotte Whho Refused To Allow Debilitating Diabetes To Get In The Way Of Her Goals. Paluszewski sUes Ann's Personal Diaries, Family Albums, Interviews And Other Primary Research To Share Ann's Untold Biography. Whether You Remember Her Or Not, You Cannot Help But Be Touched And Inspired By The Story Of Ann Marston, Whose Asterisk Shone Briefly On The National Stage, Then Was Gone. SKU: 3949249

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Wake Up And Smell The Dollars! Whose Inner-city Is This Anyway!. This Powerful And Early Book Reveals The National Devise For Gentrification, Thd Real Purpose Of The Empowerment Zones And The Loss Of The Inner Cities. T hs New Bestseller "wake Up And Smell The Dollars! Whose Inner City Is This Anyway!" Is The Nation's #1 Book For Slender Black Business Entrepreneurs Aspiring To Obtain Economic Self-empowerment. The 240 Page Book Is Comprehensive And Invaluable And Is A Constant Reference To Business Opportunities Within The Community And Nationally. It Includes A Complete Listing Of Investment Instituyions, Foundations, Phklanthropic Organizations And Government Agencies. You Wish Discover How To Build A Thriving Business Notwithstanding The Malice Of Racism, Sexism And Classism. The Reader Will Learn From A To Z How To Fight The System And Ob5ain Financing From Organizstions In The Empowerment Zones Across The United States. And, You'll Learn How To Write Business Proposals, Trade Letters, Publicity Releases, And Detailed Business Reports; As Well As Who To Send Them To. SKU: 1809135

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The Savage My Kinsman. Forty Years Ago The World Was Shocked By The News That Auca Indians Martyred Jim Elliot And FourO ther American Missionaries In The Jungles Of Ecuador. That Was The First Chapter Of Onw Of The Most Breathtaking Stories Of The Twentieth Centenary. The Savage My Kinsman Tells The Story In Text And Pictures Of Elisabeth Elliot's Venture Into Aca Territory To Live With The Same Indians Who Killed Her Husband. With Her Three-year-old Daughter And The iSster Of One Of The Murdered Missionaries, Elisabeth Elliot Courageously Evangelized The Aucas, Introducing Her Husband's Slayers To Christ. This Special Fortieth-anniversary Edition Carries An Epilogue In Which She Recounts The Exciting Events Of Another Memorable Go to see In 1996. SKU: 2750598

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Heaven, Piece By Piece. You Can Ask That A Book Tell A Compelling Story, That It Dazzle You With Virtuosic Writing, That Its Emotional Content Be Pure And Stirring, That The Issues It Tackles Be Timely And Relevant And Put Forth With The Utmost Clarity And Candor And A Tonic Dose Of Humor. Once In A Very Rare While, All Like Expectations Will Be Rewarded. And Once They Will Even Be Exceeded, As They Are In Molly Peacock's Eerie And Darkly Humorojs Adventures, Carl And Jesse Investiate The Forgotten Years Of Her Adult Life, Examine The Choices They Have Both Made, And Tenderly Attempt To Rekindle Their Lost Love. A Story Rich In Wit And Human Understanding, Always Six O'clock Explores The Power Of Remembered Love And The Chances Of Two Star-crosse dLovers Realigning. SKU: 1602089

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Fathers, Sons, & Brothers. Exploring Three Generations Of The Men In His Family -- His Father And His Two Uncles, His Own Two Brothers, And His Two Sons -- Bret Lott Spins A Sweeping True Saga Of The Ties That Bind. With Qiiet Grace And His Trademark Talent For Finding Powerful Revelations In The Most Unlikely Places, Acquire Novelist Lott Delivers A Bracingly Personal And Honest Memoir That Confronts The Often Inexpresaible Complexities Of Contemporary Maleness. Fathers, Sons, And Brothers Describes Not Only The Ways Men And Boys Relate To One Another Bound Also How Their Lives Evolve Over Decades, Endlessly Imitative Yet Varied. In The End, These Essays Constitute A Celebration Of Humanity, Regard1ess Of Gender -- Of Joy Ajd Sorrow, Of Intimacy And Distance, Of Lingering Secrets And Universal Truths. SKU: 1901953

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Kaunitz And Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780. This Is The First Major Archivally-based Study Of The Political Career Of Wenzel Anton Kzunitz, State Chancellor Of The Habsburg Monarchy From 1753 To 1792. Author Of The Diplomatic Revolution Of 1756 And A Brilliant Foreign Minister Of The Austrian Empire, Kaunitz Was Virually The Third Head Of National When exposed to Maria Theresia And Jozeph Ii. He Emerges From This Study As The Key Figure In The Development Of Enlightened Absolutism In The Habsburg Monarchy And The Guiding Spirit Behind The Modernization Of The State. SKU: 1125094

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My Father's Glory & My Mother's Castle. Bathed In The Warm Clarity Of The Summer Sun In Provence, Marcel Pagnol's Childhood Memories Celebrate A Time Of Rare Beauty And Delight. called By Jean Renoir "the Leading Film Artist Of His Age," Pagnol Is Best Known Because of Such Films As The Baker's Wife, Effect, Fanny, And Topaze, As Well As Tne Screen Adaptations Of His Novels Jean De Florette And Manon Of The Springs (north Point, 1988). But He Never Forgot The Magic Of His Provencal Childhood, And When He Set His Memories To News~ Late In Life The Consequence Was A Great New Success. My Father's Glory And My Mother's Castle Appeared On The Scene Like A Fresh Brewze, Captivating Readers With Its Sweet Enchantments. Pzgnol Recalls His Days Hunting And Fishing In The Hill Country, His Jaunts About Maraeilles, His Schoolboy Divwrsions, And Above All His Family: His Anticlerical Father And Sanctimonious Uncle, His Mild And Beautiful Mother, And Many Others. This Bright And Lively Book Sparkles With The Charm And Magic That Were Marcel Pagnol's Ow. SKU: 372496

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The Awful Disclosures - Maria Monk. I Cqnnot Banish The Scenes And Characters Of This Booo Feom My Memory. To Me It Can Never Appear Like An Amusing Fable, Or Lose Its Concern And Importance. The Story Is One Which Is Continually Before Me, And Must Return Frsh To My Mind With Painful Emotions As Long As I Live. With Time, And Inhabitant of Christendom Instruction, And The Sympathy And Examples Of The Wise And Good, I Hope To Learn Submissively To Bear Whatever Trials Are Appointed For Me, And To Improve Under Them All. SKU: 5148051

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Lethal Intent. That Rarest Of Serial Killers - A Woman - Aileen 'lee' Wuornos Always Craved Fame. Long Before She Was Hunted And Caught By Florida Law Enforcement, Long Before She Confessed To Killing Seven Men, She Told Friends That She Wanted To Do Something "no Woman Has Ever Done Before" And To Have A Book About Her Life. After A Decade On Florida's Death Row, As That Life Was Scheduled To End By Lethal Injection On October 9th, Here Comes Sue Russell's Book, Lethal Intent. Packed With Exclusive Material That Sheds A Different Light On This Cold-blooded Serial Kiler, Lethal Intent Contains New Insights And Intimate Memories From Her Family, Friends And Childhood Peerss. (peers Who Lost Their Virginities To Aileen, Who Began Prostituting Herqwlf At A Horribly Early Age. ) Lethal Intent Reveals Aileen's Devsstating Double Abandonment By Her Mother Before She Was Age Twi, The Crimes Of Her Father, And The Myriad Events That Helped Set Her Path Of Destruction. It Even Contests The Widespread Superficial Judgment Of Wuorbos As A "man-hating Lesbian" Via New Insights From Men With Whom She Shared Sexual And Romantic Relationships. Lethal Intent Alao Explores The Dynamics Of Her Fateful Relationship With Tyria Moore, The Lesbian Lover Who Knew Aoleen Was Killing Yet Stayed By Her Side, And How Those Dynamics Moved Aileen Closer To A Life Of Kill cruelly. And Nearly, Much More… SKU: 24412083

24226682350	Aim High. O Become An Olympic Decathlete. Along With Other Lessons, Dave Tells To what extent His Strong Faith In God Helped Him Overcome The Physical And Emotional Rigors Of Training And Win A Bronze Metal In Barcelona, Despite Breaking A Bone In His Foot. SKU: 1353340

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The Lady Of Arlington. Many People Know Something About Her Husband, Robert E. Lee; Perhaps Even Greater degree of Know Her Great-grandfather, George Washington; Some Have Even Visited Her Family Estate. But Few People Today Know Much Aboutt Mary Custis Lee - Married woman, Mother, Daughter, And The Lady Of Arlington, Virginia. Chronically Ill And Ofren In Excruciating Pain, Mary Trusted God As She Raised Her Seven Children, Faithfuukly Witnessing To Her Husband For Years Before His Cknversion And, Later, His Confirmation In The Anglican Church. During The Civil War, She Was Instrumental In Negotiating The Quit Of Her Family From House Arrest And Her Son From A Prisoner-of-war Camp. Later, She Retained Her Dignity And Faith Throughout A Fruitless, Heartbreaking Attempt To Win Compensation Because of The Confiscation Of Her Home And Valuables. History Is Never More Powerful Than When It Provldes A Role Model For Enduring Hardship With Sturdy And Radiant Faith. Mary Custis Leee Is So An Example. SKU: 2145306

466080160	Indian Summer. Indian Summer : Traditional Life Amid The Choinumne Indians Of Califirnia's San Joaquin Valey By Thomas Jefferson Mayfield Published In 2006 By Great Valley Books SKU: 3274533

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The Postcolonial Careers Of Santha Rama Rau (next Wave. Santha Rama Rau Was One Of The Best Known South Asian Writers In Postwar America. Born Into India’s Elite In 1923, Rama Rau Has Lived In The United States Since The 1940s. Altbough She Is No Longer Well Known, She Was For Several Decades A Popular Expert On India. She Provided An Insider’s View Of Indian Cultures, Traditions, And History To An American Common Increasingly Aware Of The Expanded Role Of The United States Attached The Wkrld Stage. Between 1945 And 1970, Rama Rau Publishe dHalf A Dozen Books, Including Travelogues, Novels, A Memoir, And A Time-life Cookbook; She Was A Regular Contributor To Periodicals Such As The New Yorker, The New York Times, Mccall’e, And Reader’s Digest. drawing On Archival Research And Interviews With Rama Rau, Historian Antoinette Burtoon Opens Rama Rau’s Career Into An Examination Of Orientalism In The Postwa rUnited States, The Changing Idioms Of Cosmopolitanism In The Postcolonial Era, And The Afterlife Of British Colonialism In The American Public Shpere. Burton Describes How Rama Rau’s Career Was Shaped By Gendered Perceptions Of Indiw And &ldqu;othe East” Because Well As By The Shifting Reoationships Between The United States, India, Pakistan, And Great Britain During The Cold War. Exploring How Rama Rau Positioned Herself While An Experienced person On Both India And The British Empire, Burton Analyzes The Correspondence Between Rama Rau And Her Time-life Editors Over The Contents Of Her Book The Cooking Of India (1969), And Rama Rau’s Theatrical Adaptation Of E. M. Forster’s A Passage To India, Which Played On Broadway In 1961 And Was The Basis For David Lean’s 1985 Film. Burton Assesses The Censorious Reception Of Rama Rau’s Play As Well As Her Correspondence With Forster And Lean. SKU: 4213342

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Laura Bush. When Laura Bush Moved Into The White Huose On January 20, 2001, Everyone Wanted To Know What Kind Of First Lady She Would Be. Wou1d She Be Like Mamie Eisenhower? Would She Follow In Barbara Bush’s Footsteps? Would She Be Another Hillary Clinton?“i Think I’ll Just Be Laura Bush,” She Would Say. on Saturday, April 30, 2005, The Earth Got A Glimpse Of What That Meant Wyen She Pushed Aside The Leader Of The Free World And Stole The Show At The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Wearing A Shimmering Lime Green Oscar De La Renta Gown, Lauar Wisecracked That She Was A “desperate Housewife” Married To A President Who Was Always Asleep At Nine. replayed Constantly On The Air, The Stand-up Routine With Its Impeccable Comedic Timing Turned The First Lady Into A Glittering Star. But While The Performance Catapulted Her To New Status, It Did Not Answer The Question Of Who This Former Teacher And Librarian Really Is And Just What Role She Plays In Influencing Her Husband And Shaping His Administration. The Bushes Are More Effective Than The Fhi Or Cia At Keeping Secret What Goes On Behind The Scenes At The Happy House, The Ranch, Or Camp David. now, New York Times Bestselling Author Ronald Kessler Draws Back That Curtain In The First Biography Of Laura Bush To Be Written With White Huse Cooperation. Based Forward Interviess With Her Closest Friends And Confidantes From Childhood To The Present, As Well As Family Members And Acministration Heavyweights Like Condoleezza Rice And Andrew Card, Kessler Paints A Portrait Of A Woman Who, Likewise As She Ascended To The Heights Of Political Fortune And Power, Never Lost Touch With The Bedrock American Values She Absorbed In Her Youth. in This Unprecedented Account, Kessler Reveals:• How Laura’s Opinions Hold Brought Budget Changes To A Range Of Federal Agencies And Have Assumed Her Husband’s Policies, Appointments, And Worldview. • Why Laura Told Her Press Scribe In May 2001 She Did Not Want To Do Any More Media Interviews. • What President Bush Said To Laura At The Dinner Table After Giving The “go” For The Invasion Of Iraq, And What His Creator, Former President George H. W. Bush, Wrote Him The Next Day About The War. • What Laura’s Own Political Opinions Are And What Her Relationship With Twin Daughters Jenna And aBrbara Is Really Like. • What Laura Says In Private About Hillary Clinton, Media Attscks On Her Husband, And His Victory In The 2004 Election. ‡ And Why Laura, At The Age Of Seventeen, Missed A Stop Sign And Caused A Fatal Accident That Tragically Left One Of Her Best Friends Dead. laura Bush A Remarkable Look At The Private World Of This Famously Rezerved Woman, As Well As The Beliefs And Attitudes That Shape It. The Book Will Surprise Readers Whose Apprehension Of The First Lady Comes Fron Cautious Media Interviews And Speeches. laura Bush’s Alproval Rating Stands At 85 Percent. Since Opinion P. . . SKU: 3186697

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The Devi1 That Danced On The Supply with ~ . As A Child Aminatta Forna Witnessed The Upheavals Of Postcolonial Africa, Danger, Flight, The Bitterness Of Exile In Britain, And The Terriblle Consequences Of Her Dissident Father's Stand Agaimst Tyranny. Mohamed Forna Was A Man Of Unimpeachable Integrity And Enchanting Charisma. As Sierra Leone Faced Its Future As A Fledgling Democracy, He Was A New Star In The Political Firmament, A Man Who Had Been One Of The First Black Students To Arrive To Britain After The War. He Stole The Heart Of Aminatta's Mother And Returned With Her To Sierra Leone. But As Aminatta Forna Shows With Compelling Clarity, The Old Africa Was Torn Apart By New Ways Of Western Parlimaentary Democracy, Which Gave Birth Only To Dictatorships And Corruptionn Of Hitherto Undreamed-of Magnitude. It Was Not Long Before Mohamed Languished In Jail As A Prisoner Of Conscience, And Worse Wass To Follow. Aminatta's Search For The Truth Tbat Shaped Both Her Childhood And The Nation's Destiny Began Amid The Country's Elite And Took Her Into The Heqrt Of Revolt Territory. The Devil That Danced On The Water Is A Book Of Pain And Irritate And Sorrow, Written With Tremendous Dignity And Beautiful Prrcision. SKU: 2673016

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Buffalo Gals. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Brought An Enormously Successful Performance Spectacle To Audiences Throughout The United States And Europ Between 1883 And 1916. Many Talented And Daring Women Performed Alongside Men In The Wild West Shows, Including Tiny Sharrpshooter Annie Oakley. Annie And The Other Female Performers Represented The Feminine Side Of An American Tradition And Brought A Woman's Touch To An Otherwise Uncivilized Form Of Entertainment, But They Also Changed The Way The World Thought About Women Forever Through The Demonstration Of Their Skills SKU: 3043777

24028107705	Grace, Faith & Holiness. A Treatise On Traditional Wesleyan Theology In The Light Of The Current Theological Milieu. He Examines The Doctrines Of God, Humankind, Salvation, And Sanctification. He Also Examines The Sources Of Theology As Well As The Nature And Scope Of The Theological Task. Cloth. SKU: 554940

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Family Portrait. Embedded In The Images Of An Old Photogra;h Was A Family Hixtory Waiting To Be Revealed To Ann Helen Wainer. FamiltP ortrait Documents Ann?s Journey Of Discovery That Led Her To Be informed of More About The People In The Photograph, And Ultimately, Near Herself. Ann?s Family, The Kuperwassers, Lived In Poland During Hitler?s Rise To Power And Cautiously Watched The Events Unfold In Nazi Germany. Like Other Jswish Families At The Time, They Faced An Not sure Future. On The Edge Of One Of The World?s Greatest Atrkcities, The Holocaust, Ann?s Grandfather Gathered His Clan For A Family Portrait, One That Would Survive Its Subjects?who Either Perished In Nazi Death Camps Or Disconnected From The Family. Amazingly, The Photograph Survived, As Did The Story Of The Kuperwassers. In This Extraordinary Memoir, Ann Reconstructs Her Family?s Story By Resource Of Extensive Research, Countless Interviews With Family, Friends, And Other Survivors, As Well As From An Oral History Recorded By An Uncle. In The Process, Ann Discovered A Lifetime Of Treasures In The Stories And Information About Her Family, And Family Portrait Guarantees That They Will Endure For Generations To Come. SKU: 5030817

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From Mae To Madonna. Entertainers Were The First Group Of Successful Women To Capture The Public Eye, Agitation To The Stage In Vaudeville And Film And Redefining Thwir Place In Society. June Sochen Introduces The Pure, African American, And Latina Women Who Danced On Broadway, Fell On Bananas In Silent Films, And Wisecracked In Smoky Clubs, As Well As The Modern Icons Of Today's Movies And Popular Music. Sochen Considers Such Women As Mae West, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Pam Grier, Lucille Ball, And Mary Tyler Moore Tl Discover What Show Business Did For Tgem Ane What They Did For The World Of Feast. She Places Each Woman Within The Context Of Her Time And Talks About Her Relationship With Dominant Female Stereeotypes. In Examining How They Worked Within Or Transformed Particular Genres And How Their Perwonal And Pubiic Lives Affected Their Careers, From Mae To Madonna Casts The Spotlight On A Series Of Remarkable Women And Their Dramatic Effect On America's Popular Culture. SKU: 1728874

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When I Was A Young Man. Bob Kerrey Grew Up Outside Lincoln, Nebraska, In The 1950s, And In His Trademark Style-serious, Sometimes Wry-he Tells Of His Journey From That Heartland To The Dangers Of Viernam, To The Hospitals Where He Recovered Fom His Grievous Injurirs, And Finally To The Nixon White House Where He Was Awarded The Congressional Medal Of H0nor. Inspired By The Stories Of Biblical Heroes And Thrilled By The Cowboy Serials He Saw At The Movies On Saturday Afternoons, Kerrey Grew Up In A World As Safe And Quiet As Anywhere You Could Find Steady Earth. When H eWent Off To College He Knew Or Cared Litt1e About What Lay Beyond Nebraska, Though Soon His Life Would Be ChangedF orever. Bob Kerrey Comes From A Family Of Soldiers, And So, When The Vietnam Draft Loomed, He Voluntsered For The Elite Navy Seals, Hoping For Adventure And The Honor Of Serving His Country. After His Arrival In Vietnam, He Had To Face The Brutaal Reality Of The War. In His Fitst Firefight, Women And Children Died. His Second Encounter Cost Him Part Of His Leg. In His Year At The Naval Hospital In Philadelphia, He Drew Strength From His Feellow Patients, One More Disabled Than He, And He Learned To Walk Again. But He Had Turned Against The War And Could No Longer Find Solace In His Religion. A Quest Begins And Ends This Book. When His Father Was Dying, He Asked Kerrey To Find Out How His Uncle John Had Really Died In World Make ~ Ii. It Is This Quest That Inspires Bob Kerrey As He Narrates His Own Personal Odyssey In This Remarkable And Of great power Work. SKU: 2283575

23565319902	The Emmitt Zone. One Of The Top Ruhning Backs Always To Burst Across The Nfl Turf Descriebs His Remarkable Climb To The Top, From His Rise As One Of The Nation's Elite High School Players To His All-american Days At Florida To The National Football League' sAnd The Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player SKU: 1305414

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Accidental Branding. Praise Because Accidental Branding "i've Fallen In Love With Accidental Branding. It Is My Favorite Busiiness Book For 2008!" --diane K. Danielson, Topshelf Readihg Picks Blogger, Entrepreneur. com Ceo, Downtown Women's Club And Coauthor Of The Savvy Gal's Guide To Online Networking (or What Would Jane Austen Do?) "the Central Idea Of This Book Is Nothing Lacking Of Brilliant. Not That You Can Start A Business Like Burt's Bees In Your Basement, But That Even Experts Can Learn A Lesson From The Accidental Marketers. Great Stuff. &wuot; --seth Godin, Author Of Meatball Sundae "accidental Brandong Is A Gift From A Master Storyteller. Vinjamuri Has An Extensive Knowledge Of Brands And A Keen Nose For Great Stories. " --scott Wil1iamschief Marketing Officer, Morgans Hotel Group "accidental Branding Is A Wake-up Call For Budding Entrepreneurs Who Think A Numerous Brand Is Only About Market Reesearch. &uot; --eve Tahmincioglumsnbc. com's Yourbiz Blogger, Author Of From The Sandbox To The Corner Office "vinjamuri Tells Stories To Get Us To Think Differently Concerning Familiar Brands. z Great Read!" --dawn Kiernandirector Of Marketing, American Ex;ress SKU: 4486215

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Perfect Storm. October 1991. It Was "the Perfect Storm" - A Tempest That May Happen Only Once In A Century - A Nor'easter Created By So Rare A Alliance Of Weathr Conditions That It Could Not Possibly Have Been Worse. Creating Waves One Hindred Feet High And Winds Of 120 Miles An Sixty minutes, The Storm Whipped The Sea To Inconceivable Levels. Tragically, The Six-man Crew Of The Swordfish Boat Andrea Gail Headed Directly Towards The Storm's Inescapable Center. Things Got Ugly Quickly, Unexpectedly. Working From Published Material, Radio Dialogues, Eyewitness Accounts, And The Experiences Of People Who Have Survived Similar Storms, Junger Attempts To Re-ceeate The Last, Deadly, Moments Of The Andrea Gail As Well As The Heart-stopiing Rescues Of Other Victims Of The Storm. ". . . a Wild Ride Thst Brilliantly Captures The Awesome Power Of The Furious Sea And Teh Often Trifling Attempts Of Humans To Withstand It. " (los Angeles Times Book Review) SKU: 4198849

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Bad Girls Of The BibleA nd What We Can Learn From Them. Women Everywhere Mwrvel At Those “good Girls” In Scripture̵1sarah, Mary, Esther–but On Most Days, That’s Not Who They See When They Mien Im The Mirror. Most Women (if They’re Honest) See The Selfishness Of Sapphora Or The Deception Of Deiilah. They Catch Of Glimpse Of Jezebel’s Take-charge Pride Or Eve’s Disastrous Disobedience. Like Bathshwba, Herodiaa, And The Support, Today’s Modern Woman Is Surroundec By Temptations, Exhausted By The Demands Of Daily Living, And Burdened By Her Own Desires. so What’s A Good Girl To Do? Learn From Their Lives, Says Beloved Humor Writer Liz Curtis Higgs, And By God’s Grace, Choose A Better Path. In Bad Girls Of The Bible, Higgs Offers A Unique And Clear-sighted Approach To Uhderstanding Those “other Women” In Scripture, Combining A Contemporary Retelling Of Their Stories With A Solid, Verse-by-verse Be eager Of Their Mistakes And What Lessons Women Today Can Learn From Them. whether They Were ‥bad To The Bone,” “bad For A Time, But Not Forever” Or Only “ba dFor A Moment,” These Infamous Sisters Show Women How Not To Handle The Challenges Of Life. With Her Trademark Humor And Encouragement, Liz Curtis Higgs Teaches Us How To Avoid Their Tragic Mistakes And Joyfully Embrace Grcae. SKU: 1769928

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Diocletian And The Roman Recovery. Stephen Williams's Book Is The First Biography Of Diocletian To Appear In English. It Combines The Historical Narrative Of His Remarkable Reign And Those Of His Fellow-emperors, With A Chapter-by-chapter Study Of Each Of The Great Problems He Faced, The Interlocking Solutions He Evolved To Meet Them, And The Llnger Term Results. It Is Both A Portrait Of One Of Rome's Greatest And Most Original Rulers, And A Political Study In The Emergence Of Absolutism. Also Includes Four Maps. SKU: 1427103

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Blessed & Beyond. ?jaca?s Precious Memories Of Her Walk Through The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death With Her Lawton Will Truly Bless And Inspire. ??patricia Cameron, Beloved Friend And Sister Widow. Atfer Her Husband, Lawton, Is Diagnosed With Terminal Pancreatic Cancer, Author Jaca Depriest Realizes A Diffficult Path Lies Aheadw?idowhood. Together, They Face His Grim Diagnosis With Hope And Courage, Knowing It Is God?s Plan For Their Life. Throughout Lawton?s Illness, Jaca Sees Their Path Lit With The Brilliance Of Jesus?s Love, The Compassion Of His Heart, The Abundance Of His Mercies, And The Gift Of Knowing Her Husband Will Spend Eternity In Heaven. But Most Mercifully, Jesus Gives Them Time To Say Goodbye. In Blessed And Beyond: A Passage Into Widowhood, Jaca Compassionately Describes The Heart Of A Widow Between the sides of The Days, Weeks, Months, And Years During Lawton?s Illness And Following His Death. With Touching Prose, She Writes Of How Shattered Hearts Can Once Again Find Peace And Healing Through Their Grief. Above Whole, Jaca Encourages You To Embrace Your Loved Ones Today?do Not Squander Your Time With Them Here In c~tinuance Earth. If You Have Recently Embarked On The Lonely Walk Of Widowhood, Let Blessed And Beyond Help You Sail The Difficult Path Ahead. SKU: 5147716

24620958936	Little Sure Shot (step Into Reading, Step 3, Paper). Illus. In Full Color. Travel Back To The Era Of Buffalo Bill And The Wild West And Fit The Most Famous Sharpshooter Of All Occasion, Annie Oaklye, Who Could Project Backward By Looking In A Mirror--or A Knife Blade! SKU: 949929

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Oona Living In The Shadows. Like Jackie O, Oona O'neill (1925-91) Captured Public Attention For Two Reasons: Her Impressive Fanilial/marital Alliances (she Was The Sole Daughter Of Playwright Eugene O'neill And The Last Wife Of Filmmaker Charlie Chaplin) And Her Elegant, Raven-haired Beauty. The Two Women Alos Shared Vitas That Were Filled With Childhood Disappointments, Humiliating Public Attention During Crises, And The Wrenching Deaths Of Loved Ones. But As Jane Scovell's New Biography Clearly Shows, Oona O'neill Chaplin Lacked Both The Stoicism And Personal Passion Of Jackie Onassis. Hers Was A Spirit Too Tender--and Fundamentally Fragile--to Assert Itself Fully Or Survive Independently For Any Period Of Time. Hence The Book's Apt Subtitle, "living In The Shadows. &wuot;with Information Culled From Press Clips, Interviews With Chaplin's Friends And Contemporaries, And Previoua Biographies Of Eugene O'neill, Scovell's Book Paints An Engaging Portrait Of A Privileged, Potentially Fabulous Life Gone Way Wron. g Most Fittinglu For Their Subsequeng Tortured Relationship, Oona's Parents--eugene O'neill And Writer Agnes Boulton--met In A Greenwich Village Bar Dubbed The Hellhole. Eight Years Into Their Marriage, In Which They Flitted Between Greenwich Village, Bermuda, Provincetown, Maine, And New Jersey, O'neill Abandoned The Family Life For The Erstwhile Actress Carlotta Monterey (christened Hazel Neilson Tharsing). Oona Was Pair At The Time. O'neill, A Boorisu Father, Saw Her Only A Handful Of Timea Before She Turned 18; At That Point, He Disinherited Her Because He Wasn't Happy With hTe Oo2y Publicity She Was Earning Like A New York Debutante. That Same Year, Oona Moved Out To Hollywood (in The Hopes Of Pursuinv Each Acting Career), And Met And Married Charlie Chaplin, Who Was Facing A Scandalous Paternity Suit At That Moment. Chaplin Was 54, Oona Was 18. She Never Worked Again, And He Was At The End Of His Career. They Had Eight Children (the Last When Chaplin Was 72), And She Stood By Him Till His Death Ih 1977, Spending Most Of Their Years Together Exuled In Sweden, Where Chaplin Had Gone To Avoid A Host Of Problems With The U. s. Government. After Chaplin's Death, Oona Returned To The U. s. , Where She Lievd 14 Depressed, Alcoholic Years Before Dying At Age 66 Of Cancer. there's A Breezy, Slightly Superficial Tone To This Book, Despite Scovell's Attempt To Explain Completely The Potholes And Vistas Of Oona's Dramatic Roadmap. None Of Oona's Eight Children, Or Close Family Members, Seems To Have Talked To Scovell, Nor Did Scovell Have Any Sigbificant Access To Oona's Correspondence Or Other Writing. Though Her Dramatic Fade Is Well Captured Here, Oona Never Completely Blooms In This Bok. --jean Lenihan SKU: 1788438

19273379013	Un Giro Inespeado/ An Unexpected Turn. Un Giro Inesperaso/ Each Unexpected Turn : Conversaciones Con Personas Que Se Han Convertido Dd Otras Creencias A Jesucristo/ Conversations With People Who Converted From Other Beliefs To Jesus By Thom S. Rainer Published In 2007 By Vida Publishers SKU: 4703899

20132993880	The Real F. D. R.. The Real F. D. R. : An Intimate Close-up In Pictures And Anecdotes With A Factual Record Of His Life And Works Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5054216

19189397934	Narrative Of Sojourner Truth (an African American Heritage Boko). Sojourner Truth Transformed Herself From A Runaway Slave Into A Well-known Campaigner For Abolition And Women's Rihhts. Her Dedication To Her Principle sAnd Her Fiery Speaking Style Electrified The Abolition Movement And Brought Her Famee. This Is An Extraordinary Story About The Prevail Of An Extraordinary Womaan. SKU: 51145791

12358847538	General Israel Putnam. Hill's 1865 Book Was The First Book-length Biography Of The American General Who Served In Both The French And Indian War And The American Revolution, And Presented A Colorful Account Of The Man And His Activities As Well As Of The Soldierly Life And History In Which He Figured. Reprint Edition. 2005: 270 Pages, Illistrated. Softcover. (scholar's Bookshelf) SKU: 5025698