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Book Synopsis The Secret of Magic by : Deborah Johnson
Download or read book The Secret of Magic written by Deborah Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working for a prominent member of the NAACP in 1946 when a request comes from her favorite childhood author to investigate the murder of a black war hero, Regina Robichard travels to Mississippi, where she navigates the muddy waters of racism, relationships, and her own tragic past.
Book Synopsis Because He Loved Grandpa by : Greg D. Ridgley
Download or read book Because He Loved Grandpa written by Greg D. Ridgley and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his short stint as a police officer in Sin City, to his wartime experience in Iraq and subsequent struggles with God and readjustment, Greg pulls no punches as he relates what he and those around him experienced. Accompanied by personal photos from Greg's private journey, he tells a complete story, explaining that God never abandoned him after all.
Book Synopsis The Nazi's Granddaughter by : Silvia Foti
Download or read book The Nazi's Granddaughter written by Silvia Foti and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.
Book Synopsis Young Military Rarities by : Yan Ruoyouya
Download or read book Young Military Rarities written by Yan Ruoyouya and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about two young talented boys fell in love. Two boys with handsome looks and distinctive personality, as long as they met, their story wound never end. They got to know each other at zombie-ridden troubled times. At the time that two strong person met, it felt like they had known each other for a long time. They sincerely cooperated and helped each other. Their feelings bonded together. They built a strong relationship at hard times. Eventually, with their joint efforts, all dust settled. They were looking forward to their beautiful future. ☆About the Author☆ Yan Ruoyouya, a female novelist, has signed up with a literature website. Her writing is skilled and she has already finished 13 works. She has a lot of fans. Although she's young, she has rich writing experience.
Book Synopsis My Father, My President by : Doro Bush Koch
Download or read book My Father, My President written by Doro Bush Koch and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, passed away on November 30, 2018 at the age of 94. This book, written by his only daughter, with his full cooperation, is the definitive account of his life and career. Doro Bush Koch has crafted six new chapters about her late father, and has included many photographs new to this revised and updated edition. Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis, Saddam Huessin, has been captured and executed. And while his son George W. Bush has left the White House, his grandson George P. Bush serves as the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office. As author Doro Bush Koch did for the 2006 edition, she again has contacted hundreds of the late President's friends and associates, conducted scores of interviews with dignitaries; tapped the memories of family members, including her late mother, her four brothers, and of course, her late father himself; and collected new information from the former President's never-before released files. This memoir offers fascinating details about his tenure as head of the Republican National Committee during Watergate, Ambassador to the U.N., America's liaison to China, and Vice President for eight years under Ronald Reagan. Doro shows how the 41st President felt when two of his sons entered politics. She also sheds new light on the unlikely friendship with the President's once-rival Bill Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Distinguished by its many first-person accounts, never-before-published photos, and a foreword by the late Barbara Bush, MY FATHER, MY PRESIDENT is at once the history of a great man, and the chronicle of a rapidly changing nation.
Book Synopsis It Does Mean Something by : W.R. Benton
Download or read book It Does Mean Something written by W.R. Benton and published by Loose Cannon. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's tale of love, war and recovery. The year is 1971 and with the war raging in Vietnam a young high school graduate, Luke Barnes, figures with a draft number of 11 he may as well join up and get his choice of service—the Air Force. His selected MOS of 'Combat Controller' looks daring and exciting, little does he know it would be a fateful choice. In the month before Basic training he idyllically passes the time with his steady high school sweetheart. Both are full of life, and at the same time a bit melancholy about what the future holds for them both during Luke's very likely deployment to Southeast Asia. It Does Mean Something...A novel of Love during the Vietnam War, an Empty Homecoming, and recovery was written by a veteran of this era from his personal experiences to weave a moving and true-to-life story of the Vietnam experience at the very end of the conflict and the chaotic final pull out.
Book Synopsis The Experience of Life by : Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Download or read book The Experience of Life written by Elizabeth Missing Sewell and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grand Fathers written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of varied tributes to grandfathers, reflecting their special roles in families.
Book Synopsis Letters My Grandfather Wrote Me by : Bryan Crawford
Download or read book Letters My Grandfather Wrote Me written by Bryan Crawford and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Douglases are traced from 100 A.D. with ancestral background in Ireland around 300 B.C. There is an American branch from the 18th century with connections to the U.S. war of independence and the anti-slave movement. The Crawfords are shown in their early history around the 12th century, then since the early 19th Century in Scotland, Ireland and New Zealand. The Clarks are shown since the mid 19thcentury but with strong Huguenot roots in the 17th century. The Gagens are traced from Germany to Norfolk in the U.K. in the 17th century; and to Canada and America in the 19th, where Dan Gagen married into the Chippewa tribe. The book is about Cyril Gagen who settled in New Zealand with his mid-wife mother in the early 20th century, and is written by his grandson. The last chapter is autobiographical with an in-depth discussion on Social Control and the ethics of its use in modern Britain and New Zealand. The Clarion review states that the book is anti-monarchist which is totally incorrect.
Book Synopsis Bones of My Grandfather by : Clay Bonnyman Evans
Download or read book Bones of My Grandfather written by Clay Bonnyman Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “War, reclamation, and what Tim O'Brien called "the Lives of the Dead" are eternal literary themes for men. Clay Bonnyman Evans has honored that lineage with this masterful melding of military history and personal quest.”—Ron Powers, co-author of New York Times #1 bestsellers Flags of Our Fathers and True Compass, along with No One Cares About Crazy People and others In November 1943, Marine 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. was mortally wounded while leading a successful assault on a critical Japanese fortification on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor. The brutal, bloody 76-hour battle would ultimately claim the lives of more than 1,100 Marines and 5,000 Japanese forces. But Bonnyman's remains, along with those of hundreds of other Marines, were hastily buried and lost to history following the battle, and it would take an extraordinary effort by a determined group of dedicated civilians to find him. In 2010, having become disillusioned with the U.S. government's half-hearted efforts to recover the "lost Marines of Tarawa," Bonnyman's grandson, Clay Bonnyman Evans, was privileged to join the efforts of History Flight, Inc., a non-governmental organization dedicated to finding and repatriating the remains of lost U.S. service personnel. In Bones of My Grandfather, Evans tells the remarkable story of History Flight's mission to recover hundreds of Marines long lost to history in the sands of Tarawa. Even as the organization begins to unearth the physical past on a remote Pacific island, Evans begins his own quest to unearth the reclaim the true history of his grandfather, a charismatic, complicated hero whose life had been whitewashed, sanitized and diminished over the decades. On May 29, 2015, Evans knelt beside a History Flight archaeologist as she uncovered the long-lost, well-preserved remains of of his grandfather. And more than seventy years after giving his life for his country, a World War II hero finally came home.
Book Synopsis A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet by : Rita Gabis
Download or read book A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet written by Rita Gabis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather’s collaboration with the Nazis--a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery. Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past: prior to immigration he had fought the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler’s army swept in. Five years ago, Gabis discovered an unthinkable dimension to her family story: from 1941 to 1943, her grandfather had been the chief of security police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near the killing field of Poligon, where eight thousand Jews were murdered over three days in the fall of 1941. In 1942, the local Polish population was also hunted down. Gabis felt compelled to find out the complicated truth of who her grandfather was and what he had done. Built around dramatic interviews in four countries, filled with original scholarship, and mesmerizing in its lyricism, A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet is a history and family memoir like no other, documenting "the holocaust by bullets" with a remarkable quest as Gabis returns again and again to the country of her grandfather’s birth to learn all she can about the man she thought she knew.
Download or read book Soldier Dogs written by Maria Goodavage and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading reporter offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them. People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. A dog's natural intelligence, physical abilities, and pure loyalty contribute more to our military efforts than ever before. You don't have to be a dog lover to be fascinated by the idea that a dog-the cousin of that furry guy begging for scraps under your table-could be one of the heroes who helped execute the most vital and high-tech military mission of the new millennium. Now Maria Goodavage, editor and featured writer for one of the world's most widely read dog blogs, tells heartwarming stories of modern soldier dogs and the amazing bonds that develop between them and their handlers. Beyond tales of training, operations, retirement, and adoption into the families of fallen soldiers, Goodavage talks to leading dog-cognition experts about why dogs like nothing more than to be on a mission with a handler they trust, no matter how deadly the IEDs they are sniffing, nor how far they must parachute or rappel from aircraft into enemy territory. "Military working dogs live for love and praise from their handlers," says Ron Aiello, president of the United States War Dogs Association and a former marine scout dog handler. "The work is all a big game, and then they get that pet, that praise. They would do anything for their handler." This is an unprecedented window into the world of these adventurous, loving warriors.
Book Synopsis Ladder to the Sky by : Ettore Luzzatto
Download or read book Ladder to the Sky written by Ettore Luzzatto and published by PINE TEN, LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fictionalized autobiography of a young Italian Jew, who leaves his beloved country when, overnight, the 1938 racial laws make him a pariah, is a testament to the strength of the human soul. Leaving Italy for the United States with little cash and a strong will to live the life of a free man, young Bruno settles down in New York City and struggles to find his balance. When the U.S. enters WWII, he enlists in the army and participates in the liberation of the Philippines. Bruno's Jewish identity is the common thread of this book and omnipresent in all his decisions. He returns to Italy, gets married, has children, and finally settles down in Israel, the only place where he can find himself again. Ettore (Edgar) Luzzatto (1914-2011) was the son of an aristocratic Italian Jewish family. His grandfather, Riccardo, who greatly influenced his formative years, was an Italian hero and one of Garibaldi's "Mille." During his life, the first part of which spanned two world wars, Ettore Luzzatto never stopped trying for something more than the ordinary, professionally and personally, taking chances on his abilities, and never stopping searching until his last day.
Book Synopsis The Heart of a Military Mom by : Army Mom Strong
Download or read book The Heart of a Military Mom written by Army Mom Strong and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you need someone encouraging you, especially when you are learning to let go of your child to military service? How about when they are difficult places or in harm's way? Do you feel stressed or worried? You are not alone. Elaine Brye and Army Mom Strong have combined their efforts to create a powerful, emotional and inspirational pictorial book of encouragement and support for military moms of all branches. The authors are veteran military moms who have supported many moms through the challenges that come with sending a child into harm's way. "The Heart of a Military Mom" gives you valuable insights to help you to stand strong in the face of fear and on the home front. It is the first in a series of supportive books to inspire you to create a more fulfilling journey as a military mom.
Download or read book Detained Dream written by Peng Tong and published by Peng Tong. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: tl;dr: A penniless young immigrant turned out to be an explosives expert and was involved in foreign espionage in his late life. Summary: This novel encompasses the lucky life of a penniless young American-Chinese who almost fulfilled his American dream but failed it at old age because of a naive notion of compassion. Walt Loong was born in 1920 in rural southern China. He moved with his family to the big city of Guangzhou (Canton) and grew up there. He was kidnaped by gangsters while looking for a summer job during his high school summer recess. He was then sold to a slave-labor firecracker factory in Kowloon, north of Hong Kong. He met a slave girl, Monica Mei, at the firecracker factory. Monica Mei turned out to be the daughter of General Mei who had set up a military network in search of his daughter. Thus, Monica Mei became a hot potato for the slave owner. After hearing the rumor that the slave owner planned to eliminate the Mei girl, Walt helped her escape the slave factory at night. They caught a train to return to Guangzhou. In gratitude, General Mei let Walt Loong and Monica Mei be engaged to be married and arranged for them to escort his wife and two younger children to come to the United States to avoid the imminent Japanese southern offensive attack of Guangzhou. So, Walt Loong and the Mei family settled in Chinatown in San Francisco to begin their new life. Walt worked and supported himself through schools. His college education was interrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served as a U.S. Army OSS intelligence agent in China during WWII and returned to school when the war ended. After graduation from college, Walt and Monica got married after ten years of engagement. They moved to Alexandria, Virginia where Walt worked for an explosives company. Thus, Walt and Monica joined the American middle class with a house, car, kids, friends and relatives. In time, Walt became a prominent expert in military and commercial explosives, especially the top secret C-4 military explosives. His expertise involuntarily attracted international espionage. The first case involved a former company colleague who worked for a foreign company. The second case involved a female houseguest from China. She was arrested by the FBI in an entrapment scheme and deported with hefty punitive payments from her intelligence agency. In retirement, Monica suffered from lung cancer and died unexpectedly after a single chemotherapy treatment. Walt moved to a retirement home in Rockville, Maryland. He grew regretful about entrapping the Chinese houseguest spy and traveled to Beijing, China with the naive notion of helping the Chinese spy in case she was disgraced and penalized. When he attempted to find her at her intelligence agency, he was brutally beaten by the agency guards and taken by police to Foreigners Retention Center for investigation. Walt wrote his life story in a 9x7 room at the retention center. He lamented that he had lost his Americana dream.
Download or read book Rita written by Mary Restivo and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time my mother Rita Liuzzi DiTuri, was one hundred and two years young she was alert and remarkably beautiful. Throughout the years she would tell us stories about her family and I often thought of writing her life story but it remained dormant for years. That is until one Sunday morning while we were listening to Italian House party with John LaBarca on radio AM 600. John was playing my mother's favorite Italian songs and she began singing along with the melody. Mom never had professional vocal training but loved to sing and continued to sing after the program was over. I soon became aware that she was singing a song about a young girl which was unfamiliar to me. When I asked about the song Mom smile escalated into a hearty laugh and it was infectious and I began to laugh along with her not really knowing why I was laughing. She explained that when her mother refused to buy her a new case for her books she whined and carried on. When her brother learned why she was behaving in that manner he surprised her with a new red bookcase the following day. She remembered how proudly she walked to school showing it off. Thereafter her brother teased her, as older brother's do, with a song he made up about his baby sister going to school with a red suitcase. Mom often spoke about her family but without a doubt this cherished story about her school days motivated me to seriously consider writing her biography. I began to ask questions about my grandparents and information poured out like an open faucet. Bear in mind that my mother was one hundred two at the time and I was astonished by how quickly she remembered dates, names and special events in detail. Every afternoon thereafter, mom took me by the hand, figuratively speaking and we traveled back in time. This was truly the beginning and I had no idea what was in store for me. I was mesmerized by the romances, her childhood, hardships, sorrow and world events. Irrelevant but amusing was the fact that I spoke to my mother in English (since my conversational Italian was limited and she answered my questions in Italian and you can imagine the belly laughs when I mispronounced Italian names. Looking back, I was most fortunate to have had those precious moments with my mom. It is a great pleasure for me to accompany you on this roller coaster journey into the past to the year 1856. Buckle up your safety device and enjoy the ride. I promise that together we will experience unexpected highs and thrilling lows, not to mention the countless bumps and turns as we venture along. I'm sure you will agree it is a story about an amazing woman that must be told.
Book Synopsis Driftfeather on the Alaska Seas by : Marianne Schlegelmilch
Download or read book Driftfeather on the Alaska Seas written by Marianne Schlegelmilch and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could it have been a strange coincidence or a magical matter of fate that allowed the final draft of Driftfeather on the Alaska Seas to be finished during the full solar eclipse of May 2012? For Mara Benson, interspersed among all the losses have been moments of brilliant awareness, yet until now, she has been comfortable—perhaps even secure—drifting in the wake of life's journey. Now, in the third book of the Feather series, Mara Benson will finally reach the ultimate future of her past. You've come to know her well. Destiny will now allow her to know herself. Join her in this modern day mystery as she expands her horizons, makes new liaisons, is tempered by fresh challenges, and emerges from the shadows of darkness into the nurturing warmth of the sun—all in this place named Alaska that they call the last frontier.
