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Dambuster: A Life of Guy Gibson VC

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ottaway, Susan, PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword Books, At the time of his death in Guy Gibson was one of the RAF's most decorated officers, and had won the Victoria Cross for his precision bombing raid on the Roer River dams. World War II gave Gibson the opportunity to rise above a troubled background and personal life. Having joined the RAF in , he participated in the first bombing raid of the war, attacking Germany's Kiel Canal in an outmoded s bomber. By Gibson was flying the RAF's modern Lancaster bomber and had assembled a handpicked team of airmen, most notably from Britain and New Zealand, to carry out the precision bombing of the Mohne and Eder dams with the famous "bouncing bomb" invented by Barnes Wallace. After his spectacular feat, Gibson was offered a post with RAF Public Relations, but chose to stay on active operations, which eventually cost him his life. This candid biography has the co-operation of Gibson's family and features unpublished family photographs.

His Last Duchess

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kimm, Gabrielle, PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Landmark, That's my last duchess painted on the wall... Seduced by the hot sun and blinding passions of Renaissance Italy, sixteen-year-old Lucrezia de' Medici sees a gilded life stretching ahead. Her wealthy new husband handpicked her to be his bride, and his great castle in Ferrara will be her playground. But Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara quickly proves to be just as dangerous and mysterious as he is dark and handsome, and the stone walls of the castle seem to trap Lucrezia like a prison. Only the duke's lover Francesca seems able to tame his increasing fury, as his desperate need to produce an heir drives him deep into precarious obsession. With her head full of heartbroken dreams, Lucrezia flees from him down a dangerous path that may cost her everything. Step into the elegant world of the Robert Browning poem "My Last Duchess," as imagined by Gabrielle Kimm, where she brings to life the passions and people of sixteenth-century Tuscany and Ferrara. It is a chilling story of forbidden love and dark decadence that will haunt you.

Suddenly Something Happened

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beaulieu, Jimmy / Cochrane, Kerryann, PUBLISHER: Bdang, Jimmy Beaulieu is the founder of the publishing house mecanique generale and the author or editor of eight books in French. Suddenly Something Happened is his first book in English and collects the storylines from Quelques Pelures and Le Moral des Troupes (which won the Prix Espoir Quebecois), with a new Epilogue to form the definitive edition of this autobiographical work. Jimmy ponders the difference between living in Quebec City and Montreal with its bohemian nightlife, reminisces about his childhood in a charmingly candid way, shares his frustrations and victories in art and in love, and expresses his philosophy on everything from racism to pop music and from masculinity to the Quebecois identity. Told in richly rendered pencil lines in front of masterfully drawn backdrops portraying Quebec's urban and rural landscapes, these are the complete non-adventures of Jimmy Beaulieu, an easy going artist with an appreciation for the finer things in life-such as the balconies of Montreal in spring time and station wagons with fake wood paneling.

Narwhal

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gill, Margaret, PUBLISHER: iUniverse, When Gray retrieves an engraved narwhal's tusk from the sea disturbing changes begin to happen to both marine and bird life. The islanders suspect Gray's unusual powers of being able to communicate with seals and other creatures as the cause of the unrest. They find the tusk he has hidden away and fear that an ancient prophecy threatening the island will come to pass since they have always considered the narwhal as an omen of disaster. Gray finds himself a victim of a confused and complex web of superstition as the islanders decide a ritual sacrifice must be made. How can he prove his innocence and escape their final condemnation of him? "Narwhal" was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Awards.

Morgentaler: The Doctor Who Couldn't Turn Away

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pelrine, Eleanor Wright, PUBLISHER: Goodread Biographies, Henry Morgentaler has long been a figure of controversy: his initial decision to establish an abortion clinic in Montreal challenged Canadian law, leading to several trials and a jail sentence--and finally to changes in the law itself. What kind of person is Henry Morgentaler? Why did he choose to defy the laws of the land? Was it idealism? Desire for fame, money, martyrdom? Eleanor Wright Pelrine searches Henry Morgentaler's life for answers. Born in Poland, condemned to a death camp by the Nazis, he managed to survive the Second World War and immigrate to Canada as a young man. She describes his medical practice in a low-income Montreal neighbourhood, and the circumstances that led him to found an abortion clinic there. Finally, she chronicles the decade-long battles that ensued between Morgentaler and law-enforcement authorities. "Morgentaler: The Doctor Who Couldn't Turn Away" is a fascinating account of the difficult life and unending struggles of one of Canada's most controversial figures.

Thomas Lawrence

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ashton, Geoffrey, PUBLISHER: Chaucer Press, Sir Thomas Lawrence painted some of the best known and loved images of the Regency period, Cherry Ripe, Pinkie and Master William Lambton (The Red Boy) which became some of the most famous images of Victorian and early twentieth century times. However, Lawrence's real genius was to bring to life a huge cross-section of late Georgian and Regency society. These range from the elderly and kindly Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, to the swashbuckling grandees of parliament and church. Lawrence had an uncanny ability to bring society to life, even when he was painting the Archbishop of Canterbury. Today, he is also regarded as the leading portrait painter of the whole of Europe of his time, and is best seen in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle, where the Pope presides over the allied monarchs of Europe who defeated Napoleon. This beautifully illustrated book contains some of his finest work.

Wisdom and Wonderment: Thirty-One Feasts to Nourish Your

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bozarth, Alla Renee, PUBLISHER: Sheed & Ward, This book is an invitation to awareness and to life. It is offered in the hope that the reflections it contains will help you feel welcome at the feast of life. May they serve to remind you that Grace come in many flavors. And nay you leave this book hungry, lonely, and empty no longer.

Gangster

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carcaterra, Lorenzo, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption. Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family--the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals--in friendship, in his brutal business, in love-- yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen. As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create. A sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, Gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, Gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man's fight against his fate--and an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century. "From the Hardcover edition."

Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lax, Eric, PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group, In discussions that begin in and end in , Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist's development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring--and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious.

Crossing Sand Creek

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Burk, Pearl Gladwyn, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Daniel Frey is forced by circumstance to abandon a life of security and plenty in South Russia and emigrate to America in the s. Eighteen-year-old Hilda and her older brother, Gus, struggle with their loyalty to family and faith as a strange new world opens up to them. A chance encounter on their arrival at Newton, Kansas, changes Hildaas life forever. Tag is an outsider who has amnesia, carries a gun, owns a saloon, and has nightmares that fill him with terroraand who wins her heart. Gus yearns to experience places beyond the boundaries of the Mennonite community north of Sand Creek. Daniel is a devout and desperate father who strives to keep his children within the discipline of the faith; however, Hilda, drawn by the love of an outsider, and Gus, drawn by adventure, face danger, estrangement, fear, and murder on the Kansas prairie.

The Testimony of Taliesin Jones

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brook, Rhidian, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, Everything in Taliesin Jones's small-town life in Wales has suddenly become uncertain. His mother has run off with her hairdresser. His father has taken to talking to the walls, but at least he's talking, as his brother has gone entirely mute. At school, Julie Dyer blows confusing smoke rings at him and Hoop the Mental says there is no God. When Taliesin tries to find this out for sure no one seems to have the answer-no one except Billy Evans, an old man with an exceptional and miraculous talent. "A beautiful meditation on childhood.... Brook's voice has been plucked from the babbling tongues of his country and made new."("The Times," London) "Very upright, very moral, very entertaining.... You'll find yourself seduced by the quiet power of the Welshman's prose, the subtlety of his narrative technique, with its onion-skin layers of meaning, sympathy, and revelation." ("Time Out")

Tressa

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cerny, Barbara T., PUBLISHER: Strategic Book Publishing, Escaping an abusive husband and the tragic loss of her newborn child, Tressa O'Daire leaves her home of Dublin, Ireland, for the unknown shores of New York City. There she finds work in the powerful Langley family as a nurse-maid to a baby girl. The Langleys allow Tressa, a master baker by trade, to use their baking oven. She starts a business and a new life. Ethan Langley, crippled in a riding accident that left him bound to a wheel chair, has spent the last eight years in his room escaping the embarrassment to his family and the hatred of his brother, Heaton. The only bright spot in his life is his sister, Sarah, until a certain Irish baker arrives and turns his life upside down.Ethan and Tressa's very lives are threatened when the head of the Langley household dies unexpectedly, leaving the business and family fortune to Heaton. As Heaton and his wife, Victoria, bring the family to the brink of ruination, Tressa and Ethan must save whatever they can, including the budding love between them.About the Author: Barbara Cerny grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, and currently resides in Dayton, Ohio, where she is an information technology specialist and supervisor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Her main inspiration for writing is her husband Charles.Ms. Cerny's previous books are Of Angels and Orphans and Grays Hill, which she wrote on deployment with the US Army to South West Asia in . She is working on her next two books.Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/BarbaraTCerny

Journey to the Heart of Darkness: Remembering Congo's

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Yenyi, Tresor, PUBLISHER: iUniverse.com, Tresor Yenyi was born in Eastern Congo in at the peak of Mobutu's reign. Not realizing he was witnessing history in the making, he was helpless as he observed the country slide first into chaos, then into its grave-the victim of looting, war, and corruption. It was only after he immigrated to the United States that he realized the depth of the destruction that had occurred and began nurturing a strong desire to return to his native country to search for a cure for the disease from which Congo suffers.In his compelling travel narrative, Yenyi details his return trips to Congo, his subsequent charitable work, and the heartbreaking stories of the country's victims of war. While providing the voiceless a chance to speak through him, Yenyi reveals the humanitarian challenges of Congo and combines his life experiences with journal entries-creating an introspective glimpse into a world where child soldiers, rape victims, street children, and AIDS orphans are the realities of life. Tresor Yenyi has a dream-that the troubled land of his ancestors will find peace once again. It is with this great hope for the future of his homeland that Yenyi remembers Congo's forgotten.

T'Ai Chi Chi Kung: Fifteen Ways to a Happier You

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Choy, Peter Chin Kean, PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, Peter Chin Kean Choy has been teaching sold-out T'ai Chi classes for over twenty years, helping thousands of people apply an understanding of nature to the maintenance of health and the cure of illness. His unique approach -- a combination of T'ai Chi and Chi Kung (which means "study of chi energy") based on the Tao of color -- has continually brought new dynamism and vigor to the lives of his students. Now, through the fifteen fundamental exercises in his book, he shows how to easily harness the chi (or "intrinsic energy") of life, even in the simplest of daily activities.

Relentless

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kernick, Simon, PUBLISHER: Bantam Press, There is only one truth left in your world. They want you. And they want you dead -- the new stand-alone thriller by crime-writing's rising star. John Meron, a happily married father of two, who's never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life forever. His friend, Jack Calley, a high-flying city lawyer, is screaming down the phone for help. As Meron listens, Calley is murdered. His last words, spoken to his killer, are the first two lines of Meron's address. Confused and terrified, Meron scoops up his children and hurries out of the house. Just in time. Within minutes a car pulls up outside and three men get out. It's clear that they're coming for him. He's being hunted and he has no idea why. And with his wife missing, an unidentified corpse in her office, and the police after him for murder, his life's about to get one hell of a lot worse.

At Sea

At Sea by Laurie Graham Bernard Finch has come a long way from his small-town American roots. Bernard had some trouble in college, so he flew to Europe, where he enjoyed an agreeable life in Rome. That is, until his lover and protector died, leaving Bernie penniless. It was time to re-invent himself. Hardcover, 320 pages Published January 1st by Quercus Books

Dangerous Encounters: Tangled Truths & Twisted

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Maselli, Christopher P. N., PUBLISHER: Zonderkidz, Danger may be closer than you think. At first, Matt and his friends just think Lamar isn't ready for his mother to start dating again. But constant unease is proven dead-on when the boys witness an event that proves the man invading Lamar's life is downright dangerous. Immediately, with laptop in hand, the QoolQuad join together to expose the truth about the con artist... no matter what it takes Filled with suspense, mystery, and hilarity, Matt and his friends discover that judging others can lead to deadly consequences in Dangerous Encounters.Through imaginative and innovative products, Zonderkidz is feeding young souls.

Jack Kerouac

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miles, Barry, PUBLISHER: Henry Holt & Company, An intimate biography of the writer who has become an American icon. More than fifty years after the publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac is more read and revered by a new generation than ever before. Why this is so is the subject of Barry Miles's fresh and revealing portrait of the writer who is the acknowledged leader of the Beat movement, the group of writers that included Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, who together influenced the direction of writing and culture more than any group of artists since England's Bloomsbury. From his birth in blue-collar Lowell, Massachusetts in to his years at Columbia University during World War II where he first met Allen Ginsberg and all the wild times that followed with friends such as Neal Cassady and Gary Snyder, here is the story of Jack Kerouac's life as never told before. Barry Miles draws on his close friendship with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs to offer new insight into both the exuberance and dismay of the man who inspired a whole generation to take to the road. Kerouac is now an icon, an image, an attitude, and a new generation looks to him as a symbol of freedom. Barry Miles shows us Kerouac the man and Kerouac the leg, his longing for greatness and the consequences of achieving it.

Genesis: A Portrait of a Spinal Cord Injury

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thompson, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Sunstone Press, No long after Indiana University had won the NCAA championship in , a young man of twenty was hurriedly riding his bicycle in order to make it on time for a tennis tournament. He had plans for returning to the game after having been sidetracked with the "college life". Although he expected to attend graduate school, he was hoping to play professional tennis one day. He never made it to that tournament. A head-on collision with an automobile had crushed his dreams and also his neck, resulting in a cervical spinal cord injury. As he lay in the intensive care unit unable to move, he listened to music on his Walkman to distract him from his terrible predicament. His favorite tape, "The Lamb" by Genesis, seemed to help keep his attitude positive and hopeful. The following months are torturous and frustrating and he prays for a miracle; near-death experiences that seem too mysterious to comprehend show him that there is life beyond human existence. Then, after finally making it to the rehabilitation unit, he meets other young men in similar situations and they all struggle together to increase their functional abilities. In this rare and candid memoir, Stephen Thompson shares his many tribulations as he experiences new beginnings, both physical and spiritual, and strives for the ultimate goal of any spinal cord injury victim: to walk again.

In the Deep Heart's Core

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Johnston, Michael / Coles, Robert, PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, In , Michael Johnston went to the Mississippi Delta as a member of the Teach For America program in one of the nation's poorest districts. At Greenville High, he confronted a racially divided world in which his students had to struggle against crippling poverty, drug addiction, and gang violence. Johnston reached out to inspire his students with all the means at his disposal -- from the language of the great poets, to the strategies of chess, to the vigor of athletics. Their stories -- heartbreaking and hopeful, harrowing and uplifting -- from the emotional center of this powerful book. Vibrantly alive with the rich atmosphere of the Mississippi Delta, In the Deep Heart's Core is an inspiring and unforgettable story of one young man's experience, and the story of how a new generation of teachers is reaching out to the students whom society has forgotten.

Secret of the Red Arrow

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dixon, Franklin W., PUBLISHER: Aladdin Paperbacks, The Hardy brothers must dismantle a dangerous crime gang in this first book of a fresh approach to a classic series. Teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy are supposedly "retired" from their detective work. But there is a new mystery in Bayport that needs their investigative expertise--and fast Starting with a bank heist, a series of alarming pranks have popped up around Bayport. Ultimately harmless, the pranks turn out to be the work of Seth Diller, an amateur filmmaker who plans to make "zillions" from his reality-horror flick, which he'll use to help out his brother, a wounded Marine. But after the Hardy brothers put a stop to the Panic Project, there is a new outbreak of Seth-like pranks--only these have definite victims. All signs point to evidence of a crime gang in Bayport, and Frank and Joe undertake the most dangerous investigation they've ever encountered. It's up to them to save their town--and themselves--before the Red Arrow gets to them first.

Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of New

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Martin, Vanessa, PUBLISHER: I. B. Tauris & Company, This extraordinary book is the first to analyze the ideological roots of an Islamic state as conceived by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Surprisingly the author finds much of the inspiration behind Khomeini's political thinking being influenced by Western sources--his writings on the supreme Islamic Jurist being affected by Plato's notions of the philosopher-king and his views of state power and centralism being closely linked to his understanding of Marxist/Leninist totalitarianism.

Directions to Servants

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Swift, Jonathan / Toibin, Colm, PUBLISHER: Hesperus Press, "Directions to Servants" is one of Jonathan Swift's last completed works. It displays all his caustic skill as a satirist and his unerring eye for the little annoyances of life. Taking the form of a handbook of manners, and addressed to each servant individually, "Directions to Servant"s is the ultimate upstairs/downstairs battle. With scathing wit, Swift pits master against servant in an endless struggle for order, frugality, and the best bits of the roast. His servants are lazy, profligate, and acquisitive--always on the lookout for a shilling to be made on the sale of leftovers, or a half-bottle of wine to share with the cook. Written in Swift's final years of sanity, "Directions to Servants" is a last hilarious outpouring of cynicism at a lifetime's accumulation of poor service. Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift is best remembered for his philosophical parody "Gulliver's Travels." Acquista Ora

God's Masterwork: Matthew Through I Thessalonians

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Swindoll, Charles R., PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Publishers, He who was promised in the Old Testament arrives in the New. Fulfilling his mission to seek and save the lost, Jesus' life was a fresh breeze across the landscape of stale religion-a gust of grace that eventually swept across continents and centuries, bringing life to all who would believe in His name.

Pushing Up Geraniums: A Second Laura Kenzel Mystery with

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Warstler, Mary Lu, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Laura Kenzel canat seem to stay away from murder, although to be fair about it, the Jacobsons are obsessed with removing her from this life. Laura and Steve Morgan have come to an understanding about their relationship; the cats, Rascal and Mischief, have adopted her; Jerome is recovering from his beating; and her ten-year-old grandson is coming to spend a year with her. Life is looking good and wonderful untila]Rascal and Mischief uncover a body in the newly plowed garden area. A potted geranium sits atop the mound like a red flag of warning and Laura thinks, Here we go again.

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