NOMINATED FOR OSCAR, BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (BRYAN CRANSTON, BEST ACTOR) Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on Un-American Acitivities for their associations with the Communist Party. Due to their refusal to cooperate during the investigation, Trumbo and his fellow screenwriters were declared in contempt of Congress and were ultimately blacklisted from Hollywood and some were even jailed. Although Trumbo was one of several hundred writers, directors, producers, and actors who were deprived of the opportunity to work in the motion picture industry from 1947 to 1960, he won an Oscar under the pseudonym Robert Rich for The Brave One in 1956, and he was the first to see his name on the big screen again in 1960 with Exodus, one of the year's biggest movies. All his life Trumbo was a radical of the homegrown, independent variety. From his early days in Colorado, where his grandfather was a county sheriff, to his time in Los Angeles, where he organized a bakery strike and was even a bootlegger, to his time as an author when he wrote the powerful pacifist novel Johnny Got His Gun, to his heyday as a top-paid (and frequently broke) Hollywood screenwriter-where his credits include Roman Holiday, Spartacus, Papillon, Lonely Are the Brave, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Brave One, and Kitty Foyle-his life rivaled anything he had created. Written with Dalton Trumbo's full cooperation, at a moment when he himself did not know how much time he had left, Trumbo is a candid tale of a colorful figure who was at the epicenter of a tumultuous period in recent American history.

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions to cater to the demands of donors, creation of dual roles for faculty, students and staff when they are fundraisers and donors in addition to playing their primary roles in higher education, business-university research partnerships that put business values in conflict of academic values and mission, commercialization of student athletics, and endowment use and investment. Supplemented by a series of carefully selected articles, The Kindness of Strangers needs to be read by anyone who is concerned by higher education's increasing dependency on corporate and individual donors.

The true story that inspired the major motion picture starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren.

Dalton Trumbo was the central figure in the "Hollywood Ten," the blacklisted and jailed screenwriters. One of several hundred writers, directors, producers, and actors who were deprived of the opportunity to work in the motion picture industry from 1947 to 1960, he was the first to see his name on the screen again. When that happened, it was Exodus, one of the year's biggest movies.

This intriguing biography shows that all his life Trumbo was a radical of the homegrown, independent variety. From his early days in Colorado, where his grandfather was a county sheriff, to Los Angeles, where he organized a bakery strike, to bootlegging, to Hollywood, where he was the highest-paid screenwriter when he was blacklisted (and a man with constant money problems), his life rivaled anything he had written. His credits include Kitty Foyle, The Brave One, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Spartacus, Lonely are the Brave, and Papillon, and he is the author of a power pacifist novel, Johnny Got His Gun.

"There is no such thing as the impossible dream."

Living in Atlanta in 1967, Brad Jones is an average teenager with a vivid imagination and a unique way of seeing the world through his flights of fancy and dreams of heroic deeds. During the summer before his senior year, he and three friends decide to prove that superheroes don't need special powers, fancy weapons, futuristic vehicles, or skin tight costumes.

All they really need is great press.

Calling themselves the Bowmen, they carefully craft a plan to make one late-night appearance to halt a minor crime and phone it in to the local newspaper. All they expect to get is a news article about a mysterious band of masked vigilantes. What they didn't expect was to become seduced by the excitement of pretending to be superheroes.

Their intended short-lived hoax begins to take on a life of its own as they continue their escapades, with all their carefully laid plans frequently going awry and leading to hilarious predicaments and escalating dangers. And when they are caught in a shocking, real-life situation which forces them to find the courage they never knew they possessed, they will learn that the heart of a superhero can live inside anyone - even lanky teenagers with no superpowers and very little common sense.

"The Wishbone Express" is a science fiction novel set hundreds of years in the future, when faster-than-light space travel is common and millions of inhabited worlds are part of a galactic society. The story focuses on two men - Randy Henson and Bill Jenkins-who operate an interstellar courier service using their highly advanced starship, the "Wishbone." They accept a contract to transport a key government witness whose testimony will decide the fate of a corrupt planetary government. Their VIP passenger is accompanied by an attorney and an alien body guard.

But during the journey they are pursued across thousands of light years by three well-armed ships which repeatedly attempt to destroy the "Wishbone." The story employs a wealth of cosmological data to present a scientifically accurate description of the celestial features which play a key role in this fast-past story. The" Wishbone's" crew uses intelligence and imagination to out-maneuver their pursuers as they fly through a dense nebula, soar through the deadly radiation of a pulsar, and dive into the chromosphere of a star

The two crewmen do not know, however, that their passengers are concealing dark secrets from both the crewmen and each other. After a dangerous and action-packed voyage, the crewmen attempt to land their badly damaged spacecraft on the destination planet while dealing with life-threatening complications concerning the true identities of their passengers and the deadly secrets they've been hiding.

The Wishbone Express is rich with exciting action, unexpected plot twists, and generous amounts of humor.

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In this book Redeeming the Wounded you will hear from a chaplain who ministered to prisoners and to crime victims who have experienced the homicide of a loved one. Crime hurts us all and this book reveals there are spiritual and practical ways to enable the process of healing the wounds and repairing the harm. _______________________________________________________________________ Rev. Dr. B. Bruce Cook has been the inspiration behind substantive victim's rights legislation in Georgia for the last twenty- five years. He enlightens the world with his vision of a restored segment of American society - that of victims of crime. He exposes the gap between criminal justice and victim justice. This book will be an invaluable resource for support groups, victim advocates and organizations that provide training for those entering the field of victim services. Elaine & Gordon Rondeau Co-Founders, The Rene Olubunmi Rondeau Peace Foundation _______________________________________________________________________ Bruce Cook's experience as crime victim, correctional chaplain and crime victim counselor provides the foundation for a very useful book for anyone considering ministry in the midst of the contemporary justice complex. Through the lens of his life and experience the reader is challenged to recognize that ministry is where retributive and restorative patterns of justice intersect. This book could be an invaluable resource for those contemplating the chaplaincy field in criminal justice or lay ministry to crime victims and prisoners Patricia Barrett Former Assistant General Secretary, Division of Ordained Ministry, GBHEM, United Methodist Church _______________________________________________________________________ Rev. Dr. B. Bruce Cook served as a county jail chaplain, federal prison chaplain and a chaplain for crime victims for decades. He recounts struggles he encountered to change prisoners and to facilitate the healing of crime victims after a serious, violent crime. He believes criminals should make amends for the harm they caused and suggests ways to do so.