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Out of the West is a compelling work of literary fiction, a war
novel that also explores the challenges of peace. A gripping
historical adventure, it paints a portrait of courage and love in
the fatal shadow of global conflict that has spilled tragically
into the twenty-first century. Citizens of Nazi-occupied Greece
face daily decisions that affect their freedom and their survival.
When music teacher Petros intervenes in a dispute between a Greek
woman and a German soldier, he and jazz singer Thea are plunged
into the brutal world of armed resistance. Ian Chalmers, a British
agent, lands in Northern Greece, where he joins Petros and Thea s
network. Never fully understanding his Greek collaborators, he
forms a deep bond with them. In Scotland after World War Two, Ian
is alienated from everyday life until he meets Clare, an up and
coming intelligence officer. Surrounded by opportunity and courted
by influential mentors, Ian and Clare learn that integrity has to
be fought for in peacetime Britain just as in wartime Europe. When
Ian undertakes a final mission to Greece, now in the full throes of
civil war, the weight of ideology and history descends with sudden
force on the small town where former friends and enemies confront
one another in a terrifying climax.
1899, Glasgow. A man is stabbed to death in a tenement courtyard
and Juan Camaron, photographer-cum-sleuth, is enlisted to assist
the police investigation. Perhaps his innovative photographic
method can bring to light what the naked eye might overlook. Juan
is also contending with his own problems. His late father's legacy,
a monumental photographic record of Cuban architecture, faces a
charge of plagiarism from a mysterious senora. And Jane, his
fiancee, is witnessed fleeing the scene of a murder. Juan's
hoped-for happiness is threatened and he is torn between finding
the killer and finding Jane. But could they be one and the same?
A compelling and masterful account, based on fresh reporting, of
the investigation, impeachment, and acquittal of President Donald
Trump, a ferocious political drama that challenged American
democracy itself. In the spring of 2019, Speaker of the House Nancy
Pelosi did not favor pursuing Trump's impeachment. Her view was:
"He's just not worth it." But by September, after a whistleblower
complaint suggesting that Trump had used his office for his
political benefit, Pelosi decided to risk it. The impeachment
inquiry led to charges of abuse of power and obstruction of
Congress, a gamble that ultimately meant Trump would be the first
impeached president on the ballot in US history. Pulitzer
Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Kevin Sullivan and Mary
Jordan have crafted a powerful, intimate narrative that
concentrates on the characters as well as the dramatic events,
braiding them together to provide a remarkable understanding of
what happened and why. Drawing on the deep reporting of Post
journalists as well as new interviews, Sullivan and Jordan deliver
a crisp page-turner with exquisite detail and scenes. They put
readers in the room for both sides of the now-famous phone call
between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on July
25, 2019, revealing the in-the-moment reactions of those listening
to the call in Washington, as well as the tension in Kyiv, as aides
passed notes to Zelensky while he was talking to Trump. Sullivan
and Jordan deftly illuminate the aims and calculations of key
figures. Pelosi's evolution from no to yes. Trump's mounting fury
as "the I-word" became inevitable. Senate majority leader Mitch
McConnell firmly telling Trump on the phone about the Senate trial:
You need to trust me. Trump on Trial teems with unexpected moments.
House member Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, alone at the
National Archives, walking amid the nation's founding documents,
weighing her vote on impeachment. Fiery Republican congressman Matt
Gaetz of Florida, a favorite Trump warrior, deciding to lead the
storming of the secure room in the US Capitol basement, where
witnesses were testifying. The authors paint vivid portraits of the
men and women branded by the president's supporters as foes from
the "deep state": Ukraine experts Fiona Hill and Lt. Col. Alexander
Vindman; ambassadors Marie Yovanovitch and William Taylor. The
narrative spools out amid Trump's nonstop tweeting and the infinite
echo chamber of social media, which amplified both parties'
messages in ways unknown during past impeachments. Sullivan and
Jordan, aided by editor Steve Luxenberg, follow the story into the
aftermath of Trump's acquittal and the president's payback for
those whom he believed had betrayed him. The retributions took
place as the nation reeled from a devastating pandemic and
widespread protests about racial injustice, with another trial
looming: the 2020 election.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller A bestselling book that inspired
the nation: "We have written here about terrible things that we
never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to
know: we survived, we are free, we love life." Two women kidnapped
by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the
stories of their abductions, captivity, and dramatic escape On May
6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled
a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: "Help me, I'm Amanda
Berry. . . . I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for ten
years." A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local
school bus driver, had separately lured Berry, Gina DeJesus, and
Michelle Knight to his home, where he kept them chained. In the
decade that followed, the three were raped, psychologically abused,
and threatened with death. Berry had a daughter-Jocelyn-by their
captor. Drawing upon their recollections and the diary kept by
Amanda Berry, Berry and Gina DeJesus describe a tale of
unimaginable torment, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post
reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan interweave the events
within Castro's house with original reporting on efforts to find
the missing girls. The full story behind the headlines-including
details never previously released on Castro's life and
motivations-Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle of two
women whose courage, ingenuity, and resourcefulness ultimately
delivered them back to their lives and families.
"Sets a standard for political storytelling with impeccable
research and lively writing." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Page-turning...riveting...colorful and detailed...a barometer of
the health of our democracy." --Barbara McQuade, The Washington
Post Two investigations. Two impeachments. Two acquittals. One
president. The full story. Unprecedented. Unimaginable. Until
Donald Trump's presidency. A year apart, two ferocious political
dramas challenged American democracy. As Pulitzer Prize-winning
Washington Post reporters Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan show in
this gripping account, the two Trump impeachments and acquittals
shared common threads: An American president, relentless in his
drive to win re-election, willing to disregard the laws that limit
his powers, no matter the cost. A divided Congress, split along
party lines, unable to agree on whether Trump's actions met the
Constitutional standard for removal from office. The Constitution
itself, tested in ways that its framers had not anticipated.
Trump's Trials is an expanded version of Trump on Trial, Sullivan
and Jordan's compelling and masterful 2020 account of the first
impeachment. That narrative, a crisp page-turner with exquisite
detail and vivid scenes, deftly conveyed the calculations of the
central figures, in particular Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. The authors have
added three new chapters, and revised others, to carry the
narrative through the 2020 presidential election of Joe Biden;
Trump's feverish attempts to overturn Biden's victory; his
supporters' deadly attack on the Capitol as Congress was certifying
the electoral votes; Trump's second impeachment and acquittal--but
this time, with seven Republican senators voting against him.
Sullivan and Jordan, aided by editor Steve Luxenberg, have written
a fast-paced, authoritative account of the historic events that
rocked America--an invaluable examination of what happened and why.
Juan Camarón and his father travel across Cuba in the summer of
1898, photographing the island and its people as the war between
Spain and the United States escalates. But tragedy strikes when
Juan's father is killed, and his last photos reveal a sinister
truth to his final moments: he was not a random victim - he was
murdered. Travelling to Scotland, where he has inherited property,
Juan immerses himself in the study of photography. When he pioneers
a new device that inadvertently solves a crime, he is brought to
the attention of local law enforcement, prompting a fateful
invitation to help police hunt down a brutal serial killer plaguing
the streets of Glasgow.
This Festschrift draws on the research interests of Christopher
Rowland. The collection of essays comes from former doctoral
students and other friends, many of whom shed light on the angelic
contribution to the thought-world of developing Christianity. The
significance of the Jewish contribution to developing Christian
ideology is critically assessed, including the impact of the
original Jewish sources on the earliest Christian belief. The
distinguished contributors to this volume include April DeConick,
Paul Foster, John Rogerson, Tobias Nicklas and Andrei Orlov.
This Festschrift draws on the research interests of Christopher
Rowland. The collection of essays comes from former doctoral
students and other friends, many of whom shed light on the angelic
contribution to the thought-world of developing Christianity. The
significance of the Jewish contribution to developing Christian
ideology is critically assessed, including the impact of the
original Jewish sources on the earliest Christian belief. The
distinguished contributors to this volume include April DeConick,
Paul Foster, John Rogerson, Tobias Nicklas and Andrei Orlov.
An in-depth look at the applications of music theory for the bass
guitar. This music instruction manual focuses on chord structures
and increasingly complex harmonies. Music theory is a tool of
creativity. This book is designed to unlock the mysteries of
harmony for direct application to the bass guitar. Allowing the
bassist greater freedom of melodic expression. Easy to understand
with extensive diagrams. There are eight sections of this book.
They are Music Theory, Triad Chords, Dominant 7th Chords, The
Cadences, 7th chord types, The 6th Chords & Sus Chords,
Extended Harmony, And Altered chords.
The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of
fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to
follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of
Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to
live among drug king pins and petty thieves. She has led many of
them through profound spiritual transformations in which they
turned away from their lives of crime, and has deeply touched the
lives of all who have witnessed the depth of her compassion.
Donning a nun's habit, she became Mother Antonia, renowned as "the
prison angel," and has now organized a new community of sisters-the
Servants of the Eleventh Hour--widows and divorced women seeking
new meaning in their lives. "We had never heard a story like hers,"
Jordan and Sullivan write, "a story of such powerful goodness."
Born in Beverly Hills, Clarke was raised around the glamour of
Hollywood and looked like a star herself, a beautiful blonde
reminiscent of Grace Kelly. The choreographer Busby Berkeley
spotted her at a restaurant and offered her a job, but Mary's dream
was to be a happy wife and mother. She raised seven children, but
her two unfulfilling marriages ended in divorce. Then in the late
1960s, in midlife, she began devoting herself to charity work,
realizing she had an extraordinary talent for drumming up donations
for the sick and poor.
On one charity mission across the Mexican border to the
drug-trafficking capitol of Tijuana, she visited La Mesa prison and
experienced an intense feeling that she had found her true life's
work. As she recalls, "I felt like I had come home." Receiving the
blessings of the Catholic Church for her mission, on March 19,
1977, at the age of fifty, she moved into a cell in La Mesa,
sleeping on a bunk with female prisoners above and below her.
Nearly twenty-eight years later she is still living in that cell,
and the remarkable power of her spiritual counseling to the
prisoners has become legendary.
The story of both one woman's profound journey of discovery and
growth and of the deep spiritual awakenings she has called forth in
so many lost souls, The Prison Angel is an astonishing testament to
the powers of personal transformation.
1898, Glasgow. A man is found stabbed to death in a tenement block
and the police are struggling to grasp any leads. Juan Cameron,
photographer-cum-sleuth, is drafted in with his trusted camera in
the hope he can bring to light what the eye may overlook. Yet Juan
has problems of his own. Following the tragic death of his father
in Cuba some months before, the man's legacy is threatened by a
plagiarism suit from a mysterious senora, and Juan's hoped-for
happiness with his fiancee, Jane, might be over before it's even
begun - even more so when a visiting professor is murdered and Jane
is witnessed fleeing the scene. Juan finds himself torn between
finding the killer and finding his fiancee - but are they one and
the same? The truth is in the frames.
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