Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

• Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010
• from the author of Seabiscuit

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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.  So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperin... More >>

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Gifted Hands

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Surgeon Ben Carson walks us through his determination to overcome childhood obstacles, his elevated success, and the development of a mind-set that tackles risks with a winning strategy.... More >>

Gifted Hands

Hiroshima in the Morning

• ISBN13: 9781558616677
• Condition: New
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In June 2001 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto went to Hiroshima in search of a deeper understanding of her war-torn heritage. She planned to spend six months there, interviewing the few remaining survivors of the atomic bomb. A mother of two young boys, she was encouraged to go by her husband, who quickly became disenchanted by her absence.
It is her first solo life adventure, immediately exhilarating for her, but her research starts off badly. Interviews with the hibakus... More >>

Hiroshima in the Morning

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

• ISBN13: 9780307455871
• Condition: New
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The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.Amazon.com Re... More >>

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story

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In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir.
 
After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have found “We’re just not that into us.” Instead of giving up, they’ve held their relationship together by ignoring conventional wisdom and fostering a lack of in... More >>

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

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The "inspirational" and "extraordinary" memoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation, Louis Zamperini: Olympian, WWII Japanese POW and survivor. A juvenile delinquent, a world class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller than most, when it changed in an instant. On May 27, 1943, his B–24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Louis and two other survivors found a raft amid the flaming wreckage and waited fo... More >>

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

• ISBN13: 9781596913431
• Condition: New
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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began... More >>

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East