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In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point' Class of 2002
by Brian Murphy Jr.
Non-Fiction
Book 20
Product Description
They came to West Point in a time of peace, but soon after the start of their senior year, their lives were transformed by September 11. The following June, when President George W. Bush spoke at their commencement and declared that America would "take the battle to the enemy," the men and women in the class of 2002 understood that they would be fighting on the front lines. In this stirring account of the five years following their graduation from West Point, the class experiences firsthand both the rewards and the costs of leading soldiers in the war on terror.
In a Time of War focuses on two members of the class of 2002 in particular: Todd Bryant, an amiable, funny Californian for whom military service was a family tradition; and Drew Sloan, the hardworking son of liberal parents from Arkansas who is determined to serve his country. On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Todd, Drew, and their classmates -- the army's newest and youngest officers -- lead their troops into harm's way again and again.
Meticulously reported, sweeping in scope, Bill Murphy Jr.'s powerful book follows these brave and idealistic officers -- and their families -- they experience the harrowing reality of the modern battlefield. In a Time of War tells a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking story about courage, honor, and what war really means to the soldiers whose lives it defines. |
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Imagine No Superstition: The Power to Enjoy Life With No Guilt, No Shame, No Blame
by Stephen Frederick
Non-Fiction
Book 19
Product Description
Imagine No Superstition is for modern doubters of ancient truths. The book first reveals how a priest found true love without guilt. Then it shows the modern questioner how s/he can enjoy shucking guilt and doubt. The humor is earthy at times, but it makes the points. This book is not for the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Tim LeHaye, nor James Dobson; they are already sure of their answers to life's important questions.
After dealing briefly with the author's personal journey from faithful priest to rational atheist, the book shows the modern doubter how to enjoy his or her own exciting journey from childlike credulity to secure maturity.
After the reader gets free of the shackles of traditional superstition based guilt, shame, and blame, he can stand on the shoulders of giant scientific thinkers and see much farther then grandma and grandpa could see. This leads to truly enlightened selfishness that looks like selfless generosity. Richer family life and better neighbor relations result without customary sectarian divisions. The book makes clear how the reader can make himself happy and generous without supernatural help.
The book literally sparkles with humor. It shows the pragmatism of the farmer's son, the organized thinking of the former philosopher and the deep insights of the experienced psychologist. The book shows the questioning reader how to help significant others progress and how they are then more likely to help the reader look good. So a truly virtuous cycle of neighborly caring expands to make the world a more joyful place to live a naturally exuberant life. This happy situation is much more likely when there are no supernatural or sectarian axes to grind. For the questioning reader this book will be a true delight! |
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Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
by Pierre Berg with Brian Brock
Non-Fiction
Book 18
Product Description
In 1943, eighteen year old Pierre Berg picked the wrong time to visit a friend's house -- at the same time as the Gestapo. He was thrown into the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. But through a mixture of savvy and chance, he managed to survive...and ultimately got out alive. "As far as I'm concerned," says Berg, "it was all shithouse luck, which is to say -- inelegantly -- that I kept landing on the right side of the randomness of life."
Such begins the first memoir of a French gentile Holocaust survivor published in the U.S. Originally penned shortly after the war when memories were still fresh, Scheisshaus Luck recounts Berg's constant struggle in the camps, escaping death countless times while enduring inhumane conditions, exhaustive labor, and near starvation. The book takes readers through Berg's time in Auschwitz, his hair's breadth avoidance of Allied bombing raids, his harrowing "death march" out of Auschwitz to Dora, a slave labor camp (only to be placed in another forced labor camp manufacturing the Nazis' V1 & V2 rockets), and his eventual daring escape in the middle of a pitched battle between Nazi and Red Army forces.
Utterly frank and tinged with irony, irreverence, and gallows humor, Scheisshaus Luck ranks in importance among the work of fellow survivors Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi. As we quickly approach the day when there will be no living eyewitnesses to the Nazi's "Final Solution," Berg's memoir stands as a searing reminder of how the Holocaust affected us all. |
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Lawyer's Case for Disbelief in God
by Geoff J. Henley
Non-Fiction
Book 17
Product Description
After handling thousands of civil and criminal cases, lawyer Geoff Henley takes on the planet's biggest culprit: God. In Beyond Reasonable Doubt, the trial lawyer applies accepted legal principles to the scripture with devastating results for religion. Much like Darwin and science has confounded religion's depiction of the natural word, the former prosecutor shows through well-settled legal principles that no just God exists. Relying on courtroom experiences, the former prosecutor puts scripture under a legal microscope and reveals some funny and irreverent truths. |
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Palace Council
by Stephen L. Carter
Fiction
Book 16
Product Description
USA Today called Stephen L. Carter's last novel "the perfect summer read . . . Carter slips in so many original, thought-provoking observations that the reader is sad the killer has been caught." Now Carter, the best-selling author of New England White, is back with Palace Council, a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam.
Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd expect
to fall prey to a murderer, but when his body is found on the grounds of a Harlem mansion, the young writer Eddie Wesley, along with the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into a twenty-year search for the truth. The disappearance of Eddie's sister June makes their investigation even more troubling. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics all the way to the Oval Office and President Nixon himself.
Suspenseful, provocative, and witty, Palace Council turns our assumptions inside out and reminds us how the struggles of that era set the stage for America today. |
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How to Get Rich as a Televangelist or Faith Healer
by Bill Wilson
Non-Fiction
Book 15
Product Description
Learn how to make a fortune as a religious con artist. This lucrative career has sustained countless scoundrels, frauds and hucksters for millennia. If you play the part right, you will be blessed with riches, power, prestige and sex. Discover the easy, inexpensive ways to get religious credentials (and the tax-free status that goes with them), how to develop your following, how to tailor your message for maximum gain and how to weasel out of trouble when your lavish lifestyle or personal misconduct hits the fan. Your victims will be the feeble, the old, the poor and the desperate, so this is for people with no conscience whatsoever. Get ready to stare into the hopeful faces of the lame and the terminally ill and lie, convince working people to send you their last five or ten bucks by telling them that God will return the donation a hundredfold and rob nursing home residents of what little they have as they hang on to every word you say. In return, you will give them a good show, a temporary emotional high and a hefty dose of false hope. And you will be one rich SOB! Whether you're actually considering a career in televangelism or just studying their methods to protect yourself or a loved one, you'll find page after page of shocking, amusing and heartbreaking true stories from the world of religious chicanery. |
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The Emotion Behind Money: Building Wealth from the Inside Out
by Julie Murphy Casserly
NonFiction
Book 14
Product Description
This book is based upon an insight thats literally turning the financial services industry upside down. Its the notion that we each have specific emotions, or emotional patterns, attached to money that were imprinted on us before we even had a choice to have a checking account. Whether you personally recognize this or not, today those emotions impact every financial decision you face. They are responsible for how you make money and how you keep it, or whether, as is often the case, it seems to go out the door faster than it comes in. Amazingly, those feelings are not just fleeting reactions; they actually influence how much money youll make and amass throughout your entire life! The purpose of this book is to help you recognize your emotions behind money, and likewise help you discover healthier ways to respond to those feelings. Through everyday language, lively anecdotes, and engaging exercises it will: - Help you see your life and your money through a different lens; - Empower you to align your financial destiny by living from the inside out; - Teach you how to discover and define what you truly desire to live abundantly. |
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Silver: My Own Tale As Written By Me With A Goodly Amount Of Murder
by Edward Chupack
Fiction
Book 13
Product Description
I am Silver, and there is no other pirate like me on these waters.
This being the last testament of the infamous pirate Long John Silver, you would do well not to trust a word in its pages. Held captive aboard his own ship, the Linda Maria, he is to be taken to England, where he will hang at the king's pleasure. But he has another plan: to tell a tale of treason, murder, a lost treasure that would rival King George's own riches, and what really happened on Treasure Island . . . if Long John Silver is to be believed. |
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Rising Above The Influence: A True Story about Alcohol, Drugs, and Recovery
by Stephen J. Della Valle
Non-Fiction
Book 12
Product Description
THE REALITY OF ADDICTION AND RECOVERY.
Stephen's life as an addict was a nightmare, bringing him to some of the darkest and loneliest places imaginable.
After his introduction to drugs and alcohol at an early age, his life became a series of desperate, morbidly comical attempts to support his addictions -- including botched robberies, corporate embezzlement and prison time.
Twenty years later, Stephen finally reached rock bottom and entered a recovery program though it took losing his job, his family and himself to get him there. Once clean, he was faced with a new challenge: rebuilding his entire life from scratch, with nothing but faith to go on.
A testament to the power of twelve-step recovery, Rising Above the Influence is Stephen's honest, inspiring account of the depths one man can fall to and the heights he can achieve if only he reaches out a hand for help. |
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War Cake: A Witness in the Siege of Sarajevo
by Linda Flynn Beekman
Non-Fiction
Book 11
Product Description
A moving account documenting the author's experiences while working as a volunteer pursuing peace in war-torn Sarajevo. The book focuses not on politics but on the struggles of everyday life and ordinary people who were caught in the war and how they survived. |
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