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  Almighty Is His Name - The...

  Randy Clark, Susan Thompson

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  Almighty is His Name is the riveting story of God’s hand of protection as missionary SoPhal Ung and his family fought for their lives in Cambodia. Although the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1979, SoPhal started a house church, which grew from five members to six hundred in eight months. He was arrested for this “illegal” activity, imprisoned, severely beaten, and chained by hand and foot, losing seventy-five pounds in the terrible ordeal. God miraculously spared his life on numerous occasions. Later SoPhal fled with his wife and children to Thailand and spent ten years ministering to other Cambodian exiles.   This page-turning narrative, recounted by Randy Clark founding director of Global Awakening, showcases an extraordinary kind of courage that was found in the heart of a man whose faith in Jesus Christ never wavered even in the face of unspeakable evil. SoPhal continues to train countless leaders, feed orphans, house and clothe the poor, and witness miracle upon miracle. For anyone seeking proof of God’s greatness, this unforgettable true story will prove without a doubt that God is faithful.

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  Call the Vet: My Life as a Young...

  Bruce Fogle

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  Arriving in 1970s’ London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world’s best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make assumptions… 
  Bruce began his career at the prestigious Woodrow & Singleton surgery in the heart of the Knightsbridge. Frequented by Britain’s most distinguished pet owners, from Duchesses and Sultans to Paul McCartney and Elizabeth Taylor, it also cared for the exotic inhabitants of the Harrods’ ‘Zoo Department.’ 
  Over the next few years, an arc of clients would cross Bruce’s table, from cats and dogs to alligators, pumas and even a capuchin monkey. Each adventure taught Bruce far more than any textbook ever could, while skilful veterinary nurses provided the greatest lessons of all. 
  Call the Vet is a wonderfully rich and warmly funny memoir. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1970s’ London, it explores the unique bond between pets and their owners; the common thread of compassion that unites all cultures and classes, and the discovery of love and joy in unexpected places. 
  Bruce's personal narratives and memoirs are not just about his profession, but also about the unique bond he formed with his patients, both small and large. His top-notch medical skills, combined with his deep understanding of animal nutrition, made him a beloved figure among the distinguished pet owners of London. 
  For fans of Amanda Owen (Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess), Noel Fitzpatrick (Keira & Me), Peter Wright (The Tales and Tails of a Yorkshire Vet), Nick Albert (Fresh Eggs and Dog Beds 2), and Ruth Kelly (My Fight to the Top).

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  Selling the Great War - The...

  Alan Axelrod

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  The riveting story of George Creel and the Committee on Public Information—the first and only propaganda initiative sanctioned by the U.S. government.When the people of the United States were reluctant to enter World War I, maverick journalist George Creel created a committee at President Woodrow Wilson's request to sway the tide of public opinion. The Committee on Public Information monopolized every medium and avenue of communication with the goal of creating a nation of enthusiastic warriors for democracy. Forging a path that would later be studied and retread by such characters as Adolf Hitler, the Committee revolutionized the techniques of governmental persuasion, changing the course of history.Selling the War is the story of George Creel and the epoch-making agency he built and led. It will tell how he came to build it and how he ran it, using the emerging industries of mass advertising and public relations to convince isolationist Americans to go to war. It was a force whose effects were felt throughout the twentieth century and continue to be felt, perhaps even more strongly, today. In this compelling and original account, Alan Axelrod offers a fascinating portrait of America on the cusp of becoming a world power and how its first and most extensive propaganda machine attained unprecedented results.“As Axelrod demonstrates in fascinating detail, the remarkable George Creel was responsible for this turnabout through his Committee on Public Information, which eschewed censorship but so thoroughly controlled war information that its work was to be admired by the likes of Hitler and Goebbels.” —Walton Rawls, author of Wake Up, America: World War I and the American Poster

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  Taylor Branch and Shukree Hassan...

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  Fifty years after the March on Washington, African-Americans still confront high rates of unemployment, segregation in education and race-based partisan gridlock. In what areas have we seen progress? Gwen Ifill discusses the advances and what's left to be done with historian Taylor Branch and filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman.

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  The Man Who Swam into History -...

  Robert A. Rosenstone

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  The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania—or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress; grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen; migrations legal and illegal from Eastern Europe to Canada to California; racketeers on one side of the family and Communists on the other; and a West Coast adolescence in the McCarthy years. All of these (mostly true) stories form a Jewish family's history, a tale of dislocation and assimilation. But in the hands of award-winning historian Robert Rosenstone, they become much more. The fragments of memory so beautifully preserved in The Man Who Swam into History add unforgettable, human characters to the now familiar story of the Jewish diaspora in the twentieth century.  This combination memoir/short story collection recounts the Rosenstone family's passage from Romania to America. Robert Rosenstone tells the story not as a single, linear narrative, but through "tales, sequences, windows, moments, and fragments resurrected from the lives of three generations in my two parental families, set in five countries on two continents over the period of almost a century." This more literary and personal approach allows Rosenstone's relatives to emerge as distinct personalities, voices who quarrel and gossip, share their dreams and fears, and maintain the ties of a loving, if eccentric, family. Among the genre of "coming to America" tales, The Man Who Swam into History is a work of unique vision, one that both records and reconstructs the past even as it continuously—and humorously—questions the truth of its own assertions.

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  Cry of Murder on Broadway - A...

  Julie Miller

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  On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the steps of the new and luxurious Astor House hotel. Agitated and distraught, Norman followed Ballard down Broadway before confronting him at the door to the Astor House. Taking out a folding knife, she stabbed him, just missing his heart. 
   
   
   
  Ballard survived the attack, and the trial that followed created a sensation. Newspapers in New York and beyond followed the case eagerly, and crowds filled the courtroom every day. Prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child championed Norman and later included her story in her fiction and her writing on women's rights. 
   
   
   
  The would-be murderer also attracted the support of politicians, journalists, and legal and moral reformers who saw her story as a vehicle to change the law as it related to "seduction," and advocate for the rights of workers. Cry of Murder on Broadway describes how New Yorkers, besotted with the drama of the courtroom and the lurid stories of the penny press, followed the trial for sensation. Throughout all this, Norman gained the sympathy of New Yorkers, in particular the jury, which acquitted her in less than ten minutes.

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