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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseur--won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz--the...
Author
Publisher
Humanix Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"President Trump's new tax law is fully effective, and millions are finding out about the little-known "Trump Tax Loophole." This guide explains the new loophole and how taxpayers like you can save billions in taxes. With this loophole you can slash your personal taxes by an additional 20%! That's if you qualify--and many Americans do. This guide shows you how. The Trump Tax Cut is your guidebook to the biggest tax cut in history. In plain English,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The Other Americans reveals a starkly different America from the image of mainstream success or crippled dependency. The immigrants Millman profiles here - Indian motel owners, Mexican entrepreneurs, Chinese farmers, and Caribbean real estate developers - live in an America of their own making. Exploiting their determination, their family connections, the financial support and protection of mutual aid societies and saving circles, these immigrants...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"Tía Isa quiere un carro brillante que sea del mismo color verde del océano... Mientras tía Isa ahorra, su sobrina apila naranjas y alimenta gatos para sumar el dinero que gana a la pila. Así podrán comprar el carro perfecto-- ¡uno que pueda llevar a todos a la playa!"-- Back cover.
Tìa Isa and her niece try to save enough money to buy a car to take the whole family to the beach.
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Description
This volume of poems sent as Christmas cards to the poet's closest friends over a period of twelve years includes his "special words of Christmas : holidays spent not only near the holly and the ivy, but on Forty-second Street, in the fields and on the beach, in love, waiting for love."
Author
Publisher
Sea Breeze Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Shot Down is a compelling story of our B-17 aircrews that flew, fought, and died over Europe to save a continent from tyranny and oppression. There were over 56,000 downed airmen in World War II. Lt. Howard Snyder and the crew of the Susan Ruth were one of those crews that went down over Europe ... --General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, retired, 33rd Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? The Pointblank Directive answers this question using extensive new research that creates a portrait of perhaps the last untold story of Operation Overlord. Following a year of unremarkable bombing against German targets, General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, commander of the US Army Air Forces, placed his lifelong friend General Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz in command of the strategic bombing forces in Europe, and his protégé,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Battle of Iwo Jima, a major event in the Pacific Theater of World War II--and one of the bloodiest in United States history--began on February 19, 1945. But what happened two days earlier has largely been a footnote, until now... On February 17, Landing Craft Infantry 449 was among a dozen gunboats helping to prepare the area for their invasion two days later. U.S. military leaders thought they had weakened Japanese forces in the area so they...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In Television Series of the 1980s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details, Vincent Terrace presents readers with a cornucopia of information about more than seventy programs from the decade. For example, did you know that Sam Malone had an ex-wife named Deborah? Or that MacGyver?s alias was Dexter Fillmore? Or Dan Fielding?s license plate on Night Court read "Hot to Trot"? These are just a handful of hundreds of fun and intriguing specifics found inside...
34) Reparations now!
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What is the price of a life, a stolen culture, a stolen heart? In formal and nontraditional poems, Reparations Now! asks for what is owed. Moving between voices and through intersecting histories, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones offers perspectives both sharp and compassionate, exploring the difficulties of navigating our relationships with ourselves and others. From the murder of Mary Turner in 1918 to a case of infidelity to the oppressive nationalist...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the...
Author
Publisher
Frommer Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Portable, up-to-date, and to-the-point, Frommer's Maui day by day is all about maximizing the time you have to spend in this enchanting Hawaiian paradise. This itinerary-based book, written by long-time resident, Shannon Wianecki, hits all of Maui's highlights--and its hidden gems--with plans crafted for visitors with a variety of needs and interests. Whether you want to catch a sunrise atop a volcano, swim in secluded waterfall pools, dine on ultra-gourmet...
Publisher
Franklin Square Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Includes essays and literary works by Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Clarence Darrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and H.L. Mencken as well as an essay by Henry L. Stimson (P.A. 1883) on the decision to use the atomic bomb.
Contains primary source material.
Author
Series
Riverside editions ; A34
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
Representative writings of the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher are supplemented by textual notes.
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