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  How this Farming Project Helps...

  PBS NewsHour

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  In the 15 years since the U.S. went into Afghanistan, $1.5 billion has been spent to develop women’s rights in the country. But even with significant improvements, there remain many hardships, including domestic violence and the lack of educational opportunity. Special correspondent Jennifer Glasse visits a farming project that aims to provide women with the power to make their own decisions.

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  The Italian American Reader - A...

  Bill Tonelli

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  “An extraordinary collection. . . . Essential and fascinating . . . not just for Italian-Americans but for everyone who cares about good writing” (Martin Scorsese). 
   
  This anthology—the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors—is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, and all together for the first time. To stand with all the other popular media images we represent, now, at last, one exists in written form, the literature of Italian American life. 
   
  Inside, there are excerpts from novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, and poems—by the living and the dead, the famous and the obscure. The excerpts are variously moving, funny, poignant, lusty, biting, reverent, witty, loving, angry, and wise, dealing in the most profound aspects of our lives no matter who we are: home, love, sex, family, food, work, God, death. 
   
  Characters range from gangsters to grandmas, lovers to fighters, thinkers to doers, sinners to saints, with special appearances by Frank Sinatra and the Virgin Mary.

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  True Crime: British Killers -...

  Jason Neal

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  Explore the Disturbing Tales of Notorious UK Killers 
  A Prequel to the True Crime Case Histories Series 
  With Over 7,000 Five-Star Ratings 
  1. The Camden Ripper - A homeless man reached into a dumpster and felt what he thought were salmon fillets in a plastic bag. What he found were two human legs severed at the knees. London police started a manhunt for a demented murderer intent on fulfilling his obsession with Jack the Ripper. 
  2. The London Cannibal - At 23 years old, he bludgeoned to death a young girl in broad daylight. Found to have “diminished responsibility,” he was committed to a psychiatric ward. Within 11 years, he was found to be “no major risk” to society and was free to go. Within hours of his release, he had dismembered a friend and fried parts of his body in a skillet. Sent back to the mental hospital, his killing didn’t stop. 
  3. The Acid Bath Killer - Infamous for dissolving victims in acid to avoid murder charges, this killer was driven by greed to acquire their assets. 
  4. The Black Widow - Dena Thompson, a bigamist with a hatred for men, inflicted harm on her husbands, driving one into hiding and beating another within an inch of his life. 
  5. The Bus Stop Killer - A sadistic predator terrorized southwest London for years, following young blonde girls from bus stops. He would beat them on the head with a hammer simply for the sake of extinguishing life. 
  6. The Suffolk Strangler - The quiet area of Ipswitch in Suffolk normally sees very few killings. In 2006, in only six weeks, police found the bodies of five young women strangled. 
  * Plus TWO Bonus Chapters * 
  The six true crime stories included in this collection are dark and chilling and will leave you with a new understanding of just how fragile the human mind can be.

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  Finding Miss Fong

  James A. Wolter

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  In 1961, Jim Wolter leaves medical school in Chicago for Malaya thinking he could change the world by teaching biology and avoid his mother's dream of his marrying Lolly. He's excited about his new job as a biology teacher at a secondary school in Malaya. But that excitement is short-lived. After he arrives, his bosses pull a bait-and-switch and put him in teaching jobs he isn't qualified for and create other challenges to fit their own motives. Disappointed and feeling helpless, he decides to return to Chicago and do what is expected of him. That is, until a friend drags Jim to a work picnic on an island in the South China Sea and he sees the most beautiful girl in the world. Now, Jim wants to stay in Malaya to be near Miss Fong Moke Chee. 
  Finding Miss Fong is the journey of a naïve twenty-two year old from the northwest side of Chicago trying to find his way in an unfamiliar world back in the early 1960s. As a biologist from a working-class background thrust into post-Colonial Malaya, he finds himself caught up in unexpected adventures while struggling with disillusionment in work and juggling entanglements in love.

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  Ben Franklin's Guide to Wealth -...

  Jack Mingo, Erin Barrett

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  It isn’t all about the Benjamins! A revolutionary way of looking at money and value, based on the writings of the Founding Father.Ben Franklin’s Guide to Wealth is the modern version of the treatise The Way of Wealth by Richard Saunders—one of Ben Franklin’s many pseudonyms. Franklin practiced what he preached in the treatise, and it made him rich enough to have a full life, travel extensively, and follow his intellectual musings, which in turn led him to become an accomplished scientist, inventor, political activist, diplomat, and writer. Franklin wasn’t born rich. He built his legacy using his intelligence, curiosity, natural good sense, and proclivity for thrift and hard work. When he died, he left a fortune. Now the authors bring practicing what Franklin preached up to date for today’s busy lifestyles, with sage advice on a range of financial basics including debt, thrift, the value of work and business, developing financial responsibility, money and time, and preparing for the future. It’s time to think about what “rich” really means. It’s time to get back to financial basics. It’s time to look for guidance from America’s original financial guru—Ben Franklin.

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  The British Partisan - Capture...

  Michael Ross

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  An exciting, evocative memoir of combat in North Africa, danger behind enemy lines, and two daring escapes.   In this action-packed account, a Welch Regiment officer describes his remarkable Second World War experiences. These include his baptism by fire in the Western Desert against Rommel’s armor in 1942; the spontaneous help of nomad Arabs when he was on the run for ten days behind enemy lines; and his capture and life as a POW in Italy.   Michael Ross and a fellow officer made the first escape from Fontanellato POW camp only to be recaptured on the Swiss border. During his second escape, Ross fought against the occupying German forces in north Italy alongside the Italian partisans, who nearly executed him initially. He avoided recapture for over a year before finally reaching Allied lines. The reader learns of the extraordinary courage and sacrifice of local Italians helping and hiding Allied soldiers. Ross’s story has a poignant conclusion as, while on the run, he fell in love with a prominent anti-fascist’s daughter whom he married after the war. Originally published as From Liguria With Love, this superbly written and updated memoir is a powerful and inspiring tribute to all those who risked their lives to help him and his comrades.

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