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  The Upside-Down World - Meetings...

  Benjamin Moser

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  Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums. 
   
   
   
  Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. 
   
   
   
  Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was. Why do we make art? What even is art, anyway—and what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail? 
   
   
   
  The Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. This is Holland and its great artists as we've never seen them before. And it's a highly personal coming-of-age-story, twenty years in the making: a revealing self-portrait by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

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  True Love Stories From World War...

  Amelia Kenton

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  Throughout the hardest times in history, love has endured the unthinkable, often laced with tragedy and hardship…and there have been few times more testing than World War II, when couples were forced to be miles apart, reliant on letters to communicate, and often not knowing for weeks whether their sweetheart was even alive. 
  In this gripping collection of real life love stories from one of the most tumultuous times in human history, you’ll find hope and inspiration in every corner.You’ll find:10 epic love stories brimming with emotionReal life stories told through the exchange of letters and fleshed out with background information from the timeA story salvaged from letters that were nearly burned – until they were saved by a daughter determined to share her parents’ great romance with the worldTales of love enduring incredible distance, longing, and lonelinessThe couple who fought for what was right… even though it meant parting after just a few years of wedded blissLessons in vulnerability and daring to bare your soul and the doors that can open when you doForbidden love – a passionate romance that broke not just one social taboo, but also faced grave danger for another reason under the Nazi regimeThe innocuous crush that blossomed into a life-changing love affairThe woman who never gave up hope… despite her love being documented as ‘killed in action’Love that survives against all odds – and the inspiration you can take from one incredible tale 
  Laced with tragedy and heartache, you’ll need your tissues handy. But for every tear you shed, there’s a smile to be found as you witness the power of true love. Immerse yourself in some of the world’s greatest (yet lesser-known) love stories.

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  The American Operations in WW2:...

  History U.S. Army Center of...

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  World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. This book follows military operations of the US Army in China from 4 July 1942 to 4 May 1945. 
  The China Theater of Operations more resembled the Soviet-German war on the Eastern Front than the war in the Pacific or the war in Western Europe. On the Asian continent, as on the Eastern Front, an Allied partner, China, carried the brunt of the fighting. China had been at war with Japan since 1937 and continued the fight until the Japanese surrender in 1945. The United States advised and supported China's ground war, while basing only a few of its own units in China for operations against Japanese forces in the region and Japan itself. The primary American goal was to keep the Chinese actively in the Allied war camp, thereby tying down Japanese forces that otherwise might be deployed against the Allies fighting in the Pacific. The United States and Nationalist China succeeded in forging a coalition that withstood the tests of time. Indeed, Chinese leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the Allied Supreme Commander, China Theater, accepted, though reluctantly, U.S. Army generals as his chiefs of staff. This command relationship also endured differences in national war aims and cultures, as well as personalities, until the end of the war. The original policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall succeeded—China stayed in the war and prevented sizable numbers of Japanese troops from deploying to the Pacific.

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  HESI A2 Power Play: Secrets to...

  Jareth Lowen

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  The Sonic Warrior

  Cap. Kevin M. Smith

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  Captain Kevin Smith is a first generation Sonic Warrior.Sonic Warriors are Fighter Pilots trained to perform combat operations at the speed of sound, securing control of the airborne battle-space .As a Sonic Warrior, Captain Smith was able to perform at high velocities and G forces, while occupying a new reality never before encountered by humankind.Sonic Warriors, venturing into the unknown, rely on innovation, creativity, courage and faith, as well as devotion to duty. They operate at the airborne tip-of -the-spear.Captain Smith, a Sonic Warrior of distinction, was instrumental in upgrading close-in air combat capabilities of our Naval Air Force, and was the Commander of the first deployed Top Gun Unit.This book is his story…..

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  The Apostate - My Search for Truth

  Mark Christian

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  This book takes listeners on Dr. Mark Christian’s journey as he tries to prove to himself that Islam is the true religion. It shows the horror he feels as he faces the truth, and it leads to his greatest discovery: Jesus is love, and Jesus is the God he was searching for his entire life. Having now lived and ministered in America for years, he also has a message for America about the dangers we are headed toward based on his intimate knowledge of life in a dictatorial country (Egypt) and what he sees here.

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