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  Joe Cahill - A Life in the IRA

  Brendan Anderson, Joe Cahill

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  'I was born in a united Ireland, I want to die in a united Ireland.'
  Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill has been an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about their lives or their organisation, but here Cahill gives his full and frank story, his viewpoint, his experiences -- from Northern Irish prison cells of the 1940s, on a death sentence, to Washington when the Good Friday Agreement was being negotiated.
  He tells of the visit he made to Colonel Gaddafi to arrange for arms and ammunition, and the fateful voyage of the Claudia; Bloody Sunday and the burning of the British Embassy in Dublin; the high-drama helicopter escape of IRA prisoners from Portlaoise Jail.
  This is the story of an extraordinary journey, Cahill's own life mirroring the growth, changes and development of the republican movement as a whole through more than sixty years of intense involvement.

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  Rejected Of Men; A Story Of Today

  Howard Pyle

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  This is a setting of the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth century America. The narrator's point of view is that of an outsider looking in at the story of Jesus.  Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911) was an American illustrator and author.   - Summary by Wikipedia and david wales

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  Father and Son

  Edmund Gosse

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  Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who dies early and painfully of breast cancer, is a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, is an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife's death, takes Edmund to live in Devon. The book focuses on the father's response to the new evolutionary theories, especially those of his scientific colleague Charles Darwin, and Edmund's gradual rejection of both his father and his father's fundamentalist religion.

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  Soldier of Love: Frank Sinatra:...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  The unlikely, uplifting story of popular music‘s most enduring legend. Here is Frank Sinatra in his own words and time in a touching tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes. A unique audio event for fans, collectors, and educational institutions.

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  Exploded

  Tom Bodett

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  There are certain defining events that occur to people—             the sort of things we use as markers in the timetables of our lives: Birth and Deaths. Marriages and Divorces. Windfalls and Calamities. For Tom Bodett, it was the day he got electrocuted. On May 27, 1975, about seven o'clock in the morning, Tom Bodett was “             exploded”              in Medford, Oregon. In this collection of performance essays, the centerpiece is “             Exploded”             —             Bodett'             s recollections and reflections about a moment that had profound physical and psychological impact on his life.

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  West Point 1915 - Eisenhower...

  Michael E. Haskew

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  West Point's Class of 1915 is the academy's most important in history. 
   
   
   
  The cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point, are intimately twined with the country's history. The graduating class of 1915, the class the stars fell on, was particularly noteworthy. Of the 164 graduates that year, 59 (36%) attained the rank of general, the most of any class. Although Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, both five-star generals, are the most recognizable, other class members contributed significantly to the Allied victory in World War I and World War II. They also played key roles either in the postwar U.S. military establishment or in business and industry after World War II, especially in the Korean War and the formation of NATO. For more than half a century, these men exerted tremendous influence on the shaping of modern America, which remains substantial to this day. Individually, the stories of these military and political leaders are noteworthy. Collectively, they are astonishing. West Point, 1915 explores the achievements of this remarkable group.

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