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  SCOTUS Rules in Miranda Warnings

  PBS NewsHour

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  The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that juveniles suspected of a crime are entitled to Miranda protections. Ray Suarez asks Marcia Coyle for details.

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  Letters from Verdun - Frontline...

  Eric T. Harvey, William C. Harvey

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  The dramatic experiences of an ambulance driver in the Great War, told through personal correspondence and photographs.   Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion of a family in America’s burgeoning industrial heartland.   Volunteering as an ambulance driver with the French Army in the Verdun sector, Royce sent back a constant stream of highly detailed letters describing the experience of frontline combat, as well as comments on strategy, the country he encountered, and the Allies’ prospects for success.   This treasure trove of brilliant letters, only recently discovered, is accompanied by several albums worth of rare, high-quality photos depicting aspects of the Great War in France never previously published. Full of action, including the suspense and terror of the Ludendorff Offensive, and interesting firsthand analyses, such as comparing French and German trench works, Letters from Verdun brings the reader amazingly close to the frontlines of the Great War.

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  Hero Dogs - How a Pack of...

  Wilma Melville, Paul Lobo

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  Lola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadoptable. Untrainable. Unsalvageable. These would become the same dogs America relied on when its worst disasters hit. 
  In 1995, Wilma Melville volunteered as a canine search-and-rescue (SAR) handler with her Black Labrador Murphy in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. At the time, there were only fifteen FEMA certified SAR dogs in the United States. Believing in the value of these remarkable animals to help save lives, Wilma knew many more were needed in the event of future major disasters. She made a vow to help 168 dogs receive search-and-rescue training in her lifetime—one for every Oklahoma City victim. 
  Wilma singlehandedly established the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) to meet this challenge. The first canine candidates—Ana, Dusty, and Harley—were a trio of golden retrievers with behavioral problems so severe the dogs were considered irredeemable and unadoptable. But with patience, discipline, and love applied during training, they proved to have the ability, agility, and stamina to graduate as SARs. Paired with a trio of firefighters, they were among the first responders searching the ruins of the World Trade Center following 9/11—setting the standard for the more than 168 of the SDF's search-and-rescue dogs that followed.Beautiful and heart-wrenching, Hero Dogs is the story of one woman's dream brought to fruition by dedicated volunteers and firefighters-and the bonds they forged with the incredible rescued-turned-rescuer dogs to create one of America's most vital resources in disaster response.

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  Things I Only Tell My Friends -...

  Lori-Ann Keenan

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  By the end of “Things I Only Tell My Friends,” you’ll feel like you’ve chatted with your best friend who has mentored you to understand what steps you need to take to make a more meaningful life for yourself and those you love. Throughout the book, Lori-Ann gives you practical tips, entertaining stories, and humor. Finally, you’ll learn how to live authentically and regain inner peace. 
    
  It is like a smorgasbord, jam packed with diverse experiences and nuggets of wisdom about love, life and success. 
    
  In a refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, with practical, straightforward style, the            author always the perfect hostess – serves up 16 delicious chapters, helping you to: 
    
  •  Transform your life in every aspect and accelerate your path to happiness and success 
  •  Recognize those “And then it happened…” moments when it’s time to take a leap of faith 
  •  Learn successful techniques for managing others with confidence  
  •  Tie it all together across sales, service, product management, and development  
    
  The author illuminates the habits that separate superstars from the ordinary. This book will show you how successful people think, how they lead, and how they serve.  
    
  With her down-to-earth writing style, the author invites you into her life and shows you how she became a successful entrepreneur at age 24, and owner and operator of a multi-million dollar five-star international English school. She describes practical tips throughout the book on:  
    
  •  How to organize and center your life 
  •  How to deal with employees and peers  
  •  How to entertain one to hundreds 
  •  How and where to vacation 
  •  How to visualize and meditate on a conscious manifestation  
  •  How to maintain healthy and happy relationships 
  •  How best to plan for the future 
    
   

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  The Best Times - An Informal Memoir

  John Dos Passos

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  A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines. Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt—they are his beloved friends. Spain, the French Riviera, Paris, Persia, the Caucasus—they are his beloved footpaths.

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  How to Be a Refugee - The...

  Simon May

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  'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, one that's more interested in what we keep from ourselves than the ones we conceal from others.' Irish TimesThe most familiar fate of Jews living in Hitler’s Germany is either emigration or deportation to concentration camps. But there was another, much rarer, side to Jewish life at that time: denial of your origin to the point where you manage to erase almost all consciousness of it. You refuse to believe that you are Jewish.How to Be a Refugee is Simon May’s gripping account of how three sisters – his mother and his two aunts – grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage.  Their very different trajectories included conversion to Catholicism, marriage into the German aristocracy, securing ‘Aryan’ status with high-ranking help from inside Hitler’s regime, and engagement to a card-carrying Nazi. Even after his mother fled to London from Nazi Germany and Hitler had been defeated, her instinct for self-concealment didn’t abate. Following the early death of his father, also a German Jewish refugee, May was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. In the face of these banned inheritances, May embarks on a quest to uncover the lives of the three sisters as well as the secrets of a grandfather he never knew. His haunting story forcefully illuminates questions of belonging and home – questions that continue to press in on us today.

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