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  How to find freedom and kill...

  Jeffrey Jordan

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  Are you looking for one place where you can read everything you could possibly want to know about Malcolm X?Perhaps you have only recently discovered Malcolm X—and the many vital things that he did for race pride as well as black nationalism in the early 1960—and it has inspired you to learn about the man behind the many great actions of that era?Or maybe you already know a little about Malcolm X and what he stood for, but you are keen to learn more about him as a person—from his childhood all the way through his life—and you want to find all of that information in one, compelling book.Sounds too good to be true, right?Wrong!How to Find Freedom and Kill Your Fear covers the heroic life story of Malcolm X in an all-encompassing biography that will take you through all of the trials and tribulations he had to go through in his entire life.There are very few books that cover Malcolm X in such great detail—from his life in poverty and persecution as a youngster, his time spent in prison, all the way through to his faith and relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.All that information is carefully laid out in a way that is easy to follow and exciting to read, making this content digestible and encapsulating. Once you start reading about this man’s fascinating life, you will struggle to put the book back down again until you have read it from cover to cover!Inside How to Find Freedom and Kill Your Fear, discover:What Malcolm X’s upbringing was like and the early losses and poverty he suffered fromHis time in prison and how he used it to become more studiousA deeper insight into his wider familyHis time during the Nation of IslamHis difficulties battling civil rights of minorities and the African American people

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  Children in the Second World War...

  Amanda Herbert-Davies

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  “Stunning photographs” and firsthand accounts propel a book that “brings together the memories of more than 200 child survivors of the Blitz” (Daily Mail).   It was not just the upheaval caused by evacuation and the blitzes that changed a generation’s childhood, it was how war pervaded every aspect of life. From dodging bombs by bicycle and patrolling the parish with the vicar’s WWI pistol, to post air raid naps in school and being carried out of the rubble as the family’s sole survivor, children experienced life in the war zone that was Britain.   This reality, the reality of a life spent growing up during the Second World War, is best told through the eyes of the children who experienced it firsthand.  Children in the Second World War unites the memories of over two hundred child veterans to tell the tragic and the remarkable stories of life, and of youth, during the war. Each veteran gives a unique insight into a childhood that was unlike any that came before or after. This book poignantly illustrates the presence of death and perseverance in the lives of children through this tumultuous period. Each account enlightens and touches the reader, shedding light on what it was really like on the home front during the Second World War.  

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  Jump Commander - In Combat with...

  Mark J. Alexander, John Sparry

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  The thrilling memoir of the legendary army colonel and paratrooper—the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat during WWII.   In his distinguished service during World War II, Col. Mark James Alexander took command of three separate battalions of parachute infantrymen within the 82nd Airborne Division. A legend in his own time, he fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. Even after sustaining serious wounds in Normandy, he insisted on playing a role in the Battle of the Bulge.   Alexander’s exploits in Italy, from capturing hundreds of prisoners in Sicily to holding ground against German counterattacks in Salerno, won him a reputation known from the lowest private to Airborne generals Gavin and Ridgway. At Normandy, Lt. John “Red Dog” Dolan called him “the finest battalion commander I ever served under,” after witnessing his leadership through the bloody battle for La Fière Bridge and Causeway.   This memoir is based on the transcription of hundreds of hours of recorded interviews made by Alexander’s grandson, John Sparry, over a period of years late in his life. Providing valuable insight into the beloved commander who led three of the most storied battalions in the US Army, Jump Commander also contains a wealth of new detail on 82nd Airborne operations and unique insight into some of the most crucial battles in the European Theater.

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  Necropolis

  Vladislav Khodasevich

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  In this unique literary memoir, “the greatest Russian poet of our time” pays tribute to the major authors of Russian Symbolist movement (Vladimir Nabokov).In Necropolis, the poet Vladislav Khodasevich turns to prose to memorializes some of the greatest writers of late 19th and early 20th century Russia. In the process, he delivers an insightful and intimate eulogy of the era. Recalling figures including Alexander Blok, Sergey Esenin, Fyodor Sologub, and the socialist realist Maxim Gorky, Khodasevich reveals how their lives and artworks intertwined, including a notorious love triangle among Nina Petrovskaya, Valery Bryusov, and Andrei Bely.  Khodasevich testifies to the seductive and often devastating Symbolist ideal of turning one’s life into a work of art. He notes how this ultimately left one man with the task of memorializing his fellow artists after their deaths. Khodasevich’s portraits deal with revolution, disillusionment, emigration, suicide, the vocation of the poet, and the place of the artist in society. Personal and deeply perceptive, Necropolis show the early twentieth-century Russian literary scene in a new light.

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  Duck and Cover: A Novel

  Brenda Peterson

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  In this "bittersweet and utterly beguiling novel," (Publisher's Weekly) each of the MacKenzie family tells their stories in nine, wildly opposed points of view. Starting at a family reunion, three generations of the MacKenzies face off against each other. They discover that terrorism is as intimate as one’s own family. Selected as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," DUCK AND COVER is a "wicked black comedy" of a family who fights their wars "on the home front." As one of the MacKenzie children says, "The way nuclear families are put together, it just makes sense they would explode."

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  The House That Love Built - Why...

  Sarah Jackson, Scott Sawyer

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  The House that Love Built is the quintessential story of one woman's questioning what it means to be an American—and a Christian—in light of a broken immigration system. Through tender stories of opening her heart and home to immigrants, Sarah Jackson shines a holy light on loving our neighbor. 
  Sarah Jackson once thought immigration justice was administered through higher walls and longer fences. Then she met an immigrant, and everything changed. As Sarah began to know fractured families ravaged by threats in their homeland and further traumatized in U.S. detention, biblical justice took on a new meaning.  
  As Sarah opened her heart—and her home—to immigrants, she experienced a surprising transformation and the gift of extraordinary community. The work she began, Casa de Paz, joins a centuries-long faith that shines a holy light on what it means to truly love our neighbor.  
  The dilemma of undocumented people continues to hover over America, and it raises urgent questions for every Christian: What is our role with the "stranger" in our midst? What does God's kingdom look like in the global-political reality of immigration? What difference can one person make? 
  Sarah engages these questions through profound and tender stories, placing readers in the shoes of individuals on every side of the issue—asylum seekers torn from their families and the guards who oversee them, ordinary people with lapsed visas and the families left to survive on their own, the unheralded advocates for immigrants' rights and the government officials who decide the fates of others. 
  Ultimately, Sarah's journey illuminates our own as we witness how real hope can be restored through simple yet radical acts of love.

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