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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Behind the Red Apple is a book of free verse poetry. Each poem has rhythm and evokes colorful images.The poems give the reader an opportunity to enjoy, grow, and develop skills in education, health, and social understanding. This collection of poetry can be transformed into a daily manual. Through sharing communication can become more positive between the mature and young. Reading Behind the Red Apple will help keep the apples.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You can write your true stories using techniques of fiction writing. That's because, deep down, you understand story. The Stories of Our Days lets you tap in to that innate knowledge and tell your own stories using the same techniques as fiction writers. Think about the last good story you heard, one that had you leaning forward, eager beyond words to know what happens next. This book will enable you to put into print what good oral storytellers do vocally: provide description of details, employ dialogue, generate suspense. In short, you'll be able to tell a story to enthrall.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - All my books are recounts of true happenings.The series: The Century Before 2000 focuses on the suffering of certain women and children of that era. Heroines, of the last Century, selected from specifc strata in society, portray normal everyday life and trials and tribulations during wartimes. For some plights began before recorded dates of political conflicts and continued in the aftermath.KATH(E)RINA realistically re-enacts in chronological order what it was like when giant-sized bombs rained from the the sky and upon impact shook or collapsed buildings, worse. trapped women, children and the aging beneath. Sometimes other women came to their rescue, sometimes they couldn¿t. Seldom the rescuers were trained men in their prime, (then serving in the military), they were mainly women; often mothers and children or men too old or too young for the armed services.All events in KATH(E)RINA actually took place, only her name is fictitious.I might point out that geographical orientation matter little when terror, pain, homelessness, hunger and depravation reign. What happened in Germany happened in England, in Poland, to some degree throughout Europe and Asia and to this day violence still reigns in many parts of the world. Apparently Earth's inhabitants still haven't learned yet to live peacefully on our beautiful but rapidly shrinking Planet.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For Lisa Crandall the onset of adolescence brought with it the fiery dreams that challenge her sanity. Night after night she watches the flesh burn off her own body in an emerging tale of a young woman burned as a witch. Offered a teaching position on the East Coast Lisa and brother Carter, move cross-country to search for the cause of the dreams. In Anderson's Landing she literally runs into one of the School Board in the person of Michael Adams.On a quest of his own, they join forces and seek out the evil that has plagued Maple Ridge Township for three hundred years.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in 1968, Night Bird is the story of a young man and his stolen innocence. Joey, a 21 year-old short-order cook, spends his nights in a tiny, 24-hour New Jersey diner counting down to his impending induction into the bloodbath of Vietnam. Although Joey has taken no position on the war, the regular nightly visitors to The Castle Diner impact his conscience and budding morality with their own. Caught between the extremes of Old Jake, a WWI veteran who feels that every young man must leap obediently into the service of his country, and a young radical couple named Aimee and John, who preach resistance, Joey ponders his choices. Having not taken a stand on the legitimacy of this war, Joey is torn between the issues of the day as presented to him by his customers, daily newspapers and other media ranging from network news to a pirate radio station afloat off the Jersey shore. Even though being drafted would mean his terminally ill mother would be left with no means of support, the needle of Joey's moral compass never truly sets until the news of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination penetrates the walls of The Castle. After placing an unclasped KENNEDY campaign button on his shirt, Joey allows the exposed pin-point to serve as a constant reminder of one who gave his life in the quest for truth. Viewing world events through his newly awakened social conscience, Joey questions the morality and motives of a government that placed a generation in harm's way. Stepping into the unknown, he realizes that the door that opened his mind to enlightenment is the same one sealing its innocence. From that threshold, Joey sees the light of day and his choice between a life in the greater cage and his chance at flying free. From within the stainless steel confines of an all-night diner, Night Bird captures the essence of an era that reshaped and defined the world we live in today.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful, happy, and lucky little girl who believed in the world of made-up fairy tales. She firmly believed that one day her prince would come and carry her away to a lovely castle in a peaceful valley, where he would love her forever and she would always be happy.However reality was actually very harsh to Lily as she grew older. Uprooted from her native land, she moved to America with her family, and although she did her best to adjust, life smashed her with blow after blow, and than driving her into herself where she eventually died a lonely, neurotic, and bitter old woman.In this tragic love story of a woman who loved and lost and became afraid of life, the author also muses on fate and destiny, and whether we are truly the masters of our own lives.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bomb disposal was the most technically demanding and dangerous job outside of combat during World War II. Fewer than five thousand men did it in the American armed forces. During the war their activities were shrouded in secrecy, so that the Axis would not know what techniques the Allies were using. When they came home the citizen soldiers and officers who had done the work preferred anonymity to publicity. Furthermore, the units they had served in, often squads of six enlisted men and one officer, had been too small and independent to attract much notice by American chroniclers, official or unofficial, of the biggest armed conflict in history. Captains of Bomb Disposal, 1942-1946 attempts to bring some long-overdue public attention to this small group of neglected heroes. It chronicles two of their two most significant achievements during the World War II era: the contributions of the thirty-three bomb disposal squads of the Ninth Air Force, and the top-secret intelligence mission code named Operation 'Hidden Documents.'In 1944 the Ninth Air Force was the most powerful tactical air force the world had ever seen. In the European Theater of Operations (ETO) it controlled more bomb disposal personnel than any other high command. Part I of Captains of Bomb Disposal, 1942-1946 mainly describes training at the Bomb Disposal School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and the support thirty-three bomb disposal squads gave the Ninth Air Force. Interwoven in the narrative covering events after D-Day is the wider context in which those squads, and all of the Ninth Air Force, operated, namely, air and ground forces pioneering a large-scale, close partnership which defeated the Germans in northwest Europe. Also discussed is how Ninth Air Force bomb disposal squads helped handle the problem after V-E Day of up to two million tons of surplus explosive ordnance in the theater. Most of the sources for Part I on bomb disposal operations are unpublished unit histories, Ninth and Eighth Air Force ordnance reports, theater-level reports, and related documents at either the National Archives at College Park, Maryland (NACP), or the Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA), at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Part I is organized around, but definitely not limited to, the World War II experiences of Capt. Thomas R. Reece. Now deceased and the author's father, he was one of the four highest-ranking bomb disposal officers in the Ninth Air Force. Some of his official and personal papers are utilized. Background material on the course of the war in the ETO is taken mainly from published official histories, and for the Ninth Air Force, also from unpublished documents at AFHRA. One of the passages in Part I describes how two men in the 80th Bomb Disposal Squad, Sgt. Russell F. McCarthy and T/5 Walter V. Smith, in 1945 won the Soldier's Medal, America's highest military award for bravery in action not against the enemy. They were not the only bomb disposal personnel to win that award during the World War II era. Part II revolves around Capt. Stephen A. Richards, who was commanding officer of the 123rd Bomb Disposal Squad, attached during the war to General Patton's Third Army. Captain Richards and two combat engineers won the award for disarming a cache of booby-trapped documents outside Stechovice, Czechoslovakia in February 1946, as part of Operation 'Hidden Documents.' The trio was apprehended by Czechoslovak authorities while the other mission members took the documents to Germany, and was only released after the documents were returned. Meanwhile, a diplomatic crisis was ignited as Czechoslovakia officially protested the American infringement of its sovereignty. Moreover, the Czechoslovak Communist Party used the controversy for propaganda purposes shortly before the national elections of May 1946. Shortly before the trio was released, the operation received fairly extensive publicity, including an article on page two of Th.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A GREAT MANOn June 21, 1954, Brooks Lawrence, a minor league baseball player, got word that he was to play in the major leagues. Though elated, he still recalled his lifelong quest to reach that goal and capture his dream.His story, of his family and his youth, college years, and service during World War II, features his ongoing love of the game of baseball. The difficulties and adversities he confronted as an African-American in both the minor and major leagues and how he overcame them make his ultimate triumph as a Hall of Famer an inspiring story.Brooks was a remarkable man with a remarkable story.…