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An intimate, unvarnished look at the making of the Sunday sections of The New York Times in their pre-internet heyday, back when they shaped the country's political and cultural conversation. Over 30 years, Robert Stock edited seven of those sections, innovating and troublemaking all the way - getting the paper sued for $1 million, locking horns with legendary editors Abe Rosenthal and Max Frankel, and publishing articles that sent the publisher Punch Sulzberger up the wall.On one level, his memoir tracks Stock's amazing career from his elevator job at Bonwit Teller to his accidental entry into journalism to his public relations tours deep inside the aviation and oil industries to his Times years, which included the creation of a pioneering column about issues affecting the elderly.On another level, this is a book built on stories and anecdotes, comical and deadly serious. Rod Laver challenged Stock to a tennis match. He played a clarinet duet with superstar Richard Stoltzman. A Hopi tribal chairman and a Greek archaeologist introduced him to their lost worlds. He shared a sail with music mogul Ahmet Ertegun, a Mafia-spiced brunch with Jerry Orbach, and an embarrassing moment with Jacqueline Kennedy.From Stock's early days as an air raid bicycle messenger in Bridgeport CT... to his seat at the captain's table on the SS France...to his belated sowing of wild oats at age 45...to his stopping the presses at The New York Times...his book offers a fresh perspective on a not-that-long-ago era and industry that were, in so many ways, very different from the now.Me and The Times should find favor among readers who enjoyed Carl Bernstein's Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, and Adam Nagourney's The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism.

Mama's Fireside Chronicles is a composed from author Pawnee Pleines's personal experience. The poems in this book reflect some of the communication between herself and Jesus. Throughout this book, she shares how her relationship with Jesus has grown deeper since she was a little girl.It has been written that every memoir reminds us of the faraway and long ago, of loss and change, of persons and places beyond recall. Pawnee finds that little memory of her life is as clear as she would like it to be but realizes the point of every lesson in her life returns to her memory when it is needed most. Like an old chest where we keep our precious photo albums, when we feel the need, the photos are there.Pawnee gives all the credit to Jesus, her unofficial co-author of this book.

Opening the Mind's Window: Poems to Enlighten, Encourage, and Enjoy is Ron Hershberger's second book of poetry. Divided into six sections to provide continuity and allow for group study, readers will find the following collections: "Nature's Bounty," "Fun Times," "Living Faith," "Hearts Aglow," "Service Tributes," and "Real Life."Hope and trust are embedded in the lines of "Living Faith." Enjoy "Nature's Bounty" with its gentle breeze carrying the sights, sounds, and smells of the environment. Through "Service Tributes" you will witness bits of history that will tug at your heart, instill pride, or make you smile.Author Ron Hershberger presents an opportunity to open the mind's window. Each poem challenges the reader to reveal the message within. As with his first book of poetry, Reaching Back, Looking Forward, all profits generated from the sale of Opening the Mind's Window are donated to feed the hungry and homeless.

Embark on an exceptional dining adventure with chef Mina Abdi's "Shiraz & Syrah", a convergence of Persian and French cuisine for a unique gastronomic experience. Amidst the vivid memories of Iran's rich culture, aromatic street food, and the elegant flavors of French cuisine, Mina invite you to explore the intertwining histories of Shiraz and Syrah.This cookbook encapsulates a lifelong passion for Persian and French cuisines and makes them accessible for everyday enjoyment. Discover exquisite flavors that transcend time and place, bringing two worlds to your kitchen. "Shiraz and Syrah" celebrates culture, love, and the pure joy of exceptional food.

In Words From the Web: Poems, Quotes, and Stories of Grief, poet and widow, Eden Rule, goes beyond the sayings and clichés that often accompany grief and bereavement to share her own firsthand experiences with loss. After the sudden and tragic death of her husband, Eden knows there are no words that can magically treat the pain of loss, but she hopes her mourning can find a safe resting space within her collection of poems and her experiences can assist others.

Created as a guide to help families create an interactive, intentional, and purposeful learning environment at home, HIGH 5 brings this approach to school and therapy modalities. The guide: creates structure, shows examples to build upon, provides support, and promotes accountability all within a budget-friendly mindset. Designed with all kids in mind, it specifically targets families with kids on the spectrum. This book is interactive, informative, and showcases how you can take simple activities and build upon them while learning the benefits to each interaction. The title HIGH 5 came from eliciting "high fives" from our son, Ryan, who struggled with eye contact and social engagement. This spearheaded a strong foundation of engagement and further building blocks for purposeful play and learning. After getting an autism diagnosis, the author was lost about where to begin. She wants families to feel supported and know they have a direction in which to go with this book as an excellent navigation tool to start their journey.

This book is about you.You arrived in this world with a pure understanding of who you are, where you came from, and why you are here. Along with this, came absolute clarity about the meaning of your life and what is really important and true in this world.Then, during the normal process of growing up, while adapting to the world, and before you could share this truth with your tribe-you forgot.This is a truth-seeker's journey to remembering who you are, where you came from, and why you are here. It centers on the three basic parts of you-soul, body, and mind-and how these parts team up to create your experience of life and reveal life's true purpose.Along this inspirational path you will remember:¿ the meaning of integrity and how the few simple parts of life fit together to reveal the whole truth¿ how satyagraha (truth force) brings truth to the forefront of this journey¿ how you create your experience of life with the five phases of The Creation Sequence¿ how the intention behind your choices determines your experience¿ how your ego and your soul clash in creating your life experience¿ five practices to invite grace in your life, bringing fulfillment and well-being for all¿ sati (mindfulness) practices to help connect you to the truth of each chapter"I hope these ideas resonate with you, but in the end, you shouldn't listen to me. You should listen to you. That is the whole point of this book."

Have you experienced unbearable pain or grief? Are you struggling to find your faith after disappointment? Do you feel hopeless or abandoned? You are not alone. Difficult times can leave us feeling vulnerable and powerless. If we are not careful, the struggles we experience can drive a wedge between us and God. However, our faithful Father desires to walk with us through our difficult times. Power, Change, Breakthrough is a thirty-day devotional designed to remind you of who God is and who you are in Him. Through daily scripture readings, meditation, and prayer, Power, Change, Breakthrough will help you find your way out of the darkness and back into His marvelous light.

Walking through the perilous pitfalls and undulating emotions of your twenties: love, unlove, loss, grief, anxiety and depression, intoxication and sobriety, feeling alone with no purpose to feeling loved and full of passion- all in poetry format. Follow through the emotional ebbs and flows of a summer spent writing through poetry and prose by Tyler James.

The Great War Has Ended...The thousand years following the Great War, and the writing of the First Law, were not always peaceful, but nothing could compare to the slaughter that came before. The three races continued to make their way through the world in relative prosperity, even after the separation of the Eastern Kingdom over five hundred years prior. The horrors of the Great War faded into the annals of history, except for a single problem.It was all a lie.Distrust of the ravens was beginning to spread from an unknown source. The disappearances were growing more frequent and were joined by even darker rumors. Through all this, the Raven Queens continued to research the truth for centuries. How do you prove a lie with no evidence? How do you find evidence from a thousand years ago?What really happened? How did the Great War truly end?Queen Nánf¿ng knows she will not live to see the answers but knows they are running out of time. All she can do is prepare the way for her child-prodigy of a daughter. A seven-year-old Princess who cares more about complaining and hiding from her training than she does about the state of the world.It will be up to Princess Qiàn's Wolf Protector to keep her on the proper path. The true road to being the Raven Queen is a brutal one which no one would ever want to force on another. However, through the suffering and sacrifice of one, perhaps all others will be spared.Unbeknownst to all, even the Raven Queens, their world has been being watched closely for a very long time, from both sides.

December Glow: A Holiday Romance Novella is a swoon-worthy romance and cozy holiday read as steamy and heartwarming as a cup of hot cocoa (with several splashes of Baileys).Julia Thompson and Ryan Helms fell in love when they met as summer camp counselors. Life then led them in opposite directions as he headed to the West Coast for college while she stayed local. Ten years later, Ryan returns home to help care for his ailing father and find a fresh start. Nostalgic sparks fly when he and Julia reunite by chance in a grocery store the day before Thanksgiving. But it's complicated. A painful past continues to haunt Julia's holidays, and her long-term relationship is falling apart at the seams. Can Ryan win back Julia's heart and restore her love of the holidays?

An Audacious Myth: The Personal Memoirs of Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles is a fictional first-person account of the real-life Civil War Union General Dan Sickles and his controversial actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. An Audacious Myth chronicles Sickles's rise from a self-centered operative of New York's infamous Tammany Hall to the rank of Major General. His scandal-ridden life included owning a brothel with his lover Fanny White, marrying the teen daughter of his best friends, and gunning down his wife's lover in front of the White House. He was the first American to be found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Sickles's time after the war was devoted to creating a narrative that put him at the center of heroics at Gettysburg. His efforts won him the Medal of Honor thirty-five years after the battle. Did he save the Union and deserve the medal? Was there a twisted divine intervention that guided him at Gettysburg? We view the man through his own eyes and decide for ourselves.

Twins Chidi and Alexis-joined by their all-too-sassy tabby kitten, Ginger, and their loyal, rough-and-tumble pup, Tumbles-are being chased by a mysterious stranger who will stop at nothing to kidnap them and their mother. A bizarre light sucks the twins into another realm where adventure and danger lurk around every corner, along with dragons and unicorns! The first installment in the Never Did I Ever series, Never did I Ever: The Quest for Magic, follows Chidi and Alexis as they make new friends and new enemies in a strange new realm that is definitely not Earth.

Happy Williams struggles to get out of bed. She's constantly late for work and lies to hide her truth and shame. Are her toxic relationships with her mother, boyfriend, and a hateful coworker the reason for her sadness and loneliness?After a reluctant confrontation, she escapes to her extended aunt's home in Martha's Vineyard. There she discovers the truth about her past. This fictional story is a reality for so many of us struggling with depression and trauma. It's a testimony for those searching for peace, love, and true happiness.

The ability to foretell events and connect with people in the afterlife is a unique gift-but can it also be a horrible curse?In the page-turner How Does She Know, Anna Mavrides has been burdened her whole life by the violent visions she had as a young girl. As an adult, she decides to write a book about those visions and her family's connection to the spirit world. It is an instant bestseller.But her book's publication ultimately triggers a chain of events that sees her charged with the brutal murder of a childhood friend. As Anna wrestles in her prison cell with the fractured memories and tangled relationships of her youth, her determined supporters dig to expose the motives of the spiritualist community leader and the district attorney who charged her with murder.Their efforts could exonerate her and provide some answers about Anna's distant past. All her life people have asked, "How do you know?" Can she finally answer that question?

At 4:00 a.m., April 12, 1861, Confederate Lt. Henry S. Farley, commanding a battery of two 10-inch siege mortars, fired the first shot at the Union garrison in Fort Sumter. The shell exploded above the fort, showering the deserted parade ground with fragments of hot iron. That one shell ushered in the bloody epic of the American Civil War. Seven-hundred-fity thousand men, perhaps more, were killed in battle, died from wounds, or from disease. In addition, 400,000 were wounded and many of those lived the rest of their lives with amputated arms and legs. Numerous others battled post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological maladies. Four months after personally witnessing the sweeping rout of the Yankee army at Bull Run, Congressman James B. McKean of Saratoga Springs, New York, issued a circular to his constituents calling for the formation of the Bemis Heights Battalion, subsequently designated the 77th New York State Volunteer Infantry. Electrified by the spirit of patriotism that swept through Saratoga like a wildfire, and the determination to join in the fight to put down the "unholy rebellion," twenty-one-year-old Luther Miller Wheeler offered his aid to B.F. Judson of The Saratogian newspaper in recruiting a company for the regiment, despite his mother's severe misgivings. She fervently sought to dissuade Luther from "taking any steps which should separate him from her, for he was dearer to her than her own life." But to his mother's forceful protestations, Wheeler invariably replied, "Someone has got to go to help put down this rebellion and I am not better than anyone else that I should be excused." His mother reluctantly relented only when he firmly declared, "You must give me up, as I have given myself up." I Think I Shall See a Hundred Battles is a compilation with commentary of the Civil War letters Luther M. Wheeler. His war correspondence entailed letters to his mother, brothers Frank and Wendell, and his sister Abigail. In his letters, Luther boasted of his robust health and fitness for military life and eagerly sought promotion to higher rank. He wrote of military life, Northern politics, Union war strategy, the courage and bravery of the Confederate soldier, the carnage of battle and aftermath, the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery and contrabands, Army commanders, and struggled with the role of Providence in the war. Wheeler also eagerly sought news from home, especially of his friends doings and who was courting whom. Luther Wheeler mustered into service September 24, 1861, commissioned as first lieutenant. April 12, 1862, he was promoted to captain of company C. Wheeler saw battle during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and 2nd Fredericksburg in 1863. His last letter was written May 2, 1863, to his mother. The next day, the Union VI Corps charged up Marye's Heights. In Albion Howe's division, the 77th New York assaulted the portion of Marye's Heights at Telegraph Hill. Leading his men up the hill, Luther was mortally wounded, dying a few hours later. His death was a terrible loss for the officers and men of the regiment. More than 2,000 mourners witnessed the committal service for burial at Greenridge Cemetery. Col. McKean offered the final words: "Captain Wheeler! My heroic young friend, you have not died in vain. The flag of your country is going on to victory. The dear country for which you paid the price of your precious life shall yet be saved. No, you have not died in vain."

Long ago the Nation of the Republic of Texas, fought an epic struggle for freedom from the tyranny of malicious government. During this struggle, the citizen soldiers of Texas, with determination and improvisation , took the battle for Texas to enemy soil. Their struggle was known as the Mier Expedition. This book is based on the true story of the snake-bitten war campaign the was high in courage, and spirit, but lacked in luck. The trials and tribulations of the Mier Expedition were extraordinary! Hooray for the Spirit of TEXAS! And for the Spirit of the Lord! that is the spark of freedom in everyone! Cheers! for the sacrifice, of the men, of the Mier Expedition and the Splendid Expendables of every generation, the heroes of the race of people known as the Decent! Who never get the recognition they deserve!

Our faith journal is a written account and record of your spiritual journey and practices. It contains templates and tools to help you track daily and weekly reflections, religious teachings, lessons, prayer requests, and gratitude practices. If you're unsure where to start, consider prayer as a fundamental form of faith. In today's busy world, it's nearly impossible to find time for yourself to deepen your relationship with God without taking the time to pray, meditate on the Word, and write down your intentions. Journaling what you're praying for can provide meaningful insight into how your spiritual practice impacts your life. Be honest and transparent. Write down how you feel before and after prayer, and even return to the prayer to reflect on how things have changed in the past day, week, or month. Actively keeping a prayer journal can lead to a deepening of gratitude and awareness. Enjoy!

The Bible, Its Author, and the People Within will not only challenge you to take a good hard look at the things you've learned throughout your Christian walk, but will also teach you how to read the Bible. It will then introduce you to the God of creation as well as many of the traditions, customs, and practices of the people dwelling within the ancient world. The subject matter covered within these pages includes Israel's religious festivals; the betrothal and wedding ceremony; the bearing, rearing, and education of children; the various occupations of the day; the mourning, preparation, and burial of the dead, as well as the hereafter.Now you may be thinking: Is this book something I should take the time to read? Well, that depends. If you're someone who's willing to have your presuppositions and dearly held traditions challenged by God's Word, you should read it. If you're someone who's willing to deviate from the beaten path and follow the text of Scripture wherever it leads, you should read it. If you're someone who's willing to consider a perspective other than your own, then yes, you should read it. If not, then quite frankly, you shouldn't. Whether you're a thirty-year-veteran of the faith or a believer of only a few hours, this book can greatly benefit you if you're willing to first read it and then further investigate its claims.Generally speaking, the way you interact with life depends on your perception of the world around you. And as they say, perception is reality. But the problem with that is that a westerner's reality is not the reality of the easterner. As a student of God's Word, the only way you can benefit from what you read is to consider the culture, the rituals, the customs, the traditions, and the practices of those living within the biblical world. Unfortunately, more often than not, this is the exception to the rule. As westerners, our tendency is to impose our worldview on to the text of Scripture. This book will afford you the opportunity to get into the minds of the biblical writers.While this book deals with some of the most common religious and social practices of the Israelites, Building a Framework, the second book, focuses on the establishment of a divine council, the history of creation, the sin of the Watchers, the birth of the giants, Noah's flood, the disinheriting of the inhabitants of the earth, the calling of Abram, the planting of Israel's heavens and earth along with their history, the ministry of Christ, the reclaiming of the nations, and the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in A.D. 70. The third book in this series, Digging Deeper, utilizes a handful of principles needed to accurately interpret the Scriptures.This series of books is very easy to read. These books are written in such a way that you should have no difficulty understanding the message conveyed. Although there are several theological terms sprinkled throughout these works, they are thoroughly explained for a better understanding of the Bible's meaning. Additionally, the majority of the biblical passages utilized within these books are written out for your convenience. The reason for this is simple. First of all, it minimizes the need for having to stop and look up each citation. But more importantly, it presents a biblical case for the assertions and conclusions drawn within each book. I have, to the best of my ability, searched God's Word for the truth. If you find what I have found, then build on it and share it with others. Assume nothing. You have the responsibility to study the Scriptures for yourself and draw your own conclusions.