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“This isn’t just a must-read for military buffs—it’s a source of inspiration for every American and anyone who aspires to be one.” —John Kerry, former US Secretary of State Born in Poland, John Shalikashvili (1936-2011) emigrated to the United States in 1952 and was drafted into the army as a private in 1958. He rose steadily through the ranks, serving in every level of unit command from platoon to division. In 1993, Shalikashvili was tapped by President Bill Clinton to replace General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, becoming the first immigrant, first draftee, and first Officer Candidate School graduate to hold the position. This first-ever biography of Shalikashvili’s riches-to-rags-and-back-to-riches story reveals how his distinctive background helped him become one of the United States’s greatest military leaders. He exhibited a unique and unconventional leadership style—employing expertise, humility, straightforwardness, and empathy—that he adroitly used to resolve or prevent destructive conflict. His distinctive leadership style greatly benefited the United States, Europe, and beyond: as when he led the rescue of 500,000 Kurdish refugees in the first Gulf War’s aftermath; when he represented Joint Chiefs chairman Colin Powell in helping secure loose nukes in the former Soviet republics; as he joined forces with fellow immigrant Madeleine Albright on the Partnership for Peace initiative and NATO enlargement program in the 1990s; and in retirement, when he helped end the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, thereby finally allowing gay servicemembers to serve openly without fear of dishonorable discharge. “An engaging story of a remarkable man whose life story would be fascinating even without regard to his military career.” —Foot Notes Blog
'Write kindness in marble and injuries in the dust.'Persian ProverbEdmund Payne, a good, respected teacher, has taught art in a boy's school for many years. When his life is suddenly compromised by rumours of an improper relationship with a schoolboy, a life he has kept secret for so long is revealed and he is called to account for himself. He can no longer conceal the real affair he had with a man many years his junior. Forced to leave his job, his wife, and his home, he decides to travel, choosing a region he once knew well as an idealistic young man with high hopes for the future: the classical landscapes of the Mediterranean. Thrilled by new experiences, and new loves, his life becomes an odyssey of the heart and imagination. But he cannot escape the past and, as his travels push him further into exile and unreality, he relives his memories and begins to face up to the future. Lyrical and sexually exhilarating, The Marble Boy is a reconstruction of Edmund's journey, and a record of his relationships, past and present, real, longed for, and imagined, as he continues his search for love."The Marble Boy is a novel about infatuation and longing: a sensual, sexual pot-boiler of a man waiting to explode, waiting to find true love, waiting to find who he is. It's a novel brilliantly disguised as a travel book..." (Reader Review)"Anyone who loves Greece will find this assured and finely written novel a nostalgic evocation of that land's scenery and culture, and it must now deservedly join the different genres of travel as well as romantic literature.” (Reader Review)
When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.
*In this exciting story, find out about Louie the Marble and how he traveled from one part of history to another and meeting famous people along the way! *See how this story can relate to you! *Learn about the history of marbles and how to play the different games! *Appreciate how you will come to know Louie the Marble and what you can learn from just a marble! *Discover how much fun collecting marbles really can be! *This book also comes with information on how to shoot a marble and the descriptions of games that the author has played through the years!
“Magic is “messy and dangerous and filled with longing,” we learn in this brave tale of grief, villainy and redemption that borrows from the story of the Snow Queen. Set in a vast, chilly museum, the tale brings together a valiant girl, a charmed boy, a magical sword and a clock ticking down to the end of the world.”—The Wall Street Journal This is the story of unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard who doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still grieving for their dead mother when their father takes a job in a strange museum in a city where it always snows. On her very first day in the museum Ophelia discovers a boy locked away in a long forgotten room. He is a prisoner of Her Majesty, the Snow Queen. And he has been waiting for Ophelia's help. As Ophelia embarks on an incredible journey to rescue the boy everything that she believes will be tested. Along the way she learns more and more about the boy's own remarkable journey to reach her and save the world. A story within a story, this a modern day fairytale about the power of friendship, courage and love, and never ever giving up.