| Author | : David S. Cohen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0199377553 |
A chilling exposé of the threats, harassment, and worse that American abortion providers face on a daily basis-and groundbreaking remedies to stop it
| Author | : Catherine Hernandez |
| Publisher | : Atria Books |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2020-12-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1982146028 |
The author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough weaves an unforgettable and timely dystopian tale about a near-future, where a queer Black performer and his allies join forces to rise up when an oppressive regime gathers those deemed “Other” into concentration camps. Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a headstrong social worker. Guiding them in the use of weapons and close-quarters combat is Beck, a rogue army officer, who helps them plan an uprising at a major televised international event. With her signature “raw yet beautiful, disturbing yet hopeful” (Booklist) prose, Catherine Hernandez creates a vision of the future that is all the more frightening because it is very possible. A cautionary tale filled with fierce and vibrant characters, Crosshairs explores the universal desire to thrive, love, and be loved for being your true self.
| Author | : David S. Cohen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0190623373 |
A chilling exposé of the threats, harassment, and worse that American abortion providers face on a daily basis-and groundbreaking remedies to stop it
| Author | : Dina von Zweck |
| Publisher | : Club Lighthouse Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2016-09-13 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1772170429 |
Dina von Zweck (1933-2012) was a prolific award-winning writer and painter who left a large trove of poetry. Lyrical, graceful, and eminently beguiling, their often dazzlingly concise, cryptic stanzas open larger realms and vistas. Each poem is a portal—like a window with Venetian blinds suddenly opening and revealing startling sights, then closing again. Dina’s immediately engaging poetry also serves as a portal for the rest of her voluminous literary legacy—five novels, several novella, twenty-three stage plays, numerous screen scripts, libretti, operas, and essays. Poets always have something unexpected up their sleeves, being able to perceive and materialize what otherwise eludes our imaginations, to make unlikely and confounding connections. Silly Putty non sequiturs and fractured metaphors juxtaposed with an illumined madcap juggle of tropes create whimsical fissions of logic that can suddenly make more sense than sense.
| Author | : John D. Woodbridge |
| Publisher | : Zondervan |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0310325870 |
Based on true events, this volume chronicles the actions of a courageous young soldier fighting in World War II, the attempted capture of Adolph Hitler, and the subsequent saga of the dictator's pistol.
| Author | : Bill Wilson |
| Publisher | : Destiny Image Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0768429684 |
Bill Wilson, founder of Metro Ministries in New York City, has lived and ministered in the inner city for 35 years. Living directly in the line of fire Wilson has discovered, developed and applied valuable spiritual truths that have helped him build the largest Sunday School in the United States -- his staff ministers to 20,000 kids every week.
| Author | : Sgt. Jack Coughlin |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2017-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 125010355X |
The Central Intelligence Agency is under attack, and so is its top field operative, Kyle Swanson. The highly decorated former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant is attending the funeral of a friend when a terrorist blows up the grave. A week later, he narrowly survives a grenade attack in Berlin. In Washington, Congress is being told that Swanson has been turned, his private employer is corrupt, and the Agency itself cannot be trusted. Swanson is assigned to find the root of the problem and is partnered up with Luke Gibson, a skilled operative rated as being almost as good as Swanson. They are looking for assassin Nicky Marks, who also was a CIA shooter but now works for a shadowy power broker known as The Prince. But before Kyle and Luke can eliminate the threat, they must identify and find the man who wants them dead. That takes them from the pink poppy fields of Afghanistan to the jungles of Southeast Asia and the streets of America as they learn that the Prince is the ruthless kingpin of a global drug empire that uses CIA planes to transport opium and heroin. Swanson also lines up a secret partner, the beautiful widow of his friend whose grave was desecrated in Mexico, the sharpshooting former commando Beth Ledford, who has her own agenda of pure retribution. Kyle Swanson, at the worst possible moment in a combat showdown, must decide: Do you trust your partner, and if so, which one?
| Author | : Roger Stahl |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2018-06-21 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0813585287 |
Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper’s gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for depicting war, and how has it influenced public perceptions? Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of this weapon’s-eye view across a wide range of genres, including news reports, military public relations images, action movies, video games, and social media posts. As he tracks how gun-camera footage has spilled from the battlefield onto the screens of everyday civilian life, Roger Stahl exposes how this raw video is carefully curated and edited to promote identification with military weaponry, rather than with the targeted victims. He reveals how the weaponized gaze is not only a powerful propagandistic frame, but also a prime site of struggle over the representation of state violence.
| Author | : Thomas Pecora |
| Publisher | : Post Hill Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2019-05-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1642930482 |
Tom Pecora is prepared to draw back the curtain on the little-known and misunderstood world of the CIA protective operations—security teams who work on the front lines in some of the most dangerous places in the world, doing battle with America’s most determined enemies in the War on Terror and more. Somalia was Pecora’s first deployment as a CIA Protective Operations Cadre (POC) officer, responsible for providing protective operations support in hostile areas of the world. He later headed up a series of the Agency’s undisclosed protective operations teams. From 1989 until his retirement in 2013, he was assigned to multiple war zones across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, doing the kind of work few are even aware exists. But it does, and Pecora’s direct involvement allowed him to work behind the scenes of some of the most well-known conflicts of our time, including the infamous encounter known as Black Hawk Down, the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, and the hotbeds across the Middle East where fires continue to burn. Over the course of a career that saw him receive the Career Intelligence Medal, Intelligence Star, Meritorious Unit Citation, and numerous Exceptional Performance Awards, Pecora distinguished himself as a Protective Operations Cadre (POC) member and as a CIA Security Officer. And now he’s prepared to shed light on the world of clandestine protective operations and the selfless, heroic warriors dedicated to keeping the United States safe at all costs…
