A life worth telling is a story worth reading. Richard Rosenberger reveals the life of an only child born of a highborn German immigrant father and a lovely American woman. Living in a working class Kansas City neighborhood during the notorious Pendergast era, a mischievious child, he served as an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church. Rosenberger continued his service at the Church while growing into a delinquent, nearly criminal youth. Struggling to find his way, he chose the priesthood and did what it took to achieve his goal.
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This movie takes a contemporary look at the true story of Alice Paul who was instrumental in the creation and passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. These suffragettes were wrongfully imprisoned, force fed, and brutalized in their ultimately successful efforts.
This is Jane Yolen's first graphic novel about Aliera Carstairs, a young girl who doesn't fit in at school. But everyday after school she goes to practice fencing, which she happens to be very good at. Her sword is from a second hand store, where her mom likes to find bargains. She becomes lab partners with a cute boy who likes to cut up dead things. That is the beginning of the story but there is much more. Aliera is a very complex character who needs to discover what her strengths are used for. I hope that there are many more stories about Aliera Carstirs.
This a fun, fast, chic-lit read. It is the a book about Joile Goodman who has quit her job as a real estate agent because her boss was being unethical. She now works at Neimen Marcus selling shoes to make ends meet. It is also a start of a new friendship with Carlotta, the party crashing queen. Jolie's boyfriend goes missing and she meets the man of her dreams.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin and the Race of a Lifetime is a behind-the-scenes account of the presidential primaries leading up to the 2008 election of Barack Obama. It was written by two nationally known, and seemingly well-respected, journalists.
The narrative follows the lives of fourteen British children of various economic backgrounds from the 1960s to the present, posing the question of whether socioeconomic background predetermines our future. The children are questioned on their present beliefs, past accomplishments and future plans, with each child revisited every seven years.
As India's independence from Britain nears, political tensions mount as Pakistan, in turn, seeks it's independence from India. Author Bapsi Sidhwa uses the growing awareness of a Lenny, a 5 yr old Parsee girl living in 1940's Lahore to illustrate the origins of prejudice. "Will the crack
A novice newspaper journalist recounts his experiences in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. He’s never been a foreign correspondent; he’s never been a war correspondent. So his reader will learn through him how to blindly set out to a war-torn country bereft of the simplest comforts…running water, for example. The heart of the book is the story of Garcia, a social worker
If you have ever had any curiousity at all about the world of music, and the amazing diversity of rhythms, instruments, vocalizations, melodies and harmonies to be found outside of pop rock or classical, you would do well to listen to the variety of Putumayo Presents recordings JCL and Olathe Libraries own!