Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas’s classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima—with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020.On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater in World War II—Private Jack Lucas, who was only seventeen, and three other Marines engaged in a close-proximity firefight with Japanese soldiers. When two...

In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, dominated by its emotionally harrowing close-ups of Joan during her trial, it was Dreyer who pioneered some of the seminal techniques of modern film, techniques that would la...

Don’t Forget to Remember Me is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel about first love, identity and the value of true friendship.Thirteen-year-old Starling ‘Star’ Cooney lives with her grandfather, Roy, in Rocky Point. She has not made any friends – that is, until new student Bronte arrives. Then Roy disappears, and Star must decide who to trust as she searches for her mum.**'**Don’t Forget to Remember Me

If I told you that you could read an entire book in an afternoon, would you believe me?When we were taught how to read growing up, we were taught to read slowly. These poor reading habits hold us back, and it's why so many people don't enjoy reading.But reading can be faster, more fun, and more fulfilling than ever before once you learn the best reading strategies for your learning type.In this short book, you'll discover proven strategies to read faster without hav...

If I told you that you could read an entire digital book in an afternoon, would you believe me?When we were taught how to read growing up, we were taught to read slowly. These poor reading habits hold us back, and it's why so many people don't enjoy reading.But reading can be faster, more fun, and more fulfilling than ever before once you learn the best reading strategies for your [learning type?].In this short book, you'll discover proven strategie...

Life is full of high-stakes and high-pressure moments and opportunities. Are you prepared to tackle them?Work, family, relationships—life is demanding. A high-stress situation, or being on the X where all the pressures converge, could be right around the corner. How will you confront it? Your ability to succeed in stressful and challenging situations and seize opportunities depends on how you show up to face these moments. When you’re up against obstacles, you may find yourself feel...

The Sixties. The Swinging Sixties. The Beatles. Carnaby Street. Vidal Sassoon. Mary Quant. The Pill. The Permissive Society. The Simple Life is a world away from all this. It is the story of a girl growing up in Edinburgh in that decade. How am I supposed to love this cried her mother when Rosie was born. She grew up with a permanent void in her heart. Against all odds Rosie came to find that people could love and respect her. From her radio interviews with people like Frankie Vaughan and ...

In Emily Bronte's classic novel, Heathcliff disappears from Wuthering Heights for three years and returns a radically changed man. This is the epic story of his obsessive love and high adventure.Heathcliff: The Lost Years is the untold story at the heart of Wuthering Heights. Haunted by memories of his first love, Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff embarks on a daring 18th century odyssey that takes him to Liverpool, on a slave ship to Africa, and across the treacherous Middle Passage ...

The Chronic Pain Management Sourcebook, updated in 2020, is a compassionate and comprehensive look at the management of chronic pain for people who suffer from chronic pain and their families. This well-reviewed sourcebook looks at the causes of chronic pain, and suggests a number of practical ways to manage it, cope with it, and live with it. Includes useful strategies for mitigating pain including meditation, distraction, stress reduction, visualization, social support, hypnosis, dietary...

Polycystic liver disease is a rare disease involving multiple cysts on the liver. Less than 200,000 people in the United States have it, and most of them are women. Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients contains basic medical information for people who wish to learn more about this rare disease.When the daughter of medical journalist David Drum was diagnosed with polycystic liver disease, he began looking for information about this relatively rare disease. He found pre...

"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace."~ MALCOLM XIn Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem.In the 1970s, Richard "Fritz" Simmons is introduced to the drug trade, by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). Af...