Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series – serie
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Finish Forty and Home
The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific
Av Phil Scearce
Häftad, 2013
281 kr
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During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from …
Shoot the Conductor
Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
Av Anshel Brusilow, Robin Underdahl
Inbunden, 2015
427 kr
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Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre …
Shoot the Conductor
Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
Av Anshel Brusilow, Robin Underdahl
Häftad, 2016
230 kr
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Anshel Brusilow’s tumultuous relationships with Pierre Monteux, George Szell, and Eugene Ormandy shaped his early career. Under Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make him concertmaster in Philadelphia. He remained there from …
Probably Someday Cancer
Genetic Risk and Preventative Mastectomy
Av Kim Horner
Inbunden, 2019
274 kr
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After learning that she inherited a BRCA2 genetic mutation that put her at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, Kim Horner's doctors urged her to consider having a double mastectomy. But how do you decide whether to have a surgery to remove your breasts to reduce your risk for a disease you …
See Sam Run
A Mother's Story of Autism
Inbunden, 2008
275 kr
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Thousands of children are diagnosed with autism each year, with a rate of occurrence of 1 in 150 births, compared to 5 per 10,000 just two decades ago. This astounding escalation has professionals scrambling to explain why the devastating neurological disorder, which profoundly affects a person's …
William and Rosalie
A Holocaust Testimony
Av William Schiff, Rosalie Schiff
Häftad, 2009
156 kr
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William & Rosalie is the gripping and heartfelt account of two young Jewish people from Poland who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a …
Saving Ben
A Father's Story of Autism
Av University of North Texas Press
Inbunden, 2009
275 kr
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Each year thousands of children are diagnosed with autism, a devastating neurological disorder that profoundly affects a person's language and social development. ""Saving Ben"" is the story of one family coping with autism, told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his son's …
Life with a Superhero
Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
Inbunden, 2013
394 kr
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Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby—Michael —who is, in fact, very much alive and now …
Accidental Activists
Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
Inbunden, 2017
353 kr
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In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, …
