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The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird—the classic that became a touchstone for generations of Americans To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters—Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout—and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. At the center of Shields's lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights as well: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City. Drawing on six hundred interviews and much new information, Mockingbird is the first book ever written about Harper Lee. Highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart, this is an evocative portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.
Ken Griffey Jr. : the Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Greatest Outfielders by Clayton Geoffreys Pdf
Learn the Inspiring Story of the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds' Legendary Outfielder, Ken Griffey Jr.! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Baseball Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys. In Ken Griffey Jr.: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Greatest Outfielders, you will learn the story of one of baseball's greatest outfielders, Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey Jr. accomplished a lot over the course of his career, playing the bulk of it for the Seattle Mariners and the Cincinnati Reds. By the time he retired, he was a thirteen-time All-Star, American League MVP, and ten-time Gold Glove Award recipient. Ken Griffey Jr. serves as a role model for baseball fans of all ages in the way he carried himself on and off the field throughout his career and showing his dominance on both the offensive and defensive sides of the game. Pick up this unauthorized baseball biography today to learn the inspiring story behind star baseball outfielder, Ken Griffey Jr.! This is the perfect baseball chapter book for sports fans of all ages. This baseball book explores what makes Ken Griffey Jr. great, and what we can learn from his hard work. Here is a preview of what is inside this Ken Griffey Jr. book: Childhood and No Love for the Yankees High School Career and the Draft Minor League Career Major League Career: Rookie Season, Becoming the Man and the Best in Baseball The Trade, A Rough New Beginning, The Comeback, and The End of an Era Griffey Jr.'s Personal Life Griffey Jr.'s Legacy An excerpt from this Ken Griffey Jr. biography: It is never easy when you come into a league and the highest of all expectations are placed on you before you even step foot onto the field for the first time. Everyone wants greatness out of you, putting a heavy load on your shoulders. Sometimes it is easier to come into a league in any sport where not much is expected of you and you build your name up by your performance, sort of like Aaron Judge has done with the Yankees or Cody Bellinger with the Dodgers. For Ken Griffey, Jr., though, he was expected to be the Michael Jordan of baseball before he walked up to the plate for the very first time. When he did get that first at-bat against Dave Stewart and the Oakland Athletics, with the whole world wanting to see how great this young athlete was, he did not disappoint. He got a double. Twenty-two years and 9,800 at-bats later, Griffey, Jr. not only delivered on those expectations, but he also went way above and beyond them. He is now regarded as one of the best all-around players to ever play the game and sits in the Hall of Fame with the greats. Griffey, Jr. backed up all the talk with his bat and glove. He stands number 6 with 630 home runs on the all-time home run list, which some say should be even higher because some of the players above him allegedly took performance-enhancing drugs. He was the American League MVP winner in 1997 and won a Gold Glove for 10 years in a row, from 1990 to 1999. He has also been to 13 All-Star games and been awarded the Silver Slugger Award seven times. Much of Griffey's expectations were high because of who his father was. Ken Griffey, Sr. was a talented baseball player who was part of the "Big Red Machine" from the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970s. While Griffey, Sr. never achieved the elite honor of a berth in the MLB Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame and had the honor of playing with his son on the Mariners at the end of his career, the first-ever father-son duo to achieve that feat. Hope you liked this excerpt! If you did, be sure to pick up a copy of this Ken Griffey Jr. bio today.
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Publisher : James Lorimer & Company Page : 673 pages File Size : 50,9 Mb Release : 2015-07-22 Category : History ISBN : 9781459410695
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.
Bryce Harper is a current right fielder for the Washington Nationals. The Nationals secured Harper as a first overall pick in the 2010 Major League Baseball draft. Since starting his Major League Baseball career, Harper has gained national attention several times. This book explores Harper's path to greatness and focuses on his baseball career from Little League to the majors. Biographical information provides readers with insight into the life of this sports icon. Statistics, informative fact boxes, and colorful photographs supplement the main text.
Patrick Mahomes: the Inspiring Story of One of Football's Superstar Quarterbacks by Clayton Geoffreys Pdf
Learn the Inspiring Story of the Kansas City Chiefs' Star Quarterback, Patrick Mahomes! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Football Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys. In Patrick Mahomes: The Inspiring Story of One of Football's Superstar Quarterbacks, you will learn the story of one of football's star players. Since being drafted as the tenth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, Mahomes has established himself as a superstar. At the time of this writing, he has already won a Super Bowl, Super Bowl MVP award, and Most Valuable Player award. It will be exciting to continue to watch Mahomes as we see what else he has in store for fans in the years ahead. Pick up this unauthorized biography today to learn the inspiring story behind football star, Patrick Mahomes! This is the perfect football chapter book for sports fans of all ages to learn about what Makes Patrick Mahomes such a star. Here is a preview of what is inside this Patrick Mahomes biography book: Early Childhood High School Career College Football Career NFL Career: The Draft, Rookie Season, MVP Season, "Super" Mahomes Mahomes' Personal Life Legacy and Future Conclusion An excerpt from this Patrick Mahomes biography: In the 2017 NFL Draft, Patrick Mahomes II sat at his table waiting for his name to be called. With the second pick, the Chicago Bears passed on him and took quarterback Mitchell Trubisky out of North Carolina. The Jacksonville Jaguars felt they already had their future with Blake Bortles and took running back Leonard Fournette instead. The Jets were okay with Geno Smith and Josh McCown and instead took safety Jamal Adams. The Bengals decided to hold onto Andy Dalton and drafted wide receiver John Ross. It was like heaven for the Kansas City Chiefs. They had traded with the Buffalo Bills for the 10th overall pick and when their turn came up, Mahomes was still there. So was Deshaun Watson of Clemson, but they felt Mahomes was a no-brainer. They believed Mahomes was a potential Pro Bowler who could win them a Super Bowl in two or three years. And they were spot on. Three years later, Mahomes had made many of those nine teams that passed on him regret it. How do you think the Bears felt? Trubisky is not even their starting quarterback anymore. Or the Jaguars, who have floundered with the quarterback position since 2015. Blake Bortles, their guy in 2017, is now on the Rams. The Jets may have been the team that felt the sickest. Their quarterback play was so bad in 2017 that they drafted Sam Darnold in 2018. They could have picked a top quarterback in 2017 but instead passed on one. The player they did draft in 2017, Jamal Adams, is now on the Seahawks! Then there were the Chiefs, who drafted Mahomes and got to see him win the 2018 NFL Most Valuable Player Award and hold up the Lombardi Trophy in 2020. It did not take long for the Chiefs general manager to be completely on board with Mahomes. After the 2017 NFL Combine in Indianapolis, he saw all that he needed to. "He's one of the best players I ever saw," Brett Veach said. If you enjoyed this excerpt, be sure to pick up a copy of this biography on Patrick Mahomes today! Also, be sure to check out Clayton Geoffreys' other football biography books on star quarterbacks!
The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal by George C. Kohn Pdf
Covering people and events from the 1630s to the present day, this reference offers 455 entries on such topics as dirty politics, white-collar scams, botched cover-ups, tawdry love affairs, and despicable acts of corruption.
La Follette's Autobiography by Robert M 1855-1925 La Follette Pdf
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