Robert Elliott
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Imagine going to war for a year with no assurance that you would ever return.
In Dr. Robert Elliott's “Citizen Soldier: From the Land of Lincoln to Iraq and Back”, readers learn what it is like to say goodbye to a wife and three children and then travel across Iraq by convoy and helicopters. You'll learn about the stressors, the dangers, and the risks taken and retaken.
The author gives vivid accounts of:
• Walking the ancient ruins of Babylon
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At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the 20th century the American West was home to nearly half of America's immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, Basques, and others. This book tells their rich and complex story-of adaptation and isolation, maintaining...
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At the prestigious Danforth Academy, students are getting sick and no one knows why. Everyone is suspected. From rich girls Mia and Riley to the Principal's daughter, Emily. Some even suspect wacky Sean Niminsky or the eccentric Professor Plume. Whoever is making the students sick, Abby, Paige, Claire and Taylor will have to put aside their differences and band together in order to solve the mystery.
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The first adaptation of The Maltese facon, in which detective Sam Spade searches for a rare statuette while trying to solve the murder of his partner.
Satan met a lady is a lighthearted comic adaptation of the story, with William Warren as "Ted Shane" in search of a rare ram's horn, and Bette Davis as a blonde schemer.