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Gary Lee Heard presents over 200 striking images of people with tattoos, accompanied by quotes offered by the subjects themselves.
The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages’ ...
Follow the life of Emmie, a girl that grew up in, and loved the mountains of West Virginia. She has left her home now, when she married and gone to live in the big house her grandmother gave her in Charleston. Follow her as she solves the mysteries of the big house and Aunt Bella, the woman that used to live there years before! Emmies love and country personality, will captivate your heart, she has a child like seeing her world, also the fact she has inherited the family gift of second sight, which is often found in sections of the mountains.
“If you enjoy your cozy mysteries with a good shot of romance, and a love triangle with a sexy bad boy and a Southern gentleman in the mix, then you will love this. Very reminiscent of the Stephanie Plum books, but the laughs are louder, the romance is sexier and there is a great murder mystery to top it off.” Bella McGuire, Cozy Mystery Book Reviews Savannah Martin has always been a good girl, doing what was expected and fully expecting life to fall into place in its turn. But when her perfect husband turns out to be a lying, cheating slimeball - and bad in bed to boot - Savannah kicks the jerk to the curb and embarks on life on her own terms. With a new apartment, a new career, and a b...
The art of body decoration is a primal, personal and distinct art form. Centuries of using the human body as a canvas have given way to the tattooing and piercing of today. In Body Art: The Human Canvas--Ink and Steel, Gary Lee Heard and David Cultrara capture the ink and the essence of their subjects through more than 200 powerful portraits and insightful interviews that reveal the "why" behind the art.
In this brilliantly received memoir, former senator James Webb has outdone himself. It is rare in America that one individual is recognized for the highest levels of combat valor, as a respected member of the literary and journalistic world, and as a blunt-spoken leader in national politics. In this extraordinary memoir, Webb writes vividly about the early years that shaped such a remarkable personal journey. Webb’s mother grew up in the poverty-stricken cotton fields of East Arkansas. His father and lifetime hero was the first in many generations of Webbs, whose roots are in Appalachia, to finish high school. He flew bombers in World War II and cargo planes in the Berlin Airlift, graduate...
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The journey through life of a man born Black and poor in Greenwich, CT in 1933 is reflected upon in detail. Circumstances exposed him to opportunities to build bridges between the races, make history and change the what is to what ought to be during almost eight decades. His insights, opinions and anecdotes are readable, entertaining and offer nourishing food for thought. An important journey in America and well worth taking.
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