Pineapple Pete wants to be friends with everyone, but the other fruit children are scared of his prickly face -- until they need his help and he saves the day.

Pineapple Pete's Remarkable Feat

Children's Books

Minow, Josephine Baskin

Humor

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Love Me Do: Behind the Scenes at the Recording of the Beatles' First Single

Arts & Photography

Harry, Bill

Music

Inspired by a real-life incident in Billings, Montana in the 1990's, this is the story told in verse of a community that came together to support Jewish families after bigoted attacks of vandalism targeted families with Hanukkah menorahs. The local newspaper printed a picture of a menorah that non-Jewish neighbors put in their own windows to show that we are all part of the same family.

A Light in Every Window

Holidays & Celebrations

Great moments from neglected movies and neglected moments from classic movies -- movie critic Nell Minow (known as "The Movie Mom") describes 101 must-see movie moments that illuminate cinematic story-telling, from the DBTA (dead by third act) character there to give the hero a learning experience to the unexpected on-set "mistakes" that turned out better than the script.

101 Must-See Movie Moments (Must-See Movies)

Humor & Entertainment

Minow, Nell

Movies

Wilmer Fields was a superstar in the Negro Leagues, back when baseball was segregated. After Jackie Robinson broke the color line (as shown in this year&rsquo;s hit film, &ldquo;42&rdquo;), Fields received five different offers to join white teams. But he loved the Negro Leagues and never left. After his retirement, he fought to get the Negro League players covered by Major League Baseball&rsquo;s pension and health care benefits. This new edition of Fields&rsquo; memoir, with an introduction by baseball historian John Holway, features a new interview with Fields&rsquo; son, Billy, who had his own professional sports career in basketball. Fields tells the story of the &ldquo;dream come true&rdquo; that &ldquo;allowed a black country boy&rdquo; from Virginia to play the game he loved with teammates he admired and trusted. Fields tells his story, from college football to military service in WWII to hitting .427 in 1956 and being honored as one of the &ldquo;Black legends of baseball&rdquo; in 1990. He writes about players like the legendary Josh Gibson and Sam Hairston, who became a White Sox manager. He writes about the game itself, the qualities that make a team and the dedication that makes a world-class athlete.

My Life in the Negro Leagues: An Autobiography by Wilmer Fields

Fields, Wilmer

Biographies & Memoirs

Democratic capitalism—the source of America’s vast wealth, the foundation of our entire economic system—is threatened as never before, not from without but from within. Shareholders today no longer own, except in the narrowest legal sense, the corporations they have invested in. Emboldened by the Supreme Court and enabled by a compliant Congress and compromised regulators, America’s CEOs have staged a corporate coup d’état. They, not the titular owners of the businesses, decide where and how company resources will be deployed, what laws will be evaded in the pursuit of short-term gain, what offshore havens profits will be stashed in to avoid taxation, and critically, how lavishly the CEOs themselves will be compensated. Far too much of American business is being run for the personal enrichment and glorification of its manager-kings. This book shows how that happened and unveils, for the first time, a new study showing that corporations “un-owned” by their shareholders—corporate “drones”—are far worse corporate citizens and have significantly lower average shareholder returns than firms in which owners still exercise authority over management. Manager-kings, it turns out, are bad both for society and for business itself.

Citizens DisUnited: Passive Investors, Drone CEOs, and the Corporate Capture of the American Dream

Business & Money

Monks, Robert A.G.

Biography & History

Betsy Atkins, former CEO and experienced corporate director has candid and very practical advice for those who serve on the boards of big, complex enterprises. This 2017 third edition collection of her writing on boards includes essays on the mess at United Airlines that led to a viral video of a passenger being dragged off the plane, cyber-security, and the now-legendary "My 16 Days on the HealthSouth Board," with the details of her brief, turbulent stint as a director of a company facing (but not facing up to) massive criminal fraud charges. Atkins discusses problems from an executive trying to bribe a world leader to a marketing VP's porn site, traditional concerns of strategy, CEO compensation and succession, shareholder lawsuits, and up-to-the-minute issues of ESG, cyber-security, and social media.

Behind Boardroom Doors: Lessons of a Corporate Director

Atkins, Betsy

Management & Leadership

The history of air combat in Europe during WWII is grippingly described by a man who was there and who has had decades of experience and research to put his experiences in perspective.  Focusing on the Royal Air Force, the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force and the Luftwaffe, the book covers how the WW II air campaign in Western Europe unfolded, how it ended, and its cost in terms of human life – not only for the aircrews in those unfriendly skies, but the innumerable innocents who suffered through the carnage in European cities caused by bombing.   The aircraft and equipment, the battles, the strategy, and the people are all described by Bernard Nolan with the insight of an insider and the expertise of a scholar, and with detailed illustrations from aviation artist Matt Holness.  From Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain to D-Day, B-17s, B-24s, P-47s, P-51s, and Spitfires, this book takes the reader inside the air battles that played a decisive role in WWII.    Chapters sections include: The Bomber Will Always Get Through, The Schneider Trophy , The Messerschmitt Bf 109,  Dunkirk,  Unternehmen Seeloeven   (Operation Sea Lion),  Adlerangriff   (Eagle Offensive), Chain Home Radar System, Adlertag   (Eagle Day), Bombs Fall On London, Goering Blinks, The Hardest Day,   Blitzkrieg, Hitler “Postpones” The Invasion  The Battle Of Britain Ends, RAF Bomber Command, The Butt Study, The Casablanca Conference, Happy Valley, The Dam Busters,  The Battle Of Berlin, Dresden, The Norden Bombsight, Superchargers, The B-24, The Fw 190, Regensburg-Schweinfurt

The Deadly Skies: The Air War in Europe 1940-1945

History

Nolan, Bernard T.

Military

Edward R. Murrow is the patron saint of American broadcast journalism. The Museum of Broadcast Communications states that “Edward R. Murrow is the most distinguished and renowned figure in the history of American broadcast journalism.” Dozens of books about Murrow and his boys at CBS have captured the spirit of the television journalist who challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy. But there is another Edward R. Murrow, the forgotten Murrow, who is also the patron saint of public diplomacy. No book yet exists on that Murrow, the good propagandist, who sought to tell America’s story to the world not as a sales pitch but as a truthful accounting of who we are and what we had to offer the world. Truth is the Best Propaganda: Murrow in the Kennedy Years, captures that spirit, in analysis of his speeches and rhetoric while serving as director of the United States Information Agency. This book will give voice to Murrow as public diplomat and thereby make his legacy in international political communication as compelling as his renowned reporting.diplomacy. No book yet exists on that Murrow, the good propagandist, who sought to tell America’s story to the world not as a sales pitch but as a truthful accounting of who we are and what we had to offer the world. Truth is the Best Propaganda: Murrow in the Kennedy Years, captures that spirit, in analysis of his speeches and rhetoric while serving as director of the United States Information Agency. This book will give voice to Murrow as public diplomat and thereby make his legacy in international political communication as compelling as his renowned reporting.

Truth is the Best Propaganda: Edward R. Murrow's Speeches in the Kennedy Years

Snow, Nancy

World

Korea is “the forgotten war.” But to those who fought in it, it was the “unforgettable war.” If the names of all those killed were put on a wall, it would be larger than the Vietnam Wall. And Korea lasted only three years, Vietnam about ten. The agony of the winter of 1950-51 is an epic to compare with Valley Forge and the Bulge. Korea was also our last segregated war. This is the story of the black 24th Infantry Regiment, told in the words of the men themselves. Like all black troops since the Civil War, they were reviled by whites and their own commander for “bugging out” - running before the enemy. The charge can still be read in the Army’s own official histories. Yet the 24th left more blood on the field than their white comrades - if they did bug out, they must have been running the wrong way. It’s a good thing we weren't with Custer,” one black GI muttered - “they'd have blamed the whole thing on us.” The 24th won the first battle of the war, won its division’s first Medal of Honor, and guarded the shortest and most vulnerable road to Pusan. If the port had fallen, the war would have been lost, leaving a red dagger pointed at Japan. It did not fall. That winter, after the Chinese attacked, the entire American army bugged out in perhaps the worst military disaster in American history. “That,” said another black veteran, “was when I learned that whites could run as fast as blacks.” This is the story of those unsung heroes, who helped turn the Communist tide for the first time. The men bring that forgotten war and their own unsung bravery to life in their own sometimes funny, often heart-breaking, and always exciting words.

Bloody Ground: Black Rifles in Korea

Holway, John B.

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