120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, have been published for the first time. Begun by Nikita Khrushchev as a vehicle for easier negotiation outside normal dpilomatic channels, these letters show Khrushchev and Kennedy at ease with each other; some are almost "pen-pal" letters. They share congratulations about space achievements, mention vacations and share personal feelings and anecdotes. These letters show them attempting to come to grips with events in Laos and Vietnam, the idea of Berlin as a free city, and most particularly, attempting to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis and finalize the Nuclear test Ban Treaty. These 120 letters are fascinating and instructive and offer extremely valuable insights of these two superpower leaders from 1960-1963. They show not only the personalities of Kennedy and Khrushchev, but their leadership styles, the cultures in which they lived and the cultural and international differences which they attempted to bridge.

The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters

History

Kennedy, Lecturer in Chemistry John F

Americas

New Century Books

A collection of 120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, is published for the first time. They share congratulations about space achievements, mention vacations and share personal feelings and anecdotes.

The Kennedy - Khrushchev Letters (Top Secret (New Century))

"Television News Anchors" is a collection of 35 major articles and essays which are divided into three sections: "The Early Years," the rise of American television news, which was largely accidental; "The Present: Issues" ethical issues in television news and "The Present: Faces" major profiles of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and 19 other major television news people. "Television News Anchors" contains a Timeline of the development of television news; an Annotated Bibliography and an Index. This book is an essential guide to understanding those who give us our daily dose of broadcast news and the issues they face. 310 pp.

Television News Anchors

Humor & Entertainment

Television

The author presents comprehensive articles about the top three anchors--Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather--and offers anaysis and commentary about critical issues in television journalism.

Alice in Acidland

If you love Lewis Carroll, or if you remember the hippie days -- the flower power generation -- of the 1960s, you'll love Alice in Acidland. Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland really a drug trip? Men who cleaned top hats in the days of Charles Dodgson's England used solutions of mercury, which caused brain damage: thus "mad as a hatter." Could the caterpillar really have been smoking something hallucinogenic in his waterpipe? Charles Dodgson may have passed Thomas DeQuincey on the streets of London -- after all -- this was generally the same era that DeQuincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Originally published in 1970, Alice in Acidland suggests that Alice's experiences - -and the curiouser and curiouser animals that she encounters -- echo the LSD trips of the hippie 1960s - -and could easily have been visualized by Thomas DeQuincey and the mad hatters of Lewis Carroll's time . . . . The author suggests this all with tongue-firmly-in-cheek. We think.

Literature & Fiction

Fensch, Thomas

History & Criticism

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This book contains 101 children's sermons and/or devotionals written the way they were presented to children at church with one addition, an optional "devotional ending" aside from the "sermon ending." The sermon ending is used when the presenter gives the child or children a token or treat to help them remember its main idea. The tokens or treats are described or told where they can be purchased or found. The devotional ending, excluding the tokens or treats was added so the lessons could be used as devotionals/lessons for Christian acadamies and schools, Vacation Bible School, Sunday School, chapel services, or as family or individual devotionals that children as well as adults could use. 
Each lesson is based on scriptures from the Bible and includes a theme and a Bible verse. Even though they are written in a way that a 3 to 11 year old child can understand, they are just as interesting to adults. 
The sermons/lessons are 3-5 minutes in length and are catagorized under sub-headings: For Any Time, For Special Services, For Special Occasions, The Christmas Season, The Easter Season, For Trinity Sunday, Thanksgiving, and Christ The King Sunday, and For Out of the Ordinary (like when a pastor is retiring/leaving, or when a new pastor comes to a church).

Gold Fish and Silver Kisses: How to Talk to Children About God

Christian Books & Bibles

Masters, Linda Carol

Ministry & Evangelism

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The Wicked Place

Hannah Douglas teaches reading. But her students aren't children. They are the worst theTexas prison system has to offer -- psychopaths, rapists and killers. Each day Hannah stands in the presence of danger as she faces her students. Soon she will face a far, far darker evil inside the vicious heart of... The Wicked Place (category: suspense/thriller)

Grace, Zaner

Contemporary

The Wicked Place is a 400 page suspense thriller set in Huntsville, Texas and Walker County.  It is a provocative tale of good and evil where six women - all college students from Sam Houston State University - have disappeared over the past year. A Windham school teacher (Windham is the school district inside the Texas prison system) Hannah Douglas, disappears the same day an inmate escapes from the Estelle Unit where she teaches, and she is suspected of helping him.   Hannah's husband, a detective with the Walker County Sheriff's Department, fears that his beautiful wife has been kidnapped like the other women, even though she is not a college student.  His fears, along with their 12 year-old son's, escalate when he discovers why the escapted convict was sent to prison. It is the search for Hannah and the six other women that takes the reader to the wicked place.   The author keenly weaves a desire into the reader to genuinely care for some characters and despise others, making it difficult to put the book down at the end of each chapter.   The characters are brought to life with engaging dialogue and description, while the setting and mood for this story paint a vivid picture for the reader to visualize. The Wicked Place is a unique story that delves into the human psyche at its best and at its worst. The author, a woman who currently teaches inside a men's maximum security prison for the Windham School District, knows first-hand about the life on the inside, convicted felons, about the human psyche, and about bizarre behavior.   The twists and turns in the plot keep the reader searching for answers and turning pages.  Expect to laugh, expect to cry; expect the unexpected.

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The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters

The Kennedy - Khrushchev Letters (Top Secret (New Century))

Television News Anchors

Television News Anchors

Alice in Acidland

Alice in Acidland

Gold Fish and Silver Kisses: How to Talk to Children About God

Gold Fish and Silver Kisses: How to Talk to Children About God

The Wicked Place

The Wicked Place