It was 1945 and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured, and had no idea where his family was-let alone if they were alive. Along with 472 other boys, including Elie Wiesel, these teens were dubbed "The Buchenwald Boys." They were angry at the world for their abuse, and turned to violence: stealing, fighting, and struggling for power. Everything changed for Romek and the other boys when Albert Einstein and Rabbi Herschel Schacter brought them to a home for rehabilitationRomek Wajsman, now Robbie Waisman, humanitarian and Canadian governor general award recipient, shares his remarkable story of transforming pain into resiliency and overcoming incredible loss to find incredible joy. Finalist for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
"I honestly do not know where to start here. But you asked, so here goes. Name: Fay. Fay Weathermartin. I am an owner / entrepreneur of a company that I run. Well my best friend and I run it and what the hell, she actually pilots the friggen ship. I can, but Luna loves running it. So, of course since Luna get a high from it, since I don't. She drives / flies it. I am fine with that. Staring for hours out that front window at blackness, stars flying by. Watching meteors showing up, maybe a planet or two, well I get nothing from that. Zip, nada, bumpkis. But when we are coming in for a landing, count me there. Love that part. I am talking about Black Jack. Black Jack is a small freighter, only an F-49 The year is 3012. We fly and transport items to outposts, small planets, and mining companies. Black Jack is small, but that works for us. This way we are not hauling some Fucking-almighty stupid things Boy-oh-boy could I tell you stories...... But not going there. (There are animals, real bad animals...) You asked me for a story. A tale. About women in the skies / universe of transport. So I said yes. You are young and don't know. You are a person that already 'slotted' me into a category. And I am about to blow that up. I will watch your face, I will hold back my laughter and I will talk to you. But between you and me? You will not write this for consumption for the public. Why? Because you will believe it to be far-fetched. I sat there, more comfortable now as I got into the story. The story of a ship, run by females, owned by females and doing a great job...... Then I start again and say....."Everything went fine until the day we got grabbed by that tractor beam, dragged aboard a spaceship that was the size of a freaking planet WTH? Who? What? Can I talk our way out of this and live? Well let's see if feminine wiles work. Gads, I hope they are at least half human......"
At the J.R. Brand Ranch, springtime sees the birth of many new thoroughbred foals. Each horse holds the promise that it may someday become a championship racehorse. A special mix of training, physical strength, and desire will be needed to realize that dream. Two Links Back, affectionately called Twoey, is born with the bloodline of a champion but he will need concentration and confidence to become a winner. Support arrives for him in the unlikely form of a small goat named Kidd. Based on a true story about their lifelong friendship, Twoey & the Goat gives an inside view of the life and upbringing of racehorses--from their careful training to the joy and excitement of racing, from the thrill of winning to the pain of career-ending injuries. Twoey and his friend Kidd the goat will remain a team throughout.
Windows Server 2003 Networking Recipes is ideal for network managers and Windows Server 2003 system administrators responsible for setting up and running computers and networks. Think of this book as the comprehensive, task-based guide to installing, deploying, and configuring the various networking protocols and services supported by Windows Server 2003—and the only book you'll need. You'll find hundreds of quick reference solutions. And the featured recipes are all based on the first-hand experiences of the authors. You can rest assured that this book is written by a team of leading experts in Windows administration.
Guice (pronounced “Juice”) is the Jolt Award-winning, 100% Java icing on the cake of Java dependency injection. Unlike other popular dependency injection frameworks such as Spring, Guice fully embraces modern Java language features and combines simplicity with stunning performance and developer–friendliness. Google Guice: Agile Lightweight Dependency Injection Framework will not only tell you “how,” it will also tell you “why” and “why not,” so that all the knowledge you gain will be as widely applicable as possible. Filled with examples and background information, this book is an invaluable addition to your knowledge of modern agile Java. Learn simple annotation–driven dependency injection, scoping and aspect-oriented programming, and why it all works the way it worksBe the first to familiarize yourself with concepts that are likely to be included in a future Java EE or SE release (through JSR 299)Get things done without having to write any XML
Sharing her journey from bedridden patient to inspired healer, Robbie Holz recounts her recovery from hepatitis C, fibromyalgia, and treatment-induced brain damage, as well as the blossoming of her own healing powers, through her work with her husband, the late healer Gary Holz, and her experiences with a remote tribe in the Outback of Australia. Robbie describes many of the miraculous healings she witnessed while working with Gary in his Aboriginal-inspired healing practice. She details the powers that Gary developed after his transformative time being healed by Aborigines, including telepathy, seeing the inner workings of his patients' bodies, and channeling the healing energy of the universe. She discloses how Gary accessed the Dreamtime, the energy field that is the source of reality, and reveals how her work with Gary led her to an invitation to participate in secret Aboriginal women's ceremonies in the harsh Outback desert, where her own healing powers blossomed. Through her story of healing and discovery, Robbie describes principles from the 60,000-year-old Aboriginal culture that can help create transformation in your life. She explains how she became aware of her team of spirit guides, who provide unwavering support and unconditional love through each of life's struggles. She shares the tenderness of her husband's final moments and how she worked past her grief to transform her relationship with him, enabling him to become an active, loving part of her spirit team and partner in her healing work.
Peter Parker worries about tests and asking Gwen to the winter formal, and Spidey teams up with Iron Man to catch the Vulture. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.
originally published by Syracuse University Press (May 2000)Drawing on extensive archival material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the United States became associated with Communist subversion after World War II. This association gave proponents of the Cold War a powerful weapon with which to try to silence the opposition. This weapon - anti-communism - was extremely effective until the early 1960s and its effects linger even today.The persecution of peace activists as subversives dates back to the colonial era, but the specific link between communism and peace developed out of the unique conditions of the Cold War.Communist agitation for peace, American notions of national security and freedom that rested on containing communism at all costs. Not until peace organizations challenged external and internal anti-Communist attacks were they able to achieve a new level of respectability.The end of the Cold War enabled scholars to take a fresh look at the peace movement in the early part of that era and how it was affected by fears about communism, whether imagined or real. With this book, Lieberman seeks to clarify American attitudes about peace and the fate of the peace movement in ways that previous studies have overlooked or avoided.
originally published by University of Missouri (May 2004)Prairie Power is a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s focused on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. Robbie Lieberman presents a view of Midwestern New Left activists that has been neglected in previous studies.Scholarship on the sixties has shifted in recent years from a national focus to more localand regional studies, but few authors have studied the student movement in the Midwest. Lieberman brings a fresh interpretation to this subject, challenging the characterization of prairie power activists as longhaired, dope smoking anarchistswho were responsible for the downfall of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). She argues that Midwestern students made significant contributions to the New Left and that their efforts were important not only in the 1960s but also had a lasting impact on the universities and towns in which they were active.The oral histories come from national leaders of SDS, homegrown Midwestern activists who were local leaders on their campuses, and grassroots activists who did not necessarily identify with either local or national organizations. Providing new insight into who participated in student protest and why, Prairie Power makes a significant contribution toward a more comprehensive history of the 1960s.
Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying the community for its label: “Most Historic Small Town in Texas.”In Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas, local historians and researchers Robbie Moore Sanders and Sandra Chipley have collected the stories behind nearly a hundred of the city’s most historic dwellings, most built between 1835 and 1950. Copiously illustrated and engaging, the book begins with a quick historical overview of the community that incorporates period photographs, historic floorplans and maps, and engaging stories about the people who built and lived in the homes. In addition, the authors have provided beautiful, full-color photographs of the buildings as they exist today.From the simple dwelling of a community activist to the ornate Victorian mansions of the wealthy, Sanders and Chipley trace the narrative of this culturally rich community through the remarkably varied lives of its people and the houses they built. Readers with an interest in local history and culture and historic preservation as well as visitors to this popular tourist locale—recognized as a “Distinctive Destination” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation—will thoroughly enjoy Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas.
At the centre of The Wilkes Insurrection stands Major Tamika Smith, an intelligent and dedicated Black combat search and rescue leader in the Air-Force, who is in charge of the aftermath of Ford Wilkes' first terrorist attack on Flight 209. Yet the hijacking is not the last of Wilkes' terror, but merely the beginning of a series of attacks throughout the United States, where Smith finds herself an eventual target.Smith, alongside John Quincy Humboldt,-a co-founder of Cybernoptics, a virtual reality company-and a slew of other relatable characters embark on a journey of navigating and living in a country riddled with division, bolstered by Wilkes' acts of destruction and chaos. Together they combat the growing dissension by not only finding and stopping Wilkes, but more so in sowing the seeds of peace, unity, and service in a country hopelessly divided.Robbie Bach has written a thrilling and complex page-turner modeled on contemporary events to dramatize the current cultural and political American climate that will both inspire hope in his readers as well as keep them on the edge of their seat.
"I can't believe he did this to me I will never forgive him, never " "WHY would she say those awful things about me? They're lies, all lies How can I ever forgive her, how?" Have you ever had those thoughts in your lifetime about big or small things that people, especially your friends have done to you and you just knew it was unforgivable? In the pages of this book, you will find people that had to face the very same question about forgiving. Their situations will really have you thinking just how trivial we are sometimes. You will also find out how to forgive. Forgiveness is so important for your future. Robbie Ashworth's Dudley A Christian wife, mother and Mema Singer and Speaker Former Preschool Teacher
How one father, determined to reclaim his daughter's memory, brought down Alex Jones. On December 14, 2012, Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, a tragedy that changed Robbie's life and our country forever. By the next day, Alex Jones was on air claiming the shooting was a hoax. So begins Parker's David and Goliath story, a tale of hope and resilience amid hatred and division. While Robbie and his family spent the next decade attempting to grieve, Jones's fans harassed them, calling them crisis actors. The hatred pushed Robbie inward, disconnecting him from the world and his family. Four years after Sandy Hook, an Infowars listener accosted Robbie three thousand miles away from Newtown, Connecticut, repeating the same lies Alex Jones had spread for years. Soon after, seventeen students were murdered at Florida's Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School. Robbie and his wife spoke with one of the victims' parents and learned they were also being bombarded with hateful messages. He realized he could no longer avoid this terrifying reality, and with the help of Sandy Hook parents, lawyers, and supporters, Robbie stood up to Alex Jones in court to heal and reclaim his daughter's memory. A Father's Fight is more than a memoir; it's a stirring portrait of an unbreakable human spirit. It's a testament to a father's love and perseverance in the face of insurmountable grief.
MASTER YOUR NINJA FOODI PRESSURE COOKER Enjoy these 550 Recipes for Any Budget.Recipes are listed step by step in a clear and understandable manner.With this cookbook, you will cook better, tastier and faster meals for yourself and your family.In this cookbook, you will discover...Amazing meals the whole family will love.Recipes for vegetarians anyone will enjoy.Most recipes made for anyone with a busy lifestyle.Detailed ingredient lists and precise cooking times so each dish turns out perfect.Easy-to-follow instructions on making each dish in an Pot.Helpful tips and tricks on how to make each meal one your whole family will request time and time again.Plus much more helpful information.Eating is meant to be a shared experience and is a great time for family members to catch up with each other's day. A good meal gets them to the dinner table every time.
MASTER YOUR NINJA FOODI PRESSURE COOKER Enjoy these 550 Recipes for Any Budget.Recipes are listed step by step in a clear and understandable manner.With this cookbook, you will cook better, tastier and faster meals for yourself and your family.In this cookbook, you will discover...Amazing meals the whole family will love.Recipes for vegetarians anyone will enjoy.Most recipes made for anyone with a busy lifestyle.Detailed ingredient lists and precise cooking times so each dish turns out perfect.Easy-to-follow instructions on making each dish in an Pot.Helpful tips and tricks on how to make each meal one your whole family will request time and time again.Plus much more helpful information.Eating is meant to be a shared experience and is a great time for family members to catch up with each other's day. A good meal gets them to the dinner table every time.
