Amanda knox ;Memoir

I ‘ve followed the live television broadcast of the Amanda Knox trail and, wonder about the whole story. There is always two sides to a story . For four years, Amanda Knox felt silenced. Italian prosecutors, who had accused her (and two accomplices) of murdering her roommate, called her the devil. The Italian press called her “angel faced killer.” Knox’s only rebuttals came during those brief moments of addressing the court. Even after Knox was acquitted in 2011 and allowed to return home to Seattle—after nearly four years in prison—she stayed voluntarily silent. Now, in Waiting to Be Heard, she is finally telling her side of the story.

Book Description:

A young woman’s soul-baring account of a nightmare turned real, of unimaginable horror and the miscarriage of justice that ensued, and, ultimately, of fortitude in the face of overwhelming adversity, Waiting to Be Heard is a memoir unlike any you have ever read. In November 2007, Amanda Knox was twenty years old and had been studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, for only a few weeks when her friend and roommate, a young English student named Meredith Kercher, was brutally murdered. The investigation made headlines around the world, and Amanda’s arrest placed her at the center of a media firestorm. Young, naïve, grieving at the horrifying death of her friend, and with little more than basic knowledge of the Italian language, she was subjected to harsh interrogations during which she struggled to understand the police and to make her own words understood. The subsequent trial exposed Amanda to international scrutiny and speculation, and she became a tabloid staple. In 2009, after an extremely controversial trial, she was wrongly convicted of murder. But in October 2011, after Amanda had spent four years in an Italian prison, and following a lengthy appeals process, the conviction was overturned. Amanda immediately flew home to the United States.

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This story line will hold a special place in the hearts of many children’s for years .The whimsical nature of  Author Anaka Jone’ children’s book allows young readers to tap into their imagination and picture what goes on inside the heads of the animals around them. A perfect story for children who love animals, “The Night Horses” depicts the world of love and companionship to be found among horses and humans. This author sure has the Knack for spinning a suspenseful delightful, children’s adventure book. This would be a great gift, even for animals lovers .

Book Description:

The Night Horses is an playful children’s book that imagines the secret lives of barn horses who chatter, chow, play and work all while their owners are away. Though she is only in sixth grade, Jones has produced a lively book that mixes reality and fantasy to showcase the playful and humorous side of rural life. She invites readers to accompany her to a secret barn party where these animals will play as hard as they work. “The Night Horses” follows the animals’ daily lives. Each morning, the horse herd takes their breakfast at the hay feeder. Mulling around, they exchange gossip and share their plans for the day. There’s May, an old mare whose giddy-up spirit fuels her energetic personality. She wants to challenge Cloud to a race even though she is three times his age. Frisco and Bella are an inseparable married couple, and plenty of young foals timidly hide behind their mothers’ legs amongst the group. After a long day of work, the horses clean up, head to their stalls for dinner, and wait in the barn until their owners head back to the house. With humans out of the picture, the horses get busy creating their own rural night life, effectively turning the farm into their own little three-ring circus.

Author Bio :

Author Anaka Jones is an new author looking for many of years writing novels.  In this book , Anaka Jones  imagines the life of a herd of horses as they work, chow, play and turn a farm into their own three-ring circus in “The Night Horses”!

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Unless you’re willing to have ago, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen !

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From the fans of Gravano’s reality TV series “Mob Wives and true crime aficionados.”  !

 

Book Description :

Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, once one of the mafia’s most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino Crime Family underboss—and John Gotti’s right-hand man—is the highest ranking gangster ever to turn State’s evidence and testify against members of his high-profile crime family. 

But to Karen, Sammy Gravano was a sometimes elusive but always loving father figure.  He was ever-present at the head of the dinner table.  He made a living running a construction firm and several nightclubs.  He stayed out late, and sometimes he didn’t come home at all.  He hosted “secret” meetings at their house, and had countless whispered conversations with “business associates.” By the age of twelve, Karen knew he was a gangster.  And as she grew up, while her peers worried about clothes and schoolwork, she was coming face-to-face with crime and murder.  Gravano was nineteen years old when her father turned his back on the mob and cooperated with the Feds.  The fabric of her family was ripped apart, and they were instantly rejected by the communities they grew up in.

This is the story of a daughter’s struggle to reconcile the image of her loving father with that of a murdering Mafioso, and how, in healing the rift between the two, she was able to forge a new life.

 

About the Author:

KAREN GRAVANO was born in Brooklyn, New York.  She is a star of the VH1 Reality TV show Mob Wives, about the day-to-day struggles family members are faced with after a loved one is sent to prison. She is also producing a movie based on her family’s story and developing a scripted television series about her wild days living in New York City. Outside of the entertainment business, Karen is putting her experience as an esthetician and her love for skin care into developing her own line of products.

LISA PULITZER is a former correspondent for The New York Times. She is the author of more than a dozen non-fiction titles, including New York Times bestseller Stolen Innocence (with Elissa Wall) and Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery (with Cole Thompson.)

 

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Author Wendy Williams writes about the whirls and twirls, the quirks and perks, the frustrations and the fun of a multicultural relationship in her book, The Globalisation of Love.

Cross-cultural couples have all the issues that exist in monocultural relationships, plus whatever colourful combination of culture, language, religion, and ethnicity the couple brings into their marriage.

The BOOK is based on dozens of interviews with multicultural and international couples from around the world, The Globalisation of Love includes chapters on cross-cultural weddings, religion, race, food, language, bi-racial children and a whole lot more. The book is both humorous and factual and Wendy includes personal anecdotes from her own experience in a multicultural family.

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http://www.globalisationoflove.com

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Quote Pick For The WEEK ( 9 ) !

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Work harder for what you want, and luck will APPEAR !

 

 

By Author Bernadine Feagins

 

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Book Description:

Bothmer has captured, synthesized and fully understands the needs of children in the 21st century. She offers simple tools to integrate numerous possibilities seamlessly into a teaching environment. These tools are essential values necessary for children and adults to live a fully balanced, integrated and happy life. There is no doubt in my mind that Creating the Peaceable Classroom ought to be required reading for every teacherand caregiver. –Rosemary Todd Clough, Founder of Creative Kids Yoga®Sandy Bothmer’s Peaceable Classroom has been an indispensable resource for years in my consultation to programs for students with autism spectrum disorders. The ’21st century wellness guide’ provides even more wisdom for the classroom and for parents. I especially like the ‘Parent Connections.’ Parents so often forget to take care of themselves. Sandy has some excellent suggestions that can fit into the days of even the busiest families . . . The movement and music chapters are chock full of fabulous ideas!” –Teresa Bolick, Ph.D., Psychologist and Author

 

   Author Description:

Sandy Bothmer has a Master of Education Degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Her elementary teaching career spanned twenty years. She designed a Writer’s Workshop in the early 1980s for the Gifted and Talented Programshe taught for grades two through five in Illinois. Currently, she teaches Creative Kids Yoga to preschool and elementary school children and assists at the Creative Kids Yoga Teacher trainings.During the summer, Sandy teaches Peaceable Classroom strategies at the University of Connecticut‘s Confratute, The Summer Institute of Enrichment Learning and Teaching. She also presents workshops at various educational conferences and schools.Sandy has been a Reiki master for twelve years and has a private practice in energy medicine, working with adults and children who have special needs, including anxiety issues, ADHD, Asperger’s Disorder and autism.

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Quote Pick For The WEEK ( 6) !

    True   friendship

 

 

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A true friend is someone who never forget when you had their back and,  do the same in return in your time of need !

 

 

By Author Bernadine Feagins

 

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Book Pick For The WEEK ( 3/26 ) !

 

        Love it or Hate It  !

 

Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America)
By author George Derek Musgrove

 

 

Book Description :

Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath of the civil rights movement is almost entirely limited to the Black Power era. In Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics, George Derek Musgrove pushes much further, examining black elected officials’ allegations of state and news media repression—what they called “harassment”—to gain new insight into the role of race in U.S. politics between 1965 and 1995.

Drawing from untapped sources, including interviews he conducted with twenty-five sitting and former black members of Congress, Musgrove tells new stories and reinterprets familiar events. His cast of characters includes Julian Bond, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Alcee Hastings, Ronald Dellums, Richard Arrington, and Marion Barry, as well as white political figures like Newt Gingrich and Jefferson Sessions. Throughout, Musgrove con­nects patterns of surveillance, counterintelligence, and disproportionate investigation of black elected officials to the broader political culture. In so doing, he reveals new aspects of the surveillance state of the late 1960s, the rise of adversary journalism and good government reforms in the wake of Watergate, the official corruption crackdown of the 1980s, and the allure of conspiracy theory to African Americans seeking to understand the harass­ment of their elected leadership.

Moving past the old debate about whether there was a conscious conspiracy against black officials, Musgrove explores how the perception of harassment shaped black political thought in the post–civil rights era. The result is a field-defining work by a major new intellectual voice.

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Quote Pick For The WEEK !

 

HELPING HAND !

 

 

 

 

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things LOOK  tough for a family member , friend, neighbor or stranger.You never know when you may need a HELPING HAND !

 

 

By Bernadine Feagins

 

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