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Sand in her shoes: A true story
by Petra LiermannAt the age of 30, Petra emigrated to Egypt because she saw her destiny neither in Germany nor in the public service. Years before she had met her soul mate there, whom she disdained. Later on she met her future husband Sayed, with whom she led a mostly very harmonious marriage for six years. The happiness became perfect with the birth of their daughter, until Petra found out that her husband had made a mistake that had grave consequences for their lives: Sayed had to marry his "misstep" and a time of suffering, violence and disappointed hopes began. This culminated not only in Petra's flight from Egypt to save the life of her daughter. The true story shows the often painful path of self-discovery and love for oneself and life. After Petra divorced her husband, his threats continued. Back in Germany, telephone terror and death threats, also against friends and family members, followed - until today.
Sanders Confectionery (Images of America)
by Greg TaskerFor more than 130 years, there has been no sweeter word in Detroit than Sanders. The venerable confectioner was once as much a part of Detroit's streetscape as the Big Three, Hudson's, and Coney Islands. Sanders was more than just an ice-cream and candy shop. A Detroit icon, it served a fountain of memories for generations. Detroiters stood two and three deep behind lunch counters for tuna or egg salad sandwiches, devil's food buttercream "bumpy"cake, hot fudge sundaes, and Sanders' signature dessert--hot fudge cream puffs. As Detroit boomed, so did Sanders. At its peak, the company boasted more than 50 stores, with its products available in as many as 200 supermarkets. The Sanders story began in Chicago, where Fred Sanders opened his first shop. A series of misfortunes prompted him to relocate to Detroit, where he began selling his confections on Woodward Avenue. Business grew steadily, and by the early 1900s, he had opened other shops along Woodward and elsewhere in Detroit. The Motor City nearly lost Sanders in the mid-1980s, but its desserts shops have begun resurfacing, thanks to another Detroit institution, Morley Brands LLC, which bought the Sanders brand.
Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
by Elmer Kelton“[A] charming memoir of renowned western novelist Kelton’s early years in the saddle, at the desk and in the trench . . . a pleasure through and through.” —Kirkus ReviewsVoted the “Best Western writer of all time” by his peers, Elmer Kelton wrote fifty novels that form a testament and tribute to the American West.But who is that Texas gentleman with the white Stetson and rimless eyeglasses whose friendly face appears on so many book jackets?Sandhills Boy is Kelton’s memoir, a funny and poignant story of “a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared,” growing up in the wild, dry, sandhills of West Texas. The son of a working cowboy and ranch foreman, Elmer was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps but learned at an early age that he had no talents in the cowboy’s trade. Buck Kelton said Elmer was “slow as the seven-year itch,” and reluctantly supported his son’s decision to become a student at the University of Texas, and, eventually, a journalist and writer.Kelton’s life in ranch and oil patch Texas during the Great Depression is told with warm nostalgic humor animated with stories of the cowboys and their wives and kids who gave the time and place its special flavor. He writes with great feeling of his service in WW2 in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, and the romantic circumstances in which his life changed in the village of Ebensee, Austria.“The most beloved western writer alive recounts his own story of growing up in Depression-era west Texas.” —Booklist
Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
by Matilde Zimmermann"A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua--or in the overall issue of social change. "--Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post-1959 revolutionary generation in Latin America. Fonseca, killed in battle in 1976, was the undisputed intellectual and strategic leader of the FSLN. In a groundbreaking and fast-paced narrative that draws on a rich archive of previously unpublished Fonseca writings, Matilde Zimmermann sheds new light on central themes in his ideology as well as on internal disputes, ideological shifts, and personalities of the FSLN. The first researcher ever to be allowed access to Fonseca's unpublished writings (collected by the Institute for the Study of Sandinism in the early 1980s and now in the hands of the Nicaraguan Army), Zimmermann also obtained personal interviews with Fonseca's friends, family members, fellow combatants, and political enemies. Unlike previous scholars, Zimmermann sees the Cuban revolution as the crucial turning point in Fonseca's political evolution. Furthermore, while others have argued that he rejected Marxism in favor of a more pragmatic nationalism, Zimmermann shows how Fonseca's political writings remained committed to both socialist revolution and national liberation from U. S. imperialism and followed the ideas of both Che Guevara and the earlier Nicaraguan leader Augusto Csar Sandino. She further argues that his philosophy embracing the experiences of the nation's workers and peasants was central to the FSLN's initial platform and charismatic appeal.
Sandra Cisneros: Inspiring Latina Author
by Karen Clemens WarrickDiscusses the life of Latina author Sandra Cisneros, including her childhood in Chicago, her path to becoming an accomplished author, and her work in the Latino community.
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
by Joan Biskupic“Sandra Day O’Connor takes you behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court to reveal how Justice O’Connor helped craft landmark decisions on abortion, affirmative action, and a host of other critical issues. Joan Biskupic has broken new ground in reporting on O’Connor’s life and historic role on the high court. This lively, fast-paced account will make people rethink how they view this extraordinary woman and her fellow justices. An indispensable read for anyone interested in politics, the law, and power as exercised by one of the most fascinating women of our time.” -Andrea MitchellSandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned. She was called the most powerful woman in America, and it was often said that to gauge the direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote. Then, just one year short of a quarter century on the bench, she surprised her colleagues and the nation by announcing her retirement.Drawing on information from once-private papers of the justices, hundreds of interviews with legal and political insiders, and the insight gained from nearly two decades of covering the Supreme Court, Joan Biskupic examines O'Connor's remarkable career, providing an in-depth account of her transformation from tentative jurist to confident architect of American law. The portrait that emerges is of a complex and multifaceted woman: lawyer, politician, legislator, and justice, as well as wife, mother, A-list society hostess, and competitive athlete. To all appearances, she was the polite lady in pearls, handbag on her arm. But in the back rooms of politics and the law, she was a determined, focused strategist. O'Connor was the feminist who, rather than rebel against the male-dominated system, worked from within -- and succeeded.As Biskupic demonstrates, Justice O'Connor became much more than a "first." During her twenty-four-year tenure, she wrote the decisions on some of the most controversial social battles of our time. O'Connor's tie-breaking opinions on issues such as abortion rights, affirmative action, the death penalty, and religious freedom will have a lasting effect far into the future. O'Connor also cast one of the five votes that cut off the Florida recounts and allowed George W. Bush to take the White House in the 2000 contested presidential election. With an eye to the American people and a keen sense of public attitudes, she worked behind the scenes to shape the law and transform the legal standards by which future cases will be decided.From O'Connor's isolated upbringing on the Lazy B ranch in Arizona through her time as a state legislator to her rise as a justice -- along the way confronting her own personal challenges and crises, including breast cancer -- Biskupic presents a vivid, astute depiction of the justice -- and of the woman beneath the black robe. In so doing, Sandra Day O'Connor also provides an unprecedented look inside the exclusive, famously secretive High Court.
Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice for All (Women of Our Time)
by Beverly GhermanFrom the Book Jacket: Sandra Day O'Connor is one of the most influential-and controversial-women of today. In 1981, she was the first woman named to the United States Supreme Court, and since then, her rulings have helped to shape and interpret the laws of our nation. From her childhood on an Arizona ranch to her days as a young lawyer, Justice O'Connor has always fought for what she believed in: legal representation for the poor, clear mental health laws, and fair working conditions for men and women. Her opinions are not always popular, but Justice O'Connor continues to live by the words she tells the young people she meets: "The individual can make things happen." Praise for the Women of Our Time® series: "A series of uniform excellence." -Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Ages 7-11
Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance (Women's Biography Series)
by Ann Carey McFeattersOn July 1, 1981, President Ronald Reagan interviewed Sandra Day O'Connor as a candidate for the United States Supreme Court. A few days later, he called her. Sandra, I'd like to announce your nomination to the Court tomorrow. Is that all right with you? Scared and wondering if this was a mistake, the little-known judge from Arizona was on her way to becoming the first woman justice and one of the most powerful women in the nation. Born in El Paso, Texas, O'Connor grew up on the Lazy B, a cattle ranch that spanned the Arizona-New Mexico border. There she learned lifelong lessons about self-reliance, hard work, and the joy of the outdoors. Ann Carey McFeatters sketches O'Connor's formative years there and at Stanford University and her inability to find a job--law firms had no interest in hiring a woman lawyer. McFeatters writes about how O'Connor juggled marriage, a career in law and politics, three sons, breast cancer, and the demands of fame.In this second volume in the Women's Biography Series, we learn how O'Connor became the Court's most important vote on such issues as abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, the role of religion in society, and the election of a president, decisions that shaped a generation of Americans.
Sandra Day O'Connor: U. S. Supreme Court Justice
by Dennis AbramsFrom an early age, Sandra Day O'Connor challenged the traditional gender role assigned to women. Growing up on the Lazy B Ranch in the Southwest, she could mend a fence, ride a horse, shoot a rifle, and drive a tractor by the time she was eight years old. Though in the top 10 of her Stanford Law class--and only one of five women--O'Connor was unable to find a position at any law firm because of her sex. Undeterred, she opened her own law practice. After entering politics, she was the first female majority leader in the Arizona State Senate before becoming a justice on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 1981, she ascended to the U. S. Supreme Court as the first female associate justice, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. Sandra Day O'Connor: U. S. Supreme Court Justice examines her life and the decisions she made while serving on the nation's highest court.
Sandringham Days: The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk, 1862-1952
by John MatsonThis is a fascinating portrait of royal life at Sandringham, from the early life of Albert Edward to the modern day. Drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary reports, it is a rich exploration of the private lives of Britain’s royal family. From family life at the estate to the first visit of Queen Victoria, the glittering parties of the early twentieth century and all the way up to the death of King George V, the reigns of his sons and the Sandringham of today, it will delight anyone with an interest in the lives of the British royal family.
Sandro. El fuego eterno
by Mariano Del MazoToda la verdad del ícono de la música y el cine argentinos, su varón más sensual y enigmático. ¿Qué singular parábola ocurrió para que un chico de un inquilinato de Valentín Alsina tuviera a los 22 años a América bajo la suela de sus zapatos? ¿Qué clase de invención es la de ese galán crepuscular que seducía en un escenario hasta conectado a tubos de oxígeno? ¿Qué tipo de epopeya encarna? ¿Qué extraño coraje tuvo para decidir someterse a un trasplante que fue, al fin, su último gesto de dignidad? ¿Cuál fue la máscara, la de Sandro o la de Roberto Sánchez? La historia de Sandro es una de las más fascinantes y genuinas de la cultura pop argentina. Atravesada de paradojas, de rock and roll y canción, de mujeres enigmáticas y pasiones inverosímiles, en la construcción de la leyenda conviven una madre postrada y el tango, Elvis y Charly, Aznavour y Moustache, milanesas a la napolitana y cordero ahumado, Bach y Radiolandia, lunfardo y castellano neutro, la bandera argentina y la bata roja. Los contrastes definen los artificios de un hechicero formidable. No llegan a revelar los misterios de un artista total. Este libro es un acercamiento a esos misterios.
Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go
by Laurie JamesLaurie James spent most of her life wondering what it means to belong; loneliness dictated the choices she made. She rarely shared this secret with others, however; it was always hidden behind a carefree and can-do attitude. When she’s in her mid-forties, Laurie’s mother has a heart attack and her husband’s lawyer delivers some shocking news. She suddenly finds herself sandwiched between caring for her parents, managing unruly caregivers, raising four teenage daughters, and trying to understand the choices of the husband she thought she knew. Laurie’s story is about one woman’s struggle to “do it all” while facing the reality that the “ideal life” and “perfect family” she believed could save her was slowly crumbling beneath her. Laurie tries everything to keep her family together—seeks therapy, practices yoga, rediscovers nature, develops strong female friends, and begins writing—but as she explores the layers of her life and heals her past, she realizes that she’s the only one who can create the life she wants and deserves. Sandwiched is a memoir about what it means to let go of the life you planned in order to find the life you belong to.
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
by Jane LeavyIn an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity.
Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder
by Tanya Lee Stone Boris KulikovAs a boy, Alexander ?Sandy? Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences. This is the story of Sandy?s Circus, as told by Tanya Lee Stone with Boris Kulikov?s spectacular and innovative illustrations. Calder?s original circus is on permanent display at the Whitney Museum in New York City.
Sandy: A Heart for God
by Leighton FordLeighton Ford tells a story of uncertainty, hope, sorrow and joy as his oldest son, Sandy, faced a rare and life-threatening heart disease.
Sangre y champán: La vida y época de Robert Capa
by Alex KershawUna biografía absolutamente veraz que puede leerse como una novela histórica de aventuras. El extraordinario fotógrafo Robert Capa fue testigo de excepción de los grandes acontecimientos históricos y bélicos del siglo XX: la Guerra Civil española, el desembarco de Normandía o la fundación del Estado de Israel. Incansable viajero, jugador, bebedor y mujeriego, murió a los 41 años al pisar una mina en la guerra de Indochina, después de una vida intensa y apasionante. A partir de entrevistas con personajes que le conocieron bien y de material de archivo, Alex Kershaw ha escrito una biografía absolutamente veraz que puede leerse como una novela histórica de aventuras.
Sanity and Grace
by Judy CollinsRenowned singer/songwriter Judy Collins's deeply moving memoir chronicles her journey from pain to survival following the suicide of her son, and offers comfort to those who struggle in suicide's aftermath. In Sanity and Grace, Collins reveals with unflinching honesty the events leading up to and following the death of her only child, culminating when she picks up the pieces of her shattered heart and gathers the strength to move forward. An elegantly written testimony of a survivor, Collins strives at first just to exist, and then to find solace in the face of grief and untimely loss. With this book, she breaks down the barriers of helplessness and secrecy to openly discuss the aftereffects of suicide, and explains how she found a path to hope and clarity. Sanity and Grace speaks to all who have endured the sorrow of losing a loved one before their time. In the depths of her suffering Collins found relief by reaching out to others for help and support. Now, she extends her hand to comfort other survivors whose lives have been affected by similar tragedy. This inspirational book will serve as a balm to help soothe and heal those wounded by suicide.
Sani‘ ol-Molk’s The Thousand and One Nights: A Study of Image Content and Visual Adaptation
by Elham EtemadiThis book examines The Thousand and One Nights by Abol-Hassan Khan Sani‘ ol-Molk Ghaffari (1813/1814-1867), of the content of the illustrations of the main story, the story of Shahrzad and Shahrbaz, as well as a codicological study of the manuscript. It intends to explain how Sani‘ ol-Molk complicates the visual frame by adaptive strategies that build on the relationship between presented objects inside an illustration and the meanings that could be conventionally attributed to them from outside of the image. Examining the illustrations of the manuscript shows how Sani‘ ol-Molk’s visualization of the main story of The Thousand and One Nights adds to the narrative and adapts it to convey meaning(s) that transcend the story the illustrations refer to.
Sanjuana
by Anabella GiraccaEn la Guatemala del final de la Colonia una serie de personajes se van perfilando alrededor de Sanjuana. Desde sus encierros "voluntarios" esta mujer, terrena a la fuerza, incidirá en la vida privada y pública de una sociedad supersticiosa.
Sankshipt Atmakatha Gandhiji
by Mahatma Gandhiગાંધીજીની આત્મકથા ‘સત્ય ના પ્રયોગો' એ વિશ્વમાં સૌથી વધુ વેચાયેલ અને વંચાયેલ આત્મકથાઓમાંની એક છે. નવજીવન ટ્રસ્ટ દ્વારા પ્રકાશિત આ પુસ્તકની અત્યાર સુધીમાં છ લાખ થી વધુ નકલો વેચાઇ ચુકી છે. તદુપરાંત અંગ્રેજી અને હિન્દી સહિત તેર ભારતીય ભાષાઓમાં પ્રકાશિત આ પુસ્તક ગાંધી-વિચાર સમજવામાં પાયાના પત્થર જેવું કામ કરે છે. નવજીવન ટ્રસ્ટ દ્વારા તેની ઇ-બુક ડિસ્કાઉંટ સાથે ઇ-શબ્દ પર...
Sankshipta Smaran Yatra
by Kakasaheb Kalelkarઆ ચોપડી વાંચીને મારા બાળમિત્રોને આનંદ થાય તો મને પૂરતો સંતોષ છે. પણ મારી અપેક્ષા એ છે કે બાળવાચકો જેમ જેમ આ પ્રકરણો વાંચતાં જાય તેમ તેમ પોતાના જીવનમાંના આવા જ અથવા બીજા રસિક પ્રસંગો યાદ કરીને લખતા જાય અને શિક્ષકોની સહેજસાજ મદદ લઈને માસિકોમાં છાપવા માટે મોકલતા જાય. આપણે ત્યાં બાળકો માટે લખેલું સાહિત્ય વધતું જાય છે, બાળકોએ જાતે લખેલું સાહિત્ય હજી પ્રગટ થતું નથી.
Sans masque
by Truda RosenbergSans masque fait la chronique des expériences exceptionnelles de Truda Rosenberg, une jeune Juive qui a vécu pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. La seule survivante de sa famille, Rosenberg témoigne l’adversité et la cruauté humaine endurée par des millions de Juifs à travers l’Europe. De sa fuite de Belzec, un camp de concentration où 500 000 juifs ont été abattus, aux multiples confrontations avec les autorités Nazis, durant lesquelles elle a dû déployer de nombreuses fausses identités, au ghetto de Varsovie, où elle contribua à une insurrection, l’auteure raconte une série d’épisodes qui altéra sa vie pour toujours. Les épisodes qui regroupent le volume illustrent combien il est difficile de retrouver son identité lorsque celle-ci fut brutalement piétinée. Le récit est une attestation à la résilience de la dignité humaine, à sa capacité d’adaptation aux pires circonstances et surtout à sa soif de triomphe. Au travers de cet ouvrage, l’auteur entend contribuer aux archives collectives qui témoignent du génocide systématique de son peuple pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale et célébrer la décision la plus importante de sa vie – celle de ressaisir ses racines et sa culture.
Sant Janabai: संत जनाबाई
by Dr Suhasini Yashwant Irlekarनामदेवांची दासी आणि ज्ञानेश्वरांची सखी असणाऱ्या ‘संत जनाबाई’ या जनमानसांत आजही लोकप्रिय आहेत. खेड्यापाड्यातील स्त्रिया आजही दळताना, कांडताना ज्या ओव्या म्हणतात, त्या या जनाईच्याच! आपल्या दिनचर्येतून विठूची भक्ती करण्याचा जनाबाईंचा हा भाव सर्वसामान्यांना मोहित करतो. जनाबाईंच्या ठायी एक अभिजात प्रतिभा, तरल संवेदनशीलता होती हे त्यांच्या अभंगातून समोर येते. एका दासीपासून ते संत पदापर्यंत त्यांनी प्रवास केला तो स्वयंप्रेरणेने. मध्ययुगीन कवयित्रींमध्ये संत जनाबाई या आपल्या आध्यात्मिक अधिकाराने आणि कार्यकर्तृत्वाने उजव्या ठरल्या. समग्र संतमंडळातही त्यांचे स्थान विशेष आहे. मात्र, तरीही संत जनाबाई या त्यांच्या समकालीन संतांपेक्षा दुर्लक्षित राहिल्या. त्यांचे जीवनचरित्र, त्यांचे कार्य, त्यांच्या अभंगांतील गोडवा नव्या पिढीला चाखता यावा यादृष्टीने संत साहित्याचे अभ्यासक असणार्या विविध लेखकांच्या लेखणीतून ‘संत जनाबाई’ हा वाचनीय ग्रंथ आकारास आला आहे. या ग्रंथातून जनाबाईंचे व्यक्तित्व तर उलगडतेच परंतु त्यांच्या अभंगांचे समग्र संकलन वाचकांस जनाबाईंच्या आध्यात्मिक व्यक्तिमत्त्वाची अनुभूतीही देतो!
Sant Singh Sekhon
by Tejwant Singh GillThe volume includes selected writings of Sant Singh Sekhon, the most innovative writer of Punjabi in the 20th century. Starting his career as a poet of English, albeit of great promise, he shifted to Punjabi out of deep alignment with Punjab.