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Author: Lisa C. Paul Publisher: Skyhorse ISBN: 1629140392 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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In September 1984, Lisa Paul, an American college student living in Moscow and working as a nanny, enters Inna Meiman’s house for her first Russian language lesson. And so begins a two year friendship and fight for Inna’s life. Swimming in the Daylight chronicles Inna’s struggle to shed her refusnik status and to be granted a visa to travel to America, seeking medical treatment for the cancer that is slowly killing her. Inna reveals an indomitable spirit as she endures a perverse reality as a citizen of the Soviet Union—she must deny invitations from countries in the West to receive life-saving cancer treatment due to her inability to receive a visa from her own government. This refusal, Inna explains to Lisa, is the Soviet authorities’ way of persecuting her and her husband Naum, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group fighting for human rights in the USSR. Spurred by outrage and the desire to help her friend, Lisa returns to the United States, vowing to do all she can to get Inna out of Moscow. Lisa stages a hunger strike, holds a press conference, and galvanizes American politicians to fight for Inna’s freedom. All these efforts eventually succeed in pursuing Mikhail Gorbachev to issue Inna a visa in December 1986, and she finally steps foot on American soil. At a time when international strife seems insurmountable and worries at home seem to paralyze, this story will teach people everywhere that it is the courage inside that defines a person and can change the future.
Author: Lisa C. Paul Publisher: Skyhorse ISBN: 1629140392 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
In September 1984, Lisa Paul, an American college student living in Moscow and working as a nanny, enters Inna Meiman’s house for her first Russian language lesson. And so begins a two year friendship and fight for Inna’s life. Swimming in the Daylight chronicles Inna’s struggle to shed her refusnik status and to be granted a visa to travel to America, seeking medical treatment for the cancer that is slowly killing her. Inna reveals an indomitable spirit as she endures a perverse reality as a citizen of the Soviet Union—she must deny invitations from countries in the West to receive life-saving cancer treatment due to her inability to receive a visa from her own government. This refusal, Inna explains to Lisa, is the Soviet authorities’ way of persecuting her and her husband Naum, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group fighting for human rights in the USSR. Spurred by outrage and the desire to help her friend, Lisa returns to the United States, vowing to do all she can to get Inna out of Moscow. Lisa stages a hunger strike, holds a press conference, and galvanizes American politicians to fight for Inna’s freedom. All these efforts eventually succeed in pursuing Mikhail Gorbachev to issue Inna a visa in December 1986, and she finally steps foot on American soil. At a time when international strife seems insurmountable and worries at home seem to paralyze, this story will teach people everywhere that it is the courage inside that defines a person and can change the future.
Author: Joanna Rakowski Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1669869393 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 400
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What is it like to be part of the world’s most powerful armed forces at the dawn of the 21st century? Does a military tale have to be about the men going to war? You’ll find out here. Joanna is a fragile, romantic, former ballerina. After a painful rift with her beloved friend and mentor, she joins the U.S. Army. Her dream is to become an Intelligence Officer. She faces a formidable task, but she embarks on a four-year journey to accomplish her goal. The story whirls us into the center of the rigorous army training and transports us into the reality that only less than one percent of the U.S. population would ever experience.
Author: Peter Rock Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1641290013 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 272
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“Swimming at night, to compare its slipperiness to that of a dream would be to ignore the work of staying afloat, the mesmerism brought on by the rhythm, the repetition of the strokes.” Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock’s stunning autobiographical novel begins in the ’90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. The narrator, a recent college graduate, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and swells and carried by the rise and fall of the lake. The nature of these night swims, and of his relationship to Mrs. Abel, becomes increasingly mysterious to the narrator as the summer passes, until the night that Mrs. Abel disappears. Twenty years later, the narrator—now married with two daughters—tries to understand those months, his forgotten obsessions and dreams. Digging into old notebooks and letters, as well as clippings he’s preserved on the “psychic photography” of Ted Serios and scribbled quotations from Rilke and Chekhov, the narrator rebuilds a world he’s lost. He also looks for clues to the fate of Mrs. Abel, and begins once again to swim distances in dark water.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781954119000 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 112
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Made at a swimming hole in Philadelphia where bathing is illegal, the Devil's Pool photographs recognize the human need to revel in our physical selves and commune with the natural world.
Author: Otto Fränzle Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540758119 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 399
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This volume is an essential text for scientists from a huge variety of disciplines, from ecologists to geographers and soil scientists. It provides a synthesis of long-term ecological analyses in the Bornhöved Lake District of northern Germany. The emphasis is on the comprehensive assessment of matter and energy fluxes. These operate in and between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on the one hand, and on transdisciplinary landscape planning approaches on the other.
Author: Derek Phillips Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113641200X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 238
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Daylighting offers a general theory and introduction to the use of natural light in architecture. The fourth of Derek Phillip's lighting books draws on his experience to illustrate how best to bring natural light into building design. As sustainability becomes a core principal for designers, daylighting comes to the fore as an alternative to artificial, energy consuming, light. Here, Phillips makes a rational argument for considering daylight first, outlining the arguments in favour of a daylight approach, and goes on to show, through a series of beautifully illustrated case studies, how architects have created buildings in which natural light has been shown to play a major strategic role in the development of the design of a building.
Author: Lynda Charow Publisher: Lynda Charow ISBN: 1452455562 Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
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Victoria is a bubbly 12 year old that lives in the coastal town of Saint Clair Shores, MI. She and her friends set out to save the annual 4th of July fireworks from being cancelled because of the lack of funds raised to have them that year. Join her and her friends as they decide what they can do to keep the holiday tradition alive.
Author: KaLyn Cooper Publisher: Black Swan Publishing ISBN: 1970145307 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 199
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He was done with missions…but Charley wasn’t done with him. After he left the Navy, stripped of his SEAL Trident and his pride, Andrew did a quick covert job for Charley before parting ways. As the Security Officer aboard a cruise ship, he invited several SEAL friends to travel as his guests through the Panama Canal. He never imagined he’d need his highly trained skills for another of Charley’s missions in the middle of the cruise. Kendra had worked her way up the male-dominated bridge crew, first in the U.S. Navy then for Monarch Cruise Lines, to Staff Captain, second in command of a huge cruise ship. Her crew was well trained and respectful…except for the too sexy, bossy Security Officer who reported directly to her. After succumbing to him, she discovers she enjoys their life together. When all hell breaks loose, and Charley needs both of them for her next mission, will Kendra be able to keep him in her life with all the odds stacked against them?
Author: Brenda E. Rocker Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1438912676 Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
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This inspiring story will teach you to appreciate life and live each day as if it is your last. Brenda E. Rocker has spent the last decade of her life surviving breast cancer. Hopefully through her testimonial she can save someone from what she encounters through her battle to overcome breast cancer. Throughout the book she stresses the significance of early detection being the key to life. She contributes her triumphant victory to having faith and keeping her trust in God. She acknowledges that through love and support from her husband, family, and friends gave her the strength and courage to survive this deadly disease. Her relentless determination in being her own advocate in implementing her medical treatments was fundamental in her surviving breast cancer which steals the lives of thousands of women around the world each year. If her book From Midnight to Daylight can inspire women all over the world to defeat breast cancer then it has been well worth the time and effort invested in the writing of her book. And most of all she recommends that you take the time everyday to tell your loved ones how precious they are; because you never know what tomorrow may bring.
Author: Edward Hogan Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763661953 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 213
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Can you save someone from something that’s already happened? Daniel’s expectations for his forced vacation with his father at the Leisure World Holiday Complex are low. He hates sports, and his father is mostly lost in drink and depression. But then he sees a strange girl swimming in the fake lake, and everything changes. Lexi has a smart mouth and a killer swim stroke, but dark secrets swirl around her. She’s got bruises and cuts that seem to be getting worse instead of better. She’s always alone. And her watch is ticking backwards. When a dark figure begins to stalk Lexi and Daniel, the truth must come out. This gripping ghost story will raise goose bumps and questions: does a traumatic past mean the future is a foregone conclusion?
Author: Lisa C. Paul
Author: Lisa C. Paul
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Author: Otto Fränzle
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Author: Lynda Charow
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Author: Edward Hogan