Journeys from There to Here

Journeys from There to Here

Author: Susan J. Cohen

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1632994887

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A famous writer exiled from Albania and Greece. A Somali nomad-turned-multinational banker. An Asian-born virtuoso violinist with perfect pitch, and many more . . . In this eye-opening collection of immigrant trials, triumphs, and contributions, leading immigration lawyer Susan Cohen invites you to walk with her clients as they share their incredible journeys coming to America while overcoming unimaginable dangers and often heartbreaking obstacles abroad. Cohen masterfully uplifts marginalized voices, laying bare the remarkable realities of staggering hardships and inspiring resilience. Sprinkled with amusing anecdotes, tense junctures, and heartwarming segments, you will sit front and center at the courtroom learning about US immigration policies and systems—which often become an immigrant’s greatest hurdle—while also discovering the ways unscrupulous American citizens take advantage of those not born in the States. As you ride the ups and downs and follow the zig-zagging twists and turns of their travails, you will discover the many ways immigrants from all over the world give back to their local communities and enrich the fabric of the nation. Finding yourself enmeshed in their stories, you will gain insight, grow in empathy, and come to understand what it truly takes to become an American citizen.


From There to Here

From There to Here

Author: William R. Lamb

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2019-03-25

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1457568942

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You can learn a lot from storms. They have a purpose, and without them rainbows have no meaning. From There to Here is an inspiring and candid story about one man’s journey through life—from a child who met his parents at age 7 and found himself living alone at age 15 to becoming a PGA golf professional flying around in private jets to finally finding peace as an endurance mountain bike racer sleeping soaking wet on the ground in the middle of some of the most remote country in North America. It’s a story about being lost and never really knowing that you were, a story of how a bike and a grandson can change one’s life forever. It will make you rethink who you are and how you came to be that person. You will laugh, you will cry, but in the end, perhaps you may find what he found.


From Here to There

From Here to There

Author: Sean C. Jackson

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781452158693

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Sean Jackson has been illustrating and exploring mazes for his own enjoyment for more than 30 years. Inspired by art, architecture, and the natural world, his colorfully detailed mazes offer imaginative and meditative journeys through village streets, garden vistas, island habitats, castle grounds, scenic towns, and gravity-defying surreal situations—each encouraging the mind to wander while following the paths. This large-format collection features nearly 50 absorbing single-page and full-spread mazes, sequenced with increasing complexity, and includes inventive bonuses such as mazes with two paths to follow and a maze that runs on the inside covers from front to back. Solutions are provided, but for those seeking mindful activity or hours of puzzle decoding entertainment, getting there will be half the fun.


Washington Schlepped Here

Washington Schlepped Here

Author: Christopher Buckley

Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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The father of our country slept with Martha, but schlepped in the District. Now in the great man's footsteps comes humorist and twenty-year Washington resident Christopher Buckley with the real story of the city's founding. Well, not really. We're just trying to get you to buy the book. But we can say with justification that there's never been a more enjoyable, funny, and informative tour guide to the city than Buckley. His delight as he points out things of interest is con-tagious, and his frequent digressions about his own adventures as a White House staffer are often hilarious. In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his "other" Washington. They include "Dante¿s Paradiso" (Union Station); the "Zero Milestone of American democracy" (the U.S. Capitol); the "Almost Pink House" (the White House); and many other historical (and often hysterical) journeys. Buckley is the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone-like clichés that cling to a place as mythic as D.C. Wonderfully insightful and eminently practical, Washington Schlepped Here shows us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than its media-ready image might let on.


Notes From the Brink

Notes From the Brink

Author: Jeff Robbins

Publisher: Creators Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1962693104

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An America not merely fractured but altogether splintered by extremism, hyperpartisanship, unprecedented vitriol and widespread disdain for democracy. A world order threatened by autocracies, and a Europe threatened by a tyrant demonstrably ready to conquer territory by force. A Mideast taken hostage by genocidal terrorist enterprises funded by Iran, long adjudged the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror. And that’s just for starters. For Americans struggling to keep up with a 24/7 cycle of news—or what purports to be news—it feels as though we are on the brink. And it feels that way because we are. Notes From the Brink is a collection of columns written from 2019 through early 2024 by syndicated columnist Jeff Robbins, a nationally recognized First Amendment attorney and a former United States Delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The columns are by turns forceful, exasperated, outraged, incredulous, ironic and passionate. They have in common an appeal to good sense and basic decency in the belief that sense and decency are at least a starting point for pulling us all back from the brink.


Songs My Mother Taught Me

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Author: Wakako Yamauchi

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781558610866

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Focuses on the Japanese-American experience in the U.S., including their internment during World War II and their efforts to be accepted into the American mainstream.


Human Predicament

Human Predicament

Author: Mayurkumar Mukundbhai Solanki

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13:

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The book is a critical analysis of Vikram Seth's novels with special reference to Human Predicament. The book talks about all the characters of Vikram Seth's novels from human predicament perspectives. The book also talks about psychological and spiritual dimensions of human predicament. The author has thoroughly discussed the various facets of human predicament and how a person feels when he is passing through this stage of his life.


Atlanta Magazine

Atlanta Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.


Project Disclosure

Project Disclosure

Author: Bryce Zabel

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1477781552

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Anyone interested in UFO phenomena will be captivated by this extensive account of the history of UFO sightings and what can happen once the existence of aliens on Earth is finally revealed, an event the authors feel is sure to happen very soon. Authors Dolan and Zabel, both respected UFOlogists, detail what will happen A.D. (After Disclosure) including how both governments and people will respond to the confirmation that we are not alone in the universe. This book is a goose bump-raising thrill ride, one sure to provoke thought, spark debate, and entertain in equal measure.