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Reluctant Hero

A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out About That Unthinkable Day, What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget

by Michael Benfante, Dave Hollander ...

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on eighty-first floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a ... Read more

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On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on eighty-first floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a
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Guadalcanal's Forgotten Fight

The U.S. Army's Crucial Role

by Dave R. Holland ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

9 hours

When the name Guadalcanal is mentioned, most picture Marines desperately fighting in the dense jungles and the United States Navy in dramatic surface battles. That story, though true, tells only part of the campaign. Less well known is the role played by the United States Army. While the Marines landed and fought off several Japanese counterattacks it was the Army's soldiers who followed and bore ... Read more

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When the name Guadalcanal is mentioned, most picture Marines desperately fighting in the dense jungles and the United States Navy in dramatic surface battles. That story, though true, tells only part of the campaign. Less well known is the role played by the United States Army. While the Marines landed and fought off several Japanese counterattacks it was the Army's soldiers who followed and bore
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Guadalcanal's Longest Fight

The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front

by Dave R. Holland ...

"Drawing from previously unknown and unused sources, Holland paints a vivid picture of the desperate fights that broke the back of the Japanese forces ashore during that pivotal period of 1942. Holland’s ground-breaking account is vital to the understanding of the struggle to secure America’s first major land victory in the Pacific.” – Seth Paridon, Historian, Deputy Director, Mississippi Armed ... Read more

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"Drawing from previously unknown and unused sources, Holland paints a vivid picture of the desperate fights that broke the back of the Japanese forces ashore during that pivotal period of 1942. Holland’s ground-breaking account is vital to the understanding of the struggle to secure America’s first major land victory in the Pacific.” – Seth Paridon, Historian, Deputy Director, Mississippi Armed
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ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2022

Edited by Sarah E. Holland, Paul F. Johnston, Dave Ball ...

The 2022 Collection of edited presentations from the Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. The Conference took place January 5-8, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings present the current research conducted by academics, avocational archaeologists, students, and resource managers. The papers published in this volume were originally presented ... Read more

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The 2022 Collection of edited presentations from the Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. The Conference took place January 5-8, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings present the current research conducted by academics, avocational archaeologists, students, and resource managers. The papers published in this volume were originally presented
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Guadalcanal's Forgotten Fight

The U.S. Army’s Crucial Role

by Dave R. Holland ...

Reveals the overlooked role of U.S. Army soldiers in Guadalcanal’s prolonged and brutal ground campaign.When the name Guadalcanal is mentioned, most picture Marines desperately fighting in the dense jungles and the U.S. Navy in dramatic surface battles. That story, though true, tells only part of the campaign. Less well known is the role played by the United States Army. While the Marines landed ... Read more

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Reveals the overlooked role of U.S. Army soldiers in Guadalcanal’s prolonged and brutal ground campaign.When the name Guadalcanal is mentioned, most picture Marines desperately fighting in the dense jungles and the U.S. Navy in dramatic surface battles. That story, though true, tells only part of the campaign. Less well known is the role played by the United States Army. While the Marines landed
... Read more
Prodigal Jesus

Journey Back to the Father

by Dave Holland ...

Have you ever felt God was distant? Hard to get to know? Everybody talks about "knowing God," but what does that mean? Are you feeling left out while your friends talk about a relationship with God that you are missing? In Prodigal Jesus, Luke reveals the path to understanding God in tangible ways. You can know God and Jesus shows us how.Practical steps back to the heart of the FatherØ Live with ... Read more

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Have you ever felt God was distant? Hard to get to know? Everybody talks about "knowing God," but what does that mean? Are you feeling left out while your friends talk about a relationship with God that you are missing? In Prodigal Jesus, Luke reveals the path to understanding God in tangible ways. You can know God and Jesus shows us how.Practical steps back to the heart of the FatherØ Live with
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Christmas Jesus

Seven Gifts God Gives Us to Welcome the King

by Dave Holland ...

Series Book 1 - Daily Jesus
Are you tired of a blasé life? Luke will light your fire.Are you weary of the religious, political and emotional battles of our time? Jesus is not religious, political or divisive – He is real, and He is here for you.Christmas Jesus guides you out of the minefield of opinions, it inspires real-life – exciting life – abundant life in your soul. Far from the musty books of theology and raging ... Read more

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Are you tired of a blasé life? Luke will light your fire.Are you weary of the religious, political and emotional battles of our time? Jesus is not religious, political or divisive – He is real, and He is here for you.Christmas Jesus guides you out of the minefield of opinions, it inspires real-life – exciting life – abundant life in your soul. Far from the musty books of theology and raging
... Read more
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Guadalcanal's Longest Fight

The Pivotal Battles of the Matanikau Front

by Dave R. Holland ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

11 hours 31 min

The Matanikau battles proved to be the critical turning points in the land campaign for Guadalcanal—the campaign's longest and bloodiest ground fight. A five-month conflict raged along the river and its basin. The real importance of this area has long remained unrecognized, yet the American and Japanese forces that fought over it knew that it was the key to the ultimate prize of Henderson Airfield ... Read more

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The Matanikau battles proved to be the critical turning points in the land campaign for Guadalcanal—the campaign's longest and bloodiest ground fight. A five-month conflict raged along the river and its basin. The real importance of this area has long remained unrecognized, yet the American and Japanese forces that fought over it knew that it was the key to the ultimate prize of Henderson Airfield
... Read more

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Come and Get These Memories

The Genius of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown’s Incomparable Songwriters

by Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Dave Thompson ...

Narrated by Kevin Kenerly, Rodney Gardiner ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

Brian Holland, Edward Holland, and Lamont Dozier, known as Holland-Dozier-Holland or H-D-H, were the greatest songwriting team in American pop music history. Seventy of the songs they wrote reached the Billboard Top 40, with fifteen of these reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. No other songwriting team or individual has come close to equaling—let alone surpassing—this record. They’ve ... Read more

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Brian Holland, Edward Holland, and Lamont Dozier, known as Holland-Dozier-Holland or H-D-H, were the greatest songwriting team in American pop music history. Seventy of the songs they wrote reached the Billboard Top 40, with fifteen of these reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. No other songwriting team or individual has come close to equaling—let alone surpassing—this record. They’ve
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Modeling Business Objects with XML Schema

by Berthold Daum ...

Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming
XML Schema is the new language standard from the W3C and the new foundation for defining data in Web-based systems. There is a wealth of information available about Schemas but very little understanding of how to use this highly formal specification for creating documents. Grasping the power of Schemas means going back to the basics of documents themselves, and the semantic rules, or grammars, ... Read more

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XML Schema is the new language standard from the W3C and the new foundation for defining data in Web-based systems. There is a wealth of information available about Schemas but very little understanding of how to use this highly formal specification for creating documents. Grasping the power of Schemas means going back to the basics of documents themselves, and the semantic rules, or grammars,
... Read more

My Train to Freedom

A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism

by Ivan A. Backer ...

The breathtaking memoir by a member of Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer.As Backer recounts in his memoir, in May of 1939 as a ten-year-old Jewish boy, he fled Nazi ... Read more

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The breathtaking memoir by a member of Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer.As Backer recounts in his memoir, in May of 1939 as a ten-year-old Jewish boy, he fled Nazi
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December Boys

A Jay Porter Novel

by Joe Clifford ...

Series Book 2 - The Jay Porter Series
Prison-for-profit scheme thrusts insurance investigator into his disturbing past—and extreme dangerJay Porter, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire, is investigating a motor vehicle accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center.At the county courthouse, Jay ... Read more

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Prison-for-profit scheme thrusts insurance investigator into his disturbing past—and extreme dangerJay Porter, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire, is investigating a motor vehicle accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center.At the county courthouse, Jay
... Read more

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