Mitch Weiss
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An investigation into the Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader, Jane Whaley, is a master of manipulation. Starting in 1979 with a small group of followers, the group has expended to include thousands of congregants across three continents. Gives the story of a singular female cult leader, a terrifying portrait of life inside the cult, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades....
2) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
4) Countdown 1960: the behind-the-scenes story of the 312 days that changed America's politics forever
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's January 2nd, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy, and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front row seat to history. From the challenge of primary battles in a nation that had never elected a Catholic president, to the intense machinations of the national conventions - where JFK chose Lyndon Johnson as his running mate over the impassioned objections of his brother Bobby - this is...
6) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice
Author
Language
English
Description
Following Chris Wallace's "riveting" (The New York Times) and "propulsive" (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house...
Author
Series
Noodleheads volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Brothers Mac and Mac are outwitted by Cousin Meatball, three fish, and even a fishing rod when they set out to learn something new. Includes author's note on tales of fools and the motifs found in this story.
Author
Series
Noodleheads volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Brothers Mac and Mac star in this collection of bedtime tales inspired by folktales about fools from around the world.
Author
Series
Noodleheads volume 4
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Using knowledge from a library book, brothers Mac and Mac build a fortress but Meatball, armed with a book of his own, wants to take it from them.--
Author
Publisher
Allworth Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Music managers and artists will learn the secrets of successful management with scenarios from a manager's work life along with the legal and business skills to master them. Through stories of real-life famous artist-manager teams, the authors analyze, criticize, and detail what a manager ought to learn to be an effective advisor and representative.
The book teaches future music managers and artists how to acquire clients, negotiate contracts, develop...
Author
Series
Noodleheads volume 5
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Brothers Mac and Mac are SO lucky that everything goes well - even when their frenemy Meatball plays tricks on them"--
Author
Language
English
Description
The true story of the seven-month rampage of an elite army unit in Vietnam, an experiment gone terribly wrong, is told from the viewpoints of the soldiers who tried to resist the descent into hell, and those who did not, and includes accounts from Vietnamese who witnessed the Tiger Force's rampages. It is also the story of how these atrocities, covered up by the Army for decades, came to light at last through the heroic persistence of a few individuals...
Author
Series
Noodleheads volume 6
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After hearing Uncle Ziti's unbelievable story about a snake and a frog, brothers Mac and Mac are captivated by the idea of doing something impossible so that perhaps one day people will tell tales about their amazing feats.
Author
Series
Noodleheads volume 7
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Mac and Mac want to eat their favorite pie and their friends and mom give them tricks to make it easier, but the boys' shenanigans make things harder than they need to be."--
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista from power. In just a year of fighting, the American revolutionary had altered the landscape of the Cold War. But Morgan believed they were fighting...
Publisher
August House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-five traditional stories explaining why an animal or plant or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Following each story are storytelling tips and short modern, scientific explanations for the subject of the story.