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Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors: The True Story of the Improbable 1982 Alaska State Basketball Championship
by Mike ShropshireWith Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Warriors, acclaimed sportswriter Mike Shropshire goes beyond Sarah Palin's media profile to tell the incredible untold story of how she and a team of young women came together to overcome daunting odds as they battled their way to the Alaska state championship.Long before the whole world knew Sarah Palin as "Momma Grizzly," the handful of girls on her high school basketball team called their starting point guard Sarah "Barracuda" for the tenacious defense she played. Hers was the kind of determination that fit in well on a scrappy team from a small town where people were proud to call themselves Valley Trash and happy to take on the big-city schools to prove which team was really the best.As beautiful as Alaska is, it's also unforgiving. It's a place where your first mistake may be your last. When the winter comes and the nights are long and the temperatures plunge, everyone starts looking for an escape. All across Alaska, those gyms—bright and warm—become a sanctuary not only for the players but for their isolated hometowns as well.
Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader
by Joe HilleyA political biography of the self-styled renegade who rose from mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to VP nominee—from the New York Times–bestselling author.Our present era demands a new style of leadership that transcends political affiliation and party lines. In an age that values relationship over authority and instant information over accuracy, breadth of knowledge and depth of conviction are prized commodities. Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) brings both of those qualities to her new role as candidate for the vice presidency of the United States. Her familiarity with a broad range of issues and her strong moral center are just two of the leadership traits that have allowed Palin to organize and focus her efforts in elected office. Exploring themes from her career in politics, her life as a hockey mom, and her strongly held Christian faith, author Joe Hilley’s biographical leadership study of Sarah Palin explores the principles that have catapulted her into the national spotlight and explains how she models a fresh paradigm of leadership that will guide our nation through the twenty-first century.
Sarah Winnemucca
by Mary F. MorrowRecounts the life story of the influential Paiute woman who fought for justice and a better life for her people.
Sarah Winnemucca: The Inspiring Life Story of the Activist and Educator (Inspiring Stories)
by Mary GreenSarah Winnemucca worked tirelessly for American Indians. The remarkable woman led an adventure-packed life that ranged from working as a wartime scout in Nevada to meeting with the president of the United States in Washington, D.C. The noted author and speaker was a strong advocate for her people, the Northern Paiute.
Sarah and After: Five Women Who Founded a Nation
by Lynne Reid BanksRelates the lives of four generations of women who became the matriarchs of the Hebrew nation.
Sarah and the Big Wave: The True Story of the First Woman to Surf Mavericks
by Bonnie TsuiThis stunning nonfiction picture book tells the inspiring story of Sarah Gerhardt, one of the first female big-wave surfers. Have you ever seen a big wave? One that’s twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty feet tall? Here’s a better question: Would you ever surf a big wave? Sarah Gerhardt did—and this is her story.Sarah and the Big Wave, a tale of perseverance and indomitable spirit, is about the first woman to ride the waves at Mavericks, one of the biggest and most dangerous surf breaks in the world.
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
by Scott Conroy Walshe ShushannahSarah Palin is still the most dynamic yet polarizing Republican in America. In "Sarah from Alaska" Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe draw on their experiences as embedded reporters on PalinOCOs campaign, exclusive on-scene coverage of PalinOCOs post-election struggles in Alaska, and revealing interviews with former McCain/Palin staffers, top political minds, and PalinOCOs family, friends, and foes in Alaska to tell the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of her improbable riseuand its complicated aftermath. The result is a fair and fascinating portrait of Sarah Palin and of the American political process.
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
by Scott Conroy Shushannah WalsheA year after a vice presidential campaign that remains as consequential as it was controversial, Sarah Palin is still the most dynamic yet polarizing Republican in America. Now Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe draw on their experiences as embedded reporters on Palin's campaign, exclusive on-scene coverage of Palin's post-election struggles in Alaska, and revealing interviews with former McCain/Palin staffers, top political minds, and Palin's family, friends, and foes in Alaska to tell the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of her improbable rise--and its complicated aftermath. The result is a fair and fascinating portrait of Sarah Palin and of the American political process. Sarah from Alaska illuminates both the talents that helped make Palin a superstar and the traits that became liabilities under the intense pressures of a divisive national campaign. It reveals in riveting detail how Palin's vice presidential campaign became as dysfunctional as it was secretive, explores the circumstances behind her triumphs and baffling missteps, and provides new context for understanding her values, her political successes in Alaska, and her abrupt resignation from the governorship. "It's easy to turn Sarah Palin into a caricature of either a heroic everywoman or ridiculous dolt," the authors say, "but the truth is that she is more complex than either her most passionate defenders or harshest critics give her credit for." Palin remains ambitious and enormously popular among social conservatives, and her future will be intrinsically interwoven with that of the Republican Party as it struggles to redefine itself and recapture the necessary margin for national political victory in the next decade. That makes Sarah from Alaska essential reading for anyone interested in American politics.
Sarah's Diary: An unflinchingly honest account of one family's struggle with depression
by Sarah Griffin'I was fourteen when I found my Dad trying to commit suicide in the garage. Sounds shocking doesn't it? But that was part of me, part of living with my Dad'Sarah's Diary is the very personal diary of Sarah Griffin - an ordinary teenage girl learning to deal with the ups and downs of family life. On the outside hers was like any other family, but behind closed doors lay a sad and lonely secret. Sarah's Dad had depression -- a condition we've all heard of but seldom discuss. Beautifully written, brutally honest, Sarah's story is compelling reading.
Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down
by Kaylene JohnsonSARAH PALIN , forty two, a hockey mom and former small-town mayor, thought her dream of making a difference in the male-dominated realm of Alaska politics was over when she clashed with the state chairman of her Republican Party and went head to head with the powerful Republican governor over issues having to do with ethics and openness in government. Yet, the former prep basketball star and one-time beauty queen could not shake a feeling that she was destined for something bigger. In 2006, she became a long-shot candidate for governor, demanding a higher ethical standard in state government. Then, fate intervened. Her populist reform message suddenly became frontpage news when a major political scandal rocked Alaska politics. Alaskans began listening to her. And they liked what they heard. This is the story of how the biggest political upset in state history propelled Sarah Palin into the governor's office.
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
by Robert GottliebSarah is the first English-language biography to appear in decades. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate and scandalous daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
by Robert GottliebEverything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I, as well as crisscrossing America on her ninth American tour. Her family was also a source of curiosity: the mother she adored and who scorned her; her two half-sisters, who died young after lives of dissipation; and most of all, her son, Maurice, whom she worshiped and raised as an aristocrat, in the style appropriate to his presumed father, the Belgian Prince de Ligne. Only once did they quarrel--over the Dreyfus Affair. Maurice was a right-wing snob; Sarah, always proud of her Jewish heritage, was a passionate Dreyfusard and Zolaist. Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, Gottlieb'sSarah is the first English-language biography to appear in decades. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.
Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness
by Roger R. JacksonThe life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years.Saraha, &“the Archer,&” was a mysterious but influential tenth-century Indian Buddhist tantric adept who expressed his spiritual realization in mystic songs (dohās) that are enlightening, shocking, and confounding by turns. Saraha&’s poetic verses made the esoteric ideas and practices of Vajrayāna accessible to a wide audience on the Indian subcontinent and served as a basis for the exposition, in Tibet, of mahāmudrā, the great-seal meditation on the nature of mind that permeates every tradition of Buddhism on the Tibetan plateau.This is the first book to attempt a thorough treatment of the context, life, works, poetics, and teachings of Saraha. It features a search for the &“historical&” Saraha through evidence provided by our knowledge of the medieval Indian context in which he likely lived, the biographical legends that grew up around him in Tibet, and the works attributed to him in Indic and Tibetan text collections; a consideration of the various guises in which Saraha appears in his writings (as poet, social and religious critic, radical gnostic thinker, and more); an overview of Saraha&’s poetic and religious legacy in South Asia and beyond; and complete or partial translations, from Tibetan, of over two dozen works attributed to Saraha. These include nearly all his spiritual songs, from his well-known Dohā Trilogy to obscure but important expositions of mahāmudrā, as well as several previously untranslated works.
Saramago. Sus nombres. Un álbum biográfico: Edición de Alejandro García Schnetzer y Ricardo Viel
by Varios autores2022: AÑO SARAMAGO Tras la publicación de su novela inédita, La viuda, Saramago en sus palabras y fotografías: el mejor reconocimiento al premio Nobel en su centenario. «A veces digo que yo no invento nada, que lo que hago es enseñar, como quien va por un camino, encuentra una piedra y la levanta para ver qué hay debajo... Eso es lo que yo hago. No existe premeditación ni una actitud intelectual previa. Digamos que ésa es mi manera de entender el mundo». En Saramago. Sus nombres están recogidas más de doscientas claves del universo creador del premio Nobel portugués. Concebido como un libro que celebra al autor en el centenario de su nacimiento, en él la palabra y la imagen se combinan, se acompañan, se despliegan en múltiples sentidos. La voz que guía por sus páginas es la del propio escritor, que enseña y comenta lugares, personas, lecturas, temas ypersonajes de sus obras. Todos forjaron su identidad. Todos le convirtieron en lo que sigue siendo hoy: uno de los escritores contemporáneos más queridos y valorados a través su vida, dedicada a la literatura y a desentrañar la esencia del ser humano. «Una fotobiografía de José Saramago es, necesariamente, también un retrato de la historia universal del último siglo, de los momentos, autores, corrientes de pensamiento y debates que aún nos conforman, tanto a los que hemos sido sus contemporáneos como a aquellos que le suceden. Es una publicación que adquiere un simbolismo particular en el momento en que se celebra el centenario del nacimiento de José Saramago, o que se reviste de un valor atemporal».De la presentación de António Gutérres La crítica ha dicho:«Saramago vuelve comprensible una realidad huidiza, con parábolas sostenidas por la imaginación, la compasión y la ironía».Comité Nobel «Un hombre con una sensibilidad y una capacidad de ver y de entender que están muy por encima de lo que en general vemos y entendemos los comunes mortales».Héctor Abad Faciolince «Saramago es un ejemplo, un estilo dignísimo de vida y literatura, que demuestra la posibilidad de navegar a contracorriente [...]. Su palabra tiene el valor de un anticongelante, de un remedio personal contra los vendavales de cinismo que nos envuelven».Luis García Montero «Saramago escribe novelas sobre los mitos para desmitificarlos, [...] siempre para abordar la realidad que le rodea, para tratar de los problemas actuales que son de todos, y para que todo quede claro desde el principio».Rafael Conte, Babelia «Como Günter Grass o Cees Nooteboom, Saramago aspira a enlazar con un público que desborde límites nacionales».El País
Sarasvati's Gift: The Autobiography of Mayumi Oda—Artist, Activist, and Modern Buddhist Revolutionary
by Mayumi OdaThe inspiring life story of pioneering feminist artist, activist, and Buddhist teacher Mayumi Oda told through her own words and original thangka paintings.Sitting in meditation in front of a statue of Goddess Sarasvati, Mayumi Oda heard her say in a loud voice, "Stop the plutonium shipment!" After taking a stunned breath, Mayumi replied, "I can't do that. I'm only an artist," and Sarasvati answered, "Help will be provided." This book is the culmination of a life devoted to responding to Sarasvati's call to cultivate a path of peace, justice, and compassion. Known as the "Matisse of Japan," Mayumi Oda is a painter, environmental activist, and Buddhist practitioner whose life reflects both the brilliance and shadows of modernity. Sarasvati's Gift explores her upbringing in Japan, her tumultuous marriage and the death of her son, her immigration to the country responsible for the destruction of her home, her inspiration for both her Buddhist practice and her art, and ultimately her commitment to the planet that gives her life both hope and meaning. This raw, heartfelt, and powerful memoir shares Mayumi's story of finding her place and her mission to transform the world.
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver
by Scott StosselAs founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day. This authorized biography, exhaustively researched and finely rendered by Scott Stossel (deputy editor of The Atlantic), reads like an epic novel, with "Sarge" marching through the historical events of the last century--the Great Depression, World War II, JFK's assassination, the Cold War, and many more. Sarge gives us a complete account of Shriver's life, as well as a thoughtful commentary on the Kennedy family, the Peace Corps, and United States and world history. It is a riveting and comprehensive reconstruction of a life that exemplifies what it means to be a true American.
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind The Canvas
by Donna M. LuceyA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
Sarmiento
by Martín Caparrós«Ser presidente es una de esas extrañas cosas que conocen, desde el principio, su final». La nueva ficción de Martín Caparrós: una novela sobre Sarmiento, el docente y político que dirigió Argentina entre 1868 y 1874. Al terminar el tramo culminante de su vida, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento repasa los episodios más públicos y los recodos más privados de su trayectoria. Humillado por la sordera, alza la voz. Habla de la muerte del hijo. Habla de esa epidemia que casi acaba con él. Habla de la guerra indeseada a la que no podía renunciar, de las relaciones clandestinas, del respeto inesperado por el antagonista, del desprecio por los que más se le parecen, de los abrazos siempre esquivos, de las derrotas del poder. Habla: «Si no fuera por la estupidez de sus enemigos, ningún presidente duraría una semana». Sobre el autor y su obra se ha dicho:«Caparrós es una manera de ver y entender el mundo».Carles Geli, Babelia «Es una obra rica y ambiciosa, una empresa arriesgada que debe ser conocida».Juan Goytisolo «Caparrós provoca esa necesidad sonriente de subrayar, compartir en redes, reproducir sus trallazos».Nadal Suau, El Cultural «Caparrós es colosal en esos terrenos resbaladizos donde las cosas dejan de encajar en los moldes correctos».Leila Guerriero, Babelia «Martín Caparrós no es de esos que te dicen lo que quieres escuchar. Sería más bien del campo contrario: esos que te tiran a la cara lo que rechazas y escondes».Oriane Jeancourt, Transfuge
Sarmiento periodista: El caudillo de la pluma
by Diego Valenzuela Mercedes SanguinetiSarmiento fue periodista, quizás, antes que cualquier otra cosa. Conmateriales y documentos inéditos, se reconstruye el peculiar e intensoitinerario de una faceta poco investigada de este personaje ineludiblede la historia argentina. Durante su campaña con el Ejército Grande, se definió a sí mismo como«soldado con la pluma o con la espada, combato para poder escribir, queescribir es pensar». Alberdi le reprochó que «en sus manos, la pluma fueuna espada y no una antorcha», y lo bautizó «el caudillo de la pluma».Cuando aún no existía un campo periodístico independiente y profesional,ejerció el oficio con pasión, desde su nacimiento a la vida públicahasta su muerte. Libró en este ámbito batallas ideológicas y políticas,y se construyó a sí mismo en la prensa. A diferencia de otros hombresilustres de su época, como Alsina o Mitre, él no tenía un «aparato» niuna experiencia partidaria o militar que lo pusieran en la lista de lospresidenciables. Consiguió ese lugar a fuerza de escribir y polemizar.La pluma y el periódico fueron su partido.Sus mejores textos fueron consecuencia de sus luchas. «Facundo», librofundacional de la literatura argentina, se publicó originalmente comofolletín, con la urgencia de su contienda propagandística contra elrégimen rosista. Su estilo como escritor lleva la marca inconfundible desu carácter periodístico: audaz, práctico, punzante, siempre en buscadel centro del ring para ganar la polémica.
Sarojini Naidu
by Padmini SenguptaSarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India, has created a specific place in English literature. She was a lady for whom English was a simple medium of expression. Although she was taught in English medium, she always condemned the blind mental slavery of the Western World. This is a book to introduce readers to Sarojini Naidu, not only as a politician but also as a poet.
Sarvajnar
by Pattu M. Bhoopathi K. B. Prabhu PrasadThis book is a Translation in Tamil by Pattu M. Bhoopathi of K. B. Prabhu Prasad’s monograph in English on Sarvajnar, a poet in the Kannada language. He is famous for his pithy three-lined poems which are called tripadis. This book analyzes his divinity and ability to portray the true nature of human livelihood with his tripadis verses.
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
by Paul Avrich Karen AvrichThis “lively” dual biography is “an enormously rich book, offering an absorbing portrait of the world of anarchists in turn-of-the-century America” (The New York Times Book Review).In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into their intertwined lives and the lasting influence of the anarchist movement they shaped.Berkman shocked the country in 1892 with “the first terrorist act in America,” the failed assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick for his crimes against workers. Passionate and pitiless, gloomy yet gentle, Berkman remained Goldman’s closest confidant though the two were often separated—by his fourteen-year imprisonment and by Emma’s growing fame as a champion of causes from sexual liberation to freedom of speech. The blazing sun to Sasha’s morose moon, Emma became known as “the most dangerous woman in America.” Through an attempted prison breakout, multiple bombing plots, and a dramatic deportation from America, these two unrelenting activists insisted on the improbable ideal of a socially just, self-governing utopia, a vision that has shaped movements across the past century, most recently Occupy Wall Street.Sasha and Emma is the culminating work of acclaimed historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. Before his death, Avrich asked his daughter to complete his magnum opus. The resulting collaboration, epic in scope, intimate in detail, examines the possibilities and perils of political faith and protest, through a pair who both terrified and dazzled the world.“A narrative laced with irony details the remarkable reorientation of this pair after they were deported to a Soviet Russia they had lauded as a utopia but soon fled as a monstrous dystopia. A fully human portrait of two tightly linked yet forever fiercely independent spirits.” —Booklist (starred review)“An in-depth look at a lesser-known chapter of American and world history.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sassafras: A memoir of love, loss and MDMA therapy
by Rebecca HuntleyWhen you've experienced trauma and conventional treatments have failed, where do you turn? After unsuccessfully trying traditional therapy, renowned author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley chose an unconventional path to healing: MDMA.The drug MDMA is made from the root of the sassafras tree. It is known as a party drug, taken to have a good time, to dance, to shed inhibitions. It has also, since early 2023, been authorised in Australia for use in treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder that has not responded to treatment. For those with PTSD, the goal is not to have a good time and dance: it is to find a way forward in their lives after trauma, and to find their way back to the person they were before they were traumatised. For Rebecca, this meant reconciling with the violence, trauma, death and despair that had taken root in her life. It also meant stopping a crushing cycle of intergenerational trauma for the sake of her children.She had three sessions of MDMA therapy, delivered by an underground healer. The treatment changed her life, her view of the world and the way she saw the past, present and future. It led to greater wisdom, compassion and awareness of the connections between humans and the natural world. Sassafras is the story of a woman determined to confront her traumatic past head on. In doing so she discovered something that could be of great benefit to us all.
Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
by Benjamin Whitmer Charlie LouvinGet ready for one of America’s great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-century Southern gothic Cain and Abel and one of the greatest country duos of all time. The Los Angeles Times called them “the most influential harmony team in the history of country music,” but Emmylou Harris may have hit closer to the heart of the matter, saying “there was something scary and washed in the blood about the sound of the Louvin Brothers.” For readers of Johnny Cash’s irresistible autobiography and Merle Haggard’s My House of Memories, no country music library will be complete without this raw and powerful story of the duo that everyone from Dolly Parton to Gram Parsons described as their favorites: the Louvin Brothers.
Satanta's Woman
by Cynthia HaseloffIn 1864 the frontier cavalry had been entered to fight in the War Between the States, and the able-bodied men had enlisted to join the cause.