2003, ISBN: 9780140266924

The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties … More...

The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually transcending it, are the best antidote to our fears. Middletown, America is a book of hope.All Americans were hit with some degree of trauma on September 11, 2001, but no place was hit harder than Middletown, New Jersey. Gail Sheehy spent the better part of two years walking the journey from grief toward renewal with fifty members of the community that lost more people in the World Trade Center than any other outside New York City. Her subjects are the women, men, and children who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back to-gether. Sheehy tells the story of four widowed moms from New Jersey who started out scarcely knowing the difference between the House and the Senate, yet turned their sorrow and anger into action and became formidable witnesses to the failures of the country’s leadership to connect the dots before September 11. Sheehy follows the four moms as they fight White House attempts to thwart the independent commission investigating 9/11 and expose efforts at a cover-up. What would become of the young wives carrying children their husbands would never see, wives who had watched their dreams literally go up in smoke in that amphitheater of death across the river? Amazingly, each finds her own door to the light. Here, too, is the story of the widow and widower who met in the waiting room of a mental-health agency and brought each other back from the brink of despair across a bridge of love. Sheehy also reveals how bereft mothers who will never have another son or daughter found reasons to recommit to life. And she follows in the footsteps of the robbed children, documenting the incredible resilience of four-year-olds, the anger of teenagers, the courage of sisters and brothers. Sheehy follows survivors who escaped the burning towers only to find themselves trapped inside a tower of inner torment, from which it took love, family, and faith to free themselves. She is taken into the confi-dence of the night crew at Ground Zero, police officers who worked in that pit for eight months straight and then faced the “returning home” phenomenon. She recounts the confessions of religious leaders who struggled to explain the inexplicable to their flocks. Mental-health professionals confide in her, as do corporate chiefs, educators, friends and neigh-bors, town officials, and volunteers who rose to the occasion and committed themselves to healing their wounded community. As a journalist who conducted more than nine hundred interviews, Gail Sheehy is an impeccable researcher. As a writer with a novelistic gift, she weaves the individual stories into a compelling narrative. Middletown, America illuminates every stage of a tumultuous passage—from shock, passivity, and panic attacks, to rising anger and deep grieving, and on to the secret romances and startling relapses, the realignment of faith, the return of a capacity to love and be loved, and, finally, the commitment to constructing new lives., Random House, Inc., 2003, Grade: From 7 to 9.Sweet Valley High Series.152 pages.No one to turn to...Ever since Regina Morrow's tragic death at Molly Hecht's party, everyone has been treating Molly as if she has the plague. Nobody at school wants to talk to her, her parents have permanently grounded her, and even her good friend Justin Belson is avoiding her. Every time Molly tries to make amends, nobody will listen.So when Buzz, a drug dealer who's hiding from the police, calls Molly and announces he's leaving town, she's more than ready to go with him. She'd rather flee to Mexico with Buzz than walk the halls of Sweet Valley High alone. Only Elizabeth senses that Molly is troubled, but even she may be too late to stop her from running away with a fugitive., Bantam Books, 1987, Things are happening fast for the Wakefield twins. The biggest party of the year is coming up. If Jessica can get "un-grounded" in time, she'll be able to go. Elizabeth is entering a statewide essay contest, hoping to win the $100 prize. And both twins are putting in extra time on their special school projects. Grade: From 4 to 6., Bantam Skylark, USA, 1988, Used, Good. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly.<

ISBN: 9780140266924

A lyrical collection of essays that eloquently depict a city woman's sojourn in the pine woods of Georgia Unfulfilled by city life, Amy Blackmarr, then in her mid-thirties, sold her thr… More...

A lyrical collection of essays that eloquently depict a city woman's sojourn in the pine woods of Georgia Unfulfilled by city life, Amy Blackmarr, then in her mid-thirties, sold her thriving paralegal business and returned to her Georgia roots. She passed five years in her grandfather's remote "old scarecrow of a fishing cabin" beside a South Georgia pond, where she immersed herself in her surroundings and in her writing. With warmth, charm, and humor, Blackmarr mixes vignettes from her past with reflections on the present, describing the surprising generosity of strangers; life without hot water; her two dogs, one a "lush" and the other a cave builder; the occasional visit from an alligator; her days as a two-stepping cowgirl; pheasant hunting with her third ex-husband; and the life and death of her grandmother. In the tradition of Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Going to Ground is Blackmarr's ode to romance, to the beauty of nature, to the joys and fears of solitary life, and to one woman's discovery of herself. Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond Blackmarr, Amy, Penguin Books<

1998, ISBN: 9780140266924

Berkely Publishing Co, 1991. Paperback. Grade: C. Catalog: Science Fiction General Synopsis: 323 pages. WHERE DO YOU GO AFTER YOU'VE GONE TO THE STARS? Lt. Nicole Shea was once a to… More...

Berkely Publishing Co, 1991. Paperback. Grade: C. Catalog: Science Fiction General Synopsis: 323 pages. WHERE DO YOU GO AFTER YOU'VE GONE TO THE STARS? Lt. Nicole Shea was once a top space pilot. She crushed a marauding Wolfpack - and establis..., Berkely Publishing Co, 1991, Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998 0.6 x 7.7 x 5 Inches; 192 pages. First Printing. Softcover. Very Good., Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998<

1998, ISBN: 9780140266924

Penguin Books, 1998-07-01. Paperback. Very Good. VG- Mild cover wear. Mild aging to clean pages with tight binding. Owners Name on inside cover., Penguin Books, 1998-07-01

1998, ISBN: 9780140266924

Penguin Books. Very Good-. 1998. Softcover. 0140266925 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages; Belles Lettres bmw light yellow/black, white soccat ., Penguin Books, 1998