Author: Rosario Liotta Publisher: Rosario the Baker, Incorporated ISBN: 9780578485188 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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BREAD and BULLETS is a "tell all" book of how a hard-working commercial baker turned his small, one delivery van operation into a multi-million dollar enterprise that served upscale restaurants, hotels and grocery chains up and down the East Coast of Florida only to have it crumble in a hail of bullets. When Rosario Liotta decided to expand his bakery and open a chain of delicatessens/cafes similar to Panera Bread, he caught the eye of Gurino, a man with underworld connections. Gurino decided he wanted a piece of the loaf. When Liotta refused, Gurino used verbal threats and, eventually, force in the form of a knife and a .38 caliber. Liotta defended himself with his own legally owned gun. Since this was two years before the Stand Your Ground laws went into effect, Liotta was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison. With the passage of time, the Broward County prosecutor learned the Gurino had been the hit man hired to murder Gus Boulis, the founder of Miami Subs and the SunCruz Casino Line. The Boulis murder was the longest running investigation in Florida history until it was solved in 2013. Boulis' killing had ties to the Bush Whitehouse through D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramhoff and his business partner, Adam Kidan, the founder of Dial-a-Mattress. From his days as a successful baker and businessman to standing in the spotlight for a crime he did not commit, Rosario Liotta never let his unjust conviction turn his easy disposition into a desire for revenge. This is the story of how one man's humble beginnings as a baker's son led to a road paved with Bread and Bullets.
Author: Michael Kemp Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476632111 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 225
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a wave of political violence swept across the globe, causing widespread alarm. Described by the media of the day as “propaganda of the deed,” assassinations, bombings and assaults carried out by anarchists—both individuals and conspirators—were intended to incite revolution and established the precedents of modern terrorism. Much has been written about these actions and the responses to them yet little attention has been given to the actors themselves. Drawing on wide range of sources, the author profiles numerous insurgents, their deeds and their motives.
Author: Brian Clements Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807025593 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 208
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A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis. The result is a stunning collection of poems and prose that speaks directly to the heart and a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control.
Author: Homeira Qaderi Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 006297033X Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 165
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A People Book of the Week & a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman’s bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to make her way on foot. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. But the joy of her beautiful son’s birth was soon overshadowed by other dangers that would threaten her life. No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for women’s rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society. Devastating in its power, Dancing in the Mosque is a mother’s searing letter to a son she was forced to leave behind. In telling her story—and that of Afghan women—Homeira challenges you to reconsider the meaning of motherhood, sacrifice, and survival. Her story asks you to consider the lengths you would go to protect yourself, your family, and your dignity.
Author: Kent Whitaker Publisher: ISBN: 9781933909622 Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 320
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Examines the foods, food supplies, and the transformation of the food industry needed to supply a military that grew from one to ten million over night, as well as the menus and the difficulties on the homefront. Includes examples of menus from heads of state, princesses and generals; as well as recipes for, and comments from, the fighting men and women.--Publisher.
Author: John C. Tramazzo Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1640124284 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 298
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John C. Tramazzo highlights the relationship between bourbon and military service to show the rich and dramatic connection in American history.
Author: Father Patrick Desbois Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1628728590 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
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How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad Daylight Based on a decade of work by Father Patrick Desbois and his team at Yahad–In Unum that has culminated to date in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites, many of them unmarked. One key finding: Genocide does not happen without the neighbors. The neighbors are instrumental to the crime. In his National Jewish Book Award–winning book The Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II. Nearly a decade of further work by his team, drawing on interviews with neighbors of the Jews, wartime records, and the application of modern forensic practices to long-hidden grave sites. has resulted in stunning new findings about the extent and nature of the genocide. In Broad Daylight documents mass killings in seven countries formerly part of the Soviet Union that were invaded by Nazi Germany. It shows how these murders followed a template, or script, which included a timetable that was duplicated from place to place. Far from being kept secret, the killings were done in broad daylight, before witnesses. Often, they were treated as public spectacle. The Nazis deliberately involved the local inhabitants in the mechanics of death—whether it was to cook for the killers, to dig or cover the graves, to witness their Jewish neighbors being marched off, or to take part in the slaughter. They availed themselves of local people and the structures of Soviet life in order to make the Eastern Holocaust happen. Narrating in lucid, powerful prose that has the immediacy of a crime report, Father Desbois assembles a chilling account of how, concretely, these events took place in village after village, from the selection of the date to the twenty-four-hour period in which the mass murders unfolded. Today, such groups as ISIS put into practice the Nazis’ lessons on making genocide efficient. The book includes an historical introduction by Andrej Umansky, research fellow at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, University of Cologne, Germany, and historical and legal advisor to Yahad-In Unum.
Author: Rosario Liotta
Author: Michael Kemp
Author: Dr. John Henry Wadley III
Author: Brian Clements
Author: Homeira Qaderi
Author: Worrall Reed Carter
Author: Jules Boykoff
Author: Kent Whitaker
Author: John C. Tramazzo
Author: Father Patrick Desbois