Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…” An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.
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Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Nineties written by Chuck Klosterman which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman Martin Rubin, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, gave a positive review, calling All Hell Let Loose "a true distillation of everything this historian has learned from a lifetime of scholarship". Hastings concludes that whilst the Nazis fought individual battles well, their overall war effort showed "stunning incompetence". The book addresses several "triumphalist" aspects of written war history by focusing on the "misery, heroism and endurance" of individual accounts. Reviews refer to the book as an " everyman's story" made up of accounts from those with lesser roles in the conflict "ranging from ship's cooks to wireless operators, farmers and housewives to typists and black marketeers." Synopsis Īll Hell Let Loose covers the entire span of World War II, following the military developments of the war but focusing on the reactions and experiences of different individuals (both uniformed and civilian). In the United States, it was published under the title Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 is a 2011 book by historian Max Hastings, covering the history of World War II and complementing Hastings' earlier works Overlord, Armageddon and Nemesis. The last part of the book consists of a series of substantial appendices which provide helpful coping strategies and guidance, based on the author's own experience, for a range of situations. Pretending to be Normal invites its readers to welcome the Asperger community with open acceptance, for it makes it clear that, more often than not, they are capable, viable, interesting and kind people who simply find unique ways to exhibit those qualities. 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For the rest of her life, his mother goes to the river to talk with him and watches for him every spring "when dragons rise up from the rivers and breathe clouds to rain upon the earth". Transformed into a dragon, Xiao Sheng causes it to rain and then disappears beneath the surface of the river. Puts the pearl in his mouth and accidentally swallows it. Their good fortune with their neighbours and all is well until Now, with a pot overflowing with rice,Īnother with oil, and a box filled with gold coins, Xiao Sheng One day,Īfter a drought has forced him to travel farther than usual toįind grass, he finds a pearl that magically reproduces everything He supports his mother and himself by working from dawn to dusk cutting grass to sell for fuel or fodder. 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