Scott Simon
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"When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know that his missives would soon spread well beyond his 1.2 million Twitter followers. Squeezing the magnitude of his final days with her into 140-character updates, Simon's evocative and moving meditations spread virally. Over the course of a few days, Simon chronicled his mother's death and reminisced about her life, revealing her humor and strength,...
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Celebrated NPR personality and acclaimed author Scott Simon is an Emmy and Peabody Award winner. This astonishing novel is based on his experiences covering the siege of Sarajevo. Teenaged Irena and her parents are forced into hiding when Bosnian Serbs launch their war of ethnic cleansing against Muslims. But Tedic, a strong-willed Muslim man, convinces Irena to become a sniper and take up the defense of her home and people. A deadly chess game, Irena's...
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Este es un libro centrado en prácticas místicas.
Aquí el lector encontrará prácticas y meditaciones místicas que le ayudarán a establecer una rutina mística adecuada, desde la configuración básica hasta la práctica más avanzada, mediante la cual un estudiante puede lograr esta última realización divina. La encarnación física de lo divino también es relevante, y esta se describe en el libro.
El libro también lo ilustrará sobre...
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The integration of baseball in 1947 had undeniable significance for the civil rights movement and American history. Thanks to Jackie Robinson, a barrier that had once been believed to be permanent was shattered-paving the way for scores of African Americans who wanted nothing more than to be granted the same rights as any other human being.
In this book, renowned broadcaster Scott Simon reveals how Robinson's heroism brought the country face-to-face...
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Macmillan Audio
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2015
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"I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU.
We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?"
UNFORGETTABLE is a son's spirited, affecting, and inspiring tribute to his remarkable mother and the love between parent and child.
When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know that his missives would soon spread well beyond his 1.2 million Twitter followers. Squeezing
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Books on Tape
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2017
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NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise.
Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in...
Heartbreak and hope. Charmed and haunted. My Cubs is Scott Simon’s love letter to his Chicago Cubs, World Series winners for the first time in...
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The Chicago segment of Edens Lost & Found is hosted by NPR Weekend Today's Scott Simon and features stories about inspirational environmental activists and their plight to preserve the communities around them. This documentary introduces Marian Byrnes, the conscience of the Calamut; Steve Packard and Debra Shore, preservers of a little ecosystem on the prairie; Illinois Teacher of the Year Deb Perryman, who plays real-life sustainability games with...
10) Sunnyside Plaza
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Little, Brown and Company
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2020.
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While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends. --
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Balance, Hachette Book Group
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2022.
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"Fear is unpleasant: It can make us sick--mentally and physically. Most of us spend our lives trying to avoid the feeling, allowing our fears to dictate our choices and limit what we feel comfortable doing. Scott Simon has found an ingenious way to harness fear; through his organization Scare Your Soul he has developed an inspiring, accessible method: "fear-chasing." Courage is like a muscle--the more you exercise it, the stronger it will be. With...
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At ninety, musician and singer Tony Bennett is as vibrant and productive as ever. In addition to his prodigious musical output, which includes albums, concerts, and personal appearances, this beloved and enduring singer has written yet another book. While in his 2012 work, Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons he learned over the years, in Just Getting Started, he pays homage to the remarkable people who inspired those lessons. In his warm,...
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HarperCollins
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2010
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Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief — or at least some literary comfort — from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have been there, too, and they can help you get over
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Funny, comforting, and nostalgic, kind of like Dad. DRIVEWAY MOMENTS FOR DADS is over 100 minutes of NPR at its finest. You'll want it for your father and yourself, and for those you know who frequently finds themselves in their driveways, tuned to NPR, listening to the end of a story.
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These NPR driveway moment stories featuring our feline friends will have you curled up in your seat, purring. Mischievous, mysterious, content, curious, and full of attitude, these stories mirror the personality of these creatures that dwell in our homes and our hearts.
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Professional Book Nerds
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2017
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English
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Adam interviews NPR's legendary journalist and author Scott Simon about his new book Sunnyside Plaza. The book is all about his time working with people who had developmental disabilities and how seeing the world through a different lens.
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Abbie Kealy Inc
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[2007]
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Using combat footage, stills, re-enactments, and interviews, discusses the history and training of the legendary 10th Mountain Division, their uphill battles in Italy that turned the tide for the Allies, revolutionized winter mountain warfare and transformed winter sports at home, and looks at the current 10th in Afghanistan and elsewhere as it continues the legacy.
