Taking the Hill

2008-02-19 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Patrick J. Murphy
Release : 2008-02-19
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Taking the Hill by : Patrick J. Murphy

Download or read book Taking the Hill written by Patrick J. Murphy. This book was released on 2008-02-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and inspiring memoir from the first Iraq war veteran to be elected to the United States Congress Congressman Patrick J. Murphy, the Irish American son of a Philadelphia policeman and a former nun who raised their family in a tough-but-loving blue-collar neighborhood, grew out of a scrappy childhood to become a community college student and then—quickly—army officer, lawyer, and the youngest professor at West Point. He served in Iraq as a captain in the elite 82nd Airborne "All-Americans" where he earned a Bronze Star for service, and successfully prosecuted one of Muqtada al-Sadr's top lieutenants. Returning from Iraq with a determination to help change the direction of this country, Murphy, a political novice, ran an inspirational grassroots campaign against a popular Republican incumbent while being outspent by more than $2 million. Told with passion and candor, Taking the Hill is a powerful and moving tale of love for family and the belief that the American dream is still within reach. More than anything, Murphy's life demonstrates the joys and necessity of serving others, whether that means one's family or students, community or fellow soldiers, or one's nation.

The Hill

2016-03-31 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Karen Bass
Release : 2016-03-31
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 022/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Hill by : Karen Bass

Download or read book The Hill written by Karen Bass. This book was released on 2016-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jared’s plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop—with no cell service—the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something is hunting them. Karen Bass, the multi-award-winning author of Graffiti Knight and Uncertain Soldier, brings her signature action packed style to a chilling new subject: the Cree Wîhtiko legend. Inspired by the real story of a remote plane crash and by the legends of her Cree friends and neighbours, Karen brings eerie life—or perhaps something other than life—to the northern Alberta landscape in The Hill.

Ring the Hill

2019-10-03 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Tom Cox
Release : 2019-10-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ring the Hill written by Tom Cox. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps' Stephen Fry 'Beautiful, funny, fascinating, impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a knowledgeable, witty, engaging friend. Tom Cox brings magic to the most mundane of subjects' Marian Keyes 'Sheer bloody genius . . . I loved it. Then I loved it more' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked ‘Quite A Lot Of Hills’ where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are. Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill – whether it’s a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump – as a starting point for one of Tom’s characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations. Tom’s lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.

The Hill

2020-11-10 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Ali Bryan
Release : 2020-11-10
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Hill written by Ali Bryan. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future, a group of girls survive on their own on a reclaimed garbage dump they call home.

Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore

2016 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Dave Hill
Release : 2016
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 750/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore by : Dave Hill

Download or read book Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore written by Dave Hill. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A painfully funny series of autobiographical essays, centered around the relationship between comedian Dave Hill and his dad, in the wake of his mother's death, as father and son redefine their relationship--and Dave, finally, becomes a man"--

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