The most important read for judges and juries. There needs to be education for law enforcement, corrections officers, and a complete change in laws protecting people from themselves and the system. Conditions are so bad and restrictions so tight that professional volunteers can't even try to help. This book clearly helps us understand what a colossal failure the criminal justice system is for those with mental health problems. More books could be written on the topic and far more investigation done on the topic. After this book the experienced professional will have a far better understanding of what's real, but it will take a lot more to fully understand. Also, there are those who try to pull the wool over the eyes and fake mental illness. They frequently don't understand confused or unstable mental health problems and treat people as being resistant. Law enforcement is there to stop criminals, not babysit sick people. We see this in the real world all the time. It's easy to see how people would turn to substance use to get over the horrors and trauma experienced by those misunderstood and locked up- if they survive solitary confident with their lives or their eyeballs. This is required reading for a Master of Social Work class related to intersections of mental health, trauma and addiction. This book was easy to keep listening to because of the interesting and almost unbelievable stories suffered by those who are locked up, and very difficult to listen to for the same reasons.
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Making a fake happy life for someone is cruel in it’s own way. She refuses to ever manipulate and control people even with “good” intentions because it’s never harmless. But Winter pays such a high price for her goodness (literally going crazy) that I couldn’t help but admire her. Winter spends a lot of time dusting, sweeping, cleaning rugs, organizing and washing laundry like Snow White does (but no forest animals in this version). Snow White is probably the hardest fairy tale character to connect to. Winter ended up being my favorite book in the whole series. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.Ĭan Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to miss this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's national bestselling Lunar Chronicles series. 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He went through extreme hardship yet was always one of my favorite Biblical accounts to read, because he just lived so uprightly! I think I just had a solid respect for people who did the hard things and stayed steadfast. Who was your childhood hero? I actually wasn’t much into hero-worship as a kid. □įavorite ice cream? Only one? Uh… chocolate chip cookie dough. Amanda Tero is a music teacher by day and a literary guide by night, creating stories that whisk readers off to new eras and introduce them to heroic but flawed characters that live out their faith in astonishing ways.įirst, three vitally important questions. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper–a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. 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From September through December 2021, CPL will explore the book and many programs through this season’s central theme “Neighborhoods: Our City’s Bedrock.” Initiated in 2001, One Book, One Chicago celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with this Chicago neighborhood story. Chicago Public Library (CPL) announced today that Bedrock Faith by Chicago author Eric Charles May is the 2021 One Book, One Chicago selection. If Senator Nixon had not deviously deserted him for Eisenhower, or if Robert Taft had deadlocked the convention, Warren might have won the nomination. In 1952, Warren wanted the presidential nomination. In 1948, Warren ran as Dewey's running mate against President Harry S. Dewey's Republican vice presidential running mate. In 1944, Warren declined to be New York Governor Thomas E. " -John Gunther, 1947, in Inside USA, about California's GovernorĮnormously popular, he was California's only three-term (1942-1953) scandal-free governor. no more a statesman in the European sense than Typhoid Mary is Einstein. "Earl Warren.will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke he has the limitations of all Americans of his type with little intellectual background, little genuine depth or coherent political philosophy a man who has probably never bothered with an abstract thought twice in this life. From "Earl Warren: The Judge Who Changed America," Jack Harrison Pollack, Prentice-Hall, 1979: With a cowgirl named Roper and a medic called Butcher, these three women must brave the darkest hours of the bloodiest days as they work together to create a safe haven in a world destroyed by a man made plague ravaging the country and threatening their lives. As martial law sweeps through the country, Dallas’s new family must fight off not only voracious man eaters and a deadly military containment procedure, but rogue survivors who obey no law of the land as they wantonly take from those they perceive as weaker.īut Dallas and her people are far from weak. They prey only on human flesh, and as the virus spreads and the horde of man eaters grows, firefighter, Dallas Barkley struggles hourly to keep her little band of survivors from the grasp of killers who never tire, never sleep, and never quit longing to make a meal out of them. |