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December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World


By Craig Shirley Thomas Nelson, 2011, Hardcover, 656 pages ISBN-10: 1595554572 List Price: $24.95


New York b Times


estseller


“As the country marks the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, historian Craig Shirley reveals in eye- opening detail, the interrelated economic, social and political


events that shaped


the United States in the lead-up and entry into World War ii,” says historian Doug Brinkley. “December 1941: 31 Days that


Changed America and Saved the World (Thomas Nelson, Nov. 22, 2011) examines each compelling day of that fateful month.” The book first appeared on The New York Times best-seller list Christmas Day and continued to be ranked as Triangle went to press.) Shirley ’78 is the author of two previous, highly regarded


works of history: Reagan’s Revolution and Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America. He is the president and CEo of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, an influential Washington, D. C. public relations firm.


Let Her Be Beth First, A Person with Diabetes Second


By Beth (Sammartino) Rowe ‘86 2008, Paperback, 233 pages


Beth Rowe chronicles her life—and the lives of her family members— following the discovery in 1971 that she has Type i diabetes. The book discusses coping with the daily regimen and the stresses that accompany it while maintaining hope.


in her most recent books, teacher, consultant, life coach, Peace Corps volunteer, and author, Martha Johnson G’66 documents her diagnosis at age 57 of multiple sclerosis. She discusses midlife, the life-altering medical diagnosis, and the hope that has been retained throughout.


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Cooperation Counts! Life-Saving Strategies for Parenting Toddlers to Teens


By Jean Hamburg, LICSW Outskirts Press, 2011, Paperback, 204 pages ISBN: 978-1-4327-6255-151395 List Price: $13.95


Jean Hamburg ’68, MSW, LiCSW has been a psychiatric social worker and family therapist since 1976. She has worked in child welfare service agencies, mental health centers and has a busy private practice. Hamburg has provided care to foster children and is the mother of two internationally adopted daughters. COOPERATION COUNTS! uses, as its foundation and with his generous permission, the counting clues portion from Thomas W. Phelan’s groundbreaking series: 1-2-3 Magic, Effective Discipline for


Children 2-12. Based on a sophisticated understanding of family systems, COOPERATION COUNTS! offers simple steps, phrases, and scripts that can be learned by the adults and the kids in just a few minutes. Worrisome scenes such as tantrums, refusals, rudeness, homework hassles, sibling scenes, morning madness, and bedtime blues, along with many other perplexing situations in the daily life world of parenthood are addressed respectfully and clearly.


Musing Along the Way


By Martha Johnson Pearl Meadow Press, 2011, Paperback Volume One: Tears, Lies, and Fresh Fruit Pies, 109 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9843048-2-0 List Price: $12 Volume Two: Pain, Persistence, and Purifying Waters, 108 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9843048-4-4 List Price: $12


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