This is the story of two people. One knows who They are and the other is torn between living his own life or the life society imagined. Making the ultimate sacrifice would he choose to follow society or make his own path?

CBS camera-man Mike Marriott was on the last plane to escape from Danang before it fell in the spring of 1975. The scene was pure chaos: thousands of panic-stricken Vietnamese storming the airliner, soldiers shooting women and children to get aboard first, refugees being trampled to death. Marriott remembers standing at the door of the aft stairway, which was gaping open as the plane took off. "There were five Vietnamese below me on the steps. As the nose of the aircraft came up, because of the force and speed of the aircraft, the Vietnamese began to fall off. One guy managed to hang on for a while, but at about 600 feet he let go and just floated off--just like a skydiver.... What was going through my head was, I've got to survive this, and at the same time, I've got to capture this on film. This is the start of the fall of a country. This country is gone. This is history, right here and now." In Tears Before the Rain, a stunning oral history of the fall of South Vietnam, Larry Engelmann has gathered together the testimony of seventy eyewitnesses (both American and Vietnamese) who, like Mike Marriott, capture the feel of history "right here and now." We hear the voices of nurses, pilots, television and print media figures, the American Ambassador Graham Martin, the CIA station chief Thomas Polgar, Vietnamese generals, Amerasian children, even Vietcong and North Vietnamese soldiers. Through this extraordinary range of perspectives, we experience first-hand the final weeks before Saigon collapsed, from President Thieu's cataclysmic withdrawal from Pleiku and Kontum, (Colonel Le Khac Ly, put in command of the withdrawal, recalls receiving the order: "I opened my eyes large, large, large. I thought I wasn't hearing clearly") to the last-minute airlift of Americans from the embassy courtyard and roof ("I remember when the bird ascended," says Stuart Herrington, who left on one of the last helicopters, "It banked, and there was the Embassy, the parking lot, the street lights. And the silence"). Touching, heroic, harrowing, and utterly unforgettable, these dramatic narratives illuminate one of the central events of modern history. "It was like being at Waterloo," concludes Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes. "It was so important, so historical. And today it is still very obvious that we Americans have not recovered from Vietnam....Nothing else in my lifetime was as important as that--as important as Vietnam."

Tears Fall Hard Like Diamonds tells of the trials and tribulations a lone woman and her friends endure from the late 1800's into the 20th century.

Tears Fall on Dark Memories is a psychological thriller about a crazed serial killer with a motive that is more ambitious and sinister than Bundy, Manson, and Dahmer combined. This suspenseful thriller will keep you engaged with every page. Each chapter brings you closer and closer to finding out the killer's motive, only to add depth and complexity to an ever growing, ever bewildering story line. Fiction in its purest sense will transport the reader into another world; this book is no exception. The people of Tolmor City are being annihilated one by one. Detective Jonathan Burton stands alone as the sole person who can stop the fiendish murderer. Seeing from the detective's and killer's point of view is what makes this book like no other in terms of complexity and originality. This book unfolds into a blooming staircase of structure from a spiraling chaotic nothingness. Pieces of strategically placed clues create a map of this novel's underlying meaning. Tears Fall on Dark Memories transports us into a realm of bewildering chaos. It describes the killings, investigations, and victims, i.e. from all perspectives. It stimulates the crevices of our predatory impulses, making us aware of our own primitive selves. Tears Fall on Dark Memories is infused with philosophical underpinnings that give it a feel of movies such as, Seven, The Silence of the Lambs, and Kiss the Girls. The book is illustrated profusely by the author, which adds depth and visual understanding to this complex, yet highly entertaining story.

A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as the “trail where they cried.” The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee shine through this intricate story of American politics, ambition, and greed. B & W photographs

“When Tears Fall Short” is the true story of the life of a young woman ravaged by war and loss, who feels compelled to record her account of World War II. She sees life through the eyes of a human being struggling to stay alive and at the same time blossoming into womanhood. The resilient nature of the human spirit under the worst of circumstances illustrates itself vividly in this book. The reader is blissfully lost in love one moment and feels the writer's despair the next moment; this book toils with your emotions as untold history unfolds. One example of history that the world is not aware of, is the De-Nazification status that the German government gave to Nazis for the equivalent of a $500 charge. After the war, Nazis could legally declare by a government decree that they were not Nazis during the war. The only requirement for this service was to pay a fee. This memoir begins in 1939, in the small Polish village of Nowy Dwor, on the outskirts of Warsaw. It explores the hopes and dreams of a young girl coming of age into an expanding world of abundant possibilities. The events that come into her life alter her entire destiny as she grows up overnight into a world that is unbearable to endure. As the war ends, the author finds herself in the most complex of life’s predicaments. Although, as Jews they have lost their entire families to war, the author, her husband and child are placed as refugees, into the home of a nazi family. The ironies of life are explored in the most unusual and unlikely situation that is, amazingly, at the core of human depth. The book ends ten years later at the eve of the birth of a new Israel and the eve of a new life for the next generation. This eloquent, masterful and unusual memoir is written with simplicity and intelligence that will haunt and provoke the reader’s mind. The journey through history, through the perspective of a little girl and now, a woman of wisdom, will take you to the other side of war. This is the place where future generations can learn from their common lineage of war. This memoir encourages the reader to bear the inheritance of bigotry for the purpose of never having to relive it. As you read the pages in this book, you will see the unwritten message as a warning for what could happen again and a hope for the fruitful destiny of humanity. UPDATE: On September 11, 2001 Halina watched the news of the attack on America all day and all evening. She said "it ́s another Holocaust". She went to sleep and had a fatal stroke. We are interested in filming her life story. Please use www.xlibris.com to obtain contact information if you can assist in any manner. Thank you.

The author discusses how her father's Communist sympathies divided their family and how she agreed to act as a spy for the CIA in return for her family's safety

Adnan Shafi, (23) was born and brought up in a middle class educated Bhat family, which belongs to Chandrigam in Tral area of Kashmir valley. He is a poet, writer, columnist and reviewer. His father, Mohd Shafi Bhat is a school teacher. Adnan has graduated from Government Degree College, Tral (J&K). He has also done his Master's in English literature. Some of his poems have been highlighted by J&K Cultural Academy of Arts, in various magazines. He is quite well-versed in Urdu poetry also. About the Book His poetry depicts sorrows and vicissitudes of life. There are various hues in his poems ranging from love to loneliness and despair. Besides, his poetry is replete with simplicity of thought and language. Some of the poems are autobiographical in nature which relate to his own life’s vows.

This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.

Amy Coleman on a mission to find her son, the only problem was up until two days ago she never knew she had a child. Life for Amy is not worth living anymore; she has been brutally attacked; her nightmare of an abandoned child is seeping into her reality. There is only one person who can stop Amy's mission for death, Stephen. However, what Amy doesn't realise is falling helplessly in love with him will just lead her down a dark and deadly path and right into the middle of an angelic war.