Set amidst the farm fields and rolling hills of Southeastern Wisconsin, THE FATHERS WE FIND is a coming-of-age story that takes place between 1950 and 1971. This novel based on memory closely parallels the experiences of its author who grew up on a mink farm just outside of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Drowning in a sea of nuns, priests, and hard-working church-goers, "Chuck," our narrator, stumbles his way to enlightenment with help from a series of delightful men in a journey that is simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and nostalgic. Following his father's funeral, we find Chuck, a middle-aged man, sitting on the back porch of his parents' farm home trying to remember, "how he got here, to this place." His reflections take him back to his earliest memory, and his first job, at four years of age and the reward he would receive for becoming a little man. From there we find Chuck's mother praying that God make her first-born child a soldier in His army. Which He does. God follows that up by making five more of Helen and Carl's children recruits in His holy arsenal, causing parishioners to wonder if Helen and Carl might carry some sort of vocational virus. For some, this virus is a reason to draw near in hope of infection, and for others--well, it prompts them to run. While prayerfully asking that he follow in his elder siblings footsteps, Chuck begins to see his shot at the priesthood slip through his hands when he realizes, in many veiled and not so veiled ways, that he may not be normal. Chuck resigns himself to life on the dust hip of his sacred family.

The Fathers We Find: The making of a pleasant, humble boy

Biographies & Memoirs

Ries, Charles P.

Memoirs

Bad Monk Productions

Hope for a prosperous and peaceful future for Haiti lies in building a more effective, resilient state. This report identifies the main challenges to more capable governance, evaluates existing plans for improving the delivery of public services, and proposes a realistic set of critical actions. The proposed state-building priorities merit the greatest degree of Haiti's and international donors' policy attention and financial commitment.

Building a More Resilient Haitian State

History

Chivvis, Christopher S.

Crane, Keith

Miller, Laurel E.

Dobbins Former Special Envoy for Afghanistan Kosovo Bosnia Haiti and Somalia, James

Americas

RAND Corporation

Ending the U.S. war in Iraq required redeploying 100,000 military and civilian personnel; handing off responsibility for 431 activities to the Iraqi government, U.S. embassy, USCENTCOM, or other U.S. government entities; and moving or transferring ownership of over a million pieces of property in accordance with U.S. and Iraqi laws, national policy, and DoD requirements. This book examines the planning and execution of this transition.

Ending the U.S. War in Iraq: The Final Transition, Operational Maneuver, and Disestablishment of United States Forces-Iraq

Campbell, Jason

Connable, Ben

McNerney, Michael J.

Hanauer, Larry

Kelly, Terrence K.

McMahon, K. Scott

Brennan, Richard R.

Young University of Southern In, Stephanie L.

Middle East

Documents the planning and execution of the U.S. military’s exit from Iraq, the transition of responsibilities to the Iraqi government and other U.S. departments and agencies, and lessons for future military drawdowns and the resulting diplomatic transitions

Ending the U.S. War in Iraq: The Final Transition, Operational Maneuver, and Disestablishment of the United States Forces--Iraq

BRENNAN, Richard

Campbell, Jason H.

This book estimates the net costs and benefits if the long-standing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians follows its current trajectory over the next ten years, relative to five other possible trajectories that the conflict could take. The goal of the analysis is to give all parties comprehensive, reliable information about available choices and their expected costs and consequences.

The Cost of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Business & Money

Anthony, C. Ross

Economics

This executive summary shares findings from a study that estimates the net costs and benefits if the long-standing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians follows its current trajectory over the next ten years, relative to five other trajectories.

The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Executive Summary

Egel, Daniel

Vaiana, Mary E.

This report examines the use of the Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP) in Afghanistan. It explores the effectiveness of CERP in supporting tactical operations in Afghanistan during the counterinsurgency-focused 2010–2013 time frame using both qualitative and quantitative methods and describes CERP’s origins, history, and existing research on the effectiveness of CERP in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Investing in the Fight: Assessing the Use of the Commander’s Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan

Stewart, Robert

ROBINSON, Eric

Helmus, Todd C.

Baruffi, Isaac

Bradley, Melissa A.

Card, Kurt

Loa, Kathleen

Mann, Sean

Sedano, Fernando

Seabrook, Stephan B.

Asia

Poiesis Review #1-5 is a collected archive of poems that comprises the first five issues of the print journal from 2008-2012, with poems dating as far back as 1991. The journal contains 119 poems in 164 pages of writing by 73 of the best poets in the independent press, including those at the turn of the new millennium. Poiesis Review is one of the only literary journals in existence that features a blend of today's up-and-coming promising rookies alongside the staples and legends of the last few decades in the pre-Internet literary underground. Nowhere else will you find such a smattering of the writers' spectrum or such a truly accurate cross-section of all walks of the literary world-what five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Wisconsin Regional Writers Association Award winner Charles P. Ries called "young blood running with old blood." The Featured Writers in this archive are T. Kilgore Splake, with odes to his great Northern Michigan, and the late Robert Schuler, with his poems of jazz, France, skiing, and love. Trigger warnings: abortion, AIDS, war, postpartum depression, domestic violence, death (all very mild and poetic).

Poiesis Review #1-5: A Literary Journal Archive

Literature & Fiction

Hirschman, Jack

Schumejda, Rebecca

Splake, T. Kilgore

Every, Gary

Brugnaro, Ferruccio

KRIESEL, Michael

Buffaloe-Yoder, Julie

Schuler, Robert

Poetry

Alternating Current

For decades, the two-state solution has dominated efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, as a result of political and structural developments, that solution might no longer be feasible. RAND researchers used a novel focus group approach to assess which, if any, of five possible alternative futures in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be supported by Israelis and Palestinians.

Alternatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Computers & Technology

Efron, Shira

Karam, Rita T.

Computer Science

Reconstructing Ukraine: Creating a Freer, More Prosperous, and Secure Future

Shatz, Howard J.

Dobbins, James

Tarini, Gabrielle

Europe

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