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Arriving in Córdoba as a young man in 1088 to learn medicine, Yehuda Halevi is enchanted by a world in which Muslim, Jewish and Christian courtiers share poetry and philosophy in their elegant gardens. Here he falls in love with Deborah, the spirited daughter of his host. In this turbulent world, however, Yehuda also encounters invasions and pirates, book burnings and bandits. Driven by conflict to move from city to city, Yehuda and Deborah are often parted - but always in the hope that they will one day return together to Córdoba. As Yehuda's fame grows as a poet and as a philosopher, his writings become increasingly mystical but also increasingly restless, for he yearns to travel to the holy city of Jerusalem. In 1140, as an old man, he must finally decide whether to stay with his family or begin the perilous voyage towards Egypt and Crusader Jerusalem... In this beautifully evocative story, Robert L. Stone transports the reader to twelfth-century Andalucía as he traces the extraordinary life of a man determined to devote himself - and his exceptional talent - to a greater truth.
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On December 7, 1941, Robert L. Stone sat in his Williams College dorm room, listening to FDR's speech about Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor and decided to enlist in the Air Force Cadets. This book, through over 150 handwritten letters to his Dad and family, chronicles his journey and that of others in his family, from 1942 to 1945. This was not a military family, yet eight members of the family were involved in the war effort on different assignments overseas and at home. They believed in honor, duty and love of their country. Four brothers and stepbrothers wound up fighting for the same piece of ground on Iwo Jima from the air, the sea, and on land, while the fifth was in The Battle of the ...