05046cam a2200493 4500 235056981 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780375507014 0375507019 B000FC1HZA Amazon edbc9660-25ea-47be-a718-0af73ba15772 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5446 OverDrive (Product ID) 159871 5446 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Salamon, Julie. Facing the Wind [Libby] : A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation. Random House Publishing Group, 2001. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 1104kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 324kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:"Readers should experience the suspense for themselves . . . Facing the Wind had me tossing at night and racing to finish it by day. It is a rare combination of superb reporting and narrative skill . . . It is not a book that can be read and forgotten.". HTML:James B. Stewart, New York Times Book Review. HTML:"Happily for the reader, Ms. Salamon is a fine reporter . . . In tackling the issue of personal heroism, Facing the Wind brings home the point that while certain of life's difficulties can be fought and conquered, others must simply be borne with digity. From what depths do humans draw the strength to do that? What is their reward?". HTML:The New York Times. "A suspenseful, well-researched account of the life of a Brooklyn lawyer Robert Rowe, who murdered his wife and three children and escaped prison with the insanity please in 1978 . . . A perturbing read that prods us to ponder guilt and innocence from new perspectives.". Kirkus Reviews, starred review. "This true-crime story reaches beyond the relatively narrow focus of the genre to ask painful and provocative questions about guilt and forgiveness.". Publishers Weekly, starred review. "This book will be a fascinating read. Well written and heavily researched, it clearly demonstrates Salamon's prowess and her journalistic roots. Readers will not easily forget this tale.". HTML:-Library Journal. HTML:Robert and Mary Rowe's second child, Christopher, was born with severe neurological and visual impairments. For many years, the Rowes' courageous response to adversity set an example for a group of Brooklyn mothers who met to discuss the challenges of raising children with birth defects. Then Bob Rowe's pressures -- professional and personal -- took their toll, and he fell into depression and, ultimately delusion. And one day he took a baseball bat and killed his three children and his wife. In Facing the Wind, Julie Salamon not only tells the Rowes' tragic story but also explores the lives of others drawn into it: the mothers, a social worker with problems of her own, an ocularist -- that is, a man who makes prosthetic eyes -- a young woman who enters the novitiate out of shame over her childhood sexual activities, and a judge of unusual wisdom. Facing the Wind is a work of redemptive compassion and understanding. It addresses the questions of how human beings cope with the burdens that chance inflicts upon them and what constitutes moral and legal guilt and innocence.. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=edbc9660-25ea-47be-a718-0af73ba15772 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/EDB/C96/60/FacingtheWindATrueStoryofTragedyandRe9780375507014.epub Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EDBC9660-25EA-47BE-A718-0AF73BA15772&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/EDB/C96/60/FacingtheWindATrueStoryofTragedyandRe9780375507014.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EDBC9660-25EA-47BE-A718-0AF73BA15772&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/EDB/C96/60/FacingtheWindATrueStoryofTragedyandRe9780375507014.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EDBC9660-25EA-47BE-A718-0AF73BA15772&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/EDB/C96/60/FacingtheWindATrueStoryofTragedyandRe9780375507014.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EDBC9660-25EA-47BE-A718-0AF73BA15772&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT