Others. What is the republic of imagination, you have people communities, publishers, this is the only time we are at peace with our publishers. Booksellers all of us gather together, the most important thing is acts of imagination and ideas that you transcend the boundaries reality put in front of you and the boundaries of nationality religion, ethnicity, language race and gender. You go to these colorful boots and one of the things about books, book fares and bookstores or libraries is how essential they are. And some times like a naughty child going to a bookstore and you feel different books. Each cover has its own story and one of the most intimate, i hate to use this word that is used by every celebrity and dont know what celebrity means, but i feel blessed by the fact that through the love of books i connect with strangers that become immediately intimate strangers, books become like your children you are so worried about them, you think oh my god what is going to happen especia
Videos, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Facebook. Com booktv. Elliot ackerman is next on booktv. The decorated afghanistan and iraq war veterans book is a novel about an afghan boy who joins a u. S. Funded militia following the u. S. Invasion. So our guest tonight is elliot ackerman. Hes a decorated veteran of the United States marine corps and a writer whose work has been published in the new yorker which alone would be an accomplishment for me for the rest of my life [laughter] the atlantic, time and the new republic among others. Mr. Ackerman is also a contributor to the daily beast and a member of the council on foreign relations. He served as white house fellow in the obama administration, and prior to that he spent eight years as both an infantry and special operations officer. He served multiple tours of duty in the middle east and southwest asia. As a Marine Corps Special Operations Team leader mr. Ackerman operated as the primary
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With servings of rain and snow. When the holiday storm will finally let up. And it was kind of nationalistic. Yes. That was a specific request from our owners in china. From napa grapes to california real estate. Why china is suddenly buying american. And just in time for christmas, an injured dog rescued by the kindness of strangers. Good evening and merry christmas. Im elizabeth cook. Lets get right to it. Some impressive rainfall totals. Paul . Reporter more rainfall. Another inch of rainfall throughout much of the bay area. Here is a fourhour time lapse of what has been going around this evening. Maybe youve been hanging out chilling with your family. Outside its been quite the storm. Its been rough out there. Heres whats going on right now with a little bit of the break in the north bay and the east bay, which has received a significant amount of rainfall over the past half hour. Exiting san jose right now and across the past 20 to 30 minutes. And over the top of hayward and also
But st. Helena now the rain is just picking up. More than an inch of rainfall just today on christmas. Nearly an inch of rainfall for both alameda and lafayette. Things are starting to add up for this december. Almost a half a foot of rainfall at sfo. This year weve seen 44 times more rainfall compared to just one year ago. So when does the rain move out and what when can do we see a prolonged dry period . Ill have the answer coming up. All right. Look forward to it. Thank you. On the peninsula. People who live along a creek have spent the last two days watching the water nervously. A flood on sunday night pretty much ruined their holiday. Reporter some people tell me theyve lost sleep worrying about this levee. The sandbags were stacked. People who live around here tell me theyre taking the threat of another flood very seriously. Has been a crazy couple days. Reporter a crazy couple of days for people who live in this East Palo Alto neighborhood. Creek to go over its banks. Water seep