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  The Race of Truth

  Leigh Timmis

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  Being the fastest cyclist in the world at the start line means nothing if your mind isn't strong enough to get you to the finish line 
   
  In 2018, Leigh Timmis became the fastest person to cycle across Europe - in just 16 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes - breaking the previous world record by an astonishing 8 days and 17 hours. But when he set out to break the record, Leigh wasn't just trying to conquer the road. 
   
  As he prepared his body for this ultra-endurance world record attempt, Leigh realized that he would have to confront deeper problems to make it to the finish line. Although test results showed that he already had the physical ability of an elite athlete, something was holding him back: his troubled mind. 
   
  With the support of psychologists and sports science experts, Leigh confronted the past that had left him with vulnerabilities he would need to understand and overcome in the pursuit of performance. Then, cycling for 14 hours a day, from the west coast of Portugal to the edge of Siberia, he embarked on far more than just a physical journey. 
   
  The Race of Truth is the remarkable true story of personal transformation against the clock, and the astonishing feats we can accomplish when we face up to our deepest fears.

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  The Best American Science...

  Hugh Howey, John Joseph Adams

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  A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. 
  “These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure trove of audacious characters, daring worldbuilding, and twisted realties. A sibling duo of supernatural hitmen. A traveling spellbreaker and his trusty alligator mount. Superheroes registering for work. Sentient spaceships with an AI-human interface grow up together with their human pilots. From a Korean folk-tale retelling about the goddess of shamans, to a car, resurrected from obsolescence via automancy, for a road trip from California to Maine, these are stories that, for Howey, “challenged my worldview, that made me exercise new mental muscles, and that brought me to tears.” 
  The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 includes A.R. CAPETTA • P. DJÈLÍ CLARK • JAMES S.A. COREY • AMAL EL-MOHTAR • ANDREW SEAN GREER • GRADY HENDRIX • ANN LECKIE • SAM J. MILLER REBECCA ROANHORSE • and others

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  Writings of the Apostolic...

  Various Early Christian Writers

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  What if you could hear the voices of the first Christian leaders who followed immediately after the apostles—shaping communities, resolving disputes, and defending the faith? 
  In these foundational texts, meet Clement of Rome urging unity, Ignatius of Antioch championing orthodoxy, and the Didache outlining Christian ethics. Adapted for today’s reader, each document bridges the New Testament era and the blossoming Church, revealing struggles, worship practices, and theological reflections in the faith’s infancy. 
  Included Texts:1 & 2 Clement – Letters emphasizing humility and Church harmony.Seven Epistles of Ignatius – Fierce defenses of Jesus’s divinity and pastoral guidance.Didache & Epistle of Barnabas – Practical instructions on baptism, fasting, and community life.Polycarp, Martyrdom of Polycarp & Shepherd of Hermas – Accounts of unwavering devotion, visions, and moral teaching. 
  What You’ll Discover Inside:A Glimpse of Early Church Worship – See how believers gathered, prayed, and broke bread.Emerging Church Structures – Bishop, presbyter, and deacon roles taking form.Defining Doctrine & Combating Heresy – Learn how these pioneers rooted out confusing teachings.Holiness & Martyrdom – Discover the zeal that fueled Christianity’s spread under persecution. 
  Immerse yourself in the faith’s formative years. Experience the fervor, devotion, and organizational steps that forged the path from apostles to church fathers.

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  Sisters in Death - The Black...

  Eli Frankel

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  In January 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD—all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for over seventy years. 
   
   
   
  Six years earlier and sixteen hundred miles away, another woman's life ended in a similarly horrific manner. Leila Welsh was an ambitious, educated, popular, and socially connected beauty. Though raised modestly on a prairie farm, she was heiress to her Kansas City family's status and wealth. On a winter morning in 1941, Leila's butchered body was found in her bedroom bearing the marks of unspeakable trauma. One victim faded into obscurity. The other became notorious. Both had in common a killer whose sadistic mind was a labyrinth of dark secrets. 
   
   
   
  Eli Frankel reveals a key fact about the Black Dahlia crime scene that leads inexorably to the stunning identification of a criminal who was at the same time amateurish and fiendish, skilled and lucky, sophisticated and brutish. Drawing on documents, law enforcement files, interviews, the victims' own letters, trial transcripts, military records, and more, this true-crime saga puts together the missing pieces of a legendary puzzle.

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  3 Stories - Stream of...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.   
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Stream of Consciousness 
  02 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  03 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf 
  04 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

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  The Art of Losing

  Ruby Lang

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  Gia Franchetti is being haunted by her adoptive father who died disappointed with his life—and Gia’s. To make sure she doesn’t look back with the same regrets, Gia makes plans to move from her hometown, Boston, to China, her country of origin, to learn more about herself and her background.
  But while following her father’s ghost, Gia meets musician Cal Webb. Cal is gorgeous, sweet, and has his life (and piano) planted firmly in Boston. The two fall recklessly into a relationship knowing there is an expiration date. As the unlikely couple draws closer, Gia starts to wonder if she’s chasing one dream only to abandon the possibility of love.
  Content warning: This novella deals with grief, death, and cancer. It also depicts on-page sex, alcohol use, and complicated family dynamics.

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