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  Crazy Town - The Rob Ford Story

  Robyn Doolittle

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  His drug- and alcohol-fueled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s personal and political troubles have occupied center stage in North America’s fourth-largest city since news broke that drug dealers were selling a videotape of Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine.  
  Reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video and report on its contents in May 2013. Her dogged pursuit of the story has uncovered disturbing details about the mayor’s past and embroiled the Toronto police, city councillors, and ordinary citizens in a raucous debate about the future of the city. 
  Even before those explosive events, Ford was a divisive figure. A populist and successful city councillor, he was an underdog to become mayor in 2010. His politics and mercurial nature have split the amalgamated city in two. 
  But there is far more to the story. The Ford family has a long, unhappy history of substance abuse and criminal behavior. Despite their troubles, they are also one of the most ambitious families in Canada. Those close to the Fords say they often compare themselves to the Kennedys and believe they were born to lead.  
  Fast paced and insightful, Crazy Town is a page-turning portrait of a troubled man, a formidable family, and a city caught in an astonishing scandal.

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  4 Lesbian First Time Sex Stories...

  Laura Vixen

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  In this sizzling hot collection filled with lusty lesbians, you’ll find Lesbian First Time Sex, Lesbian Cowgirl’s, Cuckold Lesbian Sex, Slippery Threesomes, Older Woman/Younger Woman sex, Doctor Sex and Hotel Maid Sex. 
   
  The books: 
  1.The Hotel Maids Mistake – Lesbian First Time/Older Woman Younger Woman: 
  Sophie’s mistake was forgetting to knock. It meant she walked into an occupied room and the sight of the pretty guest in nothing but stockings and heels brought her to a stop. The panic that she’s in trouble ends when the older woman invites her in and she gives in to every demand as a kinky hotel maid fantasy plays out for real. 
   
  2.Lesbian Doctor First Time Threesome - Lesbian Medical: 
  Katie’s affair with a medical professional takes a surprising turn when she finds she’s not the only woman in Dr. Allen’s life. Arriving at the examination room after hours, she is introduced to Dr. Scott and it quickly becomes clear that she’s to be the plaything of two sexy doctors. She’s all for it and willingly gives in to the first threesome of her life where she’s stripped naked, strapped into stirrups and intimately examined. 
   
  3.A Dirty Night with a Stranger - Lesbian Cuckold: 
  When Patricia finds out her older girlfriend dreams of being cuckolded, she thinks it’s nothing more than dirty words as they make love and agrees she would do it. She finds out it’s more than that, however, when her girlfriend comes home with a friend she doesn’t know the very next night. Shock turns to excitement at the prospect of getting it on with a stranger and she gives in to the fantasy of letting herself be used while her girlfriend watches. 
   
  4.Lesbian Rodeo Threesome – Lesbian First Time: 
  Being a rising star on the rodeo scene affords cowgirl, Cassidy Wright, some benefits and that includes being put up for the night by the organizer of a competition she’s invited to. She’s not the only one being allowed to bunk down though and she finds out the other two women are rodeo clowns. There’s nothing to laugh about when they come on to her though and she’s more than willing to take them on, as what she thought would be a relaxing night turns physical.

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  The Death of Critical Thinking...

  Owen Blackwood

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Examine the systematic decline of critical thinking capacity in modern society and understand how educational, technological, and cultural factors combine to produce populations unable to reason effectively. This alarming audiobook documents the measurable deterioration of logical reasoning, evidence evaluation, and independent analysis that research confirms while institutions ignore or contribute to this decline. Learn how education systems abandoned critical thinking development in favor of standardized testing and ideological conformity that produces credentials without competence. The narrator reveals how media environments reward emotional reaction over rational analysis while algorithmic content selection creates filter bubbles where challenging ideas never penetrate. Discover how political polarization exploits critical thinking deficits, using tribal loyalty to override logical evaluation of claims that would otherwise be rejected immediately. Understand the economic interests served by populations unable to analyze manipulation, evaluate evidence, or think beyond provided frameworks. This audiobook examines what critical thinking actually involves, why it proves difficult to develop, and how modern conditions specifically undermine its cultivation. Learn practical strategies for developing and maintaining critical faculties in environments hostile to independent thought. Essential listening for educators, parents, citizens, and anyone alarmed by deteriorating discourse quality seeking to understand causes beyond individual failure or partisan blame.

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  Disappearance of the Surcouf...

  Editors Charles River

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  When the Surcouf launched in 1929, it was a technological marvel. This wasn’t a conventional submarine at all, but a 3,300-ton, 300-foot-long submersible light cruiser. Armed not just with torpedoes but also a pair of eight-inch guns, the Surcouf had a range of over 10,000 miles and was equipped with a seaplane in a hanger and a prison capable of holding up to 40 prisoners. When it was launched, the submarine looked like something out of the novels of Jules Verne, and many people believed it would make all existing submarines (and many surface warships) obsolete. However, by the time France found itself at war with Nazi Germany in 1939, the Surcouf was outdated and basically irrelevant, though it was still in active service with the French Navy. 
  When France was defeated by Nazi Germany in June 1940, the majority of French troops and warships ceased fighting. However, some relocated to Britain, the only nation still fighting Germany, to join Free French forces under the command of the charismatic General Charles De Gaulle. The crew of the Surcouf joined the Free French Navy and served from late 1940 to February 1942, when she called in at the British port of Bermuda before sailing for the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, in the South Pacific. On February 12, the Surcouf left Bermuda en route for Tahiti via the Panama Canal and was never seen again. 
  There have been many theories about what might have happened to the Surcouf and her 130-man crew, ranging from an accidental collision to sabotage and even accidental (or deliberate) attacks by her allies. As a result, the fate of the Surcouf has become one of the most enduring and baffling maritime mysteries, and it still generates a great deal of debate.

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  After the Blitz - The Luftwaffe...

  Stephen Moore

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  From May 1941 to the end of night raids in 1943, Luftwaffe bombers attacked provincial cities across England, Scotland, and Wales. However, these air raids are not considered part of the Blitz—at least, not according to the British Official History. The official historiography maintains that the Blitz on the United Kingdom ended when aircraft were redeployed to support the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, after the final major raid against London that May. In After the Blitz: The Luftwaffe Bombing of Britain, 1941–1943, author Stephen Moore argues that official histories minimize the impact of bombing on cities like Newcastle, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham because they use attacks on London to define the Blitz's chronological boundaries. By excavating British and German archives and cross-referencing government documentation with memoirs and secondary sources, Moore demonstrates that Britain suffered from Luftwaffe assaults well after the official end date of the Blitz and rescues the history of post-Blitz bombings from obscurity. 
  After the Blitz cements itself in the historical record by confronting the official scholarship that has been foundational to the field and affirms the traumatic experiences of people who lived outside of London during this period.

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  How the New Deal Built Florida...

  David J. Nelson

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  Countering the conventional narrative that Florida's tourism industry suffered during the Great Depression, this book shows that the 1930s were the starting point for much that characterizes modern Florida's tourism. David Nelson argues that state and federal government programs designed to reboot the economy during this decade are crucial to understanding the state today. 
   
   
   
  Nelson examines the impact of three connected initiatives—the federal New Deal, its Civilian Conservation Corps program (CCC), and the CCC's creation of the Florida Park Service. He reveals that the CCC designed state parks to reinforce the popular image of Florida as a tropical, exotic, and safe paradise. The CCC often removed native flora and fauna, introduced exotic species, and created artificial landscapes that were then presented as natural. Nelson discusses how Florida business leaders benefitted from federally funded development and the ways residents and business owners rejected or supported the commercialization and shifting cultural identity of their state. 
   
   
   
  A detailed look at a unique era in which the state government sponsored the tourism industry, helped commodify natural resources, and boosted mythical ideas of the "Real Florida" that endure today, this book makes the case that the creation of the Florida Park Service is the story of modern Florida.

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