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  Distance in our blood

  Marc Rogatschnig

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  Still grappling with his father's disappearance as a young boy, Marc is unexpectedly invited to join him on a year-long overland journey from Europe to South Africa. As the world counted down to 2000, estranged father and son set out from Austria on temperamental Ukrainian sidecar motorbikes — the first to cross the hemispheres this way. 
  It was a journey of grit and daring, tested by the roads, laws and climates of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. But the real distance to close was the one between Hans and Marc — the unspoken pain and the past that had come between them, and the hope that this reunion might finally heal it. 
  It took Marc fifteen years to write this raw, true story of a broken boyhood, a tragic reunion of estranged men, and the distance between father and son. Harrowing at times, life-affirming throughout — a road trip which never truly ended. 
  An epic journey to heal a broken relationship

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  The Blackridge House - A Memoir

  Julia Martin

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  A quest is never what you expect it to be. 
  Elizabeth Madeline Martin spends her days in a retirement home in Cape Town, watching the pigeons and squirrels on the branches of a tree outside her window. Bedridden, her memory fading, she can recall her early childhood spent in a small wood-and-iron house in Blackridge on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. Though she remembers the place in detail – dogs, a mango tree, a stream – she has no idea where exactly it is. ‘My memory is full of blotches,’ she tells her daughter Julia, ‘like ink left about and knocked over.’ 
  Julia resolves to find the Blackridge house: with her mother unsettled, lonely and confused, would this, perhaps, bring some measure of closure? So begins a journey that traverses family history, forgotten documents, old photographs, and the maps that stake out a country’s troubled past. Kind strangers, willing to assist in the search, lead to unexpected discoveries of ancestors and wars and lullabies. Folded into this quest are the tender conversations between a daughter and a mother who does not have long to live. Taken as one, The Blackridge House is a meditation on belonging, on the stories we tell of home and family, on the precarious footprint of life.

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  Never Let A Good Disaster Go To...

  Kat Finnerty

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  When her husband leaves her !n her 40th birthday, Kat Finnerty’s world is shattered.  
  But then something remarkable happens. She overcomes his betrayal in 12 hours. It’s almost as if her absurd, disaster-prone life has been arming her with the superpowers to master her disaster. So begins Kat’s astonishing and inspiring true story. 
  Spanning the globe from her hometown of Toronto to the Island of the Gods in Indonesia, the mountains of Switzerland and Italy, the heartland of Czechoslovakia and the rugged outback of Australia, Kat sets out on a high-stakes adventure to squeeze more meaning and purpose from her life. It's a roller coaster ride of epic proportions which comes crashing down when she's diagnosed with a crippling disease. She contemplates the unthinkable. 
  However, fate intervenes in the form of three eccentric spiritual guides: a tattooed Maori Buddhist teacher, an unorthodox Canadian yoga guru and a Zen motorbike-riding spiritual renegade. 
  And this changes everything. 
  She flips her mindset, casts off her mantle of victimhood and transforms herself into a master of disaster. And with her newfound mental conviction and courage she ultimately triumphs over tragedy by finding a cure for her “incurable” disease. Infused with humour and profound wisdom, this powerful true story will completely change your attitude around adversity and ensure you never let a GOOD disaster go to waste again. 
  "It's been a long time since I read a book that has left such a profound impression on my soul."  
  Slyvie (Amazon reviewer) 
  "Raw, inspiring, life-changing. Kat's epic journey had so many twists and turns it left me laughing, crying and on the edge of my seat. It inspired me to make changes in my own life. A compelling and thoughtful read." Sean Tiffin (Amazon reviewer)

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  True Crime Case Histories Volume...

  Jason Neal

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  12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem
   
  Volume 21 of the True Crime Case Histories Series
   
  In remote forests and suburban homes, behind friendly smiles and professional facades, the most horrifying crimes unfold when ordinary people reveal their capacity for extraordinary evil. This collection of twelve meticulously researched cases exposes how the darkest predators often hide in plain sight—until their masks finally slip.
   
  A sampling of the stories includes:
   
  The Perfect Murder–She was 26 and planning her dream wedding. Her fiancé seemed perfect—a psychiatric nurse studying to become a doctor. But while she picked out flowers and finalized seating charts, he was Googling "chemicals to dissolve bodies."
   
  The Body in the Garden–For eighteen years, an eccentric elderly woman hosted neighborhood barbecues. But her guests had no idea she was keeping an unthinkable secret wrapped in plastic in the garden shed, just feet from where children played.
   
  The Cleveland Monster–Over the course of ten years, three young women disappeared from the streets of Cleveland. While their families searched and hope waned, no one knew they were chained in a monster's basement just miles away.
   
  The Bargain Basement–Patients came to him for cosmetic surgery at bargain-basement prices. But when emergency responders arrived at his basement operating room, they found the surgeon trying to save a dying patient with a wire coat hanger.
   
  Plus several more chilling cases that prove the most dangerous monsters rarely announce themselves.
   
  These aren't stories ripped from headlines you've already read. They're deep dives into lesser-known cases, reconstructed from court transcripts, police files, and witness testimony.

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  A God Named Josh - Uncovering...

  Jared Brock

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  The Life of Jesus Like You've Never Imagined 
   
   
   
  Jesus asked His disciples, "Who do you say I am?" It's a question that still needs an answer today. With deft, insightful, and humorous strokes, award-winning biographer Jared Brock weaves archaeology, philosophy, history, and theology to create a portrait of Jesus we've never seen before. 
   
   
   
  This is a groundbreaking biography about the historical Jesus we don't usually think about: The child refugee. The "carpenter" who most likely worked with stone. The adult who walked at least 21,525 miles in His lifetime and yet never tasted tomatoes or potatoes. The itinerant rabbi whose real name wasn't Jesus. The political revolutionary whose brutal murder was secretly masterminded by a power-hungry mafia family. 
   
   
   
  More than a fascinating biography, A God Named Josh seeks to illuminate Jesus of Nazareth from new perspectives, grounded in history, that will surprise Christians and atheists alike.

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  Stan and Gus - Art Ardor and the...

  Henry Wiencek

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  How the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens transcended scandal to enrich their times. 
   
  Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur―the creator of landmark buildings that elevated American architecture to new heights. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the son of an immigrant shoemaker, a moody introvert, and a committed procrastinator whose painstaking work brought emotional depth to American sculpture. They met when Stan was walking down the street and heard Gus whistling Mozart in his studio. They pursued their own careers in Italy and France, then came together again in New York, where they maintained an intimate friendship and partnership that defined the art of the Gilded Age. Over the course of decades, White would help sustain his friend's troubled spirits and vouch for Saint-Gaudens when he failed to complete projects. Meanwhile, Saint-Gaudens would challenge White to take his artistic gifts seriously―and so it went amid brilliant commissions and sordid debaucheries all the way to White’s sensational murder by an enraged husband in 1906. 
   
  In Stan and Gus, the acclaimed historian Henry Wiencek sets the two men’s relationship within the larger story of the American Renaissance, where millionaires’ commissions and delusions of grandeur collided with secret upper-class clubs, new aesthetic ideas, and two ambitious young men to yield work of lasting beauty.

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