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  Go Where There Is No Path -...

  Christopher Gray, Mim Eichler Rivas

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  For all who dare to go off the beaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transforming your life and your world—from a young, Black social entrepreneur whose dorm-room tech startup has helped millions pay for college and access unprecedented opportunity.  
  Gray, the son of a single working mother who had him at age fourteen, grew up in deep poverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualification for attending a top college—except for the financial means. Desperate, Gray headed off the beaten path, searching online to apply for every scholarship he could find.  His hustle resulted in awards of 1.3 million dollars and became his call to action to help other students win their own “schollys.” It inspired him to start up Scholly, an app that matches college applicants with millions of dollars in outside scholarships that often go unclaimed.  
  When he was a senior at Drexel University, he appeared onShark Tankas CEO of Scholly.In the most heated fight in the show’s history, the sharks challenged Gray as to whether his app was a charity or a profitable business.  Both, he insisted, proposing a new paradigm for social entrepreneurship and netting deals from Lori Grenier and Daymond John.        
  At the time Scholly’s subscriber base was 90,000 users. Today the app has 4 million subscribers who have won scholarships totaling more than $100 million. Meanwhile, Gray—without help from the mostly all-white boy’s club of Silicon Valley—has emerged as a tech startup superhero now tackling the crisis of student debt with innovative, unrivaled strategies.  
  Gray’s premise is that when you lead with the good—confronting issues such as poverty and racism—the money will follow.  His story is proof that when you develop a mindset for success, you turn disadvantages into gold. And when you create opportunities for others, you enrich the marketplace for yourself too.    
  Gray shows us, we can carve out new paths to better days and leave trails for others. 

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  Inside the Storm: A Presidential...

  Nathaniel Asherow

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  "Inside the Storm: A Presidential Drama 2017 to 2021" 
   A Compelling Journey Through an Unprecedented Era 
  Are you eager to expand your career knowledge and truly grasp the nuances of a presidency between 2017 and 2021? 
  On the hunt for a thorough guide that covers all you need to know about this tumultuous period in history? 
  Look no further! 
  This audiobook is your ultimate companion for deepening your insights, honing your analytical skills, and engaging with hands-on historical context. It's designed to align perfectly with our updated framework for understanding this era of presidential drama. 
  Key features of this insightful audiobook: 
  - In-depth perspectives on historical events from 2017 to 2021 through a president's eyes 
  - Detailed explanation of pivotal moments in leadership and decision-making 
  - Effective strategies for comprehending and analyzing political drama and navigating through complexities 
  Our audiobook stands out for its comprehensive coverage, a crucial asset for those seeking a fuller understanding of this historical period. We delve into concepts and events with precision and depth. 
  Please note this audiobook is an independent resource and not affiliated with any official governmental entity. 
  Structured clearly with accessible language, "Inside the Storm: A Presidential Drama 2017 to 2021" ensures smooth exploration through complex topics. Say goodbye to dense, technical jargon and embrace clear, precise, and accurate content. 
  So, why wait? Secure your copy now and start your enlightening journey through a pivotal time in leadership from 2017 to 2021.

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  To the River - A Journey Beneath...

  Olivia Laing

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  An author’s walk “from source to sea along the Ouse in Sussex is a meandering, meditative delight” drawing on history, literature, and the river itself (The Guardian, UK). In To The River, author Olivia Laing embarks on a weeklong, midsummer odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse in Sussex, England, from its source near Haywards Heath to the sea, where it empties into the Channel at Newhaven. More than sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse, Laing still finds inspiration and guidance in the author’s abiding presence. Through cow pastures, woods, and neighborhood streets, Laing’s meandering walk occasions a profound and haunting reflection on histories both personal and cultural, and on landscapes both physical and emotional. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.“Magical…By turns lyrical, melancholic and exultant, To the River just makes you want to follow Olivia Laing all the way to the sea.”—Daily Telegraph, UK

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  On the Tracks of a Shadow

  Carlos Usín

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  At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Francoist “New Spain” set in motion a complex and Machiavellian system of repression directed against all those Republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republicans or not) suffered first-hand the torture of forced labour, internment in concentration camps or in prisons or, in certain cases, death. Although in the vast majority of cases the victims of reprisals belonged to political parties, unions and other left-wing organisations, some internees were practising Catholics educated by the Piarists but were still not spared. This is the story of Enrique, one of those internees, who in 1936, shortly after his twentieth birthday, found himself obliged to take part in a civil war instead of continuing his medical studies at university. Over the following 20 years, his determination to finish his degree did not waver and although he did not fire a single shot, because he spent the war working in a hospital, he was given a Summary Military Trial, sentenced to twelve years and one day for “aiding the rebellion”, suffered internment in concentration camps and prisons and was sent to work battalions where he carried out forced labour, and all that despite being Catholic and right-wing. Quite simply, he was on the wrong side at the least opportune time.

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  Women Holding Things & Still...

  Maira Kalman

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  From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a collection of moving meditations on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in the things they hold, and on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory. 
  Women Holding Things includes thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations about portraits of women, both ordinary and famous. These women hold a range of objects, from the mundane—balloons, a cup, a whisk, a chicken, a hat—to the abstract—dreams and disappointments, sorrow and regret, joy and love. Kalman considers the many things that fit physically and metaphorically between women’s hands: We see a woman hold a book, hold shears, hold children, hold a grudge, hold up, hold her own. In telling their stories, Kalman lays bare the essence of women’s lives—their tenacity, courage, vulnerability, hope, and pain. Ultimately, she reveals that many of the things we hold dear—as well as those that burden or haunt us—remain constant and connect us from generation to generation.  
  Maira Kalman’s most autobiographical and intimate work to date, Still Life with Remorse is a beautiful collection of deeply personal stories. Tracing her family’s story from her grandfather’s birth in Belarus and emigration to Tel Aviv—where she was born—Maira considers her unique family history, illuminating the complex relationship between recollection, regret, happiness, and heritage. In addition to vignettes exploring her Israeli and Jewish roots, Kalman includes short stories about other great artists, writers, and composers. Through these narratives, Kalman uses her signature wit and tenderness to reveal how family history plays an influential role in all of our work, lives, and perspectives. A feat of storytelling and vulnerability, Still Life with Remorse explores the profound hidden in the quotidian, and illuminates the powerful universal truths in our most personal family stories.

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  Hope That Anchors the Soul - A...

  John P Boyle

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  From the outside, John P. Boyle had it together: profitable businesses, a career on an upward trajectory, board meetings, sponsorships. Then came a spring morning in 2014 on a cafe patio on the Las Vegas Strip, when he ordered coffee, an English muffin, and a double screwdriver at seven-thirty in the morning. His hands were shaking. He was thirty-seven years old. 
  Hope That Anchors the Soul is the plainly told account of what Boyle calls a highly functioning, ultra-successful alcoholic: a man who could name every reason to stop and still could not stop. He traces the loop with unusual honesty. Anxiety surging in the middle of the night. One drink to get back to sleep. One drink becoming two. Less sleep, more anxiety, another drink. 
  He refuses the comfort of blame. Every drink, he writes, was his own decision. The unraveling that followed cost him weeks he cannot account for, a torn esophagus, malnourishment, and days he did not leave the house. His sister drove to his home, got no answer at the door, and assumed he was dead. It was she who finally said the word: detox. It was his son, Jack, turning eight, who got him off the floor. Boyle left for a Florida treatment facility six days before that birthday. 
  For most of his life, Boyle mistook hope for wishful thinking, and so went looking for it nowhere. Across eight chapters and an epilogue on forgiveness, he traces what he found instead: wounds he had never understood, a God who had been present in years he could not recognize Him, and a road home. 
  Written for anyone who has felt broken, forgotten, or burdened by what happened to them, this is a short, direct, deeply personal book about getting honest, asking for help, and discovering that freedom begins where the fighting stops. 
  Narrated by Patrick Kelly Shannon.

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