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  Summary of Gregg Olsen’s If You...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the key takeaways from Gregg Olsen’s If You Tell 
    
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  1) Shelly’s father, Les Watson, had three children with his first wife, Sharon. After Les remarried in 1960, two of them, Shelly and Chuck, were dropped off for his new wife, Lara, to care for. Paul, the third one, was picked up after Sharon was murdered in 1967 at a motel. 
    
  2) They lived in Battle Ground, Washington. Lara began noticing that the kids were odd. Shelly controlled Chuck. She always spoke for him. She kept complaining and telling Lara that she hated her, and she didn’t care when she heard that Sharon had been murdered.  
   

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  Report on the "Sioux Outbreak of...

  General Nelson A. Miles

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  In 1890, the US government feared an imminent Indian uprising among the displaced Sioux people. General Nelson A. Miles reported from the field summarizing the issue at hand. The government was failing to fulfill the terms of the treaty they had coerced the Indians into signing, and as a result the people were starving. With this earnest message, Miles implores Congress to make good on their promise, thus preventing the outbreak.  

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  Summary and Analysis of Devil's...

  Worth Books

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  So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Devil’s Knot tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Mara Leveritt’s book.   Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Devil’s Knot by Mara Leveritt includes: •          Historical context •          Chapter-by-chapter summaries •          Character profiles •          Timeline of major events •          Important quotes •          Fascinating trivia •          Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work   About Mara Leveritt’s Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three:   In 1993, the brutal murders of three eight-year-old boys shocked the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Under pressure to solve the case, and lacking physical evidence to identify any suspects, authorities set their sights on a local trio of misfit teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, later dubbed the West Memphis Three.   Leveritt’s account of the case, which resulted in one death sentence and two life sentences, is by turns a shocking, appalling, and heartbreaking work of true crime writing. Likening the Three’s plight to the Salem Witch Trials, she calls America’s justice system into question, arguing that these three young men were condemned simply for being different.   The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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  This Explains Everything - Deep...

  John Brockman

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  In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity. 
  With contributions from Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more, everything is explained in fun, uncomplicated terms that make the most complex concepts easy to comprehend.

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  Pavarotti - My World

  Luciano Pavarotti

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  In the world of opera, no figure in modern times loomed larger than the late Luciano Pavarotti, especially in his triumphant collaborations with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras as the Three Tenors. Pavarotti captured the imagination of audiences around the world. In this memoir, the Grammy-award winning legend shares both the fortunate and the regrettable events that marked his life, including his forays into popular music, his performances in China, and the boos he endured at La Scala. This behind-the-scenes look reveals the highs and lows of an international superstar whose impact was felt beyond the opera houses.

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  Start - Life Under a Compulsory...

  Graham Morgan

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  Graham Morgan has an MBE for services to mental health, and helped to write the Scottish Mental Health (2003) Care and Treatment Act. This is the Act under which he is now detained. 
  Graham's story addresses key issues around mental illness, a topic which is very much in the public sphere at the moment. However, it addresses mental illness from a perspective that is not heard frequently: that of those whose illness is so severe that they are subject to the Mental Health Act.
  Graham's is a positive story rooted in the natural world that Graham values greatly, which shows that, even with considerable barriers, people can work and lead responsible and independent lives; albeit with support from friends and mental health professionals. Graham does not gloss over or glamorise mental illness, instead he tries to show, despite the devastating impact mental illness can have both on those with the illness and those that are close to them, that people can live full and positive lives. A final chapter, bringing the reader up to date some years after Graham has been detained again, shows him living a fulfilling and productive life with his new family, coping with the symptoms that he still struggles to accept are an illness, and preparing to address the United Nations later in the year in his new role working with the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

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