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  Lunchmeat & Life Lessons -...

  Mary B. Lucas

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  Mary B. Lucas inspires audiences worldwide by sharing advice from the smartest man she ever knew—her father.  A butcher by trade, John Bichelmeyer knew instinctively how to connect with people and make them feel important.  Using real world examples and the power of storytelling, Mary shares what she learned from her father, the greatest business and life coach she ever encountered, as well as her experience from a long career in the people business. This audiobook will help you learn how to inspire and bring out the best in yourself and others by creating more meaningful connections with the people in your life—family, friends, colleagues, and more.

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  Boomer - Railroad Memoirs

  Linda Grant Niemann

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  “A fascinating mix of fact, history, self-confession, self-accusation, and self-forgiveness—a diary of both emotional relationships and travel.” —Pasatiempo 
   
  This classic account of self-discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann’s travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts—and her true self as well. 
   
  “Ma[kes] the railroad experience come alive with all its grit, danger, romance, and general outrageousness . . . Possibly the finest book I’ve ever read about the actual experience of working on the railroad.” —Trains Magazine 
   
  “Niemann has a taut, lyrically restrained but vividly descriptive style, with an observational vigilance befitting a brakeman’s mindset, and her narrative clips along like a boxcar rolling through the yard.” —Bloom Magazine 
   
  “A remarkable adventure tale, the occupational odyssey of the Ph.D. in literature who immerses herself in blue-collar America.” —Library Journal

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  Showstopper! - The Breakneck...

  G. Pascal Zachary

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  This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine).Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

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  Questlove with Anthony DeCurtis

  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

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  Drummer, DJ, producer, culinary entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author and member of The Roots – Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, is the unmistakable heartbeat of Philadelphia’s most influential hip-hop group. He is also the Musical Director for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” where his beloved Roots crew serves as house band. Beyond that, this 4-time GRAMMY Award winning musician’s indisputable reputation has landed him musical directing positions with everyone from D’Angelo to Eminem to Jay-Z.

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Touching...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Packing Light - Thoughts on...

  Allison Vesterfelt

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  What do you need to leave behind?When I was in college, I figured my life would  come together around graduation. I'd meet a guy; we'd plan a beautiful wedding and buy a nice house-not necessarily  with a picket fence, but with whatever kind of fence we wanted. I might work, or I might not, but whatever we  decided, I would be happy.When I got out of college and my life didn't look like that, I floundered around,  trying to figure out how to get the life I had always dreamed of. I went down so many different paths for it.  Career. Travel. Friends. Relationships. But none of them were as satisfying as I hoped they would be. Like  many twenty-somethings, I tried desperately to discover the life of my dreams after college, but instead of finding  it, I just kept accumulating baggage. I had school loans, car payments, electronics  I couldn't afford, a house full of mismatched furniture I didn't love but that had become my own, hurt from broken  relationships, and unmet expectations for what life was "supposed to be" like.Just when I had given  up all hope of finding the "life I'd always dreamed about," I decided to take a trip to all fifty states...because  when you go on a trip, you can't take your baggage. What I found was that "packing light" wasn't as easy  as I thought it was.This is the story of that trip and learning to live life with less baggage.

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