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  Grief Is Love - Living with Loss

  Marisa Renee Lee

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  A trusted grief expert shares advice on how to navigate the loss of a loved one in this incisive and compassionate guide: “calm, lucid prose… humanizing exploration of coping with the life-changing tides of loss” (Kirkus Reviews).In Grief is Love, author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one—healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief—whether you’ve lost the person recently or long ago—and shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and debunks the idea of a grief stages or timelines.  Grief is Love is about making space for the transformation that a significant loss requires. In beautiful, compassionate prose, Lee elegantly offers wisdom about what it means to authentically and defiantly claim space for grief’s complicated feelings and emotions. And Lee is no stranger to grief herself, she shares her journey after losing her mother, a pregnancy, and, most recently, a cousin to the COVID-19 pandemic. These losses transformed her life and led her to question what grief really is and what healing actually looks like. In this book, she also explores the unique impact of grief on Black people and reveals the key factors that proper healing requires: permission, care, feeling, grace and more. The transformation we each undergo after loss is the indelible imprint of the people we love on our lives, which is the true definition of legacy. At its core, Grief is Love explores what comes after death, and shows us that if we are able to own and honor what we’ve lost, we can experience a beautiful and joyful life in the midst of grief.

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  Stirring the Pot with Benjamin...

  Rae Katherine Eighmey

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  In this remarkable culinary biography, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Benjamin Franklin’s experimentation with food throughout his life. 
  At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon their traditional breakfast of beer and bread for “water gruel,” a kind of porridge he enjoyed. Franklin is known for his scientific discoveries, including electricity and the lightning rod, and his curiosity and logical mind extended to the kitchen: he even conducted an electrical experiment to try to cook a turkey. 
  Later in life, on his diplomatic missions—he lived fifteen years in England and nine in France—Franklin ate like a local. Eighmey discovers the meals served at his London home-away-from-home and analyzes his account books from Passy, France, for tips to his diet there. Yet he also longed for American foods; his wife Deborah sent over some favorites including cranberries, which amazed the London kitchen staff. 
  He saw food as key to the developing culture of the United States, penning two essays presenting maize as the defining grain of America. Eighmey revives and re-creates recipes from each chapter in his life. 
  Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin conveys all of Franklin’s culinary adventures, demonstrating how Franklin’s love of food shaped not only his life, but also the character of the young nation he helped build.

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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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  Great Opportunities - How a...

  Marty Friedman

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  I was a boy who started with nothing and finished with more than I ever wished for. I want to inspire others to do the same and to learn from my experiences. 
  As a young man, I always questioned if I'd be able to make my mark in the world because I didn't have the smarts or grades that most of my classmates had. I wasn't a good athlete which is what counts in grammar and high school, and my parents didn't have a lot of money. I did understand though that if I didn't do it for myself, there was nobody else to do it for me. 
  Today, I consider myself the luckiest person in the world. I am 96 years old. 
  I have a wonderful, loving family even though 10 years ago I lost my very special and supportive wife. I have two great sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, and five smart grandchildren. 
  After 70 years in the TV & appliance business, I am still active in our family business and still love it. 
  I believe this statement: "If you do what you do, and love what you do, you shouldn't call it work."

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  Whats up little one

  Yvonne Koschel

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  WHATS UP LITTLE ONE 
  This is the story of Yvonne and her family who grew up enduring multiple family challenges. Yvonne always had the idea that the childhood life she was experiencing was not the norm and it could be changed with determination. At a very early age, Yvonne became the main protector of her siblings while trying to convince her mother there is a better way of life rather than having multiple children. When Yvonne stood up to her parents while struggling to achieve, the death of a sibling left her feeling guilty. The trauma found Yvonne determined to find a better way resulting in her leaving the family at thirteen years of age to find the answer. The family struggled even more with further dramas resulting in Yvonne throwing away her dream to do better and returning to the family to once again help. This did not work and so Yvonne sets off again and eventually when only seventeen meets the love of her life and marries at a very early age. Yvonne plans to write a second book where the story will continue with her taking in many of my siblings.

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  George Romney - An American Life

  Patrick Foster, Mitt Romney

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  George W. Romney was a remarkable person. As chairman of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, he saved that company from sure destruction and led it to its greatest success. He later became the most popular governor in Michigan history, a Republican stalwart beloved in a Democratic state. He ran for the presidency in 1967 and served as Secretary of HUD in the first Nixon administration before leaving over concerns about the president. 
  More than a mere list of accomplishments, he also lived a romantic, heroic life. While still a child his family was chased out of their home in Mexico, becoming homeless refugees living in poverty. Even after the family reestablished itself in the United States, they lived a hand-to-mouth existence. But Romney never lost hope. He believed that in America anyone could rise above their humble origins and accomplish anything they wanted to. He went from being a farm hand and carpenter to becoming the most famous CEO of his era. Seen as a steady, wholesome sort, he rashly quit college to win the hand of a beautiful Hollywood starlet he loved intensely. 
  In this book you’ll learn the story of one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century, a man who combined sheer moral force with hard-driving determination to succeed. Honest, truthful, hard-working, and decent, Romney was the sort of person who comes along rarely and leaves us too soon. His type sets the standard by which others are judged. And for that we can be grateful.

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