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  Before the Legend - The Rise of...

  Christopher John Farley

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  Bob Marley was a reggae superstar, a musical prophet who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe. Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley goes beyond the myth of Marley to bring you the private side of a man few people ever really knew. Drawing from original interviews with the people closest to Marleyincluding his widow, Rita, his mother, Cedella, his bandmate and childhood friend, Bunny Wailer, his producer Chris Blackwell, and many others—Legend paints an entirely fresh picture of one of the most enduring musical artists of our times.  This is a portrait of an artist as a young man, from his birth in the tiny town of Nine Miles in the hills of Jamaica, to the making of his debut international record, "Catch a Fire." We see Marley on the tough streets of Trench Town before he found stardom, struggling to find his way in music, in love and in life, and we take the wild ride with him to worldwide acceptance and adoration. From the acclaimed journalist, Christopher John Farely, the author of the bestselling AALIYAH and the reporter who broke the story on Dave Chappelle's retreat to South Africa, Legend is bursting with fresh insights into Marley and Jamaica, and is the definitive story of Marley's early days.

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  Gods in Exile - Heine pulls at...

  Heinrich Heine

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  Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was born in Düsseldorf, Germany on 13th December 1797 to assimilated Jewish parents. 
   
  Heine studied law at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen, and Berlin but his greater commitment was to studying poetry and literature.   
   
  He converted to Protestantism in order to obtain work as there were draconian anti-Jewish laws in force at the time.   
   
  He was part of the German Romantic movement but also responsible in part for ushering in the post-Romantic crisis and the presumed failure of art as unable to overcome or explain the growing traumas of modernity.  However, his literary reputation was cemented in the second half of the 1820’s with his poetry collection ‘The Book of Songs’ together with his collection of ‘Pictures of Travel’ stories that blended fact and fiction together into commercial and critical successes. 
   
  After the July 1830 Revolution in France, he went to live in Paris, where he remained until his death.  
   
  Here he wrote much in the way of essays discussing the political and cultural scene in France together with volumes of social criticism on Germany. 
   
  By 1835, his works had been banned by the German government.  His lifelong subsidised lifestyle ended in 1844 when his uncle died leaving him nothing.  He turned once more to lyric poetry and created perhaps his finest poetical works.  A trip to Germany resulted in the long satirical poem ‘Germany. A Winter's Tale’. His second volume of poetry, ‘New Poems’ in 1844, included poems that had originally appeared in Karl Marx’s newspaper ‘Forward’ and continued the satirical style he now preferred.   
   
  In May 1848, Heine, in poor health, fell and was paralyzed and confined to his bed.  He called it his ‘mattress-grave’ and only death would remove him from it.  He was also experiencing eye problems and suffering from chronic lead poisoning. 
   
  Heinrich Heine died on 17th February 1856.  He was 58.   
   
  ‘Gods in Exile’ is perhaps a prophetic piece on his own life.  The old gods are overthrown by the new novelty of Christianity.  What will be their role now?  Is there life after for them?

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  When Breath Becomes Air by Paul...

  FlashBooks, Dean Bokhari

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  "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi : Book Summary by FlashBooksNOTE—THIS IS AN AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY: When Breath Becomes AirBy Paul KalanithiABOUT:This autobiography is a beautiful tragedy. It is the story of Dr. Paul Kalanithi’s short, outstanding life. Yet somehow, it transcends the format of a ‘This Is My Life’ book to become a profound story about life, death, and living with death. And then, it becomes a legacy of living life with meaning and purpose, even beyond the grave.Kalanithi’s story has a charming beginning – a story about a city boy who suddenly moved with his family to a small Arizona town to grow up with his two brothers, his physician father, and his mother – a woman who took personal responsibility for her sons’ education, and insisted that Kalanithi read the books that would become his most meaningful friends throughout his too short life.His journey through undergraduate school, medical school, and his residency as a neurosurgeon were constantly reframing his understanding of life, death and meaning. Before he turned 36, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. This book culminates in his final choice – to live every day, even while dying.Here’s what you’ll learn about in this summary:How reading became Kalanithi’s passion in his preteens, and set the foundation for a man who would seek language to explain life and meaning.The journey of a seeker – a man who became dissatisfied with the written word, and decided that life should be experienced through the hands-on reality of the medical profession.The hauntingly beautiful transformation from student to neurosurgeon to cancer patient, and the enlightenment about life that could only be found in dying.

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  Unsung America - Immigrant...

  Prerna Lal, Allegra McLeod

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  Real immigrant perspectives of America’s immigration system, perfect for fans of The Book of Awesome Women, Dear America, or American Like Me. 
  Positive and heroic stories. Far too often, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This audiobook strings together both triumphant and painful tales of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in the fight for fundamental human rights. 
  Unsung Heroes. These are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common, however?a desire for racial and social justice. 
  Unsung America will transform how you view immigrants and refugees. In this celebratory audiobook, you will discover: 
  Powerful theories of social change, and how what seems radical in one era can be normalized in the nextHow the fight for citizenship is interconnected and interrelated to other struggles such as the civil rights movement and the LGBTQ movementStories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things and how you, too, can be a force for good in the world

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  Londoners

  Craig Taylor

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  Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer, spent five years exploring the city and listening to its residents to create this amazingly rich portrait of London.  Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street; from a Pakistani currency trader to a Guardsman at Buckingham Palace - together, these voices paint a vivid, epic and wholly fresh portrait of Twenty-First Century London.

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  Summary of Devil's Bargain:...

  Abbey Beathan

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  Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising by Joshua Green—Book Summary—Abbey Beathan 
  (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.) 
  Joshua Green offers you the key to understanding the rise and the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the forces that acted behind the screen and ensured Trump's victory. 
  Based on six years of research, Green offers us the ultimate book that tells us everything about the events that put Trump in the White House. A brilliant bestselling title that will inform you about what's really happening in the United States, like Bannon's years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton which was a significant factor that influenced Trump's victory. That and much more will be discussed in Devil's Bargain, a book where you'll learn that nothing is as it seems. 
  (Note: This summary is wholly written and published by Abbey Beathan. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way) 
  "What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump."—Joshua Green 
  The alliance of Trump and Bannon was too powerful and caught everyone off-guard. It was just the final phase of a big plan of political insurgency that had been building up silently in America for years. Bannon's scheme was well-thought and made Trump's extraordinary rise possible. You'll finally learn all about Bannon's plan including its phases and objectives. 
  A book that will make you see the confluence of circumstances that decided the elections clearly.

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