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  Trans Truth - Your Journey To...

  Gwen Patrone

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  To all those who have ever felt like they're living a life that's not their own. One that simply doesn't feel authentic. 
  This book is dedicated to you. 
  May its pages guide you on a journey of self-discovery and exploration, as you uncover the truths that have been buried within you all along. 
  May it remind you that your authentic self is a gift, one that deserves to be cherished and celebrated. Your authentic truth is your beautiful flower just waiting to reveal itself to the world. 
  May it empower you to live unapologetically, with the confidence and conviction that comes from knowing who you truly are. 
  And may it inspire others to do the same, creating a world where individuality is embraced and celebrated, and where everyone is encouraged to be their most authentic, vibrant selves. 
  With love and support, 
  Dr. Gwen Patrone.

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  America’s Weirdest Riots: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  Riots are an aspect of American history that do not show up much in history textbooks, except for famous disturbances like the Boston Tea Party or the infamous New York City draft riots of 1863. The reality is that the country has experienced thousands of riots, from early colonial times through to the present, and the issues leading up to some of the riots may seem quite peculiar to modern Americans. Americans have rioted over who was the best actor, and to free pirates from jail. Americans have rioted against bad working conditions, for the 8-hour day, against immigrants, for and against civil rights. Americans have had riots over eggnog, which Bible to use in schools, and when their favorite sports teams have won or lost. 
  For example, in 1788, the deadly Doctors' Riot occurred in New York City over the robbing of graves to provide medical students with bodies to dissect. An even stranger riot was the Eggnog Riot of 1826, when cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point rioted over Christmas eggnog.  
  In 1844, a debate in Philadelphia over whether to allow Catholic students in public schools to read the Catholic Douay Bible rather than the King James Version sparked two savage riots, known as the Bible Riots. In the City of Brotherly Love, the Bible Riots caused a number of casualties, and two churches and a seminary were burned to the ground. 
  The 1857 Dead Rabbits Riot featured gang violence in New York City, but it could only be understood by knowing about a previous police riot, and that for a time there were two separate police forces in New York City. The police were as apt to club each other as they were to club rioting gang members.The 1870 and 1871 Orange Riots were over the July 12 Orange parades that memorialized the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. Despite the battle being almost 200 years earlier, Protestants and Irish Catholics were still fighting over it in New York City in an extremely bloody way.

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  Genghis Khan – The Man Who Built...

  Jules Strosin

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  Genghis Khan was more than just a conqueror—he was a visionary leader who built the largest contiguous empire in human history. From his brutal early struggles as a tribal outcast to his rise as the supreme ruler of the Mongol Empire, his story is one of strategy, resilience, and ambition. 
  This audiobook takes you inside the mind of the man who revolutionized warfare, unified warring tribes, and reshaped civilizations across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Discover the real Genghis Khan—beyond the myths and legends—in an epic tale of conquest, leadership, and destiny. 
  Genghis Khan – The Man Who Built the Largest Empire in History is an immersive journey into one of history’s most feared and respected rulers. A must-listen for anyone fascinated by power, strategy, and global history.

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  A Grotesque Animal

  Amy Lee Lillard

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  At the age of forty-three, Amy Lee Lillard learned she was autistic. She learned she was part of a community of unseen women who fell through the gaps due to medical bias and social stereotypes. 
   
   
   
  A Grotesque Animal explores the making, unmaking, and making again of a woman with an undiagnosed disorder. How did a working-­class background and a deep-rooted Midwest culture of silence lead to hiding in plain sight for decades? How did sexuality and anger hide the roots of trauma among the women in her family? And what does it mean to be a queer, disabled, aging woman, a descendant of wild but tamed mothers and a survivor of the things patriarchy inflicts? 
   
   
   
  Through wide-ranging styles and a combination of personal storytelling and cultural analysis, Lillard dissects anger, sexuality, autistic masking, bodies, punk, and female annihilation to create a new picture of modern women.

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  Defeat Writer's Block - Think...

  M.A. Lee

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  Every writer has a secret monster: Writer’s Block. 
  Some writers have driven this monster into a corner where it lurks, the great unmentioned unmentionable waiting to pounce. Others chant the mantra “Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist” in the vain hopes that daily repetition can avoid it. Still others thwart it with superstitious behavior—new notebooks and pens for new projects, story idea spinners to select common tropes, and an in-depth notebook that becomes thicker and thicker until the dam bursts and overwhelms the hulking monster. 
  Yet something more than simple disruptions and distractions interfere with our writing, creating insurmountable walls that close around us until the monster in the labyrinth takes hold and shakes us into submission. 
  M.A. Lee and The Write Focus podcast analyze the three broad categories of Writer’s Block and offer solutions to overcome this looming monster. After this examination is a survey of the advice of several successful writers. Finally, a series of chapters delves into the monster-defeating techniques used by giants such as Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Stewart, and Phyllis A. Whitney. 
  They defeated writer’s block, and so can we. 
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  The Write Focus podcast offers weekly episodes on productivity, process, craft, and tools. TWF is for newbies and veterans who want to become writing pros. 
  The multi-published M.A. Lee has written over 50 titles of fiction under three pen names and over 10 nonfiction books on the writing craft. She hosts TWF podcast.

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  Eating While Black - Food...

  Psyche A. Williams-Forson

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  Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food. 
   
   
   
  Sustainable culture—what keeps a community alive and thriving—is essential to Black peoples' fight for access and equity, and food is central to this fight. Starkly exposing the rampant shaming and policing around how Black people eat, Williams-Forson contemplates food's role in cultural transmission, belonging, homemaking, and survival. Black people's relationships to food have historically been connected to extreme forms of control and scarcity—as well as to stunning creativity and ingenuity. In advancing dialogue about eating and race, this book urges us to think and talk about food in new ways in order to improve American society on personal and structural levels.

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