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  The Idaho Student Murders - How...

  Gregory D O'neill

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  On the night of Saturday, November 12, 2022, four University of Idaho students went out with friends, came home, and went to bed. By the time the sun came up, all four of them were dead.
   
  Madison Mogen. Kaylee Goncalves. Xana Kernodle. Ethan Chapin. Twenty and twenty-one years old. Stabbed in their beds in a quiet college town that had not seen a single homicide in five years.
   
  What followed was one of the most gripping true crime investigations in modern American history — forty-seven days of silence, a community holding its breath, and a forensic breakthrough so precise it reads like fiction. The man eventually arrested was not a drifter or a stranger to the area. He was a PhD student in criminology, eight miles away, who had driven past that house at least twelve times in the dark before he came back to kill.
   
  Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to four consecutive life terms. He has never explained why he committed these murders.
   
  In this book, I take you inside everything the headlines missed. The forensic breakthrough that cracked the case. The families in that Boise courtroom. The surviving roommate who opened her bedroom door and saw something she will never unsee. And the silence at the centre of it all that no verdict and no life sentence has ever filled.
   
  The case is closed. The truth is not.
   
  You have heard the case. Now hear the story.

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  On Bette Midler - An Opinionated...

  Kevin Winkler

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  For more than fifty years, Bette Midler has been at the center of the entertainment world as a uniquely talented singer, actress, and comedienne. Starting in the unlikely venue of a gay bathhouse in New York City--where she developed her Divine Miss M persona--this book takes a deep dive into her successes, from movies to million-selling records, from sell-out concert tours to her memorable farewell to Johnny Carson as his last guest on The Tonight Show. 
   
  On Bette Midler features performance analysis and deeply researched background information, all of it supporting informed--and divinely opinionated--consideration of Midler the artist. It judges her work by the highest standards: those she established for herself.

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  Photography Extraordinary - From...

  Lewis Carroll

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  Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on the 27th January 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, the eldest boy and the third child.  Another eight followed. 
   
   
   
  When Dodgson was 11, his cleric father moved his family to Croft-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire.  Although his father was active and highly conservative his son was ambivalent with those values and with the Church as a whole. 
   
   
   
  In his early years Dodgson was educated at home and by age 7 he was reading the likes of ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’.  He also spoke with a stammer which he called his ‘hesitation’. 
   
   
   
  At 12 he was dispatched to Richmond Grammar School in North Yorkshire and then on to Rugby.  He sailed through the curriculum.  He was accepted at Christ Church, Oxford but two days after arriving he was summoned home: his mother had died of ‘inflammation of the brain’ at only 47. 
   
   
   
  Dodgson was exceptionally gifted and, when not distracted, achievement came easily to him.  He remained at Christ Church studying and teaching in various capacities until his death. 
   
   
   
  In March 1856, he published the romantic poem ‘Solitude’ as by ‘Lewis Carroll’. 
   
   
   
  That same year he took up the new art of photography.  He soon excelled and became a well-known gentleman-photographer, and even toyed with the idea of making a living out of it.  When he ceased photography in 1880, he had his own studio and had created around 3,000 images. 
   
   
   
  He enjoyed moderate success with his early poems and short stories but had an array of other interests in the pre-Raphaelite circle, Psychical Research and even ordained in the Church of England in 1861. 
   
   
   
  In July 1862 he told a young Alice Liddell the story that would become his first and greatest success.  Alice begged him to write it down, and eventually he did and later presented her with a handwritten and illustrated ‘Alice's Adventures Under Ground’.  The publisher Macmillan agreed to publish it as ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll. 
   
   
   
  It was a huge and sensational life-changing success.  Royalties quickly accumulated as did fan mail. 
   
   
   
  In 1871, the darker themed sequel ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’ was published.  A half decade later came ‘The Hunting of the Snark’, a fantastical nonsense poem, as nine tradesmen and a beaver set off to find the snark.  It was another enormous success. 
   
   
   
  He also loved to invent such delights as a writing tablet ‘the nyctograph’ that allowed note-taking in the dark as well as many word games, such as the precursor to ‘Scrabble’, and alternative systems of parliamentary voting.  Within the discipline of mathematics, he worked in geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, recreational mathematics and wrote nearly a dozen books on the subject. 
   
   
   
  Lewis Carroll died of pneumonia following influenza on 14th January 1898 in Guildford, Surrey.  He was 65.

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  Preacher's Girl - The Life and...

  Jim Schutze

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  An "excellent true-crime study" of a female serial killer given the death penalty for poisoning at least three men between 1973 and 1989 (Publishers Weekly). 
   
   
   
  Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband—as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse Blanche suffered as a child at the hands of her alcoholic father turn her into a murderer she became? 
   
   
   
  In this riveting true crime account, critically acclaimed journalist Jim Schutze explores the harrowing motivation and chilling details of the lives, loves, and victims of North Carolina's oldest living inmate on death row. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Eddie Reese: Coaching Swimming...

  Chuck Warner, Dana Abbott

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  Eddie Reese: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life weaves Coach Reese’s personal and career development with his methodology in developing swimmers that won 39 Olympic Gold Medals and 15 NCAA Team Titles. The book details training, leadership, and how to teach life lessons to bring the most out of each individual through the process of development in their sport. 
  Includes a new epilogue of reflections by Eddie Reese on his career.

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  The Joy Document - Creating a...

  Jennifer McGaha

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  When Jennifer McGaha's grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. "Fifty-five," her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things that struck her as beautiful or humorous or intriguing and kept a list of all the accomplishments, large and small, that actually mattered to her. 
   
   
   
  These observations became Jennifer's Joy Document, a radical act of reclaiming joy and an exercise in paying attention. When you are determined to find joy, almost anything can become revelatory—an Earth Day Whole Foods errand, Claire Saffitz's fruitcake recipe, a harrowing ride in Twinkly Taxi, an evening picnic at Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, or cartwheels in the driveway. While many of us at midlife have found all the things we've strived for (the career, the better life, the organization tools), those things only go so far. And the search for something greater, something truer, begins. Life after fifty becomes not the end or even the middle of life, but a new beginning, another grand adventure with endless opportunities to find joy. The Joy Document includes fifty rollicking and often humorous essays exploring the art of joy and inspiring the rest of us to do the same.

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