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  Wine Bach and Cuckoo Clocks -...

  Lorna Stuber

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  If a friendship lasts longer than fifteen years, you're no longer friends. You're family. 
  Since childhood, Lorna has been curious about Germany and her ancestral roots there. She was fourteen when her great-grandfather died, a man who was born in what is now part of Ukraine but who was a self-proclaimed, proud German. 
  Having grown up during the Cold War, Lorna had always viewed the former East and West Germany as being starkly different until 1999, when she met Christine, a woman from the former East Germany who became one of Lorna's closest lifetime friends. 
  Over twenty-five years, Lorna made several trips to Germany in search of the world's largest cuckoo clock, a hotel in Berlin where guests can sleep in a coffin or prison cell, another hotel along the Rhein River that is owned by a family who may or may not be Lorna's distant relatives, sausage that meets the Nuremberg Sausage Protection Association's standards, and the best view of Neuschwanstein Castle. 
  In her most recent memoir, travel and humour writer Lorna Stuber tells of her adventures in Germany while she reconnects with and learns more about her familial ties to Europe.

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  Metaphors in Motion - Wisdom...

  Tim Bishop, Debbie Bishop

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  From the coauthors of the award-winning Wheels of Wisdom. 
  After pedaling thousands of miles throughout America, midlife newlyweds and cross-country adventurers Tim and Debbie Bishop offer eight powerful life lessons from the seat of a bicycle. 
  Do you need some inspiration or a nudge in your life? Whether you are bored, navigating unfamiliar terrain, struggling to get started, or just plain stuck, the epiphanies inside this book will bring focus to your journey. 
  With wisdom gleaned all the way from a twilight ride up an Idaho mountain to a bicycle shop in Delaware, Ohio, Metaphors in Motion provides enlightenment for your own travels through life. 
  Certain principles are universal.

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  Osman I - Biography of the...

  Kelly Mass

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  Osman I, also known as Osman Ghazi, was the founder of the Ottoman dynasty and the ruler of the Kayi tribe, a key figure in the creation of one of history's most influential empires. The state he established, originally called the Ottoman Beylik or Emirate, grew from a small Turkmen principality in the late thirteenth century into a global power, dominating much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa for centuries. While the empire he founded lasted until the end of World War I, the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. 
  Due to the scarcity of historical records from Osman’s lifetime, much of what is known about him is based on oral traditions and legends that developed long after his death. There are no known contemporary written sources from his reign, and the Ottomans themselves did not document his life until the fifteenth century, over a hundred years after he passed away. This gap in documentation has made it difficult for historians to separate fact from fiction, with some scholars even describing the period of Osman's life as a "black hole" of historical knowledge, unable to be reconstructed with certainty. 
  The traditional accounts of Osman’s ancestry trace his lineage to the Oghuz Turks, specifically the Kay tribe. However, many historians believe that the stories surrounding his ancestry were fabricated later to legitimize the Ottoman dynasty’s rule. These narratives were likely developed as the dynasty sought to strengthen its claim to power and emphasize its noble heritage.

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  Restless Coast The: A Journey...

  Roger Morgan-Grenville

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  Britain is defined by the dynamic, mysterious and fragile coastline that surrounds it. In this moving and beautiful account, Roger Morgan-Grenville tells the story of his marathon journey around that coast, explains some of the key challenges and opportunities he found and celebrates the people who are trying to protect and enhance it. 
   
  At once angry, hopeful and funny, The Restless Coast is a love letter to an extraordinary national treasure, and a clarion call for us to understand it better.

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  William Stanek's New River Gorge...

  The Editors of Our American...

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  New River Gorge is a landscape of descent.
  
  Roads begin high. Trails move toward cliffs and water. Industrial history occupies the same steep ground now read as wild scenery. The bridge spans the gorge in seconds; understanding the place takes longer.
  
  William Stanek's New River Gorge connects rim, river, forest, sandstone, overlooks, old road corridors, walking, climbing landscapes, railway and mining history, and the communities shaped by the gorge. It helps readers see how geology created both scenic drama and the practical geography of work.
  
  The guide's central question is not how many viewpoints can fit into one day, but what changes when the traveler leaves the rim and enters the physical structure below it.
  
  For first-time visitors, Appalachian road travelers, hikers, climbers, photographers, families, couples, and solo travelers, this is a durable companion to a park where wildness and human history repeatedly occupy the same ground.

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  The Middle East Conflict - A...

  Oliver Green

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Middle East conflict is one of the most covered and least understood stories in modern history. The headlines never stop. The context almost never arrives. 
   
  The Middle East Conflict: A Plain-English Guide to What's Actually Happening is the accessible, nonpartisan overview for anyone who wants to understand what is actually going on—where the conflict came from, why it has persisted for decades, who the key players are, what each side believes they are fighting for, and why every proposed solution has so far failed to hold. No jargon. No agenda. No assumption that you already know the history. 
   
  Inside this audiobook you will learn the historical background that shaped the modern conflict including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate period, the founding of Israel, and the displacement of Palestinian populations, how the major wars of the 20th century redrew borders and hardened divisions that still define the conflict today, who the key actors are including governments, armed factions, international bodies, and regional powers and what each of them wants, why the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the question of Palestinian statehood remain the central unresolved fault lines, how the United States, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and other regional and global powers influence the conflict from the outside, what the major proposed solutions have been, why they have failed, and what the realistic obstacles to peace actually look like, and how to follow ongoing developments with enough context to understand what you are reading. 
   
  This audiobook does not tell you what to think about the Middle East. It gives you a foundation for thinking about it clearly.

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