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  Ennobled for Success - From...

  PhD Kasthuri Henry

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  Ennobled for Success: From Civil War to a US CFO takes you through a conscious journey within, for a self-exploration to discover wisdom-filled lessons to support you in living an ennobled, empowered, and positive life. The book helps you connect with your BEING to purposefully channel your DOING so the light in you can shine. Seeing life through the perspective of gratitude while igniting the process of ennobling to embody noble qualities of kindness, compassion, and empathy as a pathway to leadership and success is an extraordinary road least travelled. -- This is an unapologetically authentic road map to meaningful success. This is a heartfelt and transparent love letter to those who feel they are not good enough. --Traci S. Campbell, CEO; Founder, BIBO Worldwide, LLC; The BIBO Foundation; Students, teachers, and business leaders will all benefit from the delightful fruits of knowledge that grow in Dr Kas' garden. --Wolfgang Trampe, Human Resources Leader, Duracell (A Berkshire Hathaway Company), Latin America; While some use fables, Kas shares real-life experiences to teach how being authentic, caring, and purpose-driven can bring success. --Joe Schum, Division Chief, Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue, Reno, NV and International Public Safety Leadership Ethics Institute (IPSLEI) Board Member; As a world-renowned expert profiler who understands how people are wired, I recognize Dr. Kasthuri's brilliance in helping you go deeper to bring the best of you forward. --Susan, Human Behavior Hacker, Human Behavior Lab; This autobiography is a gem from start to finish. When describing this book, the word inspirational is inadequate. --Bob Whipple, The Trust Ambassador MBA CPTD, CEO Leadergrow, Inc; [Dr. Henry] and her life will become ennobling catalysts for those who are lucky enough to read this book. --Dr. Marina Kostina, CEO; Founder of Ravenous Life Healing Center.

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  Searching for Alpha Centauri - A...

  Gary Spetz

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  Three complaisant kids, two stormy parents, one anxious French poodle, too many U-haul trailers, and the potholed road of the early 1960s. Searching for Alpha Centauri is American Public Television artist Gary Spetz's boyhood memoir of living a nomadic life with an impetuous mother, a discontent casino-security-guard step-father, an anxious French poodle, and two complaisant siblings -- during the early 1960s. The artist/author paints his moving landscape with words. He adeptly colors these words with both humor and tenderness. Mixed into this tale is the author's deference of history. He effectively interweaves his backdrop of an impending nuclear war, an exciting new space race, an escalating conflict in Vietnam, a rising civil rights movement, the invasion of Beatlemania, and the shocking assassination of a President. Searching for Alpha Centauri is a story of innocence, edification, intrigue, adventure, and endurance. As its boy-protagonist explains, it was "a time of flying bears, where everyone, it seemed, danced into the mystic."

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  Canon Alberic's Scrap Book -...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.

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  Murder by the Sea - True Crime...

  Robin Jarossi, David Howard

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  A beach read like no other! Be prepared for a journey from wherethe land meets the sea, to where life meets death. 
  There is something sinister about a British seaside town. On the surface they’re all funfairs and breezy promenades. Yet dig a little deeper in the sand and you soon uncover an underworld of murder, madness and mayhem… 
  Murder by the Sea Vol 1 is a companion book to the long-running true crime documentary series on CBS Reality. Since 2018 the programme has examined some of the most extraordinary murder cases in Britain’s seaside towns. From Blackpool to Bournemouth, Southport to Pembrokeshire, people love to be beside the seaside, but away from the piers, the arcades and beautiful beaches lurks some dark secrets. 
  Ten of the series’ most powerful and shocking cases feature in Murder by the Sea Vol 1. From serial killers to a 1950s poisoner, from cruel husbands to an unusual murder by a mother and son, these are the true stories of wives, couples and families who had the misfortune to encounter a killer in their everyday lives. 
  With complete access to the extensive interviews conducted by the TV production teams with detectives, forensic psychologists, witnesses and relatives, Murder by the Sea Vol 1 features exclusive additional material and insights that could not be included in the original episodes.

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  Bandit Country

  Jamie Reid

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  'Channels the hard-edged realism of Get Carter into a salutary thriller' - Racing PostWelcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen. Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric true-crime noir. It is the story of Britain's 1960's gambling boom, as the country emerged from years of hardship to embrace exotic night-life and entertainment, all supplied by the Mafia. It is an emotional, visceral story of brothers: the Luvaglios, who dreamed of an empire founded among the hard industrial skylines and bridges of Newcastle, built on good times and bright lights - dreams that, for a moment, were lived in technicolour; and the Kray twins, who looked up to this new kingdom from London and saw a slice of action they wanted for themselves.And above all, it is a story of betrayal, murder and a shocking miscarriage of justice, as empires crumble, friends turn on friends, and the good times come screeching to a halt. Sure to be loved by fans of Peaky Blinders, this story - that inspired classic British gangster film Get Carter - isn't quite like anything you've read before. Turn the page and roll the dice. . .

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  The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

  Emma Carey

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  There on that helicopter, somewhere over Switzerland on a Sunday in June, came the first tiny whisper. A voice that would carry me for years to come. ‘I’m going to be okay. There’s still joy here.’ 
   
  When Emma Carey was twenty, she fell from 14,000 feet and survived. In The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, Emma tells us the inspirational story of how, through one of her greatest tragedies, she found her truest self. From waking up in hospital a paraplegic to learning how to use her legs again, through the six-year-long court case and now being finally free to make the most of her life, Emma teaches us the importance of courage and resilience. This heartfelt book is more than a memoir, it’s a call to action that reminds us not to take our lives and abilities for granted but to live every day like it could be our last. 
   
  ‘Emma Carey is a powerhouse. This book will change a lot of perceptions about what you think it’s like to live with disability.’ DYLAN ALCOTT

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