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  Rigged Justice - How the College...

  Anonymous

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  The former Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a damning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect.  
   For eleven years, John Vandemoer ran the prestigious Stanford University sailing program in which he coached Olympians and All-Americans. Though the hours were long and the program struggled for funding, sailing gave Vandemoer’s life shape and meaning.  
  But early one morning, everything came crashing down when Vandemoer, still in his pajamas, opened the door to find FBI and IRS agents on his doorstep. He quickly learned that a recruiter named Rick Singer had used him as a stooge in a sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising—and wealthy parents looking for an edge for their college-bound children.  
  Vandemoer was summarily fired, kicked out of campus housing, his children booted from campus daycare. The next year of his life was a Kafkaesque hellscape, and though he was an innocent man who never received a dime was the first person to be convicted in what became known as the Varsity Blues scandal.  
  A true story that reads like a suspense novel, Rigged Justice lays bare how a sophisticated scheme could take advantage of college coaches and university money—and how one family became collateral damage in a large government investigation that dominated national headlines.

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  The Allegory of the Cave

  Plato, S. George Boeree

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  Imagine a world where shadows are reality, where knowledge is but flickering illusions cast upon a wall. This is the chilling vision of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, a philosophical parable nestled within The Republic. More than two millennia old, it remains one of the most haunting explorations of truth, perception, and enlightenment.
  In this tale, Socrates describes prisoners trapped in a dark cavern since birth, chained so they can see only the wall before them. Behind them burns a fire, casting the silhouettes of unseen objects. To the prisoners, these shifting shadows are the entire world. But what if one of them were freed? What if he turned toward the light, stepping beyond the cave's mouth into the dazzling reality of the sun? Would he embrace the truth, or would the brilliance blind him? More importantly, if he returned to the cave, could he convince the others that their world was mere illusion?
  Plato's allegory is more than a story—it is a challenge. Are we content with shadows, or do we dare to seek the light? His message echoes through time, urging us to question, to learn, and to break free from the chains of ignorance.

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  Executions of British and French...

  Editors Charles River

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  Over 450 years after his reign, Henry VIII is still the most famous and recognizable King of England, but it’s for all the wrong reasons. Though well regarded by contemporaries as a learned King and "one of the most charismatic rulers to sit on the English throne", he is best remembered today for his gluttony and multiple marriages, particularly the gruesome way in which he was widowed on more than one occasion. Naturally, that was the focus of the popular ShowTime drama series centered around his life, The Tudors.  
  	While Henry’s reign is not considered as favorably as his daughter’s, Queen Elizabeth I would ultimately sentence a queen to death herself. Mary, Queen of Scots’ fame as a monarch lies less in her personality or achievements than in her position within the dynastic maneuvers and political-religious upheavals taking place in northwest Europe in the 16th century. Most monarchs spend their early years learning in preparation to rule and then spend the latter part of their lives wielding power and status, but Mary was thrust upon the throne when she was only a week old, and she ceased to be queen nearly 20 years before her death. 
  	With French society in open revolt by the late 1780s, the King appeared indecisive at a number of crucial moments, including during a famous attempted escape that was thwarted at Vergennes, and he had to literally run for his life when a mob stormed the royal palace at Tuileries. Soon after, he was stripped of his dignity and his royal name, convicted of high treason in a sham trial as Citizen Louis Capet. Ironically, in death, some historians have asserted that his execution and the sympathy it engendered helped bring about the Restoration a generation later.  
  	Nearly 220 years after she was put to the guillotine, Marie Antoinette is more famous than ever, fairly or unfairly coming to epitomize royalty and everything that was wrong with it. 

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  Your Eyes Will Be My Window -...

  Jodi Varon

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  Your Eyes Will Be My Window reclaims the two erasures of Esta Plat. Murdered in Ukraine by Nazi troops in 1942, evidence of the life of Esta Plat was preserved in a bundle of her letters until the letters were tossed into a dumpster and destroyed. Haunted by the inheritance of survivor's guilt and shame in a family that kept no Old World keepsakes except her grandmother's one-sentence memory of Esta Plat, Jodi Varonis compelled to sift through records of Europe's genocidal past. 
   
   
   
  Pitting grandiose Holocaust memorials against the act of bearing witness, Varon confronts the limitations of history, folklore, archival data, and survivor testimonies. Seeking solace in ritual, she challenges her upbringing as an outlier Jew in the Rocky Mountain West to provide a window to the meaning of cultural displacement in immigrant communities. When an ethnic German woman's corpse was discarded across from Varon's rented flat in Baden-Württemberg, the homemade memorial for Nadine E. prompts a meditation on violence against women and girls as a weapon of suppression and war. The record of unfiltered emotions among Kindertransport survivors in Europe, journalists in Ludwigsburg, and archivists and guides in Jerusalem, Your Eyes Will Be My Window is a defiant exercise in honoring the lost.

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  British Invasion (The Bands) The...

  PJ Chambers

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  The best time machine is a song! 
  If you wanna escape this current crazy world and go back in time to the 60s British pop/rock scene of free-wheelin’,  music fueled love-energy that overtook America by storm … stop everything and get this book now! 
  Let this informal, chatty little book take you back there!  
  This fun, factual, and fast paced Top 10 countdown is a perfect tool to indulge your needy-nostalgia-nerves for a fun and groovy, easy-ridin’ weekend read … thru a daddy-cool cross-section of poignant music biographies of the best pop and rock bands ever.  
  The sex, the drugs, the rock’n’roll, the friendships, the fun, and the fights … these important stories are all here to make you laugh out loud, say “hmmm and ahhh,” and maybe even cry a little! 
  Inside The British Invasion: The Best ‘60s Pop & Rock Music (The Bands), you’ll find: biographies of the most significant British bands of the ‘60s, including Cream, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatleshow these bands changed the course of music history and which artists were influenced by these music legendschatty facts and stats for the die-hard fans and newbies to the ‘60s music sceneselected salacious details of their onstage and behind-the-scenes antics 
  AAAAND DON’T FORGET THE FREE STUFF!  
  Go to my website to get your FREE BONUS Chapter on the next 10 awesome bands who just missed the top 10. 
  These bands impacted society mass-ive-ly (they impacted you—that’s why you’re here) and still inform so much of what modern pop music is today. Pick up your copy of The British Invasion: The Best ‘60s Pop & Rock Music (The Bands) today!

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  Most Dangerous Serial Killers

  Evan Russell

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  Step into the chilling world of true crime where the line between genius and madness disappears. 
  In Most Dangerous Serial Killers, author Evan Russell exposes the most infamous murderers in history—their twisted motivations, calculated methods, and the dark psychology that drove them to kill again and again. 
  From the shadowy streets of Victorian London to the suburban nightmares of modern America, this book uncovers real cases that shocked the world and forever changed the way we understand evil. Each chapter dives deep into the forensic evidence, investigative breakthroughs, and psychological profiles behind the killers who terrified generations.

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