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  Travel Tips

  Kyle Rasmussen

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  Travel Tips by Kyle Rasmussen is a deep look at some of the typical things that every traveler experiences and tips for how to make each aspect of the trip your best trip ever. This true compilation from the mind of an experienced and avid traveler provides insight into travel in the modern world. Mr. Rasmussen teaches readers to use a myriad of resources to make the trip even better. This is a helpful guide, but it is also an entertaining book full of personal stories from Mr. Rasmussen’s many travels. The tips, tricks, and advice within these pages can be utilized by all travelers: young and old, rich and not-so-rich, seasoned travelers or those embarking on their first journey. Mr. Rasmussen’s hope is that his writing will educate, entertain, inspire, and encourage people to travel and to leave the world a better place than they found it.

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  The Two-Headed Whale - Life Loss...

  Sandy Winterbottom

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  An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy, and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic. 
   
   
   
  In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she discovered the dark legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale whaling. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men who undertook this whole scale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon the grave of an eighteen-year-old whaler from Edinburgh who she could not allow to bear the brunt of blame. There are two sides to every story. 
   
   
   
  The Two-Headed Whale vividly brings to life the spectacular scenery and wildlife of the vast Southern Oceans, set alongside the true-life story of Anthony Ford, the boy in the grave, as he sailed the same seas and toiled in an industry where profits outranked human life. Drawing together threads of nature and travel writing with an unflinching narrative of life aboard a whaling factory ship and the legacy it left behind, The Two-Headed Whale leaves us questioning our troubled relationship with the extraordinary abundance of this planet.

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  Building Wood and Resin...

  Bradlyn Zimmerman

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  Make your live edge river table dreams come true! A classy and unique addition to any space, river tables combine artistic elegance with everyday functionality, and this beginner-friendly guide will show you everything you need to know to accomplish these stunning pieces yourself. Featuring detailed overviews and tutorials for every step of the process from start to finish, you'll learn how select the wood, prepare the slab, prepare and pour the epoxy resin, trim and sand the table, and so much more to equip yourself with all the skills and knowledge you need to make your own river or waterfall table! Also included is an inspirational gallery of more than 100 river tables made by real people of all experience and skill levels. A complete guide that demystifies the stunning craft of building live edge river tables, this book is an absolute must-have to learn how to make it happen and do it yourself!

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  The Awful German Language

  Mark Twain

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  I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a "unique"; and wanted to add it to his museum.    If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art, he would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it. Harris and I had been hard at work on our German during several weeks at that time, and although we had made good progress, it had been accomplished under great difficulty and annoyance, for three of our teachers had died in the mean time. A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is.

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  Props - A History Of Power In 7...

  Norm Coady

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  Are you nostalgic for simpler times? Do you miss your favorite history teacher, the one that gave you perspective and kept you laughing? Come back to class. Buy Props and let Norm Coady take you on a trip from Caesar to Kennedy, from Wittenberg to St. Petersburg. Learn how seashells led to the first global conflict. Discover how a piece of chalk laid the groundwork for totalitarianism. Follow an umbrella’s strange journey from sunny Munich to rainy Dallas. Norm Coady takes well known historical events, turns them upside down, and shakes out new revelations. Equal parts illuminating and hilarious, Props is for, “people who take history so seriously, they read it for fun.”

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  White Lies Matter - The Gospel...

  Rev. Micaiah Wright

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  White Lies Matter: The Gospel of MAWA isn’t just a book—it’s a sermon, a roast, and a history lesson rolled into one blistering satire of American politics. Beneath the bright red MAGA cap, the author exposes what the slogan really meant: Make America White Again. 
  With wit as sharp as Twain, the bite of Carlin, and the unflinching honesty of Chappelle, this audiobook takes listeners on a journey through America’s not-so-secret gospel of racial nostalgia. From the election of Barack Obama that shook the foundations of white exceptionalism, to Steve Bannon and Donald Trump baptizing a movement in fear, grievance, and privilege, WLM uncovers how the “American Dream” was fenced off and sold as exclusive property. 
  Each chapter functions like a scripture reading from the Church of MAWA, complete with commandments, proverbs, and revelations that peel back patriotic veneers to reveal the machinery of exclusion underneath. It’s biting, it’s funny, and it’s devastatingly honest—because America’s greatest myths are also its greatest lies. 
  This is not a quiet audiobook. It’s meant to provoke laughter, outrage, and reflection in equal measure. Whether you’re a believer in the gospel of MAWA or a skeptic watching from the pews, White Lies Matter insists you confront the uncomfortable truth: racism was never a glitch in the system—it was the system. 
  At once irreverent and illuminating, this is satire that cuts to the bone and asks the question no campaign slogan dares to touch: Whose America are we really trying to make “great” again?

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