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  What If You Win? - A...

  Benjamin Webi

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  ‘What If You Win?’ is a memoir by Benjamin Webi that offers insights into his life through a unique perspective. Driven by his dream of becoming a successful artist, Webi spent twenty years exploring and redefining what success truly means. Throughout this journey, he discovered a deeper purpose behind his pursuit of achievement. While reaching vocational success is an important milestone, there's more to it than initially appears. 
  This memoir candidly highlights the most significant seasons of his life, revealing both honesty and vulnerability, while also challenging common beliefs about success. Rather than merely recounting his experiences, Webi hopes that readers will see reflections of themselves in his stories and gain a fresh perspective on their own lives.

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  Lady MacGyver - Unbelievable...

  Michelle Huntington

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  From the cockpit of a Boeing 737 to the sun-kissed shores of Kiribati, Lady MacGyver is a remarkable memoir of grit, courage, and sky-high ambition. 
    
  Michelle Huntington's dream of flight took root at the age of seven—and, against all odds, she became one of just 500 female airline captains worldwide. Over two decades, she’s flown solo across vast oceans, landed on rugged outback strips, and even survived a lightning strike mid-flight. 
    
  Michelle’s journey through the aviation world is anything but conventional. She navigates a turbulent path, sidestepping naysayers and confronting systemic barriers. Through it all, she proves that with MacGyver-style ingenuity—and maybe a touch of insanity—no challenge is insurmountable. 
    
  Told with sharp wit and unflinching candour, Lady MacGyver is packed with exhilarating adventures and powerful insights into resilience and resourcefulness. Today, Michelle channels her experiences beyond the cockpit, speaking globally on neuroplasticity and mindset transformation, helping others face adversity and embrace change with clarity and conviction. 
    
  More than a memoir, Lady MacGyver is an inspiring tale of rising above limitations, and when the going gets tough, finding the strength to soar.

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  Lucas - A Journey Beyond the Walls

  Scott G. Roix

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  Lucas: A Journey Beyond the Walls chronicles the extraordinary life of Lucas Brown, a man who defies the odds and radiates light even in the darkest of circumstances. Inspired by his own encounter with Lucas during incarceration, Scott Roix offers a deeply moving portrayal of a man whose positivity, wisdom, and compassion transcend his surroundings. Despite serving a lengthy prison sentence, Lucas embodies strength, discipline, and unwavering faith. Roix reveals him not merely as a man with a warm smile and kind words but as a pillar of resilience and inspiration. Through Roix’s heartfelt narrative, readers witness Lucas’s remarkable ability to uplift those around him, proving that even in confinement, the human spirit can soar. More than a story of survival, Lucas: A Journey Beyond the Walls is a profound testament to hope, redemption, and the enduring power of the human soul.

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  Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times...

  John Howard

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  This first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director, and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis examines his prolific body of work within the socio-political context of his times. Best known as a bold modernist for triple-Oscar-winner 'Zorba the Greek', Michael likewise was hailed as an astute classicist for his inventive interpretations of Euripides. Working across several continents and languages, he forwarded feminist, humanist, and pacifist agendas, as he further innovated crafty LGBT narratives of unprecedented artistry and complexity. Despite intense persecution during the Cold War red scare and lavender scare, his casts and crews of frugal cosmopolitans critiqued racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Avoiding censorship, job loss, and jail, Michael thereby laid foundations for the 1990s new queer cinema and set the stage for empowering dramas of socio-economic justice in the third millennium. Over his long life and productive career, Michael exposed and espoused the vital truths up his sleeve.

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  Above the Abyss - Finding...

  Friedi Kühne, Andy Lewis

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  Step out over the abyss and discover the incredible story of professional slackliner Friedi Kühne overcoming personal limits, grappling with mental toughness, and achieving greatness from thousands of feet in the air.Slacklining is an ever-evolving extreme sport in which an athlete must walk across a thin line of flexible webbing from one point to another. What once began as a trendy hobby—with a person balancing just a foot or two off the ground between two trees—has now evolved into intense feats of athleticism, including performing flips, twists, and other tricks across the slackline (tricklining) and achieving incredible balancing acts from, for some intrepid athletes, heights upwards of 6,000 feet (highlining).In Above the Abyss, author and professional slackliner Friedi Kühne dives into his slackline journey, from doing tricks as a kid on trampolines and park benches to trying his first highline at 18 years old. Along the way, Kühne learns how to train his body to achieve balance, find focus, and stay resilient. His love of slacklining takes him all over the world as he competes for world records, achieves personal milestones, and ultimately discovers how physical and mental limits can be overcome if we don’t allow our fears to hold us back.From nail-biting descriptions of highline adventures to practical advice and strategies that have carried Kühne between mountains and skyscrapers, Above the Abyss captures the passion, struggles, and determination at the center of one man’s pursuit of slackline greatness.

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  Mothering Heights

  Rachael Mogan McIntosh

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  A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood 
   
  Following the year Rachael Mogan-McIntosh gave birth to her third child and shapeshifted from wild to mild, Mothering Heights is an hilarious, moving celebration of early parenthood - written by a survivor. 
   
  As Rachael navigates her way through the confusing rules of modern-day motherhood and grapples with the crazy-making Sisyphean beast that is housework, her three children under five grow like weeds, eat like footballers and deliver non-stop comedic shenanigans. 
   
  Rachael adapts to the realisation that her old identity no longer quite fits, and neither do her trousers. The year is beyond tough but the hard-won wisdom of motherhood cracks her heart wide open. A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a love story about becoming a mother.

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