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  A Garland of Earth - From their...

  Dorothy Edwards

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  Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was born on 7th June 1831 in Islington, London.  She was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer, publishing her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at 12.  Thereafter several popular periodicals published her poetry, stories and articles. 
  In addition she also illustrated some of her own writings and painted scenes from books she had read.  This talent was not supported by her parents, who saw an artist’s life as scandalous.  Undeterred Amelia took up composing and performing music until a bout of typhus caused throat damage.  Other interests soon followed until, early in the 1850s, Amelia focused exclusively on writing.  Her early novels were well received, and with ‘Barbara's History’ in 1864, a work revolving around bigamy, her reputation was established.  
  Amelia’s pen was also the purveyor of ghost stories for magazines and are still anthologized as classic tales to this day. 
  In January 1851, Amelia became engaged, apparently to please her parents, but she quickly broke it off.  In reality her emotional attachments were almost exclusively with women.  From the early 1860s she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher, a widow 27 years her senior, until both women died in early 1892.  During this relationship other women also entered and left her life.  Her frequent travelling companion, Lucy Renshaw, accompanied her to Egypt in the winter of 1873 and there she found a life-changing interest in Egyptology.  Aware of increasing threats from tourism and modern development she became an advocate for their research and preservation.  
  To advance the work Amelia largely abandoned much of her writing in favour of Egyptology and even took on strenuous lecture tours to raise funds. 
  After catching influenza, Amelia Edwards, ‘the Godmother of Egyptology’ died on 15th April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare.  She was 60.

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  On the Razor's Edge - The Story...

  Eric Malka

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  Eric Malka, founder of The Art of Shaving, set out on his entrepreneurial journey at the age of seventeen as an undocumented immigrant with $100 to his name. In On the Razor’s Edge, Malka details his rags-to-riches story while sharing the many business and life lessons he acquired along the way. As an investor and advisor, he shares insights that are designed to empower tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and increase their odds of success.

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  American Presidents - Andrew...

  Kelly Mass

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  This is a bundle book with biographies about the following USA presidents: 
  1 - Andrew Jackson was an American attorney, soldier, and statesman who acted as the seventh president of the U.S. from 1829 to 1837. Jackson rose to prominence as a basic in the US Army and served in both homes of Congress before being chosen to the presidency. Jackson, an expansionist president, defended the rights of the "commoner" and the Union against a "corrupt upper class." 
  2 - Richard Milhous Nixon was the United States' 37th president, serving from 1969 to 1974. Nixon, a Republican politician, formerly worked as the 36th Vice President from 1953 to 1961, after rising to country prominence as a California agent and senator. Following the Watergate occurrence, he ended up being the only president to leave from office after 5 years in the White Home that observed the end of the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the first manned moon landings, and the starting of the Epa. 
  3 - Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the U.S.A. of America, serving from 1981 to 1989. He was the Republican politician Party's 33rd ruler of California from 1967 to 1975, following a profession as a Hollywood star and labor organizer. Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, to a low-income family. In the year 1932, he finished from Eureka College and went to work in Iowa as a radio sports analyst. 
  4 - JFK, or John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was an American political leader who functioned as the 35th President of the US from 1961 till his assassination to the conclusion of his 3rd year in office. Kennedy was president throughout the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his time in office was spent handling the Soviet Union and Cuba. Prior to his presidency, Kennedy acted as a Democrat in both homes of Congress, representing Massachusetts.

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  Broke

  Sam Drummond

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  A memoir about downward mobility, disability and the power of hope. 
  Sam always knew he was starting life on the back foot. When his parents split, Sam, his mother and his brother had to learn to survive in a world not built for single-parent families. Add to that Sam’s diagnosis with a form of dwarfism and the odds seemed stacked against them. As surgeons kept breaking and resetting Sam’s legs in attempts to keep him walking, disability and poverty collided, and it took all the family’s strength not to crumple in the impact. 
  With each change in circumstance – jobs gained and lost, relationships starting and ending, moving between city and country and from school to school – Sam tried to make sense of the adult decisions that kept shaking his world. Armed with hope, the support of friends and teachers, and the unwavering love of his mum, he began to claw his way to a brighter future. 
  In Broke, lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply compassionate tale of life on the fringes. It’s a story of broken families, broken bodies and a broken system that constantly lets vulnerable Australians down.

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  A Living Remedy - A Memoir

  Nicole Chung

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  A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 
  Winner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing 
  Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today 
  From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost. 
  In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you’d hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them. 
  Nicole Chung couldn’t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in – where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations – looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets. 
  When her father dies at only sixty-seven, killed by diabetes and kidney disease, Nicole feels deep grief as well as rage, knowing that years of precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early death. And then the unthinkable happens – less than a year later, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as COVID-19 descends upon the world. 
  Exploring the enduring strength of family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy, A Living Remedy examines what it takes to reconcile the distance between one life, one home, and another – and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent and grievous inequalities in American society. 

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  CODE NAME: THE FOX - Operation...

  DD Dr. Hal Bradley

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  Two years since the rape and murder of Harold Brandon’s beloved wife, Shelly, he strikes his scythe of vengeance upon one man and his entire cartel. 
   
  “Hey gringo, are you lost?” 
   
   “No. Not lost. Looking for someone.” 
   
  “Who are you looking for?” 
   
  “I’m looking for a dead man.” 
   
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  Shelly was raped and murdered by the Sonora Cartel two years ago. And since then, Harold has been juggling his sorrow and rage amid a standing contract on his life set at one million dollars. 
   
  When a grieving former drug-lord-turned-minister-turned-contractor is also being hunted like prey, he adapts. 
   
  Harold was forced to hide in the shadows and isolate himself from friends and family. He was also driven to undergo plastic surgery twice. 
   
  Heartbroken, seething, unrecognizable, and with unlimited government resources at his disposal, Harold now has the upper hand and plots to find Enrique, the Sonora Cartel’s #2 man, with every intention of killing him — slowly and in true cartel fashion. 
   
  Just like how they killed his wife. 
   
  Will Harold succeed? 
   
  Find out for yourself in “Operation Durango Cartel: Harold Brandon’s War Against the Cartels”, the second installment to the bestselling “Code Name: The Fox” series by prolific author Dr. Hal Bradley, DD! 
   
  If you’re looking for a roller coaster of blood, betrayal, and vengeance, then get ready to meet your next favorite book!

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