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  Praying for That Man - A Love...

  Leanne Rozell

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  We've all grown up watching fairy tales, hearing fantastical love stories, and feeling the desire to be pursued to the ends of the earth. However, for many of us, our story involves treacherous paths, uncertain futures, and battles against villains both great and small. In other words, an endless road of searching, wandering, and waiting. Leanne Rozell isn't a fairy princess who was switched at birth. A wicked stepsister didn't lock her away in an ivory tower. She didn't battle it out with a fire-breathing dragon in order to escape. And yet, through prayer, pursuit, and a whole lot of faith, she is very much living her fairy-tale dream. We often think of fairy tales in the form of a brave knight on a white horse who carries us away from all danger. But what Leanne has learned is that—whatever your story may be—it has twists and turns that we seldom expect. Our stories aren't just simply about being rescued and whisked away. They're stories of growth, stories of battling darkness, stories about finding our way in this world, and stories about trusting in the One who desires to walk through each and every battle with us. With enough faith to make it rain, He gives us a more beautiful love story than we could have ever imagined. This is a story about a girl's journey to belief in the power of "what if." What if she recklessly chased after the King, entrusting her heart to Him? What if she prayed without ceasing, believing that He would bring her the handsome prince? And what if, in that pursuit, her answer came true?

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  A Packhorse Called Rachel

  Marcelle Kellermann

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  A story of courage, fear, and defiance based on the authors own experience. A Packhorse Called Rachel is the remarkable tale of a girl of 20, daughter of a Jewish father, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of France in 1944. Rachel moves through the book with her faithful dog Nourse, as her work with the Maquis based in the Auvergne takes her perilously close to danger. This account is based on personal experience, and the description of historical events is as true as memory will allow. It is beautifully written and at the same time captures the painful and lonely reality of life in the Maquis. Although all names have been changed, the writing includes some fine characterisations of the friends and foes the heroine meets and it describes the hardships resistance fighters, the Maquis, in the Auvergne had to face, the climate prevailing in winter, the Vichy traitors, and the hostility of ordinary people in Vichy France. 
  Rachel overcomes the initial animosity and mistrust of the lecherous and alcoholic farmer Raboullet on whom she comes to rely; the wrath of the Gestapo, the betrayal of St Pré, a love and its tragic loss, and yet she triumphs. From the opening raid to the closing trial the book gives an incisive view, as we understand the mind and soul of the resistance better with each page. This is the story of a young woman paralleled with the struggle of a nation as it regains its courage to fight back.

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  My Sister The Girl Who...

  Emmanuel Oly Izediunor

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  When Amaechi leaves her home in Anambra, Nigeria, she doesn’t know the real journey is not across the ocean— 
  but back to herself. 
  In a world where her braids, her accent, and her skin become targets of teasing, Amaechi begins to shrink. 
  Until one moment — one powerful moment — when her mother steps forward with the pride of generations and reminds her: 
  Identity is not given. 
  Identity is remembered. 
  Told through the gentle voice of her older brother, Obinna, this audiobook blends Igbo cultural wisdom, diaspora tenderness, warm family bonds, and the emotional journey of a girl learning to love herself again. 
  From school hallways in America to memories of red Anambra earth, this is a story filled with music, drums, childhood wounds, healing words, and the rediscovery of a crown that was never lost — only forgotten. 
  For families, daughters, sons, immigrants, and anyone who has ever felt different — this story is a soft, powerful reminder that your roots are not a burden. 
  They are your strength. 
  Perfect for listeners who enjoy: 
  culturally rich storytelling 
  inspirational children’s narratives 
  diaspora identity stories 
  emotional family journeys 
  Igbo/African-centered healing tales

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  We Will Not Cease

  Archibald Baxter

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  We Will Not Cease is the unflinching account of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector during World War I. 
  In 1915, when Baxter was 33, he was arrested, sent to prison, then shipped under guard to Europe where he was forced to the front line against his will. Punished to the limits of his physical and mental endurance, Baxter was stripped of all dignity, beaten, starved and left for dead by the New Zealand military. In the final attempt to discredit him authorities consigned him to a mental institution, an experience that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

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  The Art of Living Dangerously -...

  Richard Bangs

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  In 1973, Richard Bangs founded Sobek Expeditions, the original and now the largest adventure travel company in the world, with over a million clients guided since its beginning. But this is not just a story of an unusual company, one that profoundly transformed the way we travel and experience the world. It presents true stories, both perilous and awe-inspiring, from the full array of adventure travel: trekking, climbing, sailing, diving, adventure cruising, kayaking, back-country skiing, mountaineering, biking, cultural immersions, canyoneering, and more. Sobek pioneered scores of adventures, from trekking in the Himalayas, to cruising the Galapagos and Antarctica, to first descents of some eighty rivers around the world. The author personally led thirty-five first river descents, capsizing on six continents (a unique, albeit dubious, distinction), and organized and led the first trips into North Korea, Libya, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, New Guinea, Iran, and even China back in 1978. Sobek clients have included Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mick Jagger, Barry Diller, and Daryl Hannah. It is the shadow company behind National Geographic Adventures, New York Times Active Journeys, and Smithsonian Expeditions. This book traces fifty years of adventure travel and how it has evolved through times of war and peace, terrorism, the rise of the internet, the pandemic, and the first virtual expeditions.

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  Reckoning

  V

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  The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award–winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues—political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making. 
   
   
   
  The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays drawn from V's lifelong journals that takes listeners from Berlin to Oklahoma to the Congo, from climate disaster, homelessness, and activism to family. 
   
   
   
  Unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, Reckoning explores ways to create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honor the dead, to reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose. It reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand one's unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one's own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom.

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