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  Twenty-One Boxes - Robin's Story...

  Betsy Hester, Robin Couto

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  In 1989, the Little Rascals Day Care in Edenton, North Carolina, was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. One day, the owner's husband disciplined a boy at naptime, and soon an angry mother suggested that it was more than just a slap. Rumors quickly morphed into charges of unimaginable crimes against dozens of little children. Panic consumed the town, as the police, therapists, and parents relentlessly pressured the children who attended the day care to name their teachers responsible for multiple allegations of abuse. The Edenton Seven were caught up in the accusations, including nineteen-year-old teacher Robin Boles Byrum. She spent nearly a year in jail under an enormous bond meant to pressure her to "tell the truth" while she had a new baby at home. Eerily reminiscent of the hysteria that gripped Salem, Massachusetts, during the witch trials of the seventeenth century, the Little Rascals case ultimately became the longest and most expensive criminal trial in North Carolina history. 
  Three decades later, Betsy Hester met Robin Byrum Couto and together, they joined forces to tell the truth. In this book, Betsy shares insights from legal and medical experts and reveals the facts from twenty-one boxes and dozens of bound testimonies from the courtroom long since buried away. Intertwined with the case history is Robin's never-before-told story of her harrowing journey through the court system. Finally, this book serves as a modern-day warning about the danger of mass hysteria and the consequences of a judicial system that blindly refused to hear and seek the truth.

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  Tears of the Titans

  Barry Robbins

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  Regret. It is a feeling that knows no bounds, an emotion that transcends time, place, and the very limits of human achievement. 
  In "Tears of the Titans," you are invited to embark on a groundbreaking exploration of the profound regrets that haunted the lives of some of history's most iconic figures. 
  From the sorrowful reflections of Mahatma Gandhi on the partition of India to the soul-searching of Napoleon Bonaparte on his decision to invade Moscow, each story offers an intimate glimpse into the hearts and minds of those who shaped our world. 
  Through these poignant tales, you will encounter the remorse of figures like Sitting Bull, grappling with his inability to save his people’s way of life, and the inner turmoil of Galileo, forced to renounce his scientific truths on penalty of death. You will stand alongside Robert Falcon Scott as he faces the bitter end of his Antarctic expedition, and share in the sorrow of Gustav Klimt as he contemplates the fate of his lost paintings. 
  "Tears of the Titans" is a literary masterpiece that will leave you breathless, forever changed by the revelations within its pages.

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  Foxxxy Gentlemen's Club The: Angel

  Nikole Knight

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  Foxxxy Rule #2: Don’t mix business with pleasure 
  Life has not been kind to Adrian Vasquez. He spends his days hiding the truth of his sexuality from his homophobic brother, sticking to every rule of his probation so he isn’t sent back to jail, and keeping out of the crosshairs of Los Hermanos del Diablo—Boston’s most notorious Mexican gang, of which his brother is a prominent member—all in the name of survival. Thankfully, he has his nights working at The Foxxxy Gentlemen’s Club as an escort and exotic dancer to keep him sane. It may not be his dream job, but under the neon glow of the Foxxxy stage, Adrian can pretend to be someone else, even if it’s only for a little while. 
  Life has not been easy for Taylor Greer. Born queer and intersex to a Southern Baptist preacher, they left home at fifteen to escape conversion therapy, masquerading as a “Christian summer camp.” After surviving four years on the unforgiving streets of Boston, they struggle to get their life back on track for a chance at a better future. Working two jobs to stay afloat and studying every spare minute to pass their GED exam, Taylor has little time for a social life, let alone a love life. But who needs romance when living is this complicated? 
  When Taylor and Adrian’s paths meet with a literal crash, a bruised plantain is the catalyst for a connection they’re both starving for. Dating a coworker never ends well, but some forces cannot be fought, and Adrian and Taylor can only ignore the magnetic pull between them for so long before physics wins. 
  Adrian knows better than to mix business with pleasure. Taylor knows better than to get involved with a colleague. But the heart wants what the heart wants, and some rules are made to be broken. 

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  The Grey Soul of London - An...

  Robert Kingham

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  ‘He who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray’s Inn Road will never find those secrets elsewhere.’ – Arthur Machen 
  The Grey Soul of London is an audio guided tour. Robert Kingham takes a walk across the worn and hollowed stones of the Angel and Clerkenwell districts of London in search of places that inspired the writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947). This was originally a historical guided tour commissioned for the Museum of London’s Urban Myths season in 2011. 
  The Grey Soul of London has now been rewritten and expanded for 2023, with incidental music by Rich Cochrane. Everything you need in terms of directions and instructions is contained within the audio narrative, so you can just listen and walk. If you want, you can also find a map of the walk online at minimumlabyrinth.org, plus a picture gallery illustrating some of the people, places and events mentioned. 
  ‘It is a district both devious and obscure, and I suppose that its twisting streets and unexpected squares of dusty trees will all come to ruin before they are intelligently explored.’ – Arthur Machen

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  Book of Laboratory Hematology

  Konstantinos Triantafyllou

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  Laboratory tests are an integral part of the clinical decision-making process, providing irreplaceable information for the diagnosis and diagnostic-therapeutic monitoring of diseases. The term 'clinical laboratory science' encompasses various specialities, such as clinical chemistry, haematology, immunology, microbiology, serology, and urinalysis.
  
  This book will focus on the most important speciality, clinical chemistry, which involves a wide range of analyses and is a fundamental area of hospital and laboratory activity. It combines basic chemistry knowledge with biochemistry, computer science, technical expertise, and other disciplines.
  
  This book is intended to meet the basic learning needs of laboratory technicians who are new to the field of clinical laboratory medicine. Anyone involved in clinical chemistry or working in clinical laboratories will find this guide relevant.
  
  Typical readers of this book include medical laboratory technicians and medical technicians, laboratory supervisors and managers, nurses, laboratory support staff, and medical office laboratory staff.

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  The Soviet Army's High Commands...

  Richard W. Harrison

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  The first full history of the Soviet Army’s High Commands during World War II and the Cold War—“Provides valuable and original research that reveals a great deal about the Soviet Union’s military command structure during World War II, with a few important insights into the almost fifty years that followed” (Journal of Military History).The war on the Eastern Front during 1941–45 was an immense struggle, running from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus Mountains. The vast distances involved forced the Soviet political-military leadership to resort to new organizational expedients in order to control operations along the extended front. These were the high commands of the directions, which were responsible for two or more fronts (army groups) and, along maritime axes, one or more fleets.In all, five high commands were created along the northwestern, western, southwestern, and North Caucasus strategic directions during 1941–42. However, the highly unfavorable strategic situation during the first year of the war, as well as interference in day-to-day operations by Stalin, severely limited the high commands' effectiveness. As a consequence, the high commands were abolished in mid-1942 and replaced by the more flexible system of supreme command representatives at the front. A High Command of Soviet Forces in the Far East was established in 1945 and oversaw the Red Army's highly effective campaign against Japanese forces in Manchuria.The Far Eastern High Command was briefly resurrected in 1947 as a response to the tense situation along the Korean peninsula and the ongoing civil war in China, but was abolished in 1953, soon after Stalin's death. Growing tensions with China brought about the recreation of the Far Eastern High Command in 1979, followed a few years later by the appearance of new high commands in Europe and South Asia. However, these new high commands did not long survive the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and were abolished a year later.The book relies almost exclusively on Soviet and post-communist archival and other sources and is the first unclassified treatment of this subject in any country, East or West.

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