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  Crawling Out of Hell - A Raw...

  Roman Kartashevsky

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  A Raw Story and Real Advice to Change Your Life 
  What if your life began in a place where violence was normal, alcohol was survival, and every friendship could end in a fight? 
  This is the brutally honest memoir of a young man from Eastern Europe who grew up surrounded by chaos — and refused to stay in it. 
  Fistfights in the streets. Addiction to computer games. Betrayal in love. Cold nights without food or heating. 
  Every chapter is a punch to the gut — and a lesson in survival. 
  But this story isn't just about pain. 
  It's about the power of change. 
  About escaping the darkness and building a new life — through discipline, education, and belief in yourself. 
  🔥 Inside this book: 
  ✅ A true coming-of-age story filled with raw experiences, 
  ✅ Powerful lessons on overcoming poverty, addiction, and broken relationships, 
  ✅ Real-life motivation for teens, young men, and immigrants trying to rebuild, 
  ✅ No excuses. No sugar-coating. Just the truth. 
  You will follow Roman Kartashevsky's journey: 
  – from forgotten villages to brutal jobs, 
  – from street fights to the kickboxing ring, 
  – from part-time studies in Belarus to earning a master's degree in Poland. 
  He didn't have perfect parents, money, or luck. 
  But he had something else: the will to fight for a better future. 
  👊 This book is for: 
  Boys and men growing up without role models 
  Teens trapped in toxic environments 
  Immigrants trying to start again 
  Anyone who needs a wake-up call to fight for their life 
  Readers of gritty, motivational memoirs like Can't Hurt Me, The Way of the Fight, or Man's Search for Meaning 
  You don't need money, privilege, or a lucky break. 
  You need courage. 
  And someone to tell you: 
  👉 I crawled out of hell. Now it's your turn!

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  Choosing Family - A Memoir of...

  Francesca T. Royster

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  A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides. 
   
  As a multiracial household in Chicago’s North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, this lyrical and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the author; her wife Annie, who's white; and Cecilia, the Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their forties and fifties. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist perspective. Royster also explores her memories of the matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women created in Chicago’s South Side—itself a dynamic character in the memoir—where “family” was fluid, inclusive, and not necessarily defined by marriage or other socially recognized contracts. 
      
  Calling upon the work of some of her favorite queer thinkers, including José Esteban Muñoz and Audre Lorde, Royster interweaves her experiences and memories with queer and gender theory to argue that many Black families, certainly her own, have historically had a “queer” attitude toward family: configurations that sit outside the white normative experience and are the richer for their flexibility and generosity of spirit. A powerful, genre-bending memoir of family, identity, and acceptance, Choosing Family, ultimately, is about joy—about claiming the joy that society did not intend to assign to you, or to those like you.

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  Solastalgia - An Anthology of...

  Paul Bogard

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  "One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice. 
   
   
   
  The concept of solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who describes it as "the homesickness we feel while still at home." It’s the pain and longing we feel as we realize the world immediately around us is changing, with our love for that world serving as a catalyst for action on its behalf. 
   
   
   
  This powerful anthology brings together thirty-four writers—educators, journalists, poets, and scientists—to share their emotions in the face of environmental crisis. They share their solastalgia, their beloved places, their vulnerability, their stories, their vision of what we can create.

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  Laurence Olivier and Richard...

  Editors Charles River

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  Of all the great actors of the 20th century, none personifies acting royalty more than Laurence Olivier, and some of this is simply due to the fact that he was actually knighted in 1947, along with a lengthy list of other honors that include being named a life peer in 1970 and admission to the Order of Merit in 1984. To speak of The Right Honourable Lord Laurence Olivier is not a figure of speech but rather a fact. Of course, in addition to the literal sense of the term, there is undeniably a manner in which Laurence Olivier qualifies as acting royalty, as it is not for nothing that Spencer Tracy once referred to Olivier as “the greatest actor in the English-speaking world” (Bacall). It is also important to note that Tracy refers to Olivier not as a film or theater actor specifically, because much of Olivier’s lofty standing derives from his ability to successfully navigate different mediums like stage, film, and television. The breadth of mediums in which he worked, the various roles he inhabited within them (actor, producer, director), and the formidable time span of his career lend Olivier’s career a scope of perhaps unmatched magnitude.   
  	In the 1960s, the most popular actor in the world was Richard Burton, a hard-drinking Welshman who was nevertheless so professional that he was one of the preeminent stage performers of his day. In fact, he performed Shakespeare so magnificently that he was compared to British legend Laurence Olivier, and that success ultimately led to a film career that earned him 7 Academy Award nominations, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actor. Given his accomplishments on the stage and in Hollywood, Burton became one of the world’s most recognizable leading men, so it seemed fitting that he engaged in one of Hollywood’s most legendary romances with Elizabeth Taylor.

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  Summary of Mike Lindell’s What...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Lindell’s What Are the Odds? 
    
  As a man with severe addiction to gambling, card counting, and cocaine, Mike Lindell made terrible life choices that ultimately cost him his wife, family, and financial stability. However, even as he was drowning in despair, God revealed himself in his life and showed him the miracles he could do, if only he had a flicker of hope. 
  What Are the Odds? traces the troubled chapters of his life in sincere and honest accounts. This 2019 memoir is a testimonial about success, failure, shame, pride, and hope. It is a story about a small-town guy with a big dream, who hit rock bottom but managed to rise back up with the help of God, becoming CEO of MyPillow, the company he founded. 
   

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  My Secret Life Vol 7 Chapter 7

  Dominic Crawford Collins

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  My Secret Life is an anonymously penned memoir written during a period from the 1840s to the 1880s by a wealthy and sex obsessed English gentleman who refers to himself simply as ‘Walter’. Part confessional, part investigative erotic journalism, it meticulously documents every detail of the author’s prolific sexual encounters, offering us in the process an eye and thigh opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian age.Women, in both mind and body, were the all consuming object of Walter’s interest. From early youth through to old age his quest for erotic discovery and adventure with them was never diminished.Unlike contemporary 19th century erotic texts, such as The Pearl, whose sole object was to titillate, Walter’s interest in his subjects did not end with the extinguishing of the carnal flame. His hunger to understand the circumstances and minds of the women he encountered is never upstaged by the sex. Their potted life histories, their most intimate desires and acts were shared with him and in turn meticulously recorded by him, written down verbatim while still fresh in his mind.The resulting poignant record of a lost era and the intimate moments of the women who inhabited it offer us a remarkable insight into the 19th century that cannot be gleaned from any other source.The complete unabridged text is being released as a fully scored audiofilm (an audio book with accompanying music soundtrack) by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins.

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