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  Flight of the Diamond Smugglers...

  Matthew Gavin Frank

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  For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately, he became intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling—particularly, the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property, affixing diamonds to their feet, and sending them into the air.Entering Die Sperrgebiet ("The Forbidden Zone") is like entering an eerie ghost town, but Frank is surprised by the number of people willing—even eager—to talk with him. Soon he meets Msizi, a young diamond digger, and his pigeon, Bartholomew, who helps him steal diamonds. It's a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes.From the mining towns of Alexander Bay and Port Nolloth to Kleinzee's shores littered with shipwrecks, Frank investigates a long overlooked story. Weaving interviews with local diamond miners who raise pigeons in secret with harrowing anecdotes from former heads of security, environmental managers, and vigilante pigeon hunters, Frank reveals how these feathered bandits became outlaws in every mining town.

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  A Reed Shaken by the Wind -...

  Gavin Maxwell

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  The Marsh Arabs were one of the most isolated communities in the world. Few outsiders, let alone Europeans, had been permitted to travel through their homeland, a mass of tiny islands lost in a wilderness of reeds and swamps in southern Iraq. One of the few trusted outsiders was the legendary explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who was Gavin Maxwell's guide to the intricate landscape, tribal customs and distinctive architecture of the Marsh Arabs. Thesiger's skill with a medicine chest and rifle assured them a welcome in every hamlet, and Maxwell's sharp observation, honed as a naturalist and writer, has left an invaluable record of a unique community and a now-vanished way of life.

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  The Psychic Awakening Journal -...

  Lisa Campion

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  Have you been told you are deeply intuitive? Do you ever have a sense that something will happen—and then it does? If so, you may be psychically gifted. And if you're like many other gifted individuals, these intuitive and psychic experiences often feel strong in the moment, but are easily forgotten if you don't write them down. This guided journal offers a sacred space to deepen your feelings of intuition, and open up to your psychic senses.From renowned psychic and Reiki master Lisa Campion, this journal will help you understand, develop, and harness your own psychic ability, so you can live your life with a greater sense of meaning and purpose. With the simple prompts in the journal, you'll discover creative ways to interpret your dreams and premonitions, and identify which areas of your life need healing.Our intuition is constantly guiding us toward our life's purpose—we just need to know how to listen to this inner voice. Let this journal guide you as you connect with and strengthen your psychic abilities and experience a deeper, more spiritual life.

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  Dumb Luck and the Kindness of...

  John Gierach

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  In his latest fresh and original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world. 
  In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes that it is "an acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives." 
  Lifelong fisherman though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish "in the usual amateur way." He offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one's love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.

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  Capital Beer - A Heady History...

  Garrett Peck

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  An effervescent history of beer brewing in the American capital city.Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery—the city’s first brewery—opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an influx of German immigrants gave a frosty reprieve to their new home in the form of light but flavorful lagers. Brewer barons like Christian Heurich and Albert Carry dominated the taps of city saloons until production ground to a halt with the dry days of Prohibition. Only Heurich survived, and when the venerable institution closed in 1956, Washington, D.C., was without a brewery for fifty-five years. Author and beer scholar Garrett Peck taps this high-gravity history while introducing readers to the bold new brewers leading the capital’s recent craft beer revival.“Why’d it take us [DC’s brewing culture] so long to get back on the wagon? Capital Beer will answer all your questions in the endearing style of your history buff friend who you can’t take to museums (in a good way!).” —DCist“In brisk and lively prose Peck covers 240 years of local brewing history, from the earliest days of British ale makers through the influx of German lagermeisters and up to the present-day craft breweries. . . . Richly illustrated with photographs both old and new, as well as a colorful collection of her art, Capital Beer is almost as much fun to read as “sitting in an outdoor beer garden and supping suds with friends over a long, languid conversation.”” —The Hill Rag

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  Bread - A Step-By-Step Guide to...

  Henri J. Richards

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  If you'd like to learn how to bake bread, this audio program is a wonderful place to start. 
  This easy white bread recipes will help you bake up delicious  bread. There's nothing like the homemade aroma wafting through my kitchen as it bakes. 
  Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... 
  Bran Bread RecipeCorn Bread RecipeGraham Bread RecipesGraham Bread with Nuts RecipesRice Bread RecipeRye Bread RecipeWhite Bread Recipe — Long ProcessWhite Bread Recipe — Quick ProcessWhole-Wheat Bread Recipe — Quick ProcessWhole-Wheat Fruit Bread Recipe 
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