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  The Adventures of Colonel Daffodil

  Roy Redgrave

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  Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life.  Born into the same family as the well known actors, he was brought up in Romania as part of a thriving international community before he joined the British Army and advanced to high rank.Following on from the success of his memoir Balkan Blue the author has pulled together a superb pot pourri of anecdotes covering his family, his military career and post-retirement travels and experiences. Readers will delight in the scope of this book which ranges widely from aristocratic life in feudal Romania to the dangers an intrigue of the Cold War; from the charm of French rural life to Franz Josef Land and encounters with polar bears, walruses and seals.  We travel with this intrepid man from Kathmandu to Lhasa where he lived with impoverished Tibetans whose generosity and friendliness made the discomfort of primitive living at such altitudes disappear.These and other extraordinary experiences made this a fascinating read.

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  Untold Stories From F1 During...

  Ibrar Malik

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  Grand Prix Racing during the 1990’s was among one of the best era’s of the sport. Not only did you have great F1 drivers & loud F1 engines (like the old V12’s) which not only excited fans, but, the sport was full of colourful characters and it was an era before people were afraid of watching their words. This book therefore captures some forgotten, yet fascinating short stories from that time that will make you laugh, cry or even just ponder. They include: 
  Chapter 1          What Do The Most Successful and Worst Car of 1994 Have in Common? 
  Chapter 2           Funny Stories From An F1 Mechanic 
  Chapter 3           Brundle at McLaren 
  Chapter 4          Mansell’s 1994 Comeback 
    
  Chapter 5          Working Within Benetton During the 1990’s 
  Chapter 6           Unraced Projects of the 1994 F1 Season & an insight into Pacific Grand Prix racing (written in conjunction with Jasper Heijmans) 
  Chapter 7          Schumacher’s Ferrari Controversies 
  Chapter 8          Schumacher’s 1994 Ligier Test 
  Chapter 9           Herbert at Benetton 
  Chapter 10        Lehto at Benetton 
  Chapter 11         The Flying Dutchman After 1994 
  Chapter 12         How the Schumacher v Hill Feud Developed 
  Chapter 13         Paul Tracy’s Benetton Test, September 1994 
  Chapter 14        Memories of Imola 1994 - by Mike Fairholme 
  Chapter 15        Roland Ratzenberger – 25 Years On 
  Chapter 16         Ayrton Senna – His Final Hours 
  Chapter 17        My Opinion on What Caused Ayrton Senna’s Crash? 
  Chapter 18         Did a Return to Simpler Cars in 1994 Contribute to the Accidents? 
  Chapter 19        1994 – A Brief Overview of F1’s Darkest Season  
    
  Since 2015 I’ve been researching all the books, internet sources and magazines (Autosport, F1 News and Motor Sport) covering 1990’s F1. Furthermore I’ve interviewed various key figures employed by Benetton, Ford Electronics and Williams. In addition, I’ve studied all the on track action from time – simply because I love reliving that era of F1. This book & its short stories listed above are the fruits of all that hard work and research. 
  As a devoted Formula 1 fan, I thought I knew everything about the sport from the 1990’s before starting this project. But since interviewing those involved it soon became apparent how much had yet to be made public. I’ve resigned from my day job purely to write this book. That is h

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  Summary of Amanda and Anna...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Amanda and Anna Kloots’s Live Your Life 
    
  In Live Your Life (2021), Amanda Kloots, with the help of her sister Anna Kloots, narrates the story of how she loved her husband, actor-singer Nick Cordero, and tragically lost him to COVID. Amanda wants to preserve Nick’s legacy and share it with the world. She wants her son to read it and know his father when he grows up. The book takes the reader beyond the journey of losing a loved one to commemorate family bonds, humanity’s kindness, motherhood, sisterhood, and the power of faith. Live Your Life also is meant to spread awareness about the danger of COVID by relaying a real and painful experience.  
   

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  Brown Enough - True Stories...

  Christopher Rivas

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  Brown Enough, Christopher Rivas's first book, is a literary memoir about what it truly means to be Brown in America. Holding the weight of being a Latino man, Christopher wonders where he falls on the color line, widened through his experience as an ethnically am­biguous actor of color in Holly­wood and the man!) dangers and pitfalls that come from owning one's Brownness. Told through the lens of his personal stories and in a unique and literal voice, Christopher examines the deep history of his Dominican and Colombian heritage. Brown Enough is a breakthrough literary masterpiece that begs the question of what it means to be Brown in 21st century America, caught between cultures, and yet knowing that color lines are always starker than they appear.

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  American Leaders and Heroes -...

  Wilbur Fisk Gordy

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  This edition presents incredible lives of some of the most notable persons of American history. It is hoped that this book will furnish reader's mind some conception of what American history is, and at the same time stimulate an abiding interest in historical and biographical reading.
  Contents: 
  Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America
  Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi
  Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America
  John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown
  Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676
  Miles Standish and the Pilgrims
  Roger Williams and the Puritans
  William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania
  Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley
  George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier
  James Wolfe, the Hero of Quebec
  Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act
  Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party
  Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington
  Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France
  George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier
  Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox"    
  Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer
  Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
  Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
  Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union
  Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution
  Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph
  Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves
  Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War
  Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain

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  No Excuses - Growing Up Deaf and...

  Marcus Brotherton, Derrick...

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  In this inspirational memoir, Derrick Coleman, Jr., the Seattle Seahawks fullback who won the 2014 Super Bowl with the Seahawks in his second year in the NFL, relates his inspirational story of hard work and determination in his own words. Showcasing his unlikely and challenging journey to become the first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL, he talks about overcoming internal and external obstacles in the course of reaching your true potential.

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