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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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  Who Says I Can't - The...

  Rob Mendez

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  On paper, Coach Rob Mendez sounds like any other football coach on any other field across America: passionate, authoritative, knowledgeable. But he’s unlike any other coach you know--in fact, he’s probably unlike any other person you know. 
  Born with an extraordinarily rare condition called tetra-Amelia syndrome, Rob has no arms or legs. He moves with the assistance of a custom-made, motorized wheelchair that he operates with his back and shoulders. 
  Many people look at Rob and see limitation, yet Rob sees opportunity: Opportunity to pursue his passion for football. Opportunity to change the way people perceive physical disability. Opportunity to serve as a role model for the hundreds of kids he’s coached over the years. 
  Told with both humor and frankness, Who Says I Can’t? takes readers on Rob’s incredible journey, from his birth to loving parents who wanted to afford him every chance for happiness, to the emotional and physical hurdles he faced while seeking independence, to receiving the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at the ESPY Awards in 2019. 
  Each day, Coach Rob rolls onto the field and shows his players that dreams are achievable when you show up, do the work, and believe in yourself. And after reading this book you, too, will believe that anything is possible.

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  Tolkien For Beginners

  Louis Markos

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  Tolkien For Beginners will introduce the reader to the multilayered depth and breadth of Tolkien’s tales of Middle-earth, what critics, following Tolkien’s lead, refer to collectively as his legendarium. J.R.R. Tolkien sweeps us away to a distant time and place that is at the same time, our own time and place. He takes us to a world where difficult choices must be made and are made, where character is defined by those choices, and where redemption is possible though not always embraced. The Lord of the Rings taps a deep root in the human psyche. There is much death, destruction, and defeat in Tolkien’s world, but there is even more friendship, courage, and hope. What one remembers when one finishes reading The Lord of the Rings is not the vice of the villains, as strong and as well drawn as it is, but the virtue that empowers the heroes to resist it, even at the cost of their own lives.  It will be the goal of Tolkien For Beginners to introduce the reader to the multilayered depth and breadth of Tolkien’s tales of Middle-earth. To do justice to the full dimensions of that legendarium, author Louis Markos will speak in two voices: that of the storyteller who loves the stories he tells and that of the critic who seeks to identify and explicate key themes from those stories. In his telling and analysis, he will treat the legendarium both as a collection of secondary-world myths with their own integrity and as a reflection of Tolkien’s Catholic worldview.

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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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  My Year of Running Dangerously

  Tom Foreman

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  As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has interviewed serial killers and been in the line of fire. But the most terrifying moment of his life didn't occur on the job-it occurred at home, when his eighteen-year-old daughter asked, "How would you feel about running a marathon with me?"My Year of Running Dangerously is Foreman's journey through four half-marathons, three marathons, and one fifty-five-mile race. What started as an innocent request from his daughter quickly turned into a rekindled passion for long-distance running-for the training, the camaraderie, the defeats, and the victories. Told with honesty and humor, Foreman's account captures the universal fears of aging and failure alongside the hard-won moments of triumph, tenacity, and going further than you ever thought possible.

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