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  Hunting the Seven - How the...

  Beverley Roos-Muller

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  In 1986, seven young men were shot and killed by police in Gugulethu in Cape Town. The nation was told they were part of a 'terrorist' MK cell plotting an attack on a police unit. An inquest followed, then a dramatic trial in 1987 and a second inquest in 1989 that again exonerated the police. Finally, ten years later, Eugene de Kock's Vlakplaas unit was exposed at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for having planned and executed the cold-blooded killings. Yet their real agenda remained a mystery.
  In Hunting the Seven, Beverley Roos-Muller reveals her own decades-long connection to the case and her search for the truth of their deaths that has been shrouded in lies and mystery. Sifting through the evidence, and interviewing many of those involved, Roos-Muller reveals that it was Vlakplaas's only operation in the Western Cape and behind it lay a shocking secret.

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  Become a Better Writer in One...

  Howard Dunkley

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  For many writers, the first sentence of an essay is intimidating. This audio book, which is narrated like a conversation with a personal tutor, guides you on planning and editing an outstanding essay. It offers practical, easy-to-follow instructions that help you overcome anxiety and self-doubt. There are many resources on grammar and punctuation. This audio book does not explore them at great length. Instead, it hones in on the overarching issues that many English language learners, persons pursuing a high school equivalency diploma, and college students enrolled in remedial and introductory writing courses face. You are 30 minutes away from beginning the process of unleashing your true writing potential.

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  The Varieties of Religious...

  William James

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  There can be no doubt that as a matter of fact a religious life, exclusively pursued, does tend to make the person exceptional and eccentric. I speak not now of your ordinary religious believer, who follows the conventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by others, communicated to him by tradition, determined to fixed forms by imitation, and retained by habit. It would profit us little to study this second-hand religious life. We must make search rather for the original experiences which were the pattern-setters to all this mass of suggested feeling and imitated conduct. These experiences we can only find in individuals for whom religion exists not as a dull habit, but as an acute fever rather. But such individuals are "geniuses" in the religious line; and like many other geniuses who have brought forth fruits effective enough for commemoration in the pages of biography, such religious geniuses have often shown symptoms of nervous instability. Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility. Often they have led a discordant inner life, and had melancholy during a part of their career. They have known no measure, been liable to obsessions and fixed ideas; and frequently they have fallen into trances, heard voices, seen visions, and presented all sorts of peculiarities which are ordinarily classed as pathological. Often, moreover, these pathological features in their career have helped to give them their religious authority and influence.

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  A Sidecar Named Desire - Great...

  Anônimo

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  A rollicking history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen’s beer brewing to James Joyce’s passion for Guinness to E.B. White’s cure for writers’ block—a dry martini—by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp. 
  ""Civilization begins with distillation.""—William Faulkner 
  ""Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.""—Walker Percy 
  ""God has a brown voice, full and soft as beer.""—Anne Sexton 
  Throughout history, there has been no greater catalyst for creativity among writers—so they claim—than a good, stiff drink. From Aristophanes’ attraction to wine, to Dostoevsky’s breakfast of grain vodka and brown bread, to Joan Didion’s fondness for gin, stories abound of how booze has fueled and inspired our literary icons. 
  In this volume, cartoonist Greg Clarke and comics anthologist Monte Beauchamp take us on an unforgettable literary bar crawl. A Sidecar Named Desire is packed with historical factoids, anecdotes, booze trivia, and fascinating detours into the lives of our most storied literary personalities—along with literary-themed cocktail recipes such as Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and Philip Larkin’s Gin and Tonic set to verse. 
  For the literary-minded drinker—whether wine, gin, vodka, beer, whiskey, or tequila is your elixir of choice—A Sidecar Named Desire will whet your appetite. Bottoms up!

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  From Brokenness to Atonement...

  Dr. Hani Khouzam

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  This is a story of Mr. L, an orphan who was raised and nurtured by a devoted Carmelite nun, then drafted to serve as a skilled sniper during the Vietnam War. A journey of learning and mastering of the French language, excelling in the Little League baseball, discovering the art of hunting, and of an uttermost devotion to assigned military missions. A tale of grief, depression, anxiety, intermixed with bitterness, rage, fear, and delayed onset posttraumatic stress disorder with its most devastating aftermath of survivor's guilt. 
  Witnessing the emergence of innate talents, the gifts of left-handedness, and astounding suddenness of action in each and every providential and self-inflicted circumstances. Travelling through life in orphanages with boyish freedom, self-consciousness, and then an adulthood of giving of oneself and sacrificing of own needs to fulfill a patriotic mission, an acceptance of a higher calling to serve the poor and the disfranchised. 
  Biographies are woven in the tapestry of the therapeutic alliance of a patient-and-physician relationship. 
  As a reader, you will be invited to introspect and reflect on the wonder of the human brain, the bubbling joy of loving, and the gift of living. 
  Will Mr. L descend into the abyss of ending his God-given gift of a well-deserved and joyful life or will he survive his heartbreaking sorrows and insurmountable guilt? Can brokenness be restored through faith, hope, love, and forgiveness? 
  The answers could be revealed by reading this personal journey--a portrait of faith, grace, and the joy that rises from giving and loving.

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  Winning Quick Guide: Personal...

  Narrato Insights

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  Are you ready to transform your mindset and embrace a year full of optimism? With Winning Quick Guide: Personal Development in 365 Days – Optimism, you’ll embark on a journey to shift your thinking, stay positive, and discover the power of optimism in achieving personal success. Imagine starting each day with a purposeful exercise designed to help you maintain a hopeful mindset, overcome challenges, and find positivity even in difficult times. This guide provides 365 daily practices, encouraging you to grow, reflect, and cultivate a more optimistic approach to life. What if you could stay motivated and focused on the good in every situation? With practical, easy-to-implement exercises, this book helps you reframe negative thoughts, build confidence, and develop a lasting optimistic outlook that supports your goals and well-being. Take control of your personal development journey today! Get your copy of Winning Quick Guide: Personal Development in 365 Days – Optimism, and start each day with a fresh, hopeful mindset. Let’s create a life full of positivity, one day at a time.

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