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  White Nights - A Poignant Tale...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Can love exist beyond a single moment? 
  White Nights is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s beautifully melancholic novella about love and longing in the solitude of the night. The story follows a lonely dreamer, an outsider who yearns for companionship but remains trapped in his imagination. One evening, he encounters Nastenka—a young woman who is also lost in her own sorrow. Over the course of four nights, their bond deepens as they share their dreams, fears, and fragile hopes. 
  As the dreamer falls in love, he believes he has finally found the connection he has always longed for. But love is often ephemeral, and fate may have other plans. With a delicate balance of romance, sorrow, and philosophical insight, White Nights explores the fleeting nature of happiness and the deep ache of human isolation. 
  What You’ll Discover in This Modern Translation:A Heartfelt Exploration of Love and Loneliness – Experience the emotional depth of one of Dostoevsky’s most touching and lyrical works.A Timeless Story of Fleeting Romance – Discover the universal themes of unfulfilled love, hope, and heartbreak.A Modern, Accessible Translation – This adaptation ensures the poetic beauty of Dostoevsky’s prose is preserved while being readable for contemporary audiences.A Window into the Soul of a Dreamer – Follow the protagonist’s journey through the quiet streets of St. Petersburg, where dreams and reality intertwine. 
  More than just a love story, White Nights is a meditation on the nature of human connection, the power of dreams, and the bittersweet reality of love that comes too late. 
  Can a moment of love last forever, or is it destined to fade with the dawn? 
  Get your copy today and experience one of Dostoevsky’s most poetic and heartfelt works.

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  Clarity - A Memoir

  Diana Estill

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  2021 International Book Awards Finalist, Health: Psychology & Mental Health 
   
   
   
  At age four, Diana manages her family's banking, grocery shops alone, and befriends the town drunk. Her father is too busy chasing skirts and throwing fits to notice what she does. And her mom is too mentally absent to properly parent. While Diana's narcissistic dad terrorizes and exploits her, she works harder to please him. 
   
   
   
  Estill, an award-winning humor author, shares an honest and comedic look at her dysfunctional childhood. As an adult, she struggles to reclaim her power while caring for her dementia-impaired dad. 
   
   
   
  In this thought-provoking tale of resilience, the author pierces the fog of emotional and sexual abuse.

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  The Lowcountry Murder of...

  Retired Special Agent Lieutenant...

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  For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at the Walterboro Police Department. Investigators periodically revisited the case over the years, but it remained the department's top cold case for thirty-seven years. Special Agent Lieutenant Rita Shuler worked on the case shortly after she joined the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and she couldn't let it go, not even after her retirement in 2001. In May 2015, Lieutenant Shuler teamed up with new investigator Corporal Gean Johnson, and together they uncovered key evidence that had been overlooked. With new advancements in DNA and fingerprint technology, they brought the case to its end in just four months. Join Shuler as she details the gruesome history of this finally solved case.

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  The Last Commander - The Once...

  Sami Sadat

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  The compelling inside story of how America abandoned Afghanistan. 
   
   
   
  When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, the last commander of the army of the Afghan republic, was still fighting to the end. In this firsthand account, he reveals how his troops were starved of ammunition for two years before the final pullout, while America was glad-handing the Taliban. Although Sadat spent his early career fighting alongside the CIA to track down al-Qaeda in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, it was in conventional combat—leading from the front—that he made his name. In The Last Commander, he contends that Afghanistan could have won the war if support had continued. President Biden may have ended America's longest war, but the story does not end there. Now Sadat's birth country is plunged into barbarism, where women are beaten for showing their face and his former comrades are hunted down and killed. But Sadat is planning to fight back. It will not be easy, but this riveting personal account of combat shows that if anyone can do it, he can. 
   
   
   
  Sadat's story was told in the Emmy Award–winning documentary Retrograde. Now he tells it for himself.

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  The Greatest Viking - The Life...

  Desmond Seward

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  Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint.
  This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived.
  A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered and London Bridge pulled down. The loot amassed from years of plunder helped Olav win the throne of Norway, and a century after his death he was proclaimed 'Eternal King' and has been a national hero there ever since.
  Despite his bloodthirsty beginnings, Olav converted to Christianity and, in a personal vendetta against the old Norse gods, made Norway Christian too, thereby changing irrevocably the Viking world he was born into. Told with reference to Norse sagas, early chronicles and the work of modern scholars, Desmond Seward paints an intensely vivid and colourful portrait of the life and times of arguably the greatest Viking of them all.

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  Founding Fathers The:...

  Shane Costello

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  This audiobook includes biographies on the following men: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. 
  The Founding Fathers of the United States led the American Revolution against the Kingdom of Great Britain. Most were descendants of colonists settled in the Thirteen Colonies in North America. 
  Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as the key Founding Fathers: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin were members of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were authors of The Federalist Papers, advocating ratification of the Constitution. The constitutions drafted by Jay and Adams for their respective states of New York (1777) and Massachusetts (1780) were heavily relied upon when creating language for the US Constitution. Jay, Adams and Franklin negotiated the Treaty of Paris (1783) that would end the American Revolutionary War. Washington was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and was President of the Constitutional Convention. All held additional important roles in the early government of the United States, with Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison serving as President. Jay was the nation's first Chief Justice, Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury, and Franklin was America's most senior diplomat, and later the governmental leader of Pennsylvania. 
  The term Founding Fathers is sometimes used to refer to the Signers of the embossed version of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signers should not be confused with the term Framers; the Framers are defined by the National Archives as those 55 individuals who were appointed to be delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and took part in drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States.

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