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  I Never Danced With an Eggplant...

  Errol Laborde

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  Vivid vignettes rich with the sights, sounds, and tastes of New Orleans: “A worthy contribution to the library of books celebrating life in the Big Easy.” —Times-Picayune Offering innovative insights into such New Orleans mainstays as Carnival and the Quarter, as well as food, music, sports, politics, history, and more, Errol Laborde provides a look at aspects of Crescent City living usually reserved for residents. The essays include an Orleanian ode entitled “In Praise of the Potato Poor Boy” and several explorations and explanations of Mr. Bingle, the only symbol of Christmas that is unique to New Orleans. These eighty-one vignettes originally appeared in Laborde’s Streetcar column, which currently runs in New Orleans Magazine.  “Strung together like a handful of Mardi Gras beads thrown from a passing float, Laborde’s tales reveal the bright and beautiful as well as the dim and gaudy sides of the city.” —Southern Living

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  Short Nonfiction Collection Vol 014

  Various Various

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  A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain.  The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, military history, humor, philosophy, nature and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)

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  True Crime Case Histories -...

  Jason Neal

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  12 True Crime Stories of Murder & MayhemReaders Love This Series - Over 7,000 Five-Star RatingsSeventh Book of the True Crime Case Histories Series (2021) 
  If you’re familiar with the previous books in the True Crime Case Histories series, you already know that I start each book with a brief warning. Real true crime is not for everyone. The stories in this book represent humanity at its absolute worst. Pure evil. Television crime shows and news articles often skip the gruesome parts of true crime stories. The real details are just too grisly for the average viewer or reader. 
  In my books, however, I do my best to include the details, regardless of how unsettling they may be. Each story requires hours of research. I search through old newspaper articles, court documents, police reports, autopsy results, and first-hand descriptions. Some of the specifics can be disconcerting. I choose to include the details not to shock but to give the reader a deeper view into the mind of the killer. Although it’s unlikely any of us will understand the motives of a diabolical monster, the level of depravity will keep you turning pages. 
  That being said, if you are overly squeamish about the details of true crime, this book may not be for you. If you’re okay with it… then let’s begin. 
  A sampling of the stories includes: 
  You’ll read about a law enforcement officer that took advantage of the trust associated with his uniform. His brutal reign of terror lasted eight years. It took the bravery of two young women that escaped his grasp to bring him down. 
  You’ll also read of a sadistic group of up to twelve killers that took joy in abducting and torturing young men in Australia. Sadly, only one of the mysterious group has been brought to justice. 
  Plus many more disturbing stories.

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  100 Italian Short Stories for...

  Christian Stahl

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  This audiobook contains 100 entertaining and culturally interesting Italian short stories for beginners and intermediate learning level. 
  Italian for beginners can be challenging, but not with this audiobook. All the Italian short stories in this audiobook are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed. Towards the end of this book you find the stories slightly more complex, but still comprehensible for beginners. 
  This Italian language audiobook offers you a wide range of culturally important information you can use when you travel to Italy or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for Italian language learners but also for anyone interested in Italian culture in general.

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  Pema Chödrön: Book Of Quotes...

  Quotes Station

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  PEMA CHÖDRÖN: BOOK OF QUOTES 
    
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  ABOUT PEMA CHÖDRÖN 
  Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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  QUOTES SAMPLES 
    
  “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” 
    
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  “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” 
    
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  “We sow the seeds of our future hell or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now” 
    
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  “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” 
    
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  “Completely let go.” 
    
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  “Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.” 
    
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  “We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.”

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  How the Weather Was

  Roger Kahn

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  The author of The Boys of Summer writes about an array of legendary figures in this collection of essays and interviews from the late 1950s to the 1970s. “… In the end, the range, like the style, reflects myself. Let the present, then, and the recent past, the ball players, poets, policemen, professors, musicians—in short, these emperors and clowns—stride before you, each hoping, as the author does, to please.” Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Bobby Thomson, Al Rosen, Jascha Heifetz, and other celebrities in their years of glory, in their times of trial. This is a book about people to be remembered, and what it was like in America at a very special time.“Beautiful…persons and events through the eyes of a sharp, articulate observer.”—New York Times “No one else has written a piece so startling about the legend of Babe Ruth…After reading this book you will never feel the same about a lot of legends…A very special book…A book to treasure.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Irresistible…You can’t stop reading!”—Chicago Tribune

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