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  Belly Woman - Birth Blood and...

  Benjamin Black

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  Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
  'Moving, kind, eye-opening, terrifying and inspirational. This book will stay with me for years.' Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt
  In 2014, Dr Benjamin Black arrived in Sierra Leone to work as an obstetrician in a country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Within weeks, the Ebola epidemic was spreading rapidly across West Africa, transforming an already fragile healthcare system into the frontline of an unprecedented crisis.
  From maternity wards to Ebola Treatment Centres, Black was confronted with impossible decisions: how do you provide emergency care when physical contact itself can be deadly? How do you protect healthcare workers without abandoning the women who desperately need them? And what happens to pregnancy and childbirth when an epidemic overwhelms almost every aspect of medical care?
  Drawing on his experiences with Médecins Sans Frontières, Belly Woman takes readers behind the headlines to meet the women, families and healthcare workers living through the epidemic. Black writes with remarkable honesty about maternal death, reproductive healthcare and the realities of humanitarian medicine, but also about courage, camaraderie and the moments of hope that persist in the midst of crisis.
  Looking from Ebola to his later experiences providing maternity care during COVID-19, Black asks what these outbreaks reveal about inequality, global health and the choices we make when healthcare systems are pushed to their limits.
  Urgent, compassionate and deeply human, Belly Woman is an extraordinary medical memoir about caring for women in some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable.

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  F❤️❤️K CANCER - A journey from...

  Vinny Lynch

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  When faced with a diagnosis of stage-4 lymphoma, Vinny Lynch had to find a way out of the fear, anger, and anxiety that threatened to consume him. This is the story of how he learned to recall his soul and find a path towards peace, love, and self-acceptance. 
  Vinny Lynch grew up in Derry, Ireland during the Troubles and moved to New York as a young man. He travelled extensively across America before moving back to Derry to raise his two children. He has worked in many different jobs from plastering to paddleboard instructor and in the arts as an actor in short films, docudramas, and plays. This is his debut as an author telling the stark, honest, and uplifting story of his cancer journey.

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  Reality or Delusion - From their...

  Ellen Wood aka Mrs Henry Wood

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  Ellen Price was born on 17th January 1814 in Worcester.  
  In 1836 she married Henry Wood, whose career in banking and shipping meant living in Dauphiné, in the South of France, for two decades.  During their time there they had four children. 
  Henry’s business collapsed and he and Ellen together with their four children returned to England and settled in Upper Norwood near London.   
  Ellen now turned to writing and with her second book ‘East Lynne’ enjoyed remarkable popularity. This enabled her to support her family and to maintain a literary career. 
  It was a career in which she would write over 30 novels including ‘Danesbury House’, ‘Oswald Cray’, ‘Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles’, ‘The Channings’ and ‘The Shadow of Ashlydyat’.  
  Sadly, her husband, Henry died in 1866. 
  Ellen though continued to strive on. In 1867, she purchased the magazine ‘Argosy’, founded two years previously by Alexander Strahan.  She was a prolific writer and wrote much of the magazine herself although she had some very respected contributors, amongst them Hesba Stretton and Christina Rossetti. Although she would gradually pare down writing for the magazine she continued to write novel after novel.  Such was her talent that for a time she was, in Australia, more popular than Charles Dickens. 
  Apart from novels she was an excellent translator and a writer of short stories.  ‘Reality or Delusion?’ is a staple of supernatural anthologies to this day. 
  Ellen Wood died of bronchitis on 10th February 1887).  He estate was valued at a very considerable £36,000.  
  She is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London.  
  A monument to her in Worcester Cathedral was unveiled in 1916.

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  There is No Wall

  Allie Bailey

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  There Is No Wall is ultrarunner Allie Bailey’s brutally honest and sometimes shocking account of alcoholism, depression and severe mental breakdowns which almost cost her her life. 
   
  Told with disarming vulnerability, heartbreaking depth of feeling and dark humour, this isn’t a story about how running saved her – she was already running and at the height of her struggles sometimes even winning 100-mile-plus races. But somewhere between the darkest excesses of the music industry and the simple beauty of the ultrarunning scene, Allie found space to listen, learn and put into practice techniques that would go on to save her life and change it for the better. 
   
  There Is No Wall is a story about how doing something you love can lead you to achieve things you never thought possible. Running won’t save you, but it might buy you the time to save yourself.

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  Queens - History and Biography...

  Kelly Mass

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  This book contains the stories and biographies of several queens from history: 
  Bloody Mary - Mary I, typically called Mary Tudor and called "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant challengers, ruled as Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 till November 17th, 1558. She is well recalled for her solid attempts to reverse the English Reformation, which started throughout her dad's reign, Henry VIII's reign. 
  Marie Antoinette - Before the Reign of Terror, Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France. She was the penultimate kid and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I, and was born an archduchess of Austria. At the age of 14, she wed Louis-Auguste, the beneficiary evident to the French throne, and ended up being dauphine of France in May 1770. Her partner, Louis XVI, took the throne on May 10, 1774, and she ended up being queen. 
  Eleanor of Aquitaine - Eleanor of Aquitaine is a controversial figure in history. Many have referred to her in a different light. Some with some opinions, others with others. Today, you will learn more about those and get as many facts straight as possible. 
  Queen Victoria - From June twentieth, 1837, to her death in the year 1901, Victoria ruled as Queen of the UK of Great Britain and Ireland. Her rule of 63 years and 7 months, called the Victorian period, was the longest of any British emperor before her. It was a period of considerable commercial, social, technical, and army development in the U.K., and also a period of great British Empire growth. 
  Anne Boleyn - As King Henry VIII's 2nd marriage partner, Anne Boleyn ruled as Queen of England from 1533 till 1536. Her marriage and execution by beheading for treason and other criminal offenses made her an essential player in the political and religious chaos that identified the start of the English Reformation. 

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  Keep Still Part Two

  Janet Gillooly

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  This is about the walk with Christ through prayer.

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