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  Indian Heroes and Great Chieftans

  Charles Alexander Eastman

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  EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in American history, yet in the true sense they are unknown, because misunderstood. I should like to present some of the greatest chiefs of modern times in the light of the native character and ideals, believing that the American people will gladly do them tardy justice. (Summary from the text)

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  Dialysis: a Memoir Second Edition

  Lisa Frieden

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  Dialysis: a Memoir tells the story of how a young woman’s life is changed forever when her kidneys fail. From hospitalization and hemodialysis to peritoneal dialysis and finally to a transplant, the memoir explores how her experience of illness clashes with the world around her: the buoyant and youthful atmosphere of the San Francisco Bay Area during the dotcom bubble of the late 1990's. The memoir describes how she learns to make sense of what happened and how she ultimately overcomes the physical and emotional challenges of kidney failure to thrive in her new life. The audiobook is read by the author.

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  UNTOLD STORY OF THE GOLDEN STATE...

  Julie A. Schwan

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  For over forty years, he was a ghost. Then DNA caught him. 
  Between 1974 and 1986, a masked predator terrorized California—raping more than fifty women, murdering at least thirteen people, and vanishing without a trace. Families slept with weapons. Neighborhoods formed armed patrols. Police pursued thousands of dead-end leads. Yet the Golden State Killer remained free, hidden among the very communities he had brutalized. 
  What made him so terrifying wasn't just his violence—it was his intelligence. A former police officer, he understood exactly how investigators worked and used that knowledge to stay invisible. He attacked in multiple jurisdictions, moved constantly, left minimal evidence, and then simply stopped. For decades, detectives believed he was either dead or had escaped justice forever. 
  They were wrong. 
  This is the complete story of how cutting-edge forensic genealogy finally unmasked Joseph James DeAngelo, a seemingly ordinary grandfather living in the same Sacramento suburb where he'd committed his earliest attacks. Through meticulous research and powerful survivor testimonies, you'll discover how one man evaded capture for over four decades, the psychological toll on entire communities, and the revolutionary DNA technique that changed criminal investigation forever. 
  Inside these pages, you'll witness the courtroom confrontation where survivors finally faced their attacker, understand the failures and breakthroughs that defined the investigation, and see how this case solved hundreds of other cold cases across America. 
  Justice delayed forty-four years. But justice served. 
  If you're fascinated by true crime that reads like a thriller but delivers real answers, this meticulously researched account reveals every shocking detail of America's most elusive serial predator—and the science that finally brought him down.

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  Hank Show The: Book Summary &...

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  What if the most powerful man in data surveillance wasn’t a government agent—but a former drug smuggler with a genius for code?
   
  The Hank Show unravels the incredible true story of Hank Asher, a self-invented tech visionary whose fingerprints helped shape the world of digital surveillance. From flying cocaine-filled planes over the Caribbean to building billion-dollar data empires used by law enforcement and corporate giants alike, Hank’s life is a high-stakes tale of ambition, reinvention, and moral complexity.
   
  This audiobook blends gripping biography with sharp investigative insight, charting how one man’s tools came to power everything from government intelligence to consumer profiling—long before Silicon Valley took over our lives. Both thrilling and deeply reflective, it explores the intersection of data, privacy, influence, and the consequences of building systems without accountability.

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  The Search - The life of a...

  Paul Besley

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  Coming from a working-class background, Paul Besley knew the worst and best of life in a Yorkshire steel town. He had always been drawn to the solitude of the hills, but that life nearly ended when a fall while hillwalking left him critically injured and alone in the mountains of the Lake District. Paul was found and brought to safety by a mountain rescue team. This was the trigger for him to transform his life, first by joining his local team, then by finding Scout, his very own Border collie puppy, and training him to become a mountain rescue search dog.
  In The Search, Paul writes with humour and honesty as we follow him and Scout through their complex training, with searches and rescue incidents sometimes tragic and often funny. Paul's demons and headstrong characters threaten to derail them, until his past finally catches up with him and his life inescapably unravels. It's up to Scout to keep an eye on him now as Paul tries to build the best life he can.

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  Ely Samuel Parker and Stand...

  Editors Charles River

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  One of the best known of the six nations is the Seneca, and arguably the most famous Seneca chief was Ely Samuel Parker. Over the course of his life, he was a Seneca chief, a civil engineer, a close friend and adjutant to General Ulysses S. Grant, an advocate for the Indian peoples, and the first Native American Commissioner of the Department of Indian Affairs. His marriage to a much younger socialite scandalized Washington, and he made a fortune on Wall Street and lost it all. He ended his life in genteel poverty, working for nearly 20 years in an obscure position for the New York City Police Department. Parker was a largely self-taught engineer, who worked on various canal projects, and was hired by the Department of the Treasury to supervise the construction of several buildings in Galena, Illinois, where he met a shy salesclerk named Ulysses S. Grant. At the age of 18, he dined with President Polk, later talked with President Lincoln, and had the commanding general of the U.S. Army as the best man at his wedding.  
  Stand Watie’s life connects the traditional Cherokee homeland in Tennessee and Georgia, the fight within the tribe over leaving for the West or staying on their homeland and trying to resist, and the Trail of Tears. At the same time, his life also includes the ongoing split between mixed-blood and full-blood Cherokee in the Cherokee Nation, and the chaos of Indian Territory during the Civil War. Like the country as a whole, the Cherokee Nation was split over the question of slavery, and with an estimated 100 slaves owned, Watie was the biggest native slaveholder in the region. At the start of the war, Watie was commissioned as a colonel in Confederate service and later as a brigadier general. His 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles Regiment fought more engagements than any other Confederate unit west of the Mississippi River. As a result, Watie is perhaps the most famous figure of a widely overlooked aspect of the Civil War.

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