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  The Forty Year Bender - When...

  Chris Merlo

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  I am living proof a man can spend four decades wrecking himself and still crawl back into daylight. If that isn’t hope, it’s at least better odds than I ever had. 
   
  Don’t drink? I drank like a drought. Don’t take drugs? I ran a pharmacy. Get healthy? I stayed awake until dawn, smoked like wreckage, doubled the cocaine and treated water as folklore. 
   
  Seven rehabs. Two accidental overdoses. Arrests here and overseas. Car wrecks, courtrooms, lost businesses, a broken marriage, financial ruin, and years of creative self-annihilation. There’s nothing noble about that list. 
   
  But here’s why this book exists: if I could survive it, you can survive your version of it. I rebuilt myself. Changed careers. Developed discipline. Brought movement into my life. Ate food that wasn’t poison. And most shocking of all, I found clarity of mind. 
   
  Not a resurrection in fire. Just a man digging himself out of a hole he spent years tunnelling. Still bruised. Still ridiculous. But finally standing.

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  10 Rillington Place - The Trials...

  Mr Punch Audiobooks

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  In March 1950, Timothy Evans, aged 25, was hanged for the murder of his wife. 
  Sixteen years later the Queen was to grant him a full pardon.  So why did Timothy Evans confess to murder?  Why was John Reginald Christie, his neighbour, not arrested until April Fool’s Day three years later?  And what was the gruesome discovery behind the kitchen wall?   
  The shocking truth of the sordid and tragic events that took place behind the doors of number 10 Rillington Place was to horrify the nation. 
  A full-cast dramatisation starring RONALD PICKUP as John Reginald Halliday Christie and JONATHAN WRATHER as Timothy Evans with full supporting cast. 
  “Mr Punch is going from strength to strength, continuing their good run of classy audio...”  Talking Business

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  STUPIDO TURISTA - He went to...

  Mario Mediati

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some men have a midlife crisis. Francesco Marchese went to Puglia. 
  At fifty-eight, retired, and quietly certain that somewhere between the corner office and the car payment he lost the thread of himself, Francesco Marchese does something his careful, efficient life never prepared him for: nothing. Five weeks alone in his family’s ancestral stone house in southern Italy, with bad Italian, no plan, and the unsettling feeling that somewhere along the way he became very good at living someone else’s life. 
  What he finds there is Rio — the version of himself that never made it to the surface. A man who runs cliff paths above the Adriatic before breakfast. A man who dances the Tarantella until midnight and means it. A man who is, for the first time in a very long time, fully awake. 
  And what he discovers, in the olive groves and the village streets and the long conversations with a Pugliese guide who listens the way people used to listen, is that it is not too late. Not for any of it. 
  Stupido Turista is a novel about what it means to finally show up for your own life. About the version of yourself that waits, patient as an ancient olive tree, for you to come back and claim it. 
  For readers of Ann Patchett, Mary Beth Keane, and Fredrik Backman.

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  D L Moody - God's Bold Messenger

  Faith Coxe Bailey

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  In an exciting novel form, D. L. Moody: God’s Bold Messenger tells the incredible story of one of the greatest evangelists of the nineteenth century. Deeply committed to the gospel and devoted to bringing the love of God to bear on the lives of young and old, Moody preached across America and throughout Europe. Faith Coxe Bailey brings alive the story of the bigger-than-life man who was a servant to poor communities and whose preaching and vision have an ongoing influence in the lives of many. Though his formal education ended after fifth grade, Moody became a champion of education, starting three schools, including Moody Bible Institute. From reaching out to lost children, to training women, to bridging the gap between denominations, Moody is a hero of the faith with whom all should be well acquainted. You will be encouraged by the faithful and adventurous life of Dwight Lyman Moody.  D. L. Moody dared to take up a challenge and see what God could do with a life totally committed to Him. Bailey brings to color the story of God’s Bold Messenger.

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  Leonardo Da Vinci

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Leonardo da Vinci stands among the most extraordinary individuals in human history. Painter, inventor, engineer, anatomist, architect, scientist, and philosopher, he embodied the spirit of the Renaissance more completely than perhaps any other figure of his age. His relentless curiosity and remarkable range of talents transformed him into a symbol of human creativity and intellectual achievement. 
   
  Born in Vinci, Italy, in 1452, Leonardo received artistic training in Florence before establishing himself as one of the leading minds of Renaissance Europe. Though celebrated for masterpieces such as Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, his interests extended far beyond art. His notebooks reveal investigations into anatomy, flight, engineering, geology, optics, and countless other subjects, many centuries ahead of their time. Leonardo's work reflected a belief that observation and knowledge were inseparable. He studied the natural world with extraordinary precision, recording ideas and designs that continue to fascinate scholars, scientists, and artists. Although many of his inventions were never built during his lifetime, they demonstrated an imagination that seemed to anticipate future generations. 
   
  This biography traces Leonardo's journey from the workshops of Renaissance Italy to his place as one of history's most admired geniuses. Drawing upon historical records, correspondence, notebooks, and contemporary accounts, it explores the achievements, discoveries, and enduring legacy of a man whose influence extends across art, science, and culture. More than five centuries after his death, Leonardo da Vinci remains the very definition of the universal genius.

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  Wine Witch on Fire - Rising from...

  Natalie MacLean

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  A NATIONAL BESTSELLER 
   
   
   
  A powerful memoir about one woman who resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry. 
   
   
   
  Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career. 
   
   
   
  Wavering between despair and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humor, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food. 
   
   
   
  Natalie questions her insider role in the slick marketing that encourages women to drink too much while she battles the wine world's veiled misogyny. Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances. 
   
   
   
  This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way.

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