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  Always Trust Your Cape - How I...

  Donald Eugene Moore

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  I have an enormous amount of respect for people who consider themselves entrepreneurs. 
   
  People who, in most cases, take tremendous risks in hopes of experiencing tremendous rewards. Not only for themselves but for the world at large. 
   
  Entrepreneurs hire the most people, drive the economy, create innovation, promote research and development, while shaping new products and services. They solve problems with existing solutions, and technologies, while in most cases utilizing existing resources more effectively and more times than not on shoestring budgets. 
   
  I consider entrepreneurs to be the great pioneers of today's business world. If you are considering launching your own entrepreneurial journey, are well on your way, or anywhere in between, my passion and purpose in writing this book is to give you confidence!

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  The Steering Wheel

  Caroline Anne Butt

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  It's the 1970s and Anne thought a fresh start in a northern town would be the adventure of a lifetime. But her husband, Thomas, has other plans. While he's busy with his career, Anne struggles to adapt to a new culture, a growing family, and a marriage that seems to be unravelling in ways she doesn't understand. As the years pass, Anne finds herself tangled in an emotional web she can't escape - a web of coercive control that, at the time, didn't have a name. 
  Her world becomes a constant balancing act: love and fear, joy and dread, commitment and silence. Each day, she wonders if she's doing the right thing, as Thomas's emotional manipulation grows more extreme, and his terrifying retribution threatens her at every turn. With shame weighing her down and her children's safety in the balance, Anne is trapped in a cycle of confusion and guilt. 
  But when Thomas crosses a line, Anne is faced with an impossible choice: stay or leave? The question becomes a matter of survival. 
  This raw, compelling story of marriage, manipulation, and the quiet courage it takes to break free from an abusive relationship will resonate with anyone who has ever faced the cost of loving someone who isn't what they seem.

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  SEVEN STORIES and more - Family...

  Azanne Kofi Akainyah

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  A fascinating set of stories, providing unique insights into life during the transition from the Gold Coast, one of the British Empire's West African gems, to the modern Republic of Ghana, and the extensive interactions with the UK and the rest of the world. They are based on a wealth of well-referenced contemporaneous material. These memoirs chronicle the forces at play in the complex and multi-layered process of self-determination and emerging nationhood, which wrought a dreadful toll on the lives of individuals as cultures and ideologies, egos, and aspirations collided. Refreshingly candid, humorous, and witty in parts, Azanne Akainyah shares recollections of his life, warts and all, laced with provocative and challenging reflections on universal issues. A must-read!” 
  Christiana Hyde MA (Cantab), Retired Employment Judge, 
  England and Wales 
  A must-read book for those interested in “the African story”. It brings to life important aspects of this story from a unique and personal angle that grips the reader from beginning to end. It covers significant events in Ghana before and after the overthrow of Nkrumah and also the unfortunate happenings in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia. It portrays how familial, ethnic, and parochial interests have played major roles in these events. Akainyah sets the pace in revealing another side of the African story. 
  Ivan Addae-Mensah PhD (Cantab.) FGA 
  (Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Former Vice Chancellor 
  of the University of Ghana and former General Secretary of the 
  Peoples National Party under President Dr. Hilla Limann)

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  A Narrative of the Captivity and...

  Mary Rowlandson

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  Step into one of the earliest and most powerful works of American literature with A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson. First published in 1682, this gripping firsthand account chronicles Rowlandson’s eleven-week captivity during King Philip’s War and her struggle for survival in the harsh New England wilderness. 
  Blending spiritual reflection, colonial history, and personal endurance, Rowlandson’s narrative offers an unfiltered glimpse into early American frontier life. Her story explores faith under trial, cultural conflict between English settlers and Native American tribes, and the emotional resilience required to endure unimaginable hardship. Both a historical document and a deeply personal memoir, this work remains a cornerstone of early American literature and Puritan writing. 
  Widely studied in classrooms and admired by historians, this classic captivity narrative provides valuable insight into 17th-century colonial society, religious belief, and the shaping of early American identity. Essential reading for students of American history, colonial studies, women’s narratives, and spiritual autobiography. 
  Rediscover a foundational American text that continues to spark discussion and reflection more than three centuries later.

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  Project Solomon - The True Story...

  Jodi Stuber, Jennifer Marshall...

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  “It’s hard to be lonely, isn’t it? To miss someone who should be here?”Jodi Stuber wasn't looking for another horse for her struggling therapy ranch―let alone one like Solomon. After losing his herd, he was solitary and sad, spending his days standing near the plastic deer in his yard for company. No stranger herself to loss and heartache, Jodi knew she had to give Solomon a home.The road to recovery wouldn’t be easy. As Solomon struggled to fit in with his new herd and Jodi continued to navigate her own grief, the two developed a deep bond. But just as Jodi and Solomon were both beginning to heal, an unthinkable tragedy struck the therapy ranch. And Solomon was about to teach Jodi the greatest lesson of all.Written by Jennifer Marshall Bleakley, author of Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See, Project Solomon is a powerful story of resilience, sacrifice, and love that reminds us all how much we matter―to each other and to God.

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  Oliver Winchester: The Life and...

  Charles River Editors

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  By the time weapons industrialist Oliver Winchester was born, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sent to the Pacific by Thomas Jefferson had only recently returned with their report on the first overland continental journey. Outside of a small group of mountain men trapping and trading fur for European fashion magnates, few white settlers had found their way across the Great Plains. The firearms of the Revolution demonstrated little difference between a soldier’s flintlock musket and a hunting weapon taken from the mantle.  
  	Gunsmiths in early 19th century America were helped along by noted artisans from Germany, Switzerland, and other European powers, but despite advances made in the European and American musket, the requirement of an exterior spark and percussion to ignite powder for a single-shot discharge remained the paradigm. Similarly, the era was unable to move past the cumbersome weapon that required at least half a minute to reload. The military compensation for such an ungainly and vulnerable process was the alternation of troop lines, in which one fired while the other reloaded from behind. Effective as that was in laying down constant fire and simultaneous reloading, the force as a whole was disabled by a large fraction, and the reloading soldiers were vulnerable to saber attacks on horseback as well. 
  	In the manner that Samuel Colt broke open the single-shot tradition in hand weapons, Oliver Fisher Winchester and his celebrated rifle shared the title of “the gun that won the West.” In the arena of portable arms, these two men dominated much of the technological and promotive aspects of 19th century weaponry, alternating between resisting and collaborating with rivals. While Colt created the first effective revolver mechanism for the handgun based on the technology of the ship’s wheel, it was Oliver Winchester who instituted 140 years of branding dominance by virtue of the first reliable repeating rifle.

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