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  Limitless - From Dingle to Cape...

  Nuala Moore

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  The sea has always been a part of Nuala Moore's life: her earliest memory is of jumping off her father's fishing boat in Dingle harbour and swimming back to shore.
  But after years of diving and marathon swimming, including a relay swim around the coast of Ireland and a solo swim across Lake Zurich, Nuala struggled to balance sacrifice and achievement. Her life and personal responsibilities, coupled with caring for her father, forced a change in her pathway.
  Nuala began to push herself even further. Forcing herself into some of the coldest, most dangerous and remote waters in the world offered her freedom and the chance to take back control. Limitless is Nuala's breathtaking and awe-inspiring memoir – about how pushing herself to her mental and physical limits allowed her to find her true north, face her reflection and achieve the greatness she always knew was within.

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  Bold Ventures - Thirteen Tales...

  Charlotte Van den Broeck

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  A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor—the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure—through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. 
   
   
   
  In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects—architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the author's hometown. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to art history, stories from her own life, and popular culture, Van den Broeck brings patterns into focus as she asks, What is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator? 
   
   
   
  Threaded through each story is the author's meditation on the question of suicide—what Albert Camus called the "one truly serious philosophical problem"—in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking ground in literary nonfiction, as well as providing solace and consolation to anyone who has ever attempted a creative act.

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  Truth Behind Poe's Mysteries...

  Jareth Alaric

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  The Truth Behind Poe's Mysteries: Secrets That Defy Death 
  ⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐ 
  Are you eager to enhance your understanding of the intricate layers of life and creativity that Edgar Allan Poe explored through his works? 
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  This audiobook is your ultimate resource for deepening your knowledge, honing your analytical skills, and engaging with captivating exercises. With this, you're on the path to enlightenment. 
  Key features of this comprehensive guide: 
  - Deep insights into the mysteries explored in Poe's works 
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  Our guide stands out with its extensive exploration, which is crucial for your intellectual journey. Concepts are not lightly touched upon; they are examined with meticulous attention. 
  Please note that this guide is an independent resource designed to enrich your understanding and is not affiliated with any official literary authority. 
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  Quiet Fear - An Autobiographical...

  Cynthia J. Giachino

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  Lilly was born into a loving family. Strong in faith, she played in the fields, woods, and on the river in the rural Midwest. It was a life people dream of, but not for Lilly. Her past and present world was split in two... one of fear and one of love. After giving birth to a son, those worlds could no longer remain parallel. She found herself with one foot weighted down in the hidden underworld of terror. The other was stuck on a merry-go-round of secrets. Secrets that could kill. She desperately needed to bring back a sense of normalcy, but the throat-grabbing, quiet fear she carried, had her imprisoned. 
  Can she fight the demons of her memory? Is she strong enough to survive this battlefield? Lilly is about to discover what happens when secrets are given a new life.

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  American Buddhist Rebel

  Liz Lewinson

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  Winner of the Eric Hoffer and Benjamin Franklin literary awards, this biography tells the story of Rama, Dr. Frederick P. Lenz, (1950-1998), an enlightened spiritual teacher who taught a brilliant, boundary-breaking form of American Buddhism to tens of thousands of people.Rama could heal people whom he never met. He naturally filled large auditoriums with sparkling rays of golden light—the essence of his being. He made huge audiences shake with laughter, as he filled them with luminosity and joy. Omens of an unusual, not special, life began in 1953, when, as a toddler, he slipped into samadhi—a timeless state of immersion in infinite light—in his mother's garden. His journey continued after high school, when he flew from Connecticut to Kathmandu, Nepal, with a homemade snowboard, seeking to snow-surf the highest mountains he could find. On his first downhill run, he plowed into an aged Buddhist monk, who told the incredulous teen their meeting was destined, that his past life enlightenment would return, and he would help millions of people. Upon his return to the US, he earned his PhD and began to teach on his own, and implemented new ways of placing independent and skeptical Westerners on the path to enlightenment, beginning with higher and happier states of mind. As his own realization deepened, the energy he emanated was like a huge timeless force of pure love.This biography includes interviews and stories from over 100 students and colleagues, each with a different perspective. Rama did not just speak about enlightenment; he modeled it. Compassionate, controversial, wise, honest, prescient, reverent, irreverent, he was always teaching and still is.

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  The Autobiography of Larry D...

  Larry D. Kendrick

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  This bare knuckles, no holds barred, real-life story about a young boy alone at sixteen and 
  facing adversity, compelling him to grow up quickly; he develops a Lone Wolf persona; works as 
  a young ranch and farm hand, learning to use his fists and quick wits with sheer determination, 
  surviving brawls with bullies and would be muggers. He enlists as an Army Paratrooper, finding 
  a home with like-minded brothers in arms and forming life long bonds. After being discharged 
  and wandering alone, he eventually meets and becomes brothers with some local independent 
  bikers forming a new band of brothers. He finds employment going from job to job as a farm 
  hand, truck taxi driver, purchasing agent, cop, search and rescue pilot and full-time musician 
  playing with some great bands. He falls in love easily with four failed marriages, and has 
  countless relationships.

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