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  Huey Newton

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Huey Newton was one of the most influential and controversial political activists in modern American history. A revolutionary thinker, community organizer, and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, he became a central figure in the struggle for civil rights, racial justice, and social change during the turbulent decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Admired by supporters and criticized by opponents, Newton remains one of the most significant figures of his era. 
   
  Born in Monroe, Louisiana, in 1942 and raised in Oakland, California, Newton experienced firsthand the inequalities and racial tensions that shaped postwar America. In 1966, alongside Bobby Seale, he founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The organization gained national attention through its calls for community empowerment, political education, economic justice, and resistance to police brutality. Under Newton's leadership, the Panthers established programs providing free breakfasts for children, health clinics, educational initiatives, and other community services. 
   
  This biography traces Newton's journey from a challenging childhood to national prominence. Drawing upon memoirs, speeches, government records, historical studies, interviews, and contemporary accounts, it explores his life, political philosophy, achievements, controversies, and enduring legacy. Huey Newton remains one of the most important and debated figures in the history of modern American social and political movements.

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  knot body

  Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

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  Bringing together poetry, essay, and letters to “lovers, friends and in-betweens,” Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch confronts the ways capitalism, fatphobia, ableism, transness, and racializations affect people with chronic pain, illness, and disability.  
  knot body explores what it means to discover the limits of your body, and contends with what those limitations bring up in the world we live in.

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  Beneath the Mountain - The True...

  Mary Madigan

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  From the green hills of Kerry to Padre Pio's Shrine in Italy....
  
  Born Catherine Brenda Mary Madigan O'Connor, she grew up on a small farm in Ballybunion, County Kerry. As a child she loved the natural world and was blessed with spiritual gifts, inherited from her ancestors.
  
  Too soon darkness entered her life, and, unable to share her pain, she became withdrawn and volatile. During these difficult times she found solace in nature and in the form of friendly elemental beings she encountered near her home.
  
  Later, she had to endure more challenges when she became a young woman and mother. These included nearly dying after being poisoned and unbearable anguish when she lost two babies.
  
  Mary's unexpected and amazing experiences at a Padre Pio Mass changed her sadness and grief to hope and proved to be the turning point towards a more positive future. Further life-changing events showed her that her destiny was to use the gifts she was born with to help people from all walks of life.
  
  Beneath the mountain is an epic journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening. It also holds a message for us all to never give up, no matter what, and to know that God and the angels are looking after us every moment of our lives.

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  The Enforcers - Inside Cape...

  Caryn Dolley

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  CAPE TOWN’S POPULAR high-end night spots attract an array of clientele, from young partygoers to politicians, models to moguls. In parallel with this is a sleazy underworld where control of the lucrative nightclub-security scene is the ultimate prize, for which some are prepared to pay using extortion and murder as the main currencies. 
    
  South Africa’s private-security sector is massive, an informal police force increasingly relied on as confidence in traditional policing wanes. But it’s an industry tainted by ties to underworld figures and events. 
    
  The Mother City’s security turf wars have their roots in pre-democratic South Africa, and branch into Cape Flats gang battles raging since the 1990s. Dotting this landscape are colourful and contentious figures – Yuri ‘The Russian’ Ulianitski, nightclub-security kingpin and rumoured apartheid-state operative Cyril Beeka, convicted drug dealer Radovan Krejčíř, controversial businessman Nafiz Modack and Mark Lifman. Making surprise appearances are high-ranking police officers as well as prominent members of the ANC and government. 
    
  Journalist Caryn Dolley has interviewed numerous criminal and suspects, often putting herself in danger in pursuit of the truth. Here she weaves her research into a story that lays bare the reality of Cape Town’s nightclub-security wars: a vast network of information and misinformation in which innocent members of the public enjoying a night out inadvertently rub shoulders with some of the city’s most infamous criminals.

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  Thomas Edison - Inspiration and...

  Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

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  With only three months of formal education, Thomas Edison grew up to be one of the most successful inventors of all time. Applying scientific principles to practical use, he made scores of inventions and held over thirteen hundred patents, from improvements on the telegraph and phonograph to the development of the incandescent lamp and a whole system for distributing electricity. Edison's rise from humble beginnings and his unceasing struggle to overcome obstacles illustrate the spirit of America. His genius and investigative methods shaped the future and continue to influence new generations.

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  Unsung Hero of Gettysburg - The...

  Edward G. Longacre

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  Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833–1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point–educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry operations prior to the conflict, his career personified that of the typical cavalry officer in the mid-nineteenth-century American army. Gregg achieved distinction on many battlefields, ultimately gaining the rank of brevet major general as leader of the Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
   
   
   
  The highlight of his service occurred on July 3, 1863, the climactic third day at Gettysburg, when he led his own command as well as the brigade of Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer in repulsing an attempt by thousands of Confederate cavalries under the legendary J. E. B. Stuart in attacking the right flank and rear of the Union Army while Pickett's charge struck its front and center. 
   
   
   
  Historians credit Gregg with helping preserve the security of his army at a critical point, making Union victory inevitable. Unlike glory-hunters such as Custer and Stuart, Gregg was a quietly competent veteran who never promoted himself or sought personal recognition for his service. Rarely has a military commander of such distinction been denied a biographer's tribute. Gregg's time is long overdue.

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