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  In her new inspirational memoir, Dr. Hattie N. Washington reveals how a country girl from the backwoods of Meherrin, Virginia succeeded through life with optimism, drive, and a belief in God to become an honor student, a master teacher, a parent to two accomplished daughters, and a foster parent to numerous abused foster boys over twenty-two years. She writes about family, relationships, and the complexities of growing up during the segregation and desegregation era, when the strike at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia in 1951 led to the historic Brown v. Board of Education 1954 desegregation case.

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  Marx's Das Kapital - A Biography

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  In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London's Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867 to muted praise. But after Marx's death, the book went on to influence thinkers, writers, and revolutionaries, from George Bernard Shaw to V. I. Lenin, changing the direction of twentieth-century history. Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism. Furthermore, Wheen argues, as long as capitalism endures, Das Kapital demands to be read and understood.

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  Fat Forty and Fired - One Man's...

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  A “touching and laugh-out-loud funny” memoir about a suddenly unemployed CEO, his family, and the things he discovered when his job disappeared (Booklist).   As a stressed husband and father of four small children under the age of eight, Nigel Marsh was enslaved to his mortgage, recuperating from an embarrassing surgery, and suddenly fired from his corporate career. Deciding to venture off the treadmill in search of a more meaningful and balanced existence, Marsh tackled the art of hands-on parenting while simultaneously training for an ocean swimming race and coming to terms with his alcoholism. Touching on topics ranging from marital sex (or lack thereof), dieting, and parenthood to work, love, football, religion, self-help books, and sharks, this “hilarious and inspiring” international bestseller is “Homer Simpson meets Anthony Robbins . . . essential reading for anyone whose life has ever hit a roadblock” (Bob Rosner, bestselling author of Working Wounded)æ”   “Both witty and helpful . . . If there is any flaw to this book, it is that Marsh repeatedly makes the reader laugh out loud and want to read paragraphs at length to any nearby willing listener.” —Shelf Awareness  “Marsh’s epiphanies during his hiatus include the realization that he is fat, but more poignantly, that he is an alcoholic . . . The strength of the memoir lies in the intimate and often humorous moments he shares as he reconnects with his wife and four children.” —Publishers Weekly   “An extremely funny and touching account of how someone can use humor and optimism to put adversity into perspective . . . a thoroughly enjoyable read.” —Paul Wilson, author of The Little Book of Calm

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  His Name Is George Floyd: Book...

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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.
   
  
  
   
  His death shook the world. His life tells a deeper story.
   
  His Name Is George Floyd is not just a retelling of tragedy—it’s a powerful, intimate journey through the full humanity of a man whose name sparked a global reckoning. Through vivid storytelling and courageous honesty, this audiobook explores Floyd’s life from childhood dreams to adult struggles, revealing how one man’s experiences illuminate the systemic forces that shape millions.
   
  Raised in Houston’s Third Ward, George Floyd lived at the crossroads of hope and hardship. He battled poverty, addiction, incarceration—and still held onto faith, family, and the belief that better was possible. His life was not perfect. It was real. And in that truth lies its power.

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  3 Stories - Set On Ships - A...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Live Through This - A Mother's...

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  With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country, to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other leaves off. They come to blame their mother for their family's dislocation, and one day the two run off together—to the streets of their own city, then San Francisco, then utterly gone.  
   
  Live Through This—as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff's Beautiful Boy—is the story of Gwartney's frantic effort to recover the beautiful, intelligent daughters she cherishes. The harrowing subculture of the American runaway, with its random violence, its horrendously dangerous street drugs, and its patchwork of hidden shelters—none of them interested in a parent's grief—is captured by Gwartney with brilliant intensity. Faced with the unraveling of the family she thought she could hold together through blind love, Gwartney begins the painful—and universal—journey toward recognizing her own flawed motivations as a mother. The triumph of Gwartney's story is its sensitive rendering of how all three, over several years, have dug deep for forgiveness and a return to profound love.

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