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  Our Broken Elections - How the...

  John Fund, Hans Von Spakovsky

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  Behind the deeply contentious 2020 election stands a real story of a broken election process. Election fraud that alters election outcomes and dilutes legitimate votes occurs all too often, as is the bungling of election bureaucrats. Our election process is full of vulnerabilities that can be?and are?taken advantage of, raising questions about, and damaging public confidence in, the legitimacy of the outcome of elections. This book explores the reality of the fraud and bureaucratic errors and mistakes that should concern all Americans and offers recommendations and solutions to fix those problems.

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  I Watched Her Wash A Cucumber -...

  Giselle Renarde

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  The first time I caught Nazrene from Accounting washing a massive field cucumber in the bathroom sink, I wondered what on earth she planned to do with it. The third time I caught her, she took me up to the rooftop garden on our office building and she showed me! 
  For Mature Audiences Only.

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  Sherman's March To The Sea And...

  William Tecumseh Sherman

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  This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for the North. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. He accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in April 1865. Sherman’s scorched earth policy marching his army through Georgia from conquered Atlanta to coastal Savannah was a strong factor in breaking the South’s will to fight. The South’s surrender came just five months later. He steadfastly refused to be drawn into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the best-known first-hand accounts of the American Civil War. British military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general" ( Wikipedia and david wales)

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  How to Stay Sane

  Philippa Perry

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  Philippa Perry's handbook consoles, nourishes and gently leads us on the path to sanity and emotional balance. There is no simple set of instructions that can guarantee sanity, but if you want to overcome emotional difficulties and become happier, psychotherapist Philippa Perry argues that there are four cornerstones to sanity you can influence to bring about change. By developing your self-observation skills, examining how you relate to others, breaking out of your comfort zone and exploring new ways of defining yourself, she suggests ways of finding emotional equilibrium.Through case studies, practical exercises and stories of individual experience, this insightful and inspirational book reaches out to anyone in need of a little emotional support from time to time.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Conquer the Clutter - Strategies...

  Elaine Birchall

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  Why does Cliff, a successful lawyer who regularly wins landmark cases, step over two-foot piles of paper whenever he opens his front door? Why do Joan and Paul ask Children's Services to take their three children, instead of decluttering their home? Why does Lucinda feel intense pressure to hold onto her family's heirlooms, even though she has no room for them? They have hoarding disorder, which an estimated two to six percent of the adult population worldwide experience.Conquer the Clutter offers hope to anyone affected by hoarding. Real-life vignettes, combined with easy-to-use assessment and intervention tools, support those who hoard - and those who care about them. Written by Elaine Birchall, a social worker dedicated to helping people declutter and achieve long-term control over their belongings, the book:Provides an overview of hoarding, defining what it is and is notExplains the difference between clutter and hoardingDescribes different types of hoarding in detail, including impulse shopping, "closet" hoarding, and animal hoardingDebunks myths about hoarding and hoardersExplores the effects that hoarding has on relationships, on work, and on physical and financial healthPresents a practical, step-by-step plan of action for declutteringContains dedicated advice from individuals who have successfully overcome their hoarding disorderThe most comprehensive work about hoarding on the market, Conquer the Clutter discusses special populations who are not often singled out, such as the disabled and the elderly. Numerous worksheets to assist individuals in determining the scope of their hoarding disorder and tackling the problem, as well as over 40 pages of additional resources, are available online at jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/conquer-clutter.

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  Mary Ball Washington: The Mother...

  Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

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  The mothers of famous men survive only in their sons. This is a rule almost as invariable as a law of nature. Whatever the aspirations and energies of the mother, memorable achievement is not for her. No memoir has been written in this country of the women who bore, fostered, and trained our great men. What do we know of the mother of Daniel Webster, or John Adams, or Patrick Henry, or Andrew Jackson, or of the mothers of our Revolutionary generals? This book is dedicated to Mary Ball Washington, the second wife of Augustine Washington, a planter in Virginia and the mother of George Washington, the first President of the United States.
  Contents:
  Mary Washington's English Ancestry
  The Ball Family in Virginia    
  Coat Armor and the Right to bear it    
  Traditions of Mary Ball's Early Life    
  Revelations of an Old Will    
  Mary Ball's Childhood    
  Good Times in Old Virginia    
  Mary Ball's Guardian and her Girlhood    
  Young Men and Maidens of the Old Dominion    
  The Toast of the Gallants of her Day    
  Her Marriage and Early Life    
  Birthplace of George Washington    
  The Cherry Tree and Little Hatchet    
  The Young Widow and her Family    
  Betty Washington, and Weddings in Old Virginia    
  Defeat in War: Success in Love    
  In and Around Fredericksburg    
  Social Characteristics, Manners, and Customs    
  A True Portrait of Mary Washington    
  Noon in the Golden Age    
  Dinners, Dress, Dances, Horse-races    
  The Little Cloud    
  The Storm    
  Mary Washington in the Hour of Peril    
  Old Revolutionary Letters    
  The Battle-ground    
  France in the Revolution    
  "On with the Dance, let Joy be unconfined"    
  Lafayette and our French Allies    
  In Camp and at Mount Vernon    
  Mrs. Adams at the Court of St. James    
  The First Winter at Mount Vernon
  The President and his Last Visit to his Mother       
  Mary Washington's Will; her Illness and Death
  Tributes of her Countrymen

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