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  It's How You Think - Uncut

  Leon Stensholm

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  A story of triumph over adversityStanding on the edge of the stage, I knew this was it. This was the moment I had been preparing for. I pushed through 20 long weeks of grueling mental and physical training to be able to step out on stage and make it all worth it. I was 35 years old and in the last eight months I had experienced the most challenging adversity of my life.It was a fight to the end. It was trying to keep my head on for 20 weeks. And when it was all over, I wasn't even guaranteed a plastic trophy. The day was finally here, but I had nothing left. All my energy was gone, like it had suddenly been sapped out of me. I couldn't even walk. The goal had been accomplished. All I had wanted to do was get to the stage. I got here. Now my body was shutting down.I was looking up at Deano, and I said a little prayer, "Deano, just one more time, bro. Just get me over the line. I have nothing left. I have put my heart and soul into this, but I have nothing left".

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  The Pacific War Uncensored - A...

  Harold Guard, John Tring

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  A WWII reporter’s dangerous adventures in Singapore, Malaya, Java, and more.   Harold Guard became a war correspondent by chance after he’d been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, working for United Press, he gained a front-row seat to many of the most dramatic battles and events of the century.   In March 1942, Guard arrived in Australia, having narrowly escaped from Japanese forces invading Singapore and Java. His dispatches from that disastrous front prompted one observer to comment on “the crisis days when everybody except Harold Guard was trying to hush up the real situation.” At the time, he was acclaimed by the Australian press as one of the top four newspapermen covering the war in the Pacific.   Over the next three years, Guard was to have many more adventures reporting on the Pacific War, including firsthand experience flying with the US Air Force on twenty-two bombing missions, camping with Allied forces in the deadly jungles of New Guinea, and taking part in attacks from amphibious landing craft on enemy occupied territory. He also traveled into the undeveloped areas of Australia’s northern territories to report on the construction of air bases being built in preparation for defending the country against the advancing Japanese.   What made Harold Guard’s achievements even more remarkable was that he was disabled and had to walk with a stiff right leg due to his navy injury. Despite this, he often reported from perilous situations at the front line, which gained him considerable notoriety within the newspaper world. Guard endeavored to give honest accounts, and this often brought him into conflict with the military censors. In this book, the full story of Guard’s experiences and observations during the Pacific War have been reconstructed with the help of his dispatches, private correspondence, telegrams, and audio accounts. No longer subject to censorship, the starkly honest perceptions of how the Allies nearly failed and, at last, finally won the war can now be told.

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  The Importance of Not Being...

  Mark Kurlansky

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  The New York Times–bestselling author of Salt examines the intersections between his life and Ernest Hemingway’s in this mix of travel memoir and history. 
   
  By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky’s life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway’s legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway’s death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway’s and Kurlansky’s lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain—both cities important to Hemingway’s adventurous life and prolific writing. 
   
  Paris, Basque Country, Havana and Idaho.Get to know the extraordinary people he met there—those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing. 
   
  In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, find:A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative storiesLittle-known historical facts about Hemingway’s lifeAnecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls “hemitis” 
   
  Readers of Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America, or The Boys will love The Importance of Not Being Ernest. 
   
  Praise for The Importance of Not Being Ernest 
   
  “An absolute delight! Full of personality, Kurlansky’s book will enchant history, literature, and Hemingway fans alike.” —Library Journal (starred review)

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  Geoffrey Giuliano In...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Episode 4: Ruth was a well endowed young woman. Paul’s alleged improper sexual remarks and behavior towards as Ruth as a teen. Ruth feels Paul may have sabotaged her career. Mike McGear gets behind Jim’s attempted ousting of Angie and Ruth. Mr. McCartney attempts to buy Angie off. Angie is sent to her room.  Contains adult language and mature themes. Not recommended for children.  Dedicated to Vrndarani Devi 1953-2017Produced by Fred BetschenEdited by Macc KayMusic by AudioNautix.comProject Coordinator Alex FranchiFor Icon Audio Arts Brandon StickneyEden Giuliano

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  10 Masterpieces you have to read...

  Jane Austen, Charles Dickens,...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works1. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Start at Chapters 12. A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens Start at Chapters 103. Anne of Green Gables By Lucy Maud Montgomery Start at Chapters 164. Emma By Jane Austen Start at Chapters 545. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain Start at Chapters 1086. The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe Start at Chapters 1447. The Prophet copie By Khalil Gibran Start at Chapters 1458. Think and grow rich By Napoleon Hill Start at Chapters 1739. The Iliad By Homer Start at Chapters 19110.The Science of Getting Rich By Wallace D. Wattles Start at Chapters 215Also Available 10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 1

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  To Hell and Back - A Surgeon's...

  Steven B. Heird

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  “[A] candid and enlivening story of one surgeon’s path from addiction to recovery. Take time to nurture your soul with this honest account.” —Gay Hendricks, PhD, New York Times–bestselling author of The Big Leap  To Hell and Back chronicles the life of Dr. Steven B. Heird and the battle with addiction that put his loving family, booming medical practice, and years of education at risk. After a spiritual awakening in a rehabilitation hospital, he began to see light and love in all places—finally able to identify the things that made him experience true happiness.    In addition to sharing his own harrowing yet hope-filled journey, Heird offers twelve unique prescriptions—intended to guide readers on their own path to awareness.   “Once you read this book you will have something ‘refillable’ that will never run out for a life you absolutely love living. This book is medicine for your soul.” —Mary Morrissey, bestselling author of Brave Thinking

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