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  Tanker Pilot - Lessons from the...

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  From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and crucial lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday lives.Get a glimpse of life in the pilot’s seat and experience modern air warfare directly from a true American hero. Lt. Col Mark Hasara—who has twenty-four years’ experience in flying missions around the world—provides keen and eye-opening insights on success and failure, and emphasizes the importance of always being willing to learn.He provides twelve essential lessons based on his wartime experience and his own personal photographs from his missions during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War. With a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Rush Limbaugh, this is a military memoir not to be missed.

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  Wes Anderson - Close-Ups Book 1

  Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little...

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  The indispensable, pocket guide to the films of Wes Anderson, from Bottle Rocket to Isle of Dogs. 
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  Close-Ups: Vampire Movies 
  Close-Ups: New York Movies 
  Wes Anderson is a distinctive auteur of modern American cinema, known for having created a personal universe out of pastel colour palettes, meticulous set design, nostalgic soundtracks and a troupe of familiar actors – all seen in films such as Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs. 
  In this pocket guide Sophie Monks Kaufman delves beneath Anderson’s pristine surfaces to examine his emotional preoccupations with family, romance, failure, adventure and death. She carefully unspools the cultural threads that inform his aesthetic to explain why this precocious arthouse film nerd from Texas has become one of the most popular directors of his generation. 
  This book offers a comprehensive guide to Wes Anderson's unique style of direction, providing insightful reviews and a detailed biography. It's a top reference for anyone interested in the performing arts, offering a unique look into his individual approach to production. 
  For fans of Wally Koval (Accidentally Wes Anderson), Matt Zoller Seitz (The Wes Anderson Collection), Annie Atkins (Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps), and Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch).

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  Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Women's...

  Alice Stone Blackwell

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  Lucy Stone was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was known for using her birth name after marriage, the custom at the time being for women to take their husband's surname. Stone assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the state and local levels.

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  A Time to Risk All - The...

  Clodagh Finn

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  Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the story of this remarkable, unknown Irish woman, meeting many of those children Mary Elmes saved. Here, in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and tragedy, her story is finally remembered.
  The children called her 'Miss Mary', and they remember her kindness still. She gave them food and shelter and later risked her life to help them escape the convoys bound for Auschwitz.
  Turning her back on a brilliant academic career, Mary Elmes ventured into a war zone to help children in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she fled Franco's forces but continued to work with refugees in France when the Second World War broke out. In 1942, when it became evident that Jews were being deported to their deaths, she smuggled children to safety in the boot of her car. She was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo, but went straight back to work after her release.
  When the war was over, Mary married and settled down, never speaking about what she had done. Her story was forgotten. In A Time to Risk All  her remarkable story is finally remembered as it should be.
  'A compelling portrait of an unsung Irish heroine of two wars' Madeleine Keane, Literary Editor, Sunday Independent
  'Brings to light the life of Mary Elmes, showing a remarkable, independent and courageous woman whose compassion knew no borders.' Yvonne Altman O'Connor, Culture and Education Director, Irish Jewish Museum

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  Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders

  Mike Rothmiller, Douglas Thompson

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  All the varieties of power – star, political, sexual, criminal and emotional – are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra and the Mafia. 
  Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA and big-city police departments, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal Sinatra’s pact with the Mob in shocking detail. 
  With additional evidence from decades of investigations and testimony, they expose Sinatra’s lifelong association with the Mafia, which he always denied, and its deadly collateral damage. 
  This revelatory showstopper is a wild dance made coherent by intelligent choreography. Sinatra may not have been an actual made man, but the Mafia certainly made him. 
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  Praise for Bombshell: ‘Reads like a James Ellroy novel’, Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph

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  Mera Dil

  Dr Shershah Syed

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  Mera Dil is an audio book of true life events. Mera Dil is written by Dr Shershah Syed.Mera Dil audio book contains 8 stories

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