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  Saint Francis of Assisi: A...

  Johannes Jorgensen

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  Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day, which included fighting as a soldier. In 1205, while away at war, he experienced a vision that beckoned him return to Assisi, where he soon lost his taste for the worldly life and began to live a life of evangelical poverty in imitation of Jesus Christ. He embarked upon a pilgrimage to Rome, where he begged for alms alongside the poor at St. Peter's Basilica. Upon his return to Assisi, be began to preach in the town square and soon acquired a curious following which blossomed into a worldwide religious order. The Franciscans sparked a spiritual revival that enlightened the Dark Ages and that continues even into our day.Johannes Jorgensen (1866–1956) is best known outside his native Denmark for his popular biography of St. Francis of Assisi, which he wrote in 1907. As a student in Copenhagen, he searched in vain for truth in various secular and spiritual philosophies. But his 1894 visit to Assisi, with his friend Mogens Ballin, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, led to a turning point in Jorgensen's own spiritual life and quest for truth and marked the beginning of his fervent love for Francis, a love that became the preoccupation of his life and led to his conversion to Catholicism in 1896. His timeless biography of Francis of Assisi continues to inspire readers from all creeds and cultures. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave...

  Harriet Jacobs

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  Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in the New York Tribune, but was discontinued because Jacobs' depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves were considered too shocking. It was published in book form in 1861. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett).

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  Daughter of the River Country -...

  Dianne O'Brien, Sue Williams

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  A heartbreaking, redemptive memoir of raw power, Daughter of the River Country is the story of an extraordinary journey from a childhood as one of Australia's Stolen Generation to Aboriginal ElderBorn   in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from   her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of   widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is   her birth mother.When her adoptive mother  tragically dies and  she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is  raped, sent to the  brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her  rapist in order to  keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic  abuse, but refusing  to let her spirit be broken, Dianne finally discovers  she is a Yorta  Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is  reunited with her  birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather  was a famous  Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful  leader in her  own right, vowing to help others in any way she can.Daughter of the River Country   explores for the first time the devastation caused to Australia's  Aboriginal Stolen Generation, who were forcibly placed with white   families as part of a government assimilation programme.    'A compelling memoir   about the power of love and staying the course.' LINDA BURNEY, the  first Aboriginal Member of Australia's House of Representatives

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  Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer

  Phil Chalmers

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  Phil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking:Why do the crimes continue to happen?What sends these kids over the edge?Could we have seen these crimes coming and stopped them?How can we keep our own kids safe? 
    
  In Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer, Phil explores the reasons why teens kill; the warning signs we must be looking for; and offers a game plan to keep our homes, schools, and communities safe. This book may help save your life or the life of a child you love! 
  Images, recommendations, and extra resources are included in the audiobook companion PDF download. 
  What the experts say: 
  “Phil Chalmers has interviewed the killers. He has corresponded with them extensively. He has exhaustively researched their crimes. There is no human being alive who knows more about these killers, and as you read this book, you will truly be taken Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer.” 
  Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman, U.S. Army (retired), murder expert, and author of Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill 
  “This book has incredible knowledge and information that is invaluable to law enforcement, school resource officers, school personnel, and parents. Every single person who is in a school environment needs to read this book, and understand that some of the most horrific crimes that are being performed are being carried out by our children.” 
  Officer Russ Diehl, School Resource / DARE Officer, Brimfield Police Dept, Kent, Ohio 
  “To go into the mind of a killer, you need to go into their hearts, and Phil has done just that. Phil’s book raises your awareness of where we have gone wrong in society and how we can make major changes with simple steps.” 
  Joe Shillaci, Former Miami Homicide investigator and star of the A&E show The First 48

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  Heroes and Giants - Second Edition

  Douglas B. Ashby

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  During a career in the emergency services, you will see every imaginable type of tragedy. In this sometimes humorous, sometimes heartrending memoir, Ashby rises from a lowly recruit in Pasadena, California to battalion chief with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He shares, with authentic detail, the horrific incidents that firefighters encounter. At the same time, Ashby provides a look into his personal life and how you can’t just “leave your work at work” when you serve in this capacity. 
  “We do all we can, and it has to be enough.”  
   

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  Last Rites

  John Lukacs

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  An accomplished historian delves into his own history: “An often witty and always fascinating—even entertaining—writer.”—TheWashington Post In Confessions of an Original Sinner, an adroit blend of autobiography and personal philosophy, historian John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs. Now, in Last Rites, he continues and expands his reflections, this time integrating his conception of history and human knowledge with private memories of his wives and loves, and enhancing the book with footnotes from his idiosyncratic diaries. The resulting volume is fascinating and delightful—an auto-history by a passionate, authentic, brilliant, and witty man. Lukacs begins with a concise rendering of a historical understanding of our world (essential reading for any historian), then follows with trenchant observations on his life in the United States, commentary on his native Hungary and the new meanings it took for him after 1989, and deeply personal portraits of his three wives, about whom he has not written before. He also includes a chapter on his formative memories of May and June 1940 and of Winston Churchill, a subject in some of Lukacs’s later studies. Last Rites is a richly layered summation combined with a set of extraordinary observations—an original book only John Lukacs could have written 

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