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  The Long Pursuit - Abraham...

  Roy Morris

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  A study of the rivalry between two American politicians and how it transformed them & the nation they sought to lead in the dark days before the Civil War. 
   
  “This intimate dual portrait of Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as young men . . . is a delight to read and a revealing journey through a mid-nineteenth-century America careening toward disaster.” —Kenneth Ackerman, author Young J. Edgar and Boss Tweed 
   
  For the better part of two decades, Stephen Douglas was the most famous and controversial politician in the United States, a veritable “steam engine in britches.” Abraham Lincoln was merely Douglas’s most persistent rival within their adopted home state of Illinois, known mainly for his droll sense of humor, bad jokes, and slightly nutty wife. 
   
  But from the time they first set foot in the Prairie State in the early 1830s, Lincoln and Douglas were fated to be political competitors. The Long Pursuit tells the dramatic story of how these two radically different individuals rose to the top rung of American politics, and how their personal rivalry shaped and altered the future of the nation during its most convulsive era. Indeed, had it not been for Douglas, who served as Lincoln’s personal goad, pace horse, and measuring stick, there would have been no Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, no Lincoln presidency in 1860, and perhaps no Civil War six months later. For both men—and for the nation itself—the stakes were that high. 
   
  Not merely a detailed political study, The Long Pursuit is also a compelling look at the personal side of politics on the rough-and-tumble western frontier. It shows us a more human Lincoln, a bare-knuckles politician who was not above trading on his wildly inaccurate image as a humble “rail-splitter,” when he was, in fact, one of the nation’s most successful railroad attorneys. And as the first extensive biographical study of Stephen Douglas in more than three decades, the book presents a long-overdue reassessment of one of the nineteenth century’s more compelling and ultimately tragic figures, the one-time “Little Giant” of American politics. 
   
  “With deft writing and prudent judgments, Morris captures [Douglas’s and Lincoln’s] burning ambition, political skills, and deeply held beliefs amid the turbulence of a country’s unfolding tragedy.” —Jeffry D. Wert, author of The Sword of Lincoln

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  Live Like Sean - Important Life...

  TJ Nelligan, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

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  2022 IPPY Book Awards Gold Medalist in Inspirational & Spiritual2022 IBPA Ben Franklin Award, Silver Winner - Parenting & Family2021 2021 BIBA® Non-Fiction Winner2021 Non-Fiction Book Author Association; Gold WinnerWhen my son Sean was born with special needs, his mother and I were told he would never be “normal” and we mourned for the life we had imagined for him. We thought we would have to be his teacher and protector, more so than the typical child. However, we quickly learned that lessons can come from the most unlikely places and that our world would be changed for the better in ways we could have never envisioned. . . all because of Sean.Before he died on Father’s Day 2019, Sean taught me valuable life lessons that only became more pronounced upon his passing. He taught me how to build strong, authentic relationships. He taught me how to live in the moment. He taught me how to feel gratitude. Mostly, he taught me how to live like Sean, and these lessons are his legacy.

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  Autobiography of a Face

  Lucy Grealy

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  "I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison." 
   
   
   
  At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.

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  I Refused Chemo - 7 Steps to...

  Teri Dale

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  How to take control of your cancer treatment—and your fear—by opting for holistic treatments and alternative therapies.  I Refused Chemo shows those diagnosed with cancer what to do next with seven steps to taking back their power and healing their disease. A cancer diagnosis can feel like a death sentence. It can be a very scary, dark, and lonely place. After being diagnosed with a form of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NLPHL), cancer and life coach Teri Dale refused to go along with the toxic treatments strongly recommended by her oncologist. Instead, she researched holistic, natural alternatives for a cure—and was able to heal her body in nine months without chemo or radiation! Her story helps others who have been diagnosed navigate the life-altering changes necessary after their diagnosis and gain confidence in choosing a holistic approach.

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  On the road to find out

  Robert C. Brewster

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  On the road to find out  is a thought provoking memory emoting read for a generation that lived it and for those younger and wise enough to want to discover what it was like to live in the moment. It is rooted in the time period of 1967 to 1974 and unfolds mainly in the seaside resort town of Wildwood New Jersey. It’s a story of heartbreak and discovery. It’s a wild ride through America as seen through the eyes of this young Canadian, as he digs deep inside his self, in the hopes of recapturing the one thing he lost and means everything to him, true love. The people and situations in it are real and unfolded as I and others remembered them. Though it reads like fiction, the story is true in every sense. It is a photographic memory of a special time and place that screamed to be documented. 

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  Discoveries - Made From Living...

  Eugenia Price

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  Discoveries is Eugenia Price's honest account of her quest to find out what Jesus Christ means to her, and how her newfound belief in Him has changed her life. Eugenia Price wrote Discoveries—her first book—two years after her conversion to Christianity at the age of thirty-three. It is an authentic journal of her spiritual journey from nonbeliever to believer. Discoveries is filled with the vitality and excitement of a new disciple, and yet, as the author states, it is still startlingly central to what I believe today. Updated with a new preface, this book is essential listening for all believers—new and old alike—who are eager to re-examine their own commitments to Jesus Christ, as Ms. Price has done in these chapters.

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