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  This Life In Death - Volume Il:...

  Howard Hodgson

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  'There are stories, and then there are sagas. Some books entertain, others educate, but every so often, you come across a tale so compelling that it does both. This Life in Death Vol.II (1989 - 2024) is one of those books. It is not a work of fiction-though at times, you might think it is. It follows on from where Vol. I left off in this autobiographical rollercoaster ride of riches to rags to riches amid the machinations of the death industry while mixing with royalty, the rich and famous.' 
  'Howard Hodgson is one of the UK's most colourful and complex entrepreneurs of the last fifty years. His descent from a rich and idyllic childhood to slum poverty before rising again to become Entrepreneur of the Year and beyond is both fascinating and inspirational'.

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  White Hot Light - Twenty-Five...

  Frank Huyler

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  Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book  
  Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one  
  exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor  
  with 25 years of experience in the ER. 
   
  In the  
  late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning  
  memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a  
  series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an  
  instant classic. 
   
  Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from  
  the trenches—this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits  
  visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of  
  medicine practiced on the razor’s edge between life and death. 
   
  From the doomed, like the Iraq vet with a brain full of shrapnel, to the  
  self-destructive, like the young woman who inserts a sewing needle into her  
  heart, to the transcendent, like the homeless Navajo artist whose sketches charm  
  the nurses, Huyler assembles a profound mosaic of human suffering and grace,  
  complemented by episodes from his personal life: the hail that fell the night  
  his wife gave birth, his drive through a snowstorm to see his father in a  
  Colorado ER, the beautiful wedding of his childhood friend with terminal cancer.  
  Melding hard-earned wisdom with a poet’s crystalline vision, Huyler evokes the  
  awesome burden of responsibility, the exhaustion, the relief of a costume disco  
  nurse party, and those rare occasions when the confluence of luck and science  
  yield, in the author’s words, “moments of breathtaking greatness.”  
   
  White Hot Light offers an unforgettable portrait of a field that  
  illuminates society at its most vulnerable, and its most elemental.

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  Stick To My Roots: A Music Memoir

  Tippa Irie

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  The autobiography of Tippa Irie, Stick To My Roots tells the reggae musician's incredible story - from his trailblazing beginnings in Saxon Sound International to the Grammy Award-nominated "Hey Mama" with the Black Eyed Peas.
  
  Titled after his 2010 hit single, the book will cover 40 years of Tippa's prestigious career: from the first sign of talent as a child in South London and family members encouraging him to enter local talent competitions, to making his first record and becoming the powerhouse and Reggae-scene legend he is now.
  
  It's a story full of dreams, music and hope, but also the deep traumas and tribulations that Tippa experienced throughout his life.

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  The Raven

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a mysterious visit by a talking raven. The lover, often identified as a student is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further antagonize the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references.

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  A Waterbiography

  Robert C. Leslie

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  Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He describes the progression of this love from wave to wave and boat to boat. Leslie sailed during the Great Age of Sail before Industrialism had taken possession of Britain.Leslie comments on the early days of singlehanded small boat sailing:"When I first began boating in the early forties [1840s], what is now called single-handed cruising was almost unknown among amateurs....people had a vague dread of it. Much of this has passed away, and hundreds of amateur boatmen, and even ladies, are now as much at home and really safer in a sailing-boat than they would be on the back of a hunter or bicycle."Leslie writes of one of his favorite cruising grounds about 1850: "No railway in my time came within fifteen miles of Sidmouth, and the few enterprising visitors who reached there by coach from Exeter called it dull. It was certainly not a gay place, but most of those who resided there in that happy valley did so rather with a view to quiet, and among them it was rare to find any one disposed to tamper with the grave routine of country life there."A Waterbiography captures a Lost Age.(Summary by Peter Kelleher)

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  Waiting for the Thaw - The...

  Patricia Ann

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  Waiting for the Thaw is an inspirational story of one woman’s journey through the darkest depths of loss and her eventual ascension back to a life rich with fulfillment. Patricia Ann’s wonderfully descriptive retelling of her life’s story is absolutely captivating. 
  Pulling the listener in immediately, she describes meeting her future husband, Don, in the most humorous and unexpected way. Their subsequent rollercoaster of life’s challenges includes the joy of becoming parents to two beautiful daughters and eventually becoming grandparents of three grandchildren. With a thriving business and a loving family, they were enjoying life to the fullest. 
  Then, suddenly, the lights of a young life go dark. Don’s unexpected death is a crushing blow to Patricia and her family. Dreams unfulfilled, unbearable grief, and now, for the first time in her life, Patricia is fighting for the strength to go on. 
  That is where this amazing, inspirational story delivers on all levels. The author beautifully articulates the struggle to get back into life and run a business on her own. It gives hope to all who have suffered or will suffer the devastating loss of a loved one. 
  Patricia’s story is not only about everlasting love but also about survival and what it takes to make life worth living again.

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