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  FUGITIVE: The Michael Lynn Story...

  Michael O'Farrell

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  Facing accusations of massive fraud in 2007, Lynn boards a flight at Dublin Airport and vanishes. With him goes all trace of the millions he secured from Irish banks and clients. Millions more, entrusted to Lynn by everyday investors for dream holiday homes abroad, is also missing. A month later, dogged investigative journalist Michael O’Farrell is on his tail, tasked with tracking Lynn down. 
   
  From the Algarve to the Black Sea and beyond, O’Farrell pursues his prey until he finally corners Lynn, who agrees to speak to him. However, Lynn continues to avoid the Irish authorities, even spending five years in a hellish Brazilian prison fighting extradition. Now, sixteen years after he first went on the run, he is finally being brought to justice. 
   
  This is a truly extraordinary tale of tension-filled encounters involving shadowy fixers, violent Mafia villains, international law organisations, suited, corporate crooks, and the man who thought he could outsmart them all, Michael Lynn.

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  Vietnam Combat - Firefights and...

  Robin Bartlett

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  An American soldier vividly recounts leading a platoon through the most chaotic and significant year of the Vietnam War.In 1968, 1st Lieutenant Robin Bartlett was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). He suddenly found himself at the “repo-depo” in Bien Hoa. His unit had more helicopter support than any other in Vietnam. That meant immediate support was only minutes away. But It also meant that Bartlett’s platoon could deploy at a moment’s notice. And they did.It was the worst of times to be a platoon leader in Vietnam, let alone a grunt serving in a combat unit. Beyond the brutality of combat, Bartlett faced a crisis of commitment as the war rapidly lost support both at home and among the soldiers he led. Fifty years later, Bartlett shares these harrowing experiences in a fast-moving, first-person narrative that shines a light on the horror, fear, anguish, and sometimes illogical humor of that war.Finalist, 2023 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards

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  Know about "geoffrey chaucer" -...

  Saurabh Singh Chauhan

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  This is small copy of introduction of the book: Welcome to the captivating journey through the life and legacy of Geoffrey Chaucer, affectionately known as "The Father of English Literature." In the pages that follow, we will embark on an exploration of a remarkable individual whose influence on the English language and literary tradition is immeasurable. 
  Geoffrey Chaucer lived in a time of great upheaval and transformation, where the English language was evolving, and the literary landscape was being reshaped. His life, spanning from the mid-14th century to the turn of the 15th century, was a tapestry woven with experiences that would eventually birth some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language. 
  This biography seeks to not only chronicle the significant events in Chaucer's life but also to provide insights into the historical and cultural backdrop against which he wrote. From his early days in London to his diplomatic missions across Europe, from the tumultuous era of the Hundred Years' War to the haunting specter of the Black Death, Chaucer's life was intimately connected with the trials and triumphs of his age.

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  Journal of a Black Queer Nurse

  Britney Daniels

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  In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19. 
   
   
   
  Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much. 
   
   
   
  Hilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived. 
   
   
   
  Whether it is giving one's own clothes to a homeless patient, sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses, or nursing one's own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies, Journal of a Black Queer Nurse reveals the ways in which care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real care—care that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper sense—demands nurses, especially nurses of color, must also be warriors.

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  First Words - Earliest Writing...

  Paul Mandelbaum

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  Many kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before there was Carrie, there was " Johnathan and the Witchs." And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? These young writers are the same people who dominated the best seller lists and occupy the most celebrated spots on bookshelves in our stores, libraries, and homes. Here is a funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by celebrated writers— authors who were amused by and happy to share their own early efforts.
  
  
  • Kevin McCarthy reads Allan Gurganus
  
  • Judith Ivey reads Margaret Atwood
  
  • Andre Braugher reads Amiri Baraka
  
  • Alfre Woodward reads Gloria Naylor
  
  • Elliott Gould reads Pat Conroy
  
  • Susan Anspach reads Joyce Carol Oates
  
  • Roger Rees reads Gore Vidal
  
  • Daphne Zuniga reads Susan Minot
  
  • Nana Visitor reads Ursula K. Le Guin
  
  • Kevin McCarthy reads John Hersey
  
  • Melissa Manchester reads Rita Dove
  
  • Elliott Gould reads Stephen King
  
  • Amy Tan reads Amy Tan
  
  • David Ackroyd reads Norman Mailer
  
  • Joel Grey reads Paul Bowles
  
  • Maxine Hong Kingston reads Maxine Hong Kingston
  
  • Arte Johnson reads Roy Blount Jr.
  
  • Andre Braugher reads Charles Johnson
  
  • Roger Rees reads William Styron
  
  • Harvey Fierstein reads Stanley Elkin
  
  • Samantha Eggar reads Madeleine L' Engle
  
  • David Ackroyd reads Louis Auchincloss
  
  • Jeff Fahey reads Fred Chappell
  
  • Harvey Fierstein reads Tobias Wolff
  
  • Tim Matheson reads W.P. Kinsella
  
  • Jean Smart reads Gail Godwin
  
  • Jeff Fahey reads Stephen Dixon
  
  • Andre Braugher reads Vance Bourjaily
  
  • Elliott Gould reads John Updike
  
  
  Kevin McCarthy reads Allan Gurganus
  
  
  Judith Ivey reads Margaret Atwood
  
  
  Andre Braugher reads Amiri Baraka
  
  
  Alfre Woodward reads Gloria Naylor
  
  
  Elliott Gould reads Pat Conroy
  
  
  Susan Anspach reads Joyce Carol Oates
  
  
  Roger Rees reads Gore Vidal
  
  
  Daphne Zuniga reads Susan Minot
  
  
  Nana Visitor reads Ursula K. Le Guin
  
  
  Kevin McCarthy reads John Hersey
  
  
  Melissa Manchester reads Rita Dove
  
  
  Elliott Gould reads Stephen King
  
  
  Amy Tan reads Amy Tan
  
  
  David Ackroyd reads Norman Mailer
  
  
  Joel Grey reads Paul Bowles
  
  
  Maxine Hong Kingston reads Maxine Hong Kingston
  
  
  Arte Johnson reads Roy Blount Jr.
  
  
  Andre Braugher reads Charles Johnson
  
  
  Roger Rees reads William Styron
  
  
  Harvey Fierstein reads Stanley Elkin
  
  
  Samantha Eggar reads Madeleine L' Engle
  
  
  David Ackroyd reads Louis Auchincloss
  
  
  Jeff Fahey reads Fred Chappell
  
  
  Harvey Fierstein reads Tobias Wolff
  
  
  Tim Matheson reads W.P. Kinsella
  
  
  Jean Smart reads Gail Godwin
  
  
  Jeff Fahey reads Stephen Dixon
  
  
  Andre Braugher reads Vance Bourjaily
  
  
  Elliott Gould reads John Updike

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  The Great Philosophers - From...

  Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey

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  Philosophy has been underway for more than 2,000 years. The Great Philosophers traces the biggest and most influential thoughts in philosophy's long stride through history, beginning with the ancient Greeks and early Romans, the first philosophical thinkers in the West, to whom much is owed. 
   
  How their concerns became the concerns of those who followed is clearly laid out, as is the way their answers shaped what we now recognize as philosophy. The medieval philosophers are also represented, combining their religious concerns with ancient thought and carrying it into the Renaissance. The modern era, the explosion of philosophy sparked by Descartes, is well represented here too. Founders and representatives of both rationalist and empiricist schools make an appearance, as do philosophy's skeptics with their often-darker conclusions. 
   
  Philosophy's long walk continues, and you will find here the thoughts which make its contemporary form what it is, and perhaps what it is on the way to becoming. Philosophy is very much still underway, and The Great Philosophers pays regard to both the discipline as it is practiced now and to the history which made contemporary philosophy possible.

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