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  Katharine Barnwell - How One...

  Jordan K. Monson

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  What if Mother Teresa or Billy Graham lived and worked — and nobody knew their names? What if one of the church’s most influential missionaries went almost unnoticed?Meet Katharine (Katy) Barnwell. Within Bible translation, she’s a legend. Outside of Bible translation, few have heard of her. But not even Billy Graham holds a candle to what God did through Katy.From hiding as a child from Nazi bombing raids, fleeing civil wars, and remaining calm under terrorist attacks and armed gunmen, to utterly revolutionizing every field she touched, Barnwell’s life proves there is no need to treat the missionary hall of fame as if its ranks are closed. On the contrary, her kingdom labor reveals that God is still in the business of raising up contemporary “greats” who are willing to face danger, go the distance, lift up God’s Word in unprecedented ways, and see the lost turn to Christ in droves. In fact, there may be no “great” in all of church history who matches Barnwell’s level of influence. All around the world, hundreds of millions of new believers read and hear Scripture in their own language because of Barnwell’s work, books, and language training. By some estimates, about 3,000 completed or in-process Bible translations swim directly downstream of her work. Since she rebuilt The Jesus Film Project’s methods, more than 300 million viewers around the world have become followers of Jesus. Given such accomplishments, one might expect Barnwell to be arrogant or aloof, and yet those who know her best report sweet surprise at how warm, endearing, patient, and feisty she is.Her African colleagues call her Mama Katy, and such a name is fitting. She is truly the mother of modern Bible translation and the mother of twenty-first-century missions.

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  The Curious Case of Mike Lynch -...

  Katie Prescott

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  Read by the author, Katie Prescott.A maverick outsider. An improbable life. An even more improbable death. Discover the real story of Mike Lynch, Britain’s enigmatic billionaire. From humble beginnings, Lynch rose to become one of the UK’s richest men, driving the development of his business Autonomy before selling it to Hewlett-Packard for more than £11bn in 2011. Famously abrasive and hard to read, he soon found himself embroiled in one of the biggest fraud cases in Silicon Valley history, his reputation in tatters.After a vicious legal battle lasting more than a decade, a British judge found that Lynch had fiddled the accounts. A mere two years later, he was exonerated by a US jury, swerving jail for the rest of his days. Just as he was celebrating his freedom, this second chance at life was snatched away. Almost thirteen years to the day that the Autonomy­–HP deal was signed, Lynch’s yacht, Bayesian, sank off the coast of Sicily, taking the lives of Lynch, his daughter and five others. Hours earlier, his co-defendant, Autonomy accountant Stephen Chamberlain, had been hit by a car in Cambridge and killed. The odds of the two deaths occurring together were estimated at four in one billion.Drawing on extensive research and exclusive access to key sources, award-winning Times journalist Katie Prescott forensically explores the life and death of this elusive maverick. Prescott takes us into a high-stakes world of corporate subterfuge and rivalries, zigzagging through the hallowed halls of Cambridge, across the frenzied streets of the City of London, and straight to the heart of Silicon Valley. A brilliant feat of investigative reporting, this is a tale where nothing is quite as it appears.-

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  Rotten Evidence - Reading and...

  Ahmed Naji

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  In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for “violating public decency,” after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cellblock in Cairo’s Tora Prison. 
   
  Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji’s writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, homemade chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji’s storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and the grand questions he confronts. 
   
  How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration?  
   
  Write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Make a wall hook out of a razor?  
   
  Fight boredom? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind in the face of authoritarian censorship. 
   
  “Ahmed Naji confronts what happens when one’s fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian, utterly self-serious regime.”—Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud

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  Blanketmen - An Untold Story of...

  Richard O’Rawe, Richard English

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  "I was told in 1991 that I could be shot for opening my mouth. But I am convinced that the truth should be told and that I have a duty to the dead hunger strikers to explain fully the events that led to their deaths." 
   
   
   
  Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. One of the "Blanketmen," he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s. 
   
   
   
  In Blanketmen, O'Rawe gives his personal account of those turbulent times that saw British and Irish governments entering unprecedented negotiations with the IRA Army Council and the prisoners themselves. Passionate, disturbing, and controversial, this remains a landmark book in the cruel history of Northern Ireland. 
   
   
   
  After ten years, and the release of historical state and personal papers, Richard O'Rawe's assertions in Blanketmen have been vindicated. He has been married to Bernadette for forty years, has three grown-up children, and still lives in west Belfast.

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  First and Always - A New...

  Peter R. Henriques

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  George Washington may be the most famous American who ever lived, and certainly is one of the most admired. While surrounded by myths, it is no myth that the man who led Americans’ fight for independence and whose two terms in office largely defined the presidency was the most highly respected individual among a generation of formidable personalities. This record hints at an enigmatic perfection; however, Washington was a flesh-and-blood man. In First and Always, celebrated historian Peter Henriques illuminates Washington’s life, more fully explicating his character and his achievements. 
    
  Arranged thematically, the book’s chapters focus on important and controversial issues, achieving a depth not possible in a traditional biography. First and Always examines factors that coalesced to make Washington such a remarkable and admirable leader, while also chronicling how Washington mistreated some of his enslaved workers, engaged in extreme partisanship, and responded with excessive sensitivity to criticism. Henriques portrays a Washington deeply ambitious and always hungry for public adoration, even as he disclaimed such desires. In its account of an amazing life, First and Always shows how, despite profound flaws, George Washington nevertheless deserves to rank as the nation's most consequential leader, without whom the American experiment in republican government would have died in infancy. 
    
  "Peter Henriques's short, shrewd takes on Washington climax in a masterly essay on the passions that burned within him, and his lifelong effort to tame them to the service of liberty and his country."—Richard Brookhiser, author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

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  Last Castle The: Book Summary &...

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of  The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan.
   
  It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Denise Kiernan.
   
  Ideal those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  The Last Castle unveils the fascinating history of Biltmore Estate, America’s largest privately owned home, and the visionaries who brought it to life. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, this narrative chronicles the lives of George Vanderbilt, his wife Edith, and the artisans and workers who shaped this architectural marvel. From its conception and construction to its survival through wars, economic crises, and changing times, the story offers a glimpse into a bygone era of wealth, ambition, and resilience. This richly detailed tale weaves together history, culture, and the enduring legacy of a remarkable family and their estate.

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