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  A Safe Place - How to Prevent...

  Luis Aponte

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  A Safe Place: How to Prevent the Next School Shooting by Luis D. Aponte is a groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of one of America's most urgent crises: school gun violence. Drawing from seven years of meticulous research into 1,204 U.S. school shootings spanning three decades, Aponte-a librarian, veteran, and survivor of gun violence-offers a fact-based, nonpartisan roadmap to protect children and educators. ​ 
  This book goes beyond headlines, uncovering the overlooked patterns and root causes of school shootings. ​ Aponte debunks common myths, revealing that arguments, feuds, and unresolved conflicts-not mental illness or video games-are the leading triggers of these tragedies. ​He advocates for teaching emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and gun safety to children as essential tools for prevention. 
  Packed with actionable solutions, A Safe Place outlines practical measures that communities can implement without waiting for Congress. From consistent use of metal detectors and armed resource officers to panic button systems like Alyssa's Law, Aponte emphasizes strategies that save lives. He also highlights the importance of community-based programs, such as Stand for the Silent and Community Violence Intervention initiatives, which foster safer schools and neighborhoods. ​ 
  Through compelling narratives, Aponte honors the resilience of parents like Lori Alhadeff and Kirk Smalley, who turned personal tragedies into powerful movements for change. He also shares his own harrowing experiences with gun violence, adding a deeply human perspective to his research. 
  This book is not just a guide-it's a heartfelt plea for unity and action. Aponte challenges readers to join the fight against school gun violence, reminding us that every child deserves to grow up in peace. A Safe Place is a vital resource for parents, educators, and community leaders committed to creating safe havens for learning and growth.

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  Coffee and Car Payments - From...

  Easten Swensen

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  Coffee and Car Payments invites you to journey from financial strain to stability. It's a book about empowerment, designed for those who feel the weight of debt and wonder if financial freedom is out of reach. Through relatable stories, practical steps, and humor, Coffee and Car Payments reveals how small, daily choices can lead to a life of abundance and peace. You'll find practical steps and real-life insights to help you build a solid financial foundation and empowers you with relatable examples to take control of your finances, laying the groundwork for a life of financial freedom. After reading Coffee and Car Payments, you will feel understood, inspired, and equipped to make real change as you discover Percentage Budget, Pause to Prosper, and Let's Do The Math. Coffee and Car Payments is about finding purpose in every dollar spent. It's the kind of book sparking conversations about financial resilience and a newfound sense of hope. This is more than a guide; it's the start of a financial transformation.

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  The Model Black - How Black...

  Barbara Banda

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  This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders. Based on candid interviews with thirty successful black leaders, it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organizations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience. 
   
   
   
  This book provides the insights and ideas required to have positive conversations about race at work and to create work environments where black leaders can thrive. This book offers new ways of thinking about black people at work that help to further inclusion. It shines a light on the daily reality of being a black leader in the workplace, providing an alternative entry point for conversations around inclusion and explores what individuals and organizations can do to increase inclusion in the workplace. Through firsthand stories this book explores the challenges, compromises, struggles, and successes that black people encounter, and the range of strategies they employ to achieve success as they navigate the "white" workplace. 
   
   
   
  It is essential for business leaders in the private, public, and third sector, human resources professionals, students, anyone teaching or mentoring black students or leaders, and everyone interested in understanding race and furthering inclusion in the workplace.

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  Character Building

  Booker T. Washington

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  Character Building, a collection of addresses delivered by Booker T. Washington on Sunday evenings to the students of Tuskegee Institute, provides practical guidance on character development, education, work, and life. Let's delve into this insightful work:As president of the Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington made it his habit to deliver an address to his students every Sunday night. Washington was not only concerned with a giving his students a technical education, but with teaching them how to be successful in both the moral and commercial realm.

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  Echoes of Valor: Bravo Company...

  Alden Thorne

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  Echoes of Valor: Bravo Company in the Arghandab Conflict   
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  Two Treatises of Government

  John Locke

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  What if political power were not born from blood, conquest, or divine command—but from the consent of free people? 
   
  In *Two Treatises of Government*, John Locke gives one of the defining arguments of modern political philosophy. Written in the atmosphere of seventeenth-century conflict over monarchy, authority, property, liberty, and resistance, this landmark work challenges absolute power and asks what makes government legitimate. 
   
  The first treatise attacks the theory that kings possess natural or divinely inherited authority over mankind. The second treatise develops Locke’s enduring vision of civil society: human beings possess natural rights, political authority exists by consent, property arises through labor, and government becomes a trust that may be resisted when it betrays its purpose. 
   
  Locke’s ideas helped shape later debates about constitutional government, liberalism, revolution, individual liberty, and the limits of state power. For listeners interested in political theory, philosophy, law, history, democracy, and the roots of modern rights language, this work remains essential. 
   
  This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and accessible listening experience, helping modern audiences follow Locke’s dense reasoning, historical argument, and philosophical structure with steadiness and precision. 
   
  Enter one of the great arguments against absolute rule, and hear the work that continues to echo wherever liberty, property, government, and consent are debated.

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