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  Breaking Better - 22 Armed...

  Lennox Rodgers

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  In this searingly honest account, Lennox gives a fascinating insider account of his experiences operating in the criminal underworld in and around London and Oxford. Stomach-churning, heart-breaking, eye-opening - he leaves no stone unturned. Lennox recounts in riveting detail how he was drawn into his life of crime, how he operated as a drug dealer, enforcer and armed robber, and how he survived numerous spells in prisons including Dartmoor, Strangeways, Grendon, Oxford and Lewes. All culminating in the fateful day when, friendless, bloodied and broke, he collapsed behind an industrial bin in an alleyway off London's Oxford Street, and saw an eerie image out of the corner of his eye. In Breaking Better, Lennox sets out the complete story of his decent into darkness and his inspiring road to redemption. Today Lennox is co-founder of Refocus Project and has dedicated his life to helping those most at risk of being exploited or caught up in knife crime, county lines, crime, grooming, money laundering and gangs.

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  My Success Journey with Tony...

  Sinatra Anthony

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  The true story  about how I made it in my life. I will tell you in details, step by step how I became a millionaire because of Tony Robbins programs. With me you will understand how you can do what you want and when you want. Lets go!

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  Finding My Wild - How a Move to...

  Kathy Donaghy

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  'Life had brought me to the edge of myself and here I was feeling like I was on the edge of the world.'
  After moving back to her homeplace on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal with her young family, journalist Kathy Donaghy's life changed in ways she never saw coming. This unflinching memoir looks back at a decade of love and loss, of mothering, identity and ultimately healing. An ode to friendship, home and the extraordinary healing powers of immersing yourself in the natural world, especially the ocean.

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  A Gold Hunter's Experience

  Chalkley J. Hambleton

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  "Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever.  In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable.  Since the panic of 1857 there had been three years of general depression, money was scarce, there was little activity in business, the outlook was discouraging, and I, like hundreds of others, felt blue." 
   Thus Chalkley J. Hambleton begins his pithy and engrossing tale of participation in the Pike's Peak gold rush. 
   Four men in partnership hauled 24 tons of mining equipment by ox cart across the Great Plains from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Denver, Colorado.  Hambleton vividly recounts their encounters with buffalo herds, Indians, and"the returning army of disappointed gold seekers."  
   Setting up camp near Mountain City, Colorado, Hambleton watched one man wash "several nice nuggets of shining gold" from the dirt and gravel, only to learn afterwards that "these same nuggets had been washed out several times before, whenever a 'tenderfoot' would come along, who it was thought might want to buy a rich claim." 
   Two years later, "tired and disgusted with the whole business," Hambleton returned to Chicago, where he arrived "a wiser if not richer man."  
   In later years, Hambleton was a prominent Chicago lawyer, real estate developer, and a member of the Chicago Board of Education.  He wrote this candid account for family and friends, publishing it privately in 1898.  It is based in good part on letters he had sent from the gold fields to his sister.  Summing up his experience with wry humor, he writes: "After selling out my interest in the joint enterprise, I still had left some fifty claims on various lodes . . .  Some time after returning to Chicago, I was making a real estate trade . . . and I threw in these fifty gold mines. . .  Had I only kept them, and gotten up some artistic deeds of conveyance, in gilded letters, what magnificent wedding presents they would have made. . .  In the long list of high-sounding, useless presents, the present of a gold mine would have led all the rest."  (Summary by Sue Anderson)

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  Innovators The: Book Summary &...

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson. It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Walter Isaacson. Ideal for those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  This compelling narrative explores the history of the digital revolution, tracing the contributions of visionary inventors, programmers, and engineers who shaped the modern world. From Ada Lovelace to Bill Gates, this book examines how innovation thrives through collaboration, blending technical brilliance with human creativity. A fascinating journey through the breakthroughs that led to computers, the internet, and the digital age, this book reveals the key personalities and ideas behind the technological transformation of our time.

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  Touch of Gray – The Grateful...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  The Grateful Dead remain a touchstone band for successive generations the world over. Although they have been playing together for decades, they seldom grant interviews, but we have them here in all their never-ending counterculture glory.A must for any serious fan of the art and music of the 1960s and beyond.

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