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  The Unforgiving Hours - The Grit...

  Shannon Hogan

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  From the frozen wilds of Alaska's treacherous trails and the rugged majesty of Colorado's peaks to the unyielding currents of Puget Sound and Canada's Inside Passage, The Unforgiving Hours offers us an intimate window into the toughest contests in sports. Whether it's a blistering race across the furnace trails of gold country in the Sierra Nevadas, a grueling swim in frigid water to break the Ice Mile Distance record, or a competition on the biggest triathlon stage with a determination beyond perceived limitations, each journey reveals the resilience and humor it takes to face the unknown and achieve endurance sports greatness. These stories of ordinary women and men who kept going even when things went wrong, especially when the weather and tides did not cooperate, attest to the drive, grit, and patience that exists in all of us. Pushing through exhaustion, setbacks, and moments of darkness and doubt, these athletes prove that greatness isn't about perfection—it's about perseverance. Their triumphs, large and small, are a testament to the power of adaptability, passion, and the sheer will to keep going, one breath, one step, one stroke, and one mile at a time.The Unforgiving Hours is an indelible chronicle of odysseys that showcase the determination, creativity, joy, strength, and inspiration at the heart of endurance sports.

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  The Quick and the Dead

  Cynric Temple-Camp

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  True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist  
    
  From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. 
  A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.

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  Fugitive! - On the run with...

  Nick Reynolds

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  SHORTLISTED IN THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2024Ground-breaking audio original exploring the reality of life on the run.What is life on the run really like? Featuring never-before heard interviews, this ground-breaking audio original gets you closer to the reality than ever before.Join Nick Reynolds as he explores the reality of the life of a fugitive. Using his own experiences of growing up on the run with the Great Train Robbers in Central America, Nick talks with some infamous fugitives and their families as they share their extraordinary experiences. From the mental toll of staying constantly vigilant and the need for money, to caring for loved ones and the long shadows cast by their pasts, this audiobook is essential listening for true crime fans.Fleeing from the law, putting yourself beyond society, leaving friends and family behind, never feeling truly safe - it takes a certain sort of person to see life as a fugitive as preferable to facing justice.The life of a fugitive is often glamorised in films and media: it's anything but. It's tough and it leaves deep scars on everyone involved - but is it harder than prison time? Listen and make up your own mind.

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  Fiona Foley Provocateur - An Art...

  Louise Martin-Chew

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  Fiona Foley Provocateur provides insights into the life of one of Australia’s most influential urban Aboriginal and activist artists. From her beginnings in Hervey Bay, Queensland, it follows her young adult life in Sydney where she co-founded Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative in 1986, to her rise through the art world and, most recently, into an academic life.  
  This biography reveals how Foley’s life has impacted her art, and her art on her life. It explores the artist’s familial relations, her ancestral home of K’Gari/Fraser Island, and her approach to artmaking and teaching. A provocateur, the artist’s activism is captured delicately throughout. It’s a triumph in story-telling and reveals that there is no art without life.  
  Key points: 
  . An absorbing and uplifting insight into Foley’s courage and determination in confronting racism, the weight of history and the need to forge new models. 
  . A rare account of a friendship between artist and writer, who are also Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, which takes account of the identity politics that surround such relationships with nuanced authenticity.  
  . It traverses the life of one of Australia's most important artists and documents the seismic shifts that have accompanied the decades through which her work has been made. 
  . Wonderful insights into Foley’s heritage, and the process of her provocative commission at Brisbane Magistrates Court. An important book which records the present, before is glossed or altered by future historians.

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  True Crime Files: 30 Real Murder...

  Yash

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  Step inside the darkest corners of the human mind with True Crime Files: 30 Real Murder Cases, Unsolved Mysteries & Deception Stories. 
  This audiobook takes you on a gripping journey through thirty shocking true-crime cases that shook the world. 
  Each chapter reveals a story more haunting than the last — from cold-blooded murders and chilling disappearances to twisted lies that fooled everyone. These are not fiction. These are real cases, real victims, and real killers, told with raw honesty and gripping narration that keeps you listening long after you press play. 
  Discover how ordinary people became monsters. Follow investigators as they piece together impossible clues. Uncover the deceptions that hid in plain sight. Every story exposes the psychology of crime — the manipulation, obsession, and darkness that drive people to kill. 
  Whether you’re fascinated by unsolved mysteries, obsessed with criminal psychology, or simply love stories that reveal the truth behind evil — this collection will pull you in and never let go. Perfect for fans of Mindhunter, Making a Murderer, or Serial, True Crime Files delivers the same intensity, suspense, and shocking revelations in every chapter. 
  🎧 Why listeners love it:Real murder cases told with cinematic detail and human emotionBalanced mix of solved crimes and still-unsolved mysteriesDeep psychological insight into the minds of killers and deceiversProfessional, clear, and immersive narration by Yash 
  Get ready for a dark, addictive, and eye-opening experience. 
  Press play — and enter a world where every truth hides a secret, and every mystery hides a killer.

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  Summertime in Murdertown: How I...

  David Gunn

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  Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, David Gunn is proud to have grown up in a city facing constant adversity, and to represent a community whose government knowingly poisoned its citizens for years. Now, he pulls back the curtain on Flint―like only those born and raised there can do. His advice is poignant and timely, and urges readers to never stop working through the struggle. To not create a back-up plan, and to cross the bridge and burn it behind them. To define the things they want and run toward them.Like Laura Jane Grace's Tranny and Rob Rufus' Die Young With Me, Summertime in Murdertown is part memoir, part ethnography. It sheds light on what it means to grow up amid constant violence and poverty and serves as a voice to those struggling to survive as we navigate this unpredictable and often cruel world in search of inspiration.

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