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  How to be an IT Grrrl - My life...

  Carol Wapshere

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  In the 1990s, long before “Women in Tech” was a hashtag, Carol forged her technical career in server rooms and offices where she was the only woman. 
  In this memoir, Carol looks back on a 35-year, globe-crossing IT career that took her through the dawn of the internet, the machinations of the commercial sector, a celebrity dot-com, and an eye-opening job as a technical gun-for-hire.  
  In an industry known for both gender and age bias, Carol still has her hands on the tech well into her fifties. In this candid and engaging account, she relates how she’s done it by channeling the outspokenness and do-it-yourself ethos of the grunge era Riot Grrrls. 
  This is the story of how Carol became the original IT Grrrl.

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  Boyhood with Gurdjieff

  Fritz Peters

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  “On a par with Alice in Wonderland, a real treasure of our literature… Full of wisdom, the wisdom of life.” – Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer 
  When Fritz first arrived at Gurdjieff’s Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, the mystic asked the boy what he wanted to learn. Fritz replied, "I want to know everything. Everything about man. I think it is called psychology or maybe philosophy." Gurdjieff answered with a sigh, "Your answer makes life difficult for me. I am the only one who teaches what you ask. You make more work for me." 
  Thus, Fritz became perhaps the most intimate student of this controversial teacher, but Gurdjieff was more than just a guru to Fritz. He was a father figure whose influence Peters never shook, and always struggled to integrate. This stunning memoir covering Peters' first years at the Institute retains a child's naive perspective while offering photorealistic recall of Gurdjieff, the workings of his intentional community, and the eccentric characters who lived there. 
  Read by actor Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Lords of Dogtown, Walden), this audiobook is a lively way to enjoy the classic memoir. 
  Piano solo of “Women’s Waltz,” composed by G. I. Gurdjieff and Thomas De Hartmann, played by Martín Dalesson.

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  If Six Were Nine

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  The real Hendrix revealed in this hard-hitting audio documentary on the incredible rise and tragic fall of one of rock most beloved sons. Includes rare archival interviews. Perfect for all school libraries.

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  Goodbye Transylvania - A...

  Sigmund Heinz Landau

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  A Romanian soldier details serving for Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II in this memoir, featuring firsthand accounts of combat. German by ancestry, born and raised in the ethnic welter of post-World War I Romania, Sigmund Heinz Landau left his home to volunteer for the Third Reich during World War II. Serving on the Eastern Front, he saw nearly six years of continuous fighting with a Luftwaffe Flak unit and eventually in the Waffen-SS, from sentry duty to desperate attacks against Soviet T-34s, from the siege of Budapest to the final campaign for Berlin in 1945. Landau’s memoir, written from a unique perspective, offers rare insight into what motivated soldiers to fight—and die—for Nazi Germany.

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  The Conservation of Natural...

  Theodore Roosevelt

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  Many consider Theodore Roosevelt to be America’s most conservation-minded president. Throughout his presidency, he worked to preserve endangered animals and their habitats. In this 1907 speech to Congress, he states, “The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.” Read this speech to experience Roosevelt’s conservationist fervor firsthand. 

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  Spanish Romance

  Washington Irving

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  Washington Irving was the first American writer who became world-famous. He was a pioneer, who had an impact on the American literature.   In the essay "Spanish Romance", Washington Irving speculates on the specifics of the Spain culture. The author has enough experience to describe Spain. He spent some years there. In Spain he studied manuscripts relating to the era of America's discovery. Washington Irving was also the American ambassador at the Spanish yard. The author begins with the history of Spain and states that its culture was influenced by the Arabs. Washington Irving skillfully uses in his works folklore, historical documents, sketches, legends, national fairy tales, biographic memoirs and descriptions. Enjoy the brilliant language and original thoughts of the author. Let the great person speak to you.A SmartTouch Media production.

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