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  Aokigahara - Suicide Forest of...

  Daniel Turmoil

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  Aokigahara, also known as the sea of trees, is a forest on the flanks of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan, spread over 30 square kilometres of rock hard lava which was laid down during the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864. The western edge of Aokigahara, where there are various caves that fill with ice in winter, is a popular destination for tourists. Parts of Aokigahara are very dense, and the porous lava rock absorbs sound, all adding to a sense of solitude that some visitors decide to be the perfect place to implement their final act.

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  Shepherd’s Sight - A Farming Life

  Barbara McLean

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  A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd 
  		 
  For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd’s Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.  
  		 
  Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant prose. As she moves through the calendar year, she also reflects on years past, offering a long view on climate, stewardship, and agriculture. 
  		 
  With its vivid description and absorbing storytelling, Shepherd’s Sight offers an unforgettable glimpse of a life lived on the land.

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  Attack On Titan - The Ultimate...

  Trivia Hub

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  ATTACK ON TITAN 
  THE ULTIMATE TRIVIA AND CURIOUS FACTS COLLECTION 
    
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  Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, set in a world where humanity is forced to live within walled cities to protect themselves from man-eating giants called Titans. The story follows Eren Yeager's quest to exterminate the Titans after his mother's death. The series features complex characters, including Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert. The Survey Corps employs specialized gear to combat Titans. The manga was serialized from 2009 to 2021, and has been adapted into anime, live-action films, video games and other media. It is known for its dark fantasy and post-apocalyptic themes and has been a critical and commercial success. 
    
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  The manga series *Attack on Titan* was written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama and serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from September 2009 to April 2021. The story is set in a world where humanity lives in cities protected by three enormous walls, to keep out gigantic, man-eating humanoids called Titans.  
    
  The main character, Eren Yeager, vows to exterminate all Titans after his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed. He enlists in the military along with his friends Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert, seeking revenge on the Titans.  
    
  The military uses Vertical Maneuvering Equipment (VME), also called Omni-Directional Maneuvering Gear (ODM Gear) which is a set of waist-mounted grappling hooks and gas-powered propulsion to fight the Titans. They also use ultrahard steel swords and rocket launcher-like weapons called Thunder Spears.

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  Dog Breeding: Big Picture

  Laura Reeves

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  Dog Breeding: Big Picture 
  This book is for all the dog breeders who make our world brighter. 
  In this book, we'll answer some of the most common questions about the big picture of dog breeding, straight from the experts. Whether you're a new breeder or experienced, you'll find helpful advice for making breeding decisions of all kinds. 
  As a lifelong dog breeder, I've lived all of the joys and challenges this passion project can offer. This book is my way of sharing the knowledge and insights we've gathered through the years of practice and podcasting. 

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  Ninety-Day Wonder - How The Navy...

  Stephen Davenport

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  "What was I supposed to do with my B.A. in literature: gather the sailors around me just before taps and read Faulkner to them as they fell asleep?" 
  Ensign Stephen Davenport was the most severely under qualified of the Ninety-Day Wonders, the derisive term for commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve with only ninety days of training, all of which were on dry land. For his final navigation exam, he actually plotted a course that landed a fictional destroyer somewhere in the Sierra Mountains. Nevertheless, in in August of 1953, he reported to his first assignment aboard the USS Vermillion. He would be overseeing the First Division for training in amphibious landings. 
  Once on ship, Davenport quickly learned that while he held authority in title, respect was less easily learned. The First Division was manned by deckhands who could do things he had no idea how to do - like maneuvering a winch to drop a truck into a landing craft bobbing in the waves thirty feet below without killing the crew, or getting a landing craft on and off a beach through huge surf in the middle of winter. Davenport just called out orders --- and he didn't always feel confident in that either. He fell for dangerous pranks by the crew, permitted an inebriated sailor in his underwear to ride a horse up the gangway, and almost caused a collision at sea. Though he served for only two years, Davenport's time in the Naval Reserve was bizarre, incredible and absolutely unforgettable. 
  At times hilarious, other times scary, Ninety-Day Wonder is the riveting account of dangers, triumphs and fundamental lessons learned aboard ship by an inexperienced officer among far more experienced sailors.

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  Into the Silk - The Dramatic...

  Ian Mackersey

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  From World War Two to the Jet Age, Ian Mackersey charts the thrilling and personal accounts of airmen who have jumped from their planes and survived. 
   
   
   
  Since the test pilot Harold Harris became the first man to save his life with a parachute in 1922 there have been over 120,000 air force pilots and crew who owe their lives to their parachutes. 
   
   
   
  Into the Silk is full of astounding tales of people who against the odds bailed out of their planes and were therefore able to enter the annals of the Caterpillar Club, a society open only to men and women who survive aviation disaster with the aid of a parachute. 
   
   
   
  Mackersey records dramatic moments during the Second World War when pilots leapt from their burning planes while still being shot at by enemy fighters. He uncovers the descent of the extraordinarily lucky man who jumped from his damaged bomber but had to put his parachute on while falling through the sky and the pilot who found himself attached to a moving train and was dragged along for miles. 
   
   
   
  The book highlights the debts that all of these survivors owe to people such as Leslie Irvin, who invented the modern parachute and Sir James Martin, the great designer of ejection seats.

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