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  The Story of My Misfortune - The...

  Peter Abelard

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  In this poignant medieval autobiography, 12th-century philosopher and theologian Peter Abelard recounts his life of intellectual ambition, personal turmoil, and spiritual reflection. Rising as a leading scholar in Paris, Abelard gained fame through his bold teachings in logic and theology, but his career was marked by controversy and conflict with powerful figures, including Bernard of Clairvaux. His passionate love affair and secret marriage to Héloïse, along with the vengeful castration inflicted by her uncle, led to a life of monastic exile and inner suffering. Written as a letter to a friend, The Story of My Misfortune is both a defense of Abelard’s ideas and a meditation on divine justice, human frailty, and redemption through faith. Combining philosophical depth with emotional candor, the work offers a rare glimpse into the mind and soul of one of the Middle Ages’ most influential thinkers, revealing how personal tragedy and scholarly pursuit shaped his enduring legacy.

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  TAKE OFF YOUR PARENT-COLORED...

  Dr. Coach Irwin Hudson

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  What if the biggest obstacle in youth sports isn’t the coach… but the parent? 
  In Take Off Your Parent-Colored Glasses, Dr. Coach Irwin Hudson shares a powerful, eye-opening exploration of how parental bias—what he calls Parent-Colored Glasses (PCGs) can unintentionally sabotage young athletes, strain coaches, and disrupt entire teams. 
  Drawing from over 30 years of coaching, mentoring, and raising competitive athletes, Dr. Hudson reveals:Why even the most loving parents fall into distorted thinkingHow entitlement, delusion, and overprotection hurt athletic developmentThe psychological impact of parental pressure on young athletesReal-life stories from youth, high school, and college sportsPractical strategies for parents and coaches to restore balance 
  This book is part memoir, part coaching manual, and part wake-up call. 
  From emotional sidelines to scholarship controversies, Dr. Hudson bravely shares the moment that changed his life foreverwhen he himself was told: 
  “Take off your damn parent-colored glasses.” 
  If you are:A sports parent who wants the best for your childA coach navigating difficult parent relationshipsAn athlete dealing with pressureOr an educator involved in youth development 
  This book will challenge your thinking, transform your perspective, and help you protect what truly matters: the child’s growth, identity, and love for the game.It’s time to defog the lenses.It’s time to protect young athletes.It’s time to see clearly.

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  Rescue The Captors

  Russell M. Stendal

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  The terror began on August 14, 1983. 
  American bush pilot Russell Stendal, on a routine trip, landed his plane in a remote Colombian village and found himself in the middle of an armed ambush. Within minutes, he was taken hostage by Communist guerrilla fighters and told he would be held for ransom. 
  Held at gunpoint deep in the jungle for 142 days, Russell began to write. He told the story of his life and recorded his experience inside the guerrilla camp. That writing became a bridge between him and his captors, many of whom were young, armed, and spiritually lost. 
  Rescue the Captors is the true story of how God’s love broke through both physical chains and ideological strongholds, transforming a jungle prison into a place of encounter, reflection, and redemption.

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  Journey Of A Lifetime

  Alan Whicker

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  The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life and career. 
  "You might say I'm set in my airways. I'm one of those lucky people whose professional and private lives blend exactly." 
  Alan Whicker, 2007 
  This sumptuous book to accompany the major BBC TV series of the same name, is a glorious celebration of 50 years in front of the camera. 
  For as long as most can remember, Whicker has roamed far and wide in search of the eccentric, the ludicrous and the socially-revealing aspects of everyday life as lived by some of the more colourful of the world's inhabitants. 
  Since the late 1950s, when the long-running Whicker's World documentary was first screened, he has probed and dissected the often secretive and unobserved worlds of the rich and famous, rooting out the most implausible and sometimes ridiculous characters after gaining admittance to the places where they conduct their leisure hours. 
  The great man's legacy contains a number of genuine TV firsts. As well as landmark interviews with figures as diverse as Papa Doc, Paul Getty and The Sultan of Brunei, he was a pioneer, covering subjects like plastic surgery, gay weddings, polygamy, swinging and following gun-toting cops, fly-on-the-wall style, for British screens long before anyone else. 
  This wonderful new book is the end product of a very personal journey. Whicker retraces his steps, catching up with some past interviewees and reflecting on how the world has changed - for good and bad - over the passing of time. Journey of a Lifetime is lyrical, uplifting and peppered with our favourite globetrotter's brand of subtle satire. 
  In this top-rated autobiography, Alan Whicker takes us on a journey that is as much a reflexion of his illustrious career as it is a testament to his unique perspective on the world. His encounters with the rich and famous, often revealing their most implausible and ridiculous sides, are revisited with a fresh eye, making this biography a must-read. 
  For fans of Julia Boyd (The Excellent Doctor Blackwell), and Al Murray (The Last 100 Years).

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  Boy Interrupted: A Southern...

  William Scandrett

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  Boy, Interrupted: A Southern Memoir of Faith, Identity, and Becoming is a powerful true story of a Black, queer boy growing up in rural Georgia—surviving poverty, shame, trauma, and heartbreak, and rising into the man he was always meant to be. 
  Part coming-of-age narrative, part spiritual testimony, and part exploration of identity and resilience, this memoir follows the author from the dirt roads of Upson County to college dorms in Savannah, and into classrooms, communities, and landscapes where he begins to claim freedom, purpose, and self-love. 
  Through unforgettable figures—a grandmother who was sanctuary, a mother battling illness and addiction, a distant father, and a boy navigating queerness in the rural South—the story reveals how a life can be interrupted again and again… and still bloom. 
  With honesty, humor, and lyrical insight, the memoir explores faith, queerness, Southern identity, grief, mental health, masculinity, childhood trauma, and generational survival. Readers witness a boy teased for his softness, a teen praying away parts of himself, and a young man rebuilding what the world tried to break. 
  But Boy, Interrupted is not just about surviving—it’s about becoming. 
  For anyone who has ever felt different, broken, unseen, or interrupted, this memoir offers a powerful truth: your soul can still finish the sentence.

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  Inventors - A Guide to the Lives...

  Kelly Mass

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  This bundle of audiobooks contains the following topics: 
  Isaac Newton - We often think about Newton when we see an apple falling from a tree: The man who came up with the gravity theory, a physics scientist who gave said event and others significant thought. 
  Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and writer who was commonly seen as one of the best mathematicians, physicists, and most prominent researchers of perpetuity. He was hailed as a "natural theorist" in his time. 
  Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American innovator, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who helped establish the contemporary rotating present (AC) electrical energy delivery system. 
  Tesla, who was born and raised in the Austrian Empire, studied engineering and physics without getting a grade in the 1870s and acquired useful experience in the early 1880s operating in telephone and at Continental Edison in the nascent electrical power business. He relocated to the USA in the year 1884 and ended up being a naturalized person. Before setting out on his own, he worked for a brief time at the Edison Device Works in N.Y. City.  
  Thomas Edison - Thomas Alva Edison, called "America's biggest developer," was an American developer and businessperson. In disciplines consisting of electrical power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and movie, he developed many devices. 
  Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who was born in Germany and is mainly considered one of the finest physicists of perpetuity. Even though Einstein is best acknowledged for developing the principle of relativity, he also contributed considerably to the development of quantum mechanics.

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