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  Ring The Bells of London

  Rachel Lawson

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  A extremely short tribute to the late Queen and her son in 3 poems

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  Leadership Over Loneliness - How...

  Ethan Spelman

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  An inspiring true story that blends life, leadership, and lessons learned  Throughout most of his life, Ethan Spelman felt like he was never good enough. Despite his friendly demeanor and perceived success, he was haunted by his past, controlled by his fears, and consumed by emptiness and loneliness. But destiny – disguised as an ill-timed business trip – ultimately changed the trajectory of his life, and led him to discover and then champion the life-changing power of leadership done right.  By immersing himself in leadership principles and practices and infusing them into his own life story, Ethan discovers that leadership can transcend lives – especially his own. As he works to incorporate leadership into all aspects of his life, he unleashes the leader within – and finds the courage and strength to come to terms with his past, overcome his fears, leave the loneliness behind, and move forward with confidence, conviction, and hope.  If you believe that real leadership is much greater than the titles we hold, seek to find the light in your own darkness, or long to discover the leader within, you’ll be inspired by this candid true story interwoven with powerful leadership lessons that have helped the author transform his life – and may help unleash the leader in you.

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  Dead in the Water - The Real...

  Jr. David J. Farrell

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  The gripping inside story of Nathan Carman’s crimes from the maritime lawyer who solved his multimillionaire mother’s disappearance at sea and his even wealthier grandfather’s shooting death in bed.When Nathan and Linda Carman were a week overdue on a fishing trip out of Point Judith, Rhode Island, few thought they would still be alive. Even the Coast Guard had called off its search. So it seemed miraculous when Nathan was spotted—on a life raft, 106 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard—by the Chinese freighter ORIENT LUCKY.But was it more than luck? Nathan survived but his mother did not. Then news broke that Nathan was the primary suspect in his grandfather’s murder three years before, though the case chilled from a missing firearm. The last person to see both victims alive, twenty-two-year-old Nathan was now in line for a $10 million inheritance!Or was Nathan, evidently on the Autism spectrum, plain unlucky to have lost the only two people close to him? As he claimed on national TV, was the focus on him as the “the lowest hanging fruit” just prejudice?With no witnesses, no charges in his grandfather’s shooting, and no body for his mother lost at sea, both cases might have gone cold…except that Nathan made an insurance claim for his lost boat. Enter maritime attorney David J. Farrell, Jr. who ties together Nathan’s evil and greedy scheme.Follow the author’s team as they dissect Nathan’s final voyage, extract exclusive testimony, and assemble evidence from around the world. In Dead in the Water, you’ll pull up a seat inside the federal court trial to see if Nathan’s dream of drifting away with millions of dollars comes true.

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  Painter and Versatile Artist...

  Bert Alexander Petzold

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  Anyone who knows Pablo Picasso only as a famous name has merely skimmed the surface. This non-fiction book opens up a view behind myth and masterpiece and shows why Picasso's art still electrifies us today. You follow a compelling Picasso biography that does not stop at anecdotes, but explains how talent and defiance combined to form an artist who shaped Classical Modernism and repeatedly reinvented himself.
  
  From the first formative years in A Coruña via Barcelona and Madrid to Paris around 1900, a vivid picture emerges of an era in which studios, cafés and galleries became arenas for experimentation. It was precisely here that the journey began towards those Picasso paintings that changed the way we see, and towards an oeuvre that glittered between tradition and radical departure. Clear and accessible, the text guides you through Picasso's changes of style and makes the development of individual key works easy to follow.
  
  You experience the Blue Period with its quiet, melancholic figures and cool colour spaces that speak of poverty, loss and compassion. Then the Rose Period opens up, lighter in tone, warmer in palette, full of circus life and fine observation. The great rupture becomes tangible when 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' appeared and set painting under a new tension. From there, the book unfolds the path to Picasso's Cubism and explains plainly what Analytical Cubism achieved, how forms were broken apart, perspectives shifted, and objects reassembled as if in spaces of thought. Synthetic Cubism is described with equal precision, as collages, materials and signs built a new reality. In this way, Picasso works and Picasso paintings are not merely mentioned but explained in their ideas, so that you can confidently classify and interpret Picasso pictures, from portrait and still life to bold constructions of space.
  
  The perspective widens beyond the canvas. You discover how Picasso worked in drawing, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics, how he varied themes, sharpened motifs, and always searched for the strongest expression. The book brings you close to the pieces that are regarded as icons, 'The Old Guitarist', 'Portrait of Gertrude Stein' and the Cubist 'Still Life with Chair Caning'. Recurring image worlds also become understandable, for example bullfighting, the Minotaur, the studio, woman and mask, so that individual works become a connected way of thinking. The text shows how form, space and perspective could be rethought, and why Picasso's art did not simply depict reality, but created it again and again.
  
  A central high point is 'Guernica', often referred to in reception as Picasso's 'Guernica', which still shocks today as an image against violence and war, while also showing how art can acquire moral force. As a counter-image appears the 'Dove', often read as Picasso's dove of peace, which brought hope and responsibility into a simple form and had an impact worldwide. The non-fiction book links historical background with interpretation of the works and does not leave out present-day debates, for instance when power, relationships and self-staging are examined critically, without diminishing the stature of the oeuvre. It is precisely this balance that makes the account so valuable, because it sparks curiosity while also providing confidence when interpretation, context and technical terms matter.
  
  The author of the book is Bert Alexander Petzold, and it is ideally suited to consolidating knowledge, mastering terminology with confidence and understanding connections clearly, for preparation for examinations leading to the higher education entrance qualification and for study at university.
  
  If you are looking for a Picasso book that inspires, offers orientation and gives you language for art, then this work is your invitation to see Pablo Picasso anew and to take the fascination of his world with you.

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  Finding God in Vegas - A Gen X...

  Donald Harold Young

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  This is not another book about religion. It is a book about love. 
  Finding God in Vegas tells the story of Don Young—a successful pharmaceutical executive who seemed to have it all: wealth, status, success. But behind the image was a man deeply unfulfilled, quietly crumbling under the weight of materialism, disillusionment, and spiritual emptiness. 
  Despite earning a master’s degree in theology, Don spent years rejecting anything that resembled spirituality. He swallowed the lies that told him happiness came from status, achievement, and control. 
  But in the most unlikely of places—Las Vegas—he experienced a spiritual awakening that shattered those illusions and led him to something far more powerful: Love. 
  Not the fleeting kind. Not conditional or performative. But the kind of love that heals. Love for self, love for others, and the unconditional love God has for all people. 
  Whether you're religious, spiritual-but-not-religious, skeptical, burned out, or simply searching for something deeper, this book is for you. It’s an invitation to rethink what matters, reconnect with your heart, and rediscover the truth that was always there: you are worthy of love. 
  With honesty, humor, and hard-earned wisdom, Finding God in Vegas reveals that it’s never too late to open your heart, shift your perspective, and live a life rooted in something deeper than worldly success: Love. 
  The love in this book is for the hurting. For the hopeful. For the seekers and the skeptics. 
  The love in this book is for you.

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  Secrets and Lies - The Trials of...

  Douglas Thompson, Christine Keeler

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  The sensational true story behind the major TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, performed by Sophie CooksonIn her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.Having found fame and success as a model, Christine's short affair with  the minister for war, John Profumo, led to his downfall at the end of  Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and was at the heart of the  social and political earthquake that followed. She became the subject of  scandal, intrigue and gossip and was tried for perjury and briefly  jailed following the death of Stephen Ward, the socialite who had  introduced her to Profumo. Following Christine Keeler's death in December 2017, her book has been updated to include revelations that she did not wish to be published in her lifetime. The result is an audiobook containing material that has never been officially released, which really does lift the lid on just how far the Establishment will go to protect its own.

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