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  Summary of George W Bush's 41

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of George W. Bush's 41 offers an inside look at his father, George H.W. Bush, and the family that produced the forty-first and forty-third presidents of the United States. 
  On his ninetieth birthday, George H.W. made a parachute jump despite serious health issues. He said it was his second greatest birthday wish, after happiness for his family. Though his family worried, he had always been excited by a new adventure. When he landed safely, he gave his jumping partner all the credit. This birthday celebration summed up George H.W.’s character for his son. He was above all a family man, but still loved adventure even at age ninety. He was humble, too, despite all his accomplishments. 
  The parachute jump was made at the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. The land was bought by George H.W.’s grandfather, George Herbert Walker, an investment banker with

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  Finnish NHL stars with Antti...

  Antti Makinen

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  NHL is the best hockey league in the world. NHL is also full of stories. Great stories.  
  Finnish NHL Stars With Antti Mäkinen tells seven unique lifestories from the NHL starplayers coming out of Finland. The Eight lifestory is about famous Finnish hockey coach, Jukka Jalonen.  
    
  Patrik Laine, Mikko Rantanen, Aleksander Barkov, Mikael Granlund, Sami Vatanen, Ville Nieminen, Kimmo Timonen and Jukka Jalonen shares their own personal stories from life and hockey in this audiobook.  
    
  How does it feel to win the Stanley Cup after a blood clot? How does it feel to be compared to Alexander Ovetchkin?  
  How much does it take to chase your dream and succeed in the NHL ? 
  Let these stories entertain you. These stories are for real.

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  The Good Fight - From Bullets to...

  Jim McDowell

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  The year is 1969. The start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Jim McDowell, a rookie reporter, it was the beginning of a life at the heart of one of world's most notorious and bitter conflicts.
  His gripping memoir reveals what it was like to live under constant fear of attack and delves into Northern Ireland's criminal underworld, including Jim's tense encounters with infamous terrorist drug dealers and killer gang godfathers like Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair and Billy 'King Rat' Wright.
  McDowell's career spanned 45 years as he rose to become northern editor of Ireland's Sunday World, facing down threats, beatings and the murder of one of his reporters, Martin O'Hagan, to expose the stories that needed to be told. Always fighting the good fight.
  'Those stories – even the ones that put my life in danger – had to be told. That was my job. That was what I did. It is what I do. And this, now, is my story.'
  45 years. 21 death threats. Over 2,000 front pages. This is Jim's story.

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  Andersonville Diary

  John L. Ransom

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  Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. 
  John L. Ransom joined the Union Army during the American Civil War in November 1862 and served as Quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. In 1863 he was captured in Tennessee and taken to the notorious Andersonville prison. During his imprisonment he kept a diary of his experiences.Andersonville Diary brings Ransom's story of his day-to-day struggle in the worst of Confederate prisons, where hundreds of prisoners died daily.

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  The Shocking Miss Pilgrim - A...

  Frederica Sagor Maas

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  A memoir of the rise and fall of one female screenwriter’s career during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Freddie Maas’s revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system. An ambitious twenty-three-year-old, Maas moved to Hollywood and launched her own writing career by drafting a screenplay of the bestselling novel The Plastic Age for “It” girl Clara Bow. With that script, she landed a staff position at powerhouse MGM studios. In the years to come, she worked with and befriended numerous actors and directors, including Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Eric von Stroheim, as well as such writers and producers as Thomas Mann and Louis B. Mayer. As a professional screenwriter, Frederica quickly learned that scripts and story ideas were frequently rewritten, and that screen credit was regularly given to the wrong person. Studio executives wanted well-worn plots, but it was the writer’s job to develop the innovative situations and scintillating dialogue that would bring to picture to life. For over twenty years, Freddie and her friends struggled to survive in this incredibly competitive environment. Through it all, Freddie remained a passionate, outspoken woman in an industry run by powerful men, and her provocative, nonconformist ways brought her success, failure, wisdom, and a wealth of stories, opinions, and insight into a fascinating period in screen history.Praise for The Shocking Miss Pilgrim “In this memorable tell-all, rise-and-fall memoir, Maas brings the gimlet hindsight of Julia Phillips’s You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again to early Hollywood, and the results are thoroughly captivating.” —Publishers Weekly “A bittersweet, extraordinarily detailed recollection of Maas’s 30-year career in the motion picture industry. . . . Chockablock with anecdotes, and a blinding amount of star-wattage to boot.” —Salon.com

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  The Road to Westminster

  Den Dover

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  Nothing in life is impossible provided you never lose sight of your goal and are willing to be flexible at all times and totally dedicated to achieving your aims. Setbacks crop up at the most inconvenient times, but they give you the opportunity to make changes, accept new challenges and achieve your targets in ways you could never have thought possible. 
  Never give up, never lose sight of your objectives. Be ruthless when assessing your progress. Take chances when you need to. Everyone needs to speculate to accumulate. Go for it at all times.

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