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  Chile 33: memoirs a rescuer

  Roberto Ríos Seguel

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  The titanic task demanded such character and moral courage from the naval staff in general, and Lieutenant Rios in particular, to allow them to face the challenge successfully. Naval rescuers Rios and Roblero's spirit and their proactive attitude were quickly appreciated and assessed not only by myself, but also everyone who witnessed their conduct during the demanding and arduous training to which they were subjected by the rescuers' team leader, Ovidio Rodriguez, Codelco; as well as their professional work with the miners 620 meters deep. // Finally, such qualities and performance in the rescue would make naval rescuer Rios worthy of the Medal of Bravery awarded by the President of the Republic, in Valparaiso, on May 21st, 2011.
  
  While reading the book Chile 33: Memories of a Rescuer by Lieutenant Roberto Rios Seguel, you will get to know both the man and the spirit of service to the institution he belongs to and surely you will share in my satisfaction of having met him.

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  Dancing with Muddy - Muddy...

  Jerry Portnoy

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  Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father's rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early '50s. After dropping out of college, he became immersed in the colorful world of pool hustlers as he managed the largest pool hall in Chicago. During a stint as a paratrooper early in the Vietnam war, he applied for discharge as a conscientious objector, and lived in San Francisco during 1967's "summer of love." While bumming around Europe the following year, Portnoy heard the blues again on a record by Sonny Boy Williamson and became obsessed with mastering blues harmonica.He returned to Chicago and in 1974 he was playing in small Black clubs at night when Muddy Waters plucked him from his day job at Cook County Jail to fill the harmonica chair in his fabled band. Eric Clapton followed suit in 1991. In a career that took him from ghetto taverns to the White House and the Royal Albert Hall, he went from the raggedy vans and cheap roadside motels of the blues world to the private jets and five-star hotels of the rock world. Between those two very different gigs was a struggle to survive the vagaries of the music business and the pressures of life on the road. In a remarkable life, he also assisted in surgery, lodged in a Moroccan house of ill repute, and dined at Giorgio Armani's. 

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  We've Got To Stop Meeting Like...

  Donna Y. Ferris

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  What if the path to inner peace leads to outright disaster?  
  Donna seems to have it all - a generous husband, two healthy kids, a Jersey shore home - but something is missing. When she signs up for yoga teacher training, her carefully cultivated life begins to crumble. Her husband is having an affair. Dangerous childhood secrets resurface. Her career goes sideways. And she doesn’t even like yoga . . . yet.  
  As Donna reels and heals, she discovers love, rescues dogs, and confronts yet another crisis of faith when a loved one falls ill.  
  A devastating but funny, life-affirming love story, We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This is for anyone who has ever dared to fight for what matters - and believes it’s never too late to find love or enlightenment. 
  But not necessarily in that order.   
  REVIEWS 
  "Ferris' journey is an enlightening one that may offer hope and inspiration to those facing similar challenges...Get it." ~Kirkus Reviews 
  "I found myself so invested in Donna's life that I struggled to put the book down." ~Lost in a Book Review 
  "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll download some music, you'll want to do yoga, and you might even rescue a dog while reading this book!" ~Kim Gockley, Yoga Therapist 
  "If you've gone through divorce or loss of loved ones, this is the book you didn't know you needed." ~Jennifer Morrow, Elephant Journal Author 
  "Donna Ferris put her heart onto the pages of "We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This." A vulnerable telling of three transformative years of her life told with openness. It's easy to see oneself at any stage of Donna's journey and to appreciate the strength it takes to survive loss in all its forms but most of all, to learn to love again." 
  ~Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness

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  The Invisible Manual - How It...

  Anonymous Author

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Invisible Manual is a raw, intimate memoir about growing up autistic without knowing it — and the lifelong consequences of living in a world built for minds unlike your own. Told with honesty and precision, it reveals what autism in women truly looks like behind the mask: constant self-monitoring, sensory overwhelm, people-pleasing, and the crushing exhaustion of pretending to be “normal.” 
  From childhood to adulthood, the anonymous author shares decades of quiet struggle: missed signs dismissed as shyness, friendships that never made sense, invisible social rules, perfectionism that hid the truth, and the profound relief of finally seeing oneself in a late autism diagnosis. 
  This is not a clinical guide — it is the lived experience of high-masking autistic womanhood. A life spent compensating, questioning, and wondering why everything felt harder than it seemed for everyone else. 
  Listeners exploring female autism, late-diagnosed autism, high masking, or the lifelong feeling of being “different” will find this memoir deeply validating. It offers not instructions, but recognition — a mirror for anyone who has spent years searching for one.

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  Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin -...

  Éamonn MacThomáis

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   50th Anniversary Edition    
   A beautifully presented and attractively laid out commemorative edition, with new introductions by Ivan O'Brien, MD of The O'Brien Press and best-selling author Dónal Fallon. 
   The very first book published by The O'Brien Press in 1974 celebrates fifty years in print. 
   The O'Brien Press launched its first publication in November 1974.   Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin  , written by Éamonn MacThomáis and published while the author was in jail, was an immediate success and has become a classic. Full of historical facts, anecdotes and Dublin wit, this book evokes the spirit, the characters and colours, the sights, sounds and even the smells of old Dublin. With sections on markets, pawn shops, street characters, the Liberties, slang and wit of Dublin's newspapers, the city's history is traced right back to Brian Boru, the Huguenots, 'the debtors' prison', and Dublin's troubled history of risings and revolutions . 
   Celebrating fifty years of Me Jewel & Darlin' Dublin – and of The O'Brien Press. 

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  Labour Takes Power - The Denis...

  Denis Mac Shane

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  With the strong possibility of Labour forming our next government, it is fascinating to consider the last time the party stood on the verge of power, back in 1997. At that time, future Europe Minister Denis MacShane had a ringside seat that he would occupy for the next decade or so, living through Cool Britannia, the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Mandelson's multiple resignations, Princess Diana's death and Tony Blair's seeming invincibility.
  New Labour may be remembered as an unstoppable force, but MacShane's diaries reveal that while, outwardly, all seemed to be going well, the personal rivalries, slights and petty jealousies between the party's big beasts meant that it was never far from disaster.
  MacShane was a regular in Downing Street from the moment of Labour's election victory, and his candid, intimate diaries show figures such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Robin Cook, Peter Mandelson, Clare Short and Alastair Campbell in a light in which they've never been seen before, detailing the personalities as much as the politics of Labour's most successful stint in government.

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