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  The Gift of Failure

  Ari Rastegar

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  “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” —Napoleon HillIf you haven’t failed, then you aren’t trying hard enough.Not just the little failures either—the big ones.The failures that push you to the edge of insanity and potentially put your entire career in jeopardy. The failures that knock you to the ground and won’t let you back up without fighting for your life. The failures that force you to ask better questions, to learn from your mistakes, and to commit to becoming a better person.These are the failures that plant the seeds of greatness.Everything Ari Rastegar has achieved was forged through failure. From delivering pizzas at DoubleDave’s to his rise as real estate’s “Oracle of Austin” (Forbes)—and every step (and misstep) in between—Ari owes his success not to what he did right but to what he did wrong.In The Gift of Failure, Ari pulls back the curtain on his darkest moments—revealing the hard-earned lessons from his struggles, showing why prosperity in any enterprise is linked to prosperity in life. Full of Ari’s trademark wit, energy, compassion, and candor, this book will help you see failure in an entirely new way.

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  The Gold Grift Exposed - Secrets...

  Roberts R. Kevin

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  What if the investment promoted as a shield for your retirement is actually designed to strip it away?
   
  Across the United States, many retirees are steered into gold IRA deals presented as safe and inflation-proof. Behind those promises lies a system built on fear, confusion, and hidden incentives.
   
  The Gold Grift Exposed reveals how the modern gold IRA industry operates. It examines companies that present themselves as protectors of financial security while exploiting economic anxiety, distrust in institutions, and retirement uncertainty. From high-pressure marketing and misleading endorsements to inflated pricing and carefully crafted sales tactics, the system is designed to appear responsible while producing harmful outcomes.
   
  This book shows how fear-driven messaging creates urgency, how “exclusive” gold and rare-coin claims mask excessive markups, and how trusted voices are used to legitimize risky decisions. It also explains how complex rollover processes obscure true costs, leaving losses unnoticed until it is too late.
   
  Focusing on process rather than rumor, the book traces how these practices work step by step, revealing how ordinary investors are guided into transactions that quietly erode their savings.
   
  This is not an argument against gold itself, but an examination of how it is sold, priced, and structured within retirement accounts—and why so many investors are left surprised when the numbers emerge.
   
  More than an investigation, it also serves as a warning and guide, explaining recovery challenges and how investors can protect themselves before making irreversible decisions.
   
  If you are considering a gold IRA or concerned about safeguarding your retirement, this book offers clarity where the industry depends on confusion.
   
  This is the story behind the promises—and the truth many investors discover too late.

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  From a Cowboy to a...

  Slim Spurling

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  Discover the remarkable journey of Slim Spurling, a man whose roots as a cowboy led him to become a pioneering inventor with a global impact. In this inspiring audiobook, Slim’s tells his story from humble beginnings to groundbreaking discoveries in energy harmonizing technology. 
  Dive into the world of dowsing, geopathic stress, and the Hartmann grid, as Slim reveals his methods for restoring balance to the planet. More than just an inventor, Slim was a visionary whose work continues to support the well-being of individuals and the Earth itself. Today, his legacy lives on through his wife, Katharina Spurling-Kaffl and her dedicated team as they continue to manufacture the Light-Life Tools in alignment with his original principles, ensuring a brighter, more harmonious future for generations to come. 
  This audiobook is perfect for those seeking alternative health solutions, energy healing, or simply enjoy listening to the story of a true innovator who dared to change the world.

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  In Praise of Good Bookstores

  Jeff Deutsch

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  This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores
  
  Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world—pays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predicts—perhaps audaciously—a future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realizes its highest aspirations.
  
  In exploring why good bookstores matter, Deutsch draws on his lifelong experience as a bookseller, but also his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew. This spiritual and cultural heritage instilled in him a reverence for reading, not as a means to a living, but as an essential part of a meaningful life. Central among Deutsch's arguments for the necessity of bookstores is the incalculable value of browsing—since, when we are deep in the act of looking at the shelves, we move through space as though we are inside the mind itself, immersed in self-reflection.
  
  In the age of one-click shopping, this is no ordinary defense of bookstores, but rather an urgent account of why they are essential places of discovery, refuge, and fulfillment that enrich the communities that are lucky enough to have them.

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  Dickon the Devil - From their...

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born on 28th August 1814 in Dublin into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots.   
  For a time he and his siblings were tutored but Le Fanu would often immerse himself in the books of his father’s library. 
  In 1833 Le Fanu began his Law studies at Trinity College, Dublin and graduated in 1839. Although called to the bar he instead began a career in journalism.   
  He was also writing. His first fiction story ‘The Ghost and the Bonesetter’ was published in 1838.  In 1843 came the novella ‘Spalatro: From the Notes of Fra Giacomo’, a hero with a particular necrophiliac passion for an undead blood-drinking beauty, a forerunner to his later female vampire ‘Carmilla’.  
  In 1844 Le Fanu married Susanna Bennett with whom he had 4 children. The following year his first novel ‘The C'ock and Anchor’ was published. Works now flowed from his pen and with a rapid increase in family finances they moved, in 1851, to Merrion Square, Dublin, where he remained until his death.  
  In 1858 Susanna died and Le Fanu became reclusive. It was during this period that he produced some of his best work.  Working only by candlelight he wrote through the night, burnishing his reputation as a major figure of 19th Century supernaturalism with many classics including; ‘Green Tea’, ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’, and ‘In a Glass Darkly’.  
  Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu died in Merrion Square in his native Dublin on February 7th, 1873, at the age of 58.

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  Other Ways to Win - A...

  Lee Craigie

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  'I rode back down the hill to the athlete's village. Some of Team Scotland had been watching on the big screen and I arrived to hugs of congratulations. I went inside for a shower and ceremoniously dropped my heart rate monitor into the bin. It was the first day of the rest of my life.'
  A little before 1.30 p.m. on Sunday 21 July 2013, Lee Craigie crossed the finish line at Cathkin Braes in the southern outskirts of Glasgow several minutes ahead of her nearest competitor to become the British cross-country mountain bike champion. Lee's win was the culmination of seven years of training and sacrifice, but it marked the beginning of the end of her competitive career; less than a year later, at the same venue, this time representing her native Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, she crossed the line and quit professional bike racing for good.
  Lee Craigie is one of Scotland's great bike racers, yet she has accomplished much more since retiring. In Other Ways to Win she tells her story of growing up near Glasgow and discovering the freedom of cycling – skipping French lessons and heading off into the Campsie Fells to see just how far she could ride. These teenage adventures established cycling as the thread which would run through her life – not only through her racing life and into a new life of two-wheeled adventure, but also through the positive impact she would have on the lives of others, particularly encouraging other women through her work with the Adventure Syndicate. Written with breathtaking honesty, she recounts epic adventures along the Tour Divide, Silk Road and the Highland Trail 550, and examines themes of friendship, loss, identity and the power of the outdoors – and, of course, cycling.
  Lee Craigie's story is a welcome reminder that there is more than one way to win at cycling – and life.

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