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  My Secret Life Vol 1 Chapter 13

  Dominic Crawford Collins

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  My Secret Life, the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter' is one of the most idiosyncratic and prurient books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal knowledge. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual and moral behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society. My Secret Life is funny, sorrowful, suspenseful, compulsively readable, obscene, titillating, exciting and erotic...we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful characters of the Victorian era.Now, for the first time, the complete unabridged version of this unique and important text is being narrated and scored by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins as an 'audiofilm' (an audiobook in which the emotional landscape is explored through the music score).  Each chapter of My Secret Life will be released at monthly intervals over the next ten to fifteen years culminating in a lifetime's work for the composer and what is likely to become the longest audio book ever to be produced.

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  Chinese Prodigal - A Memoir in...

  David Shih

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  After his father's passing, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship between him and his parents. Ultimately, this forced a reckoning with the expectations he encountered as the only son of Chinese immigrants, and with the realities of what it means to be Asian in a de facto segregated country. At a moment when anti-Asian racism is increasingly overt, Chinese Prodigal is a work of rare subtlety, offering a new vocabulary for understanding a racial hierarchy too often conceived as binary.In public life and in Shih's own, "Asian Americanness" has changed shape constantly, directed by the needs of the country's racial imaginary. A memoir in essays, Chinese Prodigal examines the emergence of "Asian American" identity in a post–Civil Rights America in the wake of Vincent Chin's death. Shih guides us through the roles offered to Asian Americans to play, illuminating what these issues have to teach us about American values and about the vexed place Asians and Asian Americans inhabit today. Shih masterfully captures the intimate costs of becoming an American.Chinese Prodigal knits together the personal, the historical, and the present, offering an incisive examination of a society and the people it has never made space for. It is a moving testimony of a son, father, and citizen.

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  DL Moody - A Life - Innovator...

  Kevin Belmonte, David S. Powell

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  He burst on the fusty corridors of Victorian spirituality like a breath of fresh air, regaling one prime minister  with his sense of humor and touching the lives of seven presidents.Who was this man? A visionary educator and fundraiser,  D. L. Moody was also a renowned evangelist in the nineteenth century. Long before radio and television, he brought the transformative  message of the gospel before 100 million people on both sides of the Atlantic. Thousands of underprivileged young people  were educated in the schools he established, and before the Civil War, he went to a place no one else would: the slums of  Chicago called, "Little Hell." The mission he started in an abandoned saloon drew children by the hundreds and  prompted a visit from President-elect, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.Drawing on the best, most recent scholarship, D.  L. Moody—A Life chronicles the incredible journey of one of the great souls of history.

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  Against the Wind - An Autobiography

  Geoffrey Household

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  In this fascinating and uniquely colorful autobiography, a twentieth-century master of suspense fiction candidly examines his extraordinary life, times, and art One of the twentieth century’s most respected writers of adventure and espionage thrillers, Geoffrey Household penned more than twenty novels and short story collections in a career that spanned more than fifty years—and lived a life as eventful and surprising as his acclaimed, pulse-pounding fiction. In Against the Wind, the author whom the New York Times credits with having “helped to develop the suspense story into an art form” shares his remarkable personal history with candor and wit, while exploring the creative process and his roles as a husband, father, bestselling popular artist, and citizen of his uniquely eventful time. From his years as a student at the University of Oxford to his early career in the cutthroat world of international business and finance to his patriotic service with British intelligence during World War II, with perilous postings in Greece, Romania, and the Middle East that later informed his thrilling fiction, Household evocatively recalls a peripatetic life lived purposefully and often dangerously in some of the most colorful and fascinating regions of the globe.

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  Patriot Act

  PBS NewsHour

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  Congress is working to renew key provisions of the USA Patriot Act before they expire at the end of the year. Ray Suarez discusses Patriot Act renewal and the divisions that remain among lawmakers with Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Russ Feingold, D-WI.

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  The Mayflower Ship's Log...

  Azel Ames

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  To civilized humanity world-wide, and especially to the descendants of the Pilgrims who, in 1620, laid the foundations of that civil and religious freedom upon which has been built a refuge for the oppressed of every land, the story of the Pilgrim "Exodus" has an ever-increasing value and zest. It describes the inception, development, and vicissitudes of the bold scheme of colonization in the American wilderness. It covers every detail and circumstance which relates to the immortal MAYFLOWER; the preparations, the voyage, the personnel on the ship and the first colonists' hopes and dreams.
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  The Name— "Mayflower"
  The Mayflower's Consort the Speedwell
  The Mayflower's Charter and the Adventurers
  The Mayflower—the Ship Herself
  The Officers and Crew of the Mayflower
  The Mayflower's Passengers
  Quarters, Cooking, Provisions
  The Mayflower's Lading
  The Journal of the Ship Mayflower

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