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  Over Under Around and Through -...

  Jill Tietjen, Elinor Miller...

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  Essential reading for women who want to have a successful career. It will serve as your roadmap.  -Temple Grandin. Professor of Animal Science Colorado State University and author of Thinking in Pictures.  “Over, Under, Around and Through: How Hall of Famers Surmount Obstacles recognizes the incredible special abilities of women along with their dreams, hopes, disappointments, courage and triumphs.  Their moments of history is the legacy for future generations.  The women in these stories have demonstrated their inventiveness and their contributions of accomplishment should never be forgotten.  I highly recommend this book for everyone to enjoy. A great book about great women.  -Hon. Elbra M. Wedgeworth, Former President, Denver City Council and Community Leader  “Inspiring experiences from true American Leaders. Encouraging and compelling Stories——a must-read.” -Lilly Ledbetter—Inspiration for the “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act”  This is a must read that reveals and helps you understand the many women who solve the problems of their space, family, community, country and the world. Their tenacity, courage, passion, compassion and persistence is documented through these stories. The authors are authentic with intention...Enjoy! -Carlotta LaNier, Congressional Gold Medalist; President, Little Rock Nine Foundation; Author: A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School  This is a must-read book that inspires and challenges the reader to persist and not give up.  Numerous tips for overcoming difficult times are provided.  It tells the stories of numerous women who have met the challenges in their lives with determination, commitment, and purpose. -Polly Baca, Trailblazing politician, and government and community leader Whoever reads this book will experience their own Sankofa moments. I believe each reader will find the courage to bring their own gifts into their communities. Like the women in this book, each of you is a blessing. Even as you stand on the shoulders of others, yours are the shoulders that will provide the foundation of the future.  —Cleo Parker Robinson, Founder and Artistic Director, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (since 1970) It is rare that we have all the training we need before we face a life-changing event in our lives. Each of the women whose stories are told in Over, Under, Around, and Through by Jill Tietjen and Ellie Greenberg, demonstrate the strength, creativity, persistence, and fortitude they used to figure out a way forward. I pick up this book when I need a reminder of how others have found a way to manage whatever was thrown in their path. They are truly heroes for me. Even more special is that I personally know many of these Colorado women or have received blessings because of their lives. Thanks for this making sure this wonderful book made it to print. -Deb Norris SPHR, Senior HR Manager, International Leadership and Learning at PAE

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  John Stuart Mill: Life Life...

  John Stuart Mill

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  This classic memoir brings the complete biography of the one of the greatest thinkers of the western philosophy. Mill is considered to be the most influential mind of liberalism. His work contributed greatly to the development of social theory, political theory and political economy thanks to which he earned the title of "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century". In this book, John Stuart Mill described his life from childhood and early education until old age. He wrote about his main interests, notable ideas and great influences. 
  Contents: 
  Childhood and Early Education
  Moral Influences in Early Youth 
  My Father's Character and Opinions
  Last Stage of Education, and First of Self-education
  Youthful Propagandism
  The "Westminster Review"
  A Crisis in My Mental History
  One Stage Onward
  Commencement of the Most Valuable Friendship of My Life
  My Father's Death
  Writings and Other Proceedings Up to 1840
  General View of the Remainder of My Life
  Completion of the "System of Logic"
  Publication of the "Principles of Political Economy" 
  Marriage
  Retirement From the India House
  Publication of "Liberty" 
  "Considerations on Representative Government"
  Civil War in America 
  Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
  Parliamentary Life 
  Remainder of My Life

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  Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 7

  Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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  Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to "the hundred greatest men in Great Britain" asking them this question: "If for any reason you were to spend a year absolutely alone, in a prison for instance, and could select from your library three volumes to be taken with you as companions in your period of retirement please to inform us what those three books would be." The inquiry was sent to peers of the realm, prominent leaders in politics, judges, authors, manufacturers, merchants, gentlemen of leisure—men who would represent every aspect of successful life. In the answers it was found that ninety-eight of the hundred men named "The Bible" first on the list of the three books to be chosen. (From Book introduction)

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  My Secret Life Vol 5 Chapter 8

  Dominic Crawford Collins

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  My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as 'the strangest book ever written'. Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as 'Walter'), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.Now for the first time in the history of this infamous erotic masterpiece, film composer Dominic Crawford Collins is producing a fully scored narration of the complete unabridged text. More 'audiofilm' than audiobook, each chapter and scene has its own unique musical accompaniment, reflecting the author's changing emotional landscape and offering the listener a truly immersive erotic audio experience.Argyll women. • Curiosity. • Female spite. • A lover of athletes. • Artistic libidinosity. • Reminiscences of the widow in ball dress. • A lovely blonde. • N**l**e H****s. • A perfect fit. • Sympathetic embraces. • My restlessness. • Her coolness. • Nascent affection. • Her absence and return. • Her funny little maid. • Refusal, and insistence. • Clapped. • A month after. • A gamahuching frig. Her disappearance. • Four years after. • At a ball. • Ten years after.

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  A Fine Line - Searching for...

  Graham Zimmerman

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  ● Honestly portrays the highs and lows of a life dedicated to the outdoors● Shares the author's development as an outspoken conservation advocate● Story is rooted in the peaks of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and PakistanHow do we reconcile our love of outdoor adventure with the inevitability of loss in high-risk sports? Still in his thirties, Graham Zimmerman has made first ascents from Alaska to Pakistan, and in 2020 he received the Piolet d'Or for his climb on Pakistan's Link Sar. A sponsored athlete who is sought out as a climbing partner, Zimmerman knows that he must find a balance between his ambitions as an alpinist and his social responsibilities.His generation has faced devastating grief in the mountains, and his cohort has witnessed firsthand the effects of climate change in the form of disappearing glaciers and increasingly erratic weather. Zimmerman writes of the exhilaration he feels while climbing but also the painful realization that summiting at all costs is an outdated model. As A Fine Line traces Graham's journey, mountain lovers everywhere will see themselves in this coming-of-age story of adventure and personal reckoning.

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  Florence Foster Jenkins - The...

  Nicholas Martin, Jasper Rees

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  People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.Despite lacking pitch, rhythm, or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian parents, Florence was a talented young pianist, but her life was thrown into turmoil when she eloped with Frank Jenkins, a man twice her age. The marriage proved a disaster, and, in order to survive, Florence was forced to abandon her dreams of a musical career and teach the piano. Then her father died in 1909, and, newly installed in New York, she used a considerable inheritance to fund her passion. She set up a prestigious amateur music club and began staging operas.Aided by her English common-law husband, St Clair Bayfield, she worked tirelessly to support the city's musical life. Many young singers owed their start to Florence, but she, too, yearned to perform and began giving regular recitals that quickly attracted a cult following. And yet nothing could prepare the world for the astonishing climax of her career when, at the age of 76, she performed at the most hallowed concert hall in America.In Florence Foster Jenkins, Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees tell her extraordinary story, which inspired the film starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, directed by Stephen Frears.A Macmillan Audio production.

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