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  Random Thoughts - The Sh*t We...

  Joseph Tito

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  Random Thoughts: The Sh*t We Don’t Talk About is not your typical self-help book—because honestly, the author’s still figuring it out too. 
  Told through raw, hilarious, and uncomfortably honest essays, Joseph Tito peels back the layers of adulthood, identity, parenting, aging, and emotional chaos. One minute you’re laughing about childproof pill bottles, the next you’re quietly spiraling over your purpose in life—just like he did. And still does. 
  This audiobook is for anyone who’s ever felt like they’re one meltdown away from enlightenment. It’s messy. It’s real. And it might just make you feel seen. 
  Hit play if you're ready to laugh, cringe, and maybe cry a little—in public.

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  Two One Pony - An American...

  Charles R Carr

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  A thoughtful, reflective narrative of a reluctant soldier that captures the rhythms of life in war as well as the boredom and chaos of Vietnam.   At the height of the Vietnam War, Charles Carr left graduate school to serve in the army in Southeast Asia, knowing that if he didn’t, another man would go—and possibly die—in his place. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of the 47th Infantry (Mechanized) in the northern Mekong Delta for a tour of forcing himself through rice paddies and jungles all day and then setting ambushes at night. He concluded his tour with a stint at battalion headquarters. More than just a war memoir, this is the story of one soldier trying to find his way in uncertain times—and to survive his year in Vietnam.

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  27 Club The: The Lives and...

  Editors Charles River

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  It is rare in the world of music for a general consensus to form over who was the best at anything. Many would call The Beatles the greatest rock band, but it’s easy to find strongly opinionated dissenters. However, when it came to playing a guitar and laying the soundtrack for the psychedelic era, just about everyone agrees there was Jimi Hendrix and then there was everyone else. Anyone arguing otherwise either never heard his music or saw him perform. In fact, Jimi Hendrix is one of the few musicians known primarily for his sound and what he could do with a guitar than for his discography. A part of that is due to his untimely death and entry into the 27 Club, but it is also due to the fact that he was so revolutionary with the use of an electric guitar and so skilled at playing it that the effects have largely not been duplicated since.  
  The life and career of Janis Joplin marks such a stark departure from the blues, rock and soul traditions as American society has come to know them that her brief and tempestuous career defies artistic analysis, if only because there is so little precedent aside from the great African-American blues and jazz singers that influenced her. For a woman born in 1943 and coming into her professional prime in the 1960s, Joplin stood as a mesmerizing and baffling foil to the female tradition in non-classical music, which had previously been symbolized by pure, mellow voices singing thoughtful texts.  
  Jim Morrison accomplished just about everything by being extreme, in every sense of the word. His poetry was assaultive, blatant and graphic, a sign of the times, and his voice was mystical and haunting, lacking any sense of what was previously or typically considered vocal beauty. Whether intentional or not, Morrison also led the charge of excessive defiance toward anything hierarchical or rule-laden, and the acting out of his subconscious urges on public stages around the world surpassed all previous artists.

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  3 Stories About - Poverty &...

  Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Mary Mackay

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.  
   
  01 - 3 Stories About - Poverty & Struggle 
  02 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  03 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  04  - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli

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  Yellow Mountain

  May Lin de Chezelles

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  Yellow Mountain has been written from the diaries of Susan Loke, a Mandarin's daughter. It gives an account of why her father, a Qing Mandarin, left China. It is not only a story of migration. It embodies some of his powerful psychological views on the reasons for leaving a country where revolution had defeated the Imperial system of China. There was a desolate vacuum which attracted foreign powers to gain economic and political footholds In China. In this environment he knew that a future in China would be bleak, if not impossible. He takes his own family and sails into the abyss of the South China Sea. It's also a story of courage, imagination and strength in the human spirit built into a man who has only read Confucian and Taoist teaching. The entire story is very much from a feminine perspective as it's her story as she understood it from her father.

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  Chiffon Trenches The: A Memoir

  André Leon Talley

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  Find what really occurs in the background in the realm of high style in this point by point, celebrated journal from design symbol and previous Vogue imaginative chief André Leon Talley. 
  During André Leon Talley's most memorable magazine work helping Andy Warhol at Interview, a pivotal gathering with Karl Lagerfeld started a very long term's kinship with the puzzling, frequently scathing originator. Pushed into the more elite classes by his insight and reverence of style, Talley moved to Paris as authority head of John Fairchild's Ladies' Wear Day to day, become a close acquaintence with style's most significant planners. In any case, as Talley made companions, he additionally made adversaries. A racially touched experience with an individual from the place of Yves Holy person Laurent sent him back to New York and into the workplaces of Vogue under Beauty Mirabella. There, he fostered an impossible yet private companionship with Anna Wintour, and as she rose to the highest point of Vogue's masthead, Talley turned into the most compelling man in style. 
  The Chiffon Channels is a real gander at the's who of the most recent 50 years of design and confirmation that reality is in every case naughtily more captivating than fiction. André Leon Talley's connecting with and itemized diary is his account of making due and flourishing in the famously ferocious design industry in the midst of prejudice, homophobia and different difficulties to become quite possibly of the most amazing voice and faces in style news-casting.

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