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  Me & Issy - A Four Seasons Romance

  Rosalie Wise Sharp

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  The rags to riches tale of a larger-than-life romance of over seven decades
  		 
  Me & Issy is a love story about how a troubled and deprived child chanced to meet a man who worshipped her, brought her a fantasy life of four boys and extraordinary opulence — and banished her self-doubt. She in turn was awestruck and mystified by his acumen and daring during his founding of the Four Seasons Hotels.
  		 
  Beginning with her childhood in North Toronto, in a very Jewish home surrounded by non-Jews, Rosalie enchants us with anecdotes about her family, Isadore Sharp’s family, and the growth of their own in the light of the expanding Four Seasons chain. How did she go to the Ontario College of Art & Design while simultaneously raising four rambunctious boys? How did Issy open hotel after hotel with only his collateral of confidence and charisma? Rosalie is a rapt follower of his astonishing success and the first fan of his legendary town hall talks to 40,000 employees.
  		 
  And with success came tragedy. The devastating death of their son Chris shook them, but they coped. Here, all of Rosalie’s life is opened up for viewing, the good and the bad, the success and the failures, but especially her inspired romance with Issy. In the words of their second eldest son, Greg, “Their mutual love and respect growing stronger over the past 69 years is as extraordinary as it is beautiful.”

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  Miner's Day

  B. L. Coombes

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  Miner's Day is a testament to coal mining communities in the mid-twentieth century. First published by Penguin Books as a slim paperback in 1945, it married a reflective text by Britain's outstanding miner-writer, B. L. Coombes, to illustrations by the artist Isabel Alexander.
  The original text is now republished in a generous new format with a substantial introduction and the full wealth of images that Isabel Alexander made in an extended project to document people and places in the South Wales coalfield – a unique addition to the visual representation of mining communities.
  Bert Coombes in words and Isabel Alexander in images each aimed to reveal the layered reality of coal-mining communities to a distant public. They documented both work below ground and devastated environments above. They described the lives not just of working men but women, children and older people too. They saw poverty and despair but also love, hope and even humour. The South Wales they captured echoes similar communities across the world and evolving global challenges to health, work and environment. Miner's Day is as relevant now as it was in 1945.

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  Waking the Giant: Inside the...

  Gregg Evans, Matt Maher, Tyrone...

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  The inside story of one football club's astonishing revival 
  Featuring exclusive interviews with Jack Grealish, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa, along with many other key figures 
  In early July 2018, Aston Villa were staring into the abyss. 
  Locked in a cash crisis triggered by defeat in the Championship play-off final, one of English football’s most historic and successful clubs stood on the brink of financial catastrophe. 
  Yet less than six years later, Villa were celebrating qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in their history. 
  Waking The Giant takes you inside one of the most extraordinary revival acts in modern football, from the last-minute takeover by billionaire duo Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens which saved the club, through the promotion and equally remarkable Premier League survival inspired by boyhood supporter Dean Smith, right up to the present day and their return to the European elite under Unai Emery. 
  It is a tale of triumph plucked from the jaws of despair, several times over, with Villa frequently defying the odds to keep climbing and reclaim their place at English football’s top table. 
  From club record runs to great escapes from relegation and British record transfers, this is a rollercoaster ride not to be missed. 
  Featuring exclusive interviews with:Jack GrealishJohn McGinnOllie WatkinsTyrone MingsEzri KonsaAlbert AdomahDamian Vidagany, Director of Football OperationsJesus Garcia Pitarch, former sporting directorDean Smith, former managerKeith Wyness, former CEO 
  And dozens of other off-the-record conversations with key figures, managers, coaches, players and staff. 
  Waking The Giant, the latest non-fiction sports biography by Gregg Evans, is a must-read for all 21st-century football enthusiasts. Pre-order this upcoming bestseller to experience the thrilling recreation of Aston Villa's journey. 
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  HarperCollins 2025

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  This Is Me Is That You? -...

  Steven Poser

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  A psychoanalyst's sensitive exploration of schizophrenia through the stories and words of three women patients 
   
   
    
  In the spring of 1994, psychoanalyst-in-training Steven Poser arrived for his clinical internship at one of the last remaining nineteenth-century mental hospitals in New England. Intending to observe and offer compassionate care to the most chronically ill patients, he ended up staying for two years, forming close therapeutic relationships with three female patients suffering from schizophrenia, "Agnes," "Mrs. Lutzky," and "Lucia." 
   
   
    
  Drawing from his clinical diary, Poser presents his encounters with the women in their own words, each speaking in a poetry of her own invention. Rather than treat the women as casualties of their illness or their words and actions as nonsensical, Poser sees his patients as dignified and struggling people—and not as markedly different from the rest of us as we might think. This is a deeply human book about the frailty and importance of human connection and the intangibly healing force of being heard.

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  From Good To Bad Then To Good...

  Dexter Ray

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  Author Dexter Ray, a parolee that in the past recklessly traded a possible professional NBA basketball career for a "life of crime," has spent nearly 30- years incarcerated, on probation, or parole in the Florida and Georgia Prison Systems. He speaks from firsthand experience about by embracing 3- golden rules is the only way for a person to not turn to a life of crime ever in his straight-talk audiobook, “From Good To Bad, Then To Good Forever.” Also, check out Dexter’s other personal growth workshop book, “Hey! Are You Train Ready?,” and his two ultimate self-help guidebooks, “I’m Train Ready!”, and “Walk From Bad To Better, Then Run From Good To Great! (Written by him and co-author wife Raphaela Ray)." 
  Inside this audiobook, Dexter talks about in the year of 2011 after a day of bloody riots inside of a Georgia prison during his 16th year of incarceration led a warden to ask him to do a drawing of a train showing men going from bad to good, and this inspired Dexter to change his life.  Also, inside this audio book Dexter explains in detail his experiences that we all go through at some point in life when we have to rise after we’ve taken a hard fall as a result of bad decisions that sometimes can be life-changing moments, or when life deals us a terrible hand that makes us stop and change directions from living a life of crime to forever living as a law-abiding citizen and productive member of society. However, there is only one way to do this and that’s to embrace the 3- golden rules found inside this audiobook. They have been tested and proven to be whole-heartedly true and a solid contributing factor to his forever freedom. 

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  Allen Dulles: The Life of the...

  Editors Charles River

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  The 28-year period from 1933-1961, bracketed on one end by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and on the other by the very height of the Cold War, was marked by a remarkably stable succession of American presidents. In fact, only three men held office in this period, and that predictability led to a general stability among government agencies. Conversely, the CIA had five different directors in its first 15 years, from 1946-1961, and then nine different directors in the next 20, with four of those directors serving less than a year. But of all the CIA’s directors, none wielded the immense influence or power of Allen Dulles, who, together with his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, became arguably the two most powerful people in the government after the president.  
  	To this day, Dulles’ eight-year tenure in that office is the longest, and as one of the country’s leading experts in international law, intelligence, and spycraft, he became renowned for his unwavering anti-communist ideology and readiness to take decisive measures to counter what he perceived as a menace to American safety. As such, it would be Dulles who sanctioned many of the CIA’s most notorious operations, including the ousting of Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, spying and experimentation on American citizens, and the disastrous Bay of Pigs. That last episode cost him his job, though he continued to play a role in American political life after President John F. Kennedy forced him out of the CIA in 1961.  
  	By then, however, Dulles had already had an outsized influence on the direction of the country, and to this day his legacy can be felt, even as his reputation continues to be a source of much debate. 

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