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  Sea State - A Memoir

  Tabitha Lasley

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  A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub 
  A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis 
  In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. 
  In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men—and her. 
  Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: “offshore” is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay—class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security. 
  Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.

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  The Gospel of Wealth Present Day...

  Andrew Carnegie

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  Andrew Carnegie comes down from heaven into the dreams of a billionaire to discuss and highlight the importance of acquiring safety, unity, and brotherhood while living in line and accord with nature. 
  Within this fictional work, you will observe a full presentation and complete breakdown of the safety above all philosophy being presented by Andrew Carnegie himself.

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  History of Russia - From the...

  Days of History

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  Introducing the First book in our Russian history series: 
  - Explore Russia's Past Like Never Before! 
  Get ready for an exciting trip through time, as you learn about Russia's early history. This book takes you on a journey to discover the people and events that shaped Russia. You'll read about famous leaders, important battles, and how Russia became the country it is today. 
  Meet Ivan the Terrible, Russia's first Tsar. He made the country bigger and stronger, even though his rule was tough. Then, learn about Peter the Great, who changed Russia in many ways, making it more modern like other countries in Europe. 
  Another big event you'll learn about is the Mongol Invasion. This was a hard time for Russia, as the Mongols controlled the land and people. But the Russians never gave up, and eventually, they won back their freedom. 
  This book is easy to understand and filled with interesting facts. If you like history or want to learn more about Russia, this is the book for you. 
  So, Don't Wait! Order your copy Now, and start discovering the amazing stories of Russia's past.

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  Egyptian Mythology: An...

  Enthralling History

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  Did you know that the ancient Egyptians believed in life after death? You will be amazed at how hard they prepared for the afterlife!  
  This audiobook is loaded with stories of the lives of the ancient Egyptians, their gods, and some of the greatest myths in antiquity. The gods played an important role in people’s lives; you might be surprised to see how much they impacted everyday life! 
  In this audiobook, you will find yourself on an exciting journey to one of the most influential kingdoms in history. On your way, you will learn more about some of the following: 
  • The origin and foundations of the world from an Egyptian perspective; 
  • The Egyptian myths about the time the gods ruled the earth; 
  • The multi-versioned stories about the lives of the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt; 
  • The incredible legends in Egyptian mythology; 
  • The elaborate funerary culture in ancient Egypt; 
  • The journey to the afterlife from an Egyptian perspective; 
  • Attributes of the most famous gods and goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon; 
  • And much, much more! 
  So if you want to explore the fascinating mythology and myths of ancient Egypt, then scroll up and click the “add to cart” button!

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  Operation Rolling Thunder and...

  Editors Charles River

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  Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese President Diem’s regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy’s administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam. 
  Over the next few years, the American military commitment to South Vietnam grew dramatically, and the war effort became both deeper and more complex. The strategy included parallel efforts to strengthen the economic and political foundations of the South Vietnamese regime, to root out the Viet Cong guerrilla insurgency in the south, combat the more conventional North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near the Demilitarized Zone between north and south, and bomb military and industrial targets in North Vietnam itself.  
  	The United States, attempting to maintain its status as leader and defender of the non-communist world, gradually offered more and more support to South Vietnam’s leaders in Saigon, and direct military intervention became inevitable after the famous Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which also greatly influenced Operation Rolling Thunder. The actual incident consisted of a skirmish between three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, which managed to put exactly one machine-gun bullet hole in an American vessel, and a follow-up in which spooked American gunners fired at phantasmal radar image on a night of severe storm. These false images, caused by meteorological conditions, later received the sobriquet “Gulf of Tonkin ghosts.” 

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  Portraits as Animal - Poems

  Victoriano Cárdenas

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  Portraits as Animal is a gallery of self-becoming in a "sunbaked house as tiny as a heart." With a toothy lyricism at turns sly and forthright, Cárdenas's hunger to belong carries us from a stove "bleeding a hundred kinds of caldo" to his "determined mitochondrial ancestors''-a journey framed by generational struggles with addiction, a queerphobic church, and the always-transforming land. 
  In conversation with Taos's rich artistic tradition and the brutal, binding legacy of colonization, Cárdenas writes through his transition, acknowledging that "to become a man means a lifetime of needles like the man who raised me." Here is pain and violence, but here, too, is the assurance that we are "built for this metamorphosis" and can follow our past incarnations "over scorched earth neon with new grass" to a future of our own making.

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