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  Texas Crime Stories - Volume I -...

  Robert Riggs

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  "Texas Crime Stories: Riding Herd On The Lawless" is an unflinching exploration of the most perplexing and chilling crimes that have scarred the vast landscape of the Lone Star State. In this gripping anthology, Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Riggs takes listeners on a journey through the dark underbelly of Texas, where the shadows of oil, cowboys, and cattle loom large, but the specter of crime looms even larger.Drawing from over three decades of experience and a vast network of law enforcement sources, Riggs delivers a front-row seat to real-life cases that defy the imagination.From face-to-face encounters with serial killers to deep dives into the criminal psyche, "Texas Crime Stories" exposes the full scope of human depravity. Riggs brings listeners inside maximum-security prisons, into the aftermath of homicides and mass shootings, and alongside the officers who relentlessly pursue justice in a land where the law is as tough as the terrain.Each chapter peels back the layers of the most confounding criminal acts, seeking to answer the 'why' behind the 'what' and 'how.' Through meticulous storytelling and firsthand accounts, Riggs shines a light on the sinister path from the crime scene to the courtroom to the cellblock, revealing the stories of investigators, offenders, and victims alike."Texas Crime Stories: Riding Herd On The Lawless" is more than just an audiobook; it's a passage into the heart of darkness where justice is pursued with Texas grit. For those who dare to confront the darkness within us, this compelling collection is a must-listen.

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  Bend Don't Break - A Memoir of...

  Frank O'Mara

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  'Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.'
  Limerick man Frank O'Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from running, he settled in the US with his family and made his way to the top of the telecoms industry.   
  Then at age forty-eight, his life changed forever when he was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease. The progression was rapid, causing severe muscle cramps, tremors, and eventually the inability to walk and at times even speak.
  In this inspiring memoir, Frank recounts his battle with Parkinson's. At first in denial, he eventually found the strength that made him successful as an athlete and in business – using determination, and humour to weather the worst phases of the disease. He learned to face each hurdle as he came to it: to bend, but not break.
  One man's life-affirming story of facing adversity with grace and courage.

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  Isaac

  Robert Karmon

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  Isaac, based on a true story, follows the journey of a Polish teen-aged boy from. near-death to ultimate triumph. In parable-like prose, it captures Isaac's miraculous survival of the Nazi massacre of his family and fellow Poles and his escape into a vast, nightmarish European forest. After being saved by a gentile from near his village, Isaac joins a group of Russian partisans and becomes a demolition expert. He falls in love with a Russian partisan nurse while striving—even among the partisans—to hide his Jewish background. This is a coming-of-age story amid the horrors and passions of war that demonstrates how determination, love, and friendship can overpower the force of hatred, discrimination, and unthinkable loss.

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  Aunty B Speaks - The Monologue

  Mobolaji Adesoye

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  Teaching must be the world's greatest profession and life's experiences are the best 'teachers'. The luckiest 'students', however, are those that can learn from the 'lessons of others.' 
  AuntyBspeaks - The Monologue is a pot-pourri of stories (History, 'Herstory' and 'Theirstory', real and imagined) that fundamentally allows the reader to find the treasures of learned lessons in them.

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  From the Summer of Love to the...

  Nancy Martin

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  San Francisco, 1967.  A teenager comes of age during the Summer of Love at her rock & roll wedding.  Her story relates the saga of life and relationships from then until the present through many lessons learned the hard way, until when, in 2005 she transitioned into yet another challenging marriage to the founder of an iconic winery in the Valley of the Moon.An inspirational narrative of one woman’s perseverance, creativity and stamina to overcome the cultural norms of patriarchy through years of controlling abuse and moving on through the learning curve of personal growth.The publication of this story was inspired and encouraged by the now prominent #MeToo Movement.

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  Grave Dealings - Body Snatching...

  Tim Dewysockie

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  In the eighteenth century the first American medical school was established in Philadelphia. Following the model of European universities, anatomical lectures were conducted with cadavers. But where did the bodies come from? Dissection was viewed as a fate worse than death, and the only legal source of "stiffs" was executed criminals. But there were not enough. As the medical profession and its need for "anatomical material" grew, a new, macabre practice emerged: body snatching. 
   
   
   
  Body snatchers secretly obtained bodies from cemeteries and sold them to medical schools for dissection. But how did body snatching work? How did body snatchers and medical schools avoid getting caught, and what happened when they did? How did the era of the body snatchers end? Grave Dealings: Body Snatching In Philadelphia, 1762-1883 digs through archives to unearth the forgotten history of a time of graveyard patrols and anatomy riots, when the dead needed protection from the living. Philadelphia pioneered and became the center of American medical education and practice–and body snatching–in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 
   
   
   
  Grave Dealings explores the social, cultural, practical, and legal aspects of body snatching in America's first capital city and relates it to the continuing ethical struggles that surround the treatment of human remains to this day.

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