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  The Complete Leadership...

  Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli,...

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  Lead with wisdom. Command with confidence. Think like history’s greatest leaders. 
  The Complete Leadership Collection brings together the most influential voices on leadership, power, and responsibility—fully modernized for today’s listener.  
  From the battlefield to the palace to the quiet mind of a sage, these works offer timeless insight into how great leaders think, act, and inspire. 
  This audiobook includes: 
  - The Art of War by Sun Tzu – Leadership through planning, timing, and adaptability 
  - The Prince and The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli – The dynamics of political leadership and military control 
  - The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi – Mental clarity and discipline for personal and organizational leadership 
  - Tao Te Ching by Laozi – Powerful leadership through restraint and humility 
  - The Analects by Confucius – Moral guidance and leading by example 
  - Arthashastra by Kautilya – Real-world strategy for diplomacy, economics, and power 
  - The Maxims of War by Napoleon Bonaparte – Sharp principles for leadership under pressure 
  - Instructions to His Generals by Frederick the Great – Precision, delegation, and military wisdom 
  - On War by Carl von Clausewitz – Deep reflection on leadership in the face of uncertainty 
  - The Commentaries by Julius Caesar – Tactical brilliance from history’s most strategic general 
  - History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides – Realism, leadership, and the cost of ambition 
  And many more fundamental leadership classics. 
  Each work is introduced with helpful context and narrated in crisp, modern language. Whether you lead teams, communities, or your own path—this collection is your essential guide.

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  The Uncaged Sky - My 804 days in...

  Kylie Moore-Gilbert

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  On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison.  
    
  Incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal. Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months, and subjected to relentless interrogation, Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation.  
    
  Kylie’s only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards’ maximum-security compound where she had been ‘disappeared’, communicating in great danger through the air vents between cells, and by hiding secret letters in hava khori, the narrow outdoor balcony where she was led, blindfolded, for a solitary hour each day. 
    
  Cut off from the outside world, Kylie realised she alone had the power to change the dynamics of her incarceration. To survive, she began to fight back, adopting a strategy of resistance with her captors. Multiple hunger strikes, letters smuggled to the media, co-ordinated protests with other prisoners and a daring escape attempt led to her transfer to the isolated desert prison, Qarchak, to live among convicted criminals.  
    
  On November 25, 2020, after more than two years of struggle, Kylie was finally released in a high stakes three-nation prisoner swap deal orchestrated by the Australian government, laying bare the complex game of global politics in which she had become a valuable pawn. 
    
  Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy, The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.

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  The Last Secret Agent - My Life...

  Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson

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  After decades of silence, the last surviving World War II spy operating in the deadly world of Nazi France, reveals the real, untold story of her time as a secret agent.From a unique and singular voice comes the incredible true story of the last surviving undercover British female operative in WW2. Pippa Latour parachuted into occupied France in 1944 to conduct sabotage and subversion behind enemy lines. Selling soap to German soldiers and hiding codes on a piece of ribbon, she sent back crucial information about troop positions in the lead up to D-Day, and continued her work until Paris was liberated. From her childhood as an orphan in South Africa to her years as an undercover agent, Pippa's story is that of a woman determined to honor her principles and risk her life to fight against the greatest evil of the 20th century.The Last Secret Agent is a posthumously published memoir, co-written with journalist Jude Dobson. Pippa was decorated highly for her actions, including being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire and receiving the Légion d’Honneur in France. For years, Pippa kept her involvement in the war effort secret from everyone, including her family, but for the first time, her story can now be told in full.A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

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  Today's Authors Series: A Q&A...

  David Kushner

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  If you think a gang of real-life geeks can’t take on the world and win big...think again. And whatever you do, don’t sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards–and turned it into a fortune!

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  Farming Grace - A Memoir of Life...

  Paulo Scott

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  Sometimes your past must be plowed before your future can be planted… 
  Her great-great-grandma came to California in a covered wagon more than a hundred years ago, and her family has farmed in the Sacramento Valley ever since, but a life of farming was the last thing she wanted… until the day fate brings her back to the farm. 
  Nineteen-year-old Paula Scott leaves California when the almonds are in bloom for college in Reno, Nevada where cocaine, casinos, and her first honest-to-goodness boyfriend will break her farmgirl heart, but her story doesn’t end in the desert with a broken heart. 
  When life knocks us down, we get back up, we try again, we marry and maybe divorce, but in the midst of our down and dirty, raw and real, painfully ordinary lives, sometimes the extraordinary breaks through, and we see God. 
  Because God sees us.

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  Rebent Sinner

  Ivan Coyote

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  In Rebent Sinner, Ivan Coyote takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling and revealing stories of what it means to be trans and non-binary today, at a time in their life when they must carry the burden of heartbreaking history with them, while combatting those who would misgender them or deny their very existence. These stories span thirty years of tackling TERFs, legislators, and bathroom police, sure, but there is joy and pleasure and triumph to be found here too, as Ivan pays homage to personal heroes like Leslie Feinberg and Ferron while gently guiding younger trans folk to prove to themselves that there is a way out of the darkness.
  		 
  Rebent Sinner is the work of an accomplished artist whose plain truths about their experience will astound readers with their utter, breathtaking humanity.
  		 
  Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

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