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  Patient - A Humorous Memoir of...

  Akshay Rao

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  pa•tient /ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/ 
  noun 
  a person who is under medical care or treatment. 
  adjective 
  bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like. 
    
  Two months after several positive Covid tests, Akshay Rao finds himself in the Emergency Room, having been diagnosed with acute renal failure. This, despite donning N95 masks indoors and out, living life as a hermit, and getting vaccinated and boosted at the first available opportunity. 
  What follows is a delightful, charming, quirky, irreverent and sometimes poignant romp through the travails of being hospitalized for a week, featuring specialist doctors, nurses, hospital staff, and the Rao children valiantly attempting to hide their concern. And, we travel through space and time, with stories of “rerouting” a commercial airliner in India, a close encounter with an orangutan in Malaysian Borneo, an anecdote about little Rao children contemplating their father’s mortality, and an apparition’s role in the birth of a grandfather. 
  The core message is one of hope and acceptance, and the recognition that all is impermanent, so it is incumbent on us to be compassionate. When somebody cuts you off on the highway, imagine they are driving to the ER with a case of acute renal failure, and give them the right of way. 
   

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  Buenas Noches American Culture -...

  María DeGuzmán

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  Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, human rights, exoticism, among others.

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  Alan Shepard - Higher and Faster

  Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

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  Written for ages 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!Alan Shepard gripped the abort handle and braced his feet against the capsule floor. Five, Four, Three...Don't screw up, he muttered. Two, One, Zero, Liftoff. Alan felt himself rising into the sky. He could scarcely believe it. The boy who grew up with a passion for flying was off on the ultimate flight -- to space!Alan Shepard's boyhood fascination with flight led him from constructing model airplanes in his grandfather's basement to attaining national hero status in the race to space. Rooted in hard work and education, this pioneer's dreams of flight came true as he became not only the first American launched into space but, later, one of the privileged few to walk on the moon.When he wasn't soaring above the clouds, astronaut Alan Shepard used his expertise to benefit others, raising money to fuel the dreams of science students and guiding NASA missions. The achievements of this high flyer -- America's "Lindbergh of Space" -- inspire all who dare to live their dream

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  Fingers: The Man Who Brought...

  Richard Curran, Tom Lyons

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  Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for €5.4 billion when the society eventually went bust.
  Fingleton earned over €2 million per year and built up a pension fund worth €27 million. But it was his loans to a small group of property developers and the way the society was mismanaged, under the nose of the Financial Regulator that cost Irish citizens so dearly.
  In Fingers, Tom Lyons and Richard Curran use previously unpublished material to blow open the failings of the society's internal systems and controls, its culture and the dominance of one man.
  They get inside the organisation and bring startling new revelations about how money was really lent out to a small group of developers, how INBS failed, and what the Financial Regulators knew.
  Fingers explores:
  -  Fingleton's connections with politics, the media and the powerful
  - How the society wasn't just a lender but became a player, taking stakes and shares in the profits of the ventures it bankrolled
  - How Fingleton quaffed vintage wine in the finest restaurants, stayed in five-star hotels and put it all on the society's tab
  -  How ordinary borrowers in arrears were treated ruthlessly, while the mega-rich walked away owing billions to us.
  Fingers goes to the heart of the state's failure to hold anybody to account for the Irish financial crash. It highlights the need for a proper banking inquiry to explain to the public what went wrong, how, and who is to blame.

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  Mike Tyson His Story

  Onofre Quezada

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  Michael Gerard Tyson (New York, June 30, 1966), also known as Malik Abdul Aziz,6​7​ is an American former boxer. He won the world heavyweight title twice in the 1980s and is the youngest boxer in history to win a world heavyweight title when on November 22, 1986 he won the WBC title against Trevor Berbick , at only 20 years, 4 months and 22 days. Later he would manage to unify all the crowns against the champions James Smith (WBA) and Tony Tucker (IBF), being defeated, after several defenses, by James "Buster" Douglas in 1990. In 1992 he was imprisoned for the rape of Desiree Washington, an 18-year-old model. On March 26, he was sentenced to 10 years, 6 in prison and 4 on probation. He was released for good behavior in March 1995, returning to the ring that same year. He won the world title again in 1996, but lost it to Evander Holyfield a few months later. In 1997, in the rematch against Holyfield, he tore off a piece of his opponent's right ear, and after being warned by the referee and trying to bite him again, he was disqualified and banned for twelve months. He continued fighting and at the age of 35 he returned to fight for the world title against Lennox Lewis, but was defeated, retiring three years later. In 2003 he declared bankruptcy after having earned $30 million in some of his fights and around $300 million in his career as a whole. 

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  The Witch of Eye

  Kathryn Nuernberger

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  This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches” of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by inquisitors as evidence of evil. The author describes torture and forced confessions alongside accounts of gentleness of legendary midwives. In one essay about a trial, we learn through folklore that Jesus’s mother was a midwife who cured her own son’s rheumatism. In other essays there are subtle parallels to contemporary discourse around abortion and environmental destruction. Nuernberger weaves in her own experiences, too. There’s an ironic look at her own wedding, an uncomfortable visit to the Prague Museum of Torture, and an afternoon spent tearing out a garden in a mercurial fit. Her researched material is eye-opening and lively. An absolutely thrilling collection.

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