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  Unbuttoning America - A...

  Ardis Cameron

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  Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based the novel's setting, characters, and incidents on real-life places, people, and events. The novel sold more than thirty million copies in hardcover and paperback, and it was adapted into a hit Hollywood film in 1957 and a popular television series that aired from 1964 to 1969. More than half a century later, the term "Peyton Place" is still in circulation as a code for a community harboring sordid secrets. 
  In Unbuttoning America, Ardis Cameron mines extensive interviews, fan letters, and archival materials, including contemporary cartoons and cover images from film posters and foreign editions, to tell how the story of a patricide in a small New England village circulated over time and became a cultural phenomenon. She argues that Peyton Place, with its frank discussions of poverty, sexuality, class and ethnic discrimination, and small-town hypocrisy, was more than a tawdry potboiler. Metalious's depiction of how her three central female characters come to terms with their identity as women and sexual beings anticipated second-wave feminism. More broadly, the novel was also part of a larger postwar struggle over belonging and recognition. Fictionalizing contemporary realities, Metalious pushed to the surface the hidden talk and secret rebellions of a generation no longer willing to ignore the disparities and domestic constraints of Cold War America.

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  Hank Show The: Book Summary &...

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  What if the most powerful man in data surveillance wasn’t a government agent—but a former drug smuggler with a genius for code?
   
  The Hank Show unravels the incredible true story of Hank Asher, a self-invented tech visionary whose fingerprints helped shape the world of digital surveillance. From flying cocaine-filled planes over the Caribbean to building billion-dollar data empires used by law enforcement and corporate giants alike, Hank’s life is a high-stakes tale of ambition, reinvention, and moral complexity.
   
  This audiobook blends gripping biography with sharp investigative insight, charting how one man’s tools came to power everything from government intelligence to consumer profiling—long before Silicon Valley took over our lives. Both thrilling and deeply reflective, it explores the intersection of data, privacy, influence, and the consequences of building systems without accountability.

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  Funnily Enough

  Sophie Neville

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  A true story of faith, love and determination. Read by the author.Things you've always asked yourself and never really answered...When the plans you have made fall apart and you need to let God take over, you might discover the most astonishing things.Based on a diary of convalescence kept in 1991, ‘Funnily Enough’ is the true story of a single girl who stops working in television production to enjoy rural family life with a pair of tame otters. Taking the high road to Loch Lomond, Sophie works out how to overcomes chronic fatigue and realize her dreams."This charming, funny, beautifully illustrated book would make anyone feel better." Jilly Cooper, Author“…all plaudits to you for trying to describe and find humour in your darkest hour.” Clare Francis, Author"Eminently readable." Charles Foster, New York Times bestselling author "...such fun, so joyful, so funny and so touching. I found it very lovable." Richard Pilbrow, CEO Theatre Projects, USA"Absolutely superb." Revd Canon Andrew Boden"I laughed." Alastair Fothergill, producer of 'Our Planet'"...delightfully open and funny and full of fun. It's a breath of fresh air while also giving courage and perspective to others who struggle with long hard trials." Wendy Chandler, South Africa"Amazing - such insights into life. It is just my kind of book." Sarah Collins, CEO of Wonderbag, South Africa.

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  The Deadly Path - How Operation...

  Peter J. Forcelli, Keelin MacGregor

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  Pete Forcelli was a highly respected federal agent in New York City, where he made an impact on violent crime by successfully targeting some of the city's most violent street gangs by using federal racketeering and continuing criminal enterprise statutes in conjunction with federal prosecutors. In early 2007, he was promoted to a supervisory position in Phoenix and quickly discovered that federal prosecutors were not charging criminals for violating federal firearms laws, even in instances where they knew guns were being trafficked to ultra-violent drug cartels. 
   
   
   
  When those very same prosecutors spoke about possibly indicting John Dodson, a special agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious, Forcelli stepped forward and contacted Congress. Forcelli became a whistleblower himself, detailing how federal prosecutors in Arizona not only failed to prosecute gun traffickers, but allowed a man who was making hundreds of hand grenades for the Sinaloa Cartel to continue his operations unabated for years. At that moment, those prosecutors and officials from the Department of Justice came after him, leading to a nearly four-year battle for Forcelli to clear his name. 
   
   
   
  This book provides his insider's account of the scandal that stands as one of the worst stains on federal law enforcement.

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  You Mean It or You Don't - James...

  Adam Hollowell, Jamie McGhee

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  After a speech at UMass Amherst on February 28, 1984, James Baldwin was asked by a student: "You said that the liberal façade and being a liberal is not enough. Well, what is? What is necessary?" Baldwin responded, "Commitment. That is what is necessary. You mean it or you don't." 
   
   
   
  Taking up that challenge and drawing from Baldwin's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't will spur today's progressives from conviction to action. It is not enough, authors Hollowell and McGhee urge us, to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. True and lasting change demands a response to Baldwin's radical challenge for moral commitment. Called to move from dreams of justice to living it out in communities, churches, and neighborhoods, we can show that we truly mean it. 
   
   
   
  Welcome to life with James Baldwin. It is raw and challenging, inspired and embodied, passionate, and fully awake.

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  The Möbius Book

  Catherine Lacey

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  "A singular, bewitching work about cycles of life and loss, the patterns of behavior that seem to lock us into who we are, and the quest for a faith that might break us free." —Hua Hsu, author of Stay TrueNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by Vulture and LitHubA genre-bending story about breaking―both of the heart and form itself―from the author of Biography of X.Note to the listener: This book was written in two parts, either of which can be listened to first, neither of which is the true start of the story. You have the option to skip ahead to the fiction half or start at the beginning with the nonfiction.Adrift in the winter of 2021 after a sudden breakup and the ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a practice that eventually propagated fiction both entirely imagined and strangely true. Betrayed by the mercurial partner she had trusted with a shared mortgage and suddenly catapulted into the unknown, Lacey’s appetite vanished completely, a visceral reminder of the teenage emaciation that came when she stopped believing in God. Through relationships, travel, reading, and memories of her religious fanaticism, Lacey charts the contours of faith’s absence and reemergence. Bending form, she and her characters recall gnostic experiences with animals, close encounters with male anger, griefdriven lust, and the redemptive power of platonic love and narrative itself.A hybrid work across fiction and nonfiction with no beginning or ending, The Möbius Book troubles the line between memory and fiction with an openhearted defense of faith’s inherent danger.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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