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  Hometown Victory - A Coach's...

  Keanon Lowe, Justin Spizman

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  The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak.Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs.In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way.But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love?With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon’s journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.

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  Divine Females - Powerful Women...

  Julia Blacksmith

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  Divine Females explores the sacred, mysterious, and often awe-inspiring roles of women in mythologies across time and cultures. This 3-in-1 collection highlights the power, wisdom, and influence of feminine figures in ancient stories, featuring Mythical Women, Gods and Legends, and The Myths of the Maya. From creators and warriors to queens and enchantresses, these women shaped the cosmos, guided heroes, and embodied both chaos and creation. 
  In Mythical Women, uncover the stories of goddesses and legendary heroines like Athena, Isis, Kali, and Amaterasu—each with distinct roles that challenge, protect, or define their worlds. Then, in Gods and Legends, zoom out to see how these divine females interacted with other deities and myths from various global traditions, often as the heart of the moral, magical, or cosmic balance. These stories show that power in mythology isn't just physical—it's emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. 
  Finally, The Myths of the Maya offers a deep dive into the feminine aspects of this intricate belief system. Discover moon goddesses, fertility spirits, and the symbolic role of women in Maya cosmology and daily life. Whether feared, revered, or adored, these divine females offer a powerful lens into how ancient civilizations saw the world—and the women who helped shape it.

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  Playing to Lose - How a...

  Ariel Anderssen

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  In this bold and intimate memoir Ariel Anderssen charts her journey from a strict religious upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness to her current position as one of the most widely recognised BDSM performers in the world. Her route between the two includes a period as a wretchedly miserable, teenage political activist, a phase touring with a Christian theatre group, and accidentally discovering a talent for posing for art nude photography. This surprising and unconventional career path led her to a life-altering introduction to BDSM-themed erotic artwork and a whole world she never imagined existing.
  This is a book about BDSM, and about sexuality, but most of all it is about one woman's struggle for self-acceptance and the rewards that come from confronting who you are with honesty and compassion.
  TRIGGER WARNING: this book contains descriptions of sexual violence that some readers may find upsetting

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  Bernard Who? - 75 Years of Doing...

  James Hogg, Bernard Cribbins`

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  Seventy-five years in the making and packed with entertaining anecdotes, Bernard Who? tells the wonderful story of one of the longest and most celebrated careers in show business. 
   
  Bernard Cribbins's life has been an eventful one. In 1943, he left school aged fourteen and joined Oldham Repertory Company where he earned fifteen bob for a seventy-hour week. After being called up for National Service in 1946 he became a paratrooper and spent several months in Palestine being shot at. On returning home, and to the theatre, Bernard was eventually approached by George Martin, then an A&R man for Parlophone Records, who suggested he made a record. Just months away from producing The Beatles, Martin asked Bernard to come to Abbey Road Studios in north London and, after teaching him how to sing into a microphone, they eventually recorded two hit singles - 'The Hole in the Ground' and 'Right Said Fred'. These, together with appearances in now classic films such as Two Way Stretch and The Wrong Arm of the Law (not to mention a certain television programme called Jackanory), catapulted Bernard to stardom and, by the time he started filming The Railway Children in 1970, he was already a national treasure. 
   
  Since then, Bernard's CV has been an A-Z of the best entertainment that Britain has to offer, and, thanks to programmes such as the aforementioned Jackanory, The Wombles, and, more recently, Old Jack's Boat, he has become the voice of many millions of childhoods. 
   
  'A fitting celebration of one of our most versatile and enduring acting talents' Sunday Express 
   
  'charming, unassuming and full of amiable, homespun wit' The Oldie

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  My Good Bright Wolf - A Memoir

  Sarah Moss

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  “The Scottish actor Morven Christie is the narrator: her reading is measured and reflective, drawing out the forlorn beauty of Moss’s prose.”—The Guardian"Christie's performance captures Moss's narrative voice, creating a quiet intimacy that invites the listener into Moss's world."—AudioFileA New York Magazine Most-Anticipated Book of the FallFrom the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater, and The Fell, Sarah Moss’s My Good Bright Wolf is an unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves.A girl must watch her figure but never be vain. She must be intelligent but never a know-it-all. She must be ambitious, if she is clever, but not in a way that shows. She must cook and sew and make do and mend. She must know (but never say) that these skills are, in some fundamental way, flawed and frivolous—feminine. Girls must stay small, even as they grow. Women must show restraint. And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free.Here, with My Good Bright Wolf, Sarah Moss takes on these rules, these lessons from the fables of girlhood, and uses them to fearlessly investigate the nature of memory, the lure of self-control, the impact of privilege, scarcity, parents, love. Through narratives of women and food, second-wave feminism and postwar puritanism, and her own challenges with a health care system that discounts the experiences of those it ought to serve, Moss seeks truth in the stories we tell ourselves and others. Harm can become power. Attention can become care. A body and a mind, though working hard together, can be at odds.And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free. Beautiful and sharp, moving and unapologetic, erudite and very funny, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir that breaks the rules.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  This is My New Foundation - A...

  Bill Bailey

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  This Is My New Foundation: A Memoir of Loss, Faith, and Redemption — Based on a True Story 
  When life collapses without warning, what do you build from the rubble? 
  This Is My New Foundation is the powerful true story of Bill Bailey, a man shattered by crisis, grief, and the quiet devastations no one sees coming, and the extraordinary journey that led him from breaking point to breakthrough. 
  From the hard-edged streets of Detroit to the disciplined halls of West Point, from the chaos of military service to the loneliness of personal loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bailey’s path is marked by struggle, resilience, and the fierce will to keep going. What looked like the end became the beginning of something transformative: a testament to survival, faith, and the unshakeable strength found only when everything else falls away. 
  Told with honesty, humility, and a steady undercurrent of hope, this memoir resonates with anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by circumstance or overlooked in their own story. Bailey shows us that pain can be a teacher, faith can be a blueprint, and healing can begin, even in silence. 
  This book is a reminder for all who are searching, rebuilding, or trying to rise again: 
  You don’t rebuild with bricks. 
   You rebuild with truth, faith, and a new foundation.

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